I know this misses most of the point of the article, but I also believe it’s worth pointing out: I don’t think a male wanting a female body form is any weirder or wronger that a male wanting to be 2 inches taller, buff, and having 20⁄20 eyesight.
PS: I did try reducing “weird and wrong” to their components. Result of the excercise: I find the OP uncontroversially “statistically rare” or “heterodox”, but neither “viscerally repulsive” nor “morally reprehensible”. I can see the value of explicitly reducing complex concepts in the general case, but I’m not sure it was worthwhile for this instance.
It is a direct response to a quotation from the article, so not really.
I guess I want to be “a normal [...] man wearing a female body like a suit of clothing.”
Is that weird? Is that wrong?
Okay, yes, it’s obviously weird and wrong, but should I care more about not being weird and wrong, than I do about my deepest most heartfelt desire that I’ve thought about every day for the last nineteen years?
I know this misses most of the point of the article, but I also believe it’s worth pointing out: I don’t think a male wanting a female body form is any weirder or wronger that a male wanting to be 2 inches taller, buff, and having 20⁄20 eyesight.
PS: I did try reducing “weird and wrong” to their components. Result of the excercise: I find the OP uncontroversially “statistically rare” or “heterodox”, but neither “viscerally repulsive” nor “morally reprehensible”. I can see the value of explicitly reducing complex concepts in the general case, but I’m not sure it was worthwhile for this instance.
Can you taboo the words “weird” and “wrong” in that comment?
It is a direct response to a quotation from the article, so not really.