Are genital preferences transphobic?

[vivster]

haxxiy said:

vivster said:
I wanted to make a thread about this for a long time. My current hypothesis is that transgender has absolutely nothing to do with genetics or psychology and is rather a very much social phenomenon. The concept of gender is extremely artificial and it's created by society. Treating genders differently might help lower species to survive but it's irrelevant for humans.

Cheap anthropocentrism!

We share this planet with countless species, some of which have larger brains, some run faster or are much stronger, or even able to fly on their own. Some, like ants, have been around some 500 times longer than us and make for a larger biomass, even with all our overpopulation issues.

Humans, on the other hand, are more damaging to the planet than cosmic catastrophes such as meteors kilometers wide or possible gamma ray bursts. We have scientists who woke up one day and thought "what a beautiful day to create nuclear devices who can kill thousands at once" and online forums where nerds discuss whether a man with a penis could be perhaps called a woman.

Perhaps too much logic and intelligence is actually a damaging and pathetic thing, and the concept of "higher species", or at least its cultural constructs, have indeed failed.

/rant

Oh, and OT - it's common for the human to experience with artificialities before settling back for the natural. We see it on the most varied areas of society (the concepts of personal grooming, a healthy diet, what makes for a nice city space). As such I'm not concerned about the follies of those who want to claim certaing things are "social progress" when they are not. Progress itself, by the way, is an artificial concept created by Christian thinkers (the notion of consummation of history instead of cyclic time) long before it was mistakenly co-opted by economics and social politics.

Wow. Of course everything is different if you only look at the worst things of one society and only the good things of the other. Pick up a math book and learn how to calculate an average. Incidentally also something that no species besides us is able to do. But of course, the worst people of our species also can't do it.