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So the definition of "tree" is arbitrary and therefore it's meaningless. Gotcha.
See my previous example on continents. You don't need to define a tree exactly to know that violets aren't trees. If a botanical anarchist told me he thinks violets are trees, I could say that he is wrong, because their size and the hardness of their stems make them "un-treelike". The fact that there aren't a single taxonomic group doesn't mean that the concept of tree is meaningless.
Remember when you were out and about and the friends you would make as a teenager (not at school) you would flat out not know their real name- a whole name and surname was like a formal school thing, and if your mum or whatever talks about someone from school, fifty years ago, she will still say the Full Name in a really official sense-That's one of these things I've wondered about on occasion. The concept of "identity" as something not only defined by you and you alone, but also completely sacrosanct, is very new. And it's also very damaging.
Allow me to put my boomer hat on for a moment and say this: when I was growing up everybody had a nickname at school. Barely anyone was called by their name, even if the nickname was just a variation on it. Your name is Brooke? Congratulations, everybody calls you Brooks now. Kid transferred in whose name is actually Brooks? Well, he's got a bowl cut so we're calling him Lloyd (from Dumb & Dumber). The just about only time you'd hear someone's real name was when school staff was talking to them. But I digress: my point is that you didn't pick your nickname. It was something assigned to you by the kids around you (and occasionally by one of the teachers). Was it rife for bullying? Sometimes, yeah. I spent my freshman year of high school dodging a really embarrassing nickname, and some people were just plain unlucky. But for good or bad your "identity" was also affected by your community, because that's where you were at, physically. What you did, and the consequences of your actions, affected your "identity".
There were absolutely more rebellious kids who insisted that they "wouldn't be labeled", but even within their own cliques they had their own nicknames and their own roles to play. But once the internet became popular and everybody in it realized they could just not use their real names and instead embrace whatever pseudonyms they wanted, and use different "identities" in different places if they wanted to. This disconnection from reality feels like it was the first step towards the plague of troons we are wading through now: these people who started experimenting with different "identities" in secret on the early internet (preserving one's anonymity was important back then) paved the way to people whose identity is so completely internet-centric they don't accept the idea of being assigned anything by the people around them (see: AMAB/AFAB). And now these people are trying to enforce their internet identity upon the real world, and they're screeching when they realize it's a lot harder than just putting a checkmark on "female" on a social media website signup page.
This is just too fucking dumb. I'm going to stop waving my cane at the internet now. Where's my rocking chair? Why are these dang kids on my lawn?
Hilarious. It's always the non-binary trying to put abstract concepts into the binary.
It's the autismHilarious. It's always the non-binary trying to put abstract concepts into the binary.
Ooh, that is fucking tragic.
Yes, and I wonder if face or body blindness has something to do with this shit. The idea that these people genuinely do not think that people can tell if they're a male or a female is baffling to me. How can you be so delusional?Ooh, that is fucking tragic.
That sort of behavior, trying to reduce complex social elements to simple values to compare and add up expecting repeatable results... is textbook autism. That girl is living proof of the industrial-scale grooming of teenage girls going on these days. Instead of the anxiety of trying to "balance out" her outfit, she should have been encouraged to accept her femininity and just wear whatever the fuck she thinks looks best that day.
The final irony is that her fussing over her looks in order to get people to see her in a very specific (and in this case unrealistic) way isn't nonbinary. It's a very feminine-coded behavior. Men do it as well, of course, but metrosexuals aside most guys don't bother to do it every single day.
Looks like a Lularoe hun. Zero stars, would not fuck.View attachment 2958468
Superbly coordinated...count me in mate.
MR used to be an abbreviation for mentally retarded. Just saying.The tattoo under her collarbone says MR, like an amulet against misgendering, as if that will help.
just tattoo an F if she detransitions and it'll be accurateMR used to be an abbreviation for mentally retarded. Just saying.
Looks like the corpses you'd find in a torture dungeon level of some rpg
Well, if she wanted to look like a 16-year Russian boy halfway into a Krokodil addiction, she's got it.View attachment 2960742
My heart breaks a little every time I see Elliot Page. This is supposed to be the face of a happy man? She looks so hollow, so worn, it's disconcerting — especially in conjunction with a body that looks much younger.
The tattoo under her collarbone says MR, like an amulet against misgendering, as if that will help.
If this wasn't about gender and about general social perception, you would be deemed as having anxiety or OCD. Normal people don't think like this.