The thing with the internet being such a free medium these clowns need to feel special. By clowns I mean people who seem to think their opinion matters to the world.

At the end of the day if we stop giving them a voice they stop talking shit.

How hard is it to just say who gives a fuck what someone likes? If they not breaking the laws we shouldn't care less that someone may prefer. So don't worry about some radical views out there.

Clearly some people have too much time on their hand that they need to create sub populations of sub populations and then throw them all in a bowl like keys at a swingers party and randomly pull them out and match them and say this is it or you are wrong.

Gotta give this youtuber props for not disabling ratings or comments.

Attraction is not a voluntary act, it is instinctual. And instinct don't care about what people identify as. Can't deny that the expectation that certain body-parts are a part of that attraction. I don't know how else to say it

I think gender norms are a natural effect of having a complex culture. People could whish them away, but that doesn't mean it's possible. Only, the solution of creating thousands of categories instead of two doesn't solve any problem whatsoever.

For me almost all the discussion in this field is ridiculous, and I'll leave it at that.

Once humans start categorizing things, subcategories are inevitable. So the issue starts with having a categorization at all. Having 2 or 2000 doesn't make a difference since they're all useless and destructive.

Not necessarily. It's not because something is a cultural construct that it is bad. Any gender theory that takes note of the fact that we have only two sexes is probably closer to how we as humans operate naturally that one that divorces the concepts of sex and gender. That's why I'm an advocate of two fluid gender categories based on sex instead of two thousand ridgid gender identities with very little sociological foundation.

I don't think so, but if not being attracted to anything with a dick means being transphobic I will wear the label with no shame.

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.

At least four years ago, a friend of mine who was a lesbian posted something like:
"You think the trans woman fooled you because you thought she was a woman? You fooled her when you pretended to be a decent person"

I jokingly replied "Just because I like for my women to not have a penis, I'm not a good person?"

The entire LGBTQ community attacked me. All of them. Every single one. Thye said I was shallow for letting something like skin come between me and true love. That I didn't know what sex and gender were. That I might not be a man. It went on forever. I eventually just gave up. Now, I'm gay.

Just kidding. I'm not gay. I just deleted my comment. I just don't like the mindset that it's cool to have preference in hair color, race, body type, etc. Everybody has their "type". But the idea that I wouldn't be attracted to a certain type of person made me the bad guy.