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look at the boy, look at the way he eats spaghetti
انضم Haziran 2018
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Hi. Thai here.
Almost nobody in Thailand uses the term “ladyboy” when discussing trans identity in Thai. The word is an orientalist construction and is a Western projection that exists only within English speaking contexts.
What these viral misinformed takes always leave out is that trans women in Thailand use feminine language in the exact same way cis women do, and they are addressed as women by almost everyone whether they are conservatives, men, women, children, monks etc.
Unlike Indonesia, very few people in Thailand spend time policing other people’s use of language, which restrooms they use and how they choose to live their lives.
These hot takes from people stems from one thing: the fact that most of you have never actually known a trans person, listened to a trans person, or opened your hearts to one in real life.
And you certainly don’t understand how Thai language functions either. In Thailand this is almost unthinkable as Trans people are normalised members of society.
You can’t avoid trans people in Thailand because they don’t need to hide. If their family doesn’t accept them, they still have friends and the larger Thai community to lean on.
They are doctors, nurses, business owners, entertainers, teachers, service workers, creatives, athletes, and more. While you’re all busy debating bathroom politics and indulging in religious and political hysteria, the world keeps turning in Thailand lol
I see this discourse often and it really does expose how colonial language hierarchies erase the nuance of non-Western gender systems - systems that, while imperfect and still evolving, have long recognised identities beyond the narrow Western binary and flatten them into stereotypes for global consumption.
I’ve said this before but social media algorithms amplify English-language content to the rest of the world while Thai opinions remain trapped within Thailand’s content ecosystem. That asymmetry is exactly why so many of you speak about Thais instead of with Thais and it’s why your understanding of Thai trans identity will always sound like a mistranslation.
Terwelu Merah ୧⍤⃝🍉@pudingsoklad
Lol, Did he even try? Even thai ladyboy never claim h8mself as a woman and always identified tjey are ladyboy
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all other problems are this problem. all other discourse is a distraction from this
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
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gotta put this here because its always relevant

karaluch@krlchx
misogyny is assuming every child is automatically accompanied by a woman
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everyone is upset by this but it just affirms my belief that they are the most polite and considerate insects. Always tucked away somewhere, pay rent by killing other bugs, and now ur telling me they’re conscious of our business hours…gotta give them their 10s
⊹ ࣪ ˖ m de la crème 🫶🏾@ItssMichelle_xo
ever since i found out that spiders learn our daily routine i haven’t been the same
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an emmy isn’t enough he needs to be knighted
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Episode 3 of ‘ADOLESCENCE’ was Owen Cooper’s first ever time acting and being on a TV set. The one-take episode took more than 10 takes to accomplish.
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