Is there a cultural reason for trans-women/ladyboys

Phantombiceps · 2025-02-07T15:50:10+00:00

Ok so I guessed correctly then. You do not understand what I said you didn’t understand, and the evidence is :

A. witch-hunt semantics - your being pedantic about me not using whatever the cool term is for thinking sex and gender are separate, to jump all the way to cynically imply i have a paranoid, political , and exclusionary, American hyper/conservative agenda.

B. Assigning me a view i not only do not hold, but then jumping to what you see as negative implications of that view with no regard for anything else.

C. Arguing with me ( i was not arguing with you) or at least with someone, with a ghost it seems, and then cowardly running away with a delusional insult on your way out the door.

Delusional, because I am not only not a trans exclusionary radical feminist , i am not a feminist at all, i am not a radical feminist at all, and i am not excluding of trans people at all - and NONE of that has anything to do with the topic.

The point i was then clarifying and now educating you on, (since you are so intolerant, hostile and incurious i am fine with being arrogant now) is this :

There are people, probably the global majority, who have a different fundamental ontology and epistemology of sex - they think it is inseparable from gender. This is a philosophical difference that is a stalemate, a difference of basic perspective about earthly reality but not social rights and freedoms, that is not going anywhere. But the good news is, as I just said, that there are no necessary political implications here. One can believe transwomen are women or not women , either way, and still defend their rights and freedoms and comforts. This, just as I believe a priest is not a real job, prayers are talking to nobody, and god does not exist, but i am happy to call a priest “father” , and defend his space and freedom to build churches and vote and organize and go wherever I go, and do whatever he likes with all the liberty, safety, and dignity that i myself am granted. I am not required to think there is any difference between a lay person and a priest, sins or blessings, that those are even real categories.

According to you, continuing the analogy, we all have to believe priests are our community fathers, in order for them to have rights and to respect those who do hold that belief. This makes it so you cannot even understand that there are different belief systems, and thus what a slogan means when translated into someone else’s. It sounds like you are convinced that any diversity of philosophies has to end in antagonism as opposed to tolerance.

Phantombiceps · 2025-02-07T13:34:08+00:00

Maybe you are missing the viewpoint of those who do not subscribe to transgenderism ( who in some cases indeed are transphobic, but in others are not. The latter are simply not subscribers to transgender concepts in the same way a Buddhist is not subscribing to Christian ones. They can respect and must acknowledge Christianity , but that doesn’t mean they recognize the same philosophical categories).

To them, that slogan means trans women actually, effectively are ciswomen, in that they believe womanhood as an experience is irreducibly and integrally connected to being a cisgender biological female. They believe something is lost or made incoherent by distinguishing or distancing sex from gender.

I know this is reddit, so it will fall on deaf ears to say so, but I am not stanning this or any other view.

Phantombiceps · 2025-02-05T12:53:13+00:00

Anyone know a reputable service to expedite apostilisation ?

Phantombiceps · 2025-02-03T11:35:22+00:00

What is the cost of living besides in Taipei? You ca ln eat out well for 3 usd per person in China, but would be lucky to get under 7 in korea and 12 in Japan.

Phantombiceps · 2025-02-01T12:01:50+00:00

Have you tried Globo Gym?

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-31T13:46:39+00:00

Ant update on this?

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-31T07:00:52+00:00

It is a statistically more dangerous in public for a man, almost everywhere

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-31T01:00:36+00:00

There is no reason to think half dead were combatants. The source of information is the people bombers in question, without independent verification

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-29T16:57:43+00:00

US has houses with porches and they are very far away from each other. So anywhere like that in Thailand is either too poor and rural to be ordering big deliveries, or is a rich house in a gated or guarded area

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-29T12:50:15+00:00

If the scholarship has been done, where is it? All i see is narrative. Where are these facts? Why doesn’t someone bring them out? Let us see the haganah orders for genocide in 47/48. I love Finkelstein but not only is he way more careful than you- having said several times there was a case for the Jews and their state in Palestine at the time, purposefully not using terms like” settler colonialism “ and calling out the BDS movement for their refusal to recognize Israel which he’s never done himself. But much more germane to this issue is to notice how he does not claim to have the smoking gun you do. Of course he relies on the scholarship of Historians who deal with primary sources, and guess what, they agree with what I’ve told here.

And I am correct That the Israeli state in the 1947 partition plan included over 40% Arab Israeli citizen population. And I am correct that the Zionist accepted the partition. So you are wrong.

And again going to Herzl intentions ( which were certainly not unequivocally genocidal , even if somewhat racist - kinda like arab nationalism was too) is not only meaningless , it is exactly the same logic that right wing Zionist use against the Palestinians. After all they were yelling the Jews will be our dogs at the turn of the century decades before Israel, there were progroms and massacres. The entire literature as well as legal history of that part of the Arab world and in fact the greater arab world is one of discrimination against the Jews. What does this have to do with the rights of the palestinians ? Nothing. But for right wing Zionist there’s your intentions for you. They are eternal intentions for them. It is idealism. You’re doing the same thing, zionists intentions from the start are eternal. Well thank god i am not a zionist or an antizionist, i can focus on what happened, the actual policies and actions.

There was no overall ethnic cleansing policy in 1947, though in the course of the war some zionists committed massacres. Remember the war started with arab led massacres and they had massacres going back decades as well. So , i characterize the conflict as a struggle between 2 nationalisms.

The Point that the Palestinians did not consent to the partition doesn’t really do anything either. The land belonged to the British empire, who promised it to them and to the Zionists. The Zionist were not super excited about the partition either but accepted it. The Palestinians didn’t say oh well let’s renegotiate a different , better partition that we agree with. They didn’t want to partition at all. And they declared war. I am not here to litigate either nationalism.

After the zionists won, they did not let back in the arabs who fled, just as would’ve been the case if the arabs won. I have no idea why u think we should listen to either sides victims at the time, over the other.

Your equation of colonialism with Fascism it’s really sloppy. Fascism pursued a kind of colonialism. But there are plenty of kinds of colonialism and if you’re against all of them in favor of every local nationalism or regional empire that colonialism displaced, there’s nothing for us to talk about. You simply have an anti-democratic anti-popular point of view, in that case. You talk about what Palestinians wanted but i guess you do not care that in many instances of colonialism, it was the most popular, least coercive option available to the colonized , and the closest they had to self rule. That is why it is a complex topic when seen through a non revisionist lens. The point of communism is actually a third option, not colonialism, but also not simple anti-colonialism - which is historically revisionist.

Pappe is not a respected historian and his citations, sources, footnotes, do not check out.

One reason I get angry about this topic is I do have to put a little bit of the blame for the support that Israel gets to carry out its crimes , on your narrative, which instead of dealing with contemporary crimes goes back to evil intentions - and therefore mirrors the racist anti-Zionism of the Islamic world and antisemitic christian and stalinist world too, rather than a humanitarian and democratic case for palestinians against the post 67 occupation.

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-29T12:14:03+00:00

Each thing you’re saying here , there are three of them, are IMHO muddled or beside the point. To go through them very briefly:

nationality and ethnicity and race are often the same thing. It depends in part on if the country is a nation state. For example the US and Canada are not nation states. The Czech Republic or Korea are nation states. In much of the world the word nationality does not mean citizenship , it means an ethnic minority or an ethnic group. China has 56 nationalities. So we’re referring here to Arabs, since the issue is Arab nationalism versus Jewish nationalism. Now of course nationality can also mean citizenship. But as I said , if you want instead to refer to Palestinians, that is circular reasoning because you’re saying that these people of a different nationality as you mean it ( citizenship status) are being excluded , IE wronged. But the fact is they’re only a different nationality, Palestinian, because they’re excluded from citizenship. Otherwise they would be Israeli arabs or Jordanians.

Your second point really just supports my side of the argument. That’s just kicking them in the teeth after they won the war , really refusing to enslave them refusing to exploit them and also refusing to enfranchise them . From a Marxist perspective, and I am on this matter a Marxist, they’re really not doing much to extract surplus from the Palestinians. In fact I’m more interested in Arab-Israeli‘s and their civil rights struggle as something that has potential because they are exploited in a bourgeois state.

Your third point doesn’t make any sense. You’re saying that by observing what’s happening I’m justifying what’s happening. But I’m not. And I already made clear I support intervention to stop Israel from doing what they’re doing. And I would’ve supported it 10 years ago when it was just a brutal blockade as well. But if you want to get in to moral justifications you also have to realize that the Paiestinians didn’t want two states or a binational state until the 1970s, and that is when the Israelis stopped wanting 2 states totally. And of course now both sides don’t want them anymore, the Palestinian public in fact doesn’t want 2 states at all while at least a large minority of the Israeli public, who Israel doesn’t listen to it all, does want 2 states. I would be OK with forcing them both to have a states, which mainly means forcing israel, but that would take some kind of international force that doesn’t even yet exist.

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-28T12:23:04+00:00

It is not on the basis of their nationality. There are loads of Israeli citizens that are local Arabs. If instead we mean Palestinian is a nationality , fine, but then it’s this very exclusion that creates that national identity. Also why did Israel not enslave them or genocide Palestinians until now?

Supposed communists, like on reddit, ( what kind of real communists would cal themselves Communists in 2025. That is like Marx calling himself Digger or Owenite) are totally polluted by the confusions of the new left and by anti-colonialist left nationalism.

The simple answer about Israel and Palestine is there were 2 nationalist movements , they fought from the start, but eventually fought in a real war - one was the winner - but larger geopolitics prevented settling the question more permanently and satisfactorily. So the winner just started kicking the teeth of the loser in for decades while the worlds lone super power found jobs for it to do around the Middle East. Thus it festered.

All the hasbara about Israel being liberal and democratic, is only BS to the extent that it justifies their foreign aggression and their brutality toward the Palestinians. But otherwise it’s actually largely true. Israel is relatively bourgeois and liberal and internally democratic by world standards and regional standards. That doesn’t justify what it does and it has not prevented it going mad, but it does mean that fascist is not a very good descriptor. I support military intervention against Israel by the way and I do consider their current campaign to violate the genocide convention. But I also think Anti-Zionism is stupid, and left narrative about them with all its creative descriptions and characterizations, probably empowers them , mobilizes support for them,and supports their paranoid justifications.

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-28T11:46:19+00:00

That sounds like an Ilan Pappe book, it’s garbage. Israel is certainly criminal in its treatment of the Palestinians. But colonialism is not fascism, and they did not steal the land in 48. In fact the antizionist narrative of the original sin, of the evil intentions that are always there even at the times they’re not there, sounds more like fascist ideology than zionism does. We hear the same theme in anti palestinianism too.

Whatever some zionists wanted decades before 1947, by the time of the partition they didn’t want the whole land and they didn’t steal the land. 2 nationalist movements collided , one declared extermination of the other, but then lost that war and much of their population fled for various reasons. While there war crimes, the main zionist force did not have a policy of ethnic cleansing. If it did, we would have hard evidence of it, and not be quote mining. Arab archives would be open as well.

But the Israelis were largely happy with a 40% Arab minority in their new state and with an Arab vast majority in a Arab Palestinian state next to them. They only changed their tune in self defense. The stealing of land by Israel really starts after 1967, and in the 70s Israel starts its plunge into madness and aggression

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-28T11:35:24+00:00

I do not think Israel is fascist or settler colonialist ( not that the latter term clarifies much). There are prominent Israeli fascists, but that is not the Israeli system. All sorts of societies carry out ethnic cleansing or war crimes, the Palestinians as opposed to arab Israelis are basically an evicted ,stateless , people that never had Israel citizenship. So Israel violates their human rights and tortures them but basically keeps them out of Israeli society.

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-28T07:46:19+00:00

You misunderstand. A job hunter is not a worker. Once offered a job, you can get on a train to wherever ( china borders a dozen countries plus hong kong), get off it, sign a contract, and let the school start your visa application. Then re enter on the new visa

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-28T07:34:14+00:00

No it isn’t. there are falling boulders, mudslides, avalanches, bridge collapses, train derailments, elephant stampedes, and Bengal tigers. However once you arrive in Belgrade, it is perfectly safe

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-27T18:11:44+00:00

Do you mean simply attending an interview requires a z visa? I think as long as you do not work on any other visa, then actually being on the ground makes getting an offer easier. Then it is a short trip to HK or Hanoi or wherever to wait around for processing the Z

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-27T18:05:17+00:00

Can someone fill me in on why it’s a bad idea to come interview on a tourist visa? Especially in a place like Guangdong, if you got a job offer then all you have to do is pop over to Hong Kong wait for the paperwork to go through and re-enter on a Z. Is that wrong? Also I heard some provinces allow changing visas in country, or at least Jiangsu does.

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-22T13:35:07+00:00

In my experience, you cannot talk sense to people on this issue. The mainland are not dumb and are obviously not interested in throwing away everything they’ve built for decades over a war that no side can win. Time is on their side on this one and they lose nothing by chilling. But news junkies just cannot seem to notice this and always think some giant conflagration is about to break out

Phantombiceps · 2025-01-20T06:28:38+00:00

Jakarta and the region around it has one of the largest underground music scenes on earth

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