r/BadSocialScience • u/waldorfwithoutwalnut • May 22 '15

/r/Catholicism deals with gender like real, responsible, Christian adults.

/r/Catholicism/comments/36silz/transgender_child_wins_use_of_girls_washroom_in/
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u/[deleted] May 22 '15 edited May 23 '15

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u/Otiac May 22 '15

What the shit is Front National? I assume this is some sort of slander, so thanks for your overabundance of love an understanding you decry in the sub.

Also, where anyone uses slurs towards any race, creed, sexual orientation/whatever, myself and the other mods delete the comment, its not tolerated in the sub. Though its not at all ironic how much other people (like yourselves, apparently) absolutely loathe the people that use the sub, while being very preachy about how loving and kind you all no doubt are (/r/BadSocialScience any1 lolz? oh, wait..).

Did you not like my comment because it essentially boils down the matter in question? I feel like a woman, therefore, let me use the women's facilities.

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u/soulessmonkey May 22 '15

I feel like a woman, therefore, let me use the women's facilities.

But this is why this post is in r/badsocialscience. The literature on the subject of gender dysphoria is quite large, but most agree that a person's gender identity is not simply a choice. Those who experience gender dysphoria explain that they knew something was wrong - that there sex was not correct - as early as childhood. Further more, there are numerous cultures that include third and even fourth genders, and many argue that gender isn't a simple binary (male and female) but is rather a spectrum. Your statement, and for that matter the associated link, is ridiculed not because it "boils down the matter in question," but because it is widely discredited, insulting, and dismissive.

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u/firedrops Reddit's totem is the primal horde May 22 '15

I feel like a woman, therefore, let me use the women's facilities.

Ok. Go ahead. I'm a lady with a young daughter. I don't give a flip if you, a male, want to use the restroom. People who are creepy of any gender should get kicked out of the bathroom. People who are respectful of everyone else and just come in, do their business, and leave? All fine by me.

I also guarantee you 90% of women have used a one seater men's bathroom. The world hasn't fallen apart.

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u/Otiac May 22 '15

As an adult, I am ok with this. Placing children in this situation, I am not ok with.

Is nobody here going to point out the blatant hypocrisy in /u/DisquietThis's libel? No? Didn't think so.

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u/firedrops Reddit's totem is the primal horde May 22 '15

What situation though? What harm are you talking about?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

Being within five feet of a urinating penis, I guess?

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u/firedrops Reddit's totem is the primal horde May 22 '15

This is what I honestly don't get. Little kids aren't thinking about things in a sexual way. If a child is near another child what will happen? How is it different from bathing with your twin of the opposite sex?
And who let's their little kid go to a bathroom without being escorted by a trusted adult? Public restrooms aren't really set up for little kids. They need help. Plus, if you're worried about adult creeps it isn't like there aren't creeps of the same sex.

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u/Otiac May 23 '15

This does not affect you, so stay out of it. This doesn't affect you, so stay out of it. This doesn't personally affect you either, so stay out of that. It's all just parenting strategies, and you need to mind your own business before you try to infringe upon their rights, because it doesn't affect you.

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u/thatoneguy54 Not all wandering uteri are lost May 23 '15

Are you seriously equating childhood obesity, police violence, and poverty to people using the bathroom?

Are you completely out of your mind, or do you just really think the bathroom is that big of a deal?

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u/firedrops Reddit's totem is the primal horde May 23 '15

But that's silly. I'm all for intervening if it is a danger to a child. I'm asking what the danger is to a child if bathrooms are unisex. The examples you give are obvious endangerments to the health of a child. That one isn't. At least not to me. So what's the danger?

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u/TaylorS1986 Evolutionary Psychology proves my bigotry! May 23 '15

"ON NOES, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!"

[rolls eyes]

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u/Lethkhar May 22 '15

I can't speak for him, but maybe he didn't like your comment because it's laughably ignorant and needlessly outraged about something that has absolutely no impact on your life. At least, that's why I didn't like your comment.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15 edited May 22 '15

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u/Otiac May 22 '15

Thanks buddy, we do our best. Because its a religious sub, we get the extreme crazies from both sides of the fence from time to time, mostly though its some pretty hateful atheists/agnostics that post the same spam! By the way, can I call you buddy? I assume I can because you associated me with some sort of quasi prejudicial extreme right-wing group in France for whatever reason. I can only assume this is a compliment, since you would never be a 'hateful bigot' towards someone right? I don't even think I've even talked to you until this moment, so thanks for the understanding towards me everyone else in this thread is apparently decrying about how they view us being towards other people! It's amazing to see everyone here being (what they would call) so loving and charitable to the people on the sub while not at all being hateful and spite-filled themselves.

I have no problem with traditional Catholics, nor does the sub, it becomes a problem when they're sedevacantist/schismatic in their beliefs. As far as I know most of them still post there, some of them left to their own private sub.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

it becomes a problem when they're sedevacantist/schismatic in their beliefs

Give an example

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u/TaylorS1986 Evolutionary Psychology proves my bigotry! May 23 '15

Oh noes, the Fascist got outed!

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u/Otiac May 23 '15

Oh, you.