Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License 412
mrspoonsi writes Russia has listed transsexual and transgender people among those who will no longer qualify for driving licenses. Fetishism, exhibitionism and voyeurism are also included as "mental disorders" now barring people from driving. The government says it is tightening medical controls for drivers because Russia has too many road accidents. "Pathological" gambling and compulsive stealing are also on the list. Russian psychiatrists and human rights lawyers have condemned the move. The announcement follows international complaints about Russian harassment of gay-rights activists.
Good thing... (Score:5, Funny)
... Putin don't drive!
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I fully support Russia's efforts to establish themselves as the force of Evil to be opposed in this New Cold War.
It is great for the US economy.
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Recently a romanian friend pointed out that the word "putin" in romanian means "little". I guess that explains a lot about Lord Putin's behaviour. Overcompensating? :)
Re:Good thing... (Score:5, Funny)
BTW here's how they drive in Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Pedophiles (Score:4, Insightful)
Will this include the typical Russian Elite who purchases small girls for sex?
Re:Pedophiles (Score:5, Insightful)
Never. Rules are for the little people. Much like the "free market", "competition", and "taking risks". That kind of nonsense is for you and me.
For them, it's quite another story!
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they don't drive, they have drivers - and escorts. and not just the escorts of the call girl variety, but like, 3 G mercs. because, you know, it's Russia. Plenty of the Russian elite emigrate just to feel safe.
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they don't drive, they have drivers - and escorts. and not just the escorts of the call girl variety, but like, 3 G mercs. because, you know, it's Russia. Plenty of the Russian elite emigrate just to feel safe.
Most of the elites have been under forced foreign divestiture rules the past couple years, in anticipation of sanctions, so those still there are mostly stuck now.
Counter Logic (Score:3, Insightful)
Man, I'd be a better driver with my wanker removed. "Distractuious" women have caused most of my near misses.
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Hopefully you mean 'near hits' because a near miss would just be a hit.
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You're an idiot. A near miss means that you barely avoided the collision. There's no such thing as a "near hits"
Re: Counter Logic (Score:4, Insightful)
AC got modded down, but is right. The word 'near' is an adjective in this context. It was a miss. What kind? A near miss.
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Re:Counter Logic (Score:4, Informative)
Hopefully you mean 'near hits' because a near miss would just be a hit.
No, in English we say "near miss". It is a contraction of "it was a miss, but very near".
Re:Counter Logic (Score:5, Funny)
Man, I'd be a better driver with my wanker removed. "Distractuious" women have caused most of my near misses.
Could have been worse - could have been complete mrs.
hummer in a Hummer? (Score:5, Funny)
"Darling, you look absolutely smashing, tonight!..."
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"...and you've done a bang-up job on your hair. You are a total knock out! I go to pieces just looking at you."
Re:Counter Logic (Score:5, Funny)
Actually totalled my car when driving with a very pretty lady
Did you panic when she started deflating?
source? (Score:2, Insightful)
Here it is. Hope you can read Russian. Re:source? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Here it is. Hope you can read Russian. Re:sourc (Score:4, Informative)
http://government.ru/media/fil... [government.ru]
The second page of that document contains a list of disorders, as classified by the ICD-10, that prohibit one from driving -- numbers in the right column. The descriptions are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10_Chapter_V:_Mental_and_behavioural_disorders
As you see, F60-F69 includes all of the following:
(F64) Gender identity disorders
(F64.0) Transsexualism
(F64.1) Dual-role transvestism
(F64.2) Gender identity disorder of childhood
(F65) Disorders of sexual preference
(F65.0) Sexual fetishism
(F65.1) Fetishistic transvestism
(F65.2) Exhibitionism
(F65.3) Voyeurism
(F65.4) Paedophilia
(F65.5) Sadomasochism
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This "mental disorders" ban is fucking insane, but it makes the sort of reactionary pricks that push this sort of thing look "conservative" to their support base. Yet another symptom of what happens when a state is under the control of a very small number of powerful people.
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The CD-10 is an international standard WHO document.
If the world is so hung up on this, then perhaps they can take it upon themselves to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from their own book of definitions.
Chess, anyone?
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Having a fetish is a disorder? That's... going to cover a really huge percentage of the human species. Maybe it doesn't count if you don't act on it, but it's still a preference (as in, "Disorders of sexual preference")...
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The authors of this law were, it seems to me, (if I can depend on the translation being close to accurate), fairly rigorous in their definitions so as to make it clear that only conditions which actually affect one's ability to drive safely are listed.
And how exactly is (F64.0) Transsexualism affecting your ability to drive?
Re:Here it is. Hope you can read Russian. Re:sourc (Score:4, Insightful)
You, and the mods who gave you points, are either ignorant or biased to the point of imbecility.
Putin has already been clearly shown to use the most tenuous pretexts to use Russia's courts to beat, imprison & kill his opponents. Changing the laws so that the F64 & F65 codes disqualify people from having a drivers license WILL be used.
Putins goons will stop & strip search critics just as they do now. They'll just replace his underwear with ladies & boom, F65.1: No drivers licence for you, pervert...
Re:Here it is. Hope you can read Russian. Re:sourc (Score:5, Informative)
From Wikipedia:
(F64) Gender identity disorders
(F64.0) Transsexualism
(F64.1) Dual-role transvestism
(F64.2) Gender identity disorder of childhood
(F65) Disorders of sexual preference
(F65.0) Sexual fetishism
(F65.1) Fetishistic transvestism
(F65.2) Exhibitionism
(F65.3) Voyeurism
(F65.4) Paedophilia
(F65.5) Sadomasochism
(F65.6) Multiple disorders of sexual preference
(F65.8) Other disorders of sexual preference Frotteurism Necrophilia Zoophilia
(F66) Psychological and behavioural disorders associated with sexual development and orientation
(F66.0) Sexual maturation disorder
(F66.1) Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
(F66.2) Sexual relationship disorder
(F66.8) Other psychosexual development disorders
(F66.9) Psychosexual development disorder, unspecified
Quotes from ICD-10 itself:
Fetish objects vary in their importance to the individual. In some cases they simply serve to enhance sexual excitement achieved in ordinary ways (e.g. having the partner wear a particular garment).
Sexual orientation by itself is not to be regarded as a disorder.
In other words: If you are GAY you may drive. But if you are excited when your wife wears high heels then you are disqualified.
Full disclosure: I live in Russia.
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Impaired driving (Score:5, Insightful)
And yet alcoholism is not on this list of disorders that lead to increased road accidents...
Re:Impaired driving (Score:5, Funny)
And yet alcoholism is not on this list of disorders that lead to increased road accidents...
Then there would be no Russians driving.
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Actually, Russian drunk driving laws have been getting tough too. 0.0356% BAC is considered DIU (0.08 in USA)
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Alcoholism is F10 and is banned.
Takes attention away from Putin (Score:4, Insightful)
The Russian economy is collapsing, the Ruble has plumetted, all because the entire economy depend on gas and oil sales and the price of oil has dropped due to fracking.
Putin, the election rigger, is to blame. So how do you draw attention away from Putin's failure to run the economy?
So his spin men have chosen a minority to attack, in this case transgender people, so he can whip up the homophobic portion of Russia and get them arguing with the more tolerant people, and nobody is looking at him, his failure and his corrupt dictatorship.
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Putin, the election rigger? Oh please. It's clearly legitimate that 99,5% of Chechnyans voted for "The Butcher of Grozny". Turnouts of over 100% in some precincts in Grozny, well, people were just *that* excited to get to vote for him!
Insanity (Score:2)
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And the rules for Putin? (Score:5, Interesting)
Fetishism, exhibitionism and voyeurism are also included as "mental disorders" now barring people from driving.
Since Putin apparently likes to ride around half-naked on horse-back?
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you don't need a driving license for a horse.
People who persecute others (Score:5, Interesting)
are generally full of fear and insecurity.
Even though they act tough.
The Russian government is rabid with fear at the moment.
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California motto should be, regulate first measure second.
They seem to pass laws quickly for every trend that goes on. It doesn't matter if it is a problem or not. They will proudly show how progressive they are when they randomly pass a good regulation. But there are a bunch of stupid laws too, that gust got passed because it seemed like a good idea.
I live in New York State by no means a red state. But at least I can go grocery shopping in VT and travel back to NY and not get stuck at a check point where
Odd (Score:2)
time to publish putin medical records. (Score:2)
At least the pictures from his famous historectomy. Think it can be found at goatse something.
russia is devolving (Score:4, Interesting)
it crushes political maturity and instead offers worship of one super strong super tough exkgb goon putin, like north korean cult of personality bullshit
rather than diversify the economy it tries to become a petrostate (now with crashing oil prices)
it panders to simpleminded fears and hatred now with gays and sexual minorites, so it is culturally and socially rotting too
is russia trying to weaken as best as it can?
with a surging imperialist china, which has a border dispute with every single one of its neighbors: stealing land from india, stealing philippine/ vietnamese/ japanese islands, etc... how long until china says "fuck it" and just flat out takes siberia from sick pathetic dying russia?
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No-one can invade Russia. They have nukes. Lots and lots of nukes, combined with a leader unpredictable enough that he might actually use them. The deterrent works.
Re:russia is devolving (Score:4, Interesting)
a weak, poor country can be defeated in myriad ways
china doesn't have to militarily invade siberia. it can just corrupt officials, pay russian legislators to make laws friendly to it, own all of the companies operating in siberia, flood the area with immigrants, etc
such that the map may say russia, but for all intents and purposes, it will be china's siberia
russia showed us how to unilaterally take another country's sovereign territory with crimea
flood the area with your own citizens. then they simply announce what country they really are a part of after some political turmoil in the country's capital. which, weak as russia is, should be easy for a rich china to corrupt
bloodless
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat... [go.com]
sure, texas being snatched form mexico wasn't bloodless, but by the time the mexicans put up a fight, it was too late: the immigrant population had already tipped allegiances
the change will be slow and inevitable. nobody will nuke anyone because it won't be an overnight military invasion. just immigration leading to gradual social and political realignment, helped along by corrupting influence
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfor... [nytimes.com]
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actually the real deterrent is that if you invaded, you would need to take care of the russian common folk.
there's a 833 mile border between Russia and Finland. one thing russians are good at is keeping the russians on the russian side of the border...
Re:russia is devolving (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a common side effect of a leader removing any potential competition for his job.
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Nobody's going to be taking anything from a nuclear armed state. The most I think anyone would ever dare do is covertly support breakaway rebel movements, but even that would be extremely provocative.
That said, there probably will be an upsurge in internal rebel acticity in Russia as they lose their ability to pay off local tribal leaders with oil money like they've been doing extensively of late....
Disqualifies Putin (Score:2)
The fact that Putin is a psychopath should disqualify him from a drivers license.
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The fact that Putin is a psychopath should disqualify him from a drivers license.
But that should not disqualify him from being gay.
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His reign doesn't seem to be especially merry.
But what about people who have megalomania?? (Score:2)
Like a certain russian leader...
But then, I guess they have drivers.. :P
Sounds legit. (Score:3, Funny)
Looks like a woman, drives like a man? An accident waiting to happen. You don't want to play chicken with the rooster.
Politicians with mental disorders (Score:3)
They should ban politicians with mental disorders such as fixations on other people's lives - such cause far more harm to society than any other class of people.
Sadly, this will probably be popular in Russia. (Score:5, Insightful)
Which is the point...Putin is an unreconstructed Chekist and will continue to distract his oppressed population with this and other nonsense, plus of course more serious meddling like Ukraine and Syria.
Since the average Russian is typically homophobic, racist, and "patriotic", this is an easy play.
Putin is mired in corruption, has totally failed to deliver on economic & political reforms and re-balancing the economy and the Ruble is tanking in the wake of falling oil prices.
So expect plenty more of this rubbish.
Actually improving road safety would involve "hard" stuff like tackling endemic police and court corruption, drink driving (although the legal limit is theoretically zero), anti-social attitudes and quasi-mafia idiots driving too fast in SUVs equipped with automatic weapons and large lights on the back specifically designed to blind people following them.
Ever wondered why you see so many youtube videos of "funny" things on Russian roads? It's because many people have dashboard cams to support their case with the insurance company when the inevitable accident happens; it really is that bad.
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If Americans were required to carry a dash camera for insurance claims, I am sure you would have seen on youtube plenty of the American road stupidity too.
The dash cams simply prove that Russians are the kind of people who tend to cheat the system, be it the government or an insurance company, if you take their word without a recording. Probably a result of 70 years of living in a massively corrupt country where everything is a state property and therefore can be stolen. Sometimes I think that the millions
Great idea (Score:5, Insightful)
You know, maybe next we should just put them all in camps, concentrate them, so they're away from "decent" people. And then, perhaps, make them wear something so we all know who they are, like a pink triangle or something?
Of course, these are all just temporary measures; I'm sure we'll ultimately come up with a better Final Solution...
Consistency (Score:2)
Russians, help me understand (Score:3, Insightful)
Resident or expats, please try to fill in the blanks.
Is there simply enough anti-homosexual bias in Russian culture, as in much of the USofA, for Putin to make political "points" by picking on them?
Is he thinking of using a relatievly powerless "out" group for a Kristallnacht if the economy experiences problems due to falling oil prices?
Pay-back, which he is known to do, for not supporting his acquisition of power?
Wild idea: is he thinking he can pressure homosexuals to produce more children as as some sort of social "cover", to build a population for a war?
Something else?
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Russia is simply showing its true colors. "Homesexual" is pretty much a swear word in Russia culture.
Many people in the West think that Putin is oppressing the democracy-loving Russians, but in reality, 90% of Russian MPs, most mayors, all governors, the military, and the executive branch of Russian government think like him and support him. Most people who live outside of the liberal Moscow and St Petersburg cities also support him. This law wouldn't pass without and overwhelming popular support.
Re:Russians, help me understand (Score:4, Informative)
Resident or expats, please try to fill in the blanks.
Is there simply enough anti-homosexual bias in Russian culture, as in much of the USofA, for Putin to make political "points" by picking on them?
Lived and worked there for a while.
Short answer is "yes". Putin flogs the image of the bare-chested "hero" and protector of family "values".
(The reality of course is that he's a botoxed crooked womanizer...)
But note: Most educated middle-class Russians detest Putin and his clique and are pretty nice people on the whole. Unfortunately, they're also mostly very racist and homophobic, (including the women). Of course, the same applies to many other places; India and the South of the USA spring to mind...
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Some time ago, the Soviet power allowed the prison moral "Ponyatiya" to escape to the wild, which is quite understandable due to repressions. And according to Ponyatiya, there is an hierarchy between the inmates where passive homosexuals are in the lowest position and are untouchable, except as a sexual object. The popular hate to homosexuals has no connection to Christian moral.
About the Gay Pride: I think it's proven that the Gay Pride has no relation to the homosexuals and is the movement paid from abroa
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Expat.
Is there simply enough anti-homosexual bias in Russian culture, as in much of the USofA, for Putin to make political "points" by picking on them?
Yes, there is enough anti-homosexual bias. Remember that it was criminalized in the USSR since Stalin (IIRC it was the only country in the Soviet bloc to do so), so the decriminalization was not a super long one, and it was never combined with effective propaganda of tolerance, so even when legal it was socially frowned upon. Probably about the same level as some of the more backwards Southern US states like Mississippi or Alabama. A certain degree of religious conservatism played into it, too, especi
After watching most Russian dash cams.... (Score:2)
They can simplify... Not allowed to drive if Russian or in Russia.
Everyone over there is utterly insane when behind the wheel.
At least it is better than Saudi Arabia. (Score:3)
Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:5, Insightful)
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ironically, i just got my DL back today from a 12 mo suspension, so it's cool that a story shows up on /..
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That's a weird criterion to use. So if my tuberculosis is under control, it's not a disease?
Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:5, Insightful)
That's a weird criterion to use. So if my tuberculosis is under control, it's not a disease?
Tuberculosis is contagious, and thus has a negative impact on society. Transgenderism is not contagious. If I dress up in women's lingerie, that doesn't mean you have to.
Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:4, Interesting)
Transgender people often end up having myriads of surgeries, taking many pills (often until they get cancer), seeing psychologists for years, and spend most their lives being unhappy until some time after the switch. So yeah, it's a problem for them and it goes way beyond wearing clothes. For the most part, I think society does a good job helping and understanding them. There are also many government programs in place. Maybe you don't see these things because of your own biases.
But, as it was mentioned before, this is unrelated to driving and it seems Russia is just enacting more discrimination.
Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:4, Insightful)
"negative impact on society"
read that again
then respond
Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:5, Insightful)
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And a lot of the reason for them being unhappy is how the rest of the world treats them. That's not their fault.
Well, the Russians bring this on themselves by continuously electing a "strong leader" who can "stand up to the West" because it has relegated them to a has-been world power.
Oh, you meant transgendered people.
Re: They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:3, Insightful)
Funnily enough, diseases and disorders don't mean the same thing. That's why we have two words for them.
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well, if your blond hair and tendency to draw satire is under control, then it's not a disorder that you're a blond satire cartoonist.
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It's only a disorder if it has a major negative impact on a person or society. The major negative impact from TG people is only that which society places on them and thus an unnatural impact. Simply being taboo is not a reason for discrimination against something.
Logic fail. You are now confusing disorder and discrimination. For example homosexuality is a type of a disorder but it should not be discriminated as it causes no harm.
Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:4, Insightful)
The major negative impact from TG people is only that which society places on them and thus an unnatural impact.
Yes, just wait until some of them get beaten up or killed on the streets as a result of this policy.
Then, they'll probably also be barred from taking public transportation or using the sidewalks, to avoid the poor other citizens from beating up on them.
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I've heard a transperson dispute that, saying that even where people are 100% cool with them, they still feel awful about the mind/body mismatch, to the point of depression, self-harming etc. Gender dysphoria can still be a mental illness even if transsexualism per se isn't.
Though of course, not in any sane jurisdiction should that prevent you from driving.
Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:4, Interesting)
I've heard a transperson dispute that, saying that even where people are 100% cool with them, they still feel awful about the mind/body mismatch, to the point of depression, self-harming etc. Gender dysphoria can still be a mental illness even if transsexualism per se isn't.
Though of course, not in any sane jurisdiction should that prevent you from driving.
Would you be happy with yourself if you had the wrong body parts? There is so much negativism about transsexualism from a minority of the population that it tends to drown out the fact that the majority are okay with it. After all, it's the same with the bullies back in school - sure, 99% of the kids don't beat you up, but that 1% makes a lot of kids not want to get up in the morning to go to school. They can actually become physically ill from the stress. Would you say that they had a mental illness?
Obviously the correct course with any medical problem is effective medical treatment. If you had, say, a cleft palette and couldn't get treatment, you'd be pretty depressed too, no? Maybe to the point of self-harm by trying to fix it yourself?
Now, I'm not disagreeing totally with what you're saying - the negative reactions of others don't help, and the removal of transsexualism as a mental disorder was a big step towards normalizing the situation. Is gender dysphoria a mental illness? I'm okay with that. After all, if it's classified as a mental illness, then that opens up the path to treatment. If we can't make the mind match the body, let's make the body match the mind. And once it's treated (one or more of hormones, surgery, therapy) then they're no longer dysphoric.
Of course, one big problem with saying that it's a mental illness is that a lot of people think "it's all in your head, yo should just pull yourself out of it." The same way that they treat people with major depressive disorder or ptsd or anxiety disorder. The other big problem is that transsexuals themselves delay seeking help because in many cases we've also bought into the myth that we can "pull ourselves out of it" because we're afraid of the negative reactions from family, friends, coworkers, etc. Can't be done, and you will lose some friends - but with friends like that, who needs enemies :-)
(me gets ready to be flamed by those in the community who refuse to accept gender dysphoria as a valid diagnosis / disorder)
Transgender Persons (Score:5, Insightful)
You don't understand the issue. You've heard of alien hand syndrome, yes? It's where your brain is telling you that your body is wrong in some way. It's not fixable and not a choice. It's not a disorder that hurts anyone else, but it will completely fuck up your life. The only way to get your brain to stop destroying everything good in your life is to change your body. No one at any point is being coddled, for most people the best outcome is a slightly better circle of hell, and only after what is invariably the worst time of your life.
You only get one life, and for a huge percentage of transgender people, between the options of life with body dysphoria and self-mutilation, death is a preferable alternative. And yes, even if you are transgender, it's still (more or less) thought of as a mutilation, a relatively risky procedure with many drawbacks, a chance of terrible complications, and a lifetime of medication afterwards. In a few centuries when gene splicing is perfected, your style of bigotry will still exist, because it has nothing to do with the state of medical science and everything to do with rejecting others who are different. And believe it or not, no one really cares what your opinion is — no one is going to try to change your mind about it. If you think it is okay to contribute to the torment and suicide of other people, we clearly have opposite notions of morality, but so be it. What we are going to do is insist that you not be a bigoted asshole in public, and especially not in public office and public legislation.
Re:Transgender Persons (Score:4, Insightful)
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So what is your opinion of intersex people? If you don't know what that is google it.
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There is no such thing as a mental disorder in science and there is no science behind the list of "mental" disorders listed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This manual is essentially a fraud and at the core of psychology. While there is no doubt in my mind that there are a lot of screwed up people there isn't a straightforward answer or solution to the problem. Psychology is a fraud- made up to take the money from those who can least protect themselves.
The list of disorde
Re: They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:2)
While pshycology is not as easy as other medicine and physics, there is no doubt that it is a science, and that it uses the scientific method to evolve. The workings of the human brain is unfortunately an extremely challenging area to understand, an surely the field has attracted more than its fair share of sharlatans.
It would be an ironic day when we let cult whackjobs like Tom Cruise or david miscarriage define science for us.
The for-profit scam was founded by a failed science FICTION writer ferkrissakes.
Re: They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:4, Insightful)
> While pshycology is not as easy as other medicine and physics, there is no doubt that it is a science,
There is certainly _some_ science. But a tremendous amount of it is theory driven nonsense. Look at how psychological and psychiatric was limited until the discovery of seasonal affective disorder, the better diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, and the unfurling of phobias from the "hidden memory theories" that Freud popularized.
The reference to David Miscavige and Tom Cruise looks like a reference to Scientology, which makes clearly fraudulent claims about "scientific" discovers but are actually rooted in hypnosis and conditioning under a lie detector.
Re: They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:5, Funny)
Why are you typing in a Sean Connery accent?
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Re: They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:2)
Most young males have a car-driving fetish.
Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders (Score:5, Informative)
In the US Army, this is classified as a mental disorder, and will bar one from enlisting, or could bring adverse actions for those already enlisted.
http://www.sldn.org/pages/transgender-people-and-military-service
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But are no longer classified as such in the West for ... correctness.
At any rate, it's a pretty stupid reason for refusing anything allowed to "normal" heterosexuals. Discrimination appears to be systematic in many countries, including Russia...
TFTFY. Something that, by nature, occurs in a sizable portion of the population, and which has, itself, no debilitating signs or symptoms is not really a disorder, so politics has nothing to do with it.
Re:Homosexuality (Score:5, Informative)
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Altogether, these data support an X-linked multi-locus sexually antagonistic hypothesis rather than an autosomal multi-locus overdominance hypothesis.
tl;dr having a gay grandad makes women more fertile
Sounds good to me. (Score:2, Insightful)
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Given slashdot is a news aggregator by definition they need to be late to the party as someone needs to post it first.
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My god. Is anyone really that stupid?
To think that anyone would have mistaken Ellis Island for something OTHER than a 5 star resort. Providence, Boston, NY, etc were filled with the affluent upper crust of Europe in the early 20th century right? right? =/
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Yes, here's the actual problem, map of alcohol consumption by country where darker colours are more alcohol consumption and lighter colours are less and grey is no data:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/news/... [bbcimg.co.uk]
Original article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/heal... [bbc.co.uk]
Long story short, is that Russia's driving accidents problem is almost wholly down to the fact that it's a nation of rampant alcholics. The rest comes down to poorly maintained cars and roads and a nation with weather that results in terrible driving condition
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Well, imagine somebody having epilepsy while driving. Or seeing some green devils and killing a pedestrian while avoiding such devils. Or hearing voices of $DEITY that order the pedestrians to be killed.
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Yes, our free market capitalist system is much more advanced. The Wall Street cleptocracy already has chauffeurs.
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If your values include oppressing people for what they are, especially if they do nothing that is in any way harmful to your population or country, your values are wrong. Period.
And yes, that means that the values of the US need some heavy review, too. Didn't say that they were right in any way.