Why the hate for wisdom?

[anagogy]

For example, this male identifies with being a Filipino woman. I'm going to be honest, despite how "politically incorrect" it is to say this, I think someone like this is severely mentally ill.

The guy sounds very calm and nothing extremist. He even admits that he doesn't think you can actually change your sex or your race, refers to transgenderism as gender dysphoria, that it is a problem and that people making a full transition can't really be happy because if you strive to get so far from where you began are you really happy.

He seems to just say he resonates with those things, like I guess he feels more feminine than masculine and does not really resonate with how he sees the white race and more like how fillipinos are. So I think it's not the best example of a severely ill person.

Perhaps not. But it kind of feels like he is playing a glorified game of pretend. It is almost like he doesn't realize you can appreciate fillipino culture without being a member of that race.

At least he is acknowledging that believing you are a woman/filipino means that you don't magically have female genitalia/or different skin color. And at least he isn't one of those people "identifying" with being a child, therefore, they think it would be "okay" to date a child or something really crazy like that (I read about a case like that a while ago, and it really disturbed me). And at least he is wise enough to realize that surgically altering your body to vaguely resemble the opposite sex is probably indicative that you are running away from something deeply troubling.

I think it is the identifying with another race that weirds me out more than the identifying with the opposite gender. It feels like running away from reality. Like if you're white and you identify with being black, I think you're not really facing reality and accepting yourself. I don't think that is too outlandish to say. I still feel like he is running away from some deeply troubling social psychological issues, but hey I suppose everybody is in some way or another. Some more than others.