Common misconceptions of transgender women - Page 3

!@#$%! · 10.31.2019, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

Eh, I'm not really in the mood for it. Last night I had to explain to a 14 year old on Discord why dysphoria is different to just wishing you were better looking, so :/

oh, right.

yeah take a hot bath or something lol.

Toilet & Bowels · 11.01.2019, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

not worth arguing about, IMO. Those particular feminists are wrong, end of discussion

Why are they wrong?

Toilet & Bowels · 11.01.2019, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

Eh, I'm not really in the mood for it. Last night I had to explain to a 14 year old on Discord why dysphoria is different to just wishing you were better looking, so :/

Excuse for laziness

choc e-Claire · 11.01.2019, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Excuse for laziness

- either you're saying "eh, that's a good excuse", or you're calling me lazy. If it's the former, thank you; if it's the latter,

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Toilet & Bowels · 11.01.2019, 08:19 AM

If you are so confident you can school me but say you can't be bothered i don't see what is controversial about being called lazy.

All I'm doing is asking for people to provide a response to those feminists that is either well reasoned or backed up by some kind of factual information.

Rob Instigator · 11.01.2019, 10:47 AM

gender, as assigned by our genetic code, is fluid and has always been. 1 in 1000 kids are born with some form of hermaphroditism, and 99% of them are either operated on as babies or just raised as a single sex.

Many are born with NO sexual organs or characteristics.

the idea of "male" and female" as the only polar opposites that truly exist is fucking dumb and owes its existence to the fucking dumb all or nothing world created by origanized religions of the past 2000 years. In countries where they had civilization and religion before monotheism all sexual characteristics are usually accepted and understood.

sexual preference is a completely different thing to gender, and works on a bell curve, not an either/or dichotomy.

!@#$%! · 11.01.2019, 11:08 AM

right, gender is not reducible to chromosomes, and while chromosomes are extremely important, it’s simplistic dumbfuckery to reduce everything to them, because a) they alone do not determine ontogeny, and b) even if they did, there’s not just 2 identical sex chromosomes out in the wild to say all chromosome combos are equivalent. mutation is a thing.

the world is supremely chaotic, and we can attempt to categorize it all, but we’re only really successful at it with very simple things, like physics and chemistry. for everything else we’re more or less testing and making it up as we go. and rules of thumb are useful, but they’re not everything.

life as we live it is incredibly complex, and that scares people who then run to find mental refuge in simplistic explanations for all. religion does this, and science-as-religion is no different.

the kind of normative naturalism that jordan lobsterman preaches is extremely lazy thought. yes, we have to recognize the biological as he says—but no, the biological is not as simple as he pretends in order to advance his order vs. chaos ideology. he might have once measured crustacean serotonin but he’s certainly not an endocrinologist.

ilduclo · 11.01.2019, 11:10 AM

it's a form of hate speech and doesn't need a response

Toilet & Bowels · 11.04.2019, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

gender, as assigned by our genetic code, is fluid and has always been. 1 in 1000 kids are born with some form of hermaphroditism, and 99% of them are either operated on as babies or just raised as a single sex.

Many are born with NO sexual organs or characteristics.

the idea of "male" and female" as the only polar opposites that truly exist is fucking dumb and owes its existence to the fucking dumb all or nothing world created by origanized religions of the past 2000 years. In countries where they had civilization and religion before monotheism all sexual characteristics are usually accepted and understood.

sexual preference is a completely different thing to gender, and works on a bell curve, not an either/or dichotomy.

You are confusing sex with gender. Gender is not defined by genetic code.
Don't really see any relevance between what you are saying and the question I asked so I presume you are not talking to me.

"In countries where they had civilization and religion before monotheism all sexual characteristics are usually accepted and understood." Don't really know where you get that one from or which these countries are, I think you pulled this out of your arse.

Rob Instigator · 11.04.2019, 09:47 AM

Nope. In many countries (especially older ones that were no founded by christians), intersex genders are recognized, whether it is native americans belief that a human can have two souls (male and female souls in a male r female body, or a male soul in a female body or vice versa), and the Longstanding Hindu belief that there are sex genders between male and female, or the acceptance of early China regarding men with female souls or vie versa. There are many many examples. The Inuit do so. There are tribes and cultures in Africa that shared these views.

Toilet & Bowels · 11.04.2019, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

it's a form of hate speech and doesn't need a response

Be serious. Why is it hate speech for genetic women to say that womanhood isn't something you can assign yourself?

Why is it that you all-born-male-people presume to know better on the issue of what womanhood is than people who have been women all their lives?

Toilet & Bowels · 11.04.2019, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Nope. In many countries (especially older ones that were no founded by christians), intersex genders are recognized, whether it is native americans belief that a human can have two souls (male and female souls in a male r female body, or a male soul in a female body or vice versa), and the Longstanding Hindu belief that there are sex genders between male and female, or the acceptance of early China regarding men with female souls or vie versa. There are many many examples. The Inuit do so. There are tribes and cultures in Africa that shared these views.

Yeah I know, hijras, etc. It's a more sensible and accepting way of looking at people and the world. But that is not the same as "all sexual characteristics are usually accepted and understood". We had civilization and religion before monotheism in Europe and your statement is not true for here. They've never had monothesim in Japan (well not yet) and your statement isn't true for there either.

NB I'm not defending gender binaries. Nor am I advocating intolerance of non-binary/trans people.

!@#$%! · 11.04.2019, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Be serious. Why is it hate speech for genetic women to say that womanhood isn't something you can assign yourself?

Why is it that you all-born-male-people presume to know better on the issue of what womanhood is than people who have been women all their lives?

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

NB I'm not defending gender binaries. Nor am I advocating intolerance of non-binary/trans people.

what is “womanhood”? just aXing (about the terms of this discussion.)

ilduclo · 11.04.2019, 12:23 PM

well, T n B is going into the ignore bin..

h8kurdt · 11.04.2019, 01:19 PM

The guy has shown an interest in wanting to learn so why not have a discussion with him? Not as if he's been a dick about it all. It's too easy to just go "urgh you just don't get it" as if that proves your point.

ilduclo · 11.04.2019, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

The guy has shown an interest in wanting to learn so why not have a discussion with him? Not as if he's been a dick about it all. It's too easy to just go "urgh you just don't get it" as if that proves your point.

too facile on the "wanting to learn" thing. It seems practiced and shop worn to me. I've got a real low tolerance for bullshit, since I am neither working nor running for office, I just don't have to respect other peoples fucked up opinions.

Toilet & Bowels · 11.04.2019, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

too facile on the "wanting to learn" thing. It seems practiced and shop worn to me. I've got a real low tolerance for bullshit, since I am neither working nor running for office, I just don't have to respect other peoples fucked up opinions.

Do you understand the difference between a question and an opinion or are you being wilfully closed minded? I guess if you put someone on ignore then the answer is obvious.

Read my posts that have my actual opinions: having multiple genders (or none) is more sensible and accepting the binary.
Gender binary is dumb. I'll add this: i have great admiration for people who transition, it must be immensely difficult and probably comes after long periods of alienation, depression and self-loathing. And I imagine is a very difficult decision to make and tell your friends and family, and then actually carry out and do.

However, it takes a leap of logic to say that someone who transitions to male or female is the same as a person of was born, raised, lived their who life and is biologically male/female. This is why binary is dumb. This is why multiple (infinite/none) genders is more sensible.
Why is it controversial for a cis woman to say trans women are trans women? As far as I can see that is not derogatory or dehumanizing unless you think there is something wrong or inferior with being trans.

h8kurdt · 11.04.2019, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Do you understand the difference between a question and an opinion or are you being wilfully closed minded? I guess if you put someone on ignore then the answer is obvious.

Read my posts that have my actual opinions: having multiple genders (or none) is more sensible and accepting the binary.
Gender binary is dumb. I'll add this: i have great admiration for people who transition, it must be immensely difficult and probably comes after long periods of alienation, depression and self-loathing. And I imagine is a very difficult decision to make and tell your friends and family, and then actually carry out and do.

However, it takes a leap of logic to say that someone who transitions to male or female is the same as a person of was born, raised, lived their who life and is biologically male/female. This is why binary is dumb. This is why multiple (infinite/none) genders is more sensible.
Why is it controversial for a cis woman to say trans women are trans women? As far as I can see that is not derogatory or dehumanizing unless you think there is something wrong or inferior with being trans.

Quoted just in case you were blocked

Toilet & Bowels · 11.04.2019, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

what is “womanhood”? just aXing (about the terms of this discussion.)

Womanhood I was using to refer to whatever it is that people like Germaine Greer or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie regard as being their province, whether that means it is exclusive to cis women or just theirs to a greater extent than trans women, or a thing that is similar but separate to transwomanhood (don't ask me what that is).

I'm not saying I know what it is, I'm just expecting that these women do.

!@#$%! · 11.04.2019, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Womanhood I was using to refer to whatever it is that people like Germaine Greer or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie regard as being their province, whether that means it is exclusive to cis women or just theirs to a greater extent than trans women, or a thing that is similar but separate to transwomanhood (don't ask me what that is).

I'm not saying I know what it is, I'm just expecting that these women do.

ok i don’t know what constitutes womanhood either or what the novelist wrote, but is it anything like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice...transsexualism

11.01.2019, 08:19 AM	#45
Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,265	If you are so confident you can school me but say you can't be bothered i don't see what is controversial about being called lazy. All I'm doing is asking for people to provide a response to those feminists that is either well reasoned or backed up by some kind of factual information.
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11.01.2019, 10:47 AM	#46
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,969	gender, as assigned by our genetic code, is fluid and has always been. 1 in 1000 kids are born with some form of hermaphroditism, and 99% of them are either operated on as babies or just raised as a single sex. Many are born with NO sexual organs or characteristics. the idea of "male" and female" as the only polar opposites that truly exist is fucking dumb and owes its existence to the fucking dumb all or nothing world created by origanized religions of the past 2000 years. In countries where they had civilization and religion before monotheism all sexual characteristics are usually accepted and understood. sexual preference is a completely different thing to gender, and works on a bell curve, not an either/or dichotomy. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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11.01.2019, 11:08 AM	#47
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,560	right, gender is not reducible to chromosomes, and while chromosomes are extremely important, it’s simplistic dumbfuckery to reduce everything to them, because a) they alone do not determine ontogeny, and b) even if they did, there’s not just 2 identical sex chromosomes out in the wild to say all chromosome combos are equivalent. mutation is a thing. the world is supremely chaotic, and we can attempt to categorize it all, but we’re only really successful at it with very simple things, like physics and chemistry. for everything else we’re more or less testing and making it up as we go. and rules of thumb are useful, but they’re not everything. life as we live it is incredibly complex, and that scares people who then run to find mental refuge in simplistic explanations for all. religion does this, and science-as-religion is no different. the kind of normative naturalism that jordan lobsterman preaches is extremely lazy thought. yes, we have to recognize the biological as he says—but no, the biological is not as simple as he pretends in order to advance his order vs. chaos ideology. he might have once measured crustacean serotonin but he’s certainly not an endocrinologist.
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11.01.2019, 11:10 AM	#48
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	it's a form of hate speech and doesn't need a response
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11.04.2019, 09:47 AM	#50
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,969	Nope. In many countries (especially older ones that were no founded by christians), intersex genders are recognized, whether it is native americans belief that a human can have two souls (male and female souls in a male r female body, or a male soul in a female body or vice versa), and the Longstanding Hindu belief that there are sex genders between male and female, or the acceptance of early China regarding men with female souls or vie versa. There are many many examples. The Inuit do so. There are tribes and cultures in Africa that shared these views. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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11.04.2019, 12:23 PM	#54
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	well, T n B is going into the ignore bin..
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11.04.2019, 01:19 PM	#55
h8kurdt invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In Mulder's Basement room Posts: 5,459	The guy has shown an interest in wanting to learn so why not have a discussion with him? Not as if he's been a dick about it all. It's too easy to just go "urgh you just don't get it" as if that proves your point. __________________ Down with this sort of thing.
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