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>come out of your shell - If you come out of your shell, you become more interested in other people and more willing to talk and take part in social activities, and if someone brings you out of your shell, they cause you to do this:

>Derek has really come out of his shell since he started working here.

Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/come-out-of-your-shell

Have GC never heard this phrase, or is this transphobia for the sake of transphobia?

I challenge TERFs who think that white women had nothing to do with slavery to read Stephanie Jones-Rogers’ book, They Were Her Property. https://www.amazon.com/They-Were-Her-Property-American/dp/0300218664

It’s an in-depth study of nineteenth-century American white women’s role as slave owners in their own right. Jones-Rogers also reveals that in addition to inheriting slaves, these white women also defend their property rights over their enslaved people against their husbands, something that they were offend able to do because their natal families skirted coverture laws by establishing a separate trust for their daughters’ and sisters’ human property. Jones-Rogers also found that white southern women were not barred from slave markets and that they often engaged in buying and selling either directly or through agents whom they contracted with themselves. She even found an example of a white woman who, against her husband’s advice, bought sick slaves, nursed them back to health, and then resold them for a profit.

Or if they don’t want to spend that much money on a book, they can just check out the WPA slave narratives, which contain plenty of accounts from formerly enslaved people who worked in the plantation houses about their mistresses beating and otherwise abusing them. Harriet Jacobs’ Life of a Slave Girl also recounts considerable abuse from her mistress, who was jealous that the underage Harriet was the subject of unwanted sexual attention from her master. There’s also a story of how Harriet’s aunt miscarried multiple times because her mistress forced her to sleep at the foot of the mistress’ bed instead of in her family’s dwelling, even when she was pregnant.

giggle also had a very problematic past with handling cyber security

also it appears that the phrenology verification can be tricked by using make up and some correct lighting. i would speculate that an ai generated picture like https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ could work which would be hilarious.

Too bad those "gender critical skeptics" would ban anyone who links this.

They don't have an honest answer to the volumes of research linked there, and they know it. But I'm sure they'll be happy to pretend their allies are just as respected, and undergo a similar peer review process.

Oh, there's actually a good article on "Hate the sinner, love the sin". It's HuffPo which idk, but here:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-i-cant-say-love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin-anymore_b_4521519

Just some fun facts.

It's against tickettailor's terms of service to use their website to host events which are "threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence or in breach of privacy."

If you believe that any event violates this rule, they request an email to be sent to [email protected] with a link to the event.

Just some fun facts!

Eugh my dad signed up to the Christian Institute ages ago, I think he was after a Bible study course with them or something and they love to send their bs through the door from time to time. (But at the same time my dad also brought this like really terrible book that had transgendertrends input called 'What are they teaching the children')

Like it's the sort of peal clutching you'll expect CHRISTIANS ARE UNDER ATTACK, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS UNDER ATTACK, DON'T TREAT CHILDREN ABOUT THE GAYS, NO ABORTIONS, WE CAN'T MAKE DIVORCE EASIER

>And yes, I consider trans elitists.

TIL, people with extremely high rates of poverty and who suffer such great rates of harassment in school that it affects their ability to perform there. Are collectively, as a group, elitists.

Climate change is causing one of the worst droughts ever in the history of Indian agriculture.

-The monsoon this year saw a 9.4 per cent deficit in rainfall.

-The year 2018 was the fifth consecutive year to register deficit monsoon.

-Deficit monsoon has become chronic with 13 of the last 18 years witnessing below-normal rains

https://weather.com/en-IN/india/monsoon/news/2018-10-02-india-had-deficit-monsoon-in-13-of-the-last-18-years

Plus they need an army that can stand against the worlds only ISIL influenced nuclear power, so they're tapped on the defense and development fronts too, afaik.

e: https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/pakistan-faces-a-water-war-on-the-horizon/

Phallocentrism -

a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus

Phallus -

(Anatomy) the penis, the clitoris, or the sexually undifferentiated embryonic organ out of which either of these develops.

I mention this because even my own mother (whose demographic is unfortunately the same as TERFs but she has not been so overt in her beliefs) has asked me no less than 4 times so far in one year, what my plans are for my penis.

The next answer may be more crude than she expects.

I think you mean the Swedish model?

https://www.amazon.com/Everythings-Better-than-Hooker-Ovidie/dp/B079MJ6LXR

You might want to take a look at this documentary if you think that's such a great model.

The problem with how the law here is formed in regards to pimping is that landlords are not allowed to take money from sex workers, which means they get evicted. It also means that sex workers can not work together to make things safer.

> Language literally changes the way we think, it's been proven over and over again. Knowing more words to describe colours makes you better able to see them... Until you have a word for something it is very difficult to think of it conceptually at all

Sounds like Rapid Onsent Colour Distention to me. I think we need to cut off your internet access

> they can't even tell you how many genders exist

I can tell you how many genders exist: there are 7 656 473 809 genders

> I mean, there is no good reason for a male without breasts to ever wear a bra

Because they feel like it?

> I speak plainly and use the most colloquial terms to reach a broader audience. I won't change my language for anyone, ever

"I use language based on the audience I want to reach, but I would never change my language to reach an audience!"

I archived the thread in case it's nuked when they realize she's cis, but this thread is the funniest to me. Someone points out she's not trans, and they basically say, "well, trans people insist that they're called female by the media, so we don't know if they're trans. Women don't normally murder, hack bodies apart, or hitchhike, so it's reasonable to doubt if they're really a woman."

SUCH MISOGYNY IT HURTS. THESE PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES 'FEMINISTS'.

Also they hate the term "y'all". I'm in NY and I say "y'all" all the time. Great word.

A study like this will typically match subjects to controls that have similar health conditions, age, etc. It looks like this study matched 10 male and 10 female cisgender controls to each trans subject.

That said, this study doesn't establish a causal link (and the author said as much in the interview) because the type and dosage of HRT could not be accounted for, nor could potential DIY treatment. The correlational nature of a study is usually one of the first details to be lost in science reporting and social media discussion, though...

So, This is the survey they're citing.

I want to get this on the page in text, so give me a few minutes to copy and paste or transcribe.

The latest episode of my show is up here. There's a sketch near the end. It's called "cis who's coming to dinner. And no I'm not gonna spam my show or anything, just wanted to put this one up since it just came out.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/200314/1098437-episode-31-the-emperor-has-no-dick-feat-justin-kapla-rebecca-nagy

Given the emergence of the alt-right though I think it's manifest that the current left-right political spectrum has exploded. The alt-right are quite sincere about how right-wing they are. Candace Owens is alt-right:- https://www.academia.edu/36725296/Red_Pill_Black_Wash_Turning_Point_USA_and_the_Mercenary_Logic_of_the_Alt-Right_Part_1--Candace_Owens_Plays_Victim

I honestly want to see these discussions as well, since he links to this

But no, seriously. There is an absolute mountain of things in that tag. The author might as well have just told us to google trans man.

From what I saw, the posts under that tag about Leelah were positive and supportive of trans people who were suicidal, and a few talking about how recent suicides of trans men weren't being talked about (trending).

The majority of the others were talking about testosterone, birth control and other issues that primarily/exclusively affect trans men.

And finally, a few posts were saying that trans men faced the exact same oppression that trans women did. Go look through that tag if you want. I couldn't find a single post in the first couple of pages (thats all I looked) of trans men being shut out of the conversation of suicide for being trans men.

Hell, I'd consider 10 million a conservative estimate. And when I said 5 million would be around 1.4%, that was working on the assumption of a 340 million-person US population. In reality:

>The current population of the United States of America is <strong>324,423,996</strong> as of Thursday, August 18, 2016, based on the latest United Nations estimates.

Even taking that with a grain of salt and randomly rounding down to, we'll say 324.4M, 10 million trans people would equate to 3% (nearly 3.1, in fact) of the US population being trans. Even going with my previous "5 million minimum" (which I'm positive is still too small), that would still be over 1.5%.

In either case, that's a far cry from this bullshit "0.03%" figure that GC and other places like /r/The_Donald and /r/news love to throw around, not to mention many conservatives in politics. "0.03%" would mean there would only be 9,732 trans people in the entire US, and that's clearly bullshit: /r/transgender alone has 13,589 more readers, and that's from Reddit, which while indeed worldwide is also a tiny fraction of any given country. We're not even the premiere trans community of the internet.

Even giving them the benefit of the doubt and citing the highest number I've ever seen them quote, 0.3%, that's still just 97,320 trans people. Still not even remotely close. "Oh, it's just 1.2%; why are you being so anal" would be a difference of 4,902,680; that IS a big deal, GC!

We are a minority, no doubt about it, but we're not an erasable minority; we're not unicorns, and that means every time someone claims there aren't enough trans people to justify changing the law, they're talking out their ass. That's the bottom line.

>If someone suggests that they might be wrong, it's easier for them to twist their arguments and everything else they say into something negative. It's "bitch eating crackers" on ~~steroids~~ testosterone. It's easier to pretend to not understand someone than entertain the idea they might be right. But the primary issue is that their whole sense of self is entirely based upon external validation, which is a signature trait of narcissism.

There are no words. I'm just going to leave this here

From what I'm seeing, the swallowed form isn't available in the US (not FDA approved), but is in Europe and Canada. The sublingual form is approved, but has more side effects than the gel/injections. It's also more expensive (180~200/mo) compared to others (50~200/mo).

This is all just from wikipedia, though, so there's that.

Edit: Wikipedia links suck about as much as my attention to detail.

Someone could easily just find a picture from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/. Like they are not even stopping catfishing from happening, just rejecting women who do not look stereotypically feminine enough to them.

Well, having an avatar with both male and female canonical depictions certainly feels welcoming! (Even if that’s just different traditions rather than being canonically trans or something.)

But I have to say the extent of welcome is often largely proportional to the extent to which the religion is integrated into the social power structure. Once a religion—Buddhism included—has skin in the game and a line to state power, things get depressingly similar (article is about Thai law in general, but opens with a description of a monastic conversion-therapy camp). Buddhist scripture does contain condemnations of sexual minorities (just like Western religions) although in practice things are more ambiguous.

If anything I think it’s more that westerners come into contact with the more progressive side of these traditions.

The trouble is, if Twitter were a public platform, it would be impossible to reasonably moderate it, since every ban would have to be ruled a reasonable violation of the first amendment. Also, what about other countries? Do they have their own separate Twitters? Or is there some kind of global UN Twitter management committee?

No, the only good solution is a proliferation of smaller social networks that can interoperate. Same way that a Gmail user can email a Hotmail user even though Gmail and Hotmail are owned by different companies, we need a collection of smaller, self-regulating social networks that can moderate themselves and ban users from other servers that don't moderate themselves well enough. That way, everyone has the benefit of moderation, but no moderator gets to unilaterally deplatform someone.

There's already a project called Mastodon that works this way. Hopefully it'll continue to grow.