Yeah, you don't have anything to fear, but that is because you are not being targeted, not because you're naturally unruffled and cool as a cucumber.
It's a little of column A and a little of column B. Men are less likely to be targeted because they're less likely to give in to troon demands which in turn makes them less vulnerable to troon demands which makes them care less; the inherent difference might be a small thing, but it compounds into something much larger. I'm not saying that men are
cool with loony troons insulting them, but their typical response is less likely to be to apologize and make amends and more likely to respond with their own aggression which, as it turns out, is one of the more effective ways to respond to troon aggression. And to compound the issue further, men are more likely to hang out with other men which grants them even more protection from troon demands (since the only power they wield over men is social) and men also have less to fear physically from trannies.
ETA: I also think that there are historical reasons for women to be more targeted by trannies, until recently most trannies were HSTS men seeking to avoid straight men's spaces and in the past women were probably less personally threatened by them. HSTS trannies are still mentally ill, but in small doses I'd imagine a lot of female social groups welcomed the spice that they offered. What few female trannies there were might have wanted to join male social groups in an equivalent way, but they knew full well that they were putting themselves at risk by doing so, so in the rare case that a TiF did somehow manage to join a male social group she probably would do her damndest to keep her sex a secret and so trannies in male groups were just never normalized the way that trannies in female groups were.
I'll admit, this is far from a rigorous historical analysis, but it just generally seems to me that all the factors are conspiring here to make women a far easier target for trannies. Physically, socially, and historically men are just less vulnerable to tranny pressure. If you have reasons to think otherwise I am certainly open to hearing them.
Edited in a response because I don't want to fill the thread with more sperging:
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What I was objecting to was the idea that trannies go after men less just because men are not bothered by insults, which is both untrue (they have no interest in going after men in the same way, because men don't have what they want) and insulting to women. Because it assumes that women don't like being called 'terfs' just because we are thin-skinned and can't keep our cool, when the reality is that 'terf' is deliberately being used as a dehumanizing slur with the desired aim of widespread dehumanization, and that it's used as a cover word for 'any woman who disagrees with me.'
The ultimate aim of the AGPs is not to call women mean names, and that's not what terves are afraid of. The aim is to turn terves into a group that can be punished and harmed without legal/societal recourse, and that in turn will frighten other women into silence so that the AGPs can continue their push forward without anyone standing in their way.
That push forward is what terves are afraid of (as well as the direct harm that might come to them). Because it will probably eventually involve stuff like 'strongly encouraged' surrogacy, and women having their children taken away to be given to less bigoted families (you don't want children growing up not being able to explore their gender identity, do you?). They want everything women have, and that includes their own babies and children (even if they would make shitty caregivers).
I don't personally think it will ever come to that: AGPs are simply too annoying and useless to be able to stay at the top of the 'favored minority' pile for too long. But just the idea that these people are pushing for it is pretty terrifying.
First of all, I want to acknowledge that these days the term TERF is usually connected to a violent threat. I will not deny that for a second. But I think that that's a relatively recent phenomenon that happened after so-called TERFs had already been pretty thoroughly demonized within women's groups.
I suppose the distinction is a little murky, but I didn't mean to imply that men don't mind being insulted. I was trying to say that men don't mind being told that
they don't fit in (yes, I know I called TERF an insult in my original comment, like I said the distinction can be a bit murky)
. In other words, men are less likely to to see these silly othering labels like TEHM (you remember when they tried to make Trans-Exclusionary Homosexual Male a thing?) and to try to be a team player over it, similarly they are less likely to be upset that their friends aren't being team players.
And
of course not all women are like that and not all men are like that either. But enough women are like that that their friends who aren't willing to repeat the mantra get isolated from their own social groups in a way that men almost never are for something as minor as a political difference. Maybe you disagree with me, but I would like to make it clear that I'm not trying to imply that women are histrionic little flowers and men are stone-faced cowboys, I just mean that the social dynamics in women's social groups seem to value harmony more than men's social groups where open conflict is expected which makes claims of being exclusionary a lot more effective in the former than the latter.
