Um, yeah? There you go? What's the catch?
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it's a short jump from "trans people aren't their gender but we should treat them like they are" to "the accommodations the rest of us are expected to make for them are unreasonable" to "it's cruel to reinforce these delusions," and that's the ballgame.
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I thought I'd seen it all, but getting blocked for... essentially being geeky, that's a very special kind of prickliness.
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Why can't anyone ever be normal about China? It's always either New Cold Warriors or disingenuous CCP shills, nothing in between.
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It's interesting how sometimes people can be accidentally correct. Indeed 'gender' is useless, made up, and clearly originating from a small bubble of Western, and yes generally white progressives.
Gender is useless and made for hierarchy. Gender is a european concept and you should look into some cultures outside of your white bubble.
This pic isnt propaganda, it is a real experience for trans women.
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Mysticism is not inherently bullshit, it's just outside the realm of evidence, and therefore outside the realm of "everyone ought to."
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Most people consider themselves capable of separating emotion from reason, but the way they respond to disagreement suggests otherwise. If it can't be helped, maybe we should lean into it somehow, and promote the self-awareness to say "I don't think I can discuss this right now."
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Why aren't there any photos of the messages engraved on the casings? Just curious. Surely it's not too shocking to see, compared to the things we've already seen.
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I wish the discourse would evolve instead of continuously beating the same dead horses. Even if I like what you have to say about something, there's still only so many times you can say it before I get awfully bored.
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Overconfidence will be the death of social conservatism. The old guard will continue to get in its own way, while those of us with a revived and revised approach can't match the numbers and emotional intensity of social progressives. Something needs to shatter the complacency.
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