This is the voice I'm stuck with. I don't like it either lol

@georgeru3696 I'm not sure. It's a term used by conservatives that I don't actually understand the meaning of. I guess just believing there's more than two genders?

@@SubjectivelyTrue In that case saying "ideology" seems much bigger than it actually is. Believing that there's only two genders and gender expression is tied up to male-female dichotomy should be an ideology for conservatives I guess.

Kinda.... I guess?

I clicked off around 2:20. Ah, the pseudointellectuals of Yt...

@@SubjectivelyTrue Work on that

@@leisiyox I have a life. I don't care what you think of my verbiage.

Also, I’m really not sure of that internal religious experiences are tangibly comparable to celebrity culture

I think they are, in that the first commandment in Christianity prohibits idolatry, which my catechist teachers would often relate to celebrity admiration.

As far as your comments on Hegel, I agree that the internet is just a more refined form of mass communication. I do think it is however much more democratic than most forms of mass communication, which have larger amounts of control from the government or ruling aristocrats. Although the internet is somewhat controlled by corporately tailored algorithms, the government to varying extents depending on jurisdiction, and the access to the internet (which isn't always equal)... it's much closer I think to a more organically created spirit or Geist, where instead of it being headed by a select few often rich and powerful people, there is more of a chance for your average internet user to have a say in what direction humanity takes as a species.

@igloo8647 easier said than done, but also biased. Draw four.

What in this video is Orwellian? What personal freedoms do you feel are being threatened?

Did you learn that word today? Care to explain why you think it applies?

Ah, yes, expressing your gender identity in a free and open way is...Orwellian?

Hey, to debunk something you stated as fact in your second paragraph: trans individuals have brain activity that matches the gender they feel that they are, not their biological sex. There are studies that prove this that are immediately available with one google search. To venture away from using your personal beliefs in spirituality, there absolutely is a difference between the perceived world (as perceived through the only senses our brain has to use), and the truth of physical existence. Also, biology is not binary, point blank. Intersex individuals exist, women with xy or xxy chromosomes, people born with genes or anatomy that seem "male" only for none of the genes affecting secondary sex characteristics to trigger male puberty and vice versa. And speaking as a trans person: transitioning saved my life in ways you'll never understand if you hold mindsets like you do now for fact. Hell, you may never understand trans people, because you're not trans. That doesn't hinder your ability to respect trans people's (and their doctors!) decisions, nor does it give you pass to preach your religious beliefs to them saying "you'll pray for them," as if transness is an illness. I was raised Greek Orthodox christian, and it's exactly people like who contributed in pushing me away from any religious beliefs period. Though you write your words with good intent, I'm here to tell you that it's extremely patronizing and infantilizing, as well as holier-than-thou. I have been given the privilege of watching myself blossom into the person I always felt I was, and have shaped my own temple in this body I was given. My body is holy. If there is a God, I imagine them much kinder than the one you represent. Trans people have existed as long as people have. And God created trans people, too.

@ 1st I never denied that they feel a particular type of way about themselves, which may show up on brainscans (although the evidence for this is quite small seeing this is from a extremely small sample size and the majority of evidence) and doesn’t even disprove what I said. You’re still a man, your biological make up to the very fabric of your biology screams you are a man, this is your biological makeup, not me yelling at you. For example people with body integrity identity disorder really perceive that they have an amputation when they do not and this may show up on their brain scans, but it’s just not true. Your perception doesn’t define reality, and we recognize this innately. 2nd I never said there was not a distinction between what is perceived and what is reality, but I don’t agree that it’s a strong distinction between the What you are perceiving to be a reality and what is reality since our mind’s perception grasp to reality which is why you can interpret what I’m saying and what you’re doing, and how you are typing and using your fingers to type etc. and if you don’t believe in God, you are materialist which you can’t even assert that there is such thing as perception as it’s just a material phenomenon. Biology is certainly a binary. You bring up intersex people like this proves your point but I think this just proves mine. A binary just means it involves two things, in the case of intersex people it’s involving a defect of one particular mix of certain characteristics that we would see between 2 binaries, a mix of parts but even in this, this assumes that there’s some sort of axis point in which we can call the intersex. The word you’re thinking of is a dichotomy which I don’t hold that biology is one or the other, but can be a mix of both but this would be a defect of nature so bringing intersex people doesn’t really change the point and actually points to show that people exist on binaries and whatever binary you are, you are. Also, if you have such a problem with me saying I’m going to pray for the poster then I think this speaks to your internal state of what you think Christians are. Prayer is the best thing you could do for someone, I didn’t say that to be patronizing which you’re assuming to say so. Your not a victim of my words but of your own actions, look into your own heart and see where this belief comes from, I didn’t say I’m holier than you, I am a disgusting person, but it’s Jesus who lives through me. If left to my own vices I would be consumed in my own sins not being able to escape. Your body is holy in the condition God gave you it to be, mutilating and suppressing your bodies natural function isn’t going to give you peace but a fleeting sense of identity which is shallow. God loves you the way you are, not the way which you perceive yourself. If God loved the way I perceived myself then I would be hating myself but God loves me for who I am. You are not your sins. I hope you realize Jesus Christ came to die for you, and is going to judge the living and the dead. God bless.

@hap1678 Please keep your biblical comments to yourself. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion. Our nation was founded by Protestants seeking religious freedom. If 90 percent of your argument is going to be "You're a man because God made you that way and nobody can defy God because he's God," then I fail to actually take you as an intelligent person regardless of how verbally intelligent you seem to be. It doesn't take very much intelligence to be a rapper and string words together that rhyme. It takes actual intelligence to be able to analyze the presuppositions and premises of your argument, ensure that those stand up to scrutiny, and that those themselves cannot be contested before you endeavor to claim you have an irrefutable argument. It doesn't take much awareness to string words together that sound cool. It takes someone with wisdom and maturity who has considered other frames of thought to actually make an argument that means anything from an analytical standpoint. Tl:dr: your words are nice and you demonstrate logic, but I fail to see any criticism of the longest "given" of our society. Even if you so believe in God, you need to at least demonstrate that you scrutinize your beliefs to some degree before I'll take you seriously.

​@@hap1678 even without personally understanding gender identity, you can understand the reasons for distinguishing between sex assigned at birth and gender as a type of social category. it's more complicated than this, and being genderfluid i have some hands-on experience with the failure of this description of gender (i have my personal conception of gender and sex for understanding my own experiences, as does the person in this video), but i both want to keep this simple and am not as well-versed in much of the theory as i'd like to be in a position to make deeper concepts accessible. the simplest demonstration is this: if you met a trans person who was passing well and you weren't told that they were trans, you would perceive them the same as a cis person of the same gender. that's because their expression is closer to the societal norms for the gender that they identify with than those for the gender associated with their assigned sex, and it makes sense in this case to say that their gender is the one that they identify with rather than the one society associated with their assigned sex. we can use the gender associated with a sex to talk about what was formerly treated as the social "essence" of that sex, and is now starting to be freed from it as we move away from extreme social biases on the basis of sex. sex is generally thought of as more 'rigid' than gender, but note that it was never really that well defined to begin with. even among gender essentialists, different people often have different conceptions of sex, and those ideas are constantly changing; for any individual feature you may claim determines sex, take someone of a given sex and ask yourself how you would categorize them with everything kept the same except for that one single feature the only reasons to avoid making a distinction between sex and gender (conceptually; conservatism around language here is easily dealt with by just using whatever new words you please to demonstrate the concept) are if you're a gender essentialist (this doesn't make sense to me -- the existence of passing trans people seems like a good enough counterexample to essentialism, so we don't even have to delve into any especially abstract arguments, but abstract arguments in support of gender essentialism still always fall apart imo, and my first go at that kind of argument would pretty much be the paragraph right above this with "sex" and "gender" swapped. i imagine someone willing to invoke ideas specific to their religion in these arguments would see this differently) or believe that there's some kind of moral benefit to keeping the social categories based only on sex assigned at birth, even at the expense of trans people. that last point is commonly used by trans-exclusionary feminists, and it's an important point where race and gender are treated differently in this debate, given some details less obvious to conservatives who treat them as equivalent issues like the intergenerationality of effects of racism vs sexism this is long-winded and maybe even preachy (the tables have turned!) but the point is that rather than a distinction between body and soul, to understand our perspectives from where you are now it's usually at least a little more accurate to think of a distinction between biological categories and social categories (and you can think of identity as having to do with one's feeling of belonging to a given social category. the identity-affirming nature of sex changes has to do with the relationships between these categories that still remain). i'm not Christian, but it's still fun to say -- God bless! (a few extra parentheses to spare for my crushing footnote deprivation: ()(())()()((()))()()() maybe i should start learning lisp!)

@weezerdog3 my argument wasn’t even “your a man because God made you that way”, I didn’t even mention God until the last paragraph and it wasn’t even in my argumentation, this is a dishonest caricature of what I said, and your snarky remarks about me trying to “shove religion in your face” is unneeded. If your interested in God’s existence I would be happy to provide you some resources but it didn’t have any bearing on the arguments I gave above. TLDR: if you make a video on philosophy, i expect you to approach in good faith. i saw a comment below which was “your mentally ill” which i thought wasn’t a good comment and saw you wanted a response in one of the comments you said. I hope you find peace with who are you.

@nigglewiggle4214 everybody wants to be a critic, but nobody wants to dance :3 Let's see your viewpoint

@ just begin by applying your existentialist way of thinking not just to gender expression but also more broadly to the concept of gender itself

@@nigglewiggle4214 What?? Maybe try writing a complete sentence?

@@jhonklan3794 ty 😊

As well I think we should focus on individuality though gender shouldn’t be left unfocused either idk if it’s a waste of time who knows 🧑🏻‍🦯

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@owendubs I dig your enthusiasm for intellectual topics, but I am biased toward atheism. I feel like you'd really dig Spinoza, Hegel, Kierkegaard, or one of the more cosmological/religious philosophers (of which I've only actually read Hegel, and not a ton of them. I personally have a hard time adopting philosophies that assume the existence of God.) Edit: I forgot the end bracket on my parenthesis statement.