Let me put it another way. I don’t care what gender the cops think I am, I think all cops are motherfuckers. I don’t want them “identifying” me at any point. The problem with cops isn’t that they’re bad at identifying my gender, the problem with cops is they’re a gang of armed thugs that operate with impunity and…

My take was that this is a terrible system and possibly dystopian future for everyone, not just non-binary people. I don’t want facial recognition everywhere and it’s not that I don’t care about non-binary people it’s that the misgendering issue is the least of the problems with this software as a whole. 

This is going to sound flippant but I guarantee it’s from a sincere place: vegetables are a social construct.

This is a real weird framing for this article. As a nonbinary person I would actively prefer it to be /more/ difficult to identify me over the system identifying my gender more accurately.

“What happens to medical research or clinical drug trials when a dataset misgenders or omits thousands of people?” Is this an actual concern? Wouldn’t a woman born in a stereotypically male-labeled body want drugs that are, I dunno, designed for the characteristics of a stereotypically male-labeled body? 

Yeah, and to add to this, before the “but I have problems too!!!!” crowd gets here, I wanna say something I’ve noticed. When white people aren’t allowed childhoods, it’s for different reasons that I think are a lot easier to address.

Emotion has already been generated on the issue. The electorate has already sorted on the issue. If you’re using this purely to generate excitement, you’re not doing it right now you’re doing it much later. The utility to do it right now, outside of symbolic moral messaging, is weak to nil. No one, out of the many…

But where is the evidence this is something that will “get bodies to the polls”? I get that people want to believe we’re good enough, as a country and as the voting public, to be motivated by awful things like this. But I’ve spent too much time looking at data and polls to believe that. The voting public is fickle,…

What about the 94 other genders?

The fact that he thinks that's a defense is scary. So if she was your type you would do it and maybe it would be okay? It's like asking someone if they stabbed someone in the gut and their response is "no, that's not my style." They're admitting they would harm someone, just not like that.

Basically, unless it can be turned into an actual, credible legal threat, it’s tragically so difficult to make this an “issue” (gross) that it’s getting shitcanned along with everything else about this subhuman gelatinous mass—simply one more facet of his hideous reality.

On the very slight chance this is a good faith comment, I explain that in another comment below. 

GOP base, I’m fairly certain. “Women are attacking men with false accusations” is an old hit from Fox to the sewers of the neo-Nazi forums. I can’t count how many Republican women I’ve seen say it. It’s one of those lines that has been repeated so long it’s second nature for those in the bubble to listen.

But would Democrats making an issue make them matter? The past examples don’t really give me a lot of confidence there. If Congressional Democrats and candidates hammer more on “Trump is a sexual predator” stuff will it move the needle in any appreciable way? We know there won’t be legal consequences, and I’m not…

All I’ve come here to say, re the hand-wringing on the right about E. Jean’s Anderson Cooper interview, is that she’s RIGHT and I wish she’d been able to finish the point that I assume she was making.

Everything about her narrative is radical. The media has no idea how to handle it. She is not playing respectable victim. She is matter of fact, defiant, funny and flippant in her narration. Her interview with Anderson Cooper was unconventional because she does not come across as harrowed or traumatized. Frankly AC…

Context, context, context. She’s right, actually. And the fact that Anderson Cooper cut her off and silenced her speaks to his own misogyny. Not a good look.

I agree that it’s dumb overall, but we are living in a time of Holocaust denial. And the Holocaust deniers like to claim that all that happened to the Jews is that they were put into detention camps, and a few died of hunger or disease. Something like 2/3 of millenials don’t really know what the Holocaust was, so they…

And there it is.

Let me guess: Jews also control the media and the banks and are just privileged white people who don’t have any place complaining?