Spot on, anybody. It was never about sports, it was always about identifying "others." And the gatekeepers don't care about how much harm that will cause just like they won't care about the Dorothy Hunts* they're organizing doing damage to cis girls. *Back in the 1970's and 80's, the Naval Investigative Services (the predecessor to the NCIS) opened an investigation into a secret
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My girlfriend says she statistically won't live past her mid-40's. Quotes the average lifespan like it's normal and I hate that she says it so casual. I want her to live a long and happy life. And from what I can tell, the average lifespan of trans folks could go up if people would just stop being horrible to them. But no, instead it's screaming in favor of a ban, ignoring evidence that the p
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Great movie. And I consider "Frankenstein" and "The Bride of Frankenstein" the movies that made me fall in love with horror.
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I'd sooner leave a toddler alone with cookies and a lit blowtorch than appoint people like Raichik to any position of authority. The fire would cause less damage.
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The cruelty really is the point with shitbags like Walters, isn't it? And all with concerned fools claiming "it's to protect the children!" And it also answers *why* kids beat Nex to death; they thought they were doing a good thing by Walter's "standards." Doesn't help that Walters idolizes a stochastic terrorist ("Libs of TikTok," the assholes responsible for ha
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Beth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > LW: I think you’re having some cog dis and are > flailing a bit because you don’t like the idea > of a man beating up on a woman. Unfortunately, it > follows that you don’t consider transgender > women “real” women. Just think about that. > It’s tricky and hard. Thanks for describi
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Yes. Nex should have been allowed to grow up, not beaten to death. I don't want to ever meet anyone who would defend doing that.
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Stopping by because of the latest in cruelty disguised as "concern" in Utah. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/utah-governor-sign-bill-bathroom-transgender-access The Utah state "legislature" passed a bill that restricts restroom access to trans people with the possibility of jail time. All in the name of "protecting women." The reason I'm bringing this up i
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Fair point. It is a side effect of some medications.
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Nightie, I don't need a psychoanalysis, I just need you and Susan to listen. About eight months back anybody started a thread about a fundie school refusing to play another school and it turned into a cesspool of bunk science and cissexism, the belief that trans people are worth less than cis people. I got sick of hearing posters who dealt with Mormonism and its abusive hierarchy demeaning tra
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Why do straights cry "protect the children from anything lewd" when LGBTQ+ folks dare to exist? Because I, a horny bisexual, don't think about sex a third as much as straights seem to think I do.
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Yep. Explains the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. For those unfamiliar, it's Millenial political slang for someone who votes in favor of policies that cause harm out of the belief that it won't affect them, hence the party's motto of, "I never thought leopards would eat *my* face!" Examples of polices like this include, but are not limited to, -working class folks supporting ta
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summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You are comparing those who disagree with your > stance on transwomen in sports to the Nazis? > Seriously? https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/ Established in 1919, the Institute of Sexology was once the leading center of studying human sexuality and gender. In fa
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I know some of you want to keep hearing about my life right now, but you also act like I'm the one who needs to rethink things instead of the posters attacking trans folks for wanting the same opportunities as cis folks. They call trans women a "threat," talk about trans bodies like it's only a certain percentage man/woman/human, but everyone acts like *I'm* the one in the wrong?! Yo
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summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ookami, we simply have a difference of opinion > about the role of trans women in sports. You are > entitled to your point of view, and I am entitled > to mine. "I want to discriminate against trans folks. You have your opinion and I have mine." That's not a different opinion, that's bigotry.
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If you think this matter is something we can debate, you know nothing of the issue.
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Thanks dagny and Nightingale. I'm going to miss you two. It's a bit odd, having a relationship with someone who treats me like a person, makes atrocious puns together, and gives me a happier life just by being in it. A contrast to what I grew up with. Mormons hate us both and I thought that RfM would be better. Then posters made threads about trans sports. I made a post chewing them out fo
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I would be inclined to agree with you, but then I remember her "I'm not transphobic but, (fearmongering about trans girls and how they're a threat women's sports)." I was browbeat into an apologies I shouldn't have given and moved into a place with my girlfriend (note to Susan I/S: thank you for recommending using shirts to wrap plates and glass. Nothing broke and it saved on boxes!) an
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And it gets worse; the libraries in those Houston schools are apparently being converted into "disciplinary centers." Does the far-right have *any* policies other than "maximize cruelty and stupidity?"
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Ah, matcha. Powdered green tea mixed with a bamboo whisk. Personally, I think it's over-rated. I'm more of a "steeped sencha or genmaicha" green tea fan.
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I will never get used to how weirded out people get about tattoos. Chalk it up to time with sailors. The only tattoo I have at the moment is a rope around my left wrist. For those unfamiliar with sailor tattoos, it marks one as a Deckhand. I was Undesignated and assigned to Deck department, so I got it as a reminder of where I came from. I want to get a memorial tattoo for my sister when I ca
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"Why are you askin'?"
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I don't have much experience flying. Only times I ever did it were on the US government's dime. A flight to Chicago to be transported by bus to Great Lakes for training, a flight home for leave, a flight with transfers to Bremerton, and finally a flight from San Diego to Salt Lake City when I was honorably discharged. I wasn't focused on the process so much as the destinations. I'd like to fl
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I grew up in southeast Idaho and "tosser" sounds like a soft "tah-ser." I live in Pullman, Washington which is across the state border from "Mah-scow" Idaho. I call the ditch by the side of the road "the borrow pit." One bar snack I recommend in Idaho is "finger steaks," steak cut into strips and deep-fried. Goes well with "frah s
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An eternity of missionary position with multiple women and no men? *Shudders* Please let Mormons be wrong.
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An eternity with my family and Mormons? FOMO for that can FOAD.
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I always thought tosser was a good term for someone with more ego than brains or ability and am a little disappointed I don't know a Yank equivalent, at least one I can say in front of polite company. The only downside is that saying "tosser" in an Idaho accent makes one sound a bit like a tosser.
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Maybe he writes ambidextrous?
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Nightingale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If a sentence is woven in especially remarkable > fashion I actually have to write it down. > I've read a few sentences like that. > It would be disappointing to learn that a machine > did that. If it were a work the AI wrote on its own instead of being programmed to, I would be intereste
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You mean janitors can finally find out who the fuckshits that spit chewing tobacco into the urinals and onto the wall are? Note: if one litters as "job security for janitors," this is an example of the Broken Window Fallacy. And, by this logic, the janitors have the option of providing "job security for dentists" if one is stupid enough to try using that fallacy.
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