OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
How old is your family? What percentage is under 25 years old?
You've never even had a coworker change gender on you?
Four of my examples are from Washington State, but one is from Texas.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
If you have a large enough family, trans issues are going to happen to you at least once.
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One of my cousins became trans in high school. She didn't show any sign of being masculine as a child, was a very picky eater, wanted to marry a lead singer of a boy band to the point where she plotted killing his wife... and then a year later her mother was dying and she decided that men are better able to handle such awfulness and transitioned into a boy, hormones and all.
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We once pooled resources with my husband's friend to rent a house together and one of our friend's sons married a transwoman who dressed in a way that was really inappropriate all the time.
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Another of that friends' sons is super autistic, didn't finish high school, and decided recently that he's a woman.
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The last of that friend's children was raped as a teenager and decided to become a man in response. All three of these young adults suffered obvious physical and mental health challenges that were exacerbated by their belief they could improve their lives by trying to live as another sex.
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Now I have a family reunion coming up on my husband's side, and my sister in law messaged our family to say that her oldest son was transitioning, that her husband still used masculine pronouns and my sister-in-law used female pronouns, my nephew was still using the same androgynous first name and was wearing androgynous clothes, and it was up to us how we want to prepare our children to see their cousin.
Trans people are everywhere and each individual has to figure out what to do about it. How do you address them, do you encourage them or discourage them from transitioning, do you even feel a gender? A small group of people can't just change how all of society thinks about sex and language and think, "Why do people keep talking about us?"
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
4d ago
I mean, if five minutes after pressing the button 40% of the worlds population started dying of radiation sickness and over the course of weeks to a couple months everyone slowly died that would be a sign it was the button.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
5d ago
Why do you assume it's an instant death and not a slow drawn out painful death?
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
5d ago
I think the difference is, a kid will see that a woodchipper is scary, but a kid might see a blue button as enticing.
I think most people who answer blue are thinking of children (maybe?) and most people who answer red assume children wouldnt' be asked.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
5d ago
There are two ways to phrase the question. This way is phrased here basically demands Blue.
Rephrase it like this and I think there would be more Red pushers:
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. Everyone who presses the red button will live with no risk of death. If you press the blue button, you will die unless more than 50% of people also press the blue button.
Phrasing this way demonstrates that the blue button pressers are creating a risk of death which doesn't really need to be there.
But what about kids? I think adding a (those who are incompetent or underage will have their button pushed by their parent/guardian) parenthetical would change it even more.
Because consider the parent now. If you asked a parent, "Which button would you press for your kid, the one where they will always survive or the one where they might die?" I think most parents would press the red button without a second thought.
Yeah kinda. A software developer who is ill fitted to their position changes gender and then for a year becomes unfire-able.
Am I just really unlucky here?
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