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 Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:38 pm
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I don't typically notice this myself, and have not for the decade or so I've been a member of the Gaia community.
Not trying to make assumptions here but I would think that these individuals would, due to their interests, only be in certain "circles" so to speak. In that, the type of person you've just described shares a varying amount interest in something you yourself hold interest in and therefore you cross paths more frequently than someone than say myself.
I'm not exactly sure where you encounter these individuals, but I would say that your exposure to them is probably just some sort of anomaly. Looking at the number of individuals who use Gaia, these individuals who seem be part of a "fad" for lack of a better term, simply represent a fractional aspect of the FtM community.
To address your opinion that, "it's insulting to the ones who are really suffering," I must say that the very same argument has been made in the LGBT community for promiscuous bisexuals, feminine gays, masculine lesbians, etc.
It's only insulting if you choose to look at it that way, you have to realize that any and every community has members within it who do not represent the community as a whole but likewise should be accepted within that community and, ideally, outside of that community as well.
They're people, just like you or I. You can't hold their interests against them, it's a minute aspect of who they are, but it doesn't make them who they are, if that makes sense. It's like saying my love for doughnuts determines the quality of person I am, which, simply put, is a bit close-minded.
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:31 am
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Der Fluch des Pharao I don't typically notice this myself, and have not for the decade or so I've been a member of the Gaia community.
Not trying to make assumptions here but I would think that these individuals would, due to their interests, only be in certain "circles" so to speak. In that, the type of person you've just described shares a varying amount interest in something you yourself hold interest in and therefore you cross paths more frequently than someone than say myself.
I'm not exactly sure where you encounter these individuals, but I would say that your exposure to them is probably just some sort of anomaly. Looking at the number of individuals who use Gaia, these individuals who seem be part of a "fad" for lack of a better term, simply represent a fractional aspect of the FtM community.
To address your opinion that, "it's insulting to the ones who are really suffering," I must say that the very same argument has been made in the LGBT community for promiscuous bisexuals, feminine gays, masculine lesbians, etc.
It's only insulting if you choose to look at it that way, you have to realize that any and every community has members within it who do not represent the community as a whole but likewise should be accepted within that community and, ideally, outside of that community as well.
They're people, just like you or I. You can't hold their interests against them, it's a minute aspect of who they are, but it doesn't make them who they are, if that makes sense. It's like saying my love for doughnuts determines the quality of person I am, which, simply put, is a bit close-minded.
Well, first off... thanks for replying.
Wondered if anyone read it at all
or if I just wasted my time. lol
Second of all... I get what you're saying
and I don't particularly have that big of an interest in Anime
but yes, I suppose you could argue that I just had the misfortune of meeting such people
I'm not going to sit here and bash people's interest
but I find it odd that you think someone who's pretending to be transgendered for the sake of fulfilling an Otaku obsession,
wouldn't be insulting to the people who suffer with the issue on a daily basis.
People can like whatever they want to
I could not care less
but when they turn an interest into something more serious for their own satisfaction
then parade around seeking attention to sate their sexual appetite, it bothers me.
There's a difference between liking what you like (sexually or not)
and falsely claiming to be something you're not
making those who are truly suffering look like fools.
It's like saying you have cancer, when you don't. It's just not something you do
or should do.
I genuinely wanted to meet others like me and sadly this is what I found.
I'm not saying, "I'm giving up" or that "everyone needs to do what I say or else."
I was just curious to see, if anyone else has noticed this. *shrug* |
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:48 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:20 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:29 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:01 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:08 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:29 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 6:21 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:18 am
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I have a friend who recently came out to me as a MtF, and it turned out that, after talking with his therapist, his core gender is male, but only his sexual desires are female. He is a form of transgender, but it's a lot more difficult than always identifying one way or another, and after talking to him, I found that I'm lucky to be a FtM just, y'know. Overall.
So I do think that it's possible there are people posing to be FtMs (I have yet to meet them, though), but unless they explicitly say that they are not FtMs, I wouldn't doubt them because of my experience with my friend. He identifies as a man and is trying to suppress that side of himself because, after he and his therapist researched it, people on that side of the transgender... side? tend to develop split identities to fulfill both needs--normal, everyday life and sexual desires.
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:32 pm
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