2017-01-19 at 7:23 PM UTC
Bruh, it's just a good thread. Don't be a hater because you don't like my style.
2017-01-19 at 7:37 PM UTC
Every trans thread turns into edgelord philosophy hour.
"If a girl has a penis does that make her a man?, BUT WHAT OF THE TRUE NATURE OF MAN?!"
"THE METAPHYSICAL CONSTRUCTS OF GENATALIA BEARS NO SIGNIFIGANCE IN THE UNIVERSAL ZEITGEIST"
"Do we even exist?"
Thats every trans thread on here.
2017-01-19 at 7:38 PM UTC
tfw you rip out a woman's ovaries and jam them up your asshole for science
2017-01-19 at 7:55 PM UTC
Sentient energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed only TRANSVESTIGHTS!!!
2017-01-19 at 9:36 PM UTC
I don’t think its racist if she’s more comfortable being seen as a black person.
Biologically there’s no such thing as a black person or a white person really. Unlike gender where there are only two biological sexes, there’s a million different things biologically that could be considered black or white. You can come up with racial archetypes but most people will fall somewhere in the middle of them and any line you try to draw between them will be arbitrary. Basing whether a person is black or white off their appearance wouldn’t be accurate since the majority of genes don't manifest themselves visibly, a person could look very white but have the majority of their genes more similar to the black archetype.
If race is a social thing, and if she sees herself as black and other people see her as such then you could consider that as making her black.
2017-01-20 at 4:47 AM UTC
The usual criticism of Dolezal from the left is of cultural appropriation which I don't buy, mostly because it implicitly ships with the prejudice plus power belief. It is true that many aspects of race are social rather than biological so I don't think there's anything that prevents a person from belonging to a race, in those social dimensions, other than the one they were born into. I do think that going to lengths to appear as if she had african ancestry was distasteful and frankly a little comic given this history of the inverse arrangement. So the natural analogy might be to sex reassignment surgery which I don't have any particular problem with. It's an interesting question, is "passing" deceptive? I do think at some point the answer is yes, like maybe you don't have a duty to disclose biological facts to everyone you meet but like in dating, attracting someone knowing they expect something one biologically isn't seems wrong. Likewise if one prefers the aesthetic qualities of another race it's permissible to adopt those but not to lie about your ancestry or mislead others beyond some point.