tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post737723957719852099..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Embracing DelusionStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70101231598273961782014-06-02T04:07:06.335-07:002014-06-02T04:07:06.335-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.John Miltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450455761769180181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-49815892085058900832014-06-02T02:21:42.536-07:002014-06-02T02:21:42.536-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04414023777592108747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-274185316916393172014-06-02T00:28:52.213-07:002014-06-02T00:28:52.213-07:00Sadly, the game has not reached its limit. Fantasy...Sadly, the game has not reached its limit. Fantasy has only begun when people want to shed fixed sexual identities, although the online virtual realm is a more promising place for that fantasy, second life, you never know who anyone is.<br /><br />I remember there's Turing's test for IA, whether a machine can simulate a human being so you can't tell the difference.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test<br /><br />You might use the same test in a virtual world, where your chat mates may be male, female, or NSA spies for all you know, and all you have beyond their self-defined appearance is how they answer questions. I'd expect many observant males or females could play the opposite gender sufficiently to trick a vast majority of coplayers, or that is false positives and false negatives might be equally possible.<br /><br />But even in the "real world" there's also now a huge "fantasy cosplay" going on where people go to conventions to play their favorite character, human or not.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_convention<br /><br />I've never had an inclination to attend these, but seems quiet popular on the Facebook crowd, and wide ages from 20-60s!<br /><br />So perhaps someday soon people will be advocating to be allowed to wear their "furry costumes" to work, and is really so more strange than body tattoos and cheek percings? And if you can't tell what gender a person is under all that disguise, does it really matter?<br /><br />I'll say this is all a product of "mass culture", I mean no one living in a small town wants to stand out that much, but if you live in a big city, everyone wants to be special in some way, and there are endless possibilities of finding a subculture to support your fantasies.<br /><br />I imagine some of these people want to have two lives, their ordinary one where they blend in, and their fantasy one in their subculture, while others would prefer to stay "in character" 24/7, and force the world to accept them.<br /><br />Maybe the whole problem is how do you take people seriously? Do you feel safe having your dentist cross-dress at work, or have his "furry" ears on, or does that make customers want to run away?<br /><br />And so far I guess you can be fired for failing to follow a dress code at work, but perhaps someday soon the right court case will say this is also wrong, and we have to accept everyone for who they are, and disallow personal choice to decide who to hire.<br /><br />Yes, I don't think this can turn out well, and it all seems pretty unserious.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-21246503181653590972014-06-01T21:00:06.119-07:002014-06-01T21:00:06.119-07:00"Maybe constitutional rights for animals?&quo...<em>"Maybe constitutional rights for animals?"</em><br /><br />You're behind the times. That campaign has already started. Scary but true.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34930143597136205602014-06-01T17:36:30.556-07:002014-06-01T17:36:30.556-07:00Is there a real difference (other than degree) bet...Is there a real difference (other than degree) between this an other voluntary mutilations like tatoos, piercings, Botox, breast repacking, facelifts, .......?Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38105742264969903982014-06-01T12:40:25.000-07:002014-06-01T12:40:25.000-07:00I wonder what the civil rights frontier will be af...I wonder what the civil rights frontier will be after transgenderism? All non-leftists want to know.<br /><br />Maybe constitutional rights for animals? Extending the voting franchise to the entire Third World? Mandatory gay, transgender quotas on all pc-named athletic teams but no scoring since that will make someone feel bad? The possibilities are endless...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-3970868751760414412014-06-01T08:44:43.870-07:002014-06-01T08:44:43.870-07:00How about trans-species?
If I feel like a cat, sh...How about trans-species?<br /><br />If I feel like a cat, should I be regarded as one?<br /><br />Btw, homos* say they were born that way, and they and we should accept this fact instead of trying to force/pressure homos to be non-homo. <br />Fair enough. <br /><br />If people should accept what they were born as, isn't trans-genderism opposed to that principle? While it may be true that someone who wants to be woman was physically born as a man, the fact remains that he was naturally born as a man with a woman's feelings. He should accept that natural fact instead of having his body parts mutilated to be what he was NOT born as. <br /><br />One problem is we are moving away from humanism into narcissism. Humanism teaches us to accept our 'imperfections' and find meaning in basic moral values. Narcissism says we are whatever we want to be and we should force rest of society to agree with our hyper-esteemed sense of ourselves. The logic of Cox and Elliot Rodgers isn't much different. According to Rodgers, he was 'magnificent', and he thought it was unjust that the world didn't agree. Sorry, but he was a geek. Cox thinks he/she's some gorgeous blonde lady. Sorry, but he is a freak. Laughable. <br /><br />*I refuse to use the term 'gay' for homosexual. 'Gay' is an adjective of a certain kind of style. Plenty of straight men--like David Niven--were gay in style and plenty of homos are not gay in style at all. It's wrong for homos to own an entire adjective. <br /><br />It would be like Germans demanding that they be called 'industrious' because Germans tend to work hard. Surely, there are industrious non-Germans and lazy Germans. <br />So, why should Germans hog an entire adjective for themselves. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com