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02/11/17 17:53:24 with a score of -7: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfrick/comments/5thot0/the_progression_of_a_gender_change/ddmpdp9/?context=8

I've discovered, over decades of "debate", that people often place their thesis into the first few words of their communication in written forums.

Your first few words:

"Stop being so triggered…"

— from which I can infer that you make the demand that I stop — not going to happen — that I stop being — also not happening — that I stop being in a particular attitude — again: answer is "No" — and an assertion that I am "Triggered".

It is the last assertion that I want to take you to task over.

Do I seem emotional to you? Am I writing in such a way that I am asserting my own emotions, and asserting that my emotions are of the utmost import in this conversation?

Don't answer that; it's a rhetorical question, and the answer of rhetorical questions is almost always meant to be "No".

Am I writing that I find the word offensive? Is this about my feelings?

Or am I actually appealing to science?

See, that one you also shouldn't answer. It, too, is a rhetorical trick — I already know what the audience's answer is, and I already know what your answer is.

That's a rhetorical trick — a trick to get you to respond in a particular manner, to expose your own attitudes and biases and preconceptions.

To the audience.

Maybe to you, too. But typically, that part I'm never around for.

It normally happens in dreams, or in conversations with friends or lovers, or experiencing the situation thrust upon you by necessity, from your own realisations, or those of your children.

So perhaps you may sense here that I feel that my part of this "exchange" is over, that I can produce little or no more communication.

So perhaps I shall — rather than "Stop" — simply … move on.