Man. Thank god he asked the dude to strip and not the girl, we would have a real incident.

Late to the party - but I know millennials who have never heard of Saved by the Bell

I mean, if you aren’t expecting to be murdered, it’s just an eccentric engineer’s submarine. It doesn’t seem odd at all to me really. Like, you ever have a colleague, a female one, just walk up to your cube? Or have a one-on-one meeting? This doesn’t seem very different.

I can, potentially, buy an “accident, then panic” excuse. Even the dismemberment could be rationalized under a panic. But rationalized and excused are different things. Accidents happen, and I understand how someone could feel they’d be blamed if they immediately reported it based on some circumstance. But you can’t…

In many parts of the world, people sell kids off. Those kids gotta make their new owners money.

Yes that’s exactly my point

“and by early life experiences, I mean where did you grow up? What’s your family like? Where did you go to school? Asking trans people about their transition or when they “knew” or what their dead name was or similar questioning seems very intrusive and voyeuristic.”

> I wouldn’t ask non-trans people about deeply personal issues just out of “curiosity” (which you mentioned in a previous comment), would you?

I dunno, what’s it say in my post?

I am conflating the name with experience - but it seems pretty clear, both based on my intuition and some of the responses here - that names are intimately tied to life experiences, at least emotionally. My closest friend from the group above (“C”) refers to her transition period (about 3 years) like a black hole. “I…

Plenty of industries pay college students to develop into future professionals - how much money do you think Boeing gives to the University of Washington to support it’s Aerospace Engineering program? How much of that money is used to fund scholarships, grants, internship programs, graduate school research, etc? When…

Interesting... I guess I’m one of those people who experiences a semi-vouyeristic thrill in hearing people’s back story - where are you from? what kind of household did you grow up in? What region of the country? Why did you come here? What do you like most here, what do you miss the most from home? etc. I just mean…

I think the difference is between an insider and outsider and how much latitude is given. I’m a cis male. Some people are just waiting for you to make a mistake and yell at you for it - it’s just an adult form of bullying, IMO.

How is that even possible that you haven’t had those reactions? I know a decent number of trans people and I can guarantee there is no consensus preference; and I’ve definitely had people react negatively if I don’t use their preferred pronoun and had people upset that I did, and alternatively didn’t, ask their…

Just a curious question for trans people and “dead names”. I happen to presently be in a community with a good number of trans people (maybe 10-15 regular attendees). One (“M”) is very open about his dead name and his female past, another (“C”) is openly hostile to her dead name (she’s pre-op and very open about her…

Words are tools for communication - they don’t create meaning on their own. One needs only read the first paragraph to see a reason journalists hate using they: It creates unreadable dreck. It’s like when devout Christians capitalize every He and Him in their sentences. Even relentlessly using Her/She or male…

Of course the russian doesnt mind that shit is falling apart behind them. God bless them.

Post-season HRs should count. Players and even teams play odd number of games already.

here they are:

Just when we were about to forget all about his past transgressions