If you just call it terrorism more people will understand you. I understand you’re trying to draw a distinction and I’m here to tell you as someone who grew up in a rural town of 1200 people…just call it terrorism. These people aren’t backtracking on language because they thought of an exception. It’s part of why they hate us.
There are enough conservatives on lemmy for that to work? I honestly have been on the lookout and it feels like 99% of people are actively anti-conservative here.
Does this really shock anyone or truly cause alarm? No one is going to fire a shot, not unless they want to start a war, and responding back with “grave concern” or anything just gives them what they want to hear and to stoke fears even more.
The best response should be none at all and keep doing the things you’re doing such as the talks, the summits, etc.
The younger man disappeared after spending 45 days in a city for medical treatment. It sounds like he understands that this will be the end of their tribe and accepted it, though I suppose it’s not a bad idea to talk with him about the governments agreeing to recognize offspring as protected. That may be something he doesn’t expect to happen.
Biological gender yes. But for such young children I think its more confusing than helpful to talk about a gender that is freely chosen by an adult on themselves.
Well. Here in northern europe 5th graders are 11 years old. So just about to start puberty and very confused already. I just dont think learning about other than biological gender is of any benefit for so young children. Sexual education in itself is ofcourse important.
About to start puberty seems like the perfect time to start teaching kids about gender and explaining the things confusing them. Which is the age the kids in this situation are.
I’m sorry, but what was wrong with you as a child that things about sexuality were so confusing to you? They were explained to me clearly and I had no problem understanding them.
I didn't really even think about it at all, since I fit in pretty well. I just ignored it. But I'm cis af, and not everyone is. So I can see the benefit to those people.
Also I don't think you remember how arbitrary all the gender norms sound when you first learn them. It all sounds totally unnatural at first.
What it really is, is that they’re too stupid to understand simple concepts, but think they’re geniuses. If they, an adult “genius”, don’t understand the concept, then that must mean it is too complex a concept for children, an incorrect concept, or both. The idea of introspection, that maybe they are the idiot and just don’t get it, never even crosses their minds.
Plus just bigotry for bigotry’s sake, of course. There’s plenty of that going around too, unfortunately.
There is no such thing as “biological gender.” You’re talking about sex. Gender is a social construct. That you don’t even know that suggests you’re way out of your element here.
More importantly, they are exposed to things that the loony right doesn't want them to hear, like the idea of consent or that LGBT people exist and aren't going to burn in hell. That's the parts they hate
It exists and kids have a gender identity whether you hide it from them or not.
It’s the same broken logic that somehow sex education is somehow causing kids to have sex. Most guys don’t even realize how women pee, sex education has been so broken.
Mate, transitioning is like getting a face tattoo. Its a bad idea, but no one can stop you. But kids can’t consent, and it shouldn’t be taught to kids. This book goes a step further and acts like its a good thing, and not a last resort for mentally ill suicidal people.
Not everyone feels like a manly man or a girly girl. On another note, not everyone feels any empathy for people who aren’t like themselves, as you just demonstrated.
Teaching kids that some people feel different and not to stigmatize them is not the same as whatever nonsense you’re implying.
So what if they aren’t a manly man or a girly girl? That doesn’t mean you need to change gender. You can teach kids to be themselves without bringing self-harm into it.
Removing body parts that cause distress to a person is normal medical practice. If your appendix is causing you harm, what do they do? Remove it. If your tonsils are causing you harm, they remove them.
For people with gender dysphoria, certain body parts will cause them psychological harm. Removal or modification of those parts has been shown to provide significant, marked relief for patients who opt for those procedures.
"Self harm" refers to a mutilating practice that serves no functional purpose. There is a functional practice to gender-affirming surgeries. Quit trying to make up your own definitions for words and phrases and pretending that your version is reality. Literally thousands of professionals in this field disagree wholeheartedly with your uneducated, uninformed, baseless assessment.
Read a fucking book. But not My Shadow Is Purple; that seems to be a bit too advanced for you just yet. Have you heard of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? That might be a good starting point.
EDIT: Wait, no, I forgot the main character in that book transitions into a butterfly. I'll ship you a copy of Goodnight Moon, maybe.
Can you not tell the difference between “self-acceptance of not following gender norms” and “electing for sex reassignment surgery” because your comments sound like you’re oblivious to the SEVERAL steps between those things.
Imagine insinuating that informing kids about non-gender conformity has literally anything to do with pushing surgery on them.
You're absolutely correct that a person doesn't need to be a "manly man" or a "girly girl". But you're confusing gender expression for gender identity. Neither my sister or I are particularily feminine, at least not in most stereotypical ways. She's cis. I'm trans. I sure as hell haven't gone through the journey of transition just because I wanted to enjoy a certain activity or wear a certain type of clothes. I could've done that before and still gotten less hate. Sure as hell getting sick of people telling me I'm confused (first in my life for being bi, later for being trans - same chapter in the bigots' playbook really) when they can't even grasp simple concepts because they don't apply to them. Is it lack of empathy? Inability to trust that other people understand themselves even if you don't understand them? Or is it just being fucking stupid?
Thanks for letting everyone know you’re full of shit.
it shouldn’t be taught to kids
You think trans kids are taught to be trans? With that shitty logic, we should be able to teach kids to be straight and cis… except wait, that doesn’t work either! Doh!
This book goes a step further and acts like its a good thing, and not a last resort for mentally ill suicidal people.
ITT: libs breathing a sigh of relief that they can mock their racial enemy for something accurately for once in the last 2 years yet another neo-communist trying to defend a failed state actor
You can’t tell the difference between supporting Russia and making fun of you morons for being so predictably thirsty? No wonder you can’t reason about the world.
Most of the comments I've seen seem to be mocking the Russian government, and are not based on race. I have a feeling you knew that before you made your comment though.
I agree that people saying things like that are racist/insensitive. I think it's fair to have gripes with Russia's actions, but extending those feelings to every individual Russian seems misplaced. I haven't witnessed that in this thread yet though, so I think you're generalizing.
Brown shirts aren’t inherently bigoted, but they can be a reference to the colloquial name for the SA, the brownshirts, called that because their uniforms included brown shirts and also to differentiate them from other fascist militias of the era that wore different colored shirts. The SA used similar styles of military imagery, threats of violence, and acts of violence to modern right wing militias.
Well not really, but the courts put the burden of evidence on the worker usually so corps often get away with it. In this case they at least had to pay damages I guess. This issue with reluctance to close lines and address safety concerns because it hurts the bottom line for investors and management is really atrocious though and has been going on for nearly 15 years now. Last summer a BNSF railroad bridge was knocked down by the river and then that same bridge traveled downstream and knocked out a second bridge. They assured us that all bridges would be inspected so that even in high flow situations they won't fall down. This year another one went in and the river didn't even get close to pushing the kind of water it pushed last year. I can only assume they didn't do a fucking thing, or their inspection criteria is woefully inadequate.
Probably one of those tehcnically not legal but you also gotta prove it beyond a reasonable doubt agianst an entity with three or four orders of magnitude more money then you’d ever make in your life.
They are definitely causing the Barbara Streisand effect with this. Before seeing this post, I had never heard of skiplagging…now there is a 100% chance I will check for skiplagging my next flight if it saves me money.
Same here, I only heard about this practice just a few days ago. Now it's 100% going to be something I try next time I fly.
Fuck the airlines. Don't like losing money for lost seats? That's too bad, maybe try providing a better service. Skiplagging only became a thing because people caught on to your abusive pricing schemes. You made your bed, American Airlines, now lie in it.
Cruel and unusual because either we, as a society, won’t pay for adequate staffing or because fewer people want these jobs. There’s no shortage of assholes, so I suspect the former may be more likely. Either way, this is inhumane.
Being a max level facility there shouldn’t be any low level offenders and i would at least expect a better facility than the ones that throw everyone they can find in. So many people are just shit humans.
We as a society and our tax dollars have very little influence on the lives of prisoners as the ownership and management of most prisons is done by for profit companies. So it's just the regular capitalist fuckheads putting dollars before humanity.
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