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Author Topic: [BLF Opinion dump] Are children, teenagers, young adults now too "soft?"  (Read 16331 times)

you need to learn the difference between genetics and culture
So cats have a culture too?

The only problem I have with this is how confusing it can be to understand, I'm fine with a man wanting to be called a she or vice versa, but I don't think you can "create" anything to be a gender it like it's a trend, it will only confuse everyone else.
I've never met anybody who asked me to use pronouns that weren't him/her/they or asked me to recognize some weird made up thing like "lunagender"

Nobody is out to confuse, they just want their identity to be respected. I definitely understand that concern though

So cats have a culture too?

This was the dumbest brown townogy I've ever heard. I was implying that our actions are more substantially influenced by our culture and not our instincts.

So cats have a culture too?
I'm not sure why that's relevant. Most animals get their behavior patterns from instinct. Humans get most of their behavior from interacting with other humans and their environment.

they just want their identity to be respected
Feelings don't Annoying Orange science

Not a rule, but a norm. It's really a matter of point of view.

Also I'm fairly certain that the aggressiveness in males is intended primarily for mating. I can cite a source if needed.
When you get right down to it, a norm and a probability are really the same thing.
When something is "normal," all that means is that it's generally the most likely outcome. In other words, a higher probability.
People have different levels of aggression and all sorts of other emotions and tenancies solely based on this probability due to very complex, interwinding causes things like conditions in the womb, brain chemistry, genetics, conditions during infancy and early childhood, brain structure, and so on.

It isn't some sort of trick or masking/internalizing of your "male aggression," people genuinely fall out of norms based on how their bodies physically work. Instincts don't dominate the human mind like they may once have in the past anymore. And this is what's happened with people who have gender dysphoria, they've fallen so far outside the norm by sheer luck of the draw that their brain is wired to be uncomfortable with how they are. It's not a simple condition of course, but that's the gist of it.

Feelings don't Annoying Orange science

is rattling off stuffty one liners all you can do?

is rattling off stuffty one liners all you can do?
Do you want more

I'm not actually wrong. You're just pissy on the formant I use
« Last Edit: April 21, 2016, 09:52:42 PM by Red Spy »

It's the same kind of feeling that you would experience if someone called you 'she'. Likewise, if someone called you a 'she', you'd probably feel inclined to point out that you're actually male. It's not something that they stop and think about just to bug you, it's pretty much completely automatic.
i understand now


so if I don't feel comfortable calling my male friend a she then I have a problem?

so if I don't feel comfortable calling my male friend a she then I have a problem?
You're entitled to view pronouns as something reserved for biological love. However, you'll likely start a lot of conflict with people that could just as easily be avoided.

if thats the case then i probably couldn't be friends with someone who takes their transgender too seriously

if thats the case then i probably couldn't be friends with someone who takes their transgender too seriously
i mean theres like the fact that it defines their life almost entirely but at the same time i do agree with you on those who like to flaunt it around. theres a trans guy in my friend group with whom every conversation is about their gender identity and it's loving hell i don't talk to them anymore

so if I don't feel comfortable calling my male friend a she then I have a problem?
depends on how female-appearing the friend is on your comfort

and personality