>>23813282I'm not saying they're not superficially the same
don't get me wrong, I do understand your perspective of
>dey boh want change bodythey do
you're right
but that's extremely shallow a similarity; the theory and the execution are much different, for the reasons I've already stated
but I'll reiterate:
they're completely opposed ideologically—one is modernist, essentialist, and decidedly capitalistic; the other is postmodernist, existentialist, and profoundly neomarxian
at the risk of oversimplifying my point for your ease of consumption:
one advocates changing WHAT you are—with the other making no such claim
whereas the other advocates the fluidity of being able to change WHO you are—with the other making no such claim
one comes from scifi, and the empirical sciences, and the other comes straight from the humanities, following in a line of neomarxist theories
in their most standard forms, they're directly opposed in what they claim
in transhumanism, you can't just say "I'm a human consciousness implanted into a giant robot spider" and that be reality—you actually have to do the implantation
and then, you are that because you are that
in gender theory, things like that are based on self-perception alone—a transgender person can be transgender purely based on an inauthentic self-conception
you are that because you imagine it to be so
do you understand?
