Thread: The Pros and Cons of Breathing (And Why I should just Stop)

Trygon said Maybe just... Shut the fuck up about all your opinions about things you have no experience with? Would it be insulting if a white man told his black friend how to deal with the cops? Of course. How about a male telling a female how to avoid being raped? Insanity. These people have no frame of reference, and they have NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE but quiet support. You think being trans is a mental illness. Okay. You're wrong, except in your own highly specialized definition of mental illness used by nobody else, but fine. Why did you feel a need to talk about it? Because you think you found a correlation between post-op and suicide? Brother, how about pre-op? There's just a correlation between being trans and suicide, whichever side of the knife they're on. So here we have a person who's already suicidal in all likelihood, and someone they trusted enough to talk to about all this says 'You shouldn't do this because you're mentally infirm and doing this will make you commit suicide.' The one way they see to feel better about their situation, and you've just got so many opinions on the subject. Remember, with ZERO frame of reference. Yeah, I'd write you off, too. You're an idiot who's convinced his opinion is worthwhile. Take heart, at least you're in good company these days. Presidential company, according to some. Save the suicide whining. It's trite and childish. If you feel bad about your shitty behavior, don't throw a tantrum, FIX IT. For starters, accept that your shitty fucking 'opinion' is worth less than dogshit, and you pollute the air of everyone you share it with. Unless you have something valid and new to contribute to a conversation, keep your dumb mouth shut. I've watched you post around this site, so trust me, I know you need to do this. Next, LISTEN to people that are contributing when you can't, and inform your thoughts with what they say. When your trans friend first got agitated, before you kept pushing the issue like a jackass who thinks his opinion is solid gold and drove them off, you should have IMMEDIATELY apologized for speaking about something you had no knowledge in, and then edited your own thoughts to reflect what someone who actually knows tells you. In this case, your friend. This could have been a learning experience about trans people, but you thought you already knew everything relevant. Now it's a learning experience about your personality flaws. You sowed this field, now reap it, instead of crying in a heap. Click to expand... Here come the thought police. Seriously, you think it is impossible to study or learn something about an experience without living it? That's just an excuse to allow your own brand of bullying by 'othering' them. You posit that you are just innately correct and treat someone like that? Over what? An opinion? I have absolutely no clue what happened in chat. I don't defend bullying, so I won't say they didn't do anything wrong. But, your post is almost entirely bullying. It's gross. Before I held back my own opinion on subjects that don't actually concern me because that is just the polite thing to do. Now, I'm going to have to worry about where I place my opinion at all on this site. Because, apparently bullying someone based entirely on opinion is just acceptable around here. Great. I mean, suggesting that what they are saying makes BMR an uncomfortable space for other members is perfectly sound. Telling them that they should keep some things to themselves, I get that. Telling them they pollute the air other people breathe and their opinion is dog shit-oh and their feelings are invalid because they aren't trans? That's disgusting and wrong, I don't care how much you think you are correct or justified. Edit That being said, I agree with you somewhere. This is an inappropriate place to post about suicide-leaning comments and complain about being banned from chat. It's very much not okay so says Rule 2, second paragraph. The tone here is whiny and I regret participating in this specific thread.