RE: White Guy Self-Identifies as Filipino Woman
November 15, 2017 at 7:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2017 at 7:38 pm by bennyboy.)
This shit is dumb.
At some point, we're going to have to accept that words mean things, and some things are not other things.
I can identify as a women's bathroom toilet seat, but that doesn't give me the right to camp out in a women's bathroom and accuse women of bigotry if they refuse to sit on my face. That's because in reality, I am in fact not a toilet seat, no matter how much I might feel I should have been one, wish I was one, or even believe I'm one.
If my daughter was dating a 40 year-old man who "identified" as a 15 year-old boy and therefore didn't believe he could engage in statutory rape, I wouldn't give him $20 for popcorn and ask him to bring her home before 12:00. I'd break his fucking knees and leave him quivering in an alley. That's because no matter how much he feels he's a 40 year-old trapped in a 15 year-old's body, he's not actually 15 years old. Sometimes, truth is just truth, no matter how you want to spin it.
If we want to redefine what it means to be male or female-- whatever, there's a lot of overlap, there's room to work with if all parties are amenable to adjusting the semantics. No male or female has ALL the behavioral, physical or emotional traits traditionally associated with either gender, and nobody lacks all of them, either.
But even then, I wouldn't see true equality between identification and reality. If I was a young man, and found out that the person I'd been having sex with "used to be" a man but now identified fully as a woman-- fuck that, it would be instantly over. Nor do I ever want to have to say, "I'm a little depressed, because my girlfriend's penis is bigger than mine."
As for being Filipino. Again, you can debate whether that is a cultural thing, a genetic one, or simply being a passport holder. But if dude never lived in the Philippines or wasn't VERY deeply immersed in Filipino culture, I'd be highly resistant to going along with his identification.
Short version: if you have to announce that you "identify" as a thing, you probably aren't actually that thing.
At some point, we're going to have to accept that words mean things, and some things are not other things.
I can identify as a women's bathroom toilet seat, but that doesn't give me the right to camp out in a women's bathroom and accuse women of bigotry if they refuse to sit on my face. That's because in reality, I am in fact not a toilet seat, no matter how much I might feel I should have been one, wish I was one, or even believe I'm one.
If my daughter was dating a 40 year-old man who "identified" as a 15 year-old boy and therefore didn't believe he could engage in statutory rape, I wouldn't give him $20 for popcorn and ask him to bring her home before 12:00. I'd break his fucking knees and leave him quivering in an alley. That's because no matter how much he feels he's a 40 year-old trapped in a 15 year-old's body, he's not actually 15 years old. Sometimes, truth is just truth, no matter how you want to spin it.
If we want to redefine what it means to be male or female-- whatever, there's a lot of overlap, there's room to work with if all parties are amenable to adjusting the semantics. No male or female has ALL the behavioral, physical or emotional traits traditionally associated with either gender, and nobody lacks all of them, either.
But even then, I wouldn't see true equality between identification and reality. If I was a young man, and found out that the person I'd been having sex with "used to be" a man but now identified fully as a woman-- fuck that, it would be instantly over. Nor do I ever want to have to say, "I'm a little depressed, because my girlfriend's penis is bigger than mine."
As for being Filipino. Again, you can debate whether that is a cultural thing, a genetic one, or simply being a passport holder. But if dude never lived in the Philippines or wasn't VERY deeply immersed in Filipino culture, I'd be highly resistant to going along with his identification.
Short version: if you have to announce that you "identify" as a thing, you probably aren't actually that thing.
