Any rebuttals to this?

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

Skipdip, we've had this sort of exchange previously. My response to this link and the four words you've bothered to type out as it was before:

You go first.

By which I mean I think you should describe/summarize whatever material you're posting and give your own response and rebuttal to it, rather than just providing a link and asking and expecting others to do all the work.

You've asked me previously how you can get better at arguing and debating, and I took the time to give you lots of tips and info. But it's all for naught if you're not willing to put in time and effort to do some hard work yourself.

[–]Skipdip[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Alright you are right. Possible TMI, I have been struggling with the way my community has categorically dismissed me. My close circle seems to be waiting for me to come around. Recently I’ve been starting to question whether I’m wrong to not “respect trans people”. After all, (and I live in a fairly conservative place) gender is all around me, which I hate. It’s from the conservatives and now from my liberal female (and male) LGB friends, who keep talking about “healthy masculinity” and my partner who spends much of her energy in search of a “positive masculinity” so she can feel comfortable as the man she was truly born to be.

What if they’re right that all cultures have gender? (Even matrilocal ones?) certainly when we look at images of tribal people, there is a way the women dress and the men dress. Are there trans people in those cultures as well? Are we erasing them? I’m in a position of having to choose between being a “ciswoman” and being subject to the “female gender” and treated as inferior, or being a “trans non-binary person” and giving up my position.

Am I being too rigid? Am I not listening? Am I rejecting the science? The big credible institutions sure support that sex is a construct. Am I being violent to people when I don’t use their preferred pronouns? Am I like the crazed racist, ignoring reality and deluding myself into believing what I believe by surrounding myself with an echo chamber?

I would have done the hard work on this video, but I honestly couldn’t stomach watching it because I got too upset.

[–]candiedDagon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Couldn’t watch it.