It relates to what we were just talking about in terms of masculine and feminine. I don't literally believe the part about being in the wrong body, bu...
Depends how important it is to the person. If it was that important to me, why would I let the fear of being bullied repress me? For comparison, I did...
:lol: I'm not exactly a fan of Christianity, but you take the biscuit. Your title questions are purely hypothetical, rendering the discussion of littl...
That one's actually pretty easy to figure out, even without the aid of Google. It means something along the lines that you don't identify as a single,...
We weren't talking about sex, we were talking about the concepts of masculine and feminine, and it would be utterly wrongheaded to think about that ex...
You don't have to be a great sorcerer in order to have the charisma, personal qualities, and rhetoric required to bring the worst out in people. Hitle...
Yes, relating to one's sex, but you're stretching that to absurdity when there's no need. They relate to cultural conceptions of sex in terms of image...
Yes you are, because "chair" has a completely different meaning to bicycles. The common meaning is considered the standard for determining correctness...
In this case, and many others, they conform because it makes perfect sense. A chair is that thing that you sit on. That's the correct answer in the co...
That's a nice little reductio ad absurdum there. Terrapin Station is usually quite logical, so I'm surprised he can't detect the clear fault in his po...
That's absurd, and that it is absurd can be put to a test of sorts. A good test to see whether you're talking bollocks is to put it to ordinary people...
But it's not about inherent qualities or sexual physiology. It's not on that basis that we talk about feminine hair, jewellery, and clothes. Of course...
Exactly. @"Terrapin Station", can't you see the absurdity in making such a charge in these cases? Does it not seem intuitively wrong to you to think o...
Okay, fine, I get that, although we're on a philosophy forum after all. How much of what we talk about here really matters in the bigger picture? How ...
But they're not simply human behaviours. They are predominantly more masculine or more feminine. Of course, there's nothing inherent about length of h...
As is much of what he has been saying: "infinite genders, queer yet functionally straight, the sky is red to me if that's what I believe, if you ident...
Yeah, well, you can't get along with everyone. I'm probably not going to get along with someone who oversteps the line by pressuring me to do somethin...
And I don't think that it's as clear cut as that. There are multiple layers to this, and your take is too one sided. See my replies to Baden above for...
I'm simply not going to refer to the other person using language I'm not comfortable with. So it would depend entirely on how I felt at the time. They...
How does that supposedly relate to my reply, qualifying that one ought to respect a person's chosen identity within reason? You seem to be ignoring wh...
That's oddly one-sided. Why wouldn't the person demanding that I adopt a terminology which I find silly, at the cost of seeing me as personally affron...
For the simple and fairly obvious reason that people ambiguous in appearance are not speaking out in significant numbers and demanding that I adopt th...
But that's not implied by what I said. That's actually a fallacious inference. Feminism, as I characterised it, is all about gender equality, but that...
That you've posited something does not make it so. You do understand that, right? You are of course free to go by your own meanings, but no one is obl...
I'm fully with you on that first sentence, but the next two sentences are false, even if it might strike some as peculiar. Being queer - outside of th...
And that's why discussion with you is pointless. I think you're in denial. I feel as though if I were to say that the sky is blue, you would deny it a...
I never said that thewonder isn't a good person, or anything of the sort. I just literally find some of what he is saying laughable. I know all about ...
Frankly, I don't care what you say or think. You don't seem to realise that you aren't dictator of language, as though you can simply declare the univ...
And then they came for the Gnostic Christian Bishops! But then they realised that there was only one, and they decided just to leave him be, in his mo...
It isn't. I treat that word as basically synonymous with "gay" and "homosexual" and the rest of it is just elaborate nonsense. It's as much nonsense a...
Look, I'm not going to continue this discussion with someone with such an extreme set of beliefs. You're like a parody, and I can't really take you se...
You can't be serious. Well then your experience must be very limited. And regardless, you're simply not qualified to speak for the community as a whol...
You know, the "queer" community doesn't have a hive mind. There are plenty of people, including myself and a number of my close friends, who are not h...
Except they don't get the preference, at least where I'm from, because thankfully I'm not from an authoritarian society with people who think like you...
Oh my goodness. This is a problem of people caring too much. I often include female friends when I say "guys", as that has clearly at some point taken...
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