i sat on this exchange almost a day but im still pissed off so now i shall complain about it.

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

i sat on this exchange almost a day but im still pissed off so now i shall complain about it. on my post in which i mentioned the repertoire of contralto castrati, who had deep voices unaffected by testosterone puberty, had piqued my interest (making no mention in the post of my own gender) i got this drive by reply. benign enough, if clearly entirely ignorant of my situation,

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

here's where it gets absolutely infuriating. i acknowledge their generic platitudes and mention that my voice is indeed a physiological abnormality (my resting pitch is 3 standard deviations from what's normal for an adult who has not experienced testosterone puberty) not realizing they had set a rhetorical trap. their smug reply "congratulations" implies i am absurd for claiming to have a deep voice due to the existence of trans women. because of the rhetorical framing they themselves provided

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

realizing I'd been tricked (how is it allyship if you have to trick people into saying the wrong thing??) I replied

"to be clear you don't need to lecture me that it is common for women to have bass range voices. I know that. However it is highly uncommon for cis women to have bass range voices"

in a reply they later deleted they wrote "I don't feel lectured. Do you feel lectured?"

[blink blink]

excuse me? are you DARVOing me in my thread about 17th century castrated celebrities?

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

one of the only non-bot blocks I've done on masto. at least the person screeching to me that all trade was inherently exploitative didn't try to catch me in a "ha ha psyche you're actually transphobic!!" gotcha. and the audacity to tell me to unlearn the fuckin vocal gender binary i swear to fuck. yes i mad

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

the more I think about it the grosser it seems to me that they used something wonderful like an inclusive LGBTQ+ choir as a cudgel to beat down someone for the crime of claiming to to be special. do the women this person sings with in the bass section of their choir know their existence is being invoked for this purpose? one wonders...

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

my experience on The Internet

me: cripes sometimes it is a pain in the ass to be a woman with a deep voice
rando non trans woman: but trans women????

me: cripes sometimes it is a pain in the ass to be a woman with a deep voice
trans woman: yep

[xibanya@mastodon.xyz]

well to end this thread on a positive note, it kicks ass to be a 5'6" (168cm) human, tall enough to reach everything, short enough to not be tortured by sitting in a compact car, really, it's pretty much perfect. i will now accept your envy

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@Xibanya

> tall enough to reach everything

[citation needed]