🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕

Writer. Reader. Dabbler in metaethics. Gamilaroi son & brother. He/Him. Cis. Very gay. 🌈🌈🌈 Header by zandraart.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

Online folks, beware. Transphobes have come up with a point I’m finding very hard to refute: I’m hot.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

They’re trying to do to Sabrina Carpenter what they did to Socrates.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

Me: ‘What if we started our arguments with clear and plausible premises, so that we exert argumentative pressure to accept our conclusions?’

Christian apologetics: ‘Pffft!’

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

The novelty of ‘Argument(s) From’ is that premise 1 is usually so unclear, nonsensical or controversial that it infects the typically more straightforward premise 2. See:

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

Every part of this badly overwritten gish gallop can be applied without loss to gay people.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

I don’t know what the squirrel is saying. I’m blocked for not being a campist.

But if they’re attacking Bernie Sanders for that old essay, I’m pretty sure they defended or softened it previously lol.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@jk_rowling You think trans people have to prove what they feel and experience. This logic is the same deployed against people with period pain. You’re part of this very demand.

The call is coming from inside the house, Joanne.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

Woman thinks trans people must show some external sign that they’re trans to be believed

Woman can’t see how this is the same demand being made of women and girls about their period pain.

Blind to the connection.

[Thomas Willett @ThomasWillett9]

It’s pure obsession at this point.
The article has nothing to do with trans people yet JK Rowling turns it into a transphobic jab.
Cruel, unnecessary and once again directing attention away from real issues facing women and girls.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

1. In the latest Battleground Poll from the New York Times, voters in swing states believe that society should accept transgender people as their gender by large margins.

This includes independents and rural/small town voters.

Subscribe to support my journalism. Lets dig in.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@kinjones29 @MAMelby @daviddambrosio Yeah you’re an openly violent bigot trying to justify violence. You can be blocked.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@kinjones29 @MAMelby @daviddambrosio Trans people aren’t mimicking. You’re just trying to conceptualise sex with trans people as inherently rape of the other partner, because you know violence to defend against rape is legitimate.

You’re trying to justify violence.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby Yeah you avoided the point. Deflection noted.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@MAMelby @daviddambrosio Exactly. Said it perfectly.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby It’s not my problem if you believe in souls.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby Yeah I’ve heard this before. You also think I have to tell people I’m black before sex or I’ve tricked someone into it. Think of the poor racists.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby Yes, we’ve gone over this. You stated you take on faith that certain men are actually women. You have a religious belief and want everyone around you to be identified based on your belief. The same as the church.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby You’re trying to justify violence.

[🌿Old Friend🐦🦖🦕 @CardinalLanded]

@daviddambrosio @MAMelby You are literally trying to tell gay men that they have to be straight women.