RE: The right to mis-define oneself
June 13, 2015 at 5:21 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2015 at 5:22 am by bennyboy.)
(June 13, 2015 at 4:08 am)Neimenovic Wrote:(June 13, 2015 at 1:58 am)wallym Wrote: I'm definitely in the skeptical party that feels like we're being mandated to play pretend. Bruce Jenner, for example, wants us to call him a her named Caitlyn. Sure, whatever. I don't give a shit. But us all pretending he's a woman doesn't make him a woman in my mind.
Except psychologically, Caitlyn/Bruce is a woman
What does that even mean? What makes a person's psychology "female?" Can I claim that I have "black" psychology, and make everyone call me Mr. T?
Caitlyn/Bruce identifies as female, but I think this is a kind of sexism: it means he associates aspects of his own psychology with qualities that are considered female. This is stereotyping, and in my opinion, it's anti-feminist. A female isn't less of a woman if she's hairy, or strong, or has a heavy jaw. She's not less of a woman if she likes Monster Trucks, or watches Japanese squirrel-in-a-wood-chipper porn. There IS no such thing as a female psychology, unless you are willing to stereotype.
I'm really starting to get irate about this issue, because everyone said that transgender, etc. WASN'T a slippery slope. Now we can see that every fucking person can decide how they want people to treat them. Okay, from now on, nobody else gets to address me without calling me Sir Donkey Dick the Magic Space Monkey. How dare anyone question my donkey dick magic space monkey-ness?
This tendency of making shit up and making people pretend they believe it isn't liberal. It's religious.
