klemptor
@klemptor@startrek.website
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 hours ago:
For a simple example: my mother is Catholic and until Trump came along, a lifelong single-issue Republican voter who always said she would be a Democrat if it weren’t for abortion. She attends church in an extremely progressive, famously LGBTQ-friendly town.
There’s a transwoman who attends her church (let’s call her Rita). This lady is probably in her mid-50s to mid-60s and has been a fixture at the church for at least 5 years. My mom has been in choir and bible study groups with her for years now. She still just can’t see Rita as a woman. Treats her politely but behind her back refuses to call her “she” and says she’s a “man in a dress”.
She’s really offended that Rita uses the ladies’ room. I’ve asked her why and she can’t articulate it, she just feels like it’s an invasion of her privacy, because men don’t belong in the ladies’ room. And when I point out that Rita isn’t a man, she just rolls her eyes. I’ve asked her if she’s worried that Rita is in there for predatory purposes and she admits that she doesn’t think Rita intends any harm. I’ve asked her how she’d feel if she were forced to use the men’s room and she says “but that’s different!”
My mom prides herself in being a moral person, and still can’t manage to get past her bigotry to see Rita as a woman. There are just too many mental blockades against it. But since she thinks she’s so highly moral, she thinks she must be correct in this situation. It excuses her from finding empathy and bettering her attitude toward trans folks.
My longwinded point is that when people who consider themselves highly moral are bigoted, there’s almost zero chance of getting through to them. And I think a lot of the people who are bigoted against trans folks feel that morality is on their side and being trans is morally deviant, so they think they’re justified in their prejudice.
- Comment on It's insidious 1 day ago:
Honorable mention to Tarkalean tea
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 2 days ago:
I didn’t change my name. My perspective is that my identity doesn’t change just because I got married. My name has been mine since birth and it’ll remain that way.
- Comment on Where to start? 6 days ago:
Ooh yeah I’ve heard people speak highly of The Orville, and I keep forgetting to check it out! If I’m not mistaken, it’s got Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates) in it, right?
- Comment on Where to start? 6 days ago:
Ugh… I’ve been so reticent to watch modern Trek. I’ve heard such bad things about Discovery and have never been tempted to try it. But I really love the TNG era, so I gave in and watched Picard season 1…man, that was a mistake. Too modern, too snarky, too fucking meta. I swore off modern Trek. But then I read loads of threads saying that SNW was a return to form, and that it felt the most like Star Trek out of all the modern series. So even though I knew I might hate it, yesterday I watched the first three episodes. I’m already so annoyed with it. Super meta, the cast is for the most part way too young, and it’s loose or completely disregarding toward canon (yeah, Spock and T’Pring having sex without Pon Farr… give me a break!), and plotlines that make no sense at all. I’m so annoyed with it. I get that '80s/'90s TV was too earnest for today’s audiences, but SNW feels like a parody of Star Trek, not a worthy successor. So far, nothing feels like actual high stakes. There really isn’t serious drama that I actually care about. When shows are too snarky and meta, it makes it really hard for me to connect with them.
I do recognize that first seasons can be rocky, so I’ll at least stick with it through the end of the season. But I can’t lie, it’s off to a terrible start. I wish we could have shows more in keeping with the tone and themes of TNG and DS9 (or even Voyager!).
- Comment on Why yes, this is a new top 2 weeks ago:
Cheese.
- Comment on He's a little feisty, but he looked cold 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you shouldn’t be seafood if you don’t want to be eaten by cats. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Diatomic 4 weeks ago:
It’s how I memorized the diatomics in undergrad :)
- Comment on Shrinkage 5 weeks ago:
Has to be Obvious Plant
- Comment on Implants 5 weeks ago:
*splat*
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 5 weeks ago:
I’m 42. I owed about $88K after college (including one very expensive semester of med school in which I realized I didn’t want to be a doctor after all). In addition to my full-time job, I did a whole bunch of consulting work, which let me completely pay off my student loans plus pay for grad school out of pocket.
- Comment on Cheeky 1 month ago:
Same here haha
- Comment on Cheeky 1 month ago:
They only have 4 toes total.
- Comment on Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' Is Coming Back to Theaters — Alongside A New 4K Collector's Edition 1 month ago:
Yeah IIRC it went off the rails in the last third with a bunch of metaphysical navel-gazing nonsense.
- Comment on 🤢🤮🤢 1 month ago:
Girl get you some metrogel…
- Comment on Consume 1 month ago:
Heeeere we go again guys… hold on to your jeans
- Comment on The two types of jobs 1 month ago:
Fucking excel. Lemmy lemme tell you. At a former position my boss wanted me to make an economic model in excel. I begged to do it in R but no dice. Annoyingly VBA was the skill all other employers were interested in (in my brief foray into industry). I had a million sads.
- Comment on Self-reflection 1 month ago:
Plagiarism detectors aren’t meant to be used in lieu of critical evaluation. They find suspected plagiarized passages and supply links to what they think is the original text. Then you as the professor are supposed to evaluate whether it really counts as plagiarism. You can tell the detector to ignore certain parts that pass your scrutiny and rerun the analysis.
When I was teaching, I always included a “drafts only” TurnItIn link that was for the express purpose of students checking their own work for plagiarism. They were supposed to run it through TurnItIn, evaluate what it picked up on, fix whatever issues were present, and then when their paper was in a good place with no plagiarism, they could submit it to the real TurnItIn link for me to grade. This was to the students’ benefit because they couldn’t be surprised by the results, and also to my benefit because with this system students had no excuse for submitting any plagiarized material. The diligent students used this system. Lots of lazy students did not, and when I found plagiarism I was not lenient because they’d had every opportunity to avoid it. (And also because it’s fucking grad school, and I had no patience for their fuckery.)
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 month ago:
What about orange creamsicles?
- Comment on The mark 1 month ago:
You were the blue light special…
- Comment on Has anyone let David Icke know about this? 1 month ago:
Lol yup!
- Comment on Has anyone let David Icke know about this? 1 month ago:
Not as good as the Land O Lakes lady
- Comment on The mark 1 month ago:
Yeah that math works out
- Comment on The mark 1 month ago:
Dude this pic could’ve waited until your poo was finished
- Comment on Oreo 2 months ago:
You gotta exfoliate your pits in the shower, then soap & shave. Nobody needs a nasty deodorant patina under their arms.
- Comment on Was Captain Janeway in the wrong during “The Gift”? 2 months ago:
Oh man I miss Kools.
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
Rut roh… I’ve got three of them.
- Comment on Rose Finch 2 months ago:
What a cutie!
- Comment on Anon investigates crime in 2096 2 months ago:
Goulash is delicious, not a bad way to go
- Comment on Damn right 2 months ago:
I remember learning about bouba/kiki in grade 1… until today, I assumed all kids did!
