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UnsufficentBoobage said:
Irregardless of your feelings about abortions, wasting actual real money is THE most dumb way to "win" arguments I have ever seen:
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If anybody arguing about abortion uses the term “pregnant people” in ernest, you can pretty much just immediately kick them out the door and take nothing else they say seriously. You need to recognize it as specifically having to do with women and if not, your opinion is functionally worthless.
 
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beemovieerotica said:
things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:
  • an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn’t reply to my e-mails for months
  • he later delegated part of my master’s thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval
  • a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i “looked exotic”
  • a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us
things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:
  • being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position
  • male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before
  • lenience toward my work in a way I haven’t experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.
  • conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that’s very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.
like. yes some PI’s will still be jerks regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I’ve lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women’s careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.
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beemovieerotica said:
it's kind of crazy on here how when i try to talk about my own experience of male privilege after transitioning to male, especially in STEM, someone always comes forward with "but what if they found out you aren't ACTUALLY a man are trans??? gotcha! you aren't a man i mean, you don't have male privilege!"

it becomes really apparent what people’s thought processes are once they roll up with “so you’re saying closeted trans women who are read as male experience male privilege?”

like. what an insane way to admit in one breath that you don’t believe that trans men or trans women are who they say they are. like you’re simultaneously denying a trans man the ability to say “i’m male therefore i exist in this position in society” and the trans woman “i am not male so i do not exist in that position in society.”

do y'all think that a gay man has “straight privilege” if he agrees to a lavender marriage, never engages intimately with other men, and therefore “”“enjoys”“” being seen as straight by society? or would we rightly recognize this as the absolute antithesis of an authentic and privileged life? do we get that self-annihilation is not a privilege, and this is the difference between a trans man and a trans woman being treated as male?
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Grand Duke Snowfall said:
True. It’s just the attitude, moral superiority, and flinging around accusations of racism I can’t stand among plenty of other things.
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Understandable. While I personally don't mind being respectful in instances like this, I don't like watching others just go for the throats of people who more than likely don't know better.
 
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Funnily enough, I was just thinking about the wendigo issue earlier today, and this is the second time I've seen posts about it since then.

When it comes to accusations of cultural appropriation, they're usually bogus because the original culture has not actually lost anything and so no theft has occurred. See every case where a person using some popular internet slang coined by a black person, wearing a tribal pattern, or owning a dream catcher has been accused of appropriation, when in fact they're appreciating and even helping the culture by preserving and spreading it. The wendigo, however might actually qualify, because in a sense, the name of the creature has been stolen. When you say "wendigo" people think of the popular deer version instead of a real wendigo, so the people who use the term as it was originally defined will always have to clarify themselves for the benefit of the masses, and the audience for "wendigos" will seek out modern cryptids believing they are traditional.

This is comparable to the "biblically accurate angel" which has gained popular appeal and is thought by many to actually be a truthful representation of the angels depicted in the bible, to the point that some ridicule christians for seemingly not understanding their own holy book because they use the correct depictions in which the angels look like normal men. And what originally put me on this train of thought was a post someone on here wrote the other day (I don't remember which thread it was in so I can't find it right now) about fandoms being ruined by reboots, and the argument that it doesn't matter because the original still exists. However, as the poster argued, when the new version supersedes the original so that most people only know the reboot, the media only panders to fans of the reboot, all the merch that's made depicts the reboot, people attribute the virtues of the original to the makers of the reboot, etc., then the original version's place in popular culture has indeed been lost, stolen, or even appropriated.

Somehow I don't think the people yelling about how white people are appropriating indigenous american magical practices and religion by saying w*nd*g* would be very sympathetic to the argument that the tv show The Boys is culturally appropriating the comic book it was based on.
 
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