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[–] Splooge [S] 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago (edited ago)
For those of you (like me) that stared uncomprehendingly, basically this is when a normal (real) woman decides she's a woman trapped in a man's body trapped inside a woman's body.
So... basically a woman claiming she's a fake woman/mentally ill male faggot (but still a real woman).
I just realized my explanation does little to clear this up. I apologize.
[–] blackzetsu 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
i still don't get it. Maybe im not supposed to.
[–] chirogonemd 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I upset a liberal acquaintance the other day by asking him why the majority of all of these trans people, even in their fantasies, just recapitulate the binary? It's a serious question.
Presumably, the mental (subjective) experience of one's gender is completely decoupled from the physical body right? (If that weren't the case, there'd be no reason for any kind of reassignment surgery)
So if we are talking about something that is now immaterial (disembodied, just mental), why do they still only oscillate between man and woman? It's like they are saying minds exist in just one of two states: masculine or feminine.
Well, based on what? If something is disembodied, what makes it masculine or feminine? What properties of a mind cause it to be one of two states? Inevitably this question forces the person to circle back onto appeals to the physical body, and they wind up eating their own tail trying to make their arguments. They get super frustrated and pissy, b/c the amount of irrationality they have to suppress with cognitive dissonance is enough to frustrate anybody.
One answer I have gotten is that trans people, by definition, do consider themselves binary. What I'm referring to is in fact another class of people called non-binary. That sounds like it might reconcile at first, until you realize that in action, non-binary makes absolutely zero sense at all. According to their own information, they are either "agender", "genderfluid", or "demigender".
Agender says they are neither male, nor female. Note that this makes no sense whatsoever. They cannot truly create a non-binary gender. They can't even think of something that isn't masculine or feminine, which is telling about gender ontologically. Both of the other designations involve flipping between the genders, or taking some properties from both of them.
I mean, you'd think given the freedom to really be creative when it came to gender, we'd see something at least genuinely artistic happening. But we don't. They just recapitulate the binary, or claim to be objects or animals.
I just think it's hilarious that our subjective experience is the closest thing to us. It's the truest thing we'll ever really know. And these people are the ones claiming they're having the experience, and yet none of them can come up with a gender experience whose definition doesn't somehow rely on the binary. Not a single novel gender. Why can't they escape the male-female dichotomy? There's a reason. Perhaps it's that our language is the limiting factor? I doubt that.
[–] meowski 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
what about circumcircumgender. How far can we take this?
[–] Splooge [S] ago
Circumgender Inception
Circum Inception
Circumception
Circumcision
[–] Jaegerjaques ago
lol I thought it was clever satire
[–] [deleted] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
[–] Joe10jo 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Lol omgggg the Chans are back at it again, I see!!! 😂
[–] Notimportant36 ago
At the least, that would be (a fucked up) gender, based on the loose definition these crazies have created.
When you read their definitions of the various LGBT+ definitions, most of them are not really any different from types of fetishes.
[–] ideologicidal 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Like bio queens (female drag performers), but for realsies you guise.
Yet another special snowflake category for people ensconced in reality-resistant, narcisism-driven echo chambers (eg. FB and IG).
[–] OrdinaryFaggot 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That seems like a convenient way to get pretend oppression points for free. Almost easier than identifying as a masculine presenting transgendered lesbian.
[–] Joe10jo ago
The left’s so funny they oughta have a weekly comic strip in Sunday’s “funny papers.”
[–] Joe10jo ago
Bwaaa what are they gonna come up with next!?
[–] Gargilius ago (edited ago)
Is there a way to obtain a quick (and affordable) genetic test based on a small sample, like, saliva on a glass, someone's hair, i.e., stuff you might be able to obtain surreptitiously during a first date? at least to know whether you are dealing with a XX or XY individual -- more info about their ethnic background and health risks would be nice too, but that would be a start....
Now of course, this could lead to an arms race and the freaks could go full gattaca on you (if you haven't seen the movie, a defective protagonist finds a way to cheat perfectly reasonable screening requirements but I digress) - but darn, we need a future proof way to identify these people; they are currently so grotesquely obvious, but advances in technology might make it increasingly less so....
[–] meowski 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This technology will be available within about 5 years. Until then just look at the thumbs and adam's apple. Or just wait for xir to open hir mouth and speak.
[–] Joe10jo 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Lol y’all are killing me! “Going full Gattaca!” Hahaha!
[–] Splooge [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I find that having sex with the person provides the access necessary to surreptitiously obtain a DNA sample.
Joking. Only joking.
[–] Gargilius 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Sure, but I would rather avoid getting into a ‘crying game’ situation... and find out as early as possible.
Note that short of a genetic analysis, we might be able to come up with an app that would analyze facial features - might not work with freaks that were ‘transitioned’ when prepubescent - and this is becoming a trend - but could help in the screening process... I wonder how long it would take for such an app to get banned.
[–] blackzetsu ago
wot?