@employednt ultimately i agree, but i don't always think the distinction is so relevant. very engaged listening is much more comparable to reading (in terms of how much you sit with it and how much you retain) than it is to a more "background" kind of listening
@Vanessa_ABee a vital component of reading is the ability to skim, to backtrack, to linger over a sentence of particular beauty. braille permits this; audiobooks do not. if someone stared at a screen on which the words of a book flashed before them in order this would also not be reading.
it's such a common fallacy for white liberal academic types to agree with the most conservative traditionalist narrative of a minority culture because they feel like it's their responsibility to preserve the "sanctity" of that culture. happens all the time with Islam especially.
As a straight woman who used to be a gay guy, I must confess that when it comes to the relationship norms and norms surrounding “sexual fidelity and loyalty”, I’m afraid gay men have more reasonable ideas than straight women. Sorry.
@RalphieRaccoon@seatsniffa@ConjureCreature@ChadNotChud it's literally the best meat alternative that exists, and it has incredible potential for the different foods it can emulate. you can make it into mince or strips that can easily deceive you into thinking you're eating beef or chicken
@outhcrowfreak the only reason y'all don't see that is because you refuse to see yourselves as men. but that's okay. hopefully you'll grow up one day 👍🏻
@outhcrowfreak and this is also some wonderful BS. no one is saying that trans men taking about their issues is MRA talk; we're saying that your response to trans women complaining about the way y'all treat us is
@outhcrowfreak it's not a false equivalence, it fits entirely within what you said in the tweet above. the fact that you're now shifting the goalposts by adding a caveat doesn't change that
@autistic_dazai @disc_horse but you don't understand! if i pick a woman atop the social ladder and a man at the bottom of the social ladder, the opposite is true! /s
@DoesCrime@gambitbussie do you have reading comprehension? "trans men oppress trans women through their agab" refers to trans men oppressing us by reducing US to our genitals (and childhood). if us calling it out is "reducing trans men to being vaginas" then you think trans men should have carte blanche