RE: White Guy Self-Identifies as Filipino Woman
November 16, 2017 at 9:34 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2017 at 9:35 am by bennyboy.)
(November 15, 2017 at 8:02 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(November 15, 2017 at 7:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote: 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.
You can resist all you want. You can't stop other people from choosing how they identify themselves. If she's not hurting anyone, who cares.
No. But that's because people are getting stupider as time passes. Someone can identify as a pretty, pretty penguin if he wants, but I'm not going to build a pond for him and feed him fish all day.
Reality is pretty simple-- if something is defined by DNA, and you don't have that DNA, you don't get to be that thing, no matter how much you dream of it. You can pretend, and ask other people if they wouldn't also mind pretending, and that's usually pretty harmless. But getting a lot of people to agree to pretend doesn't make it real.
