We'll agree to disagree. While the nuances of the terms may seem blindingly obvious to you, trying to control the language of the debate will always be a harder sell to the public at large than simply advocating for the rights of "boys who feel more comfortable playing the social roles of a girl." or vice versa.
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The average person is also an idiot, so it's not exactly necessary to speak in a way which will appease them.
That's the crux of the challenge. You've just outlined a mental model that only those exposed to this movement would automatically agree with or even accept. For the average Joe on the street, sex, like race or species, can't be split into nuanced sociological and biological definitions. It's not a lack of education,…
thanks. I did some quick googling as well and a few places use similar numbers but no one seems to say where they got them from. Traditionally data like that in the US is from the census and death records but those things do not traditionally include trans/cis gender specifics so I'm unclear how they were arrived at.
No, it's not that complicated at all. Just a biological male, who doesn't identify as female, who enjoys wearing makeup which apparently makes him transgender for some reason. But not the kind of transgender that would make you switch pronouns, because he's a guy, who identifies as a guy, who wants to be referred to…
"Who knows what "Happy Holidays" even means??"
I'm not talking about the individual. Is the issue here that male-bodied people who transitioned in to a female life want access to events solely meant for female-bodied people who chose to live life as female? Because that's silly. Guess what? Having male anatomy at birth gives you a profoundly different set of…
Trans women aren't women like women born with female anatomy are. They don't experience the same things. They are a different category and women who were born female still need their own spaces. I don't understand all this trans sympathy in the place of maintaining spaces just for women or for the gay/lesbian…
changing the babies diaper at the best of her ability at the moment
To be fair those critters in the opening scene were very clearly trying to attack him, so I can't judge him too much for the kicks. Using an angry one as a microphone while jamming out to 70s hits is less defensible but also funny so I'm going to allow it.
I chose a starbucks because i didn't want someone to wait on us. (In fairness, this was a post break up talk for closure *rolls eyes*) The ex-bf kept talking and asking questions and crying. I felt so awful that I kept buying more and more cups of overpriced coffee. If I ever have to go through that again (here's…
I don't even drink coffee (the cream was for my tea) but yes, I normally do stick to Starbucks because, while their product may be inferior, the barristas don't treat me like they're deigning to do me a huge favor by waiting on me. I'm way over ABD English grad students serving me cups filled with their own…
I have heard that, just didn't realize people were doing it. PINKHAM, ARE YOU LISTENING? THIS NEEDS TO BE A BEHIND CLOSED OVENS ARTICLE.
Yeah... I get the feeling that a lot of this article and comments are from people who are still in the "I will make no compromises!" stage of their love lives.
I would love to cross stitch that design.
Genius!
I'm also wondering how he knows they're having sex in the pool if they're doing it when he's not home.
False equivalence. You can kill someone accidentally and still be charged with a degree of murder. You cannot rape someone accidentally.
I don't think that's a very apt analogy for what he said, though. This would be more like "being murdered by your friend at a party isn't as bad as being murdered by a stranger." Obviously, the victim is still dead. If a person is raped by a friend or a stranger, it's still rape.
I got into this argument before when the 17 transgender models article came out, and I am going to again:
They are certainly 'women' in some sense, and I know it look dickish to put things in quotes like that, but I do it because the definition is nebulous. They exist on one of the many spectra of womanhood, but they are not 'woman' in the same way that I am a 'woman'—they weren't treated the same way as children, they…