2) They don't have really any social circles that interests them, so no reason to do otherwise.
4) They have no exposure to anything else.
5) A fear of failure.
You can't expect to get exposure to anything else if you don't put yourself out there. It's a self-fulfilling vicious circle. Same as people who don't know who their neighbors are. What is so hard about knocking on their door and introducing yourself and inviting them over for a coffee? I do it whenever I see someone moving in. It's not hard. It's not scary. It's not creepy (okay, I can see how it could be creepy if a man did it, so this is one area where women should take the initiative, if only to compensate for the distrust society has sown towards men - even against each other), but I don't see ANYONE else doing it, of either sex.
As a society, we've become a bunch of unfriendly losers.
3) Other hobbies are expensive (for example, in my case I have other hobbies in amateur radio, hiking, fishing, hacker space events and building cars are far more expensive in my experience).
There are other activities that are cheap, or even free, that will put you together with like-minded people. For example, now that I'm retired, I volunteer 3 to 4 days a week (sometimes more) at the local food bank. I've met loads of people that way - other volunteers, people working off their community service, clients, flood victims who've lost everything. There are plenty of volunteer jobs that need people willing to help others, and yet, with all the people saying that they don't have anything else to do or don't know what else they can do to meet others, these jobs still go begging for people.
You can always go volunteer at the local animal shelter (a word of warning - it will probably break your heart). Offer to sit down for a coffee or tea with one of the residents at the local senior's place once a week - you'll make their day, and they're not as boring as you'd think. Help out at the local community center.
The most any of these costs is transportation. If you can bike or hike it, it's effectively free.
But people don't do it because they're afraid, as you pointed out, of failure, aka rejection.
That leaves #1
1) They find gaming fun.
Sure it's fun. It's also fun to have a board game night where you can invite a bunch of friends over to play Risk, Monopoly, poker ("are you feeling lucky, punk?:-) ), Pictionary, dominoes, whatever. Here, people set the pace instead of the machine, so there's time to take a break to eat and socialize, same as when you get knocked out of play. It takes the sting out of losing to the point that you really don't care who wins - it's the socializing that's fun. And all these games are pretty much accessible to anyone who wants to learn them, even if they're low vision or slow reaction time or not-the-best motor control or have to take frequent pee breaks
My casual observations is that women choose their pairing more on educational level matching theirs rather than any other metric.
Amen to that. One person pointing out things that are obvious to them but not to the other gets old and corrosive pretty fast. But trolling mensa isn't an option - one of the members is a guy I testified against at his murder trial. Plus I think mensa is for losers who are obviously not THAT intelligent if, unlike 99.7% of all geniuses, they are stupid enough to pay to join it. What a scam. It's like that "I am rich" iPhone app. Proof of the old adage that a fool and their money are quickly (and in this case easily) parted.
I don't know. Maybe I'll just have to settle for mind-blowing sex.:-)
I will most certainly continue to be judgmental against trolls like ArmoredDragon who make it a point of launching personal attacks whenever they encounter my posts as a way for them to feel better about themselves. Now, let me fill you in on the approval process for surgery, and why he's full of shit about his claims that I am a narcissist. Before approving you, they have to look for contra-indications, such as underlying mental problems, psychosis, delusional thinking, mania, etc. that may underlie the stated desire to change sex. No doing it because you want to run away from personal problems, or because you think it will magically change every aspect of your life for the better, open doors for jobs or opportunities, flee from past mistakes, etc. No personality disorders whatsoever. Otherwise, do not pass go, do not collect your approval letter, etc, until it is resolved, and possibly never. The strict vetting is one of the reasons why SRS has one of the highest success rates of any surgical medical intervention.
I'll take the word of 6 psychiatrists, a clinical psychologist, a therapist, and several other medical professionals, all of whom have seen me, over that asshole any day. My therapist was nice enough to share the results of all that while helping me deal with PTSD, and I also have the approval letter stating as much.
If you think there's ANY basis to his claims, you're being trolled. That's what he does. It's not like he has done anything constructive with his life all these years, so this is how he denies to himself that he's a waste of oxygen - even though it proves he's a waste of oxygen. Slashdot has become more and more of a collector for people who are bitter about their personal lives being such a waste, same as IT is especially attractive to people who lack social skills and retreat to the safety of relative isolation. It's also why so many women find IT toxic. Just read all the comments from guys who hate women because they got turned down when they were 18 and "needed someone." That's pretty objectifying of women - we're just there as a tool to help men feel adequate, instead of human beings who have every right to say no.
When I say no, I do it as gently as possible. I admit that others are not so tactful - but that applies to both sides. Guys on the subway who grope me and try to shove their tongue down my throat at 10 am don't deserve such consideration. Nor the ones who think it's okay to grab a tit out of the blue. Nor the ones who offer me money. But the rest of the guys, as long as they keep a civil tongue in their head and their hands to themselves, I am as polite as can be in my refusal, even if it's the 3rd or 5th or 10th time.
I certainly don't hate men. Heck, I used to be one myself. But that's also why I really, really know how some men think - I've repeatedly seen the bad behaviour among them when no other women were present and I hadn't yet transitioned, including an employer who stated that he would NEVER EVER hire a woman. Doesn't matter how qualified. Why? Because the guys would be "too distracted." Is this fair, that qualified women are barred from consideration because men can't control themselves? That I would never even been considered post-transition, because "women are a distraction?" I can't count the times I've stood there listening to nasty jokes and misogynist talk and felt like a traitor to both myself and all other women for not speaking out more forcefully.
That's my problem - I've seen both sides, and everyone who denies that the world isn't sexist is so self-deluded it isn't funny. They should try walking in my shoes for a while. I've experienced male privilege first-hand, as well as its' loss. But I wouldn't go back because what I've gained is, to me, so much better. The freedom to be me turned me from an introvert into an extrovert. I've got plenty of women who are on my side now. They know what I've given up in terms of status and power simply by virtue of being a man, because that status and power is rubbed into our faces ro
Aww, poor baby got a boo-boo on his ego. Fortunately, everyone I know in real life thinks:
1. I'm a great listener
2. I'm dependable
3. I'm good with animals
4. I'm funny when called for, serious when needed
5. I'm always ready to help
6. I have great legs (that's mostly other women saying it).
I just have zero tolerance for trolls on the web. So shit in my cornflakes all you want, but if you come around here and say anything against me, you'll get an earful from my neighbors and those I work with. I've proven my worth time and time again. You see, slashdot isn't real life, and the rules are different. Assholes go out of their way to attack me first, then get all butt-hurt when I hit back. Over and over and over, in every thread they see me post in. They're pitiful little worms. Actually, lower than worms. I have compassion for worms, when I see one drowning in a puddle on the sidewalk after a rain, I put it in the grass.
Nope. The guy who buries his head in his smartphone at supper is quickly replaced by others who want to sit with me when he's not around. As for the incident where everyone had their heads buried in their smartphones, they were like that before I got there, and the pattern continues to this day. Has nothing to do with me.
I'll say it again: I am better than you, and smarter than you. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Being afraid to ask for a job is now "performance anxiety"? No, your lack of a sex life is performance... well, not anxiety, but performance failure.
I'll say it again: I am better than you. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Yet another literature review using obsolete sources. What an idiot.
I'll say it again: I am better than you. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Nope. These are reviews, not actual clinical studies. Notice the name of one of the authors on one of them: Zucker - the same guy whose mis-diagnosis of children and subsequent abuse of them by trying to use reparative therapy got the CAMH gender clinic closed down. Also, the very first reference (and several others) on the other is to this same discredited asshole.
I'll say it again: As for who is superior, by any objective measure, I am. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Quoting yet another out of date study. This is 2017, and the more recent studies of estrogen use find ONLY benefits. Decreased risk of stroke, cardiovascular problems, etc. The study you quoted followed people taking estrogen before 1997, when only horse estrogen was used. Human estrogen doesn't have negative side effects because it's not horse estrogen, and doesn't contain over 50 contaminants. Again, buy a calendar. I've linked to the benefits of human estrogen before, so quit the lying.
And even that study said. and you quoted, the increased mortality rate was mainly due to non-hormonal reasons. The biggy is AIDS - which I don't have and will never get.
And remember, I'm not like you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself
Fucking idiot who failed reading comprehension. I'll quote the relevant part again:
the higher mortality rates are in comparison with the general populace (and not other transgender people who have not received treatment) and only apply to people who transitioned before 1989:
Go buy a calendar. You're 3 decades out of date.
Also, the shrink's report clearly states no other conditions were found except for anxiety disorder (ptsd) and major depressive disorder, which is understandable for someone who's had to see a murder up close and personal as a kid, and been violently sexually assaulted more recently.
So no, no narcissism. You're projecting yet again.
As for who is superior, by any objective measure, I am. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Don't compare "trannies" (which includes cross-dressers, drag queens, etc) with transsexuals. Two completely different kettles of fish. The first is a sexual fetish, the second a recognized medical condition with a treatment protocol with a 98% success rate - far better than almost all other major medical interventions. Certainly better than the 65% of gastric band patients who express regret.
10 years is more than enough time for a 10-year-old to reach the age of majority and make an informed decision. Here it's 18, or 16 with adequate adult supervision and guidance, which is far more conservative than abortion, which is available to 14-year-olds on demand without their parents being informed or having any right to see the medical records, same as for any other medical procedure except a sex change.
Men thinking with their dicks is directly related to differences in the sexes. It's pitiful to watch a group of guys all drooling when a 23-year-old job applicant comes in, no qualifications, and gets the job. Their post-interview conversation amongst themselves contained zero content about the actual job. Then again, this is a tech setting, where men will be boys.
As for the rest, unlike you, I offered links to back up what I said. And I was referring specifically to violent offenders because that's where testosterone has the most effect, both in quantity of offenders and severity of the crime.
onsider that both chemical and surgical castration [nih.gov] reduce the rate of repeat pedophile offenders from 50% to between 2% and 5%. Testosterone clearly plays a role.
Ok, but is that a change in risk-taking, libido, or some vague 'badness' that you obviously think men have?
How is that relevant to the fact that reducing testosterone cuts recidivism of pedophiles by more than 90%? Answer: it's not. It's a fact, and as such, it stands on its' own, no further justification required. However, to answer your question, I made it clear that increased testosterone affects both men and women in the same way, so obviously it's not "some vague badness" that you believe I think men have. It's the first two sentences of my post you replied to, including a link for further info.
The different incarceration rates based on gender correlate to testosterone. Higher testosterone results in more violent behavior in both men and women [sciencedaily.com]
It's related strictly to testosterone levels, irrespective of sex, not any of the made-up reasons you attempted to ascribe to me.
You're using evaluations for a university position as "proof"? Are you nuts? University jobs are about as far from the real world as you can get. Just as the level of pettiness (who's got the slightly bigger office, etc) and political backstabbing beats anything in the real world.
As for your "explanation" of the wage gap, it still exists even when hours worked are controlled for. And what is this bullshit about "danger" of being outside? Most:"outside" jobs are done in civilized areas, and most of those are done sitting in the driver/operator seat. A power shovel with full suspension seat, full sound system, sound proofing, shock isolation, and easy-to-operate controls is not hard work. (I've done it, so I speak from experience). As for commute and schedule flexibility, these apply equally to both sexes, except that given that women tend to have more menial jobs, the commute and schedule flexibility burden falls more on us than on men. Same with graveyard shift. Plenty of women there, everything from cleaning and restocking stores to overnight health care. Ask any nurse about killer schedules and unscheduled extra work being dumped on them.
You claimed it was invented before, but you didn't offer a link to any patent as proof. Also, everyone builds upon prior discoveries - that's how we progress. Same as Edison didn't invent the light bulb, and Bell didn't invent the telephone, and Marconi didn't invent radio (it's even worse in these three cases - others had already invented and built working devices). Discovering that you can boil water doesn't give you any sort of claim of contributing to the invention of the steam engine. Discovering that air from a fire rises because it expands from heat doesn't give you any claim towards inventing the hot-air balloon.
If you didn't put it all together to produce something new and patentable, you didn't invent it and can't claim credit for it. That all the necessary ingredients were already present is irrelevant, same as knowing all the letters in the alphabet doesn't give you any sort of claim to the ensuing literature, or buying all the ingredients of a cake doesn't mean you get credit for baking the cake unless you actually bake it.
We've been over this before. You lie, repeatedly, and badly. Anyone observing your interactions with me would draw the same conclusions. Your infatuation with me and need to initiate the insults in an attempt to somehow "prove" that I should be unhappy with my decision makes you one sick fuck.
And I'm far from the only one who thinks that meeting people for supper and then spending the entire time playing games on your phone is unacceptable. They're taking up a seat that could be used by someone who actually wants to contribute to the occasion.
And you really should stop with your accusations of narcissism. The shrinks found zero trace of that. Or any psychosis or mania. I've got it in writing. But who knows what they'd find between your delusional ears.
The mental health quality of life of trans women without surgical intervention was significantly lower compared to the general population, while those transwomen who received FFS, GRS, or both had mental health quality of life scores not significantly different from the general female population.
As for widespread regret? It's a lie.
Surgical regret is actually very uncommon. Virtually every modern study puts it below 4 percent, and most estimate it to be between 1 and 2 percent (Cohen-Kettenis & Pfafflin 2003, Kuiper & Cohen-Kettenis 1998, Pfafflin & Junge 1998, Smith 2005, Dhejne 2014). In some other recent longitudinal studies, none of the subjects expressed regret over medically transitioning (Krege et al. 2001, De Cuypere et al. 2006).
... and...
Any surgery comes with a risk of regret. It just happens that the risk of regret for GCS is actually much lower than for many other surgeries. Indeed, the regret rate for GCS compares favorably with gastric banding.
When asked about regrets, only 2 percent of respondents in a survey of transgender people in the UK had major regrets regarding the physical changes they had made, compared with 65 percent of non-transgender people in the UK who have had plastic surgery.
Maybe we should ban plastic surgery to everyone except transsexuals, since clearly they're the group where the majority don't have regrets, just a tiny minority. And as the article points out, even that rate is falling with more advances in technique.
And you lied here:
Ditto for testosterone, which you've wrongfully stated makes FTM transexuals more likely to gain steady employment.
It has nothing to do with testosterone and everything to do with men's visceral negative reaction to male-to-female sex changes. We don't see anywhere near the levels of hate and negativity directed towards F2M transsexuals - even those F2M who aren't on hormones. Transmisogeny is real, and you're a prime example.
Also, as for your claiming that I'm a narcissist, my psychiatrist and psychologist disagree. And of course they're in a better position to make a valid judgement, given that they've actually examined, interviewed, and tested me. So once again, you're full of shit.
Men who have near-zero experience (such as the 40-year-old virgin I cited) express the desire to interact with women, they just can't bring themselves to. So they withdraw as much as they can.
It's like people who take all day to work up the courage to call on one potential employer to ask for a job. They're socially inept, and they know it. The flop sweat starts before they've even left the house. One rejection crushes them for a day, a week, a month... or more.
If you're letting the fear of someone's friends finding you wanting, you've just violated your own statement of "seeing who people really are". What her friends say means nothing, same as what your friends say, wrt whoever you date. Rejecting someone preemptively because of what their friends might say is the act of a coward who fears rejection from people who you don't even know and whose opinions should be irrelevant.
As for being "socially presentable", if you can't engage in polite conversation on any topics except computers and games, you have no more to offer than someone who can only talk about their job and stamp collecting, or who go on and on about their ex. Being boring is a good reason to not be into someone, and many of the guys who have retreated into IT and/or video gaming to escape interacting with others who are not like them are boring. Actually, let me rephrase that - they're f*cking boring. As in "I'm going to text someone to call me and say I'm needed elsewhere because that's easier than gnawing off one of my legs." Almost every woman can do better than that.
Has nothing to do with being important or "dignified" (whatever that means in this context - sounds like someone who's so stiff they might as well have a broomstick up their arse).
One thing I've noticed is that a good listener is perceived as a good conversationalist, more open, more interesting. AND MORE ATTRACTIVE. That's why we have 2 ears and 1 mouth. I've seen the effect on men of being a good listener. It's almost like having a remote control. Remember - men think that women have had equal time to speak when we have spoken 15% of the time and they've spoken 85% of the time. It's really annoying in business, but therein also lies power.
I'm not revealing any magic secrets - it's not rocket science or 33rd level freemasonry. You can observe it pretty much anywhere if you take the time. But most guys can't resist trying to fill up that 85%, and then wonder when the woman says "You never listen to me. You don't even know me."
Relationships are hard. They're messy - same as good sex. But they need to be developed over time, and you can't do that if you're hiding in a world with other bros coding and playing video games because of fear of rejection, can you?
I pointed out the reasons why it's safe to assume the rest were also males in my answer to the question "what about that sentence implies 100% male". If you can't engage in logical thought to reach reasonable conclusions, that's your problem, not mine. Also, based on both my reasoning and the general odds in the industry, they're almost certainly all male. Or do you dispute that too just because you need me to be wrong?
You're so full of shit. You either don't know what you're talking about, or you're intentionally lying. Puberty blockers until the child is old enough to make an informed decision is not a sex change. Delaying puberty, rather than rushing into a sex change, is both the norm and due diligence. (Do you even know what due diligence means? It seems not.)
As for your figure of 70%-80%, the guys that were pushing that line of bullshit (Zucker and his buddies) were one of the reasons that Toronto closed its' gender clinic. They were found to have been telling many parents whose children did not meet the criteria for gender dysphoria that they did. So of course, since these kids weren't actually gender dysphoric, they "outgrew" it - but they didn't actually outgrow it because they weren't in the first place. They also engaged in "reparative therapy", including what we would ordinarily classify as child abuse, which is why it's now banned for children in Toronto and pretty much the rest of Canada, one of the reasons being that children cannot give informed consent and their rights, including to be free of abuse and to make their own decisions in the fulness of time, need to be protected. But money and power and being able to write more bullshit research papers are all powerful inducements to fudge the truth. Or in your case, because you have nothing better to do. But in both cases, the truth comes out.
There's a history of that sort of abuse wrt transsexuals, and it continues to be a problem in some areas, in part because assholes like you push your own bizarre agendas.
In case you haven't noticed, the number of in-home video game consoles totally swamps the number of video game arcade machines. Stop living in the past. Your mode of thinking is obsolete, same as you.
As for high blood pressure, take some estrogen. Contrary to previous findings, it's now known to be beneficial to both the circulatory system and the brain, by making the blood vessels more flexible and reducing the risk of stroke. It's also a powerful antidepressant. Oh wait - you can't/won't do that. I can (and do) which means I'm likely to live far longer than you. Sux 2 B U.
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I also know a few guys outside IT whose entire life outside work is gaming.
50 years ago, their entire life outside work would be 'drinking'. Some people are hopeless, and computers have merely given them a few new arenas.
I'll drink to that (joke, joke).
That has got to be THE most insightful, informative comment of the day.
2) They don't have really any social circles that interests them, so no reason to do otherwise.
4) They have no exposure to anything else.
5) A fear of failure.
You can't expect to get exposure to anything else if you don't put yourself out there. It's a self-fulfilling vicious circle. Same as people who don't know who their neighbors are. What is so hard about knocking on their door and introducing yourself and inviting them over for a coffee? I do it whenever I see someone moving in. It's not hard. It's not scary. It's not creepy (okay, I can see how it could be creepy if a man did it, so this is one area where women should take the initiative, if only to compensate for the distrust society has sown towards men - even against each other), but I don't see ANYONE else doing it, of either sex.
As a society, we've become a bunch of unfriendly losers.
3) Other hobbies are expensive (for example, in my case I have other hobbies in amateur radio, hiking, fishing, hacker space events and building cars are far more expensive in my experience).
There are other activities that are cheap, or even free, that will put you together with like-minded people. For example, now that I'm retired, I volunteer 3 to 4 days a week (sometimes more) at the local food bank. I've met loads of people that way - other volunteers, people working off their community service, clients, flood victims who've lost everything. There are plenty of volunteer jobs that need people willing to help others, and yet, with all the people saying that they don't have anything else to do or don't know what else they can do to meet others, these jobs still go begging for people.
You can always go volunteer at the local animal shelter (a word of warning - it will probably break your heart). Offer to sit down for a coffee or tea with one of the residents at the local senior's place once a week - you'll make their day, and they're not as boring as you'd think. Help out at the local community center.
The most any of these costs is transportation. If you can bike or hike it, it's effectively free.
But people don't do it because they're afraid, as you pointed out, of failure, aka rejection.
That leaves #1
1) They find gaming fun.
Sure it's fun. It's also fun to have a board game night where you can invite a bunch of friends over to play Risk, Monopoly, poker ("are you feeling lucky, punk? :-) ), Pictionary, dominoes, whatever. Here, people set the pace instead of the machine, so there's time to take a break to eat and socialize, same as when you get knocked out of play. It takes the sting out of losing to the point that you really don't care who wins - it's the socializing that's fun. And all these games are pretty much accessible to anyone who wants to learn them, even if they're low vision or slow reaction time or not-the-best motor control or have to take frequent pee breaks
My casual observations is that women choose their pairing more on educational level matching theirs rather than any other metric.
Amen to that. One person pointing out things that are obvious to them but not to the other gets old and corrosive pretty fast. But trolling mensa isn't an option - one of the members is a guy I testified against at his murder trial. Plus I think mensa is for losers who are obviously not THAT intelligent if, unlike 99.7% of all geniuses, they are stupid enough to pay to join it. What a scam. It's like that "I am rich" iPhone app. Proof of the old adage that a fool and their money are quickly (and in this case easily) parted.
I don't know. Maybe I'll just have to settle for mind-blowing sex. :-)
Choreographed. :-) Then again, I've only seen it while channel-flipping --- and continued flipping REALLY fast :-)
I will most certainly continue to be judgmental against trolls like ArmoredDragon who make it a point of launching personal attacks whenever they encounter my posts as a way for them to feel better about themselves. Now, let me fill you in on the approval process for surgery, and why he's full of shit about his claims that I am a narcissist. Before approving you, they have to look for contra-indications, such as underlying mental problems, psychosis, delusional thinking, mania, etc. that may underlie the stated desire to change sex. No doing it because you want to run away from personal problems, or because you think it will magically change every aspect of your life for the better, open doors for jobs or opportunities, flee from past mistakes, etc. No personality disorders whatsoever. Otherwise, do not pass go, do not collect your approval letter, etc, until it is resolved, and possibly never. The strict vetting is one of the reasons why SRS has one of the highest success rates of any surgical medical intervention.
I'll take the word of 6 psychiatrists, a clinical psychologist, a therapist, and several other medical professionals, all of whom have seen me, over that asshole any day. My therapist was nice enough to share the results of all that while helping me deal with PTSD, and I also have the approval letter stating as much.
If you think there's ANY basis to his claims, you're being trolled. That's what he does. It's not like he has done anything constructive with his life all these years, so this is how he denies to himself that he's a waste of oxygen - even though it proves he's a waste of oxygen. Slashdot has become more and more of a collector for people who are bitter about their personal lives being such a waste, same as IT is especially attractive to people who lack social skills and retreat to the safety of relative isolation. It's also why so many women find IT toxic. Just read all the comments from guys who hate women because they got turned down when they were 18 and "needed someone." That's pretty objectifying of women - we're just there as a tool to help men feel adequate, instead of human beings who have every right to say no.
When I say no, I do it as gently as possible. I admit that others are not so tactful - but that applies to both sides. Guys on the subway who grope me and try to shove their tongue down my throat at 10 am don't deserve such consideration. Nor the ones who think it's okay to grab a tit out of the blue. Nor the ones who offer me money. But the rest of the guys, as long as they keep a civil tongue in their head and their hands to themselves, I am as polite as can be in my refusal, even if it's the 3rd or 5th or 10th time.
I certainly don't hate men. Heck, I used to be one myself. But that's also why I really, really know how some men think - I've repeatedly seen the bad behaviour among them when no other women were present and I hadn't yet transitioned, including an employer who stated that he would NEVER EVER hire a woman. Doesn't matter how qualified. Why? Because the guys would be "too distracted." Is this fair, that qualified women are barred from consideration because men can't control themselves? That I would never even been considered post-transition, because "women are a distraction?" I can't count the times I've stood there listening to nasty jokes and misogynist talk and felt like a traitor to both myself and all other women for not speaking out more forcefully.
That's my problem - I've seen both sides, and everyone who denies that the world isn't sexist is so self-deluded it isn't funny. They should try walking in my shoes for a while. I've experienced male privilege first-hand, as well as its' loss. But I wouldn't go back because what I've gained is, to me, so much better. The freedom to be me turned me from an introvert into an extrovert. I've got plenty of women who are on my side now. They know what I've given up in terms of status and power simply by virtue of being a man, because that status and power is rubbed into our faces ro
Aww, poor baby got a boo-boo on his ego. Fortunately, everyone I know in real life thinks:
1. I'm a great listener
2. I'm dependable
3. I'm good with animals
4. I'm funny when called for, serious when needed
5. I'm always ready to help
6. I have great legs (that's mostly other women saying it).
I just have zero tolerance for trolls on the web. So shit in my cornflakes all you want, but if you come around here and say anything against me, you'll get an earful from my neighbors and those I work with. I've proven my worth time and time again. You see, slashdot isn't real life, and the rules are different. Assholes go out of their way to attack me first, then get all butt-hurt when I hit back. Over and over and over, in every thread they see me post in. They're pitiful little worms. Actually, lower than worms. I have compassion for worms, when I see one drowning in a puddle on the sidewalk after a rain, I put it in the grass.
Nope. The guy who buries his head in his smartphone at supper is quickly replaced by others who want to sit with me when he's not around. As for the incident where everyone had their heads buried in their smartphones, they were like that before I got there, and the pattern continues to this day. Has nothing to do with me.
I'll say it again: I am better than you, and smarter than you. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Being afraid to ask for a job is now "performance anxiety"? No, your lack of a sex life is performance ... well, not anxiety, but performance failure.
I'll say it again: I am better than you. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Yet another literature review using obsolete sources. What an idiot.
I'll say it again: I am better than you. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Nope. These are reviews, not actual clinical studies. Notice the name of one of the authors on one of them: Zucker - the same guy whose mis-diagnosis of children and subsequent abuse of them by trying to use reparative therapy got the CAMH gender clinic closed down. Also, the very first reference (and several others) on the other is to this same discredited asshole.
I'll say it again: As for who is superior, by any objective measure, I am. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Quoting yet another out of date study. This is 2017, and the more recent studies of estrogen use find ONLY benefits. Decreased risk of stroke, cardiovascular problems, etc. The study you quoted followed people taking estrogen before 1997, when only horse estrogen was used. Human estrogen doesn't have negative side effects because it's not horse estrogen, and doesn't contain over 50 contaminants. Again, buy a calendar. I've linked to the benefits of human estrogen before, so quit the lying.
And even that study said. and you quoted, the increased mortality rate was mainly due to non-hormonal reasons. The biggy is AIDS - which I don't have and will never get.
And remember, I'm not like you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself
Fucking idiot who failed reading comprehension. I'll quote the relevant part again:
the higher mortality rates are in comparison with the general populace (and not other transgender people who have not received treatment) and only apply to people who transitioned before 1989:
Go buy a calendar. You're 3 decades out of date.
Also, the shrink's report clearly states no other conditions were found except for anxiety disorder (ptsd) and major depressive disorder, which is understandable for someone who's had to see a murder up close and personal as a kid, and been violently sexually assaulted more recently.
So no, no narcissism. You're projecting yet again.
As for who is superior, by any objective measure, I am. Unlike you, who hasn't done anything but go to the gym, play video games, and shit-post on the internet for decades. You've got to be pretty scummy to attack a retired half-blind grandmother, who's also a rape victim, who spends 3-4 days a week working for a charity rather than sitting on their ass doing nothing.
There really is nothing more to say about it. You're a piece of shit who tries to drag others down because you can't do any better yourself.
Don't compare "trannies" (which includes cross-dressers, drag queens, etc) with transsexuals. Two completely different kettles of fish. The first is a sexual fetish, the second a recognized medical condition with a treatment protocol with a 98% success rate - far better than almost all other major medical interventions. Certainly better than the 65% of gastric band patients who express regret.
Can't refute the logic, so you stoop to name calling. Do I dare say "typical juvenile male slashdot behaviour"? Yes, I do.
You've just proven it again - tech is a shitty field for women to get into because of the behaviour of men who refuse to grow up.
10 years is more than enough time for a 10-year-old to reach the age of majority and make an informed decision. Here it's 18, or 16 with adequate adult supervision and guidance, which is far more conservative than abortion, which is available to 14-year-olds on demand without their parents being informed or having any right to see the medical records, same as for any other medical procedure except a sex change.
Men thinking with their dicks is directly related to differences in the sexes. It's pitiful to watch a group of guys all drooling when a 23-year-old job applicant comes in, no qualifications, and gets the job. Their post-interview conversation amongst themselves contained zero content about the actual job. Then again, this is a tech setting, where men will be boys.
As for the rest, unlike you, I offered links to back up what I said. And I was referring specifically to violent offenders because that's where testosterone has the most effect, both in quantity of offenders and severity of the crime.
onsider that both chemical and surgical castration [nih.gov] reduce the rate of repeat pedophile offenders from 50% to between 2% and 5%. Testosterone clearly plays a role.
Ok, but is that a change in risk-taking, libido, or some vague 'badness' that you obviously think men have?
How is that relevant to the fact that reducing testosterone cuts recidivism of pedophiles by more than 90%? Answer: it's not. It's a fact, and as such, it stands on its' own, no further justification required. However, to answer your question, I made it clear that increased testosterone affects both men and women in the same way, so obviously it's not "some vague badness" that you believe I think men have. It's the first two sentences of my post you replied to, including a link for further info.
The different incarceration rates based on gender correlate to testosterone. Higher testosterone results in more violent behavior in both men and women [sciencedaily.com]
It's related strictly to testosterone levels, irrespective of sex, not any of the made-up reasons you attempted to ascribe to me.
You're using evaluations for a university position as "proof"? Are you nuts? University jobs are about as far from the real world as you can get. Just as the level of pettiness (who's got the slightly bigger office, etc) and political backstabbing beats anything in the real world.
As for your "explanation" of the wage gap, it still exists even when hours worked are controlled for. And what is this bullshit about "danger" of being outside? Most :"outside" jobs are done in civilized areas, and most of those are done sitting in the driver/operator seat. A power shovel with full suspension seat, full sound system, sound proofing, shock isolation, and easy-to-operate controls is not hard work. (I've done it, so I speak from experience). As for commute and schedule flexibility, these apply equally to both sexes, except that given that women tend to have more menial jobs, the commute and schedule flexibility burden falls more on us than on men. Same with graveyard shift. Plenty of women there, everything from cleaning and restocking stores to overnight health care. Ask any nurse about killer schedules and unscheduled extra work being dumped on them.
You claimed it was invented before, but you didn't offer a link to any patent as proof. Also, everyone builds upon prior discoveries - that's how we progress. Same as Edison didn't invent the light bulb, and Bell didn't invent the telephone, and Marconi didn't invent radio (it's even worse in these three cases - others had already invented and built working devices). Discovering that you can boil water doesn't give you any sort of claim of contributing to the invention of the steam engine. Discovering that air from a fire rises because it expands from heat doesn't give you any claim towards inventing the hot-air balloon.
If you didn't put it all together to produce something new and patentable, you didn't invent it and can't claim credit for it. That all the necessary ingredients were already present is irrelevant, same as knowing all the letters in the alphabet doesn't give you any sort of claim to the ensuing literature, or buying all the ingredients of a cake doesn't mean you get credit for baking the cake unless you actually bake it.
We've been over this before. You lie, repeatedly, and badly. Anyone observing your interactions with me would draw the same conclusions. Your infatuation with me and need to initiate the insults in an attempt to somehow "prove" that I should be unhappy with my decision makes you one sick fuck.
And I'm far from the only one who thinks that meeting people for supper and then spending the entire time playing games on your phone is unacceptable. They're taking up a seat that could be used by someone who actually wants to contribute to the occasion.
And you really should stop with your accusations of narcissism. The shrinks found zero trace of that. Or any psychosis or mania. I've got it in writing. But who knows what they'd find between your delusional ears.
Again, where have I ever advocated for eugenics?
The simple fact is that post-2000 suicide rates are very low because society has changed. And your stats are full of shit - they were from an earlier time, where transwomen faced far more assholes like you than today.
The mental health quality of life of trans women without surgical intervention was significantly lower compared to the general population, while those transwomen who received FFS, GRS, or both had mental health quality of life scores not significantly different from the general female population.
As for widespread regret? It's a lie.
Surgical regret is actually very uncommon. Virtually every modern study puts it below 4 percent, and most estimate it to be between 1 and 2 percent (Cohen-Kettenis & Pfafflin 2003, Kuiper & Cohen-Kettenis 1998, Pfafflin & Junge 1998, Smith 2005, Dhejne 2014). In some other recent longitudinal studies, none of the subjects expressed regret over medically transitioning (Krege et al. 2001, De Cuypere et al. 2006).
... and ...
Any surgery comes with a risk of regret. It just happens that the risk of regret for GCS is actually much lower than for many other surgeries. Indeed, the regret rate for GCS compares favorably with gastric banding.
When asked about regrets, only 2 percent of respondents in a survey of transgender people in the UK had major regrets regarding the physical changes they had made, compared with 65 percent of non-transgender people in the UK who have had plastic surgery.
Maybe we should ban plastic surgery to everyone except transsexuals, since clearly they're the group where the majority don't have regrets, just a tiny minority. And as the article points out, even that rate is falling with more advances in technique.
And you lied here:
Ditto for testosterone, which you've wrongfully stated makes FTM transexuals more likely to gain steady employment.
It has nothing to do with testosterone and everything to do with men's visceral negative reaction to male-to-female sex changes. We don't see anywhere near the levels of hate and negativity directed towards F2M transsexuals - even those F2M who aren't on hormones. Transmisogeny is real, and you're a prime example.
Also, as for your claiming that I'm a narcissist, my psychiatrist and psychologist disagree. And of course they're in a better position to make a valid judgement, given that they've actually examined, interviewed, and tested me. So once again, you're full of shit.
Men who have near-zero experience (such as the 40-year-old virgin I cited) express the desire to interact with women, they just can't bring themselves to. So they withdraw as much as they can.
It's like people who take all day to work up the courage to call on one potential employer to ask for a job. They're socially inept, and they know it. The flop sweat starts before they've even left the house. One rejection crushes them for a day, a week, a month ... or more.
If you're letting the fear of someone's friends finding you wanting, you've just violated your own statement of "seeing who people really are". What her friends say means nothing, same as what your friends say, wrt whoever you date. Rejecting someone preemptively because of what their friends might say is the act of a coward who fears rejection from people who you don't even know and whose opinions should be irrelevant.
As for being "socially presentable", if you can't engage in polite conversation on any topics except computers and games, you have no more to offer than someone who can only talk about their job and stamp collecting, or who go on and on about their ex. Being boring is a good reason to not be into someone, and many of the guys who have retreated into IT and/or video gaming to escape interacting with others who are not like them are boring. Actually, let me rephrase that - they're f*cking boring. As in "I'm going to text someone to call me and say I'm needed elsewhere because that's easier than gnawing off one of my legs." Almost every woman can do better than that.
Has nothing to do with being important or "dignified" (whatever that means in this context - sounds like someone who's so stiff they might as well have a broomstick up their arse).
One thing I've noticed is that a good listener is perceived as a good conversationalist, more open, more interesting. AND MORE ATTRACTIVE. That's why we have 2 ears and 1 mouth. I've seen the effect on men of being a good listener. It's almost like having a remote control. Remember - men think that women have had equal time to speak when we have spoken 15% of the time and they've spoken 85% of the time. It's really annoying in business, but therein also lies power.
I'm not revealing any magic secrets - it's not rocket science or 33rd level freemasonry. You can observe it pretty much anywhere if you take the time. But most guys can't resist trying to fill up that 85%, and then wonder when the woman says "You never listen to me. You don't even know me."
Relationships are hard. They're messy - same as good sex. But they need to be developed over time, and you can't do that if you're hiding in a world with other bros coding and playing video games because of fear of rejection, can you?
I pointed out the reasons why it's safe to assume the rest were also males in my answer to the question "what about that sentence implies 100% male". If you can't engage in logical thought to reach reasonable conclusions, that's your problem, not mine. Also, based on both my reasoning and the general odds in the industry, they're almost certainly all male. Or do you dispute that too just because you need me to be wrong?
You're so full of shit. You either don't know what you're talking about, or you're intentionally lying. Puberty blockers until the child is old enough to make an informed decision is not a sex change. Delaying puberty, rather than rushing into a sex change, is both the norm and due diligence. (Do you even know what due diligence means? It seems not.)
As for your figure of 70%-80%, the guys that were pushing that line of bullshit (Zucker and his buddies) were one of the reasons that Toronto closed its' gender clinic. They were found to have been telling many parents whose children did not meet the criteria for gender dysphoria that they did. So of course, since these kids weren't actually gender dysphoric, they "outgrew" it - but they didn't actually outgrow it because they weren't in the first place. They also engaged in "reparative therapy", including what we would ordinarily classify as child abuse, which is why it's now banned for children in Toronto and pretty much the rest of Canada, one of the reasons being that children cannot give informed consent and their rights, including to be free of abuse and to make their own decisions in the fulness of time, need to be protected. But money and power and being able to write more bullshit research papers are all powerful inducements to fudge the truth. Or in your case, because you have nothing better to do. But in both cases, the truth comes out.
There's a history of that sort of abuse wrt transsexuals, and it continues to be a problem in some areas, in part because assholes like you push your own bizarre agendas.
Stop with the bullshit. Suicide rates are just above the general population for post-op transsexuals. You're either a liar or inept.
In case you haven't noticed, the number of in-home video game consoles totally swamps the number of video game arcade machines. Stop living in the past. Your mode of thinking is obsolete, same as you.
This is slashdot - anyone wanting to play arcade games would be more likely to fire up mame for their dose of nostalgia.
As for high blood pressure, take some estrogen. Contrary to previous findings, it's now known to be beneficial to both the circulatory system and the brain, by making the blood vessels more flexible and reducing the risk of stroke. It's also a powerful antidepressant. Oh wait - you can't/won't do that. I can (and do) which means I'm likely to live far longer than you. Sux 2 B U.
Still fail to address the other poster's lies, I see. Pitiful.