Comments on: How to handle "trans" sexuality http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-handle-trans-sexuality/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:29:43 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Poor women... on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-handle-trans-sexuality/#comment-142744 Poor women... on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 09:38:20 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=69275#comment-142744 [...] wanted her to wear elaborate boots. And who then wanted to wear her boots. And who now wants to be you know - and no doubt for the exact reasons he wanted to be a Master previously. To quote the classics, [...] [...] wanted her to wear elaborate boots. And who then wanted to wear her boots. And who now wants to be you know - and no doubt for the exact reasons he wanted to be a Master previously. To quote the classics, [...]

]]> By: On friendship and marriage « Daniel P. Barron http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-handle-trans-sexuality/#comment-125813 On friendship and marriage « Daniel P. Barron Mon, 28 May 2018 19:02:14 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=69275#comment-125813 [...] two are supposedly friends, which means they are selected. The believer and the nonbeliever should not want each other as friends. The former should be [...] [...] two are supposedly friends, which means they are selected. The believer and the nonbeliever should not want each other as friends. The former should be [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-handle-trans-sexuality/#comment-119488 Mircea Popescu Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:14:39 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=69275#comment-119488 The suggestion there was that alone forever internet types would rather pretend to be a girl than talk to one. The suggestion there was that alone forever internet types would rather pretend to be a girl than talk to one.

]]> By: sophie http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-handle-trans-sexuality/#comment-119487 sophie Sun, 16 Oct 2016 21:12:27 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=69275#comment-119487 Agreed. Who ever would want to limit their identity to gender must not be that interesting. The type of person who can't tell the difference between the concepts and the actual objects. Thank you for the casino example. One more thing. What do you mean by "Just about everyone knows why you go around claiming to be a girl." Why would anyone want to be a girl? I could only assume it applies to closet homosexuals. Agreed. Who ever would want to limit their identity to gender must not be that interesting. The type of person who can't tell the difference between the concepts and the actual objects. Thank you for the casino example.

One more thing. What do you mean by "Just about everyone knows why you go around claiming to be a girl." Why would anyone want to be a girl? I could only assume it applies to closet homosexuals.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-handle-trans-sexuality/#comment-119464 Mircea Popescu Sat, 15 Oct 2016 02:26:36 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=69275#comment-119464 Clowns don't have a choice in the same way : they don't have a choice in what their identity is. They can <em>dress up as</em> clows. So can you. They can't <em>be</em> clowns. Nobody can. The preoccupation with "identity" in this sense is unhealthy, just like all meta-preoccupations are unhealthy. With examples : People generally go to casinos to have fun ; a few hapless few observe that the supposed venue through which people have have fun at casinos is "winning". Perhaps driven by the observation that they themselves aren't having any fun, perhaps driven by serious inferiority complexes, perhaps for others of the (few) available causes (there's nothing in nature more limited than human biology) they then proceed to "hack" having fun through the avenue of "winning" in peculiar ways. These people are known as "problem" gamblers, compulsive gamblers, there's other names. All kids go to school to learn. Some kids go to school to appear to be learning. They never amount to much, even if sometimes run a meteoric Steven Glass trajectory. All kids fuck for fun, and most kids are preoccupied with controlling what the other kids think about all the fuckfun they're having. Some hapless few end up fixating on this, to their detriment. On it goes, but the point remains - stop thinking about it, altogether. You aren't anything, and nobody particularly cares what you are. "Wanting" to "be" a particular thing is playing the game of life wrongly. Clowns don't have a choice in the same way : they don't have a choice in what their identity is. They can dress up as clows. So can you. They can't be clowns. Nobody can.

The preoccupation with "identity" in this sense is unhealthy, just like all meta-preoccupations are unhealthy. With examples :

People generally go to casinos to have fun ; a few hapless few observe that the supposed venue through which people have have fun at casinos is "winning". Perhaps driven by the observation that they themselves aren't having any fun, perhaps driven by serious inferiority complexes, perhaps for others of the (few) available causes (there's nothing in nature more limited than human biology) they then proceed to "hack" having fun through the avenue of "winning" in peculiar ways. These people are known as "problem" gamblers, compulsive gamblers, there's other names.

All kids go to school to learn. Some kids go to school to appear to be learning. They never amount to much, even if sometimes run a meteoric Steven Glass trajectory. All kids fuck for fun, and most kids are preoccupied with controlling what the other kids think about all the fuckfun they're having. Some hapless few end up fixating on this, to their detriment.

On it goes, but the point remains - stop thinking about it, altogether. You aren't anything, and nobody particularly cares what you are. "Wanting" to "be" a particular thing is playing the game of life wrongly.

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