cassie 🐺 @ eupraxia @lemmy.blahaj.zone

she/they/it // disabled personal trainer, luddite game dev, walking oxymor

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No True Scotsman doesn't really make sense without an effort to define what a Scotsman is in the first place. What feminism are we talking about? Are we so caught up on labeling people as feminists and misandrists that we've stopped talking about underlying ideas or caring about the internal conflicts within that camp?

As someone who's queer as hell, I've seen this play out time and time again - someone who's queer does something terrible, (because we're just people, a mix of good and bad) the media plays up that incident and re-stokes the debate over whether or not we get to exist, then people in my life suddenly look to me as somehow responsible or associated with or benefiting from that person's actions, simply due to the labeled association. Truth is, I only have direct insight into people I'm close to, queer or no. And so when I express my lack of political or personal connection with that person, it's perceived as No True Scotsman, even though the original perceived connection was shaky at best.

As with all groups of people, take feminists as a mixed bag of people with varying ideas, who aren't all responsible for what everyone else thinks. We're all better off expressing ideas one-on-one rather than playing to these tribal labels. I think you are absolutely correct in that some rhetoric employed in service of feminism has alienated a sector of young men, but we can't forget how media paints persecution narratives out of single tweets and snappy hot takes and holds everyone who labels themselves a feminist responsible.

I heard there's a holy yellow sky / Just make sure you close your eyes

c/actuallesbians says hello 😅

Do you know who ate all the function candidates?

If it were up to me I'd be avoiding templates altogether. Sadly, I don't get that choice with 3rd party code.

I love gcc but it can't make nested template errors any less horrifying

I love spicier ginger beers and sarsaparilla, they're so much less sweet and have a lot more flavor

Especially HRT meds, which are extremely common and prescribed for all sorts of things for cis folks, because as it turns out, a lot of different conditions require some adjustments to your sex hormones. Like, when it's prescribed to trans folks, the written diagnosis is pretty much just "generic endocrine condition" - gotta imagine there's quite a few more of those out there. To say nothing of intersex folks...

Well, I'll have to give you that one - you're hilarious.

Yes, of course, the "violent trans community" best exemplified by literally one person on TikTok posing in an "antifa super soldier" shirt. Don't forget the unspecified crowd of protestors... somewhere... chanting an obvious joke exaggeration. Fear us!!!

I control the speed at which lobsters die

She'll probably be a regular 42 year old woman?

On top of what the others have said: at 11 years old, a trans kid is very unlikely to be medically transitioning, and so their transition is entirely social. With that in mind, what is the actual harm to a kid socially exploring trans identity and then later changing their mind? Why would that percentage need to be 100%?

Sure, why not?

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Catcalling is a good example. When I was early on in transition catcalling felt uncomfortable, but I'd often walk away feeling like someone saw me as an attractive woman, which was a new validating experience and ultimately that outweighed the discomfort. After some more time, now that that's more common, the validation has worn thin and now it's just uncomfortable.