John; August 7, 2021

WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:09.269 Welcome back to Ebo Dojo. It's Saturday, Geez already. So who gets 2 00:00:09.310 --> 00:00:16.429 to claim neuro diverse? I thought it was people on the asperger spectrum, 3 00:00:17.350 --> 00:00:24.059 but I'm reading an article here from somebody with Adhd that claims to be neuro 4 00:00:24.260 --> 00:00:33.299 diverse as well. And then that got me thinking generally about labels. So 5 00:00:33.579 --> 00:00:39.369 I think about labels a lot, and I'm always curious about people who wear 6 00:00:39.649 --> 00:00:45.210 negative labels like a badge of honor, like why, why would you do 7 00:00:45.369 --> 00:00:51.200 that? I'm also curious about people who do dumb things repeatedly and wonder why 8 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:57.600 they get their feelings hurt by doing the dumb thing like posting unflattering pictures of 9 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:02.560 themselves on the Internet and then wondering why people mock them. And then they 10 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.870 do it again and wonder why it happened again. I don't know, man, 11 00:01:06.950 --> 00:01:10.189 you could be right or you could be happy. Sara, you're right. 12 00:01:10.230 --> 00:01:11.549 You should be able to post whatever you want, whenever you want on 13 00:01:11.629 --> 00:01:17.590 the Internet, free of bullying, of course, but that's not the way 14 00:01:17.590 --> 00:01:19.819 it is. So if you want to be happy, just don't do that. 15 00:01:21.099 --> 00:01:23.620 Stay off the fucking Internet. Right Anyway, back to labels and this 16 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:30.219 whole neuro diverse thing got me thinking about again labels in general, because I 17 00:01:30.379 --> 00:01:37.969 was watching the news I saw news flash of a transgender weightlifter. So that's 18 00:01:38.090 --> 00:01:44.370 not news to me. But what is news is the drama, the farcical 19 00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:49.400 drama, of this particular story. So the cliff notes version, long and 20 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:57.480 short of it is there is a male to female transitions. person was a 21 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:02.109 man born is, born with a penis, let's say female. Born with 22 00:02:02.150 --> 00:02:06.909 the penis, that's a fair way to say it, and transition to female. 23 00:02:07.150 --> 00:02:12.870 And then that person went and competed in the Olympics as a weightlifter. 24 00:02:14.270 --> 00:02:19.699 Well, since she didn't win, now she's trying to say, never mind, 25 00:02:19.860 --> 00:02:23.500 pretend I didn't. Pretend you didn't see this. Yeah, forget I 26 00:02:23.620 --> 00:02:27.139 ever did this. That's the weird part to me. I'm like, what 27 00:02:27.259 --> 00:02:29.979 do you what do you mean? You went through all that trouble to get 28 00:02:30.009 --> 00:02:37.370 to the Olympics as a woman and now never mind, Huh? said. 29 00:02:37.810 --> 00:02:40.810 I feel like that one, you know, the gift with the Black Guy 30 00:02:40.889 --> 00:02:44.479 the skinny black eye, walks into a room. When you type in Huh, 31 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.319 it just tilts his head. He's got all the question marks. That's 32 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:50.919 how I feel when I read that story. I'm like what you do? 33 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.639 What? So, yeah, that's interesting, isn't it? That story brought 34 00:02:53.639 --> 00:03:00.469 up a different is you to me because, for example, body dysmorphia like 35 00:03:00.870 --> 00:03:04.389 not being in the body, not seeing the body you think you're in and 36 00:03:04.550 --> 00:03:09.030 thinking that you have to change. It also includes includes trends, I don't 37 00:03:09.030 --> 00:03:12.669 even know what you call that part, people who are born with the wrong 38 00:03:12.750 --> 00:03:17.900 genitals. It also includes people who are anorexic and beliemic. Anybody that sees 39 00:03:17.939 --> 00:03:23.780 their body in a way that others don't has body dysmorphia. But it always 40 00:03:24.099 --> 00:03:28.449 it's trippy to me, and again that thing about justice. To me is 41 00:03:28.490 --> 00:03:37.969 like why do some dysmorpheas gets supported and encouraged when others are shunned and belittled? 42 00:03:38.770 --> 00:03:43.599 I guess argument could be made about some are dangerous and others aren't, 43 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.120 but it seems like they're all. They all involved some element of danger. 44 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:55.669 For example, they they shut down anorexit groups on facebook because apparently not eating 45 00:03:55.870 --> 00:04:05.229 is dangerous, starving yourself is dangerous, but they allow transgender groups because apparently 46 00:04:05.310 --> 00:04:11.500 being bullied to death is not dangerous. I don't know, and speaking as 47 00:04:11.539 --> 00:04:16.060 a formal former beliemic person. We don't get any love. Where's the love 48 00:04:16.139 --> 00:04:19.459 for the beliemic people? We should be supporting people. If you want to 49 00:04:19.500 --> 00:04:24.180 cut off your Dick or throw up your food, I support or all of 50 00:04:24.290 --> 00:04:30.209 that, starving yourself to death, and now that's different. Strangely, I 51 00:04:30.250 --> 00:04:34.089 think people that are beliemic could get just enough calories from the food that stays 52 00:04:34.129 --> 00:04:40.399 in their guts. It's my non scientific observation of myself as a beliemic person. 53 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:46.360 So how about that for some lighthearted Saturday night conversation? Yeah, that's 54 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.879 all I got really. Actually, I'm just getting tired. I'm trying to 55 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:54.829 heal, trying to rest up, and I feel like I barely have enough 56 00:04:54.870 --> 00:04:58.629 time over the weekends if I just chill and relax, to recharge my batteries 57 00:04:58.670 --> 00:05:01.990 before Monday. Then I realized it was getting late and I'm like Shit, 58 00:05:02.110 --> 00:05:04.990 I got to do a podcast real quick. So anyway, that was what 59 00:05:05.149 --> 00:05:09.139 was on my mind because I was looking at the Internet and watching the news. 60 00:05:10.139 --> 00:05:13.540 There you have it. I'll talk again tomorrow on Sunday. Take care 61 00:05:13.540 --> 00:10:13.370 of and now back to the wall. And now that La