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05-19-22 14:14 #4244
Posts: 4280Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
I've just never understood the bathroom panic, but I've heard the same "logic" applied to different groups throughout my life. One of the hazards of growing up where racism and bigotry are considered to be virtues.
It all begins with "they're not like us."
"You have to watch out for the 'colored'. They're not like us."
"You can't go to church with him. He's Catholic and they're not like us."
"Don't talk to those men. They're homosexuals and they're not like us."
"Your friend can't spend the night. He's Amish and they're not like us."
"Those men are Jewish. They're not like us."
Now it's "they're Democrat / Republican. They're not like us.
Pick a label and someone is telling us "be afraid. They're not like us."
If someone is threatening me, the color of their skin, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, immigration status or gender identity doesn't matter. I'm not thinking "he won't hurt me because he's a straight, white Protestant from the midwest." I'm certainly not thinking "this is serious because that guy is wearing lipstick. " A threat is a threat, regardless of how you label the person.
The threat doesn't come from the groups people want you to label. It comes from individuals and from the people who want you to put labels on everyone.
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05-19-22 06:27 #4243
Posts: 10Counterpoint with pun
Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
I'll link to the video of that happening because it's kinda funny. (No animals were really hurt).
Actually I'm not sure if I'll run a foul (LOL) if I post that kinda video so if anyone wants to see it just google:
Chicken beats an Eagle.
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05-19-22 06:18 #4242
Posts: 10Citation needed
Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
The point I was putting emphasis on was that trans people are not more prone to violence than the rest of the public.
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05-19-22 05:14 #4241
Posts: 269Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
Glue. Ja ja ja. No idea where that came from. But you can just continue to be morbidly obese and disgusting physically and I'll just, you know, get way more and better pussy than you do. And when I do pay for it, I will know what I am paying for. You find expensive hookers and think they like you. I find cheap hookers and don't care. I think you forget sometimes we've actually met, and so I know for sure how full of shit you are.
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05-19-22 03:33 #4240
Posts: 356Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
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05-19-22 03:07 #4239
Posts: 1639Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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05-19-22 02:21 #4238
Posts: 806Originally Posted by Huacho [View Original Post]
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05-19-22 01:25 #4237
Posts: 1882Originally Posted by Huacho [View Original Post]
Webster's does not have to define loser in the dictionary. They can just show a picture of your face.
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05-18-22 23:53 #4236
Posts: 13224Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
https://www.h13n.com/ocho-mujeres-tr...-hurto/108410/
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05-18-22 19:18 #4235
Posts: 13224Originally Posted by DontSayMuch [View Original Post]
There are too many contributing factors, whereas the statement tries to get you to believe trans people are just walking down the street minding their own business and some stranger violently attacks them. The most abuse occurs in lesbian relationships, but if I just said lesbians are often violently attacked, it is not telling you they tend to be abused by their own mates and leads you to believe someone outside of their personal circle is doing the abusing or attacking. So are these trans having violence done to them purely because they are trans or is it for other reasons, and by whom?
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05-18-22 14:48 #4234
Posts: 806Originally Posted by DontSayMuch [View Original Post]
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05-18-22 14:32 #4233
Posts: 269Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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05-18-22 14:28 #4232
Posts: 269Originally Posted by JohnnyWalker55 [View Original Post]
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05-18-22 03:10 #4231
Posts: 10Trans Crimes
I don't want to reply to a post that wasn't directed at me so I'll make one that addresses the topic in a more general way.
There have been trans people throughout history and they have figured out which bathroom and locker room works for them.
It seems that people who are against trans-women going to whatever facility that individual trans-woman wants to go into conveniently forget that if trans-women can't go to the facility of their choice, it also means that trans-men can't go into the facility of their choice.
So it's better to have a bearded trans-man who looks / acts / emotes as a man have to use the women's facilities? That doesn't make any sense to me and a lot of other people. And before anyone raises the impractical and non-real solution of making a dedicated trans bathroom, please think that through. Everywhere there are bathrooms will now be required to have a third type?
As far as trans people committing more violent acts than the general populace, I would really have to see some evidence for that.
I've read a Swedish paper that looks at this and it found =.
"The findings show that transsexual individuals were more likely to be criminal than non-transsexuals of the.
Same birth sex in the first cohort (1973-1988), and no different from their birth sex in the.
Second group (1989-2003)."
The first cohort (group) had hormones and surgery without adequate mental health provisions and the second cohort (group) had hormones and surgery with adequate mental health provisions.
So for the last forty years there hasn't been an increase in criminality from transgender individuals.
The study =.
Cecilia Dhejne, Paul Lichtenstein, Marcus Boman, Anna L. V. Johansson, Niklas.
Långström, Mikael Landéand (2011) Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons.
Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden.
Now there are a lot of statistics showing violence AGAINST trans people is MUCH higher than average.
I'm going to pick just one from as neutral a site as I can find.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e...press-release/
The study found.
"Transgender people over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime".
I like looking at non-anecdotal evidence. A lot of studies have issues and they can be addressed and scrutinized, but one random person isn't much of an indicator of anything.
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05-18-22 02:42 #4230
Posts: 4280Originally Posted by JohnnyWalker55 [View Original Post]
In my younger days I went to a few of the various conventions, I have younger friends and relatives who go to several every year. From the view of people who actually attend the conventions, instead of someone who believes "the sky is falling" reports from the aforementioned panic brigade, it seems to be a rare occurrence and a minor issue.
Let's see. As far as trans people. I spent about 6 months, every night in a bar located next to what was the biggest gay, trans, lesbian bar in Medellin. Quite often, because that club was generally packed on the weekends, gay, lesbian and trans people would come in and hang out. Since the manager was a lesbian (apparently now a somewhat famous singer), they mingled freely amongst the gringos and other customers with no problems.
I've spent a fair amount of time both around the Veracruz alley and Parque Bolivar and have seen the trans who frequent those areas. Other than one who tried to hug me, I've never noticed anything particularly disturbing about any of them. I'm not really qualified to just walk past someone and accurately diagnose their mental health, especially if they are just standing around doing nothing.
I lived for a year in Hillcrest, the gay community in San Diego. You saw all types, almost all of them causing no trouble at all. Although, closing time at the Lesbian bar often featured arguments because of jealousy. I also spent 4 years volunteering with an art therapy project in San Diego, which was almost exclusively either gay or trans men with AIDS. Again, all just normal behavior.
Almost forgot, I went out in Nashville one night, on Elvis Presley's birthday (1998? With 2 girls I knew from the area, a guy I knew from Michigan and a trans, I think from North Carolina. The trans had a crush on me and I didn't know she was trans, until well into the night when she asked if it bothered me. It didn't. I had no interest in her, just wasn't my type, but certainly wasn't batshit crazy. She ended up making out with an Elvis impersonator.
90% seems to be a common theme with you. What a bizarre coincidence that everything is 90%. It's almost as if you pulled the number out of your ass.
Trans people are more likely to have mental health issues. No question about it. Gays and lesbians are more likely to have mental health issues. People with obvious deformities are more likely to have mental health issues. It's quite obvious you fail to understand why and you never will.
You also won't understand this, but it's about as simple as I can make it. Compare the behavior of 2 dogs. One dog was raised as part of a family, it was always treated well, well fed, cared for and loved. The other dog was always beaten, yelled at, mistreated, abused in every way. If you take both dogs after 2 years and put them in the same, normal, safe environment, do they behave differently? Absolutely. Without a doubt. The abused dog might damage things, attack children or hide from people. In the dog world it has mental health issues. Do you understand why?
Many LGBTQ children suffer some level of abuse, because they are different. Years of abuse inhibits normal social development. Even without overt abuse, society tells them they aren't normal. Normal social development is necessary to assimilate into society. Failure to assimilate results in mental health problems. You find the same patterns in all people who are subject to childhood abuse. Abuse doesn't have to be physical.
How many non-pros do I talk to? I can't tell you. Except when I am physically in the act of paying a woman for sex, I don't classify people in that way. Just as I don't classify people as black, gay, young, paralyzed. They're all just people. When I'm writing about someone I will apply labels for the readers. Otherwise I'm getting PMs asking how much did I pay her.
I can tell you that I've never asked anyone, male, female, trans, pro, whatever, how they would feel about having a trans person shitting next to them. I will never ask that. I won't ask someone how they feel about someone black, Jewish, Muslim, Latino, Gay, Lesbian, Disabled or Republican shitting next to them. And if any woman tells me that she wouldn't want someone shitting next to her because they belong to a particular group, I would no longer be talking to her. Seriously, who in the world, in normal conversation asks someone "would it bother you if a (fill in the blank) was shitting in the bathroom stall next to you?
I don't approve of bigotry. I won't. And all of this is nothing but bigotry. If you're going to be a bigot, own it. Don't pussyfoot around.
Maybe the problem is, you don't know what a women's restroom looks like. Perhaps, like the clitoris, women's restrooms are something you know nothing about. I'll describe one. There's a door, inside there are some sinks, with a mirror, soap dispensers and some way to dry the hands. There may be flowers. There are toilets. Each toilet is located in a stall. Usually, each stall has a door which can be secured from the inside. There's also toilet paper, trash cans and possibly a dispenser for sanitary napkins and tampons.
Unless a person is shitting, bent all the way over and their head pressed against the floor, there's no way to know who is shitting next to you. You can maybe see what shoes they are wearing. That's all. You can't tell whether they have a penis or vagina, whether they had one removed and the other installed, whether they have facial hair or 3 arms.
Unless the person in the next stall tries to crawl into the girl's stall, or, they try to reach through, or in some way engage in abnormal bathroom behavior, the girl will be just like you. She won't have a fucking clue what's going on in the next stall.
Now if you will excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom and I don't want to keep you from displaying your bigotry.