He makes sense

TheMagicPin · 12時間前

Wow, someone who is arguing against Transgenderism using legitimate arguments, and more importantly isn't seething with hate, but instead compassion. He seems like someone who wouldn't blow up in your face if you actually bring up legitimate counter points to his arguments.

Edit: Just some extra stuff.

howtotalktopeople · 8時間前

Throw away from obvious reasons.

TL;DR: I 'identify' as transgender and despite a few minor points a sensible person would call pedantic, I agree with what this man has said about Gender Identity Disorder being something I need to discuss and work on through therapy rather than 'solve' with surgery.

(unlike homosexuality which I believe to be inherently different and requiring no therapy or second thoughts and 'normal', for what that word is worth)

Qualifications, if needed. I am a male of almost thirty who has had sex and relationships with both sexes. I have long considered my (mental) feminine traits to outweigh my male in both multitude and magnitude. That is to say they are more numerous and more important to who I am. However, they are not all I am, they do not define me, and they are not entirely what others would use to describe me. I have gone to see many therapists over the years, and like anyone in my situation have long debated living as the other half full time and even getting sexual reassignment surgery.

I agree: surgery is very serious, permanent, and not something that should be flippantly decided in your adolescence. I do not believe surgery would solve all my underline issues. I believe feminine and masculine to be organizational constructs created for convenience, which while is totally cool and probably for the best, has everyone confused about who they are.

Surgery is serious. I am not going to make this point, we all know even routine things have inherent dangers. Anything permanent should be given considerable thought, more than can be done under the sheen of youth. I personally took two years of having a tattoo idea written down and drawn up prior to getting it, I know because I dated it. Even if there was a magic surgery to give me the body I've always wanted with fully functional sexual organs, I'd wait at least a year. I'd get other things in my life in order, I'd consider all factors. I would prioritize my finances so I didn't end up broke and relying on others to take care of me. My friends can testify, I once took six hours to make a character in Soul Caliber III. If it was my body, I wouldn't just consult the best doctors, I'd ask everyone. I'd ask about both sides of the gender fence, what they liked, wanted, and most importantly what they hated. My father used to say, the divorced knew more about marriage. Ask the unsatisfied. Do you reasonably think any teenager or child knows exactly what they want? I know we tend to romanticize the idea that words of children are honest and heart spoken and thus inherently correct and full of goodness, but any parent will tell you kids are wise for every hundred times they fall off the couch while hanging upside down, or don't realize that eating all ice cream dinners will make them sick. Young people have the beauty of following their heart, but that is because considering consequences is what makes one an adult. Balancing risk and reward makes someone wise. Thus why surgery is the answer for people like me, because we want to be the way we want to be seen so badly. We see the rewards as well worth any penalty, but as I have seen it is always not so, and not thinking twice or considering things more deeply isn't courage, it is fool-hardy.

This brings me to the Father's next point: Will this change make you happy? I don't know. I am well aware my gender issues aren't my only issue. I am also aware if I could slay even one of the two other large sources of stress in my life, I would need more therapy and have to reset the clock on every thing else in my life in order to take the time to recalibrate my consciousness. Why? I've lived with four major difficulties in my life. I know when I conquered the first, it fundamentally changed my thinking, as well as how I looked at my remaining problems. If another problem were to be solved through time, effort and therapy, wouldn't it be prudent to first see how I feel about myself as I relate to the world in terms of sex and gender? Maybe conquering another difficulty might convince me that living as the opposite gender full time is right for me, or maybe it might convince me to have surgery or the like, or maybe I'd just let it go. I've let things just as burdening go before.

My last point, which, I see as being the most controversial; how do we know how the other half really feels? He is right, face it. We don't. Other men don't know how other men feel, same for women. The human experience is like a solar storm, we can predict patterns and they have similar details to one another that make them easy to discuss and identify, but the truth is that calculating exactly what one will act like or look like is impossible. Thus the problem with gender (Feminine Vs. Masculine). These are just categories. Not determinants. You can like men and still be a sports super fan. You can like show tunes and like women. And the opposite, you can be gay and not feel the need to identify as the other sex. However, I think it is high time we stop attaching gender to ridiculous things like footballs and barbies. Nah, even more so. Stop making dresses and suits or what the fuck ever reserved for some kind of genital configuration. Stop making, and this is the key here, just because they have ten points in the female column and and only two in the male, that they should be more seriously thinking about if their genitals are lying assholes. You might like gym culture and feeling hunky, you may like women or even feeling dominant, you may like Call of Duty, you may want people to sometimes see you as a man, but that doesn't necessarily mean you want to be one from now on, day and night. You need to think long and hard if all of that absolutely means for you, not for anyone else, that you know you want to be a man. Fill in your own examples for womanhood here.

Tl;dr: I'm trans, I speak only for myself, and I think this man has something to say people in my position should consider if you can manage to set aside your ego and let yourself be open to a different world view. Seriously, don't let the chance for real introspection die under the guise of, 'he is kinder than other straight white religious men, but he is still wrong about people like me'.

I don't have it in me to reread this right now, so sorry for any rambling. First time I've ever typed something like this, hope it helped.

Chaos_Philosopher · 4時間前

ITT: people being approximately infinity percent more respectful than I though coming in.

zoxer95 · 3時間前

See I hate this because I support LGBT, But he makes sense to me too. I'm a naturalist in the sense that I think you should except your body for what it is. It could be tall or short, fat or skinning male or female, these are the cards your dealt. I could say, I felt like I was should have been a rich mans son, but I can't just get a surgery to make that happen, its just how it is. IDK I'm fucking confused now because I think people should do what they want with their bodies. I don't fucking know.

pathslog · 10時間前

So many props for hearing sound, reasonable arguments from a religious person. It's refreshing.

And in the same spirit of arguing, instead of bashing and imposing your own view, allow me to respectfully criticize what I just watched. His argument rests on some assumptions which, as far as I can tell, people take for granted and don't realize how biased they are.

It came out as obvious to me the assumption that transgender behavior is a "problem" or "sickness". I can see where he's coming from. The behavior can be easily compared to known psychological disorders, and the conclusion that transgendering can also be considered a medical condition that needs treatment is not only faulty. It's basically the heart of most preconceptions.

Other conditions he mentions, such as anorexia, cause real physical damages to your health. And as far as I know, feeling transgender will not make anyone sick to the point their lives are at risk. Somehow, it seems offsetting to assume transgendering is a disease that needs treatment when there is no solid evidence to uphold that. Feel free to point to any serious scientific study which concludes that. I'll be happy to take that into account next time I talk to anyone about this.

As far as surgeries go, any medical procedure of the same type can be considered life threatening. Why do people pay for liposuction? Or any cosmetic plastic surgery? Heck... why do people even tatoo their skin or die their hair with unnatural colors, like bright pink or green? Why do people wear makeup? They all feel something is missing to feel better about their bodies and themselves. But no one is accusing them having a psychological disorder. Anyone going under for breast implants are paying the price and taking the risk of surgery to "feel better about themselves".

He said it himself, several times. Why do women wear dresses? Why do girls mostly like pink and boys mostly like blue? It's all arbitrary. Why do we need separate bathrooms for each gender? It's abitrary. Because we grew up thinking it's better that way. It's a cultural heritage taken for granted for generations, and now comes to light as different people realize their potential to feel better in life. And aside from pedophiles, perverts, and irresponsible people out there who shit on the floor and piss away from the toilet, there is nothing life treatening about sharing the same bathroom with the opposite sex.

calm_rational_debate · 5時間前

A belief I feel quite strongly about is "None of my business".

If two gay men want to get married, it is none of my business.

If you want to smoke yourself into an early grave, it is none of my business.

And if you want to manually change your body to resemble someone else's, it is none of my business.

If you want my personal advice, ask. But if you don't ask, I will happily consider your decisions none of my damn business.

kylev · 8時間前

FWIW, the doctor he cites (Dr. Paul McHugh) isn't exactly on the side of science or our current best understanding. His position is in opposition to Johns Hopkins' own position among many others. McHugh is staking out a minority position. Oh, and they stopped the surgery in 1979 because McHugh was in charge, not because of some larger consensus. We know a lot more since then.

Here is McHugh's opinion article from the WSJ, and a pretty thorough response with citations and links. In a way, McHugh seems to be a bit of a "Linus Pauling" (a Nobel winner that went off the rails and decided vitamin C cured all cancer).

Additionally, I appreciate the Father's effort, but he's doing a bit of a tap dance. He declares that there is no "essential" experience of male or female (with no scholarly backing whatsoever), then decides that all of gender is stereotypes and gender roles. I'll ignore that the Catholic church certainly thinks that there is something really goddamn essential about being male (see the "no-chicks-allowed" clergy)...

There is a huge difference between stereotypical male/female child behavior (something society imposes) and one's internal understanding of self. There is a huge difference between a kid pretending to be a dog for a day and an adult living with a lifetime of discordance (and the comparison is frankly rude). There is an ocean of distance between a person who requests amputation and a transgender person who goes through years of psychological evaluation, living their transition, and eventually getting gender confirmation surgery.

Overall, I give the priest a "B-" for earnest effort and a "D" for motivated reasoning (particularly for seeking out about the only doctor in the field that supports this position).

elmarko44 · 1時間前

There's just enough folksy, simple sciencey stuff in here to appeal to our base ignorance and still make us feel like its factual.

However, gender and sexuality is not binary. Sex is binary, but gender and sexuality and the resultant sexual identity is not binary. In other words, gender isn't as simple as this guy presents it.

I am male, I identify as male, and I am heterosexual, so I have never experienced sexual or gender ambiguity. And clearly, neither has this guy. However, that doesn't mean gender and sexual ambiguity doesn't exist. It's easy for us who are are not fluid with our sexuality or gender to deny the fact that another person may be. And it's easy to agree with this priest, to say "he makes sense" because we share a similar experience - because his experience resonates with ours.

His experience is his experience. Our experience is our experience. And there is a whole universe out there of things we will never experience, never understand, and which will never "make sense" to us. But they do exist. People with gender and sexual ambiguity exist, and they deserve our respect.

whatabouteggs · 7時間前

Father John Hamm is right.

Evems · 8時間前

He looks like Jon Hamm.

kiwimonster21 · 10時間前

I wonder how credible his points are. Logically speaking they sound valid, comparing multiple disorder with similar characteristics seems like it may work. Chemically and physiologically speaking I wonder if these are similar in the brain. Similar to the different types of addiction, do they all have similar roots or similar characteristics. I would be interesting to know if there is a link between the ideas.

Having simply no experience with this means my opinion on the subject is invalid, but his points for a person from the outside looking in seem very good for his perspective on the subject. Maybe someone else can shed some light from the other side, maybe someone who went through the surgery and years later can explain how it has changed their life or maybe how their perception has changed.

ballabrad · 7時間前

Jon Hamm is awesome

superbleeder98 · 8時間前

He looks like what I'd imagine Bruce Wayne would look like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZKSux2K57g&t=6m40s

ThisIsMyFloor · 2時間前

Well that is one shitty title... I'm thinking of flairing it but I can't fit that much information that is needed in so few characters.

Ienjoytherain · 2時間前

I am not trying to start a huge thing but he believes in the bible, correct? The fathers perception on the bible must be so on point with reality that he doesn't "change his perception to match reality." Thats what atheists are, there perception with religion doesn't match reality.

Here is a video on his perception of atheists; he states that if they dont believe in god then people dont believe in free will which he then turns into if freewill does not exist then there is no right or wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68FQV0iLFeA

im not saying he is completely wrong in this video, i did agree with most of it but he should not be using "perception vs reality" as a core point in his argument.

ralphpig · 3時間前

There are good and bad members of religion. He is a good one.

TomSachs · 6時間前

What is the haircut he has called?

isen7 · 7時間前

I think people are dismissing this video because they believe it has something to do with religion, but this guy doesn't bring up any religious views for transgenders.

mrfundementalone · 5時間前

So then if this priest's idealized version of a man and woman can't really understand what the opposite sex feels wouldn't it then follow that being tranagendered is not a "false assessment" because they "feel" gender in the way that statistically average males and females don't? Thus making them the opposite gender they believe they are since it is felt?

malakistiri · 13時間前

I thought he made some solid points

oldmoneey · 5時間前

I thought this was being upvoted out of respect for an uncharacteristically respectful argument, I had no idea people actually agreed with him.

There is more to transgenderism than liking the other gender's stuff. Transgenderism is almost certainly biological in origin, likely a hormonal thing. His argument, while respectful and well articulated, is ill informed and not fully thought through and you shouldn't be taking it very seriously.

ChristinaRigoletto · 13時間前

woof woof

mattcnz · 7時間前

I'm glad this video is being upvoted and a civil discussion is going on. I'm extremely surprised

WhenTheSkyFalls · 7時間前

Great video. I agree entirely. This will likely end up being downvoted into oblivion though.

suburban-cowboy · 3時間前

Here is a guy of the faith, who shows nothing but kindness throughout the video, and it gets tossed aside by most of these comments. For "sources", like he's trying to publish this video to the scientific community for review. What a bunch of pedants here. Those who would ignore a dose of love, only because there's no footnote at the bottom stating the reputable source that it came from.

More than likely, it's that these comments come from those who have one, and only one opinion on most topics (opposite something the priest in the video believes obviously), and who would find any minor detail to scrap an entire "argument" (though he doesn't seem to wish to argue with anyone, other than to urge fellow Catholics to care). Or, it comes from the "intellectuals". The ones who don't care one way or another, as long as they can either sound intelligent or prove that someone else doesn't. Especially if they're religious. Like shooting fish in a barrel, right?

You are the reason the world sucks.

lookielue · 9時間前

His entire argument labors under a nasty misconception: that transgenderism is a delusion.

He uses anorexia as a comparison, but the two are fundamentally different. An anorexic sees themselves as fat despite evidence to the contrary. A transgendered person does not look in the mirror and see a different body, they are well aware that their physical form and genitalia are male/female.

I also find myself notching an eyebrow at the notion that gender differences (dolls vs trucks, etc.) are wholly arbitrary. It's an easy claim to make, and certainly sounds progressive and egalitarian, but is there any evidence to support this claim? I recall studies a few years back that indicated otherwise.

To my ears this rings of false sympathy built on a faulty understanding of the condition. Nowhere in his argument did I hear a call to be more accepting of transgendered individuals, indeed most of his argument put the burden of change on the individual themselves.

RTBarleysheath154 · 9時間前

Does this guy remind anyone else of Jon Hamm's character in Kimmy Schmidt?

BRAlN · 9時間前

The B.I.I.D documentary I think he is referring to

and this video

Woman Wants To Be Permanently Paralysed: Body Integrity Identity Disorder

vit47 · 2時間前

Well he isn't really saying anything new. One of the main criticisms of transgenderism is that fact that these people are buying into the idea of traditional gender roles more than anyone. These people believe so strongly that they can't just be a man/woman who likes things traditionally associated with the opposite sex, that they are willing to change their sex entirely. If that isn't supporting traditional gender roles, I don't know what is...but on the other hand I don't really care if that's what people want to do to their bodies. Plastic surgery makes many people much happier, and I don't look at it any differently.

Goddamn_Batman · 1時間前

there's no way jason sudekis + john hamm priest is celibate. bro might have a white collar but he fucks. ladies be slidin off their pews and shit

andyroid42 · 1時間前

He's right, but it's the individual's choice.

HotWingExtremist · 46分前

This is exactly what ive said for years. It seems so obvious. But i'm sure this will generate lots of incoherent rabbling from THEM...

amadeusemanu · 38分前

I'm encouraged that reddit users didn't down vote this. Truly proves that the users are actually sensible and don't have agendas.

primus202 · 33分前

He makes some good points and outside of some unjust comparisons I agree with what he has to say. I came to this conclusion only because at no point in the video, from what I heard, does he say his views need to be forced on others.

His argument simply seems to be "Let's ensure trans people are psychologically ok and not rush to the operation room" which makes complete sense when talking about a permanent and dangerous surgery.

However if it were to come down to it, I bet the objective of his talking/therapy sessions would be focused on "fixing" the person's transgender feelings (as clued by his absurd comparison of trans-men and tomboys). I'd favor more of an explorative and self-discovery goal to help that person determine what's best for them of their own volition.

OverJealousRapidToad · 11時間前

I would actually like to see what is going in your brain biochemically when suffering from disorders like the one he mentioned (Body Integrity Identity Disorder) and compare it to Gender Dysphoria.

Edit: Found this paper that explores the subject. You can download the pdf and this particular comparison begins at the end of page 3.

Marie_Klee · 7時間前

Hmm, I used to be an atheist but this video on a unique perspective of transgenderism convinced me that there might be some legitimate truth to dedicating my life to Jesus Christ.

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FreshPrinceofMN · 7時間前

Wow, I was in a wedding this weekend and this is my best friends cousin who married them.

digitalinfidel · 3時間前

I'm a dolphin. Doc, set me up. And all y'all muthafuckas best be supporting me or you gonna get sued. My rights. It's who I am. A dolphin.

mm2222 · 13時間前

Take religion out of it, he's actually got a valid point!

blackeys · 7時間前

Damn. He's good looking.

Freddy216b · 5時間前

I'm going to say it here because it's relevant to the subject and I need to say it somewhere. Please remember reddiquette in discussions about sensitive topics like this.

Don't downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don't personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you're downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.

So that being said, here's my thoughts. I do not understand the gender identification situation. The way I see it is if you have a Y chromosome you are a male AND a man. Two X's is a female AND woman. That's what your biology dictates so that should be what you are.

These conditions do not however mean you have to fall into the "classic gender roles" that do still exist in our society. I don't mind at all if a man wants to be a stay at home father and the woman is the bread winner, that's great. If a woman doesn't want kids for whatever reason, she doesn't have to just because society says she should.

And here's what this all leads to in my mind. If you are a specific sex but don't feel the associated gender represents you isn't this a mental illness? You feel you're actually something you just aren't. A male body produces testosterone which should affect the brain in a specific way so if you feel that differently something might be wrong. Same goes for women.

I know people will not agree with me and I'm going to catch a lot of flak for this but it's just my thinking and my opinion. And i'm also sure I didn't articulate this in the best way but i'm not sure I know how to get my thoughts more concise in this comment.

RamenAvenger · 9時間前

He's right, we are who we are. If you're a man who wants to be a woman, you're not a woman, you're a man who wants to be a woman. Bruce Jenner is a man who likes to dress as a woman and takes hormones so he will have more female features. He's not a woman. We can call him a "she" out of respect for him as an individual but it makes him no more a woman than he was before.

kempff · 8時間前

Mike Rowe's slightly flamboyant little brother.

PlaceForMyPonies · 4時間前

What he is saying sounds perfectly reasonable, but is completely off base.

curiouslifeform · 8時間前

While his arguments sound very logical on the surface I think this man is very wrong and misguided.

Christians love to serve up their judgments in a wrapping paper of love. Basically, although he pretends to be following his calling to "walk" with people and listen, he really is fundamentally saying that a person's preferences are wrong.

It is true that some people with body dismorphia need to be helped. At some point we should probably take over and prevent someone from causing themselves further harm. I think this pertains to the person who is deathly thin and perceives themselves overweight. It also pertains to someone wanting their hand removed.

But on the other end of the spectrum we have to respect people's choices. Giving a person boobs is not much different than changing the shape of their nose. And it isn't crippling. Cutting of a penis and creating a fake vagina is a strange choice in my mind. But I can't see it as disfiguring as cutting off a hand or starving yourself to death. Thus I think it falls into the category of things we should let people do to themselves.

His logic can be used against homosexuality as well: "no, you just think you're attracted to the same sex; its not natural - you weren't actually made that way - let us help you get back to reality".

The problem with his perception vs reality argument is that the reality we live in is partially created by the choices we make and who we choose to become. Who am I to say that a person born as a man can't choose to become a woman? Even if I dispute that Bruce Jenner IS a woman trapped in a man's body, I don't feel the need to prevent him from transforming, and living as much as a woman in whatever ways he chooses that enable him to feel that way. It doesn't hurt me and it really is NOT clear (whatever the head of Johns Hopkins Psychiatric Department says) that it hurts Bruce Jenner. Maybe preventing him from following that path, whatever its end, is MORE destructive to Bruce Jenner than allowing it. Human suffering is part of the universe. Its a certainty. Pretending that Christianity has a solution to Human suffering is not the path Jesus laid out. Bottom line: we have the power to create our own identities (to an extent at least) thus our preferences and choices shape reality. Obviously so do the permanent, purely external forces of the universe. But that's not to say that humans don't live in a multi dimensional reality in which there is a plane of existence of ideas and feelings - a plane of existence whose quality is subjective experience. This guy wants to pretend like our preferences must be based on some external reality - which makes sense when you think that he believes in a God that is the creator of everything - But the truth is that we are creators in our own right. We are sentient and have a creative spark within us that should be nurtured, not squashed. It may lead to some stange things but I welcome that.

Edit: I don't love that so many people here on reddit seem to jump at this guy's seeming logic. Its so . . . vulcan. The problem with logic (I learned from Captain Janeway) is that it can be used to justify just about anything. Logic needs to be used while also acknowledging all that we don't know. The unending mystery of the universe need to be embedded into every logical line of reasoning. During the Enlightenment period we saw ourselves as logical beings - different from all other animals. But we are also emotional beings and our emotions give a starting point for use of logic. Cut that off and all you have is a string of logic, unattached to anything. Its like a loose rope. It may have structural integrity, but it isn't doing anything useful. Some people seem to wanna just sit around making rope like some kind of weird masturbatory fetish.

Also, it is to my continual dismay that Christians constantly want to force their beliefs on everyone else. This guy is using an internal system of belief masquerading as universal truth. I really believe that Jesus preached love and acceptance. Christians always seem to stray from that. According to this guy all we have to do is follow the blatant, black-and-white truth of reality laid out for us by God and we'd live without suffering. To me these waters are so nebulous that I don't know what is right or wrong so it is a situation where I think Bruce Jenner gets to choose for himself. I do see a totally plausible reality in which Bruce Jenner's genetic expression gives him the body of a man while telling him he's a woman. Even if that isn't true (which we might never know) and even if it is true that he only thinks he's a woman or wants to become a woman

vaderprime923 · 6時間前

what I get from this video is that identifying with the social constructs of the gender that you feel more comfortable with is fine, because as he mentioned they are arbitrary, and there is no reason why a man could not identify with the gender stereotypes of women. But, I think he's trying to say that if after that, the person still feels uncomfortable with themselves, that getting a sex change is not the right move because it doesn't help, and that the person really needs love and support from their loved ones to come to peace with themselves. And if this is the message he wants to make, I can agree.

Sixstringkiing · 3時間前

Im have always thought of myself as a militant atheist and a raging liberal. I fucking despise conservatives and religious people... but I agree with this guy on this topic. I didnt watch all of it but the part at the start when he is saying we dont know what it is like to be the opposite sex and therefore cannot logically say we identify as the other sex makes sense.

Edit. Never mind. I watched it again and this guy is fucking stupid. He says "if our presception dosnt match up with reality then out preception must change." ... then why the fuck is he still religious? If he followed his own advice he would look around and see that there are no demons or angels or any of that religious bullshit and he would wake up and realize his religion is a lie. Instead he desperately hangs on to his bullshit beliefs in spite of the obvious reality that shows all that crap is made up. This guy is just a stupid hypocrite.

2720 · 3時間前

Pastor Don Draper

gaiapunk · 2時間前

This guy doesn't know what the hell he is talking about at all and if you find yourself agreeing with him I really suggest you take a college-level anthropology class

4long · 2時間前

transubstantiation but not transgenderism? whats the medical consensus on god-flesh-wafer, you collared virgin?

Imnimo · 2時間前

If gender dysmorphia is merely a perceptual problem, why do transgender people often show brain characteristics of the sex they identify as instead of their chromosomal sex?

The video presents an internally consistent narrative, but unfortunately one that is inconsistent with the evidence.

elmarko44 · 1時間前

Gender is either male or female? Nothing in between?

Ask an anthropologist to demonstrate how many species change sex in single-sex environments, then ask a priest to turn water into wine.

Let me know which one happens first.

scottdog64 · 8時間前

Father Mike! Guys I went to college where Father Mike is the priest and he is awesome! Really passionate and approachable for the students. I actually remember him giving a homily talking about this a couple years ago. Super nice and great guy. Also, athletic and very competitive.

matafubar · 6時間前

The main question is "What makes someone mentally a woman/man". When a person feels they are transgender, what specifically are they feeling that makes them feel like a man or feel like a woman?

mrfundementalone · 5時間前

Also, "judgment" and "assessment" are synonymous. Judging isn't necessarily a bad thing, which I think this guy is hoping to avoid by calling his opinions "assessments."

Penguinswin3 · 5時間前

I wish my pastor wasn't a 70 year old man.

parentingandvice · 4時間前

Biases I identified at work while watching this video (my own): - He is handsome, I am more likely to agree with him (so now I have to disagree!) - He is a priest, everything he says will somehow be related to "backwards Christian stuff," I must disagree with him. - He is well spoken and polite, I kind of like this guy (resist!)

Anyway, it was nice to hear someone make a point politely and without bringing up religion (other than wearing a collar). From what I gather, he thinks being transgender is like having a mental disorder, mentions some other, clearly hazardous mental illnesses. Ok, not the worst thing he can think, he seems pretty nice about it.

But then I think, why is he making this video? Is it to tell Catholics to be nicer, is it to make a point that transgender is not an ok mental state? Both?

Who knows. Live and let live is how I see it.

LawrenceDale · 4時間前

Mr. Man, Thank you for doing this video. I found your point very interesting and thought provoking. Aligning reality and perception is a very hard thing to do. I love the quote, "Be the change you want to see in the world." Seems like that is a quote of a person perceiving reality and wanting to change it. Don't we all perceive reality in different ways? Is that not what has given rise to new trains of thought in social movements, or technology? What is reality but a build up of other peoples preconceptions?

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Batman Vs. Superman	7 - He looks like what I'd imagine Bruce Wayne would look like.
(1) Hjernevask (Brainwash) 1/7 - The Gender Equality Paradox – (Eng. sub - HQ) (2) Horizon - 2014-2015 7. Is your Brain Male or Female	6 - We were talking about gender in sub today and this video is relevant to the discussion. It asks these questions and tries to answer them. and
(1) NGC - Taboo - B.I.I.D. Body Integrity Identity Disorder - David Openshaw (2) Woman Wants To Be Permanently Paralysed: Body Integrity Identity Disorder	1 - The B.I.I.D documentary I think he is referring to and this video Woman Wants To Be Permanently Paralysed: Body Integrity Identity Disorder
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?	1 - It's odd that the word atheist even exists. I don't play golf. Is there a word for non-golf players? Do non-golf players gather and stragtegize? Do non-skiers have a word and come together and talk about the fact that they don&#3...
Fr. Robert Barron on "The Dark Knight" (Spoilers)	1 - To second Balrogath, if you're serious, Fr. Barron is another Catholic priest whose social commentary is an easy introduction to the Catholic perspective. Here he is talking about Batman in "The Dark Knight."

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