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sorry i said your take sucks, it will happen again

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"what does that mean" "WELL YOU SEE [2000 word essay]" yeah whatever man i think you can basically just go with it. seems easier than whatever this is

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don't rly care about all this man i think people who are born with dicks and identify as women & people who are born with coochies & identify as men can do that bc it's a free country and all. but ik the uk hates freedom so maybe that's the disconnect idk. good luck xoxo

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

OK, since a few people have missed this, my usage is common amongst people who want clarity about biological sex - otherwise known as 'gender critical' people or 'sex realists' It's also considered.

Male and female are biological terms, that apply across species. You can't change sex, so all 'transwomen' are male, and all 'transmen' are female. Male and female are not social roles. With 'man and woman' it's not quite so obvious, so I tend, like others who use this approach to refer to trans-identified *males*, not trans identified *men*. I defend the view that 'man' and 'woman' are not social roles but biological categories and I defend the definition of woman as adult human female, but I want to be crystal clear.

So this group of male people 'identify' as the opposite sex, or, sometimes, just as trans, or as some other gender identity (like 'gender queer') that falls 'under the trans umbrella'. Hence, because biology is important, I refer to *trans identified* males and *trans identified* females. I tend to use initials and 'they' when referring to particular people. This does not gratutiously hurt them, and does not force me to saying something that I don't what to say - viz - that trans identified males are in some respect women. I'm now of the view that it is morally wrong for males to identify as women. I was persuaded of this, by this paper by @aytchellesse:

https://t.co/l3lCpniDKW

Unlike Holly, I no longer refer to transwomen - I don't think it works - but I'm happy for other people to do so. The main reason is that I think that the demands raised by (most, not all) trans identified men are demands that flow specifically from *male* entitlement. It is, I now think, important to capture that in the terms we use. I think it's quite important for *men,* specifically, in this argument to acknowledge and critique the huge male entitlement that is engaged.

The worst and most confusing usage is primarily American and consists in phrases like 'male to female transgender.' This is a *nonsense* phrase.

I think people should use clear language, and they should spell out why they use the terms that they do. I think people should be self-reflective about thier language use, and prepared to explain and defend their policy, and to change it, if necessary.

hth.

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oh yeah that's true. we shouldn't pursue reforms that disempower a corrupt and overreaching court because they did a non-corrupt (except for one guy) ruling in 1983. 7 years before i (middle aged) was born. good point.

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

At any rate, a good indicator of how liberal SCOTUS was even well past 1969 is Bob Jones University lost its religious freedom suit 8-1 in 1983. Eight to one. On a sort of claim that the current Supreme Court would be VERY sympathetic to.

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1. not normal 2. bring a whistle and rush them

[val ˘͈ᵕ˘͈ misses 리오 @i3hwngg]

why is homeland security at the bts concert in el paso... i know its a border town but for them to be INSIDE the venue??? is this normal for el paso??!!

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hsi's only job is to send people to concentration camps for being brown you dizzy bitch

[ʙʀɪɢʜᴛꜱᴜɢᴀʀ ⊙⊝⊜ 🪭 @cypherfyre]

@i3hwngg People snuck in without a ticket. Do you really want to risk worse things happening without enough security there??

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actually we WRITE for fun. i am not "working" nor am i creating "content". this take sucks as does the engagement bait account you replied to

[vasilisa @stanofyouall]

@wwxwashere btw ao3 authors work for FREE and you have no right to tell them how to create their content 🙂

[@[email protected] @_impertinence]

if that woman and her bad books have no more haters know that i am dead.

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she's a disingenuous profiteer who strip mined fandom for content, so the most straightforward answer is that she simply did not care. the second order answer is that she can't write worth a damn

[pear 🐔 | is seeing sunmi @rivernoirh]

how can you write 2 books with a wasian main character and not address racism in detail? the smuts on ao3 have a more nuanced discourse on racism, autism, eds, identity confusion, self-surveillance, invisibility in/difficulty accessing queer spaces than the source material

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his only hobby was throwing tear gas at random urban dwellers lmfao. good luck drinking yourself to death, greg. if you ever want to speed the process up, come back to msp and we'll show you another good time

[Gregory K Bovino @GregoryKBovino]

@ReichlinMelnick Aaron, you meant to say the most effective way as you found out very rapidly in Chicago. The Chicago liars club was beside themselves. 😂

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if this matters to you you're a brokie sorry. maybe get your money up or don't buy a pied-a-terre

[Rob Schmitt @SchmittNYC]

Here’s a 5.9M condo in Manhattan. It’ll be bought by someone Mamdani/Hochul claim isn’t paying their “fair share”. They’ll pay a $132,000 mansion tax at closing. And then pay $5200 a month in property taxes. Mamdani and Hochul will now add another tax to this bill.

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many are calling this "wrecker shit", "a republican front", or "comically stupid". not me. i think directly tying jacob frey to useless reactionary centrism at the state party level is a brilliant idea. keep doing this shit, sam. 💙

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i'd hold out for her to bite my head clean off like she did that fish in aquaman

[Sam Biederman @Biedersam]

“Somehow heartbreak feels good in a place like this,” she tells my husband and nods to him as he pulls the plug on me

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hey man congratulations on this. really amazing speech. so moving. just checking in on what happened next

[JD Vance @JDVance]

The real divide in our time is between those who believe in a better future for us and our children, and those who don’t.

Great to speak in Budapest today with @PM_ViktorOrban

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very unimportant in the sense that he has no power and is completely irrelevant, but still, i'd love to see some investigative journalists apply themselves to the question of how many women michael tracey has raped. https://t.co/E1sHCRA8Za

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

He allegedly asked an adult woman to perform a sex act, and then she allegedly performed the sex act? OK

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This is a white nationalist post about everyone being white thin & more formally dressed. Has nothing to do w crime rates

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@duckgirlie the blue on the map being well above the last year's average really hammers this home lol

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america 250 good vibes

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

This path to a not-terrible midterm now seems more plausible:

- Some kind of successful resolution on Iran
- Trump then goes to the Artemis splashdown
- America 250 good vibes
- Midterm convention
- Actually force Dems to take bad votes on things like deporting criminals

[@[email protected] @_impertinence]

some of you are wreckers. but some of you are also wreckers who deserve the wall.

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i don't care abt hasan any more than i care about any other shit for brains shock jock but a man declaring that he's willing to create electoral losses to hold the line on MISOYGNY when the losses in question will be to DERANGED MISOGNYISTS WHO WANT TO REVOKE MY RIGHT TO VOTE...

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Third Way laying down a marker here, in ways that are definitely going to rile folks on the left.

[@[email protected] @_impertinence]

no possible response to this except we beat the fuck out of your guys once this year and we'll do it again, come on by

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "We'll get Minnesota back. We'll take it back from Somalia."