Reflections on Privilege, the Other, and the Iphone app “PeekabooTranny”

[phoenix_hawk]

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Comments

[mindstalk]

Hijacking the podium? Dude, it's your LJ! You can talk about why you feel like. You might worry about driving off readership, but there's no hijacking...

I'm not sure why it's insensitive to compare to the Civil Rights movement. Especially for trans acceptance, where they're fighting for the right for life, job, and medical care -- from what I hear, death by violence is pretty high for transsexuals, unemployment is high, insurers and doctors often refuse to touch them. I can sort of see thinking gay marriage isn't as big as the black right to vote, but trans rights seem pretty critical to them.

Of course there's not very many trans people, vs. 14% of the country being black (though not all were living under Jim Crow) so it may not seem as big a utilitarian deal, but in terms for basic fairness... yeah.

[phoenix_hawk]

Point ^_^.

I'm not trying to minimize the issues facing trans acceptance, and I don't know how well that come across.

In terms of basic fairness, yes the struggle is the same in terms of rights. Wanting people to be included in the larger community and have the same basic rights is something I am 100% behind. And none of this is to minimize what a particular person may face.

What I get discomfitted by is the comparisons, which I think can be alienating. It feels tonedeaf to me, in the same sense that comparing one mass genocide to another mass genocide could be. The comparison becomes an abstraction that negates the uniqueness of each movement, and the factors that shape it. And, while this may be hypothetical at best, if I was one of the affected groups, I would find it very easy to be affronted by the comparison. Certainly that was what I witnessed when the comparisons came up in law school. Lacking that intimate awareness, I'd prefer to avoid the comparison, rather than make it and risk sidetracking the conversation.

[hachurui]

Good read.

[phoenix_hawk]

Danke! What is your avatar icon here of, anyways? I've been wondering about that for a bit.

[hachurui]

It's the best image I could find of Pazuzu from the Megami Tensei games.

[phoenix_hawk]

As an update, Apple appears to have removed the App.