I'd be comfortable as fuck. The fact that the gay felt uncomfortable doing it shows that he might be socially pressured to do this. People act on fear. He seems to fear not doing it as much as doing it because he did it. Where does the other fear come from? Why does he feel a need to do an uncomfortable thing?
I get it, he likes dick. Well I like saucy paninis. I've never felt compelled to do something morbidly embarrassing because of it, doubly and especially if it didn't direct involve eating a panini.
I'll say something bold. I don't know for certain I feel like a man inside. Why? I don't have the data. I have a sample size of one. The only thing I actually know is what it feels like to be x0x7. Society labels me a man. I've checked the bits and that label seems kind of reasonable. Therefore I can correlate that how I feel is how an avecage man likely feels. But I don't know. Just like I don't know that they way I perceive green is the same as everyone else. Beyond that I know nothing. They have even less data on what a woman feels. And being as psychotic as they are they certainly aren't in an advantage over me to anticipate what others feel.
Instead they desire to be seen another way, is part of their motive. This would not be enough because like I showed, desire is not enough to confront morbid dread. The 80% motive is they are being socially influenced to do this. Maybe their in-group demands it of them and they'd lose acceptance if they didn't grow the balls and or eventually chop them off.
Somebody doing something they "want" to do and facing morbid dread over it is what external influence looks like. Influence that operates on fear btw.
Yes, we all have a sample size of one of what it feels like to be someone of any gender. However don't you think that identification with female characters in fiction or real women around someone counts for something?
No. Of course I can relate to female characters and or male characters or people. But then I'm just relating to them as a human being. Heck, I can relate to an elephant or a monkey in the right circumstances. We are driven to relate to things. That doesn't mean we are the thing whose perspective we've contemplated.
And it doesn't help that in fiction and particularly in writing the author has taken a lot of steps and crafted a lot of skill behind coaxing you to develop that. It's a given that you will. Someone has put work into making that happened... backed by thousands of years of knowledge in how to do it.
The fact that you've related to someone in a story isn't something I would take as a signal of anything. And if your reading of fiction has made it difficult for someone to accept physical reality as physical reality then probably they should read less of it and should spend more time living in the real world where things are what they are and aren't what they aren't, and feelings can be a way but reality is the same.
I would definitely do this if I had access to clothes that fit, and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t feel scared, but I would feel uncomfortable attracting attention with my appearance like that.
It’s funny to me that he repeatedly admits that in most cases there’s no actual fear of safety, yet he opens the challenge with a call to action for his audience to make things safer for trans people if they feel any fear while doing this.
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I'd be comfortable as fuck. The fact that the gay felt uncomfortable doing it shows that he might be socially pressured to do this. People act on fear. He seems to fear not doing it as much as doing it because he did it. Where does the other fear come from? Why does he feel a need to do an uncomfortable thing?
I get it, he likes dick. Well I like saucy paninis. I've never felt compelled to do something morbidly embarrassing because of it, doubly and especially if it didn't direct involve eating a panini.
I'll say something bold. I don't know for certain I feel like a man inside. Why? I don't have the data. I have a sample size of one. The only thing I actually know is what it feels like to be x0x7. Society labels me a man. I've checked the bits and that label seems kind of reasonable. Therefore I can correlate that how I feel is how an avecage man likely feels. But I don't know. Just like I don't know that they way I perceive green is the same as everyone else. Beyond that I know nothing. They have even less data on what a woman feels. And being as psychotic as they are they certainly aren't in an advantage over me to anticipate what others feel.
Instead they desire to be seen another way, is part of their motive. This would not be enough because like I showed, desire is not enough to confront morbid dread. The 80% motive is they are being socially influenced to do this. Maybe their in-group demands it of them and they'd lose acceptance if they didn't grow the balls and or eventually chop them off.
Somebody doing something they "want" to do and facing morbid dread over it is what external influence looks like. Influence that operates on fear btw.
Yes, we all have a sample size of one of what it feels like to be someone of any gender. However don't you think that identification with female characters in fiction or real women around someone counts for something?
No. Of course I can relate to female characters and or male characters or people. But then I'm just relating to them as a human being. Heck, I can relate to an elephant or a monkey in the right circumstances. We are driven to relate to things. That doesn't mean we are the thing whose perspective we've contemplated.
And it doesn't help that in fiction and particularly in writing the author has taken a lot of steps and crafted a lot of skill behind coaxing you to develop that. It's a given that you will. Someone has put work into making that happened... backed by thousands of years of knowledge in how to do it.
The fact that you've related to someone in a story isn't something I would take as a signal of anything. And if your reading of fiction has made it difficult for someone to accept physical reality as physical reality then probably they should read less of it and should spend more time living in the real world where things are what they are and aren't what they aren't, and feelings can be a way but reality is the same.
I would definitely do this if I had access to clothes that fit, and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t feel scared, but I would feel uncomfortable attracting attention with my appearance like that.
It’s funny to me that he repeatedly admits that in most cases there’s no actual fear of safety, yet he opens the challenge with a call to action for his audience to make things safer for trans people if they feel any fear while doing this.
Let's do it soundsituation you and me
@JasonCarswell I dare you!