Weirdly, over the past 20-years I’ve been friends with three transgender individuals. Two female-to-male and one male-to-female. All three were taking antidepressants and anti anxiety medications. The poor male-to-female was a depressed young man who turned up being a depressed young “wanna be female”. She never fit in any normal society, was a lesbian, had problems finding and keeping a job even though had Master Degrees from Ivy League universities. She’s been living in a Buddhist ashram for the last 15 years trying to find him/herself.
One of the female-to-males detransitioned five years ago. He was also homosexual when living as a man. (Confused yet?). Now he’s a she again, with no breasts, useless ovaries abs male pattern baldness. Very sad situation.
The last female-to-male looks so convincing from the outside and you could never actually tell he was trans. Bus his mind is decidedly still female so his emotional interactions are still quite feminine. And he still can’t figure out why a straight woman won’t have a relationship with him...a “man” with a vagina. So he’s lonely, depressed and sad.
Seeing it first hand the way I have and knowing all these people prior to their “transitioning” I’m convinced the entire trans movement is POISON!
God, those poor individuals. I have a friend whose child (now 25) was born female but identifies as non-gender (or non-binary or whatever the terminology is); they aren't transgender; they are just attracted to people as people. Ok, I get that, in my day that was bi-sexual I think, but whatever. They insist on the pronouns 'they/them'. Fine. They are in a relationship with another person who also identifies as non-gender/non-binary and I believe they are currently very happy. This partner was born male. So essentially a non-gender female is in a relationship with a non gender male. ?
So, aside from the pressure to adopt some weird woke societal terminology...there’re in a heterosexual relationship. But that’s just not cool enough these days. 😵💫😵💫😵💫
A friend on Twitter has this theory that a society cannot merely tolerate great evils. Either they are properly shunned, or they must be celebrated. Hence abortion could never be "safe, legal, and rare", not for long anyway, it has to be celebrated. And now we can celebrate chopping off your healthy breasts too.
Your twitter-friend is correct. This is something which has been observed from at least the mid-seventeenhundreds:
Forbidden -> tolerated -> endorsed -> Mandatory. Staying between tolerated and endorsed is the almost impossible part, and the more culturally/racially diverse a society, the greater the difficulty since what is holy to one is profane to the other.
I'm well confused. Does that mean that because I had a bi-lateral mastectomy I was entitled to free coffee? But as I've had reconstruction now I'm not? Or maybe I am still entitled because the reconstruction ones aren't actually 'real'? So, I became a man when I had the mastectomy, but does having the reconstruction make me a woman again? I'm not sure how I feel about being a woman (or even maybe a man) as I feel the same way now as I did before I had the mastectomy (but with less pain). If anyone was to ask me what it 'feels' like to be a woman (let's just assume I am (still) one), I wouldn't know how to answer because how I feel now, is the same as how I felt before, which is 'me'. When I had the reconstruction I didn't feel I'd suddenly become a 'man'. The only thing I felt was a whole lot of f---g pain to be honest.
This is definitely something I had not considered before and if I wasn't confused enough before, I am now. I have read very (very) little of Judith Butler, but I'm beginning to think that even that was too much.
I now need to go and lie down in a darkened room and a cold compress on my forehead and possibly some smelling salts...
Those definitions bring me back to those high school geometry exercises where we had to write a definition of an angle, or a circle. “Are you thinking of a sphere?” the teacher would ask, or “You just defined the _measure_ of an angle.” Those comments, hateful and white supremacist as they were, helped us become more precise. This is what I would like to explain, when I press my latest acquaintance who tells me her child is non-binary (or, in the case of one midlife crisis, that she herself is non-binary): I am not asking you to explain more precisely what you mean because I haven’t “done the work” or because I’m mocking you. I’m not asking for me. And although my children say I’m a big meanie for telling them, when they tell me, “I understand it but I can’t explain it to you” (in reference to academic subjects); if you can’t— given some time and effort— come up with a clear and concise explanation for something, you don’t really understand it.
As an aside, I rarely go to Starbucks but every time I do I see at least one trans person. This coffee ad is, unlike the Bud Light thing, maybe just savvy marketing? The bandwagon-hopping left just loves Big Coffee, and this kind of thing can make them think they’re virtuous for supporting it instead of some asshole small businessman who didn’t even display the regulation corporate rainbows during pride month.
Isn't there some particle that you can either define its postion or its velocity but not both? It's somewhat like that, except being made-up on the spot as needed.
Really, and I know people belonging to traditional abrahamic cults take offence at this, but think before doing so, please: it's a religion akin to judaism, christianity and islam, and the woke academics are the priest caste,chanting the spells and decreeing what is heresy and blasphemy, and what is sacro-sanct.
That's why there are no real definitions, no logical consistency and no real reality involved. That's also why there's no comparing with or investigating reality in any empirical fashion. That's why they always rationalise instead of modify their beliefs when reality says different from dogma.
Learning about reality is hard work (don't need to tell a physicist and a father that...); making it up in your own head as you go along is much easier.
Gender as a social construct makes a certain, limited amount of sense. There are roles, based on sex, that owe something to the way we organise our societies. But that's nothing on which to even hang a hat, and using it as a semantic bludgeon against the realities of sex easily becomes criminal.
Pressuring people to state their pronouns, as they do on most official forms now and in classrooms, is like forced masking. It makes unsuspecting masses visibly virtue-signal allegiance to gender ideology.
My tuppence worth - Costa, Stabucks et al serve bloody awful coffee but as 99.99999% or their customers buy it loaded with sugars, creams, milks etc then they don't actually ever taste how bloody awful the coffee they are getting which is how the companies get away with it.
I hate McDonalds but I will give them this - for what it costs their coffee, even when served black with nothing in it tastes OK. Better that Costa and Starbucks that's for sure.
As for gender I've given up on trying to understand the issue as It think it's a mental health problem not a physical problem. What anyone does with anyone else with their bits is none of my business even if they want to cut bits off or sew bits on as long as they are all consenting adults I just wish they would all just bog off and stop trying to push an agenda. Do whatever you want to do in private, I don't want to watch or hear about it. And stay away from my kids.
Well I have to say the statements made by the EU and the WHO have taught me they’re full of shit. But I do delight in learning a new word. Fuckton. I’m an old man now but never too old to learn new vocabulary. It’s been around for a while. Somehow I missed it.
This is what you get when you rely on the laughably named social "sciences". It's just a steaming pile of obfuscated gibberish dreamed up by grifters to impress the dim.
Weirdly, over the past 20-years I’ve been friends with three transgender individuals. Two female-to-male and one male-to-female. All three were taking antidepressants and anti anxiety medications. The poor male-to-female was a depressed young man who turned up being a depressed young “wanna be female”. She never fit in any normal society, was a lesbian, had problems finding and keeping a job even though had Master Degrees from Ivy League universities. She’s been living in a Buddhist ashram for the last 15 years trying to find him/herself.
One of the female-to-males detransitioned five years ago. He was also homosexual when living as a man. (Confused yet?). Now he’s a she again, with no breasts, useless ovaries abs male pattern baldness. Very sad situation.
The last female-to-male looks so convincing from the outside and you could never actually tell he was trans. Bus his mind is decidedly still female so his emotional interactions are still quite feminine. And he still can’t figure out why a straight woman won’t have a relationship with him...a “man” with a vagina. So he’s lonely, depressed and sad.
Seeing it first hand the way I have and knowing all these people prior to their “transitioning” I’m convinced the entire trans movement is POISON!
God, those poor individuals. I have a friend whose child (now 25) was born female but identifies as non-gender (or non-binary or whatever the terminology is); they aren't transgender; they are just attracted to people as people. Ok, I get that, in my day that was bi-sexual I think, but whatever. They insist on the pronouns 'they/them'. Fine. They are in a relationship with another person who also identifies as non-gender/non-binary and I believe they are currently very happy. This partner was born male. So essentially a non-gender female is in a relationship with a non gender male. ?
So, aside from the pressure to adopt some weird woke societal terminology...there’re in a heterosexual relationship. But that’s just not cool enough these days. 😵💫😵💫😵💫
EXACTLY!!!!!
A friend on Twitter has this theory that a society cannot merely tolerate great evils. Either they are properly shunned, or they must be celebrated. Hence abortion could never be "safe, legal, and rare", not for long anyway, it has to be celebrated. And now we can celebrate chopping off your healthy breasts too.
Your twitter-friend is correct. This is something which has been observed from at least the mid-seventeenhundreds:
Forbidden -> tolerated -> endorsed -> Mandatory. Staying between tolerated and endorsed is the almost impossible part, and the more culturally/racially diverse a society, the greater the difficulty since what is holy to one is profane to the other.
I'm well confused. Does that mean that because I had a bi-lateral mastectomy I was entitled to free coffee? But as I've had reconstruction now I'm not? Or maybe I am still entitled because the reconstruction ones aren't actually 'real'? So, I became a man when I had the mastectomy, but does having the reconstruction make me a woman again? I'm not sure how I feel about being a woman (or even maybe a man) as I feel the same way now as I did before I had the mastectomy (but with less pain). If anyone was to ask me what it 'feels' like to be a woman (let's just assume I am (still) one), I wouldn't know how to answer because how I feel now, is the same as how I felt before, which is 'me'. When I had the reconstruction I didn't feel I'd suddenly become a 'man'. The only thing I felt was a whole lot of f---g pain to be honest.
This is definitely something I had not considered before and if I wasn't confused enough before, I am now. I have read very (very) little of Judith Butler, but I'm beginning to think that even that was too much.
I now need to go and lie down in a darkened room and a cold compress on my forehead and possibly some smelling salts...
Those definitions bring me back to those high school geometry exercises where we had to write a definition of an angle, or a circle. “Are you thinking of a sphere?” the teacher would ask, or “You just defined the _measure_ of an angle.” Those comments, hateful and white supremacist as they were, helped us become more precise. This is what I would like to explain, when I press my latest acquaintance who tells me her child is non-binary (or, in the case of one midlife crisis, that she herself is non-binary): I am not asking you to explain more precisely what you mean because I haven’t “done the work” or because I’m mocking you. I’m not asking for me. And although my children say I’m a big meanie for telling them, when they tell me, “I understand it but I can’t explain it to you” (in reference to academic subjects); if you can’t— given some time and effort— come up with a clear and concise explanation for something, you don’t really understand it.
As an aside, I rarely go to Starbucks but every time I do I see at least one trans person. This coffee ad is, unlike the Bud Light thing, maybe just savvy marketing? The bandwagon-hopping left just loves Big Coffee, and this kind of thing can make them think they’re virtuous for supporting it instead of some asshole small businessman who didn’t even display the regulation corporate rainbows during pride month.
Isn't there some particle that you can either define its postion or its velocity but not both? It's somewhat like that, except being made-up on the spot as needed.
Really, and I know people belonging to traditional abrahamic cults take offence at this, but think before doing so, please: it's a religion akin to judaism, christianity and islam, and the woke academics are the priest caste,chanting the spells and decreeing what is heresy and blasphemy, and what is sacro-sanct.
That's why there are no real definitions, no logical consistency and no real reality involved. That's also why there's no comparing with or investigating reality in any empirical fashion. That's why they always rationalise instead of modify their beliefs when reality says different from dogma.
Learning about reality is hard work (don't need to tell a physicist and a father that...); making it up in your own head as you go along is much easier.
Follow the gourd!
Confusion is the order of the day, and it’s cropping up everywhere. As they say, if you’re not confused, you don’t get what’s going on.
Gender as a social construct makes a certain, limited amount of sense. There are roles, based on sex, that owe something to the way we organise our societies. But that's nothing on which to even hang a hat, and using it as a semantic bludgeon against the realities of sex easily becomes criminal.
Pressuring people to state their pronouns, as they do on most official forms now and in classrooms, is like forced masking. It makes unsuspecting masses visibly virtue-signal allegiance to gender ideology.
My tuppence worth - Costa, Stabucks et al serve bloody awful coffee but as 99.99999% or their customers buy it loaded with sugars, creams, milks etc then they don't actually ever taste how bloody awful the coffee they are getting which is how the companies get away with it.
I hate McDonalds but I will give them this - for what it costs their coffee, even when served black with nothing in it tastes OK. Better that Costa and Starbucks that's for sure.
As for gender I've given up on trying to understand the issue as It think it's a mental health problem not a physical problem. What anyone does with anyone else with their bits is none of my business even if they want to cut bits off or sew bits on as long as they are all consenting adults I just wish they would all just bog off and stop trying to push an agenda. Do whatever you want to do in private, I don't want to watch or hear about it. And stay away from my kids.
Well I have to say the statements made by the EU and the WHO have taught me they’re full of shit. But I do delight in learning a new word. Fuckton. I’m an old man now but never too old to learn new vocabulary. It’s been around for a while. Somehow I missed it.
This is what you get when you rely on the laughably named social "sciences". It's just a steaming pile of obfuscated gibberish dreamed up by grifters to impress the dim.