Thinking more about this transgender stuff....how come you never get people who

[Monty91]

have race dysmorphia?

For example, why do you never hear about, say, a Chinaman who is convinced he is Afro-Caribbean and attempts to change his identity?

[Berni]

[barrybueno]

:hide:

[the splendor of antigone]

like that feel like?

Give me your best stereotypes.

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

and feel they are in the wrong body, a Chinaman may claim he feels he should look black.

[redgunamo]

as they pay for "it" themselves.

[Berni]

has a cock. Whereas with a chineser pretending to be black, your right-on instincts would probably be to call him a racist first.

[Berni]

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

So your mum says anyway.

[barrybueno]

fellow breddas.

[the splendor of antigone]

manifest themselves in his psychic economy?

[Berni]

[Monty91]

[Monty91]

Which is doubly frustrating as Berni's mother's vagina is enormous.

[Rich]

Sorry.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Albeit a very handsome body.

[Monty91]

[Berni]

I also don't believe it's set in stone. It's actually a fairly recent phenomenon that we assume it is. Culture and fashion make a huge difference - look at Ancient Greece where there was no stigma to homoeroticism and therefore much more of it. Homosexual and heterosexual are descriptions of acts, not people.

[redgunamo]

frilly **** panties and mascara and oversize court shoes too?

[the splendor of antigone]

stereotype transrace as well. And the extent to which this is socially constructed is fairly self-evident as well.

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

The wife still won't have any of it though :-(

[Berni]

My hair is brown, my beard is red (well, grey these days), my eyes are blue. Those are all characteristics that someone who wanted to look like a northern European male could aspire to. However, if someone has blond or red hair or hazel eyes, those would do just as well as typical of a northern European white male.

The point is that there are groups of racial characteristics rather than any particular ones.

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

Range Rovers, jewellery, things like that.

[Berni]

and explaining to the coppers that you'd been trying to influence your sexuality externally.

[the splendor of antigone]

characteristics. It's the ol' sex/gender debate. Let's just leave it.

[Ashberto]

http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/south-park/episode-thumbnails/season-9/south-park-s09e01-mr-garrisons-fancy-new-vagina_4x3.jpg

[Ashberto]

Or not-wife, depending on the arrangements.

[redgunamo]

Unless you'd rather not, of course :-)

[redgunamo]

Quite correct though, of course. The r's are honest chaps but they do need discipline.

[pjlincs]

[barrybueno]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJH5AR0CuRI

['Neg]

[Ashberto]

What does she wear when enforcing it? :-)

[redgunamo]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

:hehe:

[JohnnyPuma]

Everyone has to accept some objective facts about themselves. The notion that people are free to define themselves is false.
I could say I feel like a 22-year old Jewish woman who weigh 53 kg, but in reality I am a 37-year old white man who is horribly out of shape.

I can try to ignore these facts, but to ask others to ignore basic facts and recognise me as the person I would like to be creates some obvious problems.

Should 15-year olds be allowed to vote if they feel 18, if I feel Female can I claim maternal leave or get free entry on ladies' night. If I feel British can I get a British passport?

Your identity is the legal basis for a lot of your rights and responsibilities and for that reason it is not only up to you to define who you are.

[the splendor of antigone]