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Somewhere, at some point, I read that a dirty tactic to win an argument is to try to invoke disgust in others with your opponent. That’s what that whole “genitals” thing is. He is the one bringing genitalia up, but he’s doing it to make everyone associate it with blameless women who simply aren’t attracted to him. They do this all the time. I’ve seen them call fathers “obsessed with their daughters’ genitals” if they comment that they don’t want their daughters in bathrooms with grown men. Invoking both genitalia and incest to discredit a normal protective feeling a man has for his child.

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Additionally, I really wish people would blow the skirt straight off that "you're obsessed with genitals" myth by pointing out in no uncertain terms that WE CAN SEE THAT THEY'RE MALE BY MERELY GLANCING AT THEIR MUG, let alone the rest of their bodies i.e. their frame!

It's abundantly clear that while this is NOT the case for them - for us, their genitals would certainly be an afterthought.

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That drives me insane. I am a straight female and attracted to men, that does not mean I'm just "cock mad", it means I'm attracted to men as a whole, their DNA, smell, etc. Same for everyone based on who they're attracted to.

Also, if trans people feel that's it's so hard to make a connection why don't they make a dating all exclusively for trans people? They're either trying to trick lesbians into dating straight men or trick men into dating "women" who aren't women at all. Hence why they should have their own app. But they won't do that because their validation is far more important. And also because they want to keep playing the victim about how hard it is

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*dating app

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Yeah, accusing fathers of being "obsessed with their daughters' genitals" is one of the most disgusting instances of DARVO out.

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This really needs pointing out every time.

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The self-delusion/brass neck of one of the repliers is gobsmacking:

“Shana, as an older woman, sapphic, femme, and queer, of transgender experience, I did try dating apps for several months, paying to get actual messages and such. I found that uniformly, women responding fell into two categories.

1) They hadn’t read the profile, and once informed, I was ghosted, occasionally with a departing bit of hatred.

2) They were men posing as women (a thing in lesbian life online, alas, and when told I was not interested in men, and further was trans, I got either anatomy pics, a bit of hatred, or was just ghosted.)”

Men posing as women, for shame! ‘She’s’ not interested in that.

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Yes, funny how they are allowed to keep strong interpersonal boundaries and are never shamed for their intrinsic orientation. "Men posing as women!" LOL! No insight whatsoever...

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I have to 'love' how he starts the article with "Dating while trans is never easy" then proceeds to castigate even the dating apps themselves for "allowing transphobia".

I smell bullshit. Unless the photos used are unbelievably heavily filtered (I believe "feminising" filters exist and are used by some TIMs) anyone who looks at them will instantly know that they're dealing with a male. What a disingenuous, rapey creep

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Another fat paedophile in a dodgy syrup. Give me strength. This ongoing debacle is beginning to make the Saville affair appear relatively trivial.

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Funny how gender identity is innate but sexual orientation isn’t in their world. Always the pantomime slap and still obviously male. Do they really believe this crap or are they monumental bullshitters? Does it ever work for them? Do lesbians suddenly see the light?

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Lol me a bloody river! You could not make this stuff up. Here. For. It xx

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It's funny in a way because my observation is that being sexually interested with women is the early, intermediate parts of agp but the deeper you go the more you're going to want to "be fucked by a man, like a woman" (aka pseudobisexuality). The end result is a preference for males (despite being straight), at least as sexual partners. Doesn't make these people any less dangerous, just even less rational. Also, as a dude, I'd kill for that jaw

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Hi Graham. This feels a bit strange to me. The CEO of TENI is not Shana Caroll (who is an artist in the Bible Belt in the USA ) but Éiréne Caroll.

I am not an investigator but I don’t think they are the same people.

https://m.facebook.com/shoshannacarrollart/

https://www.teni.ie/teni-welcomes-our-new-chief-executive-officer/

This seems like mistaken identities.

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They're the same people. Shana seems to be the artists name (even on the facebook page you linked you'll see they're selling art in Dublin)

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Ok

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