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In a heartbeat I would do it. For me the biggest part of dysphoria is not being able to be pregnant. It is something I want with every fiber of my being.

One of the reasons that decided for me not to physical transition at all. What is the point. Doesn’t matter if I look like a woman or not, I still cannot be pregnant therefore I will still have dysphoria. So I had to find ways to channel that maternal instinct into something better than hating my body. Which I have accomplished with some success. At least enough to take the edge off the dysphoria.

Yes, it is a maternal instinct for me too. How else did you channel it? Edit here: looking at it outside of any definitive or essential view of maternity being what it is to be a woman

Not having dysphoria, I have never been maternal, so it’s interesting to hear how intensely you both feel about this. How do you both feel about surrogates and adoption?

Maternal instinct extends past those who I’m genetically related to.

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A thread on Solitude would be great. That is a very interesting philosophical inquiry.

How so, specifically? I might want to discuss this.

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I think what people need to realize is what they know about a person doesn’t change who they are.  Just like you are the same person regardless of what I know about you.  That I should treat you the same regardless of what I know about you.  That can be a hard thing to do when there is stigmas attached to certain things that a person could be in life.

That is the absurd thing I’m wrestling with, what people think they know about me versus who I am. I need other people’s help and support in overcoming it as a trans woman, too. Femininity is ultimately empowering to me irregardless of how society treats me, though.

The way I feel as if I am a woman makes it so I desire to support cis women with issues concerning their own body. If I could experience womanhood in the same biological sense, I would want to. I want to be the literal physical essence of a woman in any conceivable sense similar to how I feel on the inside, not just what people think about women in general. I feel like identity isn’t fixed and that there is part of myself that is all women.

I am also tolerant towards sex workers. It makes sense as an option to make money for many trans women in the community, sadly.

I think a thread on whether or not rights are a good idea or not should be opened, as you can give rights, but you can also take them away and this brings the entirety of the state into question.

Good. Agreed.

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Philosophy is useful to rationalizing experience and explaining it during therapy. Going through counseling myself right now though, I am certain that Philosophy is not Therapy in itself. Whether or not you have decided the best way to act does not mean that you are emotionally nurtured or have the tools to overcome fear and act the way you believe is right. Philosophy is not social enough in itself to provide that. Positive social dialogue is necessary in addition to philosophy.

Understanding isn’t therapeutic. I am tortured by understanding. I go crazy from my sanity. This is from the contradiction of operating in society versus my own identity. Cooperation and social activity is the only way to fix it. Sometimes you do need to surrender to others at the right time, just to stay alive.

It has helped me to reach a more compassionate view of life, it helps me to value what is important in life and to approach difficult subjects such as guilt and shame without denial and further destructive tendencies, myself and everyone else in my life.

At the same time, there are times when others have no answers for you and no way to ease your suffering. This requires self action. But philosophy is not always the right method of self action.

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Foucault also rejects Marxist progression through history towards an ideal.

Hegel, dude.

I’ve been pretty occupied academically as of recently. But, I would like to try to understand a lot more of where Alain De Benoist and Foucault diverge, this sounds interesting.

I am strongly sympathetic to Foucault in general.

I can be sympathetic to Alain De Benoist, in that my humanism does not emerge from secular ideals at all. Stuff like the expenditure of energy is still a loose ideal for me to talk about Social Justice. This is because of where freedom as well as social aid diverge, which is an insurmountable gap that the left understates.

See Discussion: Social Justice thread.

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I am claiming on the contrary, that intervention to prevent it is is a good action to be taken by the state, authority, or just general society. This requires treatment. Society isn’t able to solve the problem in that example. But I am suggesting they should be willing to. Whether they treat it or not has no bearing on whether or not the person will successfully kill themselves in that instance. The suicide was immediately resultant. I am talking about suicide preventation, generally.

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In many instances life can feel that way itself. Especially as a trans person. But we cannot possibly truly take into account those factors, they are beyond our own reach. Therefore I can’t rationalize that, and I also withdraw my judgement. Suicide is a tragedy. Who is to say they are better off or not? The person could after they have survived most likely.

I stand by my earlier statement.

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I’m referring to someone like Terri Schiavo. I’m all for assisted suicide as long as it’s in the interest of the one who is yet to die. How that can be sorted out I don’t know. Being only bodily functions with no self preservation, or no possibility of returning to consciousness is not ‘alive’ to me.

Broadly speaking, self preservation or reproduction its the only function necessary.

I think the idea of criminalizing it is pretty outdated, and generally requiring care for the suicidal seems to be the dominant perspective in first world western countries.

Edit: I don’t think a conscious, able human being should take their own life. I still think that the idea of “committing” suicide comes from Catholic Moralism, and doesn’t stand up.

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The question of right to suicide and the sanctity of life is very difficult to frame – define ‘living’ first of all, because Persistent Vegetative States don’t fall into what I call ‘alive’.

First of all why not? What do you call alive? I see a biologically receptive aspect to humans which also exists in persistent vegetative states. I just think there is more to human existence.

I personally disagree. Assisted suicide is permissible for me, but otherwise I think that institutional help is a good thing and stems from a more basic act that would occur regardless of the law (in tribal communities, for example).

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Replace reparative with restorative, lol. I was tired and excited, okay?

More personally, I would say it is the individual need or feeling to nurture those people.

I think we can remove the term need and feelings by addressing it as a value equation based on how efficient or wasteful an individual is in their expenditure of energy in society. I brought this up in a recent Facebook Live video.

Yeah, applying that metaphysics to to it does work better in place of a lack of nurture, where social nurturing is concerned!

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 It can be used against a movement just as much. And, I mean, anyone who would want to destroy the reputation of BLM, could go out and do horrible things and say they represent BLM, and then BLM and all their work could be tarnished by that. It is not clear exactly who BLM is because it is decentralized. Is it the organization, its leaders and affiliates; or is it everyone at large who identify as BLM followers, including even radicals who interpret and may change the core values of the movement? 

Agreed. Though it is spreading conspiracy theories and also misinformation that I’m worried about with slacktivism. There is BLM activity that I don’t support. Many movements have a rowdy bunch associated with them, that isn’t unique. The people I am worried about in general tend to be more authoritarian. Not permitting cops to go to LGBTQ+ stuff is authoritarian. Creating a law out of their resentment towards cops doesn’t fix institutional bias.

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Stereotypes undoubtedly exist in most movies which Hollywood has made.

I think you nailed it with the Rowan Atkinson accent. English accents are always evil in the movies. Do I sound evil? ;D

You sound like a comedic relief character

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