• Unpopular Opinions V. FP should go down more often
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There disease is feeling like you belong in the wrong body, the treatment then is changing appearance/behavior to fit what you feel it should
Misinterpreting my point. Religion is a medium that can bring people together, with the most common sects that are popular worldwide being inclusive without bias of one's background. The core belief in most of these religions encourage this kind of behavior and attracts good people to one another. While humans are social beings, a common ground is usually something necessary to both get and keep them together. Like how things such as growing up on the same place, having the same hobbies or preferences, or out of necessity due to a community that relies on cooperation to survive are some ways that get people know each other and stay together as a society. Religion is a good medium that enables this while also being very broad in what kind of people can participate together. Bad people will exist one way or another, and a lot of bad people obviously don't see themselves as such, and will use whatever sort of excuse they can have to rationalize their actions. If they're religious, either because that's how they grew up or out of choice in fixating themselves with specific scripture that aligns with their views, and they'll cite religious text and twist it further into an extreme state that usually muddies the core teaching that usually overrides the point they were fixated on. It's not too dissimilar with secular people with prejudiced views latching onto psuedosciences such as eugenics to justify said extreme views.
I could not disagree more. Many, if not most, of religion's worst aspects have been at one point in history or another, been made normalized and expected, not the product of extremism
I know you probably can't be reasoned with, but you shouldn't be restricting people in their freedom to pursue their own idea of beauty.
My belief is that the treatment for gender dysphoria shouldn't be the allowance of body modification, but instead to help the individual to to peace with who they are naturally.
You mean like trying to straighten the gay?
that just sounds like even more work
You simply cannot do this with certain people, though You can go through a lot of psych tests and therapy to see if you really are transgender or if its just a phase/something you wanna do because of peer pressure/because you want to fit in, but if a person truly is transgender then you can't just tell them to "be happy with the body you were born in" and actually expect it to do something.
If you're trying to change medical guidelines you better provide some evidence for your "belief."
I'm not really referencing people going through a phase. I mean the honest to goodness gender dysphoria condition. Instead of altering the hormone levels or literal physical appearance of someone to make them happy, why not make use of therapy and mood balancing drugs? There is no such treatment as "getting over it" or shock therapy either. My question is why do we embrace this medical condition instead of treating it?
Trying to turn someone's brain into the opposite gender is borderline impossible, though. People have tried to do that, and it really hasn't helped at all. It would be more feasible to fix gender dysphoria by changing the body. I don't really see anything wrong with going with that solution, IMO.
Because such treatment does not exist (to my knowledge at least). In the case of gender dysphoria, it is much easier to alter the body to fit the mind than it is to alter the mind to fit the body.
Have there been any serious studies beyond stupid shit like shock therapy and what not?
OIFY should be deleted. It's an excuse for certain users including mods to be as heinous as they wish without repercussions. Containment boards only let shitheads fester.
No I'm not. And I know I'm not because you do it again. The problem with this is that you haven't proven it's religion that "attracts good people to one another" and not something else, like the human need to be social and fit into a community. This essentially follows as "religious people have social communities" -> "religion makes people social".
I need to know if you're serious or not, because this reads like satire
I'm being serious. There's nothing of substance to be had in OIFY. People just go there to say racial slurs and post shock images.
You seriously overestimate what antidepressants do. They don't change your mood from depression and dysphoria into "hey I feel happy all the time, fuck yeah" When I started my antidepressants I didn't randomly get depressed for a good few months which is what showed me that they do actually work, but I did get depressed later on. They don't make you immune to being sad, depressed or feeling dysphoria. If this was the case, fucking everyone would constantly be using them.
It's always just the dumbest shit, and it's attitude leaks out everywhere else
So if you don't like it... don't go there? That's sorta why it's there, so that people with that sort of humor can do their thing. It has literally zero effect on the rest of the forum, so unless you purposely go there to get mad at what other people find funny, you shouldn't even be aware of it really. ' Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it should be deleted, this forum wasn't made for you.
What's the point of having OIFY, though? It doesn't do anything. No conversation of value is had there, no content of value is posted, its all shitposting, slurs and shock images. And sometimes the oify regulars leak their shitty posts on the main bits of the forum, so clearly it doesn't "contain" worth shit.
Can you give an example?
OIFY lets users steep themselves in their own shit. Sooner or later an OIFY regular's posting habits in other sections will change.
Not really, it's a general attitude in the forum's of gold members who frequent there
Half of GMF?
It doesn't do anything for you. If there was nothing of value there, people wouldn't post there. Obviously people enjoy having the space to do those sorts of things. Just because it's not your type of thing doesn't mean it has no value, that's just selfish to try to take away other people's space just because you don't personally see value in it. And they get banned.
The most cancerous posters on this forum also happen to post in OIFY, if you think that's a coincidence you're delusional.
I think we should have both sections.
I don't see the Bigoted Shitposting section as properly defensible because as a forum other users are affected by the attitudes that the section festers. OIFY only serves to taint part of the userbase, and that part of the userbase is often obnoxious to deal with outside of the OIFY as well. I don't want to have to abide by an open cesspool in the parlor because some people like to wade in it.
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