Totally relevant to this story.

Yep, this. It would be vastly more helpful to block people with outstanding temporary/restraining orders. 

But then... that would ban most members of Congress from USING the app which... yeah, that’s cool.

No. Stop. Sex offender registries are a paper shield intended to soothe people - look what we are doing to keep you safe! It is my responsibility to check up on people I go out with and to take safety steps.

This sounds like a practice designed to create a false sense of security in the user base and a convenient defense against suits. Go capitalism!

Requiring users to submit to a background check before creating an account will kill these apps and service dead in the water. If the national sex offender registry even digitized in a format where this process could be automated?

I will say that one of the best decisions of Shadowbringers is to have the Scions actively involved in your adventures as your “party”. It’s given them all time to grow and have fun character moments and interactions with each other instead of Thancred showing up to say something snarky and leave, or Urianger saying…

The article’s title is reason enough to expect spoilers inside, and if that’s not enough, there’s a big ol’ spoiler warning bar after the intro paragraphs. If you’re still reading past that point, it’s all on you, my friend.

Spoilers? How? It’s new content being added to the ending of Shadowbringers, which I myself haven’t even beaten yet. But to go into this article not expecting spoilers is a bit silly.

It’s the snowflake argument that every douche bag gamergate kid makes, just fancied up to make him seem like he is actually saying something new, and not re-hashing a bullshit excuse to be racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever.

Found it.

Is this satire? If not, yikes. 

Sure -

I say this as someone who is a trans reader and longtime commenter here: this article does not really help to advocate for trans issues. The idea of “variation exists, therefore it’s fine” does not adequately address this issue. A better set of arguments is:

If someone has gone through puberty as a biological male, then their lung size, bone density and muscle mass will be an advantage forever. Testosterone is certainly a big part of the picture, but it’s only one piece.

How come you never hear about Boys complaining about trans athletes beating them. Maybe it is because they don’t since they are disadvantaged by being biologically female for their entire life until their gender change and thus don’t get the phical development of biological males.

Nope. Testosterone is a performance-enhancing drug. That’s scientifically proven. If a transwoman has taken the appropriate hormones to lower her testosterone levels to the range seen for women, then she can compete. If she still has a testosterone level seen for males, then it is not fair to the other competitors.

It’s hard to get onboard with this take, having been a competitive athlete. It would be kind of the same feeling as lining up against someone who’s been doping—it doesn’t feel fair in a different way than them having more money, better coaching, better genetics, etc etc. might feel unfair. It’s just not comparable. I…

Trans women are women. They deserve recognition as such in the way they interact with the government, for employment opportunities and for educational opportunities. They deserve dignity, and respect.

No. Men who become transwomen lose significant amounts of their athletic capabilities after they have been on hormones for a year.