Saturday, June 06, 2015

Two Cakes



I've been occasionally peering in on the whole "Bruce"/"Caitlyn" internet saga. The way I see it, the "guy" just doesn't feel comfortable as a man; "she" feels comfortable as a woman. Whatever. Do I find it a tad bizarre? Yeah, I do. But we can observe things waaay more bizarre than that in the human species. Let's see, there's people born with two heads, and in rare cases, they actually survive and share a body. There's babies born with no brain, only a brain stem. And list goes on. (I'll come back to this in a minute).

I see Christians chiming in on the "Bruce"/Caitlyn" debate, saying that "God doesn't make mistakes", yadda, yadda, their reasoning of course being that Caitlyn was born a man(Bruce), so becoming a woman is/was therefore a "sin" and goes against what God intended. In other words, God just wouldn't make a mistake as heinous as putting a woman in a man's body. While they say they aren't judging and are only passing along God's perspective on it(never mind that they can never seem to agree on what that perspective is), what I contend is that, um, yeah, most of them are judging, but most revealing, they are wanting their cake and to eat it, too. In other words, time and time again the Christian "solution" is to make two cakes.





Caitlyn does not feel comfortable in her own skin(as the male gender) and never has, and Christians just cannot (refuse to?) wrap their minds around it. They go on about how God doesn't make mistakes, but when they do this, they clearly want things both ways.

Well, folks, something must give---that is, either, a)  God doesn't make mistakes, and therefore, two-headed people, conjoined twins, anephecalic babies, people born with extra limbs, people born with extra chromosomes, transgendered people, and everyone else and all in between, are "perfect" and precisely the way that God intended them, or b) God makes mistakes(a crap-load of them), and therefore isn't "perfect", in which case, he's not worthy of the title "God", and certainly not worthy of my worship or admiration.

Look, if it's "okay" for conjoined twins to feel as though they were born in the "wrong body" and to choose to be surgically separated, then it should be "okay" for people who identify as transgender to feel that they were born in the "wrong body", and thus, choose to be "separated" from that old gender. 'Thoughts?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

'Thoughts?'

I am not perfect, nobody is.
But i can say i have the feeling that i am in the right body.

I can't & won't condemn "Bruce"/"Caitlyn" because i don't feel what "he/she" is feeling.
I far as i know it has a lot to do with how much male or female hormones "Bruce"/"Caitlyn" has in his/her body.

It's not our business what choice he/she decides to make, although some think it is ... Wrong!
But for me it doesn't make him a hero.

K@B

boomSLANG said...

Anon: "It's not our business what choice he/she decides to make, although some think it is ... Wrong!"

Very true, but interestingly, of those who think it's "wrong"(as opposed to just weird or bizarre), I've yet to see anyone offer a compelling basis for such determinations. By and large, I see Xians here in the states using their bibles for that basis, but just like most social issues of the day, there no consensus. They fall on opposite sides of the fence on this issue, and many more.

"But for me it doesn't make him a hero."

I think that's a stretch, too. For me, a "hero" is someone who risks his or her life to save other lives. But I guess for people afraid that they can't be who they really are, they see "Bruce"/"Caitlyn" as a hero for that cause.

Thx for chiming in