Oruc

Edit: Never mind, someone else sniped the Fascists.

Well, I don't feel comfortable telling people who they are supposed to be, so on that we can only disagree.

I've heard about it. Don't know enough about the methodology to say if it's valid, though.

Yes, they're different. And, for the record, trans people aren't "cross dressers" they're people who live as a gender other than that which they would be assigned in accordance with biologically-derived social norms. They wear whatever clothes are considered normal for their self-identified gender; a cross-dressing trans man would be one in a dress.

The conception of gender as socially constructed doesn't imply that gendered behaviour it can be entirely attributed to social conditioning. It's about how we understand and categorise human behaviour, and that individuals behavioural tendencies (natural and/or acquired) may not map to biologically-rooted social norms. The suggestion is that trans gender people would behave, at least to some extent, as they do in a genderless word in a gendered one, we just wouldn't conceive of this behaviour as being gendered. (The "to some extent" being an acknowledgement of the fact that trans people are as subject to the norms of the asserted identity as their assigned identity.)

(Transsexual people are a different matter, because that's about mind-body identification, which is most fundamentally a biological rather than social question.)

"If gender is a social construct how do you explain the trans-gendered?"
I don't understand this question. How does the fact of transgenderism contradict the conception of gender as a social question?

Ahh. Maybe that's why your name looked familiar? Well this NES is going to be a lot less abortive than Aros.

Wait. Wrong person.

edit: I mean, I confused you with another player who played in my last NES >_> Still feel free to join it if it appeals to you.

Hey, Oruc! I would love it if you joined my new NES. *poke poke*

I can't seem to find the Freud quote in your signature.

Emu, you need to add "formerly known as Emu" or something similar to your sig for the next 30 days. Thanks.

Yeah, i dont get this friend request thing. Thanks though!

Yes? Is this a test? Should I be running somewhere?

You sent some sort of friend request? I'd accept, but I'm not sure how. Also, why?