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As my boss used to sum up his business wide statements about workplace diversity issues.



I don't think I have the most traditional of bosses.

 insaniak wrote:

OgreChubbs wrote:
The only way to truely tell the difference other then size "which is determined by the skull not the smarts" is that a male brain has y cromazones"butchered that word" in it where a female brain does not.

There are some structural differences between male and female brains as well.

I just want to know where the shoe thing comes from. My wife has more shoes than Zambia, and the daughter has five different pair of boots. Really? Freaking really?

mental illness is something that, in some way or another, can be treated, you can't treat a transgender, that's basically trying to turn a gay person straight.

A part of me isn't surprised that this sort of argument came here...why you felt it was a good idea to tell someone who has such gender stuff they're just mentally ill I will never know.
I mean as you said something like social anxiety is an illness and there are treatments for it, medications and the like...

Am I missing something or is it just early and I am just kind of pissed off at this?

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
mental illness is something that, in some way or another, can be treated, you can't treat a transgender, that's basically trying to turn a gay person straight.

A part of me isn't surprised that this sort of argument came here...why you felt it was a good idea to tell someone who has such gender stuff they're just mentally ill I will never know.
I mean as you said something like social anxiety is an illness and there are treatments for it, medications and the like...

Am I missing something or is it just early and I am just kind of pissed off at this?

Who the hell are you talking to?

Rainbow Dash wrote:mental illness is something that, in some way or another, can be treated, you can't treat a transgender, that's basically trying to turn a gay person straight.

A part of me isn't surprised that this sort of argument came here...why you felt it was a good idea to tell someone who has such gender stuff they're just mentally ill I will never know.
I mean as you said something like social anxiety is an illness and there are treatments for it, medications and the like...

Am I missing something or is it just early and I am just kind of pissed off at this?

Nope, hit the nail on the head.

Frazzled wrote:

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
mental illness is something that, in some way or another, can be treated, you can't treat a transgender, that's basically trying to turn a gay person straight.

A part of me isn't surprised that this sort of argument came here...why you felt it was a good idea to tell someone who has such gender stuff they're just mentally ill I will never know.
I mean as you said something like social anxiety is an illness and there are treatments for it, medications and the like...

Am I missing something or is it just early and I am just kind of pissed off at this?

Who the hell are you talking to?

The guy who has been trying to say transgenderism is a mental illness and transgendered people need to see their GP and shrink for the last 3 pages.

 Frazzled wrote:

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
mental illness is something that, in some way or another, can be treated, you can't treat a transgender, that's basically trying to turn a gay person straight.

A part of me isn't surprised that this sort of argument came here...why you felt it was a good idea to tell someone who has such gender stuff they're just mentally ill I will never know.
I mean as you said something like social anxiety is an illness and there are treatments for it, medications and the like...

Am I missing something or is it just early and I am just kind of pissed off at this?

Who the hell are you talking to?

Guy on the last page, just go back one and you'll see...

Ok you should quote them then, unless you're prepared to discuss the essential mystery of women and shoes.

Ohmygod SHOES!

I think the Bill & Ted quote pretty much rules this thread.

 Frazzled wrote:
Ok you should quote them then, unless you're prepared to discuss the essential mystery of women and shoes.

I thought we were still on the same page...

And yeah I never understood women's fascination with shoes, I have a lot of hats and scarves but not shoes.
I have a very male mind when it comes to them

Women and shoes isn't a mystery, guys.

Men regard shoes as functional. Boots for physical work, sneakers for recreation, dress shoes for office work. You can get away with one pair of each and be a complete person.

Women's shoes are accessories as well as functional. They have to match whatever particular outfit a woman is wearing. They have to color-coordinate so as not to clash and they have to have an overall style that matches the outfit as well. Basically, the color/style of a woman's shoe is as important to her overall attire as the color/style of shirt would be to a man. In our society, women have to look good at all times, so the shoes always have to compliment the outfit, hence all the different pairs they need for all the different outfits (and combinations of outfits) they own.

understand, but the daughter has multiple pair of boots that look almost exactly the same. WhY? LORD WHY?

(Frazzled wouldn't care except guess who pays for them...)

 Frazzled wrote:
understand, but the daughter has multiple pair of boots that look almost exactly the same. WhY? LORD WHY?

(Frazzled wouldn't care except guess who pays for them...)

Get weiner dogs, teach them to chew shoes. Problem solved problem staying solved, weiner dogs lead the way.

 Frazzled wrote:
understand, but the daughter has multiple pair of boots that look almost exactly the same. WhY? LORD WHY?

Okay, that one.... that one I haven't got an answer for.

 Frazzled wrote:
understand, but the daughter has multiple pair of boots that look almost exactly the same. WhY? LORD WHY?

(Frazzled wouldn't care except guess who pays for them...)

I would use some witty retort about steam accounts filled with hundreds of games you never actually play, but in all honesty, I don't know.

Shoes just... are.

Shoegito ergo sum.

squidhills wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
understand, but the daughter has multiple pair of boots that look almost exactly the same. WhY? LORD WHY?

Okay, that one.... that one I haven't got an answer for.

Because, well, duh, they're all totally NOT the same! These ones have like, the fur, like, 3 inches down, and these ones have them 2 inches down, and these one's are totally biege and these are more chestnut brown! Like, duh, anyone would know that!





Don't get me wrong, I like nice shoes myself. I have dress/school shoes for school and formal events. I also have Catapillars for clubs and the like. I have new Firetrap boots for day to day stuff. I have waterproof trainers which are easy to put on for a quick run to the shop or exercise. All of them are stylish and I enjoy having nice shoes but at the same time, they are functional.

Well actually they can make anyone love or hate anything givin enough stimulates. If everytime you see a sucker I zap you with a tazer and evertime you see a carrot I give you a release of pleasure. After so many week months years your brain auto programs to avoid pain and love things that make you happy. So to say you can't fix or change anything I think is wrong.

OgreChubbs wrote:
Well actually they can make anyone love or hate anything givin enough stimulates. If everytime you see a sucker I zap you with a tazer and evertime you see a carrot I give you a release of pleasure. After so many week months years your brain auto programs to avoid pain and love things that make you happy. So to say you can't fix or change anything I think is wrong.

Yeah, but generally people don't get tazed for feeling like the opposite sex. Or get cookies for feeling like their born sex.

What transgenderism is;

I am born a man. I instinctively feel more like a woman. I am a woman trapped in a man's body. I should have been a woman. I BELIEVE I am a woman.

That's not a mental illness. Mental illness can be cured. You can't cure beliefs.

OgreChubbs wrote:
Well actually they can make anyone love or hate anything givin enough stimulates. If everytime you see a sucker I zap you with a tazer and evertime you see a carrot I give you a release of pleasure. After so many week months years your brain auto programs to avoid pain and love things that make you happy. So to say you can't fix or change anything I think is wrong.

Didn't the "reconversion" movement use this idea. The results have been less than satisfactory. And then you have to immeidtaley ask the question: why bother?
You want to be gay, be gay! its just an entire other group of people that scream that there's a bear with mange and start throwing rocks and stuff at me when I get too close. Meh, at least the rocks will be fabulously color coordinated when they throw them at me.

That and it's pretty fething disgusting.

 Deadshot wrote:

Mental illness can be cured. You can't cure beliefs.

That's never been a quality of metal illness. See borderline personality disorder or psychopathy.


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 Frazzled wrote:

Didn't the "reconversion" movement use this idea. The results have been less than satisfactory.

Yeah, I think Lou Reed didn't care much for it.

 daedalus wrote:

 Deadshot wrote:

Mental illness can be cured. You can't cure beliefs.

That's never been a quality of metal illness. See borderline personality disorder or psychopathy.


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 Frazzled wrote:

Didn't the "reconversion" movement use this idea. The results have been less than satisfactory.

Yeah, I think Lou Reed didn't care much for it.

That's a good point. I was thinking things like schizophrenia and the the like.

 MrDwhitey wrote:
That and it's pretty fething disgusting.

What exactly is the "that" in this sentence referring to?

 Peregrine wrote:

 MrDwhitey wrote:
That and it's pretty fething disgusting.

What exactly is the "that" in this sentence referring to?

Presumably, gay "repair therapy".

Yup*.

*I might be biased though

So a mental illness is only something that can be cured? So leukemia is not a illness? just a state of blood? It is a mental illness the brain is ment to insure you produce children and survive if you are not doing them then your ill lol

OgreChubbs wrote:
So a mental illness is only something that can be cured? So leukemia is not a illness? just a state of blood? It is a mental illness the brain is ment to insure you produce children and survive if you are not doing them then your ill lol

Oh look the 1950s called again!

 MrDwhitey wrote:

OgreChubbs wrote:
So a mental illness is only something that can be cured? So leukemia is not a illness? just a state of blood? It is a mental illness the brain is ment to insure you produce children and survive if you are not doing them then your ill lol

Oh look the 1950s called again!

Why is it when you have no answer you say a short snark not just you just the dumb. If you have nothing good to add, add nothing I provided scientific statements theorys and contradicted that a mental illness is only a illness if it can be cured. Then I get back nuh uh nuh uh prove it lalalalala. I feel like I am talking to children so I am walking away from this. Once someone makes a statement with a theory that has been proven or researcher-ed for atleast 5+ years I will see it worth my time until then I will end it like you guys

NUH UH I AM RIGHT YOUR WRONG LALALALALALA

Oh look a 1950s playground called!

OgreChubbs wrote:
So a mental illness is only something that can be cured? So leukemia is not a illness? just a state of blood? It is a mental illness the brain is ment to insure you produce children and survive if you are not doing them then your ill lol

1. Please cite scientific proof that your brain means to insure you prpoduce children?
2. Why do you (falsely) think gay people don't want to have children?



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 MrDwhitey wrote:
Oh look a 1950s playground called!

hey don't diss the 50s. Soul music baby. Soul music.

Hey Frazzled, you should know that all times have bad and good.

It'd just be nice if this guy brought some good though.

To be perfectly honest, it's pointless to even try debate with a hateful creature like this, just ignore/mock/ridicule until they die out.