Quote Originally Posted by Dalek Caan View Post
I didn't really quote anything, but I looked back to see what he said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NieOvfs1lu0) and it was that he thought the patriarchy wasn't really a thing because people keep jobs based on if they are competent or not. But he uses a doctor as an example of competence, saying you seek out the most competence doctor. But doctors are highly trained phsyicians with many years of school and experience, so naturally a doctor should be competent. Things get fuzzy when you talk about corporate culture and production; a company could say create a very cheap product that has poor quality and still makes money because people like cheap stuff, but at the same time introduces crappy products into the market that are hard to fix, costly to constantly replace, and don't last long (sometimes this is intentional). So essentially competence becomes what makes money, which is more about economic power, which makes his doctor argument now a bit fuzzy in my opinion.



Yeah, there's a lot of social justice stuff now. And Donald Trump getting elected and all the political commentators on youtube are basically talking about all the social justice stuff. I find it a little strange when there's kind of an economic trade war going on with China and the US government is so out of control, we borrow money to keep it functioning, though admittedly most of that is military spending and really that's Bush got us in this mess to begin with.



It does kind of seem like that influenced people's perception of him.



It really depends on how you define mental illness. I was reading an article on genome mapping and how there are certain genes that attribute more to feminine qualities that block certain masculine traits and I thought that was interesting because somebody could have all these traits that compile against their chromosomes and make living as their gender seem at odds with themselves. It's also believed that testosterone/estrogen effect gender characteristics of the brain in certain stages of a baby's development, so any genes or anything that effects that can theoretically change the brain. There's also testosterone insensitivity (which might be genetic), where an XY male develops as an XX female, except for not having ovaries, which is incredibly interesting to me. Or intersex people with XXY chromosomes that grow up and choose what gender they may identify with or simply not identify at all.

It's just kind of stupid to call it a mental illness just because it's abnormal.
IMO it’s tantamount to the same thing. Dont read a value statement into this. Mental illness is what it is. The mechanisms as to the why and how are redundant at this level of discussion. I dont judge mental illness like others do and I cast a wide net with the term. I see most of humanity as afflicted by some level of mental Dis-ease.

The question at this level is shoukd society cater and chnage to better accommodate a transgender person or should the transgender person accept their place as it stands.

Petterson plays around at this level and you watch him avoiding giving direct answers which is supremely canadian of him.