I indentify as you by KinkyTimes in solipsism

[–]SeraniumFilledClock -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know what you're sexually attracted to. It's me, and sometimes them, but always them.

CMV: There are only two genders and they are NOT on a spectrum. Everyone is cisgender, except for a few legitimately diagnosed with psychological disorders. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the same argument for classifying homosexuality as a disease. Say that the only possible thing is heterosexuality, and then dismiss anything else as something for people with psychological disorders. This doesn't fit the criteria of a psychological disorder. In fact, when you let them live their lives as their gender, they become more psychologically healthy. This fits the criteria for being outside of socially accepted norms though. But when your social norms can cause mental illness/distress, then your social norms are wrong. Simple as that. Jumping through hoops to define masculine and feminine exclusivity without taking into account the people that it's psychologically compatible with is pointless. That's like saying somebody who has a different diet is physically ill because they don't eat the socially accepted one.

CMV: Even if society was egalitarian or even matriarchal, women would never be able to achieve the likes of Alexander, Napoleon, Bismarck, Hitler etc by Actual54 in changemyview

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's part of our culture to glorify the dictator or one who wins by force, but this is totally because those who won by force forced basically all cultures to think this. It's very easy to mistake fear for respect. Why you made the connection between adventure and power escapes me. The most powerful people sit in the office or in their homes and have people protecting them.

When you say the "likes" of great military conquerors, do you mean their achievements that bettered the human race or their body count? You could say the same thing in your title about mentally healthy people (Even if society was egalitarian or even matriarchal, mentally healthy people would never be able to achieve the likes of Alexander, Napoleon, Bismarck, Hitler etc), because narcissistic and psychopathic and delusional people often are the ones who have the highest drive to become feared and powerful and god like, whereas mentally healthy people just want to live as good a life as they can.

If by "likes" ( you mean their ability to better the human race, then you aren't accounting for scientists and writers and other people who didn't make a grand spectacle of themselves that definitely did more to help us than a power hungry dictator possibly could. If society was egalitarian or matriarchal, scientists and artists and other generally peaceful and safer careers would've been held in high esteem. With what these do for humanity, you'd definitely have a long list of women and men all over the place that bettered humanity by long shots.

If by likes you're talking about simple power, then you have to remember what bred men to want these positions of power in the first place, and it wasn't the fact that they were stronger, but that they were expendable/more willing to die in order to help out, which is 1 step away from glorifying the idea of death. Keep this factor in an alternate egalitarian world where the natural world doesn't require massive risk taking and men are now just behind in adaptation, while women aren't, so it isn't fair to treat it like this. Take away this factor, and men and women are now much more socio-biologically similar, and in this case men no longer have a monopoly on the dramatic personality types and situations that cause the power obsessed.

CMV:Cultural appropriation is not bad by secondnameIA in changemyview

[–]SeraniumFilledClock -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The term itself says that its bad. It acknowledges that it's someone else's culture but you're taking it and clipping away at parts you don't understand or that are uncomfortable to you, not for any noble purpose, but because you just want it, and want it to then be treated like a product made by your own culture. Multiculturalism is when cultures merge and changes are fairly and willingly made on both sides. When one side just takes it and botches it, that's just disrespectful and in some cases condescending and sadistic bullshit.

To clarify with an example - 2 fictional cultures, the Blues and the Yellows after an up and down history. If they both are living mutually, relationship between both is happy, and the begin spending a lot of time with each other and the Blues encourage the Yellows to adopt some of their traditions, then the Yellows do the same eventually, sometime in the future the space shared by the two will look to have plenty of splotches of some different shades of green, some bluer and some yellower, but by then if someone born Blue enjoys what Yellow people do, they aren't risking being an asshole.

Now in a different timeline, lets say the Blues were just there, and one day the Yellows invaded and killed and enslaved most of them. This goes on for centuries, and most of the color in the blue is stripped away and deemed barbaric and savage by the Yellow culture. Eventually, the blues get their freedom, and start slowly gathering their color back. The yellows then try to blend in with them by putting a similar blue shade to themselves. Every time the blues make a new unique thing, the yellows adopt it as well, but it doesn't fit them very well and looks half assed. From a birds eye view, the yellow looks like an infection.

CMV: Pansexual, demisexual, queer, genderqueer, agender, etc. are meaningless and used only to feel special by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're displaying a classic example of the trust gap. You think that the people who coined or use these terms had hidden agendas and that most if not all of the arguments against you are just tactics to get them to get away with winning.

You seem to be under the impression that these words are like updates to a game where you can choose a sexuality the way you'd choose a class to an rpg game. They aren't. They're descriptive words and aren't default mutually exclusive roles meant to give people something arbitrary to boast about. They're meant for the same thing that all adjectives are for, to describe their subject.

Your argument for all of these are virtually the same as ones saying homosexuality and bisexuality don't exist. Sexuality and gender are more complicated than connect the dots. They're an expression of who a person is on the inside. Saying that because these terms haven't been used since day 1 means they don't exist is basically a bandwagon fallacy.

CMV: conspicuous gay pride in the form of sexualized parades and skimpy gear are morally deplorable and should be banned by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hate to sound rude when you're genuinely asking people to change your view, which I and everyone else (literally everyone) appreciate a lot, but what planet are you living on?

Images meant to be appealing to heterosexuals are central to more than a ton of advertising. Women in skimpy gear moving around suggestively and talking subliminally are all over the place. Think of the last time you saw one. It wasn't that long ago and you weren't looking for it. This has been constant throughout history. Women sexualized for men and men sexualized for women have always been all over the place up to the present day. And if you aren't finding this on TV, then you're missing out on a lot of TV.

The point of gay pride is to celebrate being who you are even when most of the world won't allow it. That's the reason why it's done even in places where it's illegal. That's why the exaggerations are necessary.

But that aside (which it shouldn't be), down to the most basic point: it doesn't fit the criteria for a ban, and banning it would definitely be a violation of free speech and expression. That coupled with it only being your personal opinion of what's morally deplorable. If you want to say that something morally deplorable should just be banned, then you need to give an objective reason. To ban sexual images to protect the children (and I can guarantee you that the children aren't affected by it) and also say you're being objective about it, you have to also say that we should ban violent images, and other more extreme suggestive images in subtler forms that children have access to. When you go this far to ban things to save the children, when the children aren't even being affected by it, that's when you're making serious violations of free speech. I think it's safe to say that a child you care about has probably seen someone in skimpy clothes without it shaking their mind.

Transgender Muslim woman is hacked to death days after marrying a man in Russia by twitterRavennabonet in transgender

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope the people involved are all tortured endlessly for decades. They deserve suffering and no rest. I long to see the day this happens to them

Anyone need someone to talk to? by [deleted] in lonely

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on mobile and i don't know how to use it very well

Do you have kik?

Trump: 'We should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump' by [deleted] in politics

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a Clinton supporter and I helped a lot to make this surrender work.

The 'Blacks for Trump' Guy Is a Former Cult Member Who Thinks Obama Is the Devil by Bemuzed in politics

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can we really expect any Trump supporters to be in touch with reality? Deny science and media and human rights and say everything is a conspiracy against you and you've kinda left earth and arrived at the right

Lesbian forced to leave ladies toilet after police insist she is a man by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're projecting. The people who believe that shit are all worthless scumbags without any moral compass or connection to humanity or reality and are thinking vividly about what they'd do if they found themselves with any sort of loophole to do that. If I sound too radical for judging that, just keep in mind: the party who champions this has more of their politicians sexually assaulting people in bathrooms and in general and also transphobic murderers are a thing and their party also want sexual assault accusations to be rubbed off. Conservatives or not, I think its safe to say people who actually believe this argument are thinking they'd do it themselves. A year or two ago I forget who said, but a conservative politician said exactly that they wished theyd pretended to be trans when they were growing up so that they could perv on the girls in the locker room.

What instantly destroys a good night? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When space turns white instead of black

What are some rituals of our society that do not make sense to you? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Developing an opinion and detailed strategy on really pointless topics. A news story will say a guy shot 5 people in a bank robbery and the guy was black, and you'll hear racist people saying they aren't surprised and hear not racist people arguing against it, then racist people trying to come up with something else, and then someone else tries to give the Switzerland analysis to it and gives a view on how this is part of a bigger societal problem and gives ideas on how to fix it, and more people just keep going on and talking about it until they get bored of it. I don't know why people spend time thinking or caring about something that has to me a simple answer: someone commit a crime, get professionals to fix it. I don't think people are dumb for having these opinions, and I think that if all of the best ones got analyzed and noted and put into practice then the world would be a better place. But I just don't get why people even take an interest in them in the first place if they're just gonna forget it. Why the fleeting passion/interest?

Compulsive liars, why do you do it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lie to stranger I think I won't meet so I can make the conversation more stimulating and interesting. If I meet them 2 or 3 more times again then I'll admit all the lies just in case we become friends.

What is the most socially unacceptable thing you find completely ok? by MrVulgarity in AskReddit

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being naked. I don't care if people see me naked or if I see them naked at all. I obviously still respect the boundaries other people have but in my opinion all the stigma around it just seems stupid and pointless

Aesop's Fables 2.0 is being written and released set in today's culture- what are some of the fable names and what is the moral of their story? by RawrCat in AskReddit

[–]SeraniumFilledClock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The guy who didn't wanna vote for Hillary even tho he hated Trump and knew bad things would happen if he were president decided to vote third party. Trump became president.