Comments by "exnihilo415" (@exnihilo415) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. You’re reading translation subtext that just isn’t there.
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  2. He wants the Nobel Peace prize and isn't afraid to just accept NK's pathetic lies to broker a fictitious peace accord that leaves South Korea in a worse position. Honesty if South Korea wants Trump on their side, offer to knock over Namsan Seoul Tower and put a 100 floor Trump tower in it's place. If you want something from Trump you can never go wrong placating his gold plated ego.
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  3.  Janet Benz  This presidency is nothing but a publicity campaign for Trump, Inc. to broker bigger and more exclusive real estate deals.
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  4. Why shouldn’t people have autonomy over their own body? How are ladyboys in Thailand harming you?
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  5. Mine is helicopter airport. Let’s make this happen! 😀
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  6. Dysphoria isn’t just On or Off. All Trans folks are not dysphoric about the same things. There are plenty of non-op trans girls that are completely happy with their OEM equipment below the belt. The surgery is what it is and if it’s not for you, it’s not for you. There are a bunch of videos on YouTube of non-op girls explaining this from their POV.
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  7. Creating trans women in Thailand? Get real.
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  8. A woman is more than her reproductive equipment. A woman that doesn't want kids and has a hysterectomy is still a woman.
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  9. No legal same sex marriage = second class citizenship = lack of respect
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  10.  @somebodyontheinternet7743  Nah, dozens of countries have legalized same sex marriage and the LGBT people there have benefited greatly from it. Every country needs to do right by her LGBT citizens. Paying first class taxes and getting second class treatment under the law is simply unjust. Every consenting adult should be able to marry their spouse. It makes for a better country.
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  11. If you have no problem with LGBT why can’t gays get legally married? Why can’t trans women legally marry their husbands or change their legal gender as is commonplace in the west?
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  12.  @brixsumaoang7567  I can and will compare SEAsia to Taiwan where same sex marriage is legal and LGBT people have legal protections for their relationships. It’s a step in the right direction to do right by all our LGBT brothers and sisters across Asia who effectively now have 2nd class citizenship.
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  13. ​ @brixsumaoang7567  I’m trying to prove that unless the Philippines legalizes same sex marriage, they do in fact have a problem with LGBT people which is your original assertion. They are systematically discriminating against them, as has been shown. Your failure to realize this fact is, in a small way, perpetuating the problem of second class citizenship for LGBT people.
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  14.  @brixsumaoang7567  Society includes the government. Society also does not treat LGBT relationships at parity with heterosexual relationships so it is clearly a society problem, also. Your lack of endorsement of same sex marriage here is quite telling. Obviously every country is different from every other, what is important is that in each and every country that LGBT people have full equality under the law for their relationships.
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  15.  @somebodyontheinternet7743  Simple. It is the task of civilization to protest and seek remedy to unjust practices and make all adult citizens equal under the law. Every country needs to do right by it’s LGBT citizens.
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  16.  @somebodyontheinternet7743  Marriage is a civic and legal institution, not exclusively a religious one. Religion is under no obligation to perform or care about same sex marriage. This is simply a marriage license like a driver’s license or business license which is issued as a function of government. There are a number of rights and protections that every committed couple should have under the law to protect their relationship, for straight couples and gay couples alike.
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  17.  @somebodyontheinternet7743  Religion does not have a monopoly of what marriage is and what it does. This has been proven time and time again in every pluralistic democracy in the world.
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  18.  @somebodyontheinternet7743  You must have a religious ceremony of any of the 6 legally accepted religions but that requirement isn’t what marriage is. It’s a function of government as a license which accords rights and responsibilities and relationship protection. Laws change as they have in the two dozen and growing list of countries that legally allow same sex marriage. Times change and Indonesia will as well as enough people recognize the structural injustice of such LGBT discrimination. I’m not saying it’ll be soon. It may take 20 or 200 years but it can and will be recognized as a basic human right in the long arc of history.
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  19.  @somebodyontheinternet7743  Sure but where has not trying ever achieved anything? The point is to try and fail a billion times before you or your relatives succeed. Indonesia is hardly the worst country in the world and it’s because of people who cared enough to improve things that it’s where it is in the world today and not dead last in everything.
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  20. There are less I would say, and there is vastly less publicity. That said there are quite a few.
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  21. Everyone decides for themselves what’s right for them. Some girls want it gone, others do not.
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  22. Everyone who signs up for SRS knows exactly what they are getting. Who are you to tell people what to do with their own bodies?
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  23. The God of Abraham? That’s the god you had in mind?
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  24. A few. About 4%-5% of Thais, mostly in the south bordering Malaysia are Muslim. About 1% of the population are Christian. Everyone else, 90% + are Buddhist and have little use for the God of Abraham.
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  25. It’s not easy. I’ve been at it for a while.
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  26. Get a ladyboy makeover.
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  27. Gays and lesbians are people too. They want to marry their same sex spouses and just live life without overbearing discrimination just like heterosexuals do. It is a colossal civic injustice that this is so controversial.
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  28. There is nothing to peek at in a restroom. The stalls have doors. Besides lesbians use restrooms everyday. You’re telling me there are no perverted lesbians?
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  29.  @johnnielson4341  Nope. I understand the LGBT community better than you ever will, straightsplainer. I have extensive experience in Thailand also over the last 20 years and I’m certain I know vastly more Thai LGBT people than you ever know both as expats in the US and in Thailand proper. I advocate for LGBT people to have the legal choices to make up their own minds about who they are and what they want, unlike you who clearly speaking for a community which you are obviously not a part of.
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  30. Fair enough. My wife is a Thai trans woman. Unfortunately we cannot get legally married in Thailand which is why we live in California now and are legally married here.
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  31. Read up on the penile inversion technique and then come back and ask some questions. My wife is a post op Thai trans woman and I helped her through the whole recovery process.
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  32. Spoken like someone that’s never experienced gender dysphoria. The way to understand this is not to tell trans people how they should be from a perspective of not understanding their struggle, but to listen to them tell you about their struggle and trusting the medical and psychological establishment whom have decades of experience with people with gender dysphoria to make the right decisions about their medical and mental health.
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  33. There are trans people in every country and airplanes fly around the world every day. Better avoid dating for the rest of your life just to be safe, after all you may inadvertently talk to a trans person. Obviously your life would be over at that point.
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  34.  @malakatan3235  Unfortunately ARVN just didn't have the numbers and popular support to make that a reality, but that said it was just a meatgrinder and it was just better for it to be over than to be used as shooting gallery for Sino/Soviet arms and US arms for another decade after 1975.
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  35.  @connecthertohealing  That’s quite a recommendation. I’ll have to check it out tonight.
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  36. It is normal for gay guys to not be interested in women.
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  37. Amazing until you want to get legally married or change your legal gender, both of which are legally impossible. My wife is a Thai trans woman. I know how awesome it isn’t.
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  38.  @wythra5183  We're legally married in the US and have been for many years now but we're legal strangers in Thailand and she's still legally male there. There are good points about being trans in Thailand to be sure but LGBT legal rights are not among them unfortunately. We're just hoping things improve before we retire there. Know hope! You should visit Thailand someday if you haven't already. If you have any questions about LGBT Thailand, just ask.
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  39. You feel incorrectly. You can see trans women all over Thailand, India, Philippines, and many other countries who transition because they want to often times at a great socioeconomic negative cost.
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  40.  @fiermoncunningham5978  Gods are the stuff of supernatural fantasy. Trans people are not doing anything wrong.
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  41.  @fiermoncunningham5978  That’s what they all say, pal. That’s what they all say.
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  42. Fortunately commenters here are not making the law. You’d be doing 30 years of hard labor in a maximum security prison for that.
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  43. You're also explaining Thailand (and a lot of south Asia really) which has a cultural history of trans people for hundreds and hundreds of years with terms invented in the west in English less than 50 years ago.
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  44. Trans girls have done a vast amount of self examination. soul searching and reflection and know very well what it’s like to be harassed and looked down upon. This sort of class isn’t uncommon in trans girls.
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  45. It’s that easy to clock the trans girls in the thumbnail?
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  46. Yep, small town America is often pretty deplorable when it comes to LGBT acceptance. It really just comes down to a lack of personal experience with LGBT people. Most LGBT people leave for progressive places like NY or SF so it can be hard to change hearts and minds since to do that you have to put up with a lot of BS. I know I left midwest American as soon as I could. While there are certainly a lot of open trans women in Thailand they are still pretty rare, too. My wife is a Thai trans woman. We live in SF now. It's good because you have both social acceptance and the law on your side. Thailand unfortunately has no marriage equality and trans women can't change their legal gender. It's a legal black hole for LGBT people. That's most of the reason we don't live there.
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  47.  @maelsyt23  Do a web search for "Buck Angel" and then tell me that a trans man such as this should be required to use the women's restroom. That's going to cause quite a scene.
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  48. Thailand isn't China, and thank goodness for that. Mao 2.0 is nothing I want any part of.
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  49. It is and the quality is as good as anywhere in the west.
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  50. Transgender is just about your gender identity, not your surgical status.
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