Gender Issues Thread
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So I don't want to interrupt all the short hair is attractive conversation, but the point was that it doesn't matter what anyone, including you, thinks is attractive. "This person is wrong because actually that's hot" is not a rebuttal, that person is just wrong, period, because no one is obligated to appear or present the way you or anyone else deems 'hot'.
Ok, soapbox over, you can go back to posting pics of cute haircuts.
Ok, soapbox over, you can go back to posting pics of cute haircuts.
Oh yeah, I thought that went without saying. The original asshole who posted the comparison has zero right to say what women can and can't do with their hair.
Yup. That was my same point, essentially.
Because incels, by definition, aren't single by choice. "Incel" is short for "involuntary celibate." As in, they're not choosing to be single but blaming everyone else for it.
Which says everything about their thinking. God forbid they try even a modicum of self-reflection to realize "Oh, I might be the problem here."
They can only be called an "incel" if they're coming from the reasoning that they deserve/are owed having someone get into their pants, otherwise they're just "unfuckable."
--Patrick
I understand their claim but I don’t believe their claim is correct. Like I said everyone of them voluntarily became the weird off putting creatures they are.
Michigan outlaws the 'gay and trans panic defense' in criminal trials
The law prohibits using a victim’s sexuality or gender identity as justification for criminal action.
Good.
--Patrick
Anywhere that still has those laws must logically allow the opposite argument.
"I'm sorry, officer! I was chatting with him at the bar and he mentioned his girlfriend and since 99% off all mass shootings have been perpetrated by straight people, I feared for my life! I panicked and felt I had to kill him!"
"I'm sorry, officer! I was chatting with him at the bar and he mentioned his girlfriend and since 99% off all mass shootings have been perpetrated by straight people, I feared for my life! I panicked and felt I had to kill him!"
This Florida college is trashing LGBTQ+, gender and diversity books. What we know
Students at New College of Florida were shocked Tuesday to see a large dumpster filled with books, many of them on LGBTQ+ and gender studies topics.
www.palmbeachpost.com
--Patrick
figmentPez
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Texas DPS enacts policy refusing court-ordered gender marker changes, will create database of marker change requests
"According to a Texas Department of Public Safety internal email, a copy of which was sent to Dallas Voice through a local attorney, DPS has — unilaterally and without any public notice — decided to stop amending gender markers on Texas driver licenses and state ID cards.
"The email also indicates that the DPS will create a database of all individuals who request to have the gender marker on their license or ID changed."
"According to a Texas Department of Public Safety internal email, a copy of which was sent to Dallas Voice through a local attorney, DPS has — unilaterally and without any public notice — decided to stop amending gender markers on Texas driver licenses and state ID cards.
"The email also indicates that the DPS will create a database of all individuals who request to have the gender marker on their license or ID changed."
Probably not what people expect this thread to be about, but it is still an issue of gender, and so it gets posted here.
When I saw it last week I had to go find some corroborating stories, because I couldn't believe it wasn't satire.
www.theguardian.com
When I saw it last week I had to go find some corroborating stories, because I couldn't believe it wasn't satire.
‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public
New vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UN
www.theguardian.com
--Patrick
figmentPez
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It's definitely the type of thing I was thinking about when I made the thread.
Wait? PatrThom and I agree about our interpretation of something ambiguous? Truly the end of days is upon us.
Dave
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German woman given harsher sentence than rapist for calling him ‘pig’
A woman in Germany has been given a harsher sentence than a convicted rapist after she was found guilty of defaming him.
figmentPez
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Schools in the South Western School District of Pennsylvania are adding windows into the restrooms.
"Parents are left feeling 'uncomfortable' after a Central PA school board decided to make some alterations to a middle school bathroom. In August, the South Western School Board approved an $8,700 project to 'increase oversight of wash area and enhance stall privacy.' However, photos of that construction project have circulated the internet, leaving some parents and students 'uncomfortable' and 'horrified'. "
How the hell does this "enhance stall privacy"?
Why do they feel the need to spy on students using the bathroom? Because this is a gender inclusive bathroom, and conservatives obsessed with the genitals of teens want to spy on transgender students.
"Parents are left feeling 'uncomfortable' after a Central PA school board decided to make some alterations to a middle school bathroom. In August, the South Western School Board approved an $8,700 project to 'increase oversight of wash area and enhance stall privacy.' However, photos of that construction project have circulated the internet, leaving some parents and students 'uncomfortable' and 'horrified'. "
How the hell does this "enhance stall privacy"?
Why do they feel the need to spy on students using the bathroom? Because this is a gender inclusive bathroom, and conservatives obsessed with the genitals of teens want to spy on transgender students.
figmentPez
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School district boards up ‘surveillance windows’ it put in gender-neutral bathrooms
"A Pennsylvania school district has reversed course and boarded up window openings it recently installed that allowed people in a middle school hallway to peer into two gender-neutral-designated bathrooms, the superintendent said Friday.
"The two windows were installed in recent weeks following a vote in August of the South Western School District’s conservative-majority school board, a move the board president said was designed to monitor and prevent misbehavior. Such openings weren’t installed in any of the school’s non-gender-neutral bathrooms."
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"the Evening Sun reported that the windows were installed based on guidance from a right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+ law firm. At its August meeting, the school board said it had approved the bathroom 'openings' to 'comply with guidance from the Independence Law Center.' "
‘Women over 30 would have uteruses removed’; remarks of CPJ leader, novelist get wide attention
On the channel, he also said that he would make it law for “women who are single after 25 years old not to be allowed to marry.”
asianews.network
"Apology."
[X] Doubt
--Patrick
Dave
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Which is a really weird take considering in the article the issue he's attempting to address is the declining birth rate in Japan. So his idea to combat not enough people having babies...is to prevent people from having babies? Let's not even talk about the fact that the average age of mothers having babies in Japan is OVER 30 and you have a recipe for population disaster. But he is a conservative so you have to remember that he's dumb.
GasBandit
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Perhaps he thought he was leveraging FOMO to coerce women into rushing into child rearing.
I think this is probably his idea of softening/scaling back his actual idea, which was probably something akin to just straight up executing any woman who hadn't had a child by 30. Can't have them thinking they have any use beyond being incubators after all.
Natalists have exactly one plan for increasing birth rates and that’s to point at women and tell them to have more kids. Any side effects of that are to be ignored along with any course of action that respects women’s civil rights.
What, he apologised for using the bad words, isn't that what the problem was ?‘Women over 30 would have uteruses removed’; remarks of CPJ leader, novelist get wide attention
On the channel, he also said that he would make it law for “women who are single after 25 years old not to be allowed to marry.”
"Apology."
[X] Doubt
--Patrick
It's not like you're supposed to have a problem with punishing women for not being brood mares, that's just common sense.
That's only a temporary problem until they get rid of access to birth control.
Fuck this guy, and any chud that thinks like him. I wasn't able to have a kid until my early 30's. Hell, the youngest mom in Mr. Z and I's friends group had her first child weeks before she turned 27. Most people I know of my generation couldn't afford to start having kids until close to 30 or over. And yes, I know that it's by design: keep women poor and desperate so they have to take slave wages, have no power to complain, and in many cases, tied to trash, loser men. Just because I know it doesn't mean I won't stop complaining about it.
You women and making it all about yourself...
You forget that it's also about cheap labour and racism.
GasBandit
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"We're really more interested in the opinion of the baby you're stubbornly refusing to conceive at this very moment. At least until it is born, then it can fuck right the hell off."
figmentPez
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Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.bsky.social)
Odessa, Texas has voted to pass a transgender bathroom bounty law that applies to PRIVATE bathrooms. This means even in queer spaces. If a cisgender person encounters a transgender person, they can sue them for $10,000 or more. This is the first law of its kind in the nation.
bsky.app
I still don't understand why people are so hung up on this.
And I mean both sides, to be clear. There are a billion good ways of skirting this issue without problems.
Plenty of places I visit just have gender neutral bathrooms (or, in case of smaller establishments, just plain one single toilet for everybody).
I've been to places where it's just "stalls on the left, urinals on the right". A guy needs to go #2? Guess you stand in line along with the women.
I've been to places where there's a third single-stall bathroom (sometimes the same as the handicapped one, some separate) for anyone who doesn't feel safe using a multi-person bathroom. Whether that'd apply to the cis person "feeling threatened" or the trans person, not the problem of who put 'm there.
And even in places where it IS still "men/women", if it's busy there'll often be a woman in a stall on the men's side because, well, they're far more often empty, and I've never heard anyone complain or even look weird.
I also sincerely wonder what that law would do to fathers and their daughters (or mothers and sons) going to either bathroom to assist (in the "I can go to the potty but need help wiping/putting on my pants/washing my hands" age category).
And I mean both sides, to be clear. There are a billion good ways of skirting this issue without problems.
Plenty of places I visit just have gender neutral bathrooms (or, in case of smaller establishments, just plain one single toilet for everybody).
I've been to places where it's just "stalls on the left, urinals on the right". A guy needs to go #2? Guess you stand in line along with the women.
I've been to places where there's a third single-stall bathroom (sometimes the same as the handicapped one, some separate) for anyone who doesn't feel safe using a multi-person bathroom. Whether that'd apply to the cis person "feeling threatened" or the trans person, not the problem of who put 'm there.
And even in places where it IS still "men/women", if it's busy there'll often be a woman in a stall on the men's side because, well, they're far more often empty, and I've never heard anyone complain or even look weird.
I also sincerely wonder what that law would do to fathers and their daughters (or mothers and sons) going to either bathroom to assist (in the "I can go to the potty but need help wiping/putting on my pants/washing my hands" age category).