DrEvil » Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:00 pm wrote:And again - why is it a mindfuck that people are free to chose the gender they feel most comfortable with? Would you prefer we go back to the good old "Christian morality uber alles" days when homosexuality was illegal and transgendered people got beaten up/killed even more than they are today?
Zeroing in on the only post I feel "offended" by: this is not only a spurious argument but a clear piece of evidence of how we are, IMO, being psychologically "played" through this fake polarity crap (both ends of which are Rockefeller-funded). It is not
either neoliberal transhumanist/anything-goes bullshit
or Christian puritan bullshit; nor is the former a "solution" to the latter, or vice versa. They are twin pathologies, the Jekyll of ego-repression/sublimation and the Hyde of id-"liberation." Neither one represents reality or leads to wholeness, any more than surgically altering one's genitals or choosing which demographic to have sex with does.
Nor, IMO, is it just some dastardly distortion of things or cynical exploitation of honorable causes that gay liberation & transgenderism have moved in tandem with pedophilia-avocation. Once you abandon the ground of psychological and biological reality, all that's left is either morality restrictions or "Do what Thou Wilt As Long as It Gets You Off & Never Mind Who it 'Harms' (since the idea of harm is just a puritan plot)." Fuck that shit.
Now while it's reasonable to question the motives for this poll, it's not reasonable to question the simplicity of it; to my mind, there were too many fancy neoliberal options, not not enough. How about:
I have a penis
I have a vagina
I have both
It's none of your business
Or, if we really want to know how many trans are among us:
I used to have .... but now .... etc.
Biological facts are not changed by ideology, only by surgery. Nor, in my perhaps extremist view, does surgery change one's gender; only one's junk. Unless we want to say that gender is
only about genitalia?
(I may have contradicted myself there. I can't speak for the "woman's soul trapped in a man's body" thing; as far as I know most transgender arguments don't rely on metaphysics. Nor AFAIK do most metaphysics posit soul as having a gender)
This is not about right or wrong, but about what's true or false, real or unreal. Lose sight of that, and there's nothing left but some eternal disembodied limbo, in which trans has trumped human.
Anyway, while I'm not all that curious about who I am sharing thoughts with here (it's a forum, by our posts do we know each other), I think it was a good idea to have this poll, if only to provoke some discussion over such freighted subject matter.
It is a lot easier to fool people than show them how they have been fooled.