Another twink on the path to castration.
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This brings up one of the things I think many people do not know about many MtFs and their relationships with natal females. Based on the interactions we see online, we tend to think that women who interact with MtFs are either gushing handmaidens or TERFs, and nothing in between. But when you see TERFism as the only way women 'deal with' creepy MtFs, you are looking at it from more of a male perspective: that is, people reacting to something they do not like by openly fighting against it.
The reality is that the majority of women faced with a MtF they don't like, or who creeps them out, or who they still see as male, will not act like brainwashed cheerleaders, but they won't resort to open conflict, either.
They will just freeze him out. They will be polite, smile, compliment him, and then absolutely not invite him to their social gatherings, ever. This does not mean they are hidden TERFs. They probably don't connect their feelings to any wider opinions about trans people, and a lot of the time what they are doing is not even conscious.
Also, freezing out does not necessarily involve hard feelings or meanness. I am not talking about Mean Girls 'you can't sit with us' stuff. It is just 'this person seems to want to be my friend, and I am not interested, so I will be nice to them but go on with my social life without them.' Women do this to each other all the time and it is a fundamental part of female socializing.
Most MtFs realize to some extent that they are being rejected, but (unlike the person in the quoted Reddit post) most of them do not ever grasp what is happening because
they do not understand female socialization. And even if they do grasp it, they can't do much, because
freezing out is designed precisely to be a way of avoiding direct conflict and aggression. It is subtle and deniable. You can't barge in and fight it, not without sparking the type of unseemly direct conflict that will only make things worse for you and will get you frozen out even more.
That is one reason many of them are so angry and are always lashing out at TERFs, as if a group of online radfems are some vast insurmountable enemy. The 'real' barrier to them being accepted as women is something they cannot fight with direct aggression. In fact it is a concept that most of them do not even recognize, because they are incapable of looking at relationships from an actual female perspective.