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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

there's really no way this guy would ever look like a girl. I guess it is bullying to point that out but still it's a fact. I guess it is unecessary. But besides this meme, we could have a legit discussion about this topic, then the meme leads to something good at least.

[–]OffAndSphere 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well, if we're going to have a discussion, I'd like to diss this meme for being a thinly veiled insult voice my opinion in detail on why I think this meme is bad. With that being said, I am much more stringent on what is considered a decent meme than most people. Also, this is not what I think makes a meme go viral; it's what I think makes a meme decent.

Text should be kept to a minimum—or at least be concise—which this meme succeeds at. However, it fails at being relatable, mainly because transgender people could look pretty close the sex/gender they're transitioning to, or it could be the complete opposite. Insults can be useful in comedy, but they need to be accompanied by something else. This meme is essentially just an insult but in image form. At least we're getting some good discussion out of this.

Characteristics pertaining to sex have different levels of correlation. For example, women living longer and being weaker and shorter than men is less correlated to sex than pregnancy is. The differences in how the sexes feel emotion are even less correlated to sex than lifespan is.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes it is a bad meme, lol in some communities there are official meme raters, I am not qualified to rate a transexual meme but this is lazy, just a pic of a guy, would be better if it had the wording right in the pic, and if it was a pop culture referene instead of a random guy, like who is a famous transexual, maybe Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie? Not sure.

Besides the meme though, why is it some want to change their sex, do you deny it is a mental illness, like Quixote and his delusions, do we really have to cater to it instead of trying to cure it?

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

Technically, altering the body is a "solution". Kind of like how some "solutions" for horrible diseases only increase the person's lifespan by a couple of years. Therapy is another solution, but most pre-operation transgender people are too reluctant to try it because not many people have gone down that route. I'm sure there are a pile of scientists trying to find more "solutions" to gender dysphoria, but it's a mental illness, and those are impossible to cure. This is because it can come back after a while after the person has seemingly recovered from it.

We do already take some special procedures in public for existing mental illnesses like schizophrenia, so I think using preferred pronouns are quite mild compared to needing to convince someone that Dr. Zomboss isn't going to attack Earth the next month.