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Ratnix t1_ja8k448 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A transgender woman will compete in a Puerto Rico pageant for the first time by BecuzMDsaid

I wouldn't want to be a judge for that event. If she doesn't win, then "anyone who didn't vote for her is just transphobic." If she does win, "it's only because she's Trans".

No matter what happens, they're going to get hated upon.

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needabiggerhammer t1_ja8sg0k wrote

Pretty much. Going to be a shit show.

Would be more interesting if the judges didn't know she was trans. Seeing it is a beauty contest I imagine part of the subjective scoring will be based on an unconscious "can I breed with her" factor (actually make babies, not just practice) and could unintentionally bias males judges regardless of their conscious openness to the concept.

Tangent, but that would be a fun research project. Does telling a male a woman is sterilized impact their perceived attractiveness? How about trans instead? How do the impacts compare?

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Whackjob-KSP t1_jaa1kur wrote

I think it would say more about the person answering those questions than the subjects at hand.

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needabiggerhammer t1_jaaumm2 wrote

How so?

It would be finding out how much does perceived fertility impacts what is considered attractive (already a subjective measure that changes based on culture and history). They whole point would to be if there is, and how much, a subconscious weighting based on that.

Similar studies have been done on equally frivolous (in the context that someone being fertile or not does not change they worth or value as a person) variables and generally they have interesting results.

Not really related to the subject of the thread, hence the prefix of "tangent", except the whole thing is around a beauty pageant where we already reduce women to the role of object and score them on it.

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