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1	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. lol, but what about transsexuals who transition in their teens such as this German pop star. They are completely indistinguishable because the testosterone hasn't been affecting the body much yet. Ya, you'd probably like dating a transwoman by the sounds of it haha.	/r/MensRights	19/09/11 10:48 PM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. After reading your edit: The ideology is the idea that just by tinkering with hormones and surgery a man can become a woman. That's not an ideology, that's a treatment for people so their bodies feel more in tune with their minds. Now, a transwoman that realizes he is not actually a woman, not buying into this bogus ideology, is one that can possibly actually be happy with himself, and who can possibly actually find a partner to be honest with. It's offensive to not call a transwoman by the corr…	/r/MensRights	19/09/11 10:33 PM
1	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. Again, we come to how do you define a woman. If a person is indistinguishable from a woman in every way, and they believe themselves to be a woman, why are they not a woman? Just because they weren't born as a female? at least not with today's technology. Oh ok, so being able to put a transwoman on hormones to develop all the secondary sexual characteristics of a woman, and surgery to give her a functional and completely realistic vagina isn't enough but sometime in the future you say they might…	/r/MensRights	19/09/11 10:07 PM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. I want you to recognize that you are not an expert on the subject either. How many transgender people have you met in real life? Do you have any idea what it is like to be transgender? Have you ever read any books on the topic? Have you spoken with psychologists who specialize in gender studies?	/r/MensRights	19/09/11 09:19 PM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. So I'm assuming you think gay people have also been indoctrinated? You don't know what you're talking about.	/r/MensRights	19/09/11 08:38 PM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. No, I am not dismissing them. This is just one piece of evidence to show that there is a possible biological cause for people to be transsexual. I never said that these are the types of brains that all transsexual people had or that this was the only cause. There are social and biological factors at play.	/r/MensRights	17/09/11 04:33 AM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. Is being gay an ideology? Is being straight an ideology?	/r/MensRights	17/09/11 04:29 AM
0	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. BTW, here is an article from the New Scientist that shows there is a difference in the brains of transsexual people where certain structures in the brain are more similar to the gender that they identify as. There IS a biological origin to this.	/r/MensRights	16/09/11 04:58 PM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. Which way are children being indoctrinated though? Society indoctrinates children to be whatever gender they were born into. As an MTF myself (starting on hormones in a few weeks) I was definitely never indoctrinated to want to be a girl, actually it was quite the opposite - I was more indoctrinated to be a boy. I wanted to do girl things when I was a kid but I was always too embarrassed to do it. For example, I really liked Sailor Moon but I always tried to hide that I watched it because I felt…	/r/MensRights	16/09/11 04:49 PM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. There are a few studies that show that the brain's of transsexual people are more similar to the gender they identify with. Here is an article from the New Scientist. You can find more studies if you look up transsexual or transgender brain on google.	/r/MensRights	16/09/11 04:21 PM
9	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. Yep, exactly! And a lot of transwomen do go through a "teenage" phase like real teenage girls experimenting with revealing outfits and makeup. Taking an excerpt from Julia Serano's excellent book about sexism and transsexuality, Whipping Girl: "Teenage girls similarly tend to dress in sexually provactive or revealing ways when they hit puberty and begin to explore the cultural meanings associated with adult female sexuality. Both teenage girls and crossdressers are exposed to many of the same cu…	/r/MensRights	16/09/11 05:18 AM
7	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. I brought up cisgender privilege because the way they present their argument says "my opinion is the only way to think about this issue". Bringing up cisgender privilege was just a way to convey that the way they view gender is not the way everyone views it and most people are unaware that it is actually possible to have misaligned psychological and physical genders.	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 11:22 PM
9	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. I see your point, but I think it's important for people to understand that they do have cisgender privilege. Most people never think about it because their physical and psychological genders match up. They assume that when they see someone as being a woman or a man that they are correct and that anyone that doesn't fit is illegitimate somehow. I wish that I could just stop listening when people say that being a transsexual does not make you a "real" woman. That's basically saying "oh by the way,…	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 09:59 PM
7	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. You said transexuals don't have an ideology, but a lot of them seem to have a problem with the fact that having an operation and taking hormones do not turn you into someone of the opposite sex. No, YOU have a problem with us not turning into the opposite sex. When we transition we finally feel comfortable in our own bodies, finally able to express who we really are. We have accepted the idea that we are the other gender, it is people like you who have a problem with "not turning into the opposi…	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 09:41 PM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. Oh sorry I misunderstood your post.	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 09:35 PM
7	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. If a woman likes to dress very femininely is she reinforcing gender roles or is she just dressing very femininely because she likes it? If a MAN likes to dress very femininely is he reinforcing traditional gender roles or is he just dressing very femininely because he likes it? Wouldn't you say he's breaking down traditional gender roles? Now what if he decides to transition and live the way he's always wanted, why does it all of a sudden become reinforcing gender roles? Is criticizing other peo…	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 09:31 PM
3	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. This doesn't quite work though because it is possible for someone to be born with XY chromosomes but female sex organs.	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 09:25 PM
2	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. Ya, that is an interesting area where it would make a difference how it's defined. Personally, I think hormone levels would be a better way to define it as hormones are what generate the secondary sex characteristics that are relevant to sports (muscle mass, etc.). If you're in the normal female range then you are entered as a female, in the male range then male.	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 09:10 PM
14	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. What does make someone a woman then? Having two X chromosomes? Having a vagina? I don't usually look at people's chromosomes or genitals when I gender them as being male or female. I've met some genetic women who look more like men than some transsexual women. Who is the real woman? They both are. It's just your cisgender privilege assuming that you always gender people correctly and that one can be real and one can be fake. I guarantee that you have seen transsexual women around and thought the…	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 08:49 PM
33	TIL who the feminist writer Julie Bindel is and why so many feminists like her detest male-female transsexuals. The fear and bigotry feminists have towards TS people is almost palpable. Feminists tend to be critical of traditional gender roles because they benefit men and oppress women. Transsexualism, by its nature, promotes the idea that it is "natural" for boys to play with guns and girls to play with Barbie dolls. The idea that gender roles are biologically determined rather than socially constructed is the antithesis of feminism. I wrote: "Those who ‘transition' seem to become stereotypical in their appearance — f**k-me shoes and birds' nest hair for the boys; beards, musc…	/r/MensRights	15/09/11 08:08 PM
12	Q: How do you criticize a marginalized person? A: You can't. Ever. Way to deflect and make it about not understanding feminism. When you say feminists are not a monolith and one person doesn't speak for a movement, how come feminists can make broad claims about men and women in general?	/r/MensRights	14/09/11 11:20 PM
4	just in case you needed more evidence that women are not in fact made of sugar and spice and everything nice... I guess that's true. I was coming at it from the opinion that men and women are both capable of violence/evil and the article just seemed unnecessary and inflammatory to me but you're right, a large portion of society doesn't have that opinion.	/r/MensRights	26/07/11 05:47 PM
2	just in case you needed more evidence that women are not in fact made of sugar and spice and everything nice... Wow, this is really helpful for men's rights. It's like if a feminist posted a list about men including Hitler and Stalin. What is posting a list like this accomplishing other than pissing people off?	/r/MensRights	26/07/11 05:21 PM
5	Western women are responsible for their hatred of men and boys I agree with your sentiment that adults should hold themselves responsible for their actions but I don't really think you're in any position to talk about how women's monthly hormone cycles effect their mood (I'm not either). Are you saying you've never just been in a bad mood one day for no reason and snapped at somebody? I know that I have and sometimes I tell people that I'm just in a bad mood, how is that different from a woman saying she is PMSing? Some people use their hormone levels as an…	/r/MensRights	26/07/11 05:15 PM
9	Inviting a girl to coffee is "potential sexual assault" I found this link in one of the comments of the article. It pisses me off that women expect men to approach them and ask them out but they apparently constantly feel threatened by men approaching them. Also, as someone who is transgender and goes out pretty often dressed as a girl, in most situations I don't feel threatened when guys approach me and talk to me in public spaces. Usually they're just complimenting me or just making small talk. It might be a bit annoying if you don't want to talk t…	/r/MensRights	05/07/11 10:31 PM
1	Why Women Need to Save More Money Than Men I was being sarcastic in my original message about men having plenty of time for finances. Yep, that study sounds about right to me. It's just a division of labor, one person earns the money and the other person does the housework and raises the kids. Seems pretty fair to me.	/r/MensRights	29/06/11 08:55 PM
3	Why Women Need to Save More Money Than Men I was being sarcastic in my original message about men having plenty of time for finances. Yep, that study sounds about right to me. It's just a division of labor, one person earns the money and the other person does the housework and raises the kids. Seems pretty fair to me.	/r/MensRights	29/06/11 08:54 PM
3	Why Women Need to Save More Money Than Men "Women are still doing two times the housework and three times the childcare of men -- so simply finding the time to focus on finances is a challenge." And men just have plenty of time to focus on finances since they have no kids or housework to worry about.	/r/MensRights	29/06/11 05:31 PM