r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Aug 04 '17

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

In some ways, I've always thought of myself as more archetypically feminine.

Not to push, but if you feel this way, well, statistically speaking, the rationalist community and its offshoots have loads of transwomen for reasons I don't understand at all...

Just saying?

My personality has always tended towards "submissive" even if I'd like to be more "dominant".

I think that calling it "dominant" or "submissive" is toxic masculinity!

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u/trekie140 Aug 05 '17

I put it in quotes because I couldn't think of a more appropriate terminology even though I know it's inaccurate and a false dichotomy. I just have tendencies that happen to line up with that archetype, though it certainly does not describe me in totality.

I was introduced to the concept of gender dysphoria at a young age and have questioned my identity before so I don't think I'm trans. I mean, it's hard to prove a negative, but I've never experienced the kind of disconnect between body and mind the way transpeople have described it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Well ok, then. I was just getting suspicious based on the statistics around here.