Would-be LB's take heed

[reader]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, boys consider going the ladyboy route may want to take a long look at this one from Pattaya One.

 

 

What may seem like a good idea at 18 may be less appealing three decades later when the lady boy transitions into lady man.

 

From Pattaya One

 

A plucky German tourist made a citizen’s arrest on a baht bus in Pattaya after a lady boy stole money from his pocket.

 

Fifty nine year old Thomas Broschart was on his way back to his hotel on the baht bus in North Pattaya when it stopped to pick up a lady boy, reported Chonburi News

As the bus moved along the lady boy made advances to the tourist and tried to get very close to him.

 

But the game German noticed that the lady boy had lifted some money from his pocket and he grabbed the man’s arm and held on tight.

 

He then notified the cops.

 

The lady boy – 50 year old Penphat Suphaphat – was still under arrest when the cops arrived at the Pla Loma (Dolphin) Roundabout.

 

http://pattayaone.news/en/plucky-german-tourist-foils-pattaya-lady-boy-pickpocket/

[thaiophilus]

So the complex process of transitioning, with all its financial, medical, psychological and social negotiations and consequences, can be reduced to a simple "seem[ed] like a good idea"? I guess that's a bit like deciding to be gay, then

[reader]

Not really. You don't decide to be gay but you do decide to be a lady boy.

[Guest]

Not really. You don't decide to be gay but you do decide to be a lady boy.

The second statement is true. The first is very questionable. I have not seen any credible evidence to prove being gay is not a personal decision.

[thaiophilus]

Whether true or not, both statements miss the point because they confuse identity and behaviour. People decide to do certain things based on their sense of their own gender/orientation/identity/whatever, not merely because it "seem[ed] like a good idea".

 

Don't you think it's ironic that a posting on a gay forum should be so dismissively 'splanatory about a different kind of otherness?

[reader]

The second statement is true. The first is very questionable. I have not seen any credible evidence to prove being gay is not a personal decision.

 

Free will? You're a philosopher, z909.  Descartes would be on your side.

 

 

Whether true or not, both statements miss the point because they confuse identity and behaviour. People decide to do certain things based on their sense of their own gender/orientation/identity/whatever, not merely because it "seem[ed] like a good idea".

 

Don't you think it's ironic that a posting on a gay forum should be so dismissively 'splanatory about a different kind of otherness?

 

Otherness? You're a philosopher and a sociologist, Thaiophilus. Foucault would be your guy.

 

Actually, I think a gay forum is an ideal place for such discussion.