The problem is that if you stand with a group that’s determined to fuck your community, you’re by definition betraying that community.
You may be doing so for some value you hold higher, but that’s definitely the choice you’re making.

My wife and I had a very unconventional wedding, and the only real objection we got was that my FIL was disappointed he wouldn’t be walking her down the aisle alone as is traditional (my surviving parent accompanied me, and both her parents accompanied her). Yet that was one of the most important points to my wife…

Fair enough.

heh- Your solution to gender is the same one I had to gay marriage 20 years ago ;^) I still think we’d have been better off if we removed marriage from the law.
Gender, however, is even more deeply rooted in human culture, so I don’t see it going away anytime soon.

The press has decided anything even remotely above that absolves what came before.

The draft is the last thing the warmongers want — it’s not like they send their own kids off to die.

If Trump continues upsetting long-standing efforts to avoid conflict, and he continues alienating our allies, we’re going to need the draft to fight all the wars we’ll be in. Ahem- “police actions” or whatever.

Gender is a social construct. But it’s constructed on top of sex. Human sexual dimorphism - from large features such as average mass down to the chromosome - is the foundation of gender, the difference that allows such distinctions to be made at all.

It’s accurate to say that gender isn’t defined and limited by physiology, but to say “gender doesn’t have any basis in physiology” (bold mine) is wilfully ignorant. Of course some of its basis is in the physical dimorphism between the sexes. That doesn’t mean trans folk should be disrespected, denied, or…

There are a lot of difficult things to be understood. Just because they are difficult doesn’t mean you should give up. It’s because of this laziness and ignorance that this country cannot move forward.

But the GDP that’s based on is supported by the billions of dollars blue states funnel into them. I suspect it would drop precipitously if they had to pay for their own schools, health care, infrastructure, and security.

Also very similar to how most fights/matches that I’ve lost have gone down.

As a pretty devoted amatuer scholar of the viking age, I wonder how you came by the information on your ancestor, “Skull-Cleaver” and how much more you know about him.

Fair.

We don’t need to leap to diagnosing dementia without an exam:
Totally uncontrolled narcissism in a very privileged person who’s not too bright is perfectly sufficient to explain Trump’s most worrisome actions and traits.

Cherry picking a moment doesn’t mean that man was ever “sharp as hell”.
He might have been a quicker speaker once upon a time in rehearsed environments, but that doesn’t mean he understood things even then.

IF pictures were found of Spicer cosplaying (perhaps Sailor Moon?), I can’t decide my response would be to groan at more evidence that Trump’s tafff hasn’t been remotely vetted; or to cheer a blow for greater public acceptance of nerdiness, fun... and crossdressing.

the politicians are in bed with corporate lobbyists and do not serve its electorate. That is why the people rally against big government.

I’m not going to go look it up, but I do wonder what the sample is: how many of what kind of workers in what fields at what levels.

“We’ve got a long history of diversity and welcoming people to our community.”