To think, FFS, the world has gone batshit?!

[Forforkssake1]

www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/08/dutch-man-69-starts-legal-fight-to-identify-as-20-years-younger

🤔 What, the what???!

I'd assumed he was just making a point about self id. But maybe I've just spent too long hanging out on the feminist boards.

Yeah I think he is making a point. This guy is the best though .

He needs to work on his make up if he wants to look 45.

I thought troll when i saw the story.

If i wanted to identify as 25, my joints would disagree.

I assumed that too! But, I think it's an example of where shit is actually going...

@Titsywoo hahahahahaha

Even if he was 49 I wouldn't swipe right. He looks way too old to be 49. And if for some reason I connected someone who knocked years off their age I would be extremely fucked off and wonder what else they were lying about.
If he doesn't want to display his age, he should suck it up and pay for Tinder.

I might try to add twenty years onto my age so people are impressed rather than horrified at my appearance.

A friend of mine turned thirty this summer. She said the thing that goes through your mind on a 30th birthday is "I'm not 30! I don't look 30. I don't act 30! I feel like I'm still 21!" That is, until you enter a room full of 21 year olds and then she said, it makes you feel like you are AGES Older than they are!!

I'm not sure if he's a chancer or making a valid point. Either way the point is "its not a crime if I identify as a 15yo" is a hair' s breadth away.

Although the line about his face did make me chortle.

I’m 25, in my head, so I will no longer be 50. I simply refuse.

YANBU - the "civilised" world has totally lost the plot.

Saw this yesterday! Ha ha!! What a joke!

I agree with you though! The world has gone bat shit!!

He's doing it to raise a point about what self-ID'ing can lead to. Watching people tie themselves up in knots arguing against it with comments like "You're only born once, you can't change your age" to be challenged with "You're only born once, you can't change your sex" has, from what I've seen online, made people realise that maybe ID-ing as whatever you want isn't as simple as they may have thought.

I also do not find it coincidental that the media is running this story at the same time the story of the white man claiming he's black came out as both highlight the ridiculousness of the "I feel like I am, therefore I am" self-ID argument.

Can I self ID as someone else then?

That's it. I'm self identifying as Buffy the vampire slayer. I'm super strong and fierce and I'm going to get my slag on with both angel and spike.

I'm now self IDing as someone who didn't hog out on a packet of chocolate hob nobs and now feels a bit queezy.

Cheered me up a lot to read about this

When I read the first line of this I thought - he sounds like all those toasted on soul mates who say they don’t want to date a woman their own age because they’re actually much younger than a woman their own age. They feel and act much younger. Without realising that hardly any of us have adapted to the decrepitude that creeps up on our outer firm... I though oh my god he sounds like a soulmates twat... and it turns out he’s a tinder twat.
If it’s a joke to make a point it’s a good one.

ijustlostthegame I absolutely agree with you 😆😆😆

I will now pronounce myself ' her majesty ' . Off to inform the kids

This man is doing this to make a 'point', one that is incredibly transphobic and entirely pathetic; nothing to do with the world going 'batshit', simply one idiot looking for attention and to cause others harm!

This man is doing this to make a 'point', one that is incredibly transphobic and entirely pathetic

Please explain how it is ‘transphobic’?

If i wanted to identify as 25, my joints would disagree

That’s ok, you can identify out of your physical reality at will. Your joints are irrelevant.