Boys can absolutely be moody too, the teenage years are a moody time. There’s more variation between individuals than between genders, so wanting one gender or another because of supposed temperamental differences isn’t really going to be effective.

(Not to mention non-binary people, intersex individuals, and everyone else who’s neither a man nor a woman.)

If “She didn’t put on a swastika mask, or a KKK hood” is your bar for recognising something a racist, you’re going to ignore and dismiss most racism.

It’s a life threatening job, they get paid a pittance, and they are barred from being actual fire fighters after they are released.

Wearing their hair in a certain way isn’t doing any harm to anyone. Being mad at them is dumb.

Cultural appropriation is about power dynamics (a powerful group appropriating from a disadvantaged group with no consideration of the effects).

We can also be mad at the perpetuators, who are the white people continuing to wear the hairstyles without considering the impact.

retarded

Although the seasons have started to overlap now because of climate change :/

countries with socialized medicine, where there’s no guarantee of who will actually be performing the surgery upon you

That’s not how socialised medicine works... I’m Australian and you can absolutely choose your surgeon and other medical practitioners under our Medicare system.

Leaving would have been as easy as walking in front of a reporter and saying she was a minor.

I did not answer sarcastically. I asked what your point was, as it was unclear what you were actually getting at.

Cannot legally consent. There’s nothing actually stopping them from saying yes to someone & having sex

Yeah I’m a few centimetres shorter than her and while I really enjoy my height I do get reminded of how Western society at large sees it as unappealing when people regularly ask if “it’s hard to find a boyfriend”, men approach me randomly to tell me they could never date someone taller than them (I usually reply that…

You and I are the fortunate ones- the problem for people with the most severe autism isn’t that society doesn’t accept them hitting their head repeatedly or biting themselves or others.

Comparing Autism which is not an illness, and a natural part of human variation to harms caused by exposure to harmful substances is inaccurate, and a really terrible look. If you want to find ways of preventing intellectual disability that’s a direct side effect of harm to foetuses that’s one thing, but neither ADHD…

It’s pretty depressing to have to point this out, but “prevention”, that is preventing Autistic people from existing is a pretty horrific prospect, let alone goal to be actively seeking as a society.

Yeah it’s depressing that a system being broken is used as evidence for it not being appropriate to seek workplace accommodations for health issues.

Yep, and viewing Autistic people as having communication deficits rather than a different communication style is also looking like a bit of a neurotypical misconception as well. Autistics communicating with other Autistics pass on information about as accurately as neurotypicals do amongst themselves.