Re: the mystery of seeming troon face blindness:
I'm very curious about how this operates, psychologically. My two operating theories are:
One: they are mega autists and also AGPs and they literally don't see what other people see when they look in the mirror or at photos of themselves. Their brains apply a form of face blindness to their own faces/bodies, which is how you wind up with 40-something fridge-shaped men who look like Saul Goodman posting selfies where they seem to think that they are hot like an Instagram model in her early 20s. That is, their confusion is genuine and literal. They see themselves as super hot real women and so they are convinced that other people are basically pretending not to see how hot they are out of raw prejudice. They also seem very confused about vaginas vs their surgical sites, which may also be genuine. Like maybe they basically have a reality-processing disorder that overlays a troon filter on top of everything they see?
Two: they may still be autists and AGPs (or weird FTMs obsessed with gay guys) but the central problem is that they are extremely online. They live fundamentally disembodied lives, disconnected from physical reality, their own bodies and surroundings, let alone physical contact with others. Their sexual and romantic interests are largely mediated through a screen, and through the avatars they choose for themselves, or through the fake internet personas of the other weirdos they're interested in (see: how many of these people have "partners" they've never met in real life). So maybe to them, the physicality of attraction doesn't make sense? They don't think "genital preferences" are valid because they operate as brains floating in tanks anyway?
IDK, that probably doesn't make any sense. I just find them so bizarre, I hope I outlive the troon menace and that our science survives this dark time so we can get some interesting research into what is wrong with their brains.
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This is the trailer of a new Amazon movie, Anything's Possible, directed by Billy Porter. It seems to be a young adult romantic comedy set in a high school, where the "female" lead is a HSTS MTF and the male lead is a teenage dude. Part of me thinks this is just a virtue signaling piece of shit nobody will actually watch, the more cynical part of me thinks that this is propaganda intended to confuse young people about what is normal and reinforce to normies the old lie, that most troons are innocuous hyper-feminine gay guys who are no threat to anybody.