A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (2015)

Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by Chaebixi on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:33PM (#15298952)

> At times it feels like they are demanding an unlimited right to "self define"

I think it's a bit more extreme than that. It's not just they want to be able to self-define, but they also want to command others to accept those definitions. There are really two kinds of personal identity: the identity you apply to yourself and the identity that another person applies to you. They aren't the same, and are unlikely to align if the self-applied identity is unconventional.

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Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by freeflight on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:49AM (#15302398)

I don't think self-perception and outside-perception align very often for anybody, mostly because we are incapable of perceiving ourselves without bias and we can't control other people's subjective impressions of us.

In a way, their behavior could be interpreted as "revolting against categorizing humans by inventing ridiculous new categories", which might be a nobel and idealistic cause (as categories are often the source of prejudice) but it's also unrealistic because it denies certain biological realities of which none are subjective in any way.

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Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by Chaebixi on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:42AM (#15303880)

> I don't think self-perception and outside-perception align very often for anybody

Yeah, that's true, but for more conventional identities the possible misalignments are not as extreme and basic.

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