Virtual Hermaphrodite

[turtle]

Be honest now. Tell the truth. How many of you are virtual hermaphrodites. In other words both virtual breasts and penis.
Actually we are all actual hermaphrodites. What do you say mundanes?

[turtle]

Are there no unemployed hermaphrodites out there?

[maryshelley]

Well I’ve got a vagina and balls. Does that cunt count.

[turtle]

@maryshelley

Well I’ve got a vagina and balls. Does that cunt count.

But maryS do you have testicles?

[turtle]

@turtle

@maryshelley

Well I’ve got a vagina and balls. Does that cunt count.

But maryS do you have testicles?

Where is maryshelley when we need her?

[Tab]

I really enjoyed the Tombraider series, does that qualify…?

[maryshelley]

@turtle

@maryshelley

Well I’ve got a vagina and balls. Does that cunt count.

But maryS do you have testicles?

Sometimes with a little chianti but I prefer brains.

Herm may I twiddle your nipples?

[maryshelley]

osey kosey

let me help youz all out

Inferiority shows itself in our thinking style. Because of feelings of inferiority and insecurity we devise mental constructs to keep these feelings at bay. These constructs act as guiding fictions, governing fantasies, by means of which we apperceive the world.

The most basic of these neurotic protections, perhaps the one to which all others can be reduced, Adler calls “antithetical thinking,” “which works according to the principle of opposites”.

The mind sets up opposite poles: strong/weak, up/down, male/female - and these guiding fictions determine how we experience. Antitheses divide the world sharply, giving opportunity for exerting power in forceful actions, saving us from feeling weak and incapacitated.

More important even than these pairs is that oppositional thinking itself is a pampering safeguard against the true reality of the world, which in Adler’s view is one of shaded differentiations and not oppositions.

For him, to think that abstract opposites reflect reality is to think neurotically, since all antitheses ultimately refer to the power construct of superior/inferior embodied in society as male and female.

The ultimate ground of thinking in opposites is the male/female pair, “the only real antithesis”, which in turn can be pushed back to its early childhood experience in “psychic hermaphroditism.” “The psyche partakes of both feminine and masculine traits”, and from childhood on we identify not only weakness and inferiority with female, but also the ambivalence caused by the weakness. Moreover, hermaphroditic ambivalence itself indicates inferiority and is “apperceived in a strongly antithetical manner,” which safeguards us from it.

We are convinced by society that “there are only two sex roles possible,” and a “dissection” occurs. Uncertainty is met with a clear-cut either/or, that same either/or thinking which Jung connected both with ego-consciousness and with the one-sidedness of neurosis.

If restoring psychic hermaphroditism in one way or another is essential to the notion of cure in all three depth therapies [Freud, Jung, and Adler], then any disjunctive move is contra-indicated. We may not look to the ego as modelled on the hero, with his sword of decision, to lead us to healing. He is but one more divisive form of the masculine protest against inferiority, and his Oedipus foot, Achilles heel, and Hercules dress are signs of his innate hermaphroditism.

http://www.foreverbecoming.com/2009/05/psychic-hermaphrodite.html

[maryshelley]

Why do men have nipples anyway scientists?

[turtle]

@maryshelley

Why do men have nipples anyway scientists?

That is a really good question. I am not a scientist. Is there one out there?

[Innovice]

whats a virtual breast or virtual penis? like porn?

or do you mean more like my e-peen, cause that’s really REALLY big.

[maryshelley]

All answers reside within xx xy and timing thereof

[turtle]

Physically we are all hermaphrodites. How about psychologically?

[maryshelley]

I suppose that could depend upon who got the y.

[turtle]

@maryshelley

I suppose that could depend upon who got the y.

male has breasts(immature) and penis
female has breasts and clitoris(immature penis)

[maryshelley]

@turtle

@maryshelley

I suppose that could depend upon who got the y.

male has breasts(immature) and penis
female has breasts and clitoris(immature penis)

What about inbetweenies?

[turtle]

@maryshelley

@turtle

@maryshelley

I suppose that could depend upon who got the y.

male has breasts(immature) and penis
female has breasts and clitoris(immature penis)

What about inbetweenies?

They are inbetweeneees

[maryshelley]

@turtle

@maryshelley

What about inbetweenies?

They are inbetweeneees

Indeed. Very possibly between a rock and a hard place. Damned if do and damned if don’t.

[turtle]

@maryshelley

@turtle

@maryshelley

What about inbetweenies?

They are inbetweeneees

Indeed. Very possibly between a rock and a hard place. Damned if do and damned if don’t.

If you agree with this idea, then is everyone on ILP a hermaphrodite?

[maryshelley]

@turtle

@maryshelley

Indeed. Very possibly between a rock and a hard place. Damned if do and damned if don’t.

If you agree with this idea, then is everyone on ILP a hermaphrodite?

I suppose everyone on the planet is, if one agrees. Possibly all mammals too, eh?