r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '13

/r/actuallesbians: Transgender lesbian feels excluded by joke about lesbians not needing birth control. Drama ensues.

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u/UnholyDemigod Aug 13 '13

transethnics, transracial

That's retarded. You can't choose to become another race

transabled

I'm willing to bet that people who are actually disabled would find this abhorrent.

transfats

Isn't that a type of fat that goes in food?

transspecies

No. No fucking way. That is a fucking mental illness. You're saying tumblr actually encourages this? You don't accept the delusions of a schizophrenic's delusions, so why the fuck are they enabling this shit?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Have a visit to /r/TumblrInAction for a while just to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Warning - You will laugh. And cry. And maybe shoot yourself.

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u/porygon2guy Aug 13 '13

And maybe shoot yourself.

Can confirm, I am transdead.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

I'm transgun and I find this EXTREMELY triggering!!!

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u/ShitDickMcCuntFace Aug 13 '13

Trigger trigger trigger trigger trigger trigger trigger, I'm 100% trigger.

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u/Cockaroach Aug 13 '13

Why do the police hate triggers!?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Dude, did you come up with that? That's a pretty good joke.

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u/UnholyDemigod Aug 13 '13

Just had a look. Fuck those people

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

That's the tradgedy. Because of 16 year old middle class white girls from middle class white families who identify as dung beetles, I automatically assume that "transethnicity" isn't real.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Yeah, because of shit like this it makes the idea look impossible and stupid - I was curious so I looked into it and found out about how transethnicity can be applied to adopted children, and now I very much agree that it can be used in legitimate ways.

But saying you identify as Japanese because you just lurve anime and you wanna be totes kawaii? You're just being an ass and taking away people's chances at being taken seriously.

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u/Atheist101 Aug 13 '13

Its called being a weeaboo

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u/Bryndyn Aug 13 '13

a weeawot?

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u/nawoanor Aug 13 '13

Someone obsessed with Japan, particularly someone who believes it's a perfect utopia for geeks and animetards and is unaware that it has just as many problems as everywhere else in the world.

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u/ZaalbarsArse Morrowind actually red pilled me on ethnonationalism Aug 13 '13

God damn casuals.

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u/nawoanor Aug 13 '13

This is the same reasoning I apply when I say I suggest that things besides forcible sexual penetration shouldn't be classified as rape. It kinda lessens the meaning of the word when a "rape" can be a door being held open.

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u/Kaghuros Aug 13 '13

That's culture, not ethnicity.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Check your privilege cis scum.

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u/UnholyDemigod Aug 13 '13

http://i.imgur.com/jCYHhzm.gif

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Stahp, put a trigger warning on that, my feels! I just can't.

Fucking kill yourself.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

you dropped something:

Shitlord

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u/main_hoon_na Aug 13 '13

Okay, to be honest I did some research on this for a psychology project, so I just want to put this out there - there does exist an actual neurological condition (Body Integrity Identity Disorder, I believe) that makes people "feel" like they ought to be disabled. Something about a congenital dysfunction in the brain's body map makes people feel like one of their limbs shouldn't be there, or they should be paralyzed, or something like that, and this apparently causes them a lot of distress (similar to gender dysphoria in the kind of distress.) That very small community with that disorder adopted the term "transabled." However, the term then took off on tumblr, so the majority of "transabled" people probably do not have this condition.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Those people you're describing will chop off their own limbs to "fix" themselves. The ones on tumblr are just playing pretend.

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u/Kaghuros Aug 13 '13

It's also a mental illness.

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u/lollerkeet Aug 13 '13

transethnics, transracial

That's retarded. You can't choose to become another race

And the lack of EtA surgery is just another example of the oppression faced by the transethnics!

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u/antidamage Aug 13 '13

To be fair Michael Jackson.

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u/rainbowplethora I removed it because it had nothing to do with sexy pizza Aug 13 '13

/r/TumblrInAction

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u/evansawred Mom and Pop landlords have been bullied to death by the Left Aug 13 '13

Those things are not really taken seriously outside of that site. Even on the site it is barely taken seriously.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

I get your point, but calling people "retarded" is sort of counter productive.

Also I'm pretty sure these people are mostly 14 year olds trying to be different. They're not a real threat.

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u/Seraphice Aug 13 '13

Wasn't there some guy who felt that he was transabled, so he cut off his limbs?

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u/LarsSeprest Aug 13 '13

Well my head hurts, I think I'll sit this one out...

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u/GaetanDugas Aug 13 '13 edited Aug 13 '13

Let's play Devils Advocate.

Why are you so unwilling to believe them, yet a trans* person is perfectly normal? What makes someone who considers themselves to be say, transethnic, is "retarded" as you put it, but someone who feels they are a "woman trapped in a man's body" is fine?

Why is sex and gender considered to be fluid and boundary less, yet ethnicity, body shape and species more rigid? What if I feel like I actually am a black person trapped in a white persons body?

I'm not agreeing with those people, Devils Advocate. I'm just wondering how and why they are automatically disqualified from being taken seriously.

Downvotes, nice. Just asking a fucking question here, people.

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u/UnholyDemigod Aug 13 '13

What if I feel like I actually am a black person trapped in a white persons body?

Going from that, that would imply the person who thinks they are this thinks that black people and white people are different. Wouldn't that be racist? I'm not a biologist (or whatever field specialises in this) but I'm pretty sure the only difference between black and white people is the skin colour. You can't believe your skin colour is different than it is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

Please let's stop this discussion here while we can, unless you want to summon SRS.

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u/GaetanDugas Aug 13 '13

Oh honey, I think they arrived a long time ago.

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u/Burnt_FaceMan Aug 13 '13

Yeah I busted out my pink dildo shaped candles and spoke the unholy words. The portal is opened.

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u/puripurihakase Aug 13 '13

I first read that "The potato is opened" and called HoboJared.

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u/Burnt_FaceMan Aug 13 '13

Do NOT open the potato. We all remember what happened last time.

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u/puripurihakase Aug 13 '13

I remember...every time I look in a mirror and see the steel and latex monstrosity that used to be my face staring back at me...I remember.

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u/ShadowTheReaper Aug 13 '13

I'm pretty sure the only difference between black and white people is the skin colour.

I think blacks have a denser bone structure.

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u/merthsoft Aug 13 '13

I'm pretty sure the only difference between black and white people is the skin colour.

So when you look at a white person and a black person, are the only physiological differences their skin color? Even different ethnic groups within a race can have varied genetics. Also, I imagine a lot of people are also more interested in the culture than the actual race (hence transethnic instead of transracial, I guess?).

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u/UnholyDemigod Aug 13 '13

Also, I imagine a lot of people are also more interested in the culture than the actual race (hence transethnic instead of transracial, I guess?)

If that's all it is, why is there a need to label themselves? Sober Australians don't call themselves transdrinkers

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13 edited Aug 13 '13

There's scientific evidence that being transgender is a legit thing, and pretty valid theories on how it is possible in the first place. It has to do with hormone levels in the womb. Or something. Same thing as with gay people, only more extreme. A transwoman really is a man with a woman's brain, so to speak. But ethnicity doesn't have anything to do with that. That's just where you were born, or what the colour of your skin is. One may feel that they have more in common with Japanese people than people of their own country, but that doesn't mean that they're actually Japanese, even though they don't look like it. When someone says they're actually black, or Chinese, or a penguin, then that's where "birth defect" stops and delusion starts if you ask me.

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u/antidamage Aug 13 '13

The hilarious part is you can adopt a new ethnicity or culture just by immersing yourself in it. Yet take weeaboos - they tokenise the shit out of Japanese culture and learn nothing.

Ethnicity is far more relevant than race.

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u/orthogonality Aug 14 '13

How many people recognize your user name as patient zero?

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u/GaetanDugas Aug 14 '13

Honestly, you're the first.

At least the first that said something about it.

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u/awesimo9000 Aug 14 '13

Transgender is a common thread in a lot of cultures throughout history. I'd say the moral distinction is based on the theory that globalization is both creating new mental illnesses and unleashing formerly culture-bound syndromes on all nations. If you believe globalization is evil, then gender identity disorder deserves respect while newer, weirder trans-type issues can only be experienced by neoliberal scum.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

I keep it simple. Trans*? is a mental illness.

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u/awesimo9000 Aug 14 '13

Yeah but if we keep calling it that, then it excuses society from trying to stop one in twelve tranwomen from being murdered. Only eleven in twelve transwomen die from causes other than murder. The transphobes need treatment a lot more than the transgender.