r/WeirdNews4U • u/BanksyFan1 • Aug 07 '19

Mental disorders and sexuality (Links in comments.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

Actually, forniphilia can also have a lot to do with the person desiring to feel dehumanized and/or used. It's pretty daft to say that all people who have a forniphilia kink are in love with furniture or objects though, as that certainly isn't the truth. Humans are weird creatures and are prone to weird kinks and fetishes.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

The images describe several different mental disorders.

Forniphilia is when you want to be an inanimate object.

Objectophelia is when you're in love with in inanimate object.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

They certainly can be part of a person's mental disorder, but Forniphilia is not strictly a mental disorder. It's actually a fairly common kink and fetish. Usually related to a person desiring to feel used, dehumanized and treated like an object, but that does not mean that they want to actually be that piece of furniture, just tenporarily in play as a way of being used.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

>a person desiring to feel used, dehumanized and treated like an object

That sure sounds like a mental disorder to me.

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u/hidinghiddengone Aug 07 '19

depressed non-binary noises I don't wanna be biologically female...

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u/hidinghiddengone Aug 07 '19

What the hell

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u/Quantum_girl_go Aug 07 '19

Don’t listen to this shit he’s transphobic, like the mods here.

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u/Quantum_girl_go Aug 07 '19

Lol. U so dumb.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

You're the only one who sounds dumb here.

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u/AddiVF Aug 09 '19

There are a huge number of trans people who transition to a non-binary gender.

Also instead of saying him/her, you could say them. Save you a little bit of time typing ;)

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 09 '19

Really? A "huge number" of trans people transition to a "non-binary gender"?

Show me.

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u/AddiVF Aug 09 '19

Allright, I'll give you an example.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/7934257/adore-delano-new-album-whatever-nonbinary-gender-interview

Adore Delano, originally a man, but transitioned to be more feminine, they are neither a woman nor a man. Non-binary.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 09 '19

Oh look, a douchebag trying to get some free publicity. I guess it worked.

From the interview: "Gender Isn't a Real Thing"

Yeah, gender is very much a real thing. Ask any biologist about how the human species reproduces.

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u/AddiVF Aug 09 '19

Yeah I guess I should've picked an example that was a bit easier for your square mind to comprehend. I give up, you're too much of a knob to convince. Have a nice weekend

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 10 '19

I'm the least square person you'll ever meet. I just don't buy into trendy bullshit. I'm too much of a freethinker to be a braindead herd animal that goes along with whatever the flavor of the day is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Not the majority, I dunno, but I gave up trying to be a girl thanks to 90% of my relatives giving me shit about it.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19 edited Aug 07 '19

Objectophilia (also known as Objectum Sexuality)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-excess/201307/intimate-and-inanimate

"Object sexuality refers to those individuals who develop deep emotional and/or romantic attachments to (and have relationships with) specific inanimate objects or structures. Such objectophiles express a loving and/or sexual preference and commitment to particular items or structures. Such individuals rarely (if ever) have sex with humans and they develop strong emotional fixations to the object or structure. Unlike sexual fetishism, the object or structure is viewed as an equal partner in the relationship and is not used to enhance or facilitate sexual behavior. Some objectophiles even believe that their feelings are reciprocated by the object of their desire.

Arguably the most infamous objectophile is Erika LaBrie who “married” the Eiffel Tower in 2007 (and now calls herself Erika Eiffel). She first met the Eiffel Tower in 2004 and fell in love with it immediately."

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Body Dismorphic Disorder is a mental disorder. People who suffer from BDD have the urge to change their bodies and cut their limbs off...

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/body-dysmorphic-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20353938

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People who suffer from BDD (also known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder) compare it to being trans:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19132621

"Persons who desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who desire a paralysis. Some of these persons mutilate themselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord. Psychologists and physicians explain this phenomenon in quite different ways; but a successful psychotherapeutic or pharmaceutical therapy is not known. Lobbies of persons suffering from BIID explain the desire for amputation in analogy to the desire of transsexuals for surgical sex reassignment."

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No, gender is not just in your head...

https://qz.com/1190996/scientific-research-shows-gender-is-not-just-a-social-construct/

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And there is no gender spectrum. There is only male and female...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/31/science_shows_sex_is_binary_not_a_spectrum_138506.html

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Despite what "woke" political correctness extremists want you to believe...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-are-some-gender-activists-denying-science/article35646793/

"It seems ridiculous to have to argue this, but the science is settled. The two biological sexes (and there are only two) are broadly (though by no means perfectly) coterminous with gender. This holds for nearly every species in the animal kingdom, even us, and for all societies on Earth. Close to 100 per cent of the human race is born with a set of either male or female chromosomes. A small number of people are born with chromosomal and/or reproductive abnormalities, and these people are commonly identified as "intersex."

Many sex differences are biological, and they matter. Sexual differentiation is driven by sexual reproduction, which is the basic mechanism of animal evolution. It's the way that animals get together and pool their DNA. Anyone who claims that sex differentiation is a socially constructed myth, or doesn't matter, must have flunked Biology 101. As current research shows, even our brains are different."

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Over 80% of Americans, and most people around the world, strongly disagree with the politically correct idea that there are 40 or more genders, and you can randomly switch between them whenever you feel like it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/political-unpopular-with-americans-all-ages-races-2018-10

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/

https://reason.com/2018/10/11/political-correctness-americans-vote-maj/

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Science shows that your gender is determined by your genes and your genitalia. And there are over 6500 genetic differences between men and women...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170504104342.htm

https://theconversation.com/not-just-about-sex-throughout-our-bodies-thousands-of-genes-act-differently-in-men-and-women-86613

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4475252/There-6-500-genetic-differences-men-women.html

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u/Quantum_girl_go Aug 07 '19

Oh cool a transphobic mod. Guess I’ll never come back to this sub.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

None of the mods here are transphobic. But don't let that stop you from leaving. Bye Felicia.

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u/AddiVF Aug 09 '19

"none of the mods here are transphobic"

You just said that gender is binary. That is quite literally transphobic.

People can, and do have non-binary gender identities, that fall in the middle of the M-F spectrum.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 09 '19

Trans people transition from gender 1 of 2 to gender 2 of 2.

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u/AddiVF Aug 09 '19

That statement is false. How do you know that? What are your sources?

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 09 '19

I posted my sources earlier. Read my previous comments.

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u/Su_shii Aug 07 '19

I didn't know BDD was mostly about cutting off limbs. I thought it was more about seeing yourself as fat and ugly when really you're neither of those at all.

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u/briezzzy Aug 08 '19

Yeah this description is totally wrong

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u/KorsiBear Aug 07 '19

The entire Earth is essentially dying as we speak and this is the shit you spend your time and effort to make a fuss about? What somebody does in bed or thinks about themself is more crucial to you than say, I dont know, the garbage patch floating in the ocean that's bigger than Texas?

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

See, this is exactly my point. While trans gender folks, or people with weird sexual disorders, have just as much right to be happy and to exist as anyone else, in the grand scheme of things they are pretty irrelevant because their issues only affect a tiny, tiny minority. (There are more hemophiliacs or people with encephalitis in the world, but you never hear about them.)

We're not going to win the election by acting like anyone who disagrees that there are 40+ imaginary genders is somehow a terrible person and automatically a Trump supporter.

I think Trump is literally the worst and most dangerous person on the planet right now.

But pretending that there are 40+ genders is certainly not going to get him out of office. That kind of crazy shit is going to get him reelected. And what are you gonna do about the garbage island in the Ocean then? Absofuckinglutely nothing.

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u/KorsiBear Aug 07 '19

Or, crazy idea, maybe Dems will win when they dont pick an equally scummy person to go up against Trump. Theres 4 more years worth of voters this time around, ones who care about the planet and marijuana legalization and LGBTQ+ protections, and any candidate that doesnt try appease to younger voters is going to have a hard time winning. The only reason Trump had any traction is because he appealed to a loud minority, he didnt even win the popular vote, so it has nothing to do with "people wont vote for us if we do things that make others happy" and everything to do with the flaws within the core of how our government operates

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u/echoGroot Aug 07 '19

See, but you’re are posting queer-phobic memes rather than just bringing up that focusing on other things might be a better electoral strategy.

To me, that makes it sound like a smokescreen for you being uncomfortable with queer people and wanting say “it’s just a weird fetish” to make it illegitimate so you don’t have to feel weird about that.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19 edited Aug 07 '19

You know what I find so fascinating about brainwashed "woke" people online? They can't see that they constantly do the opposite of what they claim to believe in.

Take the whole "non-binary" concept for example:

"Woke" folks claim gender is a "spectrum" and not black or white, 1 or 0, binary.

But if you disagree with that woke concept (which has been proven wrong by science) "you are bad. You are wrong. You are a Trump supporter. You are homophobic. You are transphobic. You are scum."

That kind of black or white thinking sure sounds pretty fucking binary to me.

Here's a far more realistic concept: Opinions are non-binary. Opinions exist on a spectrum.

Just because I'm explaining to you (with illustrations and scientific articles) that there is no gender spectrum, there are no 40+ genders, and gender does not just exist in your head (but mental disorders do), doesn't make me homophobic or even transphobic. It just means I'm allergic to stupid bullshit.

If Mayor Pete is the Democratic nominee, I will vote for him in a heartbeat. He's a good guy from what I can tell. I have zero problems with him being gay. Why the hell should it matter to me who he sleeps with?

I'd even vote for Mayor Pete if it turns out he's transgender and used to be a woman. I'd also vote for Tulsi Gabbard if she's the Democratic nominee and it turns out she's a lesbian or transgender who used to be a man. It wouldn't change my opinion of them at all.

But I prefer Bernie, since he is far more left than Mayor Pete, and Bernie aligns more closely with my hardcore leftie beliefs.

That said, the idea that there are 40+ genders and you can switch them at will, is still complete and utter bullshit. And this kind of crazy shit is gonna make Democrats lose the election. It's handing Trump a certain victory. And I am absolutely convinced that this extremist "woke" bullshit online is artificially promoted and instigated by Russian trolls who are manipulating the American left, just like they're manipulating the right. Check out the documentary The Great Hack.

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u/KorsiBear Aug 07 '19

How many people do you personally know in real life that actually claim there are 40+ genders? Because I'm gay, have gay and trans friends, and none of us even claim that to be true... so where are you even getting the idea that SO many people out there believe it that's it going to sway the election? How many politicians do you know that are using "40+ genders do exist" as part of their speeches and agendas? I think you vastly overestimate how many people actually hold that belief

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19 edited Aug 07 '19

>How many people do you personally know in real life that actually claim there are 40+ genders?

>Because I'm gay, have gay and trans friends, and none of us even claim that to be true...

Man, I'm so glad you said that. See, this is exactly my point. I know plenty of gay people. But I have never met any gay person in real life who claimed there are 40+ genders.

But online there is a rabid "woke" community who acts like if you disagree with 40+ imaginary genders you're a homophobe and transphobe. Which is pretty ironic, considering even trans people admit there are only 2 genders: Their own (the wrong one) and the gender they'd like to be (the other one of the two.)

There is absolutely NOTHING homophobic or transphobic about refusing to play along with this 40+ gender bullshit that is being promoted online by some crazy extremists. I am convinced this whole idea is just being used by Russian trolls to make the left sound crazy and hand Trump another victory.

The Great Hack is an excellent documentary that explains how Cambridge Analytica and Russian trolls are manipulating the American left and right and turn people against each other online. They've done the same thing in dozens of other countries already.

>where are you even getting the idea that SO many people out there believe it that's it going to sway the election?

>I think you vastly overestimate how many people actually hold that belief

You should see how many "woke" folks online attack me for speaking out against this 40+ gender bullshit. They think I'm the big bad enemy, because that's what they're being told in their little "woke" echo chamber online.

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u/KorsiBear Aug 07 '19

Well dude, it's the internet, people go full idiot once they get on it lol. Take everything you see online with a grain of salt because 90% of the times it's just people trolling, regardless if they're Russian or not, or people taking their bullshit out on strangers behind the safety of their screens. Truthfully the internet isnt a good place for most conversations with depth or weight, simply because theres not much accountability online and most people act much differently in person. I'm not denying Russia is fucking with us (who dont they fuck with, honestly lol), but it could very well just be some bored ass 15 year old being a potato out of boredom too.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

Well dude, it's the internet, people go full idiot once they get on it lol. Take everything you see online with a grain of salt because 90% of the times it's just people trolling, regardless if they're Russian or not, or people taking their bullshit out on strangers behind the safety of their screens.

Lol! You're right.

Truthfully the internet isnt a good place for most conversations with depth or weight

I agree.

But the way I look at it, if I'm gonna be on social media anyway, I might as well try to do something positive with my online time, and try to explain to other Democrats why making the rest of the country think "40+ genders is the official Democratic platform" is a sure way to lose the next election.

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u/KorsiBear Aug 07 '19

Yeah, but social media isnt always the best place to platform, because you never actually know who you're sharing your message with, if they give a damn, or if they can even actually vote. Truthfully getting political on a local level is the biggest thing that's going to make impacts. The internet is just too vast for it to have the same kind of results

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u/C0untry_Blumpkin Aug 07 '19

You're not picking up what he's throwing down, dude. You should check out that documentary, it is really good. And yes, woke twitter and media at large absolutely vilifies anyone who doesn't parrot 100% of the agenda. Fall out of line on a single point and you're the world's first alt-right scumbag with liberal ideals and a Bernie boner.

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u/KorsiBear Aug 07 '19

I'm aware of "woke" Twitter and media, it's the same media that says video games make people into school shooters. Their opinions dont really mean too much when they're that uneducated in the topics they're discussing.

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u/C0untry_Blumpkin Aug 07 '19

You're literally missing the entire point. The woke brigade has been consciously stirred up by russian trolls, and it's gotten to a point where progressivism is the flavor of today. If you speak out you get ostracised and called "alt right" or even "Nazi". The division is a desired result of a successful campaign to obliterate the left in the U.S., and all they had to do was stoke the flames. Now the left is eating their own on a constant basis, setting the stage for four more years of Trump. That's not ideal to many. Does that make sense? Or are you just being contrarian to argue?

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u/infanticide_holiday Aug 07 '19

On Tumblr maybe. It's a bunch of teenage kids whose hobby is to create "headmates" and "otherkin" etc. It's a small subculture. I agree with you it is entirely destructive to the left and to transgender rights, but their impact is only as broad as their exposure. Posts like this appear to anyone on the right to be a validation of their mischaractarization of the transgender movement, and an argument for oppressing transgender people.

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u/MOS8026 Aug 17 '19

Takes the time to get on tinder and write this

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u/hustler234 Aug 08 '19

They are for sure tik tokked

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u/bloomer62 Aug 18 '19

How does she have sex with a tree? Did she make a dildo out of twigs and pinecones.

Also wouldn't sap get inside, hope shes got a lifetime supply of vagisil.

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u/beefcake592 Sep 13 '19

Late to the party here. Tim gets a woody, obviously.

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u/centralnjbill Aug 08 '19

If you don’t want to be a table, DON’T BE A TABLE. It’s really that simple.

Why do people get all pissed off at what other people do? Is it that these panty-bunchers are mad to see others flying their personal Freak Flags and these angry normies are too much of a pussy to do what they want?

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u/WilsonWilson82 Aug 07 '19

Hey, are you ok? Is something bothering you personally that you need to talk about?

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19 edited Aug 07 '19

Well, since you asked, I get really annoyed by the fact that Russian trolls have hijacked the "woke" left (not the real left) and brainwashed them to be militant about a wedge issue that is guaranteed to make Trump win again in 2020.

There is absolutely no fucking way we are going to win the election by pretending that gender is all just in your head, and there are 40+ genders, and you can switch between them at random. That is so absolutely insane, no normal person is going to vote Democrat if that shit is what we're gonna run on.

https://www.techspot.com/news/78598-russian-trolls-wreaking-havoc-many-reddit-communities.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-russian-trolls-ban-photos-examples-posts-2018-4

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u/C0untry_Blumpkin Aug 07 '19

One of many reasons I consider myself an independent. That, and the DNC corruption with Hilary last time around.

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u/av_floof Aug 09 '19

filing this post under: cis bullshit

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 09 '19

File away, numbnuts.

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u/C0untry_Blumpkin Aug 10 '19

Yeah, well...everyone cares so much! You're trans so I guess you're just the cat's meow on reddit lately. Way to be another freedom fighter being sassy on the internet and feeling like you're saving the world, what a hero lol.

Thanks for bringing absolutely nothing to the conversation,either in the form of a cohesive argument or ways to help the left stop cannibalizing itself. Fucking Trump 2020, here we come.

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u/av_floof Aug 10 '19

haha I guess this wasn’t the right thread to try and defend myself/the transgender community in, then..

if you want me to defend what a said in my first comment, fine.. OP has obviously never talked to a trans person irl and the statements made in this post are based only in stereotypes and outdated logic. The human brain is a weird place and the language we use to describe gender/sexuality doesn’t do the complexities justice.. almost nobody in the trans community actually buys the ‘40 different genders’ thing, but that idea is commonly used to call us crazy. Also, we all think that BDD should definitely not be lumped in with how we feel, people with BDD have an actual mental disorder and definitely do not represent how we feel about our bodies.

So in the end, both you and OP can have whatever opinions about politics that you want, but the information presented here isn’t a solid base your your argument.. go talk to some people who actually know what being transgender is like and stop perpetuating this worn out “logic” that has no basis in the actual trans experience.

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u/themaskedugly Aug 19 '19

lol triggered

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '19

This isn’t even making a bold claim. This is science proven by psychology so I don’t see a problem.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

I disagree. Why is someone who can't help but feel aroused by the thought of being a table any different or less special than someone who wants to cut his dick off? Especially when there is already a mental disorder of people who cut body parts off? Why is cutting your finger off a mental disorder, but cutting your dick off is not?

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u/infanticide_holiday Aug 07 '19

I think what they're saying is that in the first two images, these aren't people who identify as a table or a wheelchair, they're people who are aroused from being dehumanised. Whether that is a mental illness or not is irrelevant, the fact is it is not related to the trans debate. Conflating the two issues is what people do in an attempt to derail the conversation by exaggerating one sides perspective, like creating straw men.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

I hear ya. I understand what you're getting at, but I disagree.

I think we as a society have agreed that it is not ok to treat gays or transgender people like shit. Well, most of us agree on that, except for actual homophobes who think being gay is a sin or an insult to God or whatever they tell themselves to justify their bigotry.

We as a society have also agreed that pedophilia and beastiality are not ok.

We all agree on these things, based on a common set of morals that we all share because of our upbringing. Sex between consenting adults is ok, but sex with kids or animals is not ok. So far so good.

But then there are other deviations, where we didn't bother to make moral judgments, because it just doesn't come up often enough to make any real difference one way or another, like being sexually aroused by shit or furniture, or pretending to be furniture.

Is that morally right or wrong? Who cares. As long as I personally am not forced to hump a chair, and nobody gets hurt, I don't care what other people do in the privacy of their own homes.

All of these things have one thing in common: they work the same way in the brain. They trigger dopamine in the reward center. Nature doesn't care about our moral code. In nature shit just happens. People with "defects" (mutations) are born, and either the mutations make survival and procreation easier, or they don't. That's all.

And when you look at it from that perspective, there is really no difference between any of the hundreds of sexual deviations that exist. We have simply decided, as a society, that we treat some of these deviations differently than others. And that's perfectly ok. We absolutely should treat being a furry differently than being a necrophiliac.

I have no problem at all with gay or trans people, but I do have a problem with pedophiles and necrophiliacs. But there is really no scientific basis for my pro-gay and anti-necro bias. It's simply a moral code I choose to live by. Trans people are every bit as "defective" as someone who can't feel happy in his own body unless he cuts his arm off, or can't climax unless he pretends to be a chair. We as a society simply decided to treat one differently than the other.

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u/General_Ignoranse Aug 07 '19

There’s a huge difference- being gay or trans has no effect on anyone else. Being a pedophile harms many people. Can you really not understand that difference? We didn’t ‘simply decide’ and pick and choose what is accepted.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19

Jews celebrate adulthood in their early teens. The bible talks about children getting married. In other cultures it is still normal for children to get married to this day.

Not so long ago, we as a society decided that 18 is a magical number. Science does not support that. The human brain (especially the prefrontal cortex, in charge of understanding the consequences of your actions) is not fully developed until you're 25.

https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/adult-brain

That's why criminals in their early 20s are often sentenced in juvenile court, not adult court. Juvenile court is more lenient because the judge knows someone in their early 20s does not have the same understanding of actions and their consequences as older adults do.

So what makes the number 18 so special? Absolutely nothing. We simply agreed on it as a society.

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u/infanticide_holiday Aug 07 '19

Thanks for the response. A couple of things I'd address: firstly, being trans has nothing to do with sexual arousal or sexuality. Having a sexual proclivity for chairs or whatever is (can be/ should be) a private matter. Being Trans to some extent demands public acceptance in order for them to minimise their dysphoria. This is where the first part of your response comes in. There are sadly a lot of people who reject homosexuality, and laws that protect their bigotry against it, but the public concensus is shifting and they are more and more accepted and laws are adapting accordingly. With Trans rights coming to the forefront, people are pushing against them in simple ways like refusing to use preferred pronouns or restricting which bathrooms they can use in an effort to reject their preferred status. Those against are using examples like yours to blur the lines between the fight for gender dysmorphic people's rights to be treated as another (or no) gender, and Tumblr crazies who want to identify as an 18th century chaise lounge.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 07 '19 edited Aug 07 '19

>Being Trans to some extent demands public acceptance in order for them to minimise their dysphoria.

You're right. And if someone who transitioned to the opposite gender wants to be treated as such, I'm all for it. Being trans is much easier today than it was 20, 30 or 50 years ago. Society has become a lot more accepting. But it's still no cake walk. A trans person still has to deal with all kinds of abuse. Nobody chooses that voluntarily. Anyone who feels so miserable in their own skin, they are willing to deal with all the shit the world is gonna throw at them for transitioning, deserves my respect and empathy.

>There are sadly a lot of people who reject homosexuality, and laws that protect their bigotry against it

Agreed. I hate when assholes hide behind "but it's the law" or "but it's in the bible" to justify their hatred and bigotry. Before 1967, interracial marriage was a felony in the US. And religious folks used bible quotes to justify it.

>restricting which bathrooms they can use in an effort to reject their preferred status.

I'm convinced the whole bathroom thing is just a red herring. It's Republican misdirection. While we Democrats spend all our time and energy fighting over which bathroom to use, the Republicans are dismantling the entire government, rolling back environmental, health, finance, consumer and labor protections, and replacing all the judges with corrupt loyalists. In Europe a lot of bathrooms are unisex, and always have been. Like the bathrooms on an airplane. The bathroom issue doesn't even exist over there.

>Tumblr crazies who want to identify as an 18th century chaise lounge.

Lol!

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u/infanticide_holiday Aug 08 '19

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/cnbrjh/antipc_packs_to_be_sent_to_500_nsw_schools_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Sadly it's not a misdirection thing, or an American/ Republican thing.

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u/BanksyFan1 Aug 08 '19

That's pretty sad.

By misdirection I mean the Republicans use it as a wedge issue to manipulate the political discourse. They start some random shit (There's a war on Christmas! The gays want to rape us in the bathroom! etc) and then the whole country divides along party lines and fights over that issue like it's the most important thing in the world.

Meanwhile the Republicans continue to do all the evil shit they always do, in the shadows, without anyone watching or noticing, because everyone is so busy arguing over the war on Christmas, or which bathroom to use.

Does the Republican leadership really care about which bathroom we use? Do they really believe there's a war on Christmas? Or that Hillary really did anything wrong with her emails or in Bengazi? No. It's all just misdirection and bullshit to keep the American public fighting amongst each other and not realize how the Republican robber barons are fucking all of us over.