shallot [they/them, she/her]

This is actually kinda surprising. Having high quality climate change data while also barreling full-speed down the path towards total death seems like it’d be the best move to maximize misery.

Kids bringing guns to school to protect themselves from the drones that are protecting them from the guns

Lmao

Here is a reading list put together by @MuinteoirSaoirse@hexbear.net

And also there are currently discussion threads for beyond pink or blue (thanks @Carcharodonna@hexbear.net for setting this up!):

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6

we will not be mocked

yea I bet this will help with that lol

That long?

https://thefitness.wiki/routines/strength-training-muscle-building/

Well look who thinks he’s clever Dan

I will never ever ever ever ever write a song about the sibby post blaze it, Lenny boi

he was repeatedly attacked for his anti-Israel positions, such as saying the country was committing “genocide” in Gaza.

“genocide”

There have been enough top models. It is time for the bottoms to model.

I see, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you again! And thank you for the reading list as well!

This is all very interesting, but this in particular caught my eye:

By conceding that transsexuality is inherentlyabout medicalist interventionism, you accept that gender is the social construct and sex is the biological reality–but of course, sex is just as much a socially constructed category!

That is something that I had never considered. I’m not sure that I understand how sex is also socially constructed, unless maybe you mean that because we can change our bodies through hormone treatments and surgery? Which makes sense I suppose. I guess it could also be that we’re taking a roughly bimodal spectrum of physical characteristics and jamming them into binary categories. The more I think of it, the more it makes sense to me, although I’m not certain whether it makes sense for the right reasons or whether it just sounds plausible enough (like the misunderstanding that started this chain).

Edit: Also the more I think about it, my second guess sounds more correct to me. The first one feels a bit too medicalist-adjacent to me, although I did not intend that.

Sorry if my questions are annoying, you just seem to know a lot about things that I’m trying to understand better. Thank you for taking the time to write such detailed responses. I really appreciate it :)

I see. Thank you for the clarification, and for pinging me to come back and read it! So, to make sure I’m understanding correctly, in this context “transgender” indicates that a person transgresses gender norms, while “transsexual” means someone who transitions full-time.

Transsexual is the move from woman to man or from man to woman full time, regardless of whether or not medical intervention was/is one of the steps.

Is the term limited to binary transitions in this context?

Oh wow they even have one for crackers

I noticed that zie uses both words “transsexual” and “transgender”, which confused me until I realized that by “transsexual” zie was referring to those who had medically transitioned, and “transgender” to those who had only socially transitioned.

Thank you, I was confused about that as well.

Wishing a very relevant username

Maybe a bit nitpicky but an EdD is not a PhD