I don't know if this woman is making fun of us with performance art, or if she
really is a cat at heart, but her trans-species situation seems like what the critics
of transgender people always warned would happen if they allowed us to exist;
and I fear this will be grabbed onto as somehow implicating us as delusional,
with that peculiar logic of transphobes...
YAHOO ARTICLE ABOUT WOMAN WHO BELIEVES
SHE IS A CAT TRAPPED IN A HUMAN BODY:
http://news.yahoo.com/this-woman-believes-that-she-is-a-cat-...
I know some of us at BCTS identify strongly with certain animals
I do, it's no coincidence that I named myself after a dog,
and there's several nice self-identified kitty cats here,
but this Norwegian woman's claims just seems like
some kinda heavy handed + ill-conceived satire.
woof, Spacepup
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Transphobes will find
Transphobes will find anything to use against people so I wouldn't lose too much sleep over using her claims against people. They will always find a way of complaining about trans people no matter what.
That said, I think they are a little light on the news. There are several other people who have taken their obsessions with being feline further than she has to the point that they have implanted whiskers in their skin and tattooed stripes and spots to look like tigers and leopards. They probably singled her out because it's from an unlikely source country(no offense to Norwegians meant!)
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
It's cute
But of course it'll be weaponized against Trans people. The Tea party gets off on hurting us.
I know who I am, I am me, and I like me ^^
Transgender, Gamer, Little, Princess, Therian and proud :D
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
Identification with and acting out an animal is far from unusual. Indeed it is quite common among native americans who partake of certain plants, herbs and seeds. The wolf, the bear, and the eagle seem to be the most common. The only difference here is the presence of the media. Women in particular identify with cats. This particular woman is not even an extreme if you can imagine that. I happen to identify strongly with flora. Corn, barley and malt are my particular favs.
Slainte...
Kelly the Malt
Pixie Here!
Although in RL my wings seem to be hiding and I am kind of large, for a pixie that is.
*giggles*
~Hypatia >i< ..:::
She's probably barking
It might just be attention seeking or harmless eccentricity, either way she's harmless unless she meets someone who thinks they're a mouse.
Angharad
I Have Just The Job For Her
There is a revival of the musical CATS playing here in Brisbane, so if she puts herself in a pet-box and gets on a plane she can be gainfully employed in her ideal milieu, or should that be meow-ieu.
I saw the original production in London in 1982 would you believe.
I think her obssession will wain
The moment she gets her first hairball ^_^
Otherkin
Otherkin are people who believe themselves to be, well, other -- some other, perhaps alien or perhaps mythical being. Dragons are not uncommon.
And yes, they receive much derision. It sounds all too familiar.
Meow,
Ray Drouillard