Honestly yeah I tend to use ungendered language most of the time anyway.
Exactly. It's not that hard a thing to do, and there are ways about it. People are so determined to not give up their 'freedoms' that they think misgendering someone is like, a badge of honour? That that makes them free of the leftist mindgames? Idk man, the right at large has a lot of work to do.
I think there are a lot of tribal leftists who actually resent trans people at heart, and pretend to support them so that they can still be a part of the club, but a great chunk of the right are still actively hostile to trans people, or at least the concept of trans identity. Some may act totally cool with trans people, but wouldn't act in their favour if they got the chance.
I guess the moral of the story is: be kind to everyone, and trust nobody.
Actually, that's a shitty lesson and I disagree with it. Maybe you can come up with a better one.
It’s not just those that transitioning that wants to be refers as something else. Just because you feel like something, that’s good, I don’t care, doesn’t mean I have to care enough about your delusions.
If a men that transitions to a female wants me to refer to them as female, as long as they are asking and not demanding, I’ll accept.
But if you come up to me and say refer to you as their, and all the other names, I’ll say go **** yourselves. I don’t have the time nor the energy for such stupidity.
Semi-related, doctor was talking about the pores/holes in facemasks vs. SARS-CoV-2 size and how the holes in the masks are way way bigger. He talked about this in response to why masks do not have any statistical significance in keeping people from getting ill with the flu in previous studies and the lack of studies on realworld outcomes for coronavirus. To put it into perspective, SARS-CoV-2 is a slightly smaller virus than the flu viruses.
Your smelly fart molecules are even smaller which is why the mask doesn't block the stench.
Believe it or not I'm generally always quite polite to people until as Dalton would say it's time not to be. I avoid losing my dignity in real life unless someone has truly crossed the bounds.
On an individual level, anything from social exclusion to physical violence. On a societal level, discriminatory legislation, like Trump trying to ban transgender people from the military.
What?
Q is trans? She used to post in the comic forums a lot, which is mostly where I knew her from. I always thought she hid her gender because we hadn't quite grown out of the sexist shitposting yet.
She was also one of the only other X-23 fans and she left me all alone when she disappeared.
It's not the same.
"His Royal Majesty", and similar addresses, are meant to elevate you over someone else. Kings and Queens were, almost by default, assholes. When you're raised to believe exaltation is your birthright, it's nearly impossible to escape that inflated self-worth. It harkens back to some of the worst classism we've ever experienced as humans.
It's why developed nations have rejected monarchy. It's a really stupid system.
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Trump outright barring trans people from military was dumb. If they can pass a mental competence test, why not let them in? Yes, trans people tend to be unstable due to the fact that Gender Dysphoria is a mental illness, but 'deluded' and 'crazy' are superlative blankets used by people with little understanding of how mental illnesses work. Plenty trans people are very stable geniuses (yrstruly).
But if it's a general ban on all people with specific mental conditions, then fair enough, I guess. Transgenderism is indelibly linked to GD. Without GD, it's basically just fashion choice.
Actually being the wrong gender trapped in the wrong body is less a traditional mental illness and more an issue exacerbated by a lack of societal understanding and want to solve.
Yeah, he and as he has been on here more Trocity, DMB and you are probably the most rational and the easiest to avoid an argument with no doubt from there.
I personally think that entire concept is bunk. GD is a genuine condition that causes a form of body dysmorphia, where you feel that your physical form does not match up with your brain. It's similar to Cotard syndrome (where the individual believes their body, or part of their body, is dead, dying or not 'theirs'), but also with more societal links (since the concept of 'gender' has some truths to it, gender can definitely be performative).
But GD is a mental condition that causes suffering. I've lived with it for 16 years, I think I should know, y'know. Even when I'm passing well, I still feel like a faker, a fraud; and even if I got my bits chopped and took hormones, I know I'd feel the same way.
It's the being born 'wrong' bit that makes it a mental condition.
that's one reason, trans gender people often also have parts of the brain more like the gender they feel is right for them. The brain can literally be trapped in the wrong body, this has serious science behind it.
I'm sorry but people who delusionally think they are the opposite sex than the one they were born as have no place fighting in the US military.
Trump did the right thing.
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
"They" makes sense to me, as there are non-binary people. I'm still not convinced of the "ze, zim, zer" stuff quite yet. I'm keeping an open mind but I don't know if every single gradation of gender presentation warrants its own pro-noun. It seems like she/he/they already covers it.
It's like...you're a chick who wears sneakers and prefers red over pink, so your pronoun is "ghlim" or something. I get lost at that point.
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Among other reasons, people who think they are the opposite sex than what they were born as are not well psychologically and serving in the military is already stressful enough as it is without the gender dysphoria that transgenders have.
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
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Believe it or not I'm generally always quite polite to people until as Dalton would say it's time not to be. I avoid losing my dignity in real life unless someone has truly crossed the bounds.
Good Post.
