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Added 2024-12-25 20:19:51 +0000 UTCOr they are a troll lol
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The key is not to argue with them, but to explain how their point, while certainly a valid one, suffers from one or more issues, for the benefit of others who might be amenable to being convinced by a good, pardon please the term, "argument". When I do something that seems to be arguing with an idiot, (i.e., anyone who disagrees with anything I believe, LOL,) in reality I'm usually NOT trying to convince the idiot. I do so for the benefit of others who may not have decided, by offering them information they might not have. This often comes off as pedantic, lecturing, pedantic lecturing, or talking down, and the truth is it may be, but I don't know what other people whom I don't know do and do not know. I should probably not volunteer information, but I can't really help myself sometimes. I was raised by a pedant with a PhD to whom it really mattered that everyone around him knew how much he knew... which is funny, looking back, that he thought he had two sons and a daughter, when in fact he had, as far as I know, two daughters and only one son... of the three kids, I'm the only one who grew up thinking she had a brother and a sister and was right. My sister thought she had two brothers and no sisters, and one of these days, I'm going to have to tell her... we haven't spoken in years, and when last we did, my being a gal was still a secret I guarded from literally EVERYONE, including myself. My brother, on the other hand... well, it's funny. He used to tease me when I was little by calling me by a feminized version of my deadname. Sometimes I wonder... did he know? Did he somehow pick up on the fact that his little "brother" was more like a "sister"? Or was he just screwing with me because he was, well... akin in nature to the sort of organ one could use to write one's name in the snow with a warm, yellow, stinky bodily fluid? Or both? He could have been both.
Nadia Novak
2024-12-25 21:37:34 +0000 UTCgiga brain moment
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2024-12-25 21:31:20 +0000 UTCEvery netizen eventually has this realization. For example, this is when Randall Munroe had it: https://xkcd.com/386 It's harder for us, though... I think. We have a vested interest in countering the spread of certain damaging myths, like that sex is determined by genitalia 100% of the time, or that people get to pick which sex or "gender" they are. This of course begs the question, why would I or anyone like me, having been born with let's just say, the ability to pee standing up, CHOOSE to be female? I believe the answer is, "we didn't." We just ARE, despite the incongruence. Not our fault—the only CHOICE we made was to live honestly as ourselves and not pretend to be people we're not, just to make OTHER people feel better that they can be happily ignorant, thinking that genitalia type is a universal and reliable indicator of which sort of people any given person is. This is why when called upon to explain to someone who is unfamiliar with the terms "AFAB" and "AMAB," I usually use a non-standard word for the "A": ASSUMED, then I explain that to most folks, as far as I know, the "A" stands for "ASSIGNED". As I see it, we're not ASSIGNED to be male or female. We're ASSUMED to be based on genitalia, which I think anyone reading this (I know I'm kinda preaching to the choir here,) already knows it doesn't ALL the time. 90-99% maybe, but not 100. (I went to a Christmas/Hannukah/Winter Solstice party with a whole ROOM full of folks whose doctors, nurses, doulas, midwives, etc., got which they were, between male, female, or occasionally a bit of both or not quite either, completely wrong, and felt at home among them, even when one started a friendly debate over some of these points with me. They're nice, but I think they were wrong when they asserted that they're Queer/GNC not because of brain anatomy, but because of a choice. I asked, sweetly as I could, what made them WANT to choose that, though. No one on that side of the debate seems to want to answer THAT. "They just DO," which to me is an explanation without an explanation—like the polar opposite of a tautology. No, scratch that... it IS a tautology. The argument, "I chose to be Trans because I decided to," would make as much sense as a parent responding to the classic children's query, "why is the sky blue," with "because I SAID SO." I have to admit, the idea of that interaction between an authoritarian-minded parent and inquisitive child makes me giggle, or at least CACKLE.) If I ever learn to draw, I'm gonna have to draw that, LOL. This is almost like something my own father might have said, if he had been capable of resisting the temptation presented of showing off how much he knew. He'd have answered that by getting a pad of paper and a pen and going over the physics of photon interactions with the ionosphere and troposphere based upon each one's energy... sorry about that. I hope nobody minds too much my ramblings. (No one forced anyone to read this, LOL) The exact same can generally be said for all "gender-non-conforming" persons. Which is silliness, if you think about it. I mean, "gender-non-conforming?" I conform PERFECTLY to my gender. My gender just happens to be female, which was at odds with the aforementioned ability I was born with to write my name in the snow with a body fluid, (not that I have ever done THAT...) but I digress. I have recently lost the ability to pee standing up, but my panties now fit correctly, which is a nice bonus. I once watched a video on something called, "tucking," and it looks just SUPER painful and unpleasant, so I never did it. Should anyone wonder, "did you really get surgery just to be able to wear short skirts?!?" The answer to that is... ... ... ... Kinda, yeah. That and a dozen other things, but mainly because a gal doesn't need one of those, at least, not attached to and integrally part of her own body. Carrying one of those "penis" things around in one's pants is what boyfriends and husbands are for! X-D Merry Winter Solstice Holiday, (whichever you celebrate) everyone!
Nadia Novak
2024-12-25 21:21:00 +0000 UTCTho I feel this one in my soul, cause micro transactions are both good and bad, depending on the use TwT
Dahlia Grayson
2024-12-25 20:47:05 +0000 UTCWhile I agree that Microtransactions are good, I will say that hiw they are far from good due to being way too exploitative
Sylvie Green
2024-12-25 20:39:15 +0000 UTCNever worth it lol
Dahlia Grayson
2024-12-25 20:37:28 +0000 UTCNever argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level, and fight with experience
Juliette Dianne Moss
2024-12-25 20:22:33 +0000 UTC
