(April 14, 2016 at 3:01 am)robvalue Wrote: You can't take suicide rates at face value either when you're dealing with a group of people who are regularly abused by society. You could make any group more suicidal if you hassled them enough.

Ain't that the truth.

This is how the sanctimonious bully playbook works:

1. Be bigoted against a group and tell them at every possible opportunity that something is fundamentally wrong with them
2. They get depressed and commit suicide
3. Now you get to say: told you so, them be crazy! Now your work is done and you're allowed to feel even better about yourself.

Kick'em when they're down I say!

(April 14, 2016 at 3:44 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I would not be caught dead shitting into one of those in plain sight of other people. God how unflattering. Why aren't there stalls round them?

I have also been accustomed to a certain degree of privacy

It's interesting about the health side of things. But I agree, why can't you also have privacy, if it were to be introduced to the West? I suppose in some cultures people don't care about it so much, which is cool.

That's why I use a Squatty Potty!!!!



https://youtu.be/YbYWhdLO43Q

(April 14, 2016 at 4:23 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: That's why I use a Squatty Potty!!!!



https://youtu.be/YbYWhdLO43Q

Looks uncomfortable, especially if you're overweight.

(April 14, 2016 at 6:16 am)Red_Wind Wrote:

(April 14, 2016 at 4:23 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: That's why I use a Squatty Potty!!!!



https://youtu.be/YbYWhdLO43Q

Looks uncomfortable, especially if you're overweight.

It'll help with the red winds, tho.

(April 11, 2016 at 10:51 am)Drich Wrote: Transsexuals suffer from a diagnosable affliction called Gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder. So then how is this not a mental illness if the word/term mental illness literally means:

Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders and addictive behaviors.
(as per the Mayo clinic)

If this is a mental disorder, then why do we allow the patients to run the asylum? Why do we have mentally compromised people trying to set a national policy that allows them to indulge their disorder?

would we allow people afflicted with Munchhausen access to their kids? Or if you want to look at other people who just hurt themselves, would we allow people who want to cut themselves places they could do so?

DSM-5 considers it a dysphoria, not disorder.

http://www.dsm5.org/documents/gender%20d...0sheet.pdf

Also, from that link:

Quote:It is important to note that gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder. The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.

So that just blows drippy's entire argument right out of the water.

(April 13, 2016 at 11:18 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:

(April 13, 2016 at 11:14 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I think it's a mental illness, but I think they should be treated with utmost respect and allowed to go through procedures to change their gender. I don't believe it's the fault of the person.

We are to be compassionate to one another for the trials we are in. I have schizophrenia and bipolar and to be honest, prefer that, over being confused over my gender. It's one of the worse things I can imagine going through.

However that is not to disrespect the person. I have great respect to those who seek help of others, acknowledge their issue and change their gender realizing they are being true to themselves as best as possible.

Being a man stuck in a woman's body and being a woman stuck in man's body is a disorder and it's of mental type, but this just semantics.

Whatever you call it, you shouldn't disrespect the person for it. It's definitely not their fault.

The irony. You're making the most sense here.

LMAO at that, actually. [emoji13]

(April 13, 2016 at 11:54 pm)Goosebump Wrote: This is off topic but I've wondered this for nearly two years now.

Is Dirch just like AF's pet troll? He says some horribly uninformed things, doesn't see how they could be taken that way at all, and constantly just restates his own position with a little word salad thrown in.

Yes. Lol.

Liberal theists think they are kind, and as well intended as they may be, there still is nothing in their holy book that explains in any real sense why humans have their biological differences. I love the empathy of my fellow humans, but when it comes to explaining reality, a holy book still is not a study or a lab, it is a personal like.