Did she run on some right talking points on immigration that were shitty to run on and should have been cast out? Yeah absolutely. Did she run to Trumps right on Immigration? Fuck no. She never advocated for mass deportations and if she was running to the right of Trump she would have.
The article makes good points, but that headline is trash.
"Aqun-athlok" means one who was born one gender and is now living as another. So yeah that means trans. But there's also a conversation in the trans community about if Non-Binary is technically trans. I would argue it is but some disagree and others say that while Non-binary is trans it is not a "normal" type of trans. That Non-Binary is not either gender. Sometimes Non-Binary is literally no gender. Non-Binary is it's own umbrella term. So it's not necessarily living as "another" gender, it can be living in between genders, without gender, or as both genders.
So i would say that "Aqun-athlok" is probably more applicable as binary trans as it was used to refer to krem who was a trans man. Now they could have just thought up a new word for Non-binary trans but Non-Binary is just kinda the perfect word for it. I'm Non-Binary and I actually think saying this is immersion breaking is just kinda bs. Plenty of words in our world also exist in Dragon Age. Not everything has to have a different word. For instance, Dwarves are a thing in our world. Sure they're not the same, it's a medical term, but they still exist. But the Dwarves in Dragon Age are still called Dwarves. Why are they not a different name? It's a fantasy world, shouldn't they have made up a new word instead of using a word from our world to describe these people? No, because Dwarves is just the word that fits best. Non-Binary here is the same.
Now whether or not it is written well is a better approach to this discussion but also, every trans person has experienced the exact thing that this writer describes, except it's not always pushups. I've had people feel incredibly guilty over misgendering me and done some stupid stuff. When I hear this being described I don't think it's awkwardly written, I think it's an accurate representation of what it can be like being trans and how some people will just be like that when they misgender you.
I also think calling it "preachy" is 100% playing into the narrative it's Woke because people don't call CoD preachy even though it's filled with pro military propaganda. Why is this preachy just because it accurately shows an experience that trans people have all experienced in our own lives?
I haven't gotten to this place yet in the game and I might end up finding it awkward, but I more likely expect to actually relate to Taash more because of it.
Anyway, just my thoughts from a trans dragon age fan.
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"Listen, bigotry is sad and shameful. I don't agree trans people should be made illegal. But taxes and immigrants..."
Enjoy the clip where Harris makes the completely accurate comment that "being a part of the role model club means sometimes being the only one in the room that's had the experiences you've had"? The clip where she is just making an honest comment? The clip that you framed as her crying and being narcissistic? That clip?
Sure I'll enjoy that clip since it shows she's human. But as a reminder, this is not a community where you post an article and then say "just ignore the article and enjoy the clip"
What the fuck is this article? At the top it uses a roughly 30 second clip of Harris from a talk she did as California AG in 2016. Which is a clip where she talks about being a role model. But the article also claims she was crying while praising herself? She was not crying, she was literally laughing about how tough it can be to be a person who has been the first to a lot of things going like "its tough. Its tough."
They literally introduce this article as
In this video, we analyze Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent speech at a women’s event. While her achievements are significant, many felt the focus was excessively on herself.
But for the life of me I can't find what women's event this article is talking about where she only talked about herself. Everything I've found is her talking about abortion and sure her being the first woman vp might come up but she never gushes about it like this article claims.
Im also fairly sure this is a porn site that also posts other things but I went to the home page and saw multiple porn videos. And the person who posted this article on the site has also posted porn articles.
I would argue that this should be removed because it is just not a real article with any actual reference to the supposed women's event and uses a clip at the top that is from 2016 and frames it as if its from this month and is mostly a link to a porn site.
I don't think this article is good journalism. The guy is taking the very incorrect polling from 2016 and 2020 and claiming that because Harris isn't at that level of incorrect polling and that her lead is only 1-2 points that that means she's losing bad. Which completely disregards how inaccurate polls have been since roe was overturned. They were predicting a 30 seat swing in 2022 and that was no where close. It also doesn't take into account the amount of polls that are far right rigged polls to try and flood the averages to make it seem like Trump is so far ahead that he will naturally win and they will only lose by cheating. Providing cover to challenge the election when he loses.
Also. This quote is near the end. "Democrats have only two hopes. One is that today’s polls are more accurately gauging the electorate, and that Harris is therefore at least close to where she needs to be. The other is that by suddenly coming out of hiding to take friendly interviews, she can convince an electorate that seems unconvinced." Which is. Just. So fucking stupid. Openly saying one of the reasons things are closer with the polls being at least a bit more accurate than 2020 and 2016, and then saying Harris has just recently "Come out of hiding"? That's just bullshit far right talking points. She's been doing interviews and rallies for well over a month as well as the debate that was a bit over a month ago. This is the same shit as when someone says "but what about her policies? She's been so vague" which is also bs because if you want to know her policies all you have to do is LISTEN to her. But of course gotta have the far right talking point of her not being able to explain her policies.
This article was also written by J.T. Young who is the author of the upcoming book, “Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left” so if that doesn't tell you his leanings for the interpretation he's putting forth then nothing will.
But just in case, here's some of his articles from the Washington Examiner "Why's Harris so bad in interviews?", Democrats need to replace their own radicalization, not sotomayor", "Sorry Joe, you're no capitalist.", and "Biden has no right to take credit for slowing inflation".
Oh and some of his The Federalist articles "Trump should hit biden for completely ignoring the fentanyl problem", "Leftists' open borders and defund-police policies have come home to roost", and "Trump assassination attempts are the logical result of the Lefts Marxist 'Oppresion' narrative".
All those articles are from the last 4 years, some past couple months. Bu what I find interesting about this particular article is it shows just how much the far right has invaded the mainstream media and how they are given a platform to spew their propaganda. But hey, this was an "interesting" article.
It's the framing of trans women as "biological men" as opposed to just calling them trans women. It gives ground to the right as trying to frame us trans folk as fakers as opposed to showing us as who we are, trans men and women.
Ah, a Marxist who has taken actual lessons from past failings of those who adhere to the ideology. How refreshing.
But of course the left are the real nazis for wanting queer people to be accepted into society.
Correct. You posted it. Which means you wanted others to read it. And I don't understand posting something written by a piece of shit when there are plenty of other anti Harris articles out there written by not pieces of shit. You don't have to post everything you find interesting, you chose to post this.
And that doesn't answer my question of why you'd find an article praising Trump to be interesting? I'm trying to have a conversation with ya and you seem very resistant to it. I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm just wanting to understand your rationale.
It's not just the queer youth that are calling the hotlines too. Particularly the trans hotline is apparently packed. I've almost called it myself a couple times already. The country showed it doesn't care about us and is literally willing to sacrifice us to maybe get cheaper eggs (even though it won't), of course a shit ton of us want to take ourselves out, it feels better than dying in a camp.