You are correct, technically it doesn’t. It is about kings, and the poster tells you to replace king with man.
Also technically it is saying that a trans person who tells you that they are a man, is not a real man. I mean trans men are men.
But I don’t think that is a fair reading of the text. But sure you can read the message that I call toxic, as a toxic message to men in general and especially towards trans men. I just don’t see where you want to go with that.
Alternatively, and admittedly, I am reading it in the context of the post in which it is about men expressing that they want to feel manly. Still toxic, and implicitly transphobic, but at least matching the post.
On the grounds it’s a fairly common turn of phrase applied to many things and commonly understood to mean if you have to make a big deal of saying something you’re not that thing. Something similar to “actions speak louder than words”
Doesn’t say that anywhere on the gif
You are correct, technically it doesn’t. It is about kings, and the poster tells you to replace king with man.
Also technically it is saying that a trans person who tells you that they are a man, is not a real man. I mean trans men are men.
But I don’t think that is a fair reading of the text. But sure you can read the message that I call toxic, as a toxic message to men in general and especially towards trans men. I just don’t see where you want to go with that.
Alternatively, and admittedly, I am reading it in the context of the post in which it is about men expressing that they want to feel manly. Still toxic, and implicitly transphobic, but at least matching the post.
Okay, so why are you allowed to infer things that aren’t in the meme but I’m not?
What are you infering? On what ground?
There is a difference between infering and assuming.
On the grounds it’s a fairly common turn of phrase applied to many things and commonly understood to mean if you have to make a big deal of saying something you’re not that thing. Something similar to “actions speak louder than words”