RE: What Do You Call a Fiscal Progressive and a Social Conservative?
February 8, 2017 at 7:57 am
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(February 7, 2017 at 10:47 am)Faith No More Wrote: You Lol, how exactly does one go about determining who is a "transtrender"? Who's to say whose dysmorphia is real and whose isn't? What makes your legitimate and someone else's illegitimate?
In a word...? Science. Mine is proven to exist and has an invasive treatment plan that seems to mostly work... but genderfluidity and genderqueers and their associated 93 genders? Not proven to exist, no treatment possible since it is rarely remotely static: it's at best delusion, and it seems very likely that the only thing to blame for it is the same people who thought that trannies should have legislation saying 'it's okay to go to the bathroom you feel you belong in' (rather than, gee... killing the segregation and changing structures to being more secure to begin with?) - intersectional feminism. Suddenly it's become very popular to be trans, and you gain many points in the oppression Olympics (your friends) when you do. Genderqueers are a social construct, not a physiological one. Trannies do NOT want to be visible, and making a kerfuffle on their behalf does far more harm than letting small injustices and struggles lie. If they wanted a real change here, then the legal system was not the way to go: there is a pushback coming, and I resent it like all hell.
And... dysphoria and dysmorphia are significantly different, actually, but I don't think you intended to say that so, no point to really responding to something you probably don't mean.

Quote:Funny, in all my numerous trips to mental hospitals I've never run into anyone suffering from simply being transgender. That's not say it can't lead to real mental health issues, but you're just assuming that the most of the discomfort is physiological as opposed to being imposed by society. It doesn't appear that everyone agrees with you...
That's is my experience. Society is responsible for a ton of suffering related to it, don't get me wrong: environment matters... but the environment isn't what's made me infertile though my biology screams for me to deliver children... environment isn't what makes me incapable of the simple intimacy of having my lover inside me in a manner that isn't just gross... environment isn't what causes me to feel a strong base level of paranoia and uncertainty with myself regarding whether facial hair or unfortunately well-sized genitalia is showing in the faintest way, or adam's apple, or broad shoulders, or chiseled cheekbones and wide jaw, or sunken eyes and strong brow (granted, environment CAN take this base level problem from troubling and depressing in the best environment to absolutely maddening paranoia and misery in an environment where all of my work (and, honestly, relative success) means nothing). Also, taking nasty pills is annoying, whatever problem you have that forces you to do so, but what would life be without the little annoyances.
If I had had an absolutely always supportive environment, never saw any level of bullying or ostracization in highschool and college, never developed the secondary sexual characteristics of men in any form: I would still be suffering from my infertility as a woman, I would still be suffering from being locked out of the sex I'm driven to have with my husband-to-be, and I would still feel paranoia in every interaction under the sun (it's easier to have paranoid delusions and Lucys in the dark alone than it is to feel the entire world pressing in like I'm under water and struggling to breathe). I'd still have to take pills that taste like dirt-caked vomit sprinkled with mint, and I'd still have to taste estradiol (gross in an indescribable sort of way), but that's just a little annoyance (never mind that if I miss it or am late then my emotions run crazy for several days... and this is just to distract me from telling you what it's like to *feel* testosterone *oozing* around inside myself, the hormone that causes me to lose any semblance of sanity... it's necessary that I have access to my pills, moreso than any surgery, environment, or lover).
Being transgender is not a common condition, and the best treatment for it is invisibility via mimicry treatments. If you see a tranny in the office, they're probably just there for their bloodwork and/or hormone treatments, because if you think someone doesn't suffer from just being trans alone: you should try the hormone therapy counter to your gender. It isn't pleasant. But luckily, that's the easiest problem to solve~

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As for the "what does being black affect," maybe ask a black person? It's amazing what you can learn when you just listen. It's weird that the only people that seem to think it's meaningless are white people, no?
It's a mental disorder in the way that any disease or condition that messes with brain functioning and structure is a mental illness. Yes, technically trannies have physiological differences in their brains that have caused the absolute mindfuck that is dysphoria.... no, I don't think that the colloquialism of calling transsexualism a mental illness is wrong. It occurs so often alongside so many other mental problems... and, strangely, the curing of the hormone fuckery is enough to absolutely gut most of the other problems into far more manageable forms. How would you prefer I refer to the feeling of gender dysphoria? Disease of the brain? Broken brain? Structural fractures in the brain? Mental illness? Disorder of the brain? Catastrophic brain scrambling? I don't think there's a nice way to say it, so why get caught up with how to say it?
Other than culturally? Well, I suppose if you're a black man you're proven to have more success with the ladies, and if you're a black woman then I guess it's proven that not even black men want you. As for your 'whites think it is meaningless' bullshit: I consider myself of biologically Scandinavian descent, something that I consider to be different and distinct from Germanic, Italian, Hispanic, Slavic, or Anglo Saxon heritage... but I have little culture shared with that heritage. My cultural heritage is with Alaskan sourdoughs. My life's experience is in commercial fishing, heavy equipment operating, and in playing stupid video games for days on end.
Being black also isn't meaningless. There are multiple forms of black culture that are overall distinct from their skin colour. But it's just that: cultural. I ask you to tell me the physiological place where being black matters... I already know, and I respect it, and I'm proud to see the advantages and disadvantages with hiring black... but I wanted you to tell me. I still do; their physiology is fascinating and oftentimes excellent in comparison with most populations of whites.
But the thing is: black peoples' current negative social experience is largely self-inflicted and self-perpetuating, and many blacks who reject 'the hood' and the criminal counter-culture that dominates it find themselves successful, and find themselves many opportunities that elude whites of every genetic heritage (if I work in HR, i'm gonna hire the black guy to make my company look good). The 1960s were nearly sixty years ago, and yet we've seen the dissolution of the black nuclear family, the mass adoption of welfare among the population, and a level of abortions that would be no exaggeration to call a black holocaust. I'm Alaskan... there is no racism in benefits of whites built into our systems, it's not like I'm some cracker who grew up racist...
I just find it so strange that you think I, having lived in Texas a very short distance away from Dallas in a college town, haven't spoken with and listened to black people XD It's just so strange to tell someone with their own distinct experiences that you may or may not be aware of... that they should 'just listen' to some social group and they'll learn something. And maybe I would.
But, somehow, I don't think it'd have the positive effect you're seeking. I dislike welfare takers who don't work and get in my face about the wrongs I've done to them because I happened to be born with a certain skin colour. When a culture is based on disrespect and abuse of their fellow man: I find it awful hard to feel positively towards that culture. Independent black women that don't need no man should get themselves hitched to one if they want to avoid the pitfall in parenting that is single motherhood. Welfare is a cancer culture.
(February 7, 2017 at 10:54 am)Divinity Wrote: You're a Redpill Liberal. Which is the most annoying type of liberal.
Hey, it's the first step on the way to sanity

(February 7, 2017 at 11:54 am)Whateverist Wrote: I don't think your political label is really what defines you. You merely have an extraordinary lack of empathy for anyone who isn't just like you. Self-centered works pretty well. But I don't think you have a psychological condition. I'd call it more of a character flaw. (I bolded the more glaring evidence.)



Damnnn man, I didn't see that at all, but even if it *is* the case: a little selfishness goes a long ways to doing the soul well. I know that I've personally become much happier as I've become more selfish, it means I don't get walked on/fiscally abused so much. If you're looking out for yourself, it's easier to be in a good enough position to look out for others in a responsible and metered manner. Does the world good, really... as without selfish people, we wouldn't have sustainable business models, or a stable economy, or stable and fair relationships built on a level of trust negotiated between two egos.
I'd say being free of self-concern and respect is the far more dangerous character flaw. Especially on one's finances: damn I've done some doozies

Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day