• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Drag queen: “can also be anyone of any gender/sexuality dressing up as anything”

    I feel like there’s an alignment chart to be made here.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      How about self-described sissies and crossdressers?

      Isn’t a crossdresser just an antiquated term for a femboy? Those seem to describe the exact same phenomenon - a person who adopts the clothing and other social aspects of the opposite gender without identifying as that gender.

      The term crossdresser has fallen out favor, as it’s long held negative connotations. But definitionally, I think a crossdresser and a femboy are the exact same thing.

      The trans community has a history of reinventing terms. A lot of the same divisions that exist in the community now existed 20 years ago. The words have just changed. My mapping of new to old terms:

      Transsexual -> transsex at best, transmed/truscum at worst

      Crossdresser -> femboy

      Genderqueer -> various flavors of nonbinary

      Transvestite experience -> gender euphoria

      Sissy fantasy/scenario -> boy removal fantasy/scenario

      A lot of these terms have negative connotations. And we’ve replaced them with more neutral terms. But people are people; we’re still describing the same phenomena. The trans community exists on the euphemism treadmill. We invent terms, those terms gain a negative connotation, so we invent new terms. Those develop a negative connotation. We’re always in a never-ending race away from what was the polite and respectable rhetoric of a decade or two in the past.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t think crossdresser and femboy have the same connotation. And I feel kind of like the cosplay community reclaimed the term as a positive. I’ve seen crossdressing or cross used to describe genderswapped cosplay characters (I assume in positive contexts because the costumes I saw were amazing)

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Sissy is a fetish thing.

      Crossdresser is a broader, but outdated term. It can refer to a fetish or simply that somebody is technically wearing the gendered clothes against their current gender.

      Like “gay” and “straight”, a lot of these terms are outdated and don’t mean anything once your education gets past a certain point. Just like a lot of other higher education stuffs, they have the simplified and/or outdated terms… and then actual understanding.

  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Okay, okay… I think I’m getting it. You’re saying darker skinned people are in Drag! I think I’ve got it now.