Lim-Lim

In a meme?

Not necessarily. It would clutter the meme quite a bit to add separate educational material to it. I’d say this was a good solution for this occasion. It also proviked a question whose answer included the needed information.

And nowadays, when people know better, “transsexual” feels like a slightly derogatory term to many transgender people. Better avoid it’s use :)

Sex and gender are different things, though.

A trans person who never transitions is still a trans person. (And if they have not yet transitioned, they’ve always been trans all the same)

But the phrase “transsexual” suggests that a trans person is trans only if they medically transition at some point.

Transgender is much better :)

Seems to end with d or l, so probably not.

Dunno. I don’t think she literally expects him to read her mind but this is rather an allegory of sorts.

And here comes the thing that her life doesn’t happen in a vacuum. She has been conditioned in all other parts of her life since she was only 12-year-old to not show sexual desire outwardly. It takes a lot of wisdom to understand not to apply in this situation something that you have accepted as a basic axiom of life.

Yeah, it would be much better to be outspoken about one’s needs, but that’s a very big thing to demand of a young and inexperienced woman. Relationship skills grow during the relationship. They are not something innate.

As long as the rest of the girl’s life conditions her to a certain behaviour, I would be primarily angry at those things conditioning her to that shit and only secondarily to her not recognising she has been conditioned to bad behaviour and should unlearn that usually necessary behaviour in certain contexts.

A woman might get beaten up or even raped as being “a whore” for being too outright about wanting sex. The risk is not very high, but if you repeat an action with a small risk often enough, the risk will realize.

Yeah, this is a thing that needs to change in the society. But, to change it, first it must be made safe, which means men actively standing up against other men when they behave in misogynistic ways. The bad guys look externally precisely the same as the good guys, and they ruin extremely much for the rest!