You don’t know what “straddling” means.

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Isn’t “Millenial Feminism” Han Solo’s ride?

I have traveled extensively throughout east Asia and have seen non-nazi swastikas at many Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. This still isn’t one.

OK, you’re Indian and Hindu. This still isn’t a swastika. Tell me your life story again. Also tell me about how you understand the intent of anonymous strangers spray painting some rando symbol.

So you claim this was drawn with racist intent while acknowledging that the symbol that was attempted is not racist... huh?

I reiterate that this is not a swastika by any definition. I appreciate that you are making assumptions about my knowledge, or lack thereof of Eastern religious symbols, but I know what a swastika is, and if the arms don’t face the same direction, it’s not a swastika.

OK, it’s still not. Not all of the arms face the same direction....

It’s not even in the neighborhood... why do we assume that this was intended to be a swastika?

Maybe because it clearly is not a swastika....

That is not a swastika, and how are we supposed to assume that it was intended to be one?

Remember when that teen said he could beat your ass and he was right?

I thought you might be trolling, but this comment truly proved that you are in Alabama. Well done!

For quantitative studies, twin studies usually show that gender identity is shared by monozygotic twins

I’m not trying to belittle your journey. All I’m saying is that maybe we don’t completely understand what’s going on with Dolezal and maybe we should extend her the benefit of the doubt because obviously she considers herself black.

Well, I’m a research chemist and my undergrad degree is in biochem and my graduate degree is in medicinal chemistry, so I feel that I have a stronger understanding of science and data analysis than the layman. You say yourself “on average”, which allows for an error margin. The width of that error margin is probably…

OK, so then we can agree that the biological indicators for such things are not so concrete, and that social and other complicating factors figure into gender identity. So, acknowledging this, maybe there is some common ground between Dolezal and the trans community. If we do acknowledge that, we must also extend to…

I did read them. I’m nothing if not an inquisitive reader. I’m saying that you can’t discount the possibility that someone might not have the physical and quantitative markers that denote transgender identity, yet still identify as such. In that case, which has to exist, the issue becomes murky and has crossover with…

Being white has hundreds, not thousands of years of privilege. Racism really originated in the 1600s as a way to stop the banding together of white indentured servants and black slaves. The servant/slave revolts were troubling and powerful, so indentured servants were given benefits that slaves were not so that the…

Hi, I wrote this reply to somebody else, but I’m not sure you’ll see it and would like your take on it, so i apologize for the copy and paste.