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[–]SnowAssMan[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What would you be losing if you did it though? Answer: your "gender identity", which you acknowledge is nothing. But the fact that you're unwilling to lose it, suggests that gender identification is not as insubstantial as GC feminists claim. I'm not telling you to do it, I'm trying to spur on some introspection. I'm asking why don't (in general & in the past) GC feminists get their gender legally changed?

Thanks for the links, you've saved my a step. But I'm still not going to change it until I move to the UK (I've never properly lived there, hence why I didn't say "move back", so I haven't got an official "place of residence" yet). I have every intention of "putting my money where my mouth is" & as soon as I do, trust me, you'll hear about it. But as you said, it won't change your mind since I'm male & your female. For the record, I have no trouble acknowledging that male transitioners gain a hell of a lot more credence than female ones, however, that doesn't mean there is no political leverage to be gained by GC women en masse changing their gender. I firmly believe that if there had been a bunch of Lauren Southerns doing it in Canada, they'd be able to draw more attention to the issue.

P.S. I think it's totally legitimate for someone to point out the hypocrisy of someone with a messy room telling others to clean theirs, see: Jordan Peterson.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not "unwilling to lose" my "gender identity," LOL. I don't have a gender identity! Stop telling me and others here that we do have gender identities. And FFS, man, stop telling women what to do.

You are trying to make it seem that the only reason feminists here are not compliantly rushing off to change the sex markers on our passports, driver's licenses, medical records, birth certificates and such the way you have decided we all should do in order to bring down transgenderism is that despite what we say, in our heart of hearts we really do all secretly have gender identities - and we are so wedded to our gender identities that we can't bear to part with them.

When, in fact, the reason no GC feminists here are jumping up and doing as you have decreed we must is that we find your idea unimpressive, without merit and think it would be a pointless, performative waste of time. Plus, we resent the officious, pompous, bossy way you have issued your diktat from on high.

Me, I personally think your idea is moronic, silly and puerile. You are free to call your idea a grand "strategy" and to believe that will strike a blow against transgenderism and cause the whole movement to crumble, but others are free to think your idea is a dumb brain fart that belongs in the bin.

P.S. I think it's totally legitimate for someone to point out the hypocrisy of someone with a messy room telling others to clean theirs, see: Jordan Peterson.

Huh? In the scenario I gave, I wasn't telling my kids to clean their bedrooms; I simply said yes when they asked me if I thought they should clean their bedrooms. Also, where do you get off suggesting I'm the one "with a messy room"?

Given your user name, I would've have thought that you understood the old adage "when you assume you make an ass out of u and me" but like so much else, the meaning of that little nugget seems beyond your grasp.

[–]SnowAssMan[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't believe I have a gender identity in the transgender sense, hence why I have no problem getting it changed, you say have no problem with me getting it changed either. But you seem to have a problem with getting yours changed. The reasons you give: it's silly, puerile, moronic. Inconsistent. So you're being disingenuous. Whatever the real reason is you're unwilling to give it, inexplicably.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

He seriously seems to think that he has single handedly solved sexism if only these stupid uppity women would listen and do what he says, without even a hint of irony. Male feminist poster child.

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He also seems convinced that he's endowed with either omniscience or magical mind-reading skills, and as a result he knows what women on this sub - and women generally - really think and feel, which is the opposite of what we say.

In his view, feminists, female users of this sub and women generally are all either a) so stupid and lacking in self-awareness that don't know our own minds and hearts, or b) just plain liars who can't be trusted to tell the truth about anything, not even about our own "lived experience" and innermost thoughts. Typical brogressive.