slayerslays wrote:north sea storm wrote:Personally I think its a load of old tripe totally blown out of context .
Mamby pambying to the I'm not sure what I am and all this gender neutral bollocks .
Well I've got some news , you are what you are despite what you might pretend you are .
Stop over complicating thing's. BTW Rob Halford is my favourite singer !
And there's the problem. The word 'PRETEND'. You think that people PRETEND to be other than cis (look that up I dare you)? I see from your pic you are a 'bloke' and just imagine 'pretending' to be a woman and having all your man bits cut up and turned inside out after 2 years of shyte from your family (who may well have disowned you), work colleagues, people serving in coffee shops and others who will DELIBERATELY use the WRONG pronoun i.e calling an obvious female 'sir' or 'he', and having your mind probed and taking strong hormones. Not what you might call a lifestyle choice imvho. We don't want anymore REAL people suffering like Alan Turing (look him up too) or April Ashley....have some bloody respect
https://lgbtlifecenter.org/pronouns/
(btw it's Namby Pamby...)
It's absolutely fine to be a bloke. At least I hope it is, for I can not choose otherwise. But I have found it interesting that I have been lightly mocked for my traditional masculine behaviour over the last few months. It makes me question myself. Curious times indeed. Still, its just an observation, I'm not going to complain too much mind; I am a man, after all.
Some people do indeed pretend. Particularly very young people as it is a way to gain unprecedented power as a teenager. There is a trend that victimhood itself is becoming a new and potent form of power in social interactions for all ages. The victim has asended over the hero almost entirely now as the modern (almost) aspirational icon. Victim status allocates the individual with particular social leverage, and It works for large numbers of people, but not so much for established power groups, e.g. White people and males. However, declaring yourself trans, instantly grants the individual this power no matter what your background. Of course the (mostly) teenagers who do this never go through the difficulties you mentioned and it's all forgotten by the time they enter the work place. Still, pretending is an agent here. And this is only one part of the complexity I eluded to previously. The whole thing is built upon shifting sands... come to think of it, you could say that these particular individuals are a most potent destabilising social factor: the demand of a lie, built upon a lie.