PavementBlues Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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1	Equality in a nutshell [Facebook bullshit] Thanks. Good luck with everything! Maybe I'll see you around the trans subs sometime.	/r/MensRights	11/01/17 05:17 AM
2	Equality in a nutshell [Facebook bullshit] Not sarcastic at all - I try to call it out when I see people being particularly awesome, because you probably don't hear it enough. We really do have a long way to go, and we'll only get there by reaching out like in these threads and trying to educate and share. I really hope that people are starting to realize that you can't take social progress for granted.	/r/MensRights	11/01/17 04:54 AM
3	Equality in a nutshell [Facebook bullshit] In that sense, absolutely. In the sense that the above commenter was using it, I suspect that they were making the veiled "trans people are delusional" argument that we see around so much. By the way, I loved some of your other comments in this thread. It's good to see another trans person representing, and doing so in such a rational, egalitarian way. Thanks for contributing your perspective.	/r/MensRights	11/01/17 04:37 AM
6	Equality in a nutshell [Facebook bullshit] As for all the other nonsense - trans tend to lead extremely degenerate, unhealthy, unsafe lives. Also, after "treatment" their suicide rates increase. Cite your sources. I actually know your source, though, as both claims are common misinterpretations of a 2011 Swedish study that found that those who transitioned had greater rates of suicide and criminality. To address the issue of suicide first, the very study itself argues that this is likely due to the social alienation and rejection caused …	/r/MensRights	11/01/17 12:41 AM
3	Equality in a nutshell [Facebook bullshit] Tell that to the guy on the street last Friday who screamed "YOU'RE A MAN" at me over and over again as I walked past, or the countless strangers every day who give me looks of open disgust as I simply try to live my life, or my supervisor who told me that after five years helping to build the company, I needed to leave because the office wouldn't accept my transition. Tell that to the FBI, which reports that trans women experience dramatically higher rates of rape, assault, and murder than any …	/r/MensRights	11/01/17 12:21 AM
3	Equality in a nutshell [Facebook bullshit] There is significant evidence for gender identity being a hard-wired result of the development of certain brain structures, a breakdown of which you can read here. If you want to talk about logic and truth, look at the actual evidence behind gender dysphoria and sexual dimorphism of the brain, that indicates that transgender people are born with brains that more closely resemble those of the gender with which they identify, which cannot be changed by any amount of conditioning or medication. Cli…	/r/MensRights	10/01/17 11:50 PM
5	Equality in a nutshell [Facebook bullshit] Please cite your sources if you want to make claims about reality.	/r/MensRights	10/01/17 11:39 PM
2	"Every Brick in every building": a reminder to the Men whose efforts built and maintain our world. It's great to hear that this has been your experience! My own has been in American companies, and the research that I cited used an American group for its study, so it is entirely possible that this is more of an issue in the United States than elsewhere.	/r/MensRights	30/12/16 11:55 PM
2	"Every Brick in every building": a reminder to the Men whose efforts built and maintain our world. The beginning of the solution, in my totally subjective opinion, is to try to pick apart and understand the stories that we tell ourselves and each other about gender roles. That's incredibly difficult, though, because culture is incredibly difficult to analyze when you grew up in it. It's one of the tenets of anthropology that those within a culture take many of its fundamental assumptions for granted, because they grew up with them. Fish don't notice that they're surrounded by water. Still, yo…	/r/MensRights	30/12/16 11:53 PM
9	"Every Brick in every building": a reminder to the Men whose efforts built and maintain our world. i don't see women campaigning for equality in the less desirable jobs The National Organization for Women took the right to be considered equally for any job to which a woman is qualified to the Supreme Court after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was not able to enforce 1968 legislation making gender-based discrimination illegal, specifically centered around gender-based job postings in newspapers. CEO positions aren't really being advertised in newspapers. That didn't at all change …	/r/MensRights	30/12/16 07:48 PM
22	"Every Brick in every building": a reminder to the Men whose efforts built and maintain our world. And in the process of asking for that respect, the author says that most of these things have been done by men because "usually women are nowhere to be found", and then says, "I don't blame women for this - asphalt is nasty shit." As if women avoid these things simply because they're hard. I rarely call misogyny, but that's some straight-up bullshit right there. Tell that to Rosie the Riveter and the entire generation of women during World War 2 who stepped up to keep American society functionin…	/r/MensRights	30/12/16 06:22 PM
9	Replace the words with Jews, Poles, Slavs, etc, and the message would not be accepted. I still can't wrap my head around why this isn't a more widely-held view. Since starting gender transition, I've ended up in a lot of rather new social circles out of necessity, and the idea that women's and men's rights are mutually exclusive seems to be so widely agreed upon in those circles that I've seen people get attacked for even implying otherwise. I've left many of those social circles because their feminism involved vocally hating men. I thought that these people only existed on /r/Tum…	/r/MensRights	21/12/16 07:01 PM
2	Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice I agree with you, and I think where we see things differently is that since their definitions of the three sub-components of gender are solid and scientifically validated, and since the curriculum itself references only those in each lesson plan, I remain on the fence and curious as to how it's actually taught. If the general definition of gender is used, I would absolutely challenge it.	/r/MensRights	23/09/16 09:41 PM
1	Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice I looked deeper into it, and they seem to be using "gender" as a strange combination of gender expression, gender identity, and gender roles. Their definitions of each of the three components seem pretty solid, though the idea of combining them doesn't make sense to me and I agree that it's not appropriate. That being said, I actually looked farther into the curriculum to see what this is all about. Here is their outline: Kindergarten: Understand there are many ways to express gender. Grade 1: E…	/r/MensRights	23/09/16 09:05 PM
4	Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice That's where much of the trans community struggles. The process of realizing that you're trans and coming to accept yourself and transitioning and dealing with the fallout and trying to piece your life back together despite experiencing so much hatred from so many sources is incredibly hard, and it leaves a lot of us either exhausted and frustrated or outright bitter and angry. So we see those conversations going off a cliff and we react emotionally. We vent. We get upset at the person, because …	/r/MensRights	23/09/16 08:50 PM
7	Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice I still don't get why the queer community has fought so hard to convince people that gender is a social construct, and for the life of me I can't figure out how ANY trans person can get behind the idea. I've summed up some of the current research here and here, but a growing body of evidence indicates specific volumetric differences between men and women in certain regions of the brain, as well as certain patterns of activation in places like the hypothalamus that have been found to be completel…	/r/MensRights	23/09/16 08:21 PM
5	Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice The truth almost always is. While I think that it supports the idea, I don't think that it's the strongest evidence in favor (modern neurobiological research offers much better and more interesting evidence), particularly due to how absolutely horrific the abuse that he sustained at the hands of his doctor was. It's sickening what they did to him. The reason I bring it up in the first place is that I often see this case used as evidence against the idea of neurobiological gender identity, which …	/r/MensRights	23/09/16 03:12 PM
27	Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice I have to say, as an egalitarian trans woman who has seen up front a lot of the issues that the men's rights movement is trying to address and is sympathetic to the cause, I'm really proud to read the discussion happening in this thread. Nornally when this topic pops up on the non-trans subs, it devolves into baseless speculation and insults. This might be the best discussion of trans issues I've ever seen outside of our little bubble. Thank you. It means a lot more than you realize.	/r/MensRights	23/09/16 02:57 PM
11	Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice Extremely sad story, particularly the sorts of abuse that he was subjected to in order to force him to develop a female gender identity. The being said, it does support the idea that whatever physical body you inhabit, your gender identity can't just be switched like that. Edit: Fair call-out that it's a lot more complicated than that in this situation. There are way too many confounding variables that could have led to his depression and suicide.	/r/MensRights	23/09/16 02:54 PM