Facebooks 50 Genders

[hurfdurf]

I commend the way you add another 3 a's into the word narrow; you think it makes you appear clever and yet cool at the same time.

Of course I'm not going to do any research on genetic anomalies any more than you've done any research on how to be clever or cool.

I call a person born with a penis a male, and one born with a vagina a female. That's called reality. You of course can invent 48 more genders should reality be too uncool for you and if you're desperate to show how right-on you are, but it's a total waste of time. Facebook is pandering to mixed-up teenagers. I see no reason to follow suite. Why do you?

Such lovely transphobia. Don't be scared cool dude!

Of course, you'll be fairly gutted if you ever have a "mixed up teenager" who then kills theirself because people with your views have pushed them to not feel welcome in this world... or are you so upset by having your gender normative values questioned that you would rather your child die?

 

[Frightful Boar]

Such lovely transphobia. Don't be scared cool dude!

Of course, you'll be fairly gutted if you ever have a "mixed up teenager" who then kills theirself because people with your views have pushed them to not feel welcome in this world... or are you so upset by having your gender normative values questioned that you would rather your child die?

Please will you edit the part about my child killing himself out of your post? I don't mind debating, but I'm finding that quite disturbing, I have a child and I think what you've said extremely unwarranted.

 

[hurfdurf]

Please show where I hoped that would ever happen to you? Feel free to come meet me irl and respond how ever you like dude.

 

[Frightful Boar]

Please show where I hoped that would ever happen to you? Feel free to come meet me irl and respond how ever you like dude.

So now you're goading me to meet IRL?

I'll ask again, please remove any references to my child.

 

[Caged]

I thought you rallied in favour of strong individuals putting up with stuff they don't like because anything else is weak and not to be encouraged?

Or does that run counter to playing the victim? FWIW there was no reference made to your child at all, just a hypothetical mixed-up teenager. Any association is one that you've made yourself.

 

[Frightful Boar]

I thought you rallied in favour of strong individuals putting up with stuff they don't like because anything else is weak and not to be encouraged?

Or does that run counter to playing the victim? FWIW there is no reference made to your child at all, just a hypothetical mixed-up teenager. Any association is one that you've made yourself.

"or are you so upset by having your gender normative values questioned that you would rather your child die?"

I didn't make that association. The words "your" and "child" did that.

I already know English isn't your strong suit.

Any mention of children dying is in extremely poor taste or is that ok in your internet arguing world?

 

[Caged]

Maybe if you spent less time trying to call people stupid on the internet you'd have the time to realise that that latter part of the sentence was related to the hypothetical child in the first part?

I don't see anything wrong with presenting a hypothetical situation, no. If the post had said "I hope you have a child that turns out to be gay and they kill themselves because of your attitude" then that would be unacceptable, yes.

 

[Frightful Boar]

Maybe if you spent less time trying to call people stupid on the internet you'd have the time to realise that that latter part of the sentence was related to the hypothetical child in the first part?

I don't see anything wrong with presenting a hypothetical situation, no. If the post had said "I hope you have a child that turns out to be gay and they kill themselves because of your attitude" then that would be unacceptable, yes.

Yes of course that would be your answer. We've already established that you'll argue semantics until you're blue in the face.

 

[Caged]

You're right, totally changing the meaning of a sentence by selectively quoting half of it is the same thing as semantics. In any case, "we've" established nothing, you however are free to claim whatever you want.

If you're butthurt by it then click the report button.

 

[Frightful Boar]

You're right, totally changing the meaning of a sentence by selectively quoting half of it is the same thing as semantics. In any case, "we've" established nothing, you however are free to claim whatever you want.

If you're butthurt by it then click the report button.

Butthurt? Buddy, you're the one who spends their time writing out long stories in attempts to hurt my feelings when they can't think of a reasonable response to the issue at hand. I think that qualifies as butthurt more than asking quite politely for someone to remove a post referring to my child killing themselves.

 

[PMKeates]

Any mention of children dying is in extremely poor taste

The issue at hand here is one that does result in thousands of parents having their children die. Even the remotest possible association of someone else's reality to your reality disturbs you, presumably because the thought is horrible. This is the principle of empathy. Other people's gender descriptions do you no harm, but your belittling of their situations evidently can harm them.

 

[Frightful Boar]

The issue at hand here is one that does result in thousands of parents having their children die. Even the remotest possible association of someone else's reality to your reality disturbs you, presumably because the thought is horrible. This is the principle of empathy. Other people's gender descriptions do you no harm, but your belittling of their situations evidently harms them.

Is this true?

Thousand(s) of children killing themselves because they're confused about which gender they are?

Sorry, but that doesn't sound real, horrible but not real.

I didn't belittle anyone's situation by the way. Did you just make that up?

 

[No1newts]

No. A civilised society is one that embraces and accepts peoples differences and celebrates ALL humankind, not just the ones that fit a narrow stereotype. One of our "end points" (at least until we start colonising other planets) should be a GLOBAL society where there are no dividing lines based on sex, nationality, religion or sexual preference. The sooner I can answer "earth" to the question "what's your nationality" the better imho.

+11111111111111111

Good point.

 

[TheLegendOfMart]

Butthurt? Buddy, you're the one who spends their time writing out long stories in attempts to hurt my feelings when they can't think of a reasonable response to the issue at hand. I think that qualifies as butthurt more than asking quite politely for someone to remove a post referring to my child killing themselves.

I would if you were my dad.

Thousand(s) of children killing themselves because they're confused about which gender they are?

Sorry, but that doesn't sound real, horrible but not real.

Do you even live on planet earth?

 

[Frightful Boar]

I would if you were my dad.

No way someone like you could have sprung from my loins.

Do you even live on planet earth?

Sounds like you need your Dad to write your insults for you though.

Are you able to provide proof of these children killing themselves? Or do you have nothing to add to this conversation?

 

[TheLegendOfMart]

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?s=suicide

Careful though, you might catch "the gay" from going to a gay news site.

 

[Frightful Boar]

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/?s=suicide

Careful though, you might catch "the gay" from going to a gay news site.

Using such homophobic rhetoric doesn't become you.

All that page shows is 815 results for suicide on Pink News.

It doesn't deliver proof that thousands of children are taking their own lives due to being confused about their gender. In fact I couldn't see one single story about that issue on the entire first page.

So actually you have no proof? And that's because this claim is not true (as far as I can see).

 

[TheLegendOfMart]

Wow you looked at the ENTIRE first page, I'm glad you could actually be bothered to look at the whole first page in your busy schedule.

Do you think that every family reports suicide to the news websites and that all the news websites would report on every single suicide?

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I'm not doing the work for you, if you really cared about it you would seek the information out yourself.

 

[Frightful Boar]

Wow you looked at the ENTIRE first page, I'm glad you could actually be bothered to look at the whole first page in your busy schedule.

Do you think that every family reports suicide to the news websites and that all the news websites would report on every single suicide?

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I'm not doing the work for you, if you really cared about it you would seek the information out yourself.

Excellent cop-out. If it's not being reported, how would you know about it.

Just because I haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist? Well, that's the same for anything isn't it. You could make any claim and use that excuse when asked to provide proof.

Why not just admit that thousands of teenagers aren't killing themselves due to being gender-confused no matter how much you want it to be true.

 

[Tunney]

Are you able to provide proof of these children killing themselves? Or do you have nothing to add to this conversation?

"41% of people who are transgender or gender-nonconforming have attempted suicide sometime in their lives, nearly nine times the national average".