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To: Yaelle; Tax-chick
Yaelle, I don't doubt one word you're saying, and I suppose from your long experience you know more than I.

But this is the part I don't get. How does a person "feel" like "a" boy or "a" girl? When the way girls feel is all over the map, and the same is true of boys?

What I'm getting at, awkwardly, is that

The following graph roughly expresses how I see it. It's the classic bell-curve shape of a statistical normal distribution, and in this case it shows the digit ratio of the index and ring fingers, --- but doesn't necessarily matter just what we're measuring here, let's call it "masculinity" and "femininity," whateverthehell that means):

So how would a boy come to the conclusion that he feels like a girl? "A" girl? What girl? Mrs Don-o at 5? Mrs Don-o at 15? Yaelle at 9? Willa Cather at 19? Aphrodite? Ma Kettle?

I don't think there IS a "girl feeling". I think a boy who thinks he has "girl feelings," actually has his own feelings (by definition, "boy feelings") but has been told they are girlish.

Your thoughts?

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11 posted on 02/09/2018 1:58:14 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

***What I’m getting at, awkwardly, is that

there is not “a” girl way to feel, or “a” boy way to feel,

the ranges of feelings are, I suppose, very substantially overlapping

how people feel may change with age, mood, or circumstances, and

how we feel is so largely incommunicable, anyhow.***

You may think it awkward, and possibly it is, but I think that your 4 points are spot on.

***I don’t think there IS a “girl feeling”. I think a boy who thinks he has “girl feelings,” actually has his own feelings (by definition, “boy feelings”) but has been told they are girlish.***

THIS^^^^^


13 posted on 02/09/2018 6:50:34 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Mrs. Don-o

There is a pop-culture trend of asserting that males and females are so different that they actually have no feelings, interests, or tastes in common.


14 posted on 02/09/2018 7:17:48 PM PST by Tax-chick (Harvey Weinstein was married to a beautiful model.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

You expressed my thoughts better than I did in a previous post. There is just something wrong with the way people, without knowing what thoughts are like within another, whether they are normal or not, will support surgery for something that needs mental counseling. It is such a complex problem to just be shoveled into a political organization run by fanatic homosexuals....the Gender police....


15 posted on 02/09/2018 7:40:46 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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