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Amazing. One if the most interesting parts of the article though is that this is such a known phenomenon in practice, not only in theory. Just goes to show what
by SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
Amazing. One if the most interesting parts of the article though is that this is such a known phenomenon in practice, not only in theory. Just goes to show what 0.3% works out to when you're on the scale of modern populations.
Personally I also find it admiral how positive people can be in such circumstances. I would be wracked with anxiety in this situation, as the husband at least. But thankfully it seems like our drive to have children overrides many things that would otherwise terrify us.
- talldatethrow 3y ago[flagged]
- michaelmrose 3y agoThis is offensive
- talldatethrow 3y agoWhy? I'm just pointing out that there is an adoption rate for anything, even something that you yourself don't want or wouldn't understand.
- imtringued 3y agoBecause people want the outcome and not the process.
- michaelmrose 3y ago> I joke that you can sell anything eventually if you talk to enough people, because if 0.3% of people want to cut off their own genitals (trans person rate), then you can surely find atleast that rate of people for your __whatever___. Referring to a sex change as "cutting off their own genitals" is deliberately meant to frame it as absurd or bad compared to more clinical terminology. Your statement is that it is so absurd or bad and yet has some takers ergo any product no matter how bad or undesirable will itself find a market. This is first of all fundamentally insulting. Second it doesn't make any sense. Those who undertake such surgery aren't choosing between having gender reassignment and a corgi. Lastly you can't sell shit you don't understand. This is like sales 101.
- talldatethrow 3y agoWrong. I hate certain cars. I'll never understand why anyone would buy a lifted truck with oversize wheels and low profile tires. I think it's an abomination. I can still find a buyer for it and sell it to them.
- michaelmrose 3y agoYou understand the utility of trucks, what they're for, what is good and bad about them. You rattled of the elements of a known aesthetic it seems to me that you do in fact understand them even if you don't personally like it.
- coining 3y agoIt's not a "sex change", just cosmetic surgery to mimic the outward appearance of the opposite sex genitals. For males who undergo this, it literally does involve cutting off genitalia - the testicles are excised and disposed of. The penis is inverted to make a pelvic cavity, and the scrotum is reshaped to look somewhat like labia. The absurd part is, of course, the belief that this surgery turns these men into women, or changes their sex from male to female.
- 4gotunameagain 3y agoI do not think it is offensive because you did not say anything negative about that group of people, but I think they find it offensive because when framed like that it exposes some of the absurdity of that act, which could make them question their own self definition. Human actions often carry absurdity. I think we should recognise it and accept it, instead of trying to ignore it and hope it will disappear (hint, it won't)
- junek 3y agoCould we not do this kind of shit here please? Using trans people as the punchline of a joke is offensive and sends the message that we're not welcome here.
- talldatethrow 3y agoYou're making me feel like I'm not wanted here, because I like making a joke about trans people. Why is that ok, yet my feelings aren't?
- junek 3y agoYou know perfectly well why.
- talldatethrow 3y agoIf I did, do you think I would have made the joke, and then also written that exact statement asking the question.
- Ekaros 3y agoI always feel weird to think just how common a 0.1% is actually on any slightly bigger population. It is 1 in 1000. Or 100 in 100k and in this case 300... Which isn't actually so many. And then you start listing up these sort of "rare" conditions and wonder where do we actually end up and how much overlap there is.
- bhandziuk 3y agoSometimes I feel the opposite. A condition might be described as affecting "only 1% of people" as if to say it's rare and I'm thinking that's so extremely common. I could walk into a highschool and there would be multiple people affected. Or maybe someone in my office has this right now. Even 1 in 100,000 type conditions mean that multiple people in my city have it nevermind the region.