dandelion

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile the kids where I am shout "Vote Trump" and have never heard the Hollywood Access tape because they were children when it came out. It's a mixed bag.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

psh, don't bad-mouth nihilists

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

even so, I would prefer my typo go to DuckDuckGo and then I choose among those options than be auto-corrected and directed to an irrelevant website Firefox chose (which is what happens to me). That said, I'm not usually going to a top 250 website, so - your use case might be different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

"Experimental archaeology" might be a good search term for finding resources on how to make and use an atlatl.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I think you just accidentally articulated the theory of virtue ethics. How do you know what you should do? Do what you think a good person would do. 😆

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I use Firefox Focus as well, but I had to disable the "top 250 websites" recommendations when typing in the URL bar, it's like adverts to my mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I usually felt this way about the Christian families with lots of children who would come into the restaurant after church and treat everyone rudely and make a huge mess. They did it every Sunday, and it never changed over a period of years. I know they were probably just exhausted and miserable themselves, but lots of exhausted and miserable people out there aren't so entitled, inconsiderate, and rude to workers. Still, it didn't make me feel like not working, I just didn't want to serve those people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Hey, I get this might be well intended but the context is a likely fictional greentext that whether by coincidence or design describes and captures a common trans experience. If that femboy was someone I was talking to or interacting with, of course I would respect his pronouns and so on, but it is important in lots of contexts to be able to read between the lines.

Taking a literal or dogmatic approach to the idea that people are only what they claim to be causes for example transmedicalists to argue that transmaxxers seeking HRT should be denied hormones - whereas I think it's much easier to see that transmaxxers are more likely to be trans people having a hard time accepting they are trans, that is denial here is clearly more likely than fraudulence.

This is the same argument transmedicalists will make about femboys on HRT, and again I think we should read between the lines and reject the gatekeeping and moral panic about cis men stealing trans healthcare and recognize that if a self-identified "man" is on estrogen for their feminizing effects, they are probably a trans woman in denial and of course should be given access to hormones. Cis men tend to become depressed and anxious when on estrogen (see: David Reimer, Alan Turing, cis men who have used estrogen to treat prostate cancer, etc.).

(The same thing happens in the gay community around "men who have sex with men" refusing to acknowledge they are gay. I don't have to disrespect those people by calling them gay to their face, but obviously we need to think of them as "gay" in some contexts.)

Of course reading between the lines shouldn't result in being rude to someone by denying their prima facie identity to their face, but that's not what I'm doing here by commenting on a greentext and pointing out the larger context for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

She's obviously trans, a guy doesn't enjoy taking estrogen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

a lot of trans folks live in extreme denial, it's very hard to accept

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