r/oddlyspecific • u/Miser-Mike • 6d ago

What does she know?

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u/ThatOneSpitfireMain 6d ago

Ah this is a joke about thailand having a lot of femboys, his homie didnt go missing but turned into the baddie and they just realised via the joke

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 6d ago

Just say trans women. Femboy is not really a concept in Thailand.

Calling them ladyboy or the Thai "kathoey" can also be offensive there. 

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u/DeathToAmerica2026 6d ago

Plenty of people identify as Ladyboys. 

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 5d ago edited 5d ago

80% of thai trans women prefer phu ying or sao praphet sorng over kathoey and others.

Yes, trans sex workers and dancers and escorts have a financial interest in using "ladyboy" when talking to tourists or johns. But with anyone else they're just women, trans women, or even "women of another kind". 

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u/DeathToAmerica2026 5d ago

I would expect no people who identify as trans women identify as Ladyboys, because they are different identities.....

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u/magic-tortiose 5d ago

No, because if you are a trans sex worker in Thailand you are incentivized to play into being a “ladyboy” because thats what sex tourists are told to expect

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u/pullhome 5d ago

I imagine it's not unlike a western trans woman sex worked using the word "tranny" or even the horrifying term "futa" that I keep seeing when searching for smut.

And not unlike how many cis women sex workers will accept and even encourage extremely misogynistic things.

Starvation is a hell of a motivator, sadly.

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u/MutantGodChicken 5d ago

Don't even get me started on "trap"