AmidFuror

Trouble in the Suez?

Finn was First Order. They were like Trump’s second term when he won over many African-American and Hispanic voters.

It’s not statutory rape, either, in most jurisdictions.

Taking a day off is shirking one’s responsibility to the collective.

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I’m rooting for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Again, not rape.

Nor did I argue for genital exams for little girls.

You’re trying to paint me as a pedophile and won’t let facts get in the way. That’s pretty disgusting. Maybe stick to the communities where that behavior is acceptable.

You’re pulling a comment from another post completely out of context. Someone said there is no such thing as sex with a minor. It is always rape.

That’s not true, and I used my own experience as an example. That you’re not creative enough to think why my having sex with a minor would not be illegal nor immoral is not my problem.

We have never needed a transgender ban. As long as we’ve had activities specifically restricted to girls, we’ve needed some sort of distinction. That distinction could be “Any athlete identifying as a girl,” but one is needed. Otherwise, what does it mean for a team to be restricted?

Remember that the question I was responding to is why does it work one way - restrictions on who joins a girls’ team - and not the other. That’s the question I’m answering.

Right, but I think that gives some insights. Boys sports in grade schools could technically be open. For very young kids, there’s probably even little difference in athletic ability.

Girls’ sports are what need some kind of sex identification and distinction. I’m not saying it should be based on genitalia or chromosomes, but that’s why the focus is there.

I guess it’s not the case in grade school, but in many professional sports and college, there are technically no “mens” teams. Those teams are open to any and all athletes.

It’s the women’s and girl’s sports where the restrictions lie, and hence the focus for transgender athletes.

Headlines with “slammed” are routinely slammed here, except if Common Dreams writes them.

The headline is directed to company owners and officers.

The fifth lesson should be install really tough barriers to protect storefronts. You can’t assume you only need enough to slow a few people down while the police are called.

I hate this study, and I’m not going to forget it anytime soon.

Is technocrit on vacation or something?

The nature vs nurture debate was settled long ago. It’s always a mix. Humans have a lot of control over how they behave, but there are definitely inherent predispositions in everyone. They just don’t group nicely along racial lines like bigots believe.

Some people have to struggle a lot harder to behave “correctly” (which depends on societal definitions). Beyond this, there are many different capabilities and preferences. Different people have different natural talents. A ton of that can be altered with learning and training, but some people will improve much faster and will reach higher goals.

The two (main) genders also have a lot of differences as a collective whole. None of that excuses prejudices and limiting people because of the group they are identified with. Any given person can be far outside the norm of their group in terms of what they can do well or do poorly. There are also a lot of perceived differences grounded in social norms that have nothing to do with biological reality. That doesn’t mean there aren’t others that are demonstrable but irrelevant to individual judgments.

The number of people who dwell in the fediverse and think that any two people can accomplish the same thing by putting in the same number of hours astonishes me. It’s definitely influenced by their politics and how they want reality to be.

So, if you are in the very early stages of dementia, it may start causing you to fall asleep unintentionally. Got it.

2025!

Any article about Clinton, Harris, or Obama will trigger people in the comments.