Who the heck is Shelray?
On the pregnant “man”
From Cosmos, Liturgy and Sex…
The fantasy of changing one’s personal meaning by changing one’s gender is derived from the fallacious belief that sexuality somehow frees us from our bondage to fear, inadequacies and despair. There is the tendency among many of us to cling to what can be lost or taken away, but there are those among us who invest their total being into these fears to the point where there can be no rest or satisfaction of ever receiving enough in return. To carry the burden of an external locus of control, one lives life with the constant feelings of being controlled by the actions of others and blown about by the whims of the world - being terrified of the bitter taste of losing or being denied of whatever is held in high value to them, some to the point of life itself.
Gender roles and identities are ultimately formed through the individual mind as experienced within the world which immediately surrounds us; consequently, some of us fail to recognize the potential fraud of assuming an identity in the first place. Constrained by deep insecurities and fears through reacting against the reality of one’s own sexual identity, some cling to a fantasy of there being something “wrong” with the external body vs. something being “wrong” internally, within the heart and mind. Simply speaking, Gender Identity Disorder is more of a rejection and abandonment of who one is, than the adoption of who and what one desires to be. - Post on “How does it feel to be a pregnant man?”
Whoever Shelray is, I thought this to be very insightful.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Whether that individual is male or female or whether the image is photoshopped remains to be seen.
But the closing of mental hospitals may have been a huge mistake for some people.