Someone just responded to my intro post – Hello, all! – about my decision to identify as transgender (boy->girl). I wanted to emphasize that I felt there was a dramatic difference between transgender and transsexual.
I do not want to get into any deep theoretical arguments. The main reason why I am changing my gender identity is because I want to be able to show myself for no other reason than to shamelessly demonstrate my desirability.
My understanding is quite simple about the difference between the “guy” gender and the “girl” gender. A guy always needs some external reason to show himself, i.e. to validate his status in some hierarchy or other (wearing a sports, military or business uniform, etc), whereas a girl has no other agenda than to direct attention to herself, full stop.
I intend to get attention directed to myself, full stop. With the appropriate people “turned on” by me, then I would like to offer guidance about how we might all come together and live more meaningful lives. Once we are all together, then the deep theoretical arguments will be able to recommence…
As a male, myself I prefer to keep to the shadows, I don’t go outside much, there are several reasons for that but that is a topic all of its own and I don’t want to derail your topic too much.
I can see it with normie, cis males, jock types, their need for constantly showing off for status hierarchies and such. I believe some of that animal behavoir contributes to the dystopian nature of our society and wars.
With transgenderism, my own perspective was a little bit different than yours. I too often wish I could pass as a woman, because being a man is socially difficult and awkward for me. Women never seem to approach men or give any kind of spontaneous affection. As a man I feel dehumanized and that women just don’t care. I would like to feel wanted and loved by someone, but that just isn’t happening because of the way genders are. In our current society, males are the ones who must approach and prove their worth, while women are the ones who approve.
Second thing is, as a man I feel just plain ugly and restricted. Everything about being a man feels restrictive, I can’t do this, have to act this way, not allowed to wear this, not allowed to wear that, can’t wear makeup, can’t have a certain attitude, can’t be too nerdy, got to act confident, be funny, say the right things, etcetera. Its all very infuriating and tiresome after a while. Even if I did wear a dress or something I would still probably look like some kind of hairy ugly smelly beast, because of testosterone. I never asked for puberty and I never wanted puberty.
The distinction between gender and sex: prime example of dualism. Philosophy can do neither without dualism nor without monism. Natural philosophy is ultimately the aspiration to be completely outside the “cavern” through whose “narrow chinks” one “sees” things; to have one’s “doors of perception” “cleansed” completely. But political philosophy is essentially the insight that that’s most probably impossible: ‘Thine own senses shalt thou think to the end!’ This includes, however, the insight that philosophy is precisely the demand for that most unlikely possibility… Being a philosopher is a balancing act between being a “guy” whose attention is directed at the for him most desirable possible “girl”, and showing himself to himself in the uniform of the nihilist, to whom it’s all meaningless.
‘’ I too often wish I could pass as a woman, because being a man is socially difficult and awkward for me. Women never seem to approach men or give any kind of spontaneous affection. As a man I feel dehumanized and that women just don’t care. I would like to feel wanted and loved by someone, but that just isn’t happening because of the way genders are. In our current society, males are the ones who must approach and prove their worth, while women are the ones who approve.
Second thing is, as a man I feel just plain ugly and restricted. Everything about being a man feels restrictive, I can’t do this, have to act this way, not allowed to wear this, not allowed to wear that, can’t wear makeup, can’t have a certain attitude, can’t be too nerdy, got to act confident, be funny, say the right things, etcetera. Its all very infuriating and tiresome after a while. Even if I did wear a dress or something I would still probably look like some kind of hairy ugly smelly beast, because of testosterone. I never asked for puberty and I never wanted puberty.‘’
Straight from the horse’s mouth. ‘Transgenderism’ is a way for repulsive, inadequate, misogynistic men to feel ‘sexy’ at the expense of women.
Evidence to back up the fact that I think you were the most obnoxious little troll there and now are the most obnoxious little troll here (which in both cases is really saying something)? No, I don’t. I guess you win!
An ‘intellectual’ thread about ugly men and their sex fetishes of desperation. Ok. If that’s what you class as ‘intellectual’ I would hate to see what you consider ‘low brow’.
That doesn’t sound like a very good reason for changing gender tbh. This reads more like a conservatives fantasy about what being transgender is about.
