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Mama Bear Proud's avatar

Why? Reducing Moser’s critique; Blanchard assigned a dichotomy where one doesn’t exist. Both heterosexual and homosexual have had sexual thoughts of being in love with oneself as a woman, therefore the claim that all heterosexual boys in this are AGP is ridiculous.

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Andrea's avatar

Ok. Still I’ve heard of trans men referring to AAP not as a love of oneself as a man. Not as a love of oneself nor a fixation of oneself at all but as a dream of actually being able to _do_ what men do in a sexual situation. Having the streangth, the sexual agency (that most men are scared of seeing in women) and even having a penis. But not for loving themselves but for living things you just don’t as a woman. If you think of yourself as a child and maybe you saw birds and wanted to be able to fly or saw an elephant and wanted to shower yourself with a trunk, the same way but once you’re a teenager or an adult then the sexual interest come in and there comes AAP or AGP. I believe the assumption that all AAP and AGP are narcissists is wrong. Of course those are the ones that we come across most as leaders of trans orgs or as internet harassers but this is because of their personality. The more silent and peaceful ones I believe are more like what I’ve come across. Just my belief though.

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