You’re right, it is a slippery slope. Straight down to being honest with the people we have sex with so they can make informed decisions about whether they want to have sex with us! We better be careful or we might slide all the way down end up making the world a bit better.

If you agree to have sex with Person A and then Person B comes into the room and has sex with you, Person B is a rapist.

Are you for real? Not giving your partner the full ability to consent (for example, by concealing your identity and concocting a convoluted lie that designed to con them into not probing deeper) is rape. There is nothing here that suggests this is transphobic in the least (in that it is not tied to the person’s…

The woman on top did not have consent. The person she pretended to be - who was physically entirely different from who she actually was - that nonexistent person had consent. Lying about your marital status, age, job, etc - not rape. Actively creating an entirely different character, building a relationship as that…

There is a big difference between “my culture/ethnicity aren’t quite what you think they are” and “I’m pretending to be a person who literally does not exist and am concealing my gender because you don’t sleep with people of my gender.”

Wait... HeLa cells are not stem cells. They are cancer cells.

This is victim-blaming, nothing more. She didn't consent to have sex with this person and that is rape.

It certainly is in some countries:

Can’t remember. I thought it was straight crim law?

She did. And the answer was: male, equipped with real penis.

Of course, transphobia is a thing. No one is denying that. But this woman isn’t transgender. She isn’t living her life as a man. She is living her life as a woman who tricks people online into believing she is a man and then has sex with them while they still believes she is a man. Totally different.

This is immaculately crazy.

Aside from everything else they have been telling you, she did ask.

... obviously transphobia is a thing. Literally no one is disputing that. But A) there is no evidence that this woman is trans, or that she ever presented as male other than during this one sexual encounter, and B), a person has a right not to be penetrated or sexually interact with someone they did not want to.

She did not consent to have sex with this person. She consented to have sex with a completely different person, and the person she did NOT consent to sex with had sex with her anyway by lying to her to make her think she was having sex with the person she intended to have sex with. It is rape. The “equipment” is not…

It’s the same reason why we all know that in Revenge of the Nerds, the main nerd actually rapes the sorority girl when wearing the Darth Vader mask because she THOUGHT it was her boyfriend.

Because she didn’t actually consent to have sex with *this* person. Just like it would be rape if she consented to have sex with Twin A and Twin B somehow tricked her into sex. It’s not about gender identity, it’s about who she was consenting to sex with.

Rape by deception is definitely a thing.

Ah, catfishing. Starts out as a lark, something fun to do while you’re bored, and then next thing you know you’re in England wearing a wool hat and a strap-on.