I doubt you're going to agree with whatever answer I give to that question, but, suffice to say, I think it's a more nuanced issue than I suspect you believe.
But when it comes to cause-and-effect, I think we're both driven by logic, and I suspect that even your stance on trans issues is underpinned by *your* own personal perspective, rather than an insincere and intellectually dishonest take.
But, remember, I said that I was one of the *few* idealogues whose politics aren't defined so much by circumstance, but by ideology. Few other people think and behave this way, apart from the super-rich (who can afford to be 'high-minded') and a few drop-outs like me who've always prized ideology and principle, often to our own cost, over personal gain/self-interest.
However, LOGIC and REASON dictates that MOST people are driven by material self-interest, and that is what thus dictates what political allegiances we subscribe to.
Anyone who is rich/materially successful, or still aspires to such status, either acts in their personal interest (in order to become rich/successful), or is SO rich and privileged, they can afford to be idealogues without it hurting their bank balances (for instance, some people like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet *only* start giving a damn about charitable endeavours/philanthropy *after* they've become multi-millionaires; but what did they have to do to get there...?)
Anyway, I'm not judging you here. On the contrary, I'm suggesting that when you say "Why should someoe with only crumbs NOT defend them from others?" you're thinking logically and rationally. Bear in mind, these are apolitical observations, on my part, rather than partisan judgements. I have my own (progressive) allegiances, but they arguably matter less than my objective analysis of reality and the truth regarding human nature.
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Miyagido (2944)
a year ago
If we are not on the same page over the definition of "woman" then I have doubts over everything else you claim. This is the unfortunate reality of modern political discourse. I will state my position on it then you can state whether you agree or disagree.
A woman is an adult human female. A man is an adult human male. Intersex people exist that are 0.018% of the population that by definition fall outside of the category of male or female and are outliers, those people choose to try and live as a man or a woman and are still human beings who deserve all rights that humans deserve, but by very definition are neither man or woman as traditionally defined. Although as I said they try to live as what they feel the dominant sex/gender is and have infinitely more acceptance from people in that regard than a man who puts on makeup and a dress and calls themselves a female. Intersex people born with both male and female reproductive organs also did not simply have surgery that alters their body to appear a certain way, they were born like that.
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Miyagido (2944)
a year ago
Trans people suffer from dysphoria and believe they are the wrong sex. For this conversation I will use gender and sex interchangeably as until John Money coined the phrase "gender role" that's exactly how the terms were used. Trans people when they are of legal age can attempt to alter their body to look more like the sex/gender that they feel. They are entitled to do so and I will even call them by whatever their preferred name is, I have family and friends who legally changed their name and I have no issue with it. I won't say they are a real man/woman though when they were born as the opposite. Trans people are not the sex/gender they try to appear as and have zero right to force real men or women to capitulate to their delusion and treat them as if they are the same. They have zero right to enter the spaces of the opposite sex based on how they feel. Trans people are human and deserve all the rights that humans deserve, but they do not deserve extra rights or privileges such as being able to go into a woman's space when you were born male.
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HarveyManFredSin (4877)
a year ago
No offence, but why are you so obsessed with trans people?
This is a Donald Trump board.
It seems the political right has the same degree of obsession with trans people that the 'TDS' left does with Trump.
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Miyagido (2944)
a year ago
No offense but asking me that is simply deflecting and we both know why you did it. You dodged the question twice even when I gave you the option of using a singe word to answer it. And I already told you why I ask the question -
If we are not on the same page over the definition of "woman" then I have doubts over everything else you claim. This is the unfortunate reality of modern political discourse
Think of it as an ideological litmus test, if you cannot answer then you get added to the block list as all of your subsequent opinions are tainted junk.
So what is your answer?
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