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- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
And society does, very much judge outsider demographics on the worst actions of individuals.
Yes that's the point I'm making, sweetheart. That we don't judge most people by the actions of individuals but for minorities, it's fair game.
Unless you are saying that it is right for people to do that?
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
Not all trans are like this...
Then why even bring it up?
We don't judge demographics by the actions of individuals. If we did, both cis men and cis women would be banned from every aspect of society.
But for trans women, it seems to be fair game to dig for crimes and then make this sort of two-faced statement where you are definitely saying that we should view trans women with suspicion, but won't come out and just be transphobic openly.
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
No. It isn't on the table. This is another in the long line of scenarios that only exist in TERFs imaginations.
- Comment on LGBTQIA++ 1 year ago:
Most people just use LGBTQ+. Give or take the Q and the +.
I do find mocking the acronym to be rather overdone considering it seems to be a non-issue within the community.
And I mean... LGBTQ+ folks can bicker about pointless stuff. Have you seen flag discourse? Bi lesbian discourse? The fact that we don't argue about the acronym makes the cishets' obsession with it kinda funny actually.
- Comment on LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand 1 year ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
If it's conspiracy theories in general, and not just the soy thing, then I think you might be taking the wrong approach. Just trying to debunk the soy thing might prove impossible because there is some underlying cause that is making him want to believe it.
Your friend might be being radicalised. By a person he trusts, a community he is a part of, or simply by the algorithm of a website he is spending his time on. In which case, getting him to let go of the conspiracies is going to be extremely difficult, because to do so would lose him those connections.
It doesn't sound like he's too far gone though. Maybe reasserting healthy connections will help, and if you can try breaking his media habits.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
The idea would be that the badge would be worn by everyone. Which is why I said it isn't really feasible.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
I can think of a few differences between a universally voluntarily chosen pronoun badge, and a pink triangle forced on queer people to mark them as other.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
Yes. I wasn't disagreeing with you or anything. Just saying what I thought would be most likely.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
It might also just be that the person asking you just always asks. Because as you mentioned, only asking when someone "looks" trans or non-binary can be rather invalidating. So to avoid that, they just don't assume.
For your last paragraph, I'm personally of the opinion that, short of de-gendering the language entirely, a good solution would basically just be a gender/pronoun badge, but stylised to be more easily readable from a distance. Like a bracelet or a necklace or something of that nature. That would eliminate the need to ask in the vast majority of cases, because the person would be wearing something that unambiguously signals the answer. And it would be completely detached from the presentation of their body, which might not match their gender, or their clothing, which probably shouldn't be gendered anyway. Changing pronouns, for whatever reason like coming out or just being fluid, would just be a matter of swapping out the single symbol.
It's not really feasible, of course, but even as a queer person I find asking and being asked quite clunky. But whenever I go into LGBT+ or geek spaces, I find that wearing a badge just sidesteps the whole issue.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
Because they don't actually care about pronouns. What they are angry about is transgender and non-binary people being accepted as normal.
Everything else, the pronouns, the bathrooms, the medication, the sports, everything, is just pos-hoc justification for their real belief, which is that transgender and non-binary people should not be accepted as normal.
- Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds 1 year ago:
Okay. So make passports free to apply for and renew, and make the application process possible from every Post Office, including on Saturdays. And maybe then that will be a fair way to require voter ID.
- Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds 1 year ago:
Why?
- Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds 1 year ago:
Because you don't need a passport? It's not something everyone needs or has.
- Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds 1 year ago:
Read the article you walnut.
- Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds 1 year ago:
It's explained in the article. So I will say it again: "Maybe read the article?"
Not every citizen has a passport. And they usually aren't free either.
- Comment on Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds 1 year ago:
I don’t understand what the problem is.
The fact that "Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination".
Maybe read the article?