Ask a person who identifies as femmekin

[dusters]

Link before asking - http://otherkin.wordpress.com/

So - I identify as a consciousness who inhabits a human-like body. But don't we all?
I identify as a feminine being.

I'm biologically something between a man and woman - although my doctors say that i could live the way i am, i just need emotional support from a close circle of friends.

I'm attracted to beautiful things. Like art. I love art. I love painting, dancing, martial arts, poetry. I love to read and write myself.

I have tried sex with everyone i legally can and found out that i still mostly experience aesthetical attraction, not sexual, therefore I'm demisexual.

The body i live in is currently 26 years old, i hope to do kung-fu for a living (i wish) and my best quality is ability to cuddle. I'm very childish and pure.

 

[Yoda Power]

What do you mean by being "biologically something between a man and woman"? Are you a hermaphrodite?

 

[Tee Kay]

It used to be that people like the OP philosophised.

Instead of, you know, this.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I have a difficult time rationalizing martial arts as being an art instead of another oxymoron.

 

[Tee Kay]

I have a difficult time rationalizing martial arts as being an art instead of another oxymoron.

It's kinda like describing you as a liberal. Highly subjective.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Nope. I have come to the conclusion my opinions have indeed become sufficiently liberal enough to be classified as such.

 

[metatron]

I have a difficult time rationalizing martial arts as being an art instead of another oxymoron.

Feel free to call it combat sport (like virtually all other Germanic languages).
The romance influence is probably the reason why English is stuck with the "art" here.
In contrast other Germanic languages refer to an "art of war", while English has the good sense to refer to it as a "craft".
The common theme here is that in the olden days these were things that people of class did, hence the upgrading to "art".

Since this is from Latin (duh!) and modern Greek calls the thing a "technes" i'd very much like to hear from Kyriakos whether that was true in ancient Greek as well.

 

[Quackers]

Do you wear a tail in real life?

 

[NovaKart]

After reading the website I'm wondering, do you all really believe this or are you just really into fantasy role playing?

 

[dusters]

Doctors said, i'm quoting "there seems to be symptoms of gender dysphoria, whether the cause is hermaphroditism, gene pathology or other cause, is still to be identified"

I got a paper like that 3 years ago. It stated that due to my health history, they don't recommend any drugs.

Biologically i could be called hermaphrodite or mtf transsexual depending on definitions, yes.

I don't wear a tail. I don't feel like i had one or i should have one.

@Nova the question was answered in the article i linked, in the comments section.

Yes, Aristasians really do believe that they have lived on an other planet in one of their lifetimes. As for me - i believe so as well, but I'm trying to incorparate that exprience into daily life on earth, instead of trying to live in the past.

 

[Perfection]

Can you give me a bit of an elaboration of what you mean by aesthetical attraction as opposed to sexual? How does that effect who you are attracted to, and your relationships with them?

Do you look different as a femmekin then a "typical" female (either biologically or in how you dress/style yourself)? If so, how?

How did you come to understand that you were an Aristasian?

 

[NovaKart]

If you were a hermaphrodite wouldn't that be on your medical records or be rather obvious? Hermaphroditism is not psychological.

 

[warpus]

Doctors said, i'm quoting "there seems to be symptoms of gender dysphoria, whether the cause is hermaphroditism, gene pathology or other cause, is still to be identified"

Is this what is causing you to feel that you are a non-human entity trapped in a human body?

How do you fight this so you return to feeling like a human again?

Did a doctor diagnose you as "femmekin"? If not, how did you arrive at this diagnosis?

Or have I completely misunderstood what all of this means?

 

[Kyriakos]

Feel free to call it combat sport (like virtually all other Germanic languages).
The romance influence is probably the reason why English is stuck with the "art" here.
In contrast other Germanic languages refer to an "art of war", while English has the good sense to refer to it as a "craft".
The common theme here is that in the olden days these were things that people of class did, hence the upgrading to "art".

Since this is from Latin (duh!) and modern Greek calls the thing a "technes" i'd very much like to hear from Kyriakos whether that was true in ancient Greek as well.

Martial arts were part of the Olympic games, and there were at least three events focused on those (of which only wrestling survives, and IIRC it was taken out of the NU-Olympics now so as to make room for table-tennis or something I mean few people watch olympic wrestling- i don't either- but it is one of the original Olympic events ).
The other martial arts agonismata in the ancient Olympics were apparently born out of the need to have hoplites train for man to man combat as a final resort in a battle (ie after the spear is dropped, and the sword is lost). At first there were even two variations of the hand to hand combat (likely termed Pygmachia, which literaly means 'battle of the strong will', and was a kind of boxing) with one being more technical, the other being allowing even serious wounding (or death) of the opponent. IIRC the Spartans refused to take part in the event after the move to press the opponent's eyes with your fingers (and likely blind him) was not allowed anymore.

As for the original term for those events as 'arts', i am sadly not sure, although currently their term is indeed 'Polemikes technes', which means martial arts. It is very likely that the term is a translation of some foreign one, but i am not sure (maybe the foreign one in turn was a translation from an ancient greek one). But it is certain that martial arts were part of Hoplite and other ancient Greek military and basic civil training.

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There are countless depictions of both Pale and Pygmachia in Greek ancient art, but my personal favorite is this wall-painting, which i read is from around 1600 BC, in the Cycladic civilizations:

Two young boys boxing.

And a famous hellenistic statue of a wrestler:

 

[Bugfatty300]

Is this a furry thread or something?

 

[Snorrius]

Two young boys boxing.

Well, they were restored. I will not surprised if this was done by the Englishmen or Anglophile .

 

[Commodore]

I have a difficult time rationalizing martial arts as being an art instead of another oxymoron.

How is it not an art?

 

[Snorrius]

So - I identify as a consciousness who inhabits a human-like body. But don't we all?

You claim you are a non-human inhabitting a human body.

What makes you to think so? What peculiarities of your perception, thought procession or maybe unnatural abilities make you think this way?

 

[Perfection]

How is it not an art?

Art nowadays typically refers to skillful activities that have aesthetic purposes. Martial arts typically focus more on combat/sport/self-defense effectiveness then aesthetic virtues.

Of course, there can be things of aesthetic value within martial arts, but as a discipline effectiveness is the primary motivation.

 

[Borachio]

I'm fine with this:

Even among humans all children are conceived feminine – only exposure to male hormones creates a male creature. In humans it happens in two stages – first in the womb and then at puberty, when secondary sexual characteristics such as deep voice and beard are acquired. Before this second stage, boys retain the normative feminine characteristics in these respects.

Femininity is not simply the converse of masculinity. It is the normative, original state of life. Many peoples throughout the universe are purely feminine. Indeed, schizomorphic (male/female) peoples are an exception and some think a late development that took place only in a few worlds.

apart, maybe from the hint of other worlds.

Then I read this:

Intemorphism is something that we have come to know about recently through the copious writings of Aristasia. Aristasia recognizes that there are “Exile Aristasians” – Aristasians who are not originally human but come, in some way, from the Aristasian world of Sai Herthe.

You know, the world is truly an amazing place already, without just making stuff up.

But, of course, maybe this is all 100% true, and I'm simply a crazy old cynic.

Perhaps the weary truth is I've come across too much nutty stuff in the past to swallow just any old tale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Martindale

Ooh. Dominatrix!