Here's a better link about TERFs The reality is that Wu is not accepted into radical feminism even though she claims to be. Radical feminists believe only "women born women" are real women. Heck, even Germaine Greer continues to push that old, ignorant-of-the-facts-and-don't-wanna-know line that we're not "real women".
Too bad for them that they're more and more seen as exploiters of hate and misunderstanding towards us, same as many in the religious and political extreme right try to do. That horse might not be dead yet, but they'll keep beating it until long after it is. In a way, it's counter-productive to their aims - since they're seen as out to lunch on so many other issues, people who hear them attacking us will, for the most part, figure that if these people are against us, they should probably be for us:-)
I say let the LGBT keep the drag queens. Intersex/transsexual is a whole different kettle of fish. I think Ru Paul said it best - "Anyone wanting to see me in a dress is going to pay for the privilege."
Cross-dressers can live out their fantasies their whole lives in private, and many of them do. They wouldn't dream of turning their outsie into an insie. Or having to live full-time as the opposite sex. They can simply revert to their previous identity for work, etc., and avoid dangerous or inconvenient situations, and they do. No big deal, it's their right to. And they can do this without much risk to their marriage etc. Relatives and friends will mostly slog it off as "George is a little quirky, but who isn't."
Funny thing is, long before gays, lesbians, bisexuals and cross-dressers were recognized as just another aspect of human nature, transsexuals were receiving the support of the medical community. That's the difference - we need doctors to help us - they don't. And we have had medicine on our side for decades before homosexuality and cross-dressing were no longer seen as something to be cured.
Our problems and our lives are much more complicated. After transition, how do you give potential employers references to previous employers without outing yourself? Even if you decide to "go it alone" and work for yourself, you still need satisfied clients as references. So you start over at the bottom of the ladder. Nobody would do that if they could avoid it. We can't. Someone who is gay, lesbian, bi, or a drag queen doesn't have that problem - their identity remains the same to employers and coworkers. This is a serious bread-and-butter issue that can interfere with the decision to transition.
For us, the relief of living in our target gender outweighs the problems (except when it doesn't, which helps explain that the high suicide risk from lack of acceptance by those closest to us being the #1 factor).
So, after so long thinking that the larger LGBT community was a help, I now see it as being a hindrance. And in retrospect, that's been the case for a while.
Unfortunately, there are heartless self-entitled racist bigots everywhere. Hopefully their bad behavior will convince others that judging people solely on where they were born or their ethnicity is just plain dumb. The republican candidates for president are doing an effective job in that respect, catering to their base via fear-mongering.
Schools violate children's civil rights every day. So do parents. Ever been sent to your room and told you can only come out when you apologize? Ever been kept after class as punishment? Ever been spanked? Ever been punished for swearing? All these would be illegal to do to an adult.
I assume there's some desire to make it punitive. He was only treated that way because he was perceived to be a Muslim - I bet the school district can't point to a bunch of other cases where white kids have brought in electronics projects and had the police called. I imagine i'm not alone in the slashdot demographic as someone who brought random electronics to school, yet I never got anywhere close to arrest because of it.
I don't think it matters if the whole thing was orchestrated to show the school district was discriminatory. It appears that they are, and they should have to pay the price of that.
So you didn't here about the kids who are as young as 4 being accused of sexual harassment at school and having that as part of their permanent school record... schools are f*'d up.
That's because 2001 is a theme-driven film, not a plot- or character-driven one.
Evidently you're supposed to be thinking about the Meaning of the story during those long boring stretches. Not having studied classics, I didn't have much to go on in that respect. It was only years later that I gained any appreciation of what Kubrick was trying to do.
At its core it's a religious film about man's evolution. Take out the beginning and ending, and the film has nothing to say.
Star Wars, OTOH, is a fairy tale Western built on archetypes. It's not complex but it is emotionally affecting.
Take out the beginning and the end, and you could have had a film that had plot, character, and theme, HAL9000, for example - a computer that went insane because he had to lie. Can HAL go insane if he's not alive? Or the morality of disconnecting him completely - was it "killing"? Both of these questions touch on the greater question of "what does it mean to be alive?"
That is one question that is of far greater meaning compared to a "religious film about man's evolution."
We have the current mess in the middle east thanks to the two gulf wars, which were done under the Bush-Cheney administration. Funny how they continued to push the whole WMD lie when, days before Colin Powell made the claim in the UN, international inspectors had said that they didn't exist (it was weird watching the news reports of this, which apparently the American media self-censored).
Also, a bunch of Saudi Arabians (and 4 non-Saudi nationals - none of them Iraqi) take down the WTC, and you back attacking attack Iraq??? That does NOT compute.
I changed it a couple of months ago, in reaction to the continual insistence by the greater LGBT movement in encouraging the idea that cross-dressers and drag queens fit into the same category as transsexuals - and not understanding the distinction themselves. That, and how if anyone speaks anything ill about them, it will harm "the community." It's screwed up public perception so much that the public pretty much assumes we're gay. Screw them. They can keep their outdated concepts such as "community" and "safe spaces" and "authentic lives", same as any other group (like SJWs and radfems). My definition of "community" doesn't make any distinctions as to race, color, creed, sexual preference, gender identity, etc - it's inclusive, not exclusionary. My community, which is my family, friends, neighbors, and everyone else I run into. "Time to die" applies equally to the last replicant in Blade Runner and Political Correctness.
You don't need to withdraw into an artificial community - far better to pay it forward and, where there is a problem in the real community, work to educate. This concept applies both to "safe spaces" and "authentic lives." Make the whole community a bit safer, instead of living in a walled garden. And how the heck do you lead an "authentic life" when you're withdrawing from interaction with the larger world around you?
Unlike the rest of the LGBT, transsexuals achieved our rights without riots, mass protests, and public demonstrations. Those of us who have been outed continue to lead "authentic lives" without the assistance of the LGBT movement.
I was never a big Star Wars fan. It was OK like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was OK. I think 2001 a Space Odyssey is still the best.
2001: A Space Odyssey would have been far better if someone were to cut everything until the scene in the lunar pit where they discover the monolith, and everything after disconnecting the HAL 9000. Sometimes, less is more.
Yes, but then it wouldn't be an Oddesey, would it.
If they made sequels that eschewed the boring pretentious artsy-fartsy stuff, sure it could be an odyssey A journey across the solar system and eventually into deep space
Many posters have pointed out that the "legitimate arguments" are both bogus, and have failed in their job. Shutting down their public recruiting channels means that it's not possible to carry on the conversation with potential new recruits, who now have to figure out where their "friendly recruiter" is now posting.
There are no "codes". These are public postings for the purpose of recruiting easily manipulated people - and using facebook, twitter, and youtube is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Bullcrap. They have access to the initial public posts made by people recruiting for ISIS. They use twitter and facebook and youtube because that's what their potential recruits use. If they posted their recruiting crap here, they'd get trolled SO bad...
So how do you make first contact with a potential new recruit if you're not making publicly readable posts? And if after the first contact you give them your covert channel, you know that will be shut down almost as quickly because you don't know if you're giving the info to law enforcement or internet trolls.
To recruit people, you need t make your social media posts public. Shutting them down drops recruitment capabilities. Having to direct people to the new account to "continue the conversation" is kind of hard when the account they've bookmarked is dead.
I was never a big Star Wars fan. It was OK like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was OK. I think 2001 a Space Odyssey is still the best.
2001: A Space Odyssey would have been far better if someone were to cut everything until the scene in the lunar pit where they discover the monolith, and everything after disconnecting the HAL 9000. Sometimes, less is more.
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Here's a better link about TERFs The reality is that Wu is not accepted into radical feminism even though she claims to be. Radical feminists believe only "women born women" are real women. Heck, even Germaine Greer continues to push that old, ignorant-of-the-facts-and-don't-wanna-know line that we're not "real women".
Too bad for them that they're more and more seen as exploiters of hate and misunderstanding towards us, same as many in the religious and political extreme right try to do. That horse might not be dead yet, but they'll keep beating it until long after it is. In a way, it's counter-productive to their aims - since they're seen as out to lunch on so many other issues, people who hear them attacking us will, for the most part, figure that if these people are against us, they should probably be for us :-)
First they came for the regular jobs.
But that's okay, there's always the crappy gig economy.
Then they cam for the gig jobs
But there's also the robot economy.
Oops - humans can't compete on cost with a robot.
Permanent staff are seen as a burden. They will look for any way to reduce that, so long as their (or their bosses) jobs are not the ones affected.
Or they can post signs, like they do here.
Next up - registering your kite. After all, it fits their definition of a remotely controlled aircraft ...
I say let the LGBT keep the drag queens. Intersex/transsexual is a whole different kettle of fish. I think Ru Paul said it best - "Anyone wanting to see me in a dress is going to pay for the privilege."
Cross-dressers can live out their fantasies their whole lives in private, and many of them do. They wouldn't dream of turning their outsie into an insie. Or having to live full-time as the opposite sex. They can simply revert to their previous identity for work, etc., and avoid dangerous or inconvenient situations, and they do. No big deal, it's their right to. And they can do this without much risk to their marriage etc. Relatives and friends will mostly slog it off as "George is a little quirky, but who isn't."
Funny thing is, long before gays, lesbians, bisexuals and cross-dressers were recognized as just another aspect of human nature, transsexuals were receiving the support of the medical community. That's the difference - we need doctors to help us - they don't. And we have had medicine on our side for decades before homosexuality and cross-dressing were no longer seen as something to be cured.
Our problems and our lives are much more complicated. After transition, how do you give potential employers references to previous employers without outing yourself? Even if you decide to "go it alone" and work for yourself, you still need satisfied clients as references. So you start over at the bottom of the ladder. Nobody would do that if they could avoid it. We can't. Someone who is gay, lesbian, bi, or a drag queen doesn't have that problem - their identity remains the same to employers and coworkers. This is a serious bread-and-butter issue that can interfere with the decision to transition.
For us, the relief of living in our target gender outweighs the problems (except when it doesn't, which helps explain that the high suicide risk from lack of acceptance by those closest to us being the #1 factor).
So, after so long thinking that the larger LGBT community was a help, I now see it as being a hindrance. And in retrospect, that's been the case for a while.
Unfortunately, there are heartless self-entitled racist bigots everywhere. Hopefully their bad behavior will convince others that judging people solely on where they were born or their ethnicity is just plain dumb. The republican candidates for president are doing an effective job in that respect, catering to their base via fear-mongering.
Schools violate children's civil rights every day. So do parents. Ever been sent to your room and told you can only come out when you apologize? Ever been kept after class as punishment? Ever been spanked? Ever been punished for swearing? All these would be illegal to do to an adult.
I assume there's some desire to make it punitive. He was only treated that way because he was perceived to be a Muslim - I bet the school district can't point to a bunch of other cases where white kids have brought in electronics projects and had the police called. I imagine i'm not alone in the slashdot demographic as someone who brought random electronics to school, yet I never got anywhere close to arrest because of it.
I don't think it matters if the whole thing was orchestrated to show the school district was discriminatory. It appears that they are, and they should have to pay the price of that.
So you didn't here about the kids who are as young as 4 being accused of sexual harassment at school and having that as part of their permanent school record ... schools are f*'d up.
That's because 2001 is a theme-driven film, not a plot- or character-driven one.
Evidently you're supposed to be thinking about the Meaning of the story during those long boring stretches. Not having studied classics, I didn't have much to go on in that respect. It was only years later that I gained any appreciation of what Kubrick was trying to do.
At its core it's a religious film about man's evolution. Take out the beginning and ending, and the film has nothing to say.
Star Wars, OTOH, is a fairy tale Western built on archetypes. It's not complex but it is emotionally affecting.
Take out the beginning and the end, and you could have had a film that had plot, character, and theme, HAL9000, for example - a computer that went insane because he had to lie. Can HAL go insane if he's not alive? Or the morality of disconnecting him completely - was it "killing"? Both of these questions touch on the greater question of "what does it mean to be alive?" That is one question that is of far greater meaning compared to a "religious film about man's evolution."
We have the current mess in the middle east thanks to the two gulf wars, which were done under the Bush-Cheney administration. Funny how they continued to push the whole WMD lie when, days before Colin Powell made the claim in the UN, international inspectors had said that they didn't exist (it was weird watching the news reports of this, which apparently the American media self-censored).
Also, a bunch of Saudi Arabians (and 4 non-Saudi nationals - none of them Iraqi) take down the WTC, and you back attacking attack Iraq??? That does NOT compute.
He has also been away from power for a very long time
So has Hitler, for an even longer time, but that doesn't render him irrelevant when talking about sociopaths.
I changed it a couple of months ago, in reaction to the continual insistence by the greater LGBT movement in encouraging the idea that cross-dressers and drag queens fit into the same category as transsexuals - and not understanding the distinction themselves. That, and how if anyone speaks anything ill about them, it will harm "the community." It's screwed up public perception so much that the public pretty much assumes we're gay. Screw them. They can keep their outdated concepts such as "community" and "safe spaces" and "authentic lives", same as any other group (like SJWs and radfems). My definition of "community" doesn't make any distinctions as to race, color, creed, sexual preference, gender identity, etc - it's inclusive, not exclusionary. My community, which is my family, friends, neighbors, and everyone else I run into. "Time to die" applies equally to the last replicant in Blade Runner and Political Correctness.
You don't need to withdraw into an artificial community - far better to pay it forward and, where there is a problem in the real community, work to educate. This concept applies both to "safe spaces" and "authentic lives." Make the whole community a bit safer, instead of living in a walled garden. And how the heck do you lead an "authentic life" when you're withdrawing from interaction with the larger world around you?
Unlike the rest of the LGBT, transsexuals achieved our rights without riots, mass protests, and public demonstrations. Those of us who have been outed continue to lead "authentic lives" without the assistance of the LGBT movement.
I was never a big Star Wars fan. It was OK like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was OK. I think 2001 a Space Odyssey is still the best.
2001: A Space Odyssey would have been far better if someone were to cut everything until the scene in the lunar pit where they discover the monolith, and everything after disconnecting the HAL 9000. Sometimes, less is more.
Yes, but then it wouldn't be an Oddesey, would it.
If they made sequels that eschewed the boring pretentious artsy-fartsy stuff, sure it could be an odyssey A journey across the solar system and eventually into deep space
We're talking about GALACTIC scale here. You'd need a million Hitlers to have an impact that would even register on a scale like that
I guess you never read the Foundation trilogy.
Brute force attacks work when you don't have any other working solution.
Many posters have pointed out that the "legitimate arguments" are both bogus, and have failed in their job. Shutting down their public recruiting channels means that it's not possible to carry on the conversation with potential new recruits, who now have to figure out where their "friendly recruiter" is now posting.
Read the news. They recruit plenty of people via facebook, twitter, and youtube.
you don't tell the other guy you broke his codes
There are no "codes". These are public postings for the purpose of recruiting easily manipulated people - and using facebook, twitter, and youtube is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Bullcrap. They have access to the initial public posts made by people recruiting for ISIS. They use twitter and facebook and youtube because that's what their potential recruits use. If they posted their recruiting crap here, they'd get trolled SO bad ...
So how do you make first contact with a potential new recruit if you're not making publicly readable posts? And if after the first contact you give them your covert channel, you know that will be shut down almost as quickly because you don't know if you're giving the info to law enforcement or internet trolls.
To recruit people, you need t make your social media posts public. Shutting them down drops recruitment capabilities. Having to direct people to the new account to "continue the conversation" is kind of hard when the account they've bookmarked is dead.
Intelligence agencies might as well advertise their successes - after all, it's not like their opponents don't know, duh.
Also, France is now being pretty public after each operation. This is not the cold war era.
They aren't sociopaths like so many Slashdot commentators? They have normal human emotions?
Two words: Dick Cheney.
I was never a big Star Wars fan. It was OK like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was OK. I think 2001 a Space Odyssey is still the best.
2001: A Space Odyssey would have been far better if someone were to cut everything until the scene in the lunar pit where they discover the monolith, and everything after disconnecting the HAL 9000. Sometimes, less is more.