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Adrian Sullivan
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"Trans woman" is a compound noun, not an adjective+noun sequence.
Some constituency tests:
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✔️a slim, tall woman
❌️a trans, tall woman
CONJUNCTION
✔️a tall and slim woman
❌️a tall and trans woman
EMPHATIC DOUBLING
✔️a slim, slim woman
❌️a trans, trans woman
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@Glinner Exactly this.
And it is amazing that when you put it simply like this, without being specific, even the people who disagree with us agree on that point. Around 2020, I wrote something like that, and I was slightly amused how many True Believers thought it was a "good point!"
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This is a really funny post but don't you see the problem? You've put your psychological well-being in the hands of strangers who have all sorts of shit going on in their lives too.
hotdogs water@girlsbian_
homeless man came up to me like "excuse me ma'am can you spare a few dollars" and after i said yes he went "thank you sir, god bless you" 😭
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@thatazuresea I do not have the strength of characters that some heroes, like @LisaSelinDavis have.
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Adrian Sullivan@AdrianLSullivan
@LisaSelinDavis I talk about principles a lot, but I wish I had yours. I have abandoned my beloved em dash.
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I hate feeling self-conscious about my heavy use of em dashes but, if it's ever necessary, I can produce some essays from high school where I wildly, wildly overuse them.
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@SandyofCthulhu My position exactly.
A cosmopolitan fantasy city could be wildly diverse. But what we see in some of the random rural fantasy scenes in television feels frankly absurd.
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It would be defensible (dumb, but defensible) to make, say, the Rohirrim all black. But never to make them ethnically diverse.
Nobleshield@Nobleshield
One of the most insidious things the leftards do is say "Well, the source material never explicitly mentions a character's color, so we can make them black" (and it's always black, let's be honest), whereas before the rise of wokism, they'd use the implied culture to determine the race (often White).
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@Bl00dOld @KaylaKatin I have low confidence (55%?) that it is us bi men then gay men, but it's at least a foot race.
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@KaylaKatin I’m 99% sure that gay men are literally the most promiscuous demographic, period. Being ridiculously promiscuous is literally using others for sex.
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I’m sorry but how can gay men be mad at bi men “using them for sex” when they’re already using each other for sex. Gay men are the least likely to get married and half of male-male couples are in open relationships. What difference does it make to yall if the guy wants to settle down with a wife lol
BUCKIIN’ BADDIE 🐊🐎@BuckiinBaddie
@katysattorney @izztastic I don’t think you’ve really encountered the men he’s speaking of. Those men will blatantly say and make it obvious that they ultimately want to commit to women and only interact with men for sex
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@HJoyceGender @thatazuresea The Bluebeard's Egg reference is brilliant.
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@thatazuresea This is the best piece I've read on this, hands down (and I've read several, also not proud)
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"This is a 300-page voyage of zero discoveries. It’s an addiction memoir that doesn’t end in sobriety. It’s a cult memoir that ends with a spirited defense of the cult leader." leighstein.substack.com/p/i-escaped-bl…
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@thatazuresea Fantastic piece. Bluebeard's Egg is my favorite fairy tale, and I think about it all the time. Leigh's insights feel like they simultaneously cut to the bone and are incredibly generous to West.
Thanks for this link!
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@LisaSelinDavis I talk about principles a lot, but I wish I had yours. I have abandoned my beloved em dash.
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Eventually, you have to stand up for what you know is right.
I will NOT let AI take away my precious M-dashes.
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@SandyofCthulhu I believe what Kenneth Burke wrote in 1939 about Mein Kampf was quite spot on - we need to know what poison is being sold to the people and try to understand why it works to the extent it does.
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Every kid should have to read Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto, along with a critical analysis of same.
You must know your enemy. Also read the Declaration of Independence.
CP24@CP24
Bob Gale resigns as chair of Niagara Region amid allegations over copy of Hitler’s book cp24.com/local/niagara/…
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@HormoneHangover @buddyhollyriff I'm not from Indiana, but Wisconsin, and I've lived in NYC.
In both Indiana and Wisconsin, most places, the doors like this both open. But I can absolutely think of places where they don't. This is the exception, though.
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@buddyhollyriff Maybe I’m misremembering through the rosy glow of nostalgia and they actually do it in Indiana too. I’m just thinking about it because I got ragebaited by a couple prank doors this morning. Why do stores do that
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I love when people from New York frame extremely normal things as a New York Thing
Grace 🦎🩵🐣🐈⬛🌃@HormoneHangover
Every New York business with double doors has one door that opens and one prank door that’s always locked
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@LisaSelinDavis @HistoryBoomer Thank you; was going to say the same. Also looking forward to reading another book of yours!
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@HistoryBoomer I think TERF was coined in the 90s. I'm finishing up my manuscript, which is about how liberals traded belief in gender identity over science. it includes some of this. But the objections started in the 1970s with second-wave feminists.
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Someone should write a history of trans activism and the gender-critical reaction.
From all I've read, almost all the early fighting happened in feminist spaces. Think Michigan Womyn's Festival's "womyn-born womyn" policy or Julie Bindel's columns going back to the early 2000s. Conservatives didn't care about inside-feminism wars.
C'mon, it's right in the name! "TERF" (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) was coined back in 2008, but by the early 2010s, it was being used as a pejorative (I heard it from trans students around then).
It's only around 2014 that conservatives started paying a lot of attention, realizing they had a hot issue. Their early efforts floundered (bathroom bills). It's ramped up since then, but so have feminists (hello JK Rowling entering the arena in 2019).
So it's more complicated than Chris Rufo doing stuff (although he did do stuff!).
Sami Gold@souljagoyteller
People like Chris Rufo smartly chose wedge issues like trans athletes competing in women’s sports bc it forced liberals to choose between feminism and “the trans”. Since Democrats don’t know and don’t care about how things like HRT work, they didn’t know how to argue back
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@vurnt22 I am beyond joyful with this set of conversations you've been having lately. If I weren't so overwhelmed with work, I'd be engaging so much!
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Hard Agree. Giger’s extraordinary set design, as well as Bolaji Bodego’s unheralded performance as the Xenomorph made the original Alien, imo, the most seamlessly Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror film.
m3d@YoneyMike
@vurnt22 For what is worth the original Alien fits into my Lovecraft head canon. Giger was definitely channeling the great old ones.
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@LeahLibresco These were not issues that would necessarily hurt him in Dem primaries
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Wow, Crockett's oppo team was bad.
Derrick Evans@DerrickEvans4WV
🚨 2022 CLIP — James Talarico called cutting meat “existential” for climate change. "I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign... We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses."
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It’s another in the Failed Lovecraftian oeuvre. Reanimator,(1985) , is a superior film to Beyond, mainly because of Jeffrey Combs’ inspiredly loony Herbert West. As fun as that film is, it’s not Mythos. It’s incredibly frustrating that Cthulhu his not yet been realized on screen.
Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*@EsotericCD
@vurnt22 FROM BEYOND isn't what I'd call a *good* movie but it's really compelling. Always think of that one as a pairing with Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
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@mattyglesias @NatPurser Neither does cosplaying an endless exhaustion evincing basic incapacity to inhabit a world shaped by the human condition.
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The world is full of problems but getting yourself paralyzed with rage and despair doesn’t solve any of them
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@hypersane24 A large pinch of kosher salt. Maybe I'll weigh it out next time and let you know.
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Started putting salt in my coffee, and I’m never going back to the before-times. ☕️🧂
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@JamieWhistle Well, shit. I had a plan to be on Team Jamie come the end-times. I'll be rooting for you to survive the hordes of undead, though, even if you are now an underdog.
GIF
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Doctor said I need bifocals. BIFOCALS. So that’s it. Zombie apocalypse comes, I’m now on the other team. This is not how I saw this going. Nice knowing y’all.
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