SaltSong
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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 8 hours ago:
Some of this makes a bit of sense, but it still leans heavily on perception by others, rather than respecting what people know about themselves. This does not seem to be what many transgender persons want.
I’ll think about it.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 8 hours ago:
using ciswomen and transwomen makes you sound like a TERF.
What would be a correct way to distinguish between the two?
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“Woman” seems like it works refer to both, to be used in the majority of cases when the distinction is irrelevant.
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I don’t want to say “natural” women, or “real” women, as even someone as thick as me can see that’s insulting.
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It seems that using the prefix for both makes them equal.
What do you think world be more appropriate?
it’s impossible for Black people to not pass as Black because it’s been proven they experience racism based on an immutable characteristic.
But they would suggest that as soon as we discover a way to change that characteristic, transrace world be valid.
Further, while gender identity may not be based on appearance, the way one is treated is very much based on appearance. If I look male, I get treated as male. If I look female, I get treated as female. If I look like one, but insist I am the other, people tend to have disagreements between their deliberate and automatic behaviors. (Well, the same people do, anyway.)
I can’t think of a good way to prove it, but I am legitimately curious about this topic. I’m never happy with the answer “because this one is right, and that one is wrong.” There needs to be reasons why.
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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 12 hours ago:
maybe stop comparing race and gender then.
Isn’t the entire premise of the post that someone is seeing parallels here, and would like to understand why the similarities are not meaningful? As I said, I agree that transracial people are being silly, but I haven’t seen an argument here that can’t be used against transgender people.
trans women only pass because we’re women.
But there are plenty of transwomen who don’t “pass” despite being women. But they should still be treated as women. Hell, there have been at least a few reports of ciswomen who couldn’t pass as women, at least to sufficiently assholish observers. On that basis, I don’t think we can use “passing” as a factor to determine people’s identity.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 day ago:
I’m advised that there is no scientific or genetic basis for race. I’m a little unclear on how “ethnicity” is different from “race.”
All of them seem to be social constructs.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 day ago:
So, as a white person, I cannot pass as black, so I can never expect people to treat me like I’m black?
Don’t get me wrong, I think the idea is silly, but all the arguments I’ve seen in this thread are a word-swap away from being a bad argument against transgender people.
What’s the essential difference?
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 day ago:
Problem is that “race” isn’t just cultural. How you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “race” and subsequently it will shape your life reality
But surely how you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “gender” and subsequently it will shape your life reality?
Everything you described up there sounds exactly like “cultural.”
- Comment on Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot 6 days ago:
If you were to use their network to take advantage of the features for anything that the “predator” behind doesn’t care, you’re fine.
But what will the predator care about tomorrow? Or next year? And how confident are you that aggregate data is not what they want, for whatever reason?
- Comment on Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot 6 days ago:
If you were to use their network to take advantage of the features for anything that the “predator” behind doesn’t care, you’re fine.
But what will the predator care about tomorrow? Or next year? And how confident are you that aggregate data is not what they want, for whatever reason?
- Comment on Scientists created contact lenses that make farts visible 2 weeks ago:
Scientists were so caught up with weather they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
- Comment on How Far Can We Degrade Our Hurricane Forecasting Before People End Up Dead? 2 weeks ago:
Done people already end up dead most of the time? Our coverage is good, but it’s never gonna be that good.
No reason to cut it back, though.
- Comment on The Sandman Showrunner on Decision to End Series, Neil Gaiman Factor 2 weeks ago:
Also a consideration, yes.
- Comment on The Sandman Showrunner on Decision to End Series, Neil Gaiman Factor 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Rowling is a shit, but as far as I know she’s never laid hands on anyone. She can cause a lot of harm with hateful words and her significant public exposure, but that’s a different kind of thing.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. Good to know.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 weeks ago:
Ah, interesting. Good to know.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 weeks ago:
Interesting.
Not the answer I’m looking for, but still interesting. Thanks for the information!
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 weeks ago:
So, a moment of curiosity.
If my theoretical pistol did get pulled into am MRI machine, stuck against it by the magnet, and I, for the purpose of scientific inquiry, pulled the trigger, should I expect the bullet to fire more or less as normal, to fire, but the bullet be pulled back to the machine, or for the bullet to not move, or not move more than an inch or so from the barrel?
- Comment on Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I see. You are thinking about the properly structured flowchart, not the humorously true one.
Yea, fair enough.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
chasing the dragon
Huh. I guess it might be.
Far from my first game, but my first perfect game. Yea, I guess that does track.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
Not a sequel. Just because it’s not Portal 1. The fact that it’s second is not the problem. The problem is that the first one was flawless.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
Portal 1 was flawless. Portal 2 had a crucial flaw.
Specifically, it was not Portal 1. Everything else was perfect.
- Comment on Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see that as a problem. I can easily get caught in that loop.
- Comment on Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop. 2 weeks ago:
Other than that, it seems fairly accurate.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 3 weeks ago:
It wasn’t an American who wrote “Foot Heads Arms Body.”
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 3 weeks ago:
Because “spied for,” and “spied with” are both options.
“I spied them” is a legitimate sentence, but it doesn’t mean covert surveillance in that sentence, only to have seen then, generally through some difficulty.
- Comment on For the little guys. 3 weeks ago:
We should be concerned about endangered moths. Hard enough to get people to care about other people.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Italy was a constitutional monarchy under fascist rule.
And the US is, theoretically, a democracy, and if we aren’t under fascist rule, we will be soon enough. Fascism can spring from any form of government.
your second paragraph is something only ignorant bootlickers say
So you feel that Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump was as stable as any government needs too be? No improvement to be made there?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The reason one has a constitutional monarchy is to try to split the difference, I think, and get the best parts of each system.
But I’m with you. No kings.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 4 weeks ago:
Do none of you people have clothes pins? Or does that count as Neutral Good?
Also, CG and CN need to be switched. There is no way the bottle hack counts as “good.”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t choose such a system, I think, but I can’t say that tete aren’t at least a few half decent arguments for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
A constitutional monarch may have a wide range of powers, depending on the constitution. It doesn’t automatically mean “powerless figurehead.”
Given the way the US has been recently, I’m willing to admit that there may be some benefit to having a leader in some position of power that had been there a long time, and has, more or less, been training for the responsibly since birth.
Of course, there are plenty of arguments against such a leader, but the least of which is how much you have to stretch the word “training” to make it fit that sentence above.