Robin
Ah! Now I must be labeled: anti-semite, ‘conspiracy theories,’ ‘nonsense,’ ‘fascist.’ I understand.
You do not, and this is revealing. Be assured, at least I won’t label anybody. Can’t speak for anticapitalista, while I assume he wouldn’t either. But it looks like you do. Let me explain by summarising your statements:
As an answer on my note reminding you of the fact him or her (the OP) being transgender, your spontaneous and direct answer was: “I’m sorry for him and his mother.” As an explanation you’ve speculated in the same breath that he wasn’t raised properly as a man by his mother, he would just have needed a father, who had told him how to be a man. My conclusion from your chain of arguments, sorry if I have misread you, please clarify, is: You label people, which is a fascist domain already on its own. For you a man is obliged to act in this and that way, to be allowed to be a man. If he doesn’t fit into a pattern in your head, you stigmatise him by being sorry. And on top of all this, you justify this nonsense (yes, this way of categorising people is nonsense) with Russian culture being Asian, implying he or she is guilty for not matching the proper traditions. Please, explain me what this, your perspective distinguishes from a fascist one? This does not make you a fascist necessarily, but you deliberately or subconsciously argue in fascist patterns. So please don’t misread me: Not you are nonsense, but some of your statements are. All people (including myself) occasionally don’t notice when applying fascist patterns of thinking subconsciously. Then it is a good idea to listen to the view of other people, and rethinking the own perspective and the own statements. Precisely for not being fascist. What counts is this:
with respect to others.
Independent of what they look like, think, behave themselves, believe, feel. And independent of whether they feel themselves “a man” (or “a woman”) or not. This is what constitutes humanity, and humanity doesn’t end at state borders or cultural borders. It is universal. Only misanthropes, fundamentalists and fascists would deny that.
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.