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- Comment on Why do I tend to reply in the same amount of time it took my friends to? 3 weeks ago:
At a guess, I’d say it’s confirmation bias
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- 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. 5 weeks ago:
someone trying to sincerely answer a reasonable question
Yeah, that’s why you linked to transphobic hit pieces and described trans women in sports with hugely emotionally loaded terms
Because you’re reasonable
As I said from the beginning, your comment was fine unti you let some of your more transphobic opinions out in the final paragraph. That paragraph was not “reasonable”
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
I went through the numbers to highlight her performance is on par with the rest of her team, and you still think that I’m being unreasonable
As I said, you presented your position quite clearly, which is why I called you out
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, they’re designed to seem that way.
Which is why I earlier stated that my issue wasn’t with listing them, but specifically, the way you presented them.
I’ve also not presented my beliefs
You used the word “murdering” to describe a transgender woman playing sports with other women, despite her playing at a level comparable to them.
You absolutely presented your beliefs.
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
This is a tricky issue, trans women in men’s prisons are also at risk
“Also at risk”
The fact that you equate cherry picked single instance anecdotes as comparable to entrenched violence and discrimination against trans folk as being somehow comparable is the part that makes it transphobia.
Murder was hyperbole
It was, yeah. Despite her “murdering” the opposition, from the very article you linked, Australia finished 5th.
There are 7 players on a handball team. She scored 23 goals across 6 games, for an average of just under 4 goals per game (3.83 to be specific).
The total goals scored by Australia in those games was 160, which works out to an average of 3.81 per Australian player across those 6 games. Her “murdering” of her opponents consisted of having a 0.02% higher average than her opponents.
The fact that you parrot lines like “murdering” and look at videos designed to make it look open and shut, whilst not bothering to investigate the reality of the situation is what makes it transphobic.
The whole article is discomforting and worth reading. But, while WPATH (what is supposed to, and claims to be and independent science based organization) was creating their guidelines:
An article posted on the economist, who has Helen Joyce, a vocally transphobic journalist as one of their senior staff. Linking to an article that has been mostly circulated on various transphobic websites, calling out WPATH for being biased and getting in the way of evidence based research? Whilst defending the Cass review, which has been widely called out by many international medical bodies for its own bias and inconsistent approach to evidence.
The fact that you’re worried about WPATH as the real issue here is telling…
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
Not the list, but the way you described them, as if these were things that actually happen…
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
They very much are…
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
You were doing reasonably well, until you diverted to pure transphobia in the last paragraph
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
Because stirring up hate against vulnerable minorities, by positioning them as a threat is a well tested and effective technique for power hungry politicians to gain and retain power. And it’s effective, because it works by pulling people in and making all of the conversation about whether or not it’s right to hate on the group they’re targeting.
- Comment on Why does the snow melt in this pattern? 5 weeks ago:
This is the real answer
- Comment on On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? 1 month ago:
I don’t drive. At work and at home I have multiple fast food options within a very short walking distance
- Comment on On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? 1 month ago:
Because it’s fast… Because I can take it home… Because it doesn’t feel like I’m trashing something nice when I order it to be delivered…
- Comment on High court quashes Albanese government’s ankle bracelet and curfew regime for former immigration detainees 1 month ago:
Bigots gonna bigot.
- Comment on High court quashes Albanese government’s ankle bracelet and curfew regime for former immigration detainees 1 month ago:
I’m cool with the government not treating immigrants and asylum seekers as evil, and robbing them of their rights because of the actions of some of their cohort.
- Comment on High court quashes Albanese government’s ankle bracelet and curfew regime for former immigration detainees 1 month ago:
Evil shit. This shit is what stopped me voting for Labor years ago, and why I’m never going to return.
- Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? 1 month ago:
Many years ago on reddit, you could get given gold. It gave you paid benefits. My comments earned me literally years worth of gold, and my karma was similarly increasing.
Then I came out as trans. Suddenly the gold stopped and my karma stagnated
That kind of bias is built in to the karma system. It doesn’t just punish shit takes, it also sidelines visible minorities
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 1 month ago:
I don’t expect people to lose friendships over an issue that is distant from their experiences, no.
I’d welcome push back, but we can’t all prioritise every issue, and I don’t expect people to. As long as they’re not adding to the transphobia or encouraging it, they’re on the correct side of things.
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 1 month ago:
I don’t expect active support from everyone, but if there is a chance to support trans issues at no cost to yourself, I would expect people to make that choice.
- Comment on Why aren't vegan? 1 month ago:
Because a fully vegan/vego is not easily accessible for me. I rarely prepare meals at home, and eat out/order in a lot, and the effort of moving to a fully vegan/vego diet would be non trivial.
A vegetarian diet is something I would quite happily adopt if it was more readily available, but it’s not trivial, and it’s not a high enough priority issue for me to be able to sustain over the long term
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 1 month ago:
Just call it the X social media site
- Comment on How's Iceland's 4-Day Work Week Working? 'Incredibly Well,' Study Says 2 months ago:
People barely survive on their income as it is, that’s why
- Comment on A third-party candidate could cost Kamala Harris votes in a key state. It might be enough to hand victory to Donald Trump 2 months ago:
Or… one side choosing not to support genocide…
Why isn’t that an option?
- Comment on A third-party candidate could cost Kamala Harris votes in a key state. It might be enough to hand victory to Donald Trump 2 months ago:
Is it a third party, or is it refusing to stand firm against genocide?
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 2 months ago:
If the only way to achieve political impact is to swear that oath, then it’s coerced, because the only other option is disenfranchisement
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 2 months ago:
A coerced oath isn’t an oath worth keeping
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 2 months ago:
I’d watch that show
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 2 months ago:
Yep, Iguazú. I likely felt it because my Spanish is not great, so even though I could make myself understood by Argentinians, the poor Brasilians stood no chance as I murdered Spanish in an attempt to communicate :)
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 2 months ago:
I speak a little Spanish, but no Portuguese, and my time in Brazil right near the border with two Spanish speaking countries was a challenge, because most folks there didn’t speak Spanish despite the location.
Some folks do of course, but most people I encountered didn’t have any Spanish
I have zero idea how representative that is of other borders
- Comment on do ribbed condoms feel better than smooth during anal? 2 months ago:
It’s not a matter of “fixing” so much as things moving around. After bottom surgery, the vaginal canal sits between the prostate and the anal canal, so sensation to the prostate is reduced with anal sex. However, the prostate ends up sitting approximately where the “g spot” is in AFAB folk, and so is more easily accessed via the vaginal canal