They kinda are, aren’t they? Pretend like you are working while getting re-elected and enabling and covering up what your rich friends are doing behind the curtain. The goal is usually not to fix anything. Rather break it further while looking like you are fixing something. Something they don’t care about or matter to their personal bottom line.
There’s no legal reason to define the genders, no ongoing court drama in Nebraska that hinges on this definition, nothing legally will ever be decided because of it. It’s just one idiot shouting out to a bunch of other idiots that he doesn’t like it when people who were born with one set of genitals want to have a different set of genitals.
What this will accomplish is added brain drain, an issue Nebraska sorely needs a remedy to, it will cost millions in court cases that will now be filed against the state and the governor, and it will cost women’s centers in Nebraska Federal money. All while doing absolutely nothing worthwhile for the state of Nebraska.
It’s Jim Pillen saying he wants a fight with a minority group. And it’s an idiotic call to arms at that.
N.B. : This excellent comment was unfortunately part of a thread which was deleted by the mod. I read the other comments in this post and, compared to the above, they’re mostly not worth one cent.
Confetti // Charlotte Cardin
Always been loud in a quiet way
I always feel alone in a crowded place
I always wanna stay, wanna go, wanna stay, lwanna go
I don’t know
I don’t know
I get sad on my birthday
I wanna talk back in the worst way
I always wanna stay, wanna go, wanna stay, wanna go
I don’t know what to say
I wanna throw it all away
I feel like a zombie, I’ll die at the party
Yeah, you’ll find my body fully covered in confetti
I tried calling somebody to tell them come get me
But you’ll find my body fully covered in confetti
Singing la da da da da
La da da da da
La da da da da
La da da da da
Find me in the club looking golden
I know everyone, I got no friends
I always wanna stay, wanna go, wanna stay, wanna go
I don’t know
I don’t know
And I never know what to say
'Til I’m already walking away
Wanna punch you in the face
But I won’t, but I might, but I won’t
And I don’t wanna play
I wanna throw it all away
I feel like a zombie, I’ll die at the party
Yeah, you’ll find my body fully covered in confetti
I tried calling somebody to tell them come get me
But you’ll find my body fully covered in confetti
Singing la da da da da
La da da da da
La da da da da
La da da da da
Look at the people, they’re crazy
Look at the people, they’re crazy
Look at the people, they’re crazy
Look at their pupils dilating
Look at the people, they’re crazy (crazy)
I feel like a zombie, I’ll die at the party
Yeah, you’ll find my body fully covered in confetti
I tried calling somebody to tell them come get me
But you’ll find my body fully covered in confetti
Singing la da da da da
The order declares that, in matters of the state, the “biological differences between the sexes are enduring” and that the “sex” of a person will be defined by the gender designated at birth.
This means that insecure men in Nebraska can now go in to the dive bar they get drunk at starting at 1030 AM, and hit on any woman in the place without fear of her secretly having a penis.
Not that there are any women in that bar, that they’d ever have a chance at taking one home, or, that this executive order actually means any of that. But the idiots who support this kind of thing will think it does.
My wife didn’t want to move to Minnesota, so we bought a house here, and aren’t likely to leave now. Had I not met her when I did I likely would have left a few years ago.
I think you don’t know how often it’s not one of those two, and if someone is going to get to pick, maybe we should also let individuals pick for themselves too.
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Looked at that profile…
Pretty sure you don’t think at all, easiest block of the week. Have fun shouting hated into the void
You are thinking of sex. Gender comes from the same root as genre - like how you categorize books. It was initially used to define things loosely by cultural traits like “tribe” or “type” and was used in the 15 century to describe men and women in a tongue in cheek way. Basically saying “the tribe of woman” right before trying to be witty about how women don’t make any sense because they are like another culture. Other uses would have been to distinguish differences between any different nations, families, groups. So your gendre could have been “English” or “From this specific village where they eat a lot of cheese” or of a social class.
The word got hijacked by Victorian sensibilities which used it euphemistically in that “tribe of” way for the word sex because having a woman saying the word sex aloud to a room in the scientific sense of the word caused monocles to shoot out of men’s eyesockets at lethal speeds and early feminists needed language they could use without being censored… But the modern usage of gender is not a euphemism for sex. They are two distinct words.
Gender does not concern itself with any part of the person’s body. It refers more to classification by cultural attributes. Like how you would decide if a book belongs in the mystery section or romance. Whether the book is hard or soft cover is not relevant to genre classification in the same way male /female/intersex is largely irrelevant in regards to gender classification.
The nazis are back, Russia’s trying its best to cause WW3, our rights are dropping like flies, oligarchs have become cartoonishly overt in fucking the rest of us cuz they know we’ll just bend over and take it, and we’re literally cooking our planet with cow farts and dinosaur juice to the point that its ability to support life is rapidly approaching a hard stop.
…and the thing we’re putting our energy into is the dangly bits in our pants.
All this is just smoke and mirrors. These governors don’t give a shit about any of this. However, their rabblerousing bases do, so they pull this shit because they know it’ll keep the press and protestors busy enough so they don’t look at the real issues. It’s easy to rob a man or woman blind if they are busy protesting some nonsense stupidity you out up there to distract them.
I have no upper body strength at all. Never been able to do a pull-up, can only do about five push-ups. Even when I was a kid, I could barely handle the monkey bars. My daughter has inherited it from me. She has trouble with metal doors you have to push to exit a building. So I guess I’m bigger, stronger and faster than a 13-year-old?
Theres a lot of obvious layers of stupidity here, i wanna point out the ludicrousness of thinking you can define legislative legal terms through executive order.
I feel like this is shortsighted. Instead, legislation should be in place to add another category so that there is a space for sex and gender. Not that I would expect such based actions from this dude.
I know males are on average stronger than females, but I have yet to meet a trans girl who I couldn’t beat in a physical challenge. I’m under average height, don’t work out, and I don’t have genes that give me muscular advantage, but in every physical challenge thus far, they came first.
I know this is probably a joke comment, but you’ve got me intrigued - how many trans girls do you know and how often do you compete if physical challenges? Are they of the Double Dare variety or are they more Olympic in nature? Do you allow them to train an come back for a rematch?
Apparently, from what I’m reading, this will also potentially cause women’s shelters to lose federal funding. They aren’t legally allowed to discriminate against trans-women, which means they’ll be disqualified for getting funding.
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