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@BorisBartlog @AlaskanTzar Howso?

@AlaskanTzar There's also just psychological asymmetry when it comes to motive, I think

There's probably like 6 reasons 1. A lot of trans men particularly the ones loud on social media are basically just butch lesbians and often hate men and don't even try to affect broader maleness 2. The concept of a male only space doesn't really exist. There's male coded spaces but the addition of a minority of women can't ruin that so trans men even in theory don't ruin anything 3. All the assault stuff doesn't apply. If anything a weaker shorter subset of men is fine 4. Trans men have basically no social power. Trans men aren't affecting fashion, they aren't making songs that are at odds with how men perceive themselves, they aren't influencers 5. Trans men just pass better. Part of it is biological. Part of it is just how mens clothing is. 6. A lot of communal bonding over unfortunate biological aspects of sex just doesn't exist in men.

@Friended4Ever ...person, but I'm not against black people or gay people existing in literature.

@Friended4Ever It's fair enough in the context of that video. The woman he was replying to was implying that a book is woke if a main character in a book happens to be gay, or happens to be black etc. I'm against annoyingly preachy and scold-ful progressive politics as much as the next...

Woke progressives asking "what does 'woke' even mean?" is the clearest example of performative ignorance on the internet. If 90% of mainstream media was pushing conservative politics or going to church, they wouldn't be so daft about it.

@TransAndMerican I remember a couple of people from Porkys that ended up detransitioning.

I keep in touch with a lot from that period and none of us have detransitioned. Although I'm MtF, prob different for FtM groups

@TTExulansic @thepeacepoet99 @DefinedUniquely What makes you think Juniper hated women? Why are you immediately assuming a murder victim is evil in order to downplay their murder?

I don't think anyone's saying he deserved to be murdered. Statistically, though he got some friendly fire from his fellow woman hating man, he statistically reduced his chance of being murdered by men by convincingly dressing up as a woman. I grieve the women who get stabbed 40 times by some man and then it's ruled a suicide and she's forgotten because she was female.

🚨I was wrong. When I entered the gender conversation publicly, I thought that “my side” (the gender critics) were motivated in our advocacy by our concern about the welfare of the young people who are being haphazardly placed onto an experimental social & medical gender transition pathway based on a shoddy evidence base underpinning. Apparently, I was wrong. Turns out, some of you on “my side” have neither concern nor compassion for the young people who find themselves ensnared in this, at all. I call the trans activists out all the time when they do this, and I now feel compelled to do the same to those who share many of my beliefs: It is unacceptable to politicize the death of a brutally murdered young person by denying them their very humanity, while also claiming to stand on the side of human rights. This is the realm of the most evil kind of hypocrisy imaginable. Celebrating, joking or making light of the murders of innocent people, be they Charlie Kirk or Juniper Blessing cannot ever be tolerated. We mustn’t allow disagreements over ideology or with the lifestyles of others cause us to lose our humanity. Because politics based upon nothing more than contempt will NEVER create a more just and peaceful world. Rest in peace, Juniper. You deserved to live 80 more years. You deserved to be still singing in your choir. You deserved to be attending your college classes. You deserved to make the stupid mistakes that all young people will make, and to grow old enough to learn from them. You deserved the chance to become a brilliant scientist with enough hard work on your part. Or you deserved to have the chance to realize that maybe atmospheric science wasn’t your calling, and then to try on a new hat. Or to try on 500 hats until you found the one that fit. You deserved to grow up. You did not deserve to be murdered by a deranged lunatic, whatever his deranged motive, while you were just trying to do your laundry. And you certainly did not deserve to have your murder paraded around as cannon fodder in one of the most caustic issues of our time, by BOTH sides of the issue. Juniper, may your memory be for blessing. You deserved so much better.

@Slatzism Why are you calling a murder victim a "troon?" That's a little rude.

Incredible development in the case of the UW troon who was stabbed. The killer told prosecutors that he just wanted to murder a woman. That was his motive. So he either thought the troon was a woman, or he actively included “trans women” in his definition of “women.” Not only was this not a transphobic hate crime, it is probably the world’s first gender affirming murder. Transphobia would have saved this guy’s life.

@jasmineeazj Romantic attraction and deep genuine love is one of the most universal human experiences. Almost every human experiences it. But radfems seem to think men universally lack this basic human emotion, because radfems do not understand, or do not believe, that men are fully human.

Being a radfem is rough. We try to warn other women of what men are thinking of them when they have sex, and the other women fume at us because "we like sex with men it's an expression of love" if you could see inside his mind you would not feel that way

@DerekPederson3 "The vast majority of trans women don’t masturbate to the thought of themselves as women?" That is 100% correct. The vast majority do not do that.

What does this mean? The vast majority of trans women don’t masturbate to the thought of themselves as women? Or you just reject the idea that the strong correlation between male-to-female gender dysphoria and this heterosexual male paraphilia is causal?

@SeptonFratelli This is insane cope. In the original epic, Helen was a Greek woman who married a Trojan. Greeks do not look black. You can just say "it's a loose adaptation for a modern audience, it doesn't need to be ethnically accurate to the original epic's setting" but instead u chose cope.

The discourse around The Odyssey has been interesting because it’s revealed who’s studied the Homeric epics vs who’s influenced by popular renditions of the texts. So let’s clear up a few things…🧵/1

@tanktastic2024 @joeroganhq Neither Stalin nor Kim Jong Un were elected democratically. No serious person, be they democratic socialist, revolutionary socialist, or non-socialist, would pretend that they were. If there is no such thing as a Democratic Socialist, then what would George Orwell be?

His pure ignorance is exactly what the left has become, just repeat what everyone else says without even learning what it means, the guy sounds like a complete retard and just embarrassed his entire party. Mamdani is 100% a communist, there is no such thing as a “democratic socialist”, Stalin was “elected”, Kim was “elected”, just because you “elect” a socialist doesn’t make it not socialism

David Cross: "I’m politically more Democrat Socialist." Bill Maher: "You’re plainly to the left of me if you even say you’re a socialist." David: "Well, I said Democratic Socialist." Bill: "I know what Democratic Socialist is, that’s Mamdani. Who’s a straight up communist."

@JoeWilson1470 @JayExci Are you against the concept of a female doctor?

@JayExci Oh piss off with this rubbish. Maybe if you pro female doctor people actually fucking watched tv shows outside of DW (a male led one) you'd have known that female heroes existed before St Jodie and didn't get that kind of shit as they weren't jarring and played by proper actors.

I think there are better ways to say this. It's not about people taking it too seriously. It's people being racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. People can take it really seriously and not be bigoted, or be bigoted without taking it that seriously.

@leaoescolhido @Warriorovzog Britain and France declared war on Hitler after Hitler declared war on Poland.

Some things never change

@val_does_stuff2 Stop trying to divide the trans community with idiotic takes.

@_JETFIGHTERMAN_ Do you think soldiers should be allowed to execute unarmed civilians with impunity?

@Quester111 The entire conception of “war criminal” is an anti-Western slur, so no.

Man, he's being charged with 5 counts of war crime murder, i.e. the killing of unarmed, detained civilians/prisoners. He's alleged to have shot an unarmed teenager in the head. 21 of his own soldiers, from the elite Special Air Service regiment, have come forward against him.

@dmoonglampers_ @StatisticUrban Should we not be punishing war criminals?

@StatisticUrban idk man if we’re ever in a real war you’re gonna be begging these “monsters” to protect you and your family. you probably can’t even imagine the horrible shit this guy has experienced, yet you’re ready to judge him as if this is as simple as some domestic criminal case

@Dragonpanties @DerekPederson3 @dilanesper I understand that, but there are a lot of cases where asymmetric risk would not, or should not, lead to discrimination or a double-standard. Why is this case different?

@Quester111 @DerekPederson3 @dilanesper Asymmetric risk.

The best antitode for transphobia is a five minute conversation with the average GC feminist.

@DerekPederson3 @Dragonpanties @dilanesper I agree that using the bathroom of the sex you most look like is usually the right call. I do find it weird the inconsistency of "The integrity of female-spaces as being natally female only is VITAL!" While the similar integrity of male-spaces is met with a shrug.

If they don't pass, yes I do object to that. If they do pass, obviously they should use the restroom that causes the least disturbance. I do not think trans women should use women's locker rooms or other nude spaces though. Trans men it literally doesn't matter no one thinks that's an issue.

@AlbenKYWBarkley @DerekPederson3 Which of their arguments do you find convincing and hard to refute logically?

@DerekPederson3 Funny, cause they may be the only movement that has convinced me to go from one side of an issue far to the other, simply because their arguments are that convincing and hard to refute logically. Maybe some of their rhetoric is unpleasant, but it’s even worse for the TRAs.

@DerekPederson3 @Dragonpanties @dilanesper Do you object to transwomen in womens restrooms and transmen in mens restrooms?

@Dragonpanties @dilanesper I object to all of these things moron.

@uncledoomer It's a good scene for what it is, but it's so weird that Severance fans were acting like it was the best thing to ever happen. Also, it's been over a year, not 2 months.

wow it turns out that this scene that everybody said was the greatest thing in television history got completely forgotten about after just a couple months