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

If this isn't the saddest damn thing I've seen in a good, long while, I don't know what is.

Juxtapose the picture, infer an ideology--perhaps natural law?--and the trans ideology...

Yeah, that is actually what happiness looks like. A society centered around procreative sexuality. The mainstream. As if we could neglect ourselves as social creatures and pretend that we are a sort of solipsistic being. A tautology, perhaps: procreative sexuality--what it exists for. In many formations, sexuality can, infrequently, without necessary moral judgement from this author, go completely off the rails, but it is always a perversion of its intent. Moral judgement comes from harm, in a secular system. And, who, here, in this specific case, is experiencing harm? The happy people in the photo, who won't return a text? I think not. It's probably the moralist.

Yet, we have an angry detractor. A person who's sexuality, which can be reasonably assumed to be autogynephilic, who is thus shut-out from the mainstream. Because theirs, by no choice of their own, is atypical. Strictly to be morally understood in their manner of being; not action. (Choosing one's own desire is transhuman: volitional choice. One either likes carnitas tacos, or does not like carnitas tacos. One can lie, but the desire is either there or it is not. There is no fool but oneself. No day will soon come when we can rationally will ourselves into liking carnitas tacos. Just as no one day will soon come where one can will themselves into the first photo. It is a matter of chance.)

So, I ask you to put yourselves into the shoes of the detractor. I think they're misguided... Intuition reigns. But why, beyond superficiality?

One can like carnitas tacos, or they cannot. A man can desire women, or he cannot. A man can desire women, but himself as the object of his abstract desire, or he cannot--the former is a phenomena known as autogynephilia. Heterosexuality, reflected on the beholder. A hitherto, in the mainstream, unrecognized phenomena of human sexuality--a dimension of subjectivity. A cognitive dissonance that drives one crazy--strictly because it is not recognized. (Perhaps if we could call it as it is, then it would not have such magic prowess?)

I mention unrecognized, because these people are so wholly lost. They've been given a really short straw, in terms of sexual identity. Perhaps you could be upset that the classification is expanding--a fair concern--but if we cannot call things as they are, whether or not one approves? Such a thing is irrelevant in terms scientific taxonomies--and I would strongly argue that a simplification only leads to incoherence.

It is not going away any time soon, and thus, you must rationally engage with it.