So if a woman is someone “who feels like a woman,” then are there any other objects or things that you can be just by a self referential feeling of that thing?
Like is a cat anything that feels like the letters C, a, & t together? Or an iguana? Or maybe an engineer? Is an engineer someone who feels like those syllables in that particular order?
I have never understood why people push this agenda. It's such a weird thing to say that someone can be whatever they feel like.
A good book on the topic is The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman. I've only read some of it, but glowing reviews from all quarters.
Están totalmente delirando esa gente
I feel like someone who has paid enough taxes for my lifetime.
You can feel like a woman but I don’t have to acknowledge your mental illness
I can “feel” like a bitcoin if I want but I cant be part of the 21 million bitcoin that will ever exist. The network would reject me.
If someone decides they would be happier as a woman, sincerely attempts to conform to society's notions about women, and asks to be treated as a woman, it would seem rather churlish to refuse to treat them that way.
Also, of course, churlish to get worked up about the obvious point that biological sex and gender aren't the same thing. I think most of us are in the sane middle, though.
You are right. We should respect all adults views about what gender they are, and the vast majority of Americans support this and/or don’t care. But one can’t claim they have an XX chromosome when actually have an XY chromosome because they feel like a woman.
1. This post is about the absurdity of using the term you are defining in the definition. Calling it simply "nonsense" doesn't do it justice. Its an anti-definition.
2. I agree we should simply be kind to others & I don't think very many people have problems with a feminine guy (or vice versa) who chooses to dress like a woman, wear makeup, whatever. Those they lose their minds over that have their own self-control issues. But that's a *completely* different thing from a dude wearing a dress & then demanding everyone else arbitrarily change the definition of their words, & viciously attack them & call them a homophobe or nazi if they don't attest to a blatantly untrue statement. *That* is what one might call an extraordinary level of narcissism and also deeply "churlish." 😂
If you identify as a woman later in life, please go by Gal Sma'am
The definition of "woman" has always been more fluid than "person with two X chromosomes". I agree that it's not *arbitrary*, but it is to some extent socially constructed. Reasonable people have always allowed for edge cases that don't fit the category neatly, whether someone born intersex or someone who just chooses to sincerely adopt the opposite gender role.
It seems to me that the current controversy is caused by some people insisting that we don't have the right to decide for ourselves who is performing which gender role while other people insist that gender and biological sex are the same thing—both of which are errors, IMHO.
What's unfortunate is that the extreme positions of each group tend to create more of their opposite in reaction. I suspect, for example, that J. K. Rowling's position would be much more nuanced if it weren't for the unhinged reactions to her, IMHO, reasonable concern about women's safety being compromised by a minority of bad actors exploiting the insistence that anyone who doesn't accept all claims at face value is a bigot. Likewise, trans activists aren't wrong to think that some of their opposites are motivated by bigotry.
I guess I'd just like to see the sane majority insisting on nuance and refusing to "take a side" in this unhinged culture war.
They can do and feel whatever, but they should understand it is optional for others to play the game. Live and let die!
I feel like a millionaire, but my life circumstances don’t reflect that. I’d like you all to zap me to confirm my ideology
I feel like a pay rise
Why so triggered by something that has no affect on you personally?
Lol, did this post bother you? Using the word you are defining in its definition is dumb so I posted about it 🤣
How can you feel like a woman if the definition of woman depends on the definition of woman? You can't even know what you're feeling like.
"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
Yeah bro everything is sOcIaLlY cOnStRuCtEd!!
Perhaps Shania Twain could shed some light on this..
We might not come to a common and agreed upon understanding any time soon until we discover the source of internal and subjective component of sense perception (or maybe it’s even beyond, and not by, sense perception?). Good questions. Too deep for a Sunday. 🤣
