Hey it’s the season to GIVE.
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That guy is a privileged, entitled asshole who doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself.
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Voting is being deliberately ratfucked which “electronic voting” will not cure:
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Agreed. The question being presented is “Can electronic voting work?” which it probably can, but that’s not really the most pressing question at hand.
I found this particular statement notable (emphasis mine):
Last time, as it usually does, the Republican party lost the popular vote and won the presidency; it has spent much of the time since trying very hard to suppress the votes of people it doesn’t like.
This has happened four times in ~56 elections, which is a 7% failure rate. While this is one of several frustrating features of the Electoral College, it does not in my opinion meet the criteria for using the qualifier “usually” to describe how frequently this outcome happens.
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How is that petition supposed to work?
How is that lawsuit supposed to make sense?
And aren’t a lot of the people also angry about trans women considering ourselves female? Defining woman as adult human female makes it harder for trans women to make the fine distinctions gender-critical feminists want, not easier.
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I think a lot of women don’t comprehend what it’s like to be trans. I don’t know this for sure, but it’s possible they fear trans women because they were once men biologically. They don’t understand why - and I realize Annie Leibowitz caught hell for this - someone would give up being a member of the patriarchy to become a woman. And it’s born out of fear of the unknown, just like any other prejudice, as well as the conditioning over the millennia that gender roles have to stay the way they are or else you’re going to suffer a great deal.
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I agree. There is something about a trans woman that really touches on the primal hatred for women that is just below the surface veneer of civilization.
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No, no there really isn’t. There is prejudice and bigotry when some women percieve other women as being trans (regardless of whether they are), but it’s no more primal or natural a prejudice than feeling the same way if you think someone is black or Jewish.
Alison Blechdel nailed it here:
Look at what you said and then swap in a different target.
Sounds an awful lot like something you’d hear a racist or homophobe say, isn’t it? That’s because it’s the same fucking arguments recycled over and over. Or try reversing it:
It’s not even about hatred of women. It’s just bigotry, hatred and assholery wrapped up in whatever excuse the haters want to use.
More and more evidence is emerging that even that isn’t necessarily the case. Biology is weird as fuck. If there are hard sciences and soft sciences, among the less artsy sciences, biology is downright squishy. You can’t make blanket statements about biology. Not even that. What we outside observers think we see and know, is really not that relevant to reality. Not only are there more than just two genders, but there’s a hell of a lot more than two biological sexes.
Like the song says: you’ve got to be carefully taught.
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I didn’t say that well. I didn’t mean that the trans person was the cause of the bigotry. I meant that the visceral hatred some bigots feel toward trans women reflects how strong the misogyny is in our culture.
On a side note, My family’s friend Howard Cruise mentored Allison Bechdel. There was a nice article about Gay Comix recently and his role in its founding.
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I should’ve put my first thought - because they once had a penis. And “biologically” was a poor choice; maybe I should’ve used “physiologically”…or just “had a penis”. Transphobic women don’t want people who once had dicks move in on their territory, perhaps?
I mean, from my tiny mind trying to understand what’s going on about gender issues, I learned a lot about my own self re gender. Then again, when there’s something I don’t understand that I want to understand, I go and try to do so until I can to the best of my ability.
P.S.: I’ve been mistaken for being a male so many times, it’s actually funny-haha. Folks have also tried to insult me by calling me a “man in a dress” and a “tranny”; back then, yes, I felt insulted - how dare they slight my femininity! Now, I think, “Those folks are just so dumb, fuck 'em but not literally.” Heck, that kind of “insult” also leads me to believe I could do my own “Victor/Victoria” gig, y’knowatimeen, lol?
P.P.S.: And if I can’t understand something, I just accept it as is.
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I don’t understand how genderfluid works. But if some people feel it best describes their experiences, then okay.
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EXACTLY. Folks can explain things to me, but they can’t understand it for me. And gee-whiz, I’m pretty sure I’m not meant to understand everything in this universe.
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I have a genderfluid polyamorous former coworker now friend, and I understand that well enough for myself, but not well enough to explain it to someone else secondhand.
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Wow… so many things here…
Like Ford, Biden fought an election against an incumbent who was mired in scandal, corruption, hatred, and bigotry.
Someone clearly didn’t actually look at the timeline of Nixon’s pardon.
On the other hand, Biden could grant Trump a blanket presidential pardon, like Ford did for Nixon. Trump wouldn’t face criminal charges and could hopefully disappear into the gaudy corridors of Mar-A-Lago for the rest of his life
Just my opinion, but I think anyone who thinks Trump would accept a pardon and then not loudly proclaim that it proved his innocence while pushing as much confusion and innuendo as possible onto Biden’s Presidency has clearly been living under a rock for the last 8 years.
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huh?
Ford wasn’t elected. After Agnew resigned, he was appointed by Nixon, with the consent of Congress. Ford would later go on to lose to Carter in 1976.
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And then became President when Nixon later resigned, which let him pardon Nixon. I really don’t know how it’s possible that someone can compare that to Biden’s relationship to Trump, who refuses to accept responsibility for anything…
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It’s called “revisionist history”, isn’t it?
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