Quote Originally Posted by Dalek Caan View Post
It's still stupid to call human differences mental illness.
I stated that transgenderism is a kind of mental illness, not human differences. What those people who are, choose to do with it, is up to them. As a gay man myself, I have had to reconcile that my own homosexuality might be a type kf mental illness and / or a kind of genetic fuck up. What I choose to believe about it is a form of mental health. I dont kid myself into thinking its normal though. It has become normalized thanks to media, public opinion swaying, still doesnt make it any less abnormal. Besides I dont see it as an equivalent problem to transgenderism. Humanity is going to start playing with the human genome its already happened in China recently. Look out for the free for all. Chicks with dicks is going to look mild in a hundred years.

That term implies an illness that needs to be cured.
The cure is self acceptance. Which could mean accepting your own delusions.

It leads to all kinds of fallacious thinking, such as reparative therapy. I don't think you even really know or have an idea what mental illness is, if you're using the term so broadly.
I do.


Is that the question? Identity is both individual and influenced by society. It isn't about choosing one over the other. If this is the kind of question that Peterson gets people to ask, then society is fubar.
It is fucked up. That’s Peterson’s entire point.