The Off Topic Topic

[Grey Fox]

So, Lettow?

[Caliga]

IIRC that whole thing correctly the weirdest thing to me was not that Lettuce pretended to be blind (as weird as that was), but that he had no idea why people took such extreme offense at him doing so.

[garbon]

IIRC that whole thing correctly the weirdest thing to me was not that Lettuce pretended to be blind (as weird as that was), but that he had no idea why people took such extreme offense at him doing so.

Gosh, you're so ableist.

[Razgovory]

Sometimes in my dreams I'm aware that I'm dreaming.  I dreamt that I was chatting up a girl I liked back in high school and it was really going well, that's when I realized it was a dream.  After thinking "it's to bad this isn't real", I woke up, but that turned out to be another dream.  When I woke up a second time, I was confused and depressed.

  If you have a rich dream world, re-entry to planet waking life is hard.

It ain't easy being crazy.

[Valmy]

However, trans-abled people do not see their condition as being based on wants or personal desires but on need. As transabled.org says, (a site that aims to promote the rights of the trans-abled), “the dichotomy between what our psyche tells us and what our body tells us is ripping us apart.”

'Promote the rights of the trans-abled'?  Oh God do  they want insurance to buy them wheelchairs for psychological reasons?

[Admiral Yi]

This has to be a spoof.

[Grey Fox]

There is an entire pan of humanity that needs to stop listening to itself and just fucking shut up & soldier on.

Or go to church, ffs.

[Valmy]

This has to be a spoof.

I totally buy it.  Hang out in the leftwing blogosphere (feminists and stuff not commies) for a bit.  Plenty of well meaning people there but it can go down a self-indulgent rabbit hole pretty fast.  Any kind of socialization of any sort eventually gets associated with oppression. 

[garbon]

However, trans-abled people do not see their condition as being based on wants or personal desires but on need. As transabled.org says, (a site that aims to promote the rights of the trans-abled), "the dichotomy between what our psyche tells us and what our body tells us is ripping us apart."

'Promote the rights of the trans-abled'?  Oh God do  they want insurance to buy them wheelchairs for psychological reasons?

Or perhaps be allowed to pretend they have a disability without scorn/fear of getting a deserved beatdown. /I guess being allowed to do things like have a service dog?

[garbon]

Or go to church, ffs.

How would that help?

[Grey Fox]

Or go to church, ffs.

How would that help?

Fills your mind up.

[garbon]

Or go to church, ffs.

How would that help?

Fills your mind up.

[Valmy]

Fills your mind up.

Well sometimes that cure can be worse than the disease.  But it might get you doing charity work and out doing things and less time dreaming up how you are being oppressed by society.  Still potentially adding to the list of evolution deniers makes me nervous

[Grey Fox]

There are risks, yes but this is as gone too far.

[Eddie Teach]

The church has traditionally been very good at enforcing conformity to societal norms.