DiscussionHow to support LGB youth who have gender dysphoria

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[–]joogabahGay shows the way 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

No way. I don't want to take on a label that means "weirdo", and the Q is already firmly attached to the T.

Masculinity is the world trying to make soldiers out of boys. Femininity is the world trying to make mothers and submissive wives out of girls. They are not innate, and so there are myriad exceptions, standouts and outliers. Rather than making these people feel bad about themselves, acknowledge that they are actually part of an emerging EMANCIPATION from being merely cannon fodder and subordinated baby makers! War and overpopulation have grown to the extent that they are no longer socially necessary, they have negated entirely to the point they threaten all life on the planet! And this is apparently having unconscious impacts on human sexuality and social relating. And idiots are coming up with ignorant theories based on unexamined conventional assumptions of what it means to be a man or a woman. Add a hefty dose of academic postmodernism which questions objectivity itself, and you get institutional legitimization of something absurd and deeply reactionary.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting. This goes to the more general philosophical problem that has faced humanity forever. We attach meanings to words, and each of us - as an individual - attaches a different emotional weight. Apparently, the word "queer" gives you a strong emotional reaction. I was thinking of it in more of an intellectual descriptive way, with less emotional baggage. This is why the "identity" movement is problematic from the get-go. Every label we attach to anyone, anything, or any idea has this inherent difficulty embedded in it.

[–]joogabahGay shows the way 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Queer is basically the n word for homosexuals. Older gay men are deeply offended by it.