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10mo ago
And entering some of these fields feels like the equivalent of 'Feel like you disagree with the tenets of Islam? Become a Koranic scholar and argue with Muftis all day' in which the consensus and shared assumptions that fields like Gender Research are built on essentially originate from a series of value judgements than underpin all contemplation.
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10mo ago
Yeah I'm not particularly Holocaust passionate and definitely was aware of the lampshade thing.
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10mo ago
If the alternative under my own stewardship is essentially complete societal collapse, I'd give it some thought. I know black South Africans/expats who preferred conditions under Apartheid. This stuff all presupposes that the natural state of human society is affluent middle-tier Western Democracy, not that it takes serious work and effort to establish and maintain such a thing.
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10mo ago
He did seem to have better days during the campaign. Obviously a question if that was an 'average day' and the better days were the 99th percentile ones, but also a presidential debate probably not the best place for a person in his situaation.
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11mo ago
I can't speak for every Republican (I'm not even American, so my exposure to them is extremely limited), but my perspective is that even after conceding that it is better for a given person to not feel discomfort with their gender identity, I still think it's better to convince them to accept their discomfort, rather than for them to modify their body.
Yeah I broadly agree with this.
If a magical pill existed that instantly flipped somebody's gender in a full, non-reversible way I'd be not against an adult who's deeply convinced of their gender identity being incorrect for the body they're born with. Or if in our society all people wearing a blue hat were treated 100% as a woman, and red hat 100% as a man, and somebody wishing to change their hat. But right now it's a ton of surgery, expense and treatment to create something that's a distant facsimile of a man or a woman that doesn't seem to lead to meaningful improvement of the underlying psychological issues whilst creating a bunch of externalities
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11mo ago
Or just facilitate some sort of remote work arrangement with occasional site visits for that much.
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11mo ago
I thought the Malaysia one was considered probably a suicide now?
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11mo ago
Golden Visa in Australia is like 3.7M USD and gets quite a bit of interest. You're underrating how many cashed up people there are in the world who want an escape lever.
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11mo ago
no 'exits' or huge bonusses with park job
That applies to a vanishingly small % of the private workforce, though.
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11mo ago
Bisexuality/potential homoeroticism gigantically icks most heterosexual women when they sense it in men. Therefore even allowing a bit of potential overtures towards it is generally not a great idea socially.
Also permissible homosexuality creates this weird inverse bell curve matter with physical contact with fellow men in which most guys do not want to communicate any potential homoeroticism. Whilst societies in which homosexuality is just totally outside of the overton window permit a lot more physical affection between men, since there isn't the underlying. I've spent a bunch of time in the Middle East and homosexuality being literally illegal opens the door to a lot more 'queer behavior' between platonic male friends.
Great example of this is the Khabib Nurmagomedov bathtub photo that got bandied around a lot by Conor McGregor before their fight. https://preview.redd.it/g3d6ooc3ml4e1.jpeg?width=640&auto=webp&s=b966fe8b972399f327580b3f35bf60322079e68d
To Western eyes it's staggeringly homoerotic, to Dagestani eyes homosexuality is verboten so it's not 'sus'.
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11mo ago
Also it'd be a matter of time till some sort of mild violence kicked off between locals and US administrators at which point the wailing would be immense.
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11mo ago
I had no particular knowledge of the case coming into the article, felt it was weird that it was a female/male duo perpetrating (especially when the article had the female party be very hands on with the violence and whatnot) then it dawned on me.
Also if you've ever consumed standard Chinese entertainment products they're hardly immune from slop creation.
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