fear is the mind killer

I thought I was a liberal snowflake. I don't know what is going on anymore :(

[fear is the mind killer @wonfeer]

I am going fucking insane.

Up until very recently, I didn't realize I held what are considered to be very controversial opinions. Bigoted opinions, even. So I went on a quest. I had to know, am i the baddie?

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Try just as an exercise to turn off the culture war part of your brain and read this account with the part of your brain that is aware of the dysfunctional aspects of America’s privatized and profit-oriented health care system.

https://t.co/8ZoYuh53WA

[Meghan Murphy @MeghanEMurphy]

Can we please learn what went into the banning of accounts like mine, @glinner, @theposieparker, etc -- the 'gender critical' accounts? Who was behind the decision to ban those who said things like 'men aren't women' or who were critical of trans activism? https://t.co/4SvYY4QXhc

[Zachary Elliott @zaelefty]

“How do we know the sex of crocodiles?” I asked. “They don’t have sex chromosomes at all.”

With this question, I accomplished two things: 1) challenged his assumptions and 2) piqued his curiosity through an interesting example.

His response said it all.

[Arty Morty @artymortyarty]

Drop everything and read and share this blistering speech Graham Linehan gave at the Battle of Ideas dinner. Everyone should read this.

https://t.co/uxRVPr1LZH

[Ocean Breath Cafe @OceanbreathCafe]

Hey @elonmusk, your trending calculator might need fixed. This video was posted 5-hours ago, has 354.9k views, 657 comments, 2,485 retweets and 6,880 likes. That seems to be a lot more than what purports to be trending in the '#whatstrending' feed. Is there a problem at your end?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

"If [feminists] are right, then women’s sex-based rights and the safeguarding of vulnerable children hang in the balance. If we are wrong, then our concerns deserve to be refuted with evidence. Either way... the public deserve an open and sensible debate."
https://t.co/K8HZvAcNom

[Eva Kurilova @eva_kurilova]

No, saying "speak how I demand you speak or people will kill themselves" is actually not a good argument.

[Buck Angel Transsexual @BuckAngel]

Thank you @LATimes for publishing my letter and showing the world that trans people don't all share the same views about @jk_rowling @DaveChappelle

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Gay men stand with Debbie Hayton

[The Iron Labia 🇺🇦 @TheIronLabia]

@OttolineDahling Assigned male/female at birth.

It was used for the very very small number babies born with ambiguous genitalia where the doctors had to use their judgement but weren't sure.

Now grown ups use it to pretend they were actually born the opposite sex but the bigot Dr got it wrong

[Sophie ♂ @asophiething]

It’s a lot more productive to honestly say “Being my sex was hard for me and I really wish I could’ve been the opposite sex” than to make outlandish easily disprovable claims like “I AM the opposite sex in my brain/soul you just can’t see it!” Stop making us all look unhinged.

[Marjorie Hutchins @leakylike]

@scotlass42 here's Judith Butler's definition=

https://t.co/5fC7BFmnWV

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

@talkRADIO @thejamesmax If you can he born in the wrong sex body then surly you can be born in the wrong colour body? I'd not why not @thejamesmax ?

[Seb Potter @SebastianPott10]

@FKASerioJosh Probably..but don’t worry we identify her as our winner of the guardian person of the year competition so congratulations @jk_rowling

[The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial]

Cynthia Millen, a USA Swimming Official who resigned days ago, speaks out against biological males competing in women's sports:

"Bodies swim against bodies. Gender identities don't swim."

[Black Together Again @KProtein19]

She is 100% correct and this is the clear, not mincing words approach more ppl have to take. It is *absurd* women & girls are being made to compete against males so said males can pretend they are us. Thomas shld transfer back to the male team if competing is desired.

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

We are contextual, relational, process based, and we have to take every specific situation in its own terms.

That, I believe, is how we 'do justice' to things. How we allow everything, how we allow women, to exist in our own terms.

And now I am going to get on with Xmas xx

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

I say I am standing on the ground of my own principles, and that to do what I do, I need to be able to stand on that ground.

Some people won't like that. Because understanding things in terms of intersubjectivity means you can't always make black and white universal rules.