Argumentative Penguin
1 min readJun 29, 2023

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No, I think you've opened up an interesting discussion and touched on a number of different things - and with this being the internet everyone has an opinion and no hesitation about setting it down.

I think we probably do have the same definition of oppression for most things, but words such as 'oppression' are linguistically meaningless most of the time, almost everyone can choose some facet of their identity in which to claim either overt or covert oppression. That was my wider point.

I think we do have different opinions on calling out problematic behaviours - because of the word 'problematic'. Behaviours are just behaviours, problematic is a label attached to describe them from a given position. Transphobic behaviour is not a problematic behaviour for people who don't see transphobia as a problem, or even people who do see transphobia as a problem but don't identify certain behaviours of their own as transphobic (and therefore not problematic). As I said before, and as you're saying here in the article, we must be very clear about what we label 'phobic' because there are lashings of subjectivity all over social issues like these :o)

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