Wibbs wrote: » Actually. Nope. I'm afraid that's a massive misconception. The Papuans and various Amazonian cultures have quite clear boundaries where "nudity" comes in. It may not be immediately obvious to outsiders but they're very much present. EG in some Amazonian cultures where the women appear buck naked to Western eyes they may wear body paint and a cord belt. To the locals this means they're "dressed". If a woman was to walk out in public minus those "clothed" cultural markers she would be regarded as naked, a sexual being, even shameful. A more obvious difference would be between devout Muslims who consider a woman not wearing a headscarf to be somehow "naked" and something to be pointed at and shamed, whereas a western woman in a string bikini in her society is not seen as naked. So this European idea of tribal innocents frolicking in a pre civilised state that became popular centuries ago is a pure invention. Pretty much the only sub section of societies anywhere that considers mixed sex nudity as fine are to be found in nudist folks in the West.
LLMMLL wrote: » I’d reserve judgement on that. I’d like to hear from trans people who makes no changes to their outward appearance. I don’t even know if they exist. I’d like to know if they would want to use female changing rooms and if so why.
Brian? wrote: » All you’ve done here is prove my point. A societies definition of what constitutes nudity is entirely subjective and not inate. It’s a societal construct, not some instinct to hide. Unless you have evidence to the contrary?
Merrick Jealous Monogamy wrote: » Ah sorry, were you specifically referring to the islamic women who wanted the swim classes without the presence of men? I missed that part.
Malayalam wrote: » If they don't exist then why oh why has there been this palaver about the Gender Recognition Certificate being made available to people who do not pursue gender affirming procedures? Seems a bit excessive that groups have advocated on behalf of non existent people.
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » We've a high proportion of Muslim female students in my College and the toilets were changed to gender neutral without consultation - no one thought of their feelings in this. Wee bits of things who have only just gone from being chaperoned, to being expect to take off their headscarves in front of men. It's upsetting to them.
LLMMLL wrote: » You just keep saying you’re uncomfortable. That’s not what I asked. I’m asking what accommodations should be made for you discomfort and why does that differ from people who have discomfort surrounding gay people.
LLMMLL wrote: » I don’t believe someone who has not transitioned and has made no effort to change their outward appearance would have any interest in using the female changing rooms
Merrick Jealous Monogamy wrote: » He clarified that your were wrong in your assertion that it was an oppressive religious organisational thing that shamed us out of nudity and into clothes.
LLMMLL wrote: » Do trans women who don’t have procedures usually present as outwardly Male? Short hair, no makeup, men’s clothes etc?
LLMMLL wrote: » I really don’t see the issue with a small group of people, One woman and one family, living a very niche lifestyle. Nobody is entertaining it apart from the three adults involved. It’s not a societal issue.Also the pedo reference is a little silly. Not every odd behaviour around children is about having sex with them.
Brian? wrote: » No he didn’t. I was talking about the way nudity is viewed in Ireland.
I know it’s not acceptable. I’m asking why though? I think I know why, but it’s a convoluted theory based on religious oppression of the masses. Mainly the Abrhamic religions
Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: » When it comes to your kids, you need to consider the worst case scenario though in order to protect them. An adult identifies as a child? That’s fine. They wouldn’t be allowed act that out near any child of mine.
Brian? wrote: » Understandable. But realistically if you Pareto out the statistics on sex offenders who target children, where do you think “strange man who pretends to be child” would stack up? I’d hazard a guess the top categories are parents, uncles/aunts, siblings, teachers, sports coaches, priests and nuns.
LLMMLL wrote: » I think it makes people more comfortable to think they can spot paedophiles by odd behaviour.
Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » ? This is what I responded to. You didn’t quite explain your theory but if it’s just the Abrahamic religions you can consider that debunked.
fattymuatty wrote: » Do you grade all women on what they look like or just trans women?
Rory28 wrote: » Massive red flags about an adult who identifies as a child. If something happened it would only be the parents fault for not acknowleding that this mentally unbalanced adult should not be around kids. I agree about the toilets/lockerroom tho. I dont think surgery is neccssary for them to use the lockerroom if they outwardly present as the gender they identify with. I think they are unneccessary surgeries as well. Why change something that is functional and healthy?
LLMMLL wrote: » No idea what you’re on about
fattymuatty wrote: » Really? You do realise you have spent the last god knows how many posts talking about outward appearance. Since when does short hair, no make up and men's clothes(whatever they are?) have any bearing on anything? They certainly don't determine who is male and who is female or determine anything at all actually.
pumpkin4life wrote: » Here's the setup. We have two samples of people. Sample one is made up of people who don't have a fetish about dressing up as a kid. Sample two is made up of people who do have a fetish about dressing up as a kid. You can separate these two groups out, by well, having this fetish. So the question is that: Given that some creep has a dressing up as a kid fetish, what is the probability that that man is going to harm the kid? Whether it is sexual abuse, mental harm, etc? We take all the people in this sample and then we apply these conditional probabilities. And furthermore, what is the probability that this guy is a creep in other ways, given that he has this fetish? Sample one has far more people in it, but as a percentage, sample two has far more creepy cùnts in it. The size of the group doesn't necessarily matter, because that is not the question you are asking.
LLMMLL wrote: » But they might influence what changing room one would want to use. Like I said I’d be interested to hear from a trans person on these issues. I’m happy to admit I have zero idea on trans people who don’t make any changes to their outward appearance, or what changing room these trans people would want to use. I’m open minded on the issue.
ceadaoin. wrote: » There are plenty of men who would want to use the female changing rooms for nefarious reasons. How do you propose we keep women safe if female spaces are no longer sex segregated and challenging or feeling uncomfortable about being naked around a biological male stranger is now "bigotry"?
LLMMLL wrote: » I don’t believe there are plenty of men who would want to use female changing rooms.