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近年来,随着跨性别运动的知名度越来越高,跨性别权利支持者与女权主义和女同性恋社区的某些部分之间的对立也越来越强烈(Phipps, 2016;Hines, 2017, Pearce et al., 2020)。这种对抗在数字空间中尤为明显,在线讨论加剧了辩论的两极分化(Hines, 2017)。本文考察了跨性别身份在auto跨界网站上的表现:一个为女同性恋和双性恋女性提供娱乐、新闻和生活方式的流行网站。它关注的是200万字的酷儿女性建议语料库中最长、最具争议的评论。这条帖子是对一篇针对顺性女性的跨性别女性约会指南的回应。结合批判性话语分析、社会文化语言学和语料库语言学,我揭示了评论者用来构建跨性别女性在酷儿女性网络空间中被包容的立场的论证策略(Fairclough和Fairclough, 2012)。主要的策略包括对女同性恋的有说服力的定义,对跨性别女性假想的身体的想象,以及将排斥跨性别的评论者视为糟糕的女权主义者和社区局外人的非法化。我发现,在社区层面上,变性人的包容是成功的,但在亲密层面上,变性女性仍然因为(想象中的)生殖器而受到质疑。跨性别女性在数据中是“高度具体化的”,阴茎的存在与否是被包容和受欢迎的焦点。
‘Go home to the second wave!’: Discourses of trans inclusion and exclusion in a queer women’s online community
As the visibility of trans movements has increased in recent years, so too has the antagonism between trans rights supporters and some sections of the feminist and lesbian communities (Phipps, 2016; Hines, 2017, Pearce et al., 2020). This antagonism is especially pronounced in digital spaces, where online discussions have fuelled an increasing polarisation of the debate (Hines, 2017). This paper examines the representation of trans identities on Autostraddle: a popular entertainment, news and lifestyle website for lesbian and bisexual women. It focuses on the longest and most controversial comment thread in the 2-million-word Queer Women’s Advice Corpus. The thread is a response to a guide to dating trans women for cis women. Using a combination of critical discourse analysis, sociocultural linguistics and corpus linguistics, I unpack the argumentation strategies (Fairclough and Fairclough, 2012) that commenters use to construct stances on the inclusion of trans women in the queer women’s online space. The major strategies include persuasive definitions of lesbian, imaginaries about trans women’s hypothetical bodies and the illegitimation of trans-exclusionary commenters as bad feminists and community outsiders. I find that that trans inclusion is successfully negotiated on a community level, but that trans women are still problematised on an intimate level due to their (imagined) genitalia. Trans women are ‘hyperembodied’ in the data, with the presence or absence of a penis acting as the focal point for inclusion and desirability.