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Miss Universe has a little secret...

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Im sorry if I hurt your feelings , your here! your q.... etc .
    so please dont get you're frilly knickers in a bunch. x

    The sad thing is you're as proud of that nonsense as you are of your equally moronic "cats in crufts" analogy.

    Try having less awful opinions, or if you can't do that at least stop voicing them.
    It'll do you wonders.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,113 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Electroshock treatment is really the most cost effective and humane treatment.



    It does if they expect the State to pay for the purely cosmetic and non health related operation.
    If they pay for it themselves, fine, go knock yourself out.

    But it doesn't end there.
    They push to force the rest of society to accept them through legislation.
    Why should we be forced to play along with someone else's delusion?


    ...so when was it you got traumatised by that lady-boy?:confused:




    :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    hondasam wrote: »
    I have to be honest and say no I would not. There would be lots of reasons.

    thank you for an honest reply , can I ask would one of those reasons be because you would be really dating a man ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Seachmall wrote: »
    If I got surgery to look like a giraffe, could I get employed at a petting zoo?



    (I'd make a great giraffe by the way.)

    You've some neck you have !



    Sorry




    No I'm not!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Einhard wrote: »
    Also, considering the massive complexity of the human mind, I think it far safer to change the body to suit the mind, rather than going down the route of attempting to re-wire someone psychologically in order to match their body. That's a hugely complex and dangerous area to be tinkering with.

    Actually it's much easier, cheaper and less dangerous.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Nope, I threw in a trolling remark, as I was being asked for a solution that doesn't exist, so I gave any old answer.
    We're being asked to accept people with psychological defects and pretend they're normal.

    And even if that were true, what exactly would be the problem with that?

    And since you don't think there's anything that can be done to "cure" transgender people, why not let them have the operation if it might at the very least give them some piece of mind?

    I guess you'd rather they lived in mental torment, which, as has already been pointed out, leads to disproportionate suicide rates among people who don't identify with their biological identity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    The sad thing is you're as proud of that nonsense as you are of your equally moronic "cats in crufts" analogy.

    Try having less awful opinions, or if you can't do that at least stop voicing them.
    It'll do you wonders.

    ok sweet cheeks , we'll agree to disagree.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    ok sweet cheeks , we'll agree to disagree.

    Hardly. That would be legitimising your terrible ideas and I see no reason to be that kind to you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Flincher


    Seachmall wrote: »
    I see Miss Thailand taking it in 2013.

    And 2014.

    And 2015.

    And 2016.

    And...

    Miss Thailand won't always be taking it.

    She might a giver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    thank you for an honest reply , can I ask would one of those reasons be because you would be really dating a man ?

    I'm female. I would have to date a man who was actually born a woman. I know what you mean. It would be part of the reason plus the issue of children.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    ...so when was it you got traumatised by that lady-boy?:confused:

    That scene in Hangover 2 I think happen to creeping


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭Hamhide


    i tryed to kill myself twice and if i didnt get help and talk to the super awesome James Kelly himself I probably wont be here...let me tell everyone it doesnt matter what way u were orn in whats inside you and how you fell thats important.

    If i makes u happy to travel the world,drink yourself silly to become a woman or a man then whats the problem? I'm very early into my transitation but i'm already 100times happyer then i was before.I can imagine how it would feel for a transgirl to win miss universe or a transman to win mr.Olympia


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    hondasam wrote: »
    I'm female. I would have to date a man who was actually born a woman. I know what you mean. It would be part of the reason plus the issue of children.

    oh , tbh I really dont have anything against people who are transgender , gay , lesbian , or whatever , in fact I think its good to be who you are , I just think miss Universe should be for real women , I mean there has to be a line drawn somewhere or whats next ??? the world is crazy enough as it is.


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭Hamhide


    born* sorry


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    That scene in Hangover 2 I think happen to creeping

    Nope, I'm just speaking out on the side of common sense here.

    The only way a natural born man should be allowed to enter Miss World is through vaginal penetration.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Hmm transgender, any gender, same gender, opposite gender...who cares?, consenting adults can do as they please in my mind....(and THATS where 95% of an Orgasm is anyway.)..

    live and let live, be happy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 178 ✭✭Manco


    The transphobic scum doing themselves proud again on AH, I see...


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭Hamhide


    its hard not to feed the trolls.they look so hunrgy :3


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  • Site Banned Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Andy!!


    Bet they were GLAAD.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    oh , tbh I really dont have anything against people who are transgender , gay , lesbian , or whatever , in fact I think its good to be who you are , I just think miss Universe should be for real women , I mean there has to be a line drawn somewhere or whats next ??? the world is crazy enough as it is.

    So your saying it should be for women born women, why?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    Sharrow wrote: »
    So your saying it should be for women born women, why?

    ???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    So...does this mean that a person born a woman and had the operation to become a man is now no longer welcome to enter the Miss Universe competition?

    (Not that they'd want to, I assume.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Manco wrote: »
    The transphobic scum doing themselves proud again on AH, I see...

    The freak show has marched through AH again on yet another "pride parade" as soon as any transexual story is posted in mainstream news.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Fair play to the lads


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭phill106


    If men who underwent transgender operations to become women retained superior strength and size (obviously not all men are bigger and stronger than women, but it's generally true) then that would be unfair.
    If they lost these advantages, then it would probably be fine.
    If that is the case then, if a man had surgery to become a woman, including for instance a boob job, would (s)he then be disqualified from a beauty contest?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Confab wrote: »
    Indeed. Men with grafted-on tits are not women. Still weirdly attractive though.

    Half the "real" women probably have "grafted-on" tits.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Nope, I'm just speaking out on the side of common sense here.

    What explicitly about the Miss Universe contest demands that the entrants be "natural born women" - is there some advantage that would be conferred to transgender contestants? Or a section in this prestigious event that would be impossible to perform for a transgendered person?
    What aspect of a beauty contest would be undone that having a transgendered person enter?

    Please let us know what the answer is. I mean unless you're just trying to dress up your ill thought through ideas with the pretence of "common sense" that is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    she's not the first one to be disqualified-

    http://pageantuniverse.blogspot.com/2008/12/pageant-trivia-dethroned-disqualified.html

    she IS the first one to hire a well known celebrity lawyer to promote herself fight her case after being disqualified, and i'd say the thoughts of the money involved changed donald trump's mind more than anything else!

    also it's pretty much an irrelevant fapfest nowadays so they had to find some way to get it more publicity and have it remain somewhat relevant.

    now i wonder when they'll stop the age discrimination and discriminating against women who have children... :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    I want to have an operation to become a Ford Fiesta and enter into a car show. oh wait.... I was born a man , ah crap :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I want to have an operation to become a Ford Fiesta and enter into a car show. oh wait.... I was born a man , ah crap :(

    yeah thats the same thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    I want to have an operation to become a Ford Fiesta and enter into a car show. oh wait.... I was born a man , ah crap :(

    You do understand that analogies usually have to have at least some relation to the situation you're attempting to comment on, right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    The freak show has marched through AH again on yet another "pride parade" as soon as any transexual story is posted in mainstream news.


    I have been waiting for someone else to say all the things you have been saying in this thread so thank you.

    I see people saying ahh sure let them do what they like what harm are they doing......

    I could just respond to that by saying well im doing no harm in having my own opinion.

    Unfortunately thats not how it works in these situations though is it ;).

    We live in a world where we say and do and feel what ever we chose to at the end of the day.

    Everyone has there own opinions deal with it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    You do understand that analogies usually have to have at least some relation to the situation you're attempting to comment on, right?

    I know I wasnt completely serious , I just think you have to play the hand your dealt in life , and if that means not entering a pagent, well , life is tough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I have been waiting for someone else to say all the things you have been saying in this thread so thank you.

    I see people saying ahh sure let them do what they like what harm are they doing......

    I could just respond to that by saying well im doing no harm in having my own opinion.

    Unfortunately thats not how it works in these situations though is it ;).

    We live in a world where we say and do and feel what ever we chose to at the end of the day.

    Everyone has there own opinions deal with it.

    "its my opinion" is the go to response for ignorant bigots who cant fathom there are people who dont share their close minded views.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Everyone has there own opinions deal with it.

    Most people think theirs through, though.
    I know I wasnt completely serious , I just think you have to play the hand your dealt in life , and if that means not entering a pagent, well , life is tough.

    Well, it's rather easy to say "play the hand you're dealt" when the deck is stacked in your favour, isn't it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    krudler wrote: »
    "its my opinion" is the go to response for ignorant bigots who cant fathom there are people who dont share their close minded views.

    Not being able to fathom that others do not share your views is not exclusive to people who are on just the one side of this discussion. You do know that right ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    Most people think theirs through, though.



    Well, it's rather easy to say "play the hand you're dealt" when the deck is stacked in your favour, isn't it.

    maybe so , suppose its hard to put yourself in that situation , so its difficult to grasp , but would not taking part in a pagent be the end of the universe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Morlar wrote: »
    Not being able to fathom that others do not share your views is not exclusive to people who are on just the one side of this discussion. You do know that right ?

    Ah, but one side has the rule of law to fall back on.

    If you don't accept that, can we use electroshock treatment on you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    if your birth cert says you're a man, then you're a man, and entering a pageant, whinging or parading around town in the most flamboyant of clothing is not going to change that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭gypsy_rose


    Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise the great importance and influence the Miss Universe contest has, God forbid someone change the rules and the winner looks pretty and does good works/representation/whatever the hell they do.

    Is there a shortage of female born women on the internet to jack off to or something?


  • Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Eramen


    Manco wrote: »
    The transphobic scum doing themselves proud again on AH, I see...

    'Transphobic', what a nice word.. You don't like a persons opinion so now you're trying to intimidate and de-legitimise because you don't want to engage in reasoned debate with them.

    If you have to resort to name-calling and a cultural-marxist ideological framework you really have nothing to back up an opinion with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Ah, but one side has the rule of law to fall back on.

    If you don't accept that, can we use electroshock treatment on you?

    to be fair, the electro option is far less expensive than the other option some of these gay men who want to be women are constantly trying to get the government to pay for.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    genericguy wrote: »
    if your birth cert says you're a man, then you're a man, and entering a pageant, whinging or parading around town in the most flamboyant of clothing is not going to change that.

    They can get birth certs changed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    genericguy wrote: »
    if your birth cert says you're a man, then you're a man, and entering a pageant, whinging or parading around town in the most flamboyant of clothing is not going to change that.

    They get their birth certs changed to reflect their current gender.

    Didn't you know?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    They can get birth certs changed

    that ultimately doesn't change the fact that they were born men, though, does it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    phill106 wrote: »
    If that is the case then, if a man had surgery to become a woman, including for instance a boob job, would (s)he then be disqualified from a beauty contest?

    If they were judged to have to have cosmetic surgery designed to make them more conventionally attractive, rather than just hormone treatments and basic surgery, then yes, I think they should be disqualified if the competition bans the other contestants from having cosmetic surgery.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    They get their birth certs changed to reflect their current gender.

    Didn't you know?

    Yep, I did, however I can scribble on mine that I'm Ballabriggs but that doesn't mean I have a right to run in the fking grand national now, does it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    genericguy wrote: »
    They can get birth certs changed

    that ultimately doesn't change the fact that they were born men, though, does it?

    That's not what you said. So if their birth says they're a woman, then they're a woman


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    maybe so , suppose its hard to put yourself in that situation , so its difficult to grasp , but would not taking part in a pagent be the end of the universe?

    I'll turn that question on it's head - what reason can you give as to why a transgendered person should not be be allowed to enter Miss Universe? Would they be gifted an unfair advantage? Or would there be aspects of the pageant they'd be incapable of performing?

    If we accept it's a beauty contest and as such is simply about outward appearances then what's the issue?


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