tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post2567976493614824403..comments2023-06-25T01:20:35.889-07:00Comments on Very Rarely Stable: Why my gender sometimes embarrasses meDaniel Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05944461326199566111noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-58865410824048128372014-12-04T22:35:20.358-08:002014-12-04T22:35:20.358-08:00Thank you for your comment, Kay. I'm afraid m...Thank you for your comment, Kay. I'm afraid my reading on the subject has been limited to works aimed at lay audiences, and I'm not familiar with some of the terminology you use: I can make a guess at what "autogynephilic" means, but I would not be confident in it.<br />Thank you especially for your kind remarks about me "taking care to be rational". It does require considerable care -- I can go off on great flights of fancy if I don't watch myself. Much the same goes for "sensitivity to women"; my involvement in feminism is strongly motivated by feelings of guilt and shame about the many times when I have, through thoughtlessness, been part of the problem.Daniel Copelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05944461326199566111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-8378344890554081042014-12-03T20:26:26.324-08:002014-12-03T20:26:26.324-08:00Mr. Copeland,
I just discovered your blog this ev...Mr. Copeland,<br /><br />I just discovered your blog this evening, and though I've only read a fraction, I will be coming back for more, as I deeply enjoy the care you take to be rational and observe the data, only making those inferences that are supported by the evidence.<br /><br />I'm also heartened by your sensitivity to both women and transfolk. As a transwoman, who transitioned as a teen, I rarely see a *rational* discussion of the matter (even from those who are someone on one of the two "transgender spectrums"<br /><br />You make some exploratory questions regaring 'female-typical' and 'male-typical' sexual arousal patterns, noting that gay and straight men are more alike than different (at least in comparison to women). This would be in agreement with another issue found with both populations, that both are also very "catagory specific" in their arousal patterns where women (except masculine lesbians) are not. (We need to come back to this, as it would seem that the study you reference is NOT in agreement with the catagory specificity data on women... as by definition, "bisexual" arousal is what is not catagory specific... Anyways, back to my point, it seemed that you wondered if that same aroual pattern dimorphism would follow gender identity (using transgender people as the probe) or would it follow natal sex. Well, interesting question! But if you did the experiment naively, you would run into a very nasty surprise confound in that there are not ONE type of "transgender", but TWO. Please visit my blog for more details, both on the descriptions of these two taxa, but also on the studies that confirm this observation of two taxa (separate etiologies and symptomologies).<br /><br />I don't have a strong opinion on one of the types, the "gender atypical" / "homosexual"... but I can just about guarentee that the "autogynephilic" will fit the male-typical response pattern, having observed them (far too closely that I would have liked) for nearly forty years, they are defininately going to show the male-typical response pattern! <br /><br />Finally, as a social comment, while many men do "squig" the moment they find out that a transwomen still has her penis, most actually only squig AFTER they have (ahem) been satiated. It is in that moment when she might be in very grave danger, emotionally, physcially, and even for her life: http://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/one-in-twelve/ <br /><br />BTW, I would love to correspond with you a bit: formertranskid@gmail.com<br /><br />==Kay BrownAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-79425246607732894382014-10-20T18:32:41.890-07:002014-10-20T18:32:41.890-07:00Maybe because it was an en dash, not a hyphen. So...Maybe because it was an en dash, not a hyphen. Some platforms can be funny about Unicode characters.Daniel Copelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05944461326199566111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-8319324055036922982014-10-20T15:42:15.113-07:002014-10-20T15:42:15.113-07:00Huh. Oh, wow. I read your post in my Feedly feed a...Huh. Oh, wow. I read your post in my Feedly feed and it TOOK OUT THE HYPHEN between the 5 and the 7, and I didn't see it until I posted the comment above. I take my comment back. :)Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10122648603079737993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-41658592658118797622014-10-20T15:41:02.433-07:002014-10-20T15:41:02.433-07:00I agree with pretty much everything, but I'm c...I agree with pretty much everything, but I'm confused by this sentence: "Even reducing that 5% by the proportion of men who catcall and otherwise harass women they find attractive, which has to be more than 57% because thats the approximate proportion of men who have committed rape, still doesnt bring it down to the actual number." Are you saying that 57% of men in the world have committed rape? If you are, I'm very surprised...Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10122648603079737993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-59662230751522967332014-10-17T15:56:29.952-07:002014-10-17T15:56:29.952-07:00If you think that women are 'barely wimpering&...If you think that women are 'barely wimpering' about this issue then you really aren't listening very hard. Unfortunately the media gives no more f*cks than it did when I was a 'young impressionable'. At least there's selfies now though, where real women can celebrate how they actually look in real life. A portrayal of the variety of female (using that term very losely) appearances that reflect reality to counter those sold to us by the media.Debbie Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-89933148808653151542014-10-16T14:07:38.080-07:002014-10-16T14:07:38.080-07:00OK. I just read as far as that secret Facebook gro...OK. I just read as far as that secret Facebook group and I'm appalled. PLEASE get this shut down. That's bloody disgusting and if I found out anyone was sharing photos of me or any of my friends without our consent I would press charges. Immediately. And yes, I would get the bastard slung in jail. And if I couldn't do that, I'd happily cut the bastard's balls off with a VERY blunt knife, and happily go to jail for the "crime" myself.<br /><br />This sort of thing must STOP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-28363242983472605632014-10-16T13:40:14.060-07:002014-10-16T13:40:14.060-07:00good read dawggood read dawgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648480292622180743.post-66130864027803988732014-10-16T13:33:25.691-07:002014-10-16T13:33:25.691-07:00Refreshing to have read someone state that men and...Refreshing to have read someone state that men and women are not chalk and cheese,or Mars and Venus. I can't help but believe that John Gray has done few favours for the world, but that's just me. The group of photo sharers you mention, sound totally abhorrent, but are probably just sadly misguided. <br /><br />Sadly, it seems women are becoming as large a part of the phallogocentric behaviour pattern as men these days, through choice. Never before has the goal of *perfection*, been so unachievable, thanks to the joys of Photoshop et al. And yet women (ok, and men), continue to allow their bodies to be deformed by the media with barely a whimper. Do they really not know the effect this is having on young impressionable females, and males? I feel that we are all in a similar meting pot, one that is stirred by the Media. Bhttp://www.raggedpoet.comnoreply@blogger.com