Inb4 fascists’ bad faith comparisons to involuntary forcefem/forcemasc.
Swap out the first two with “people will be people”, and it works just as well. Hell, abridge it to the last section only, and it’s still valid.
Ofc, “shot” here means “blocked”, but still.
Lol
“A will be B, B will be A.”
Either A and B don’t mean anything ‘strict’ or they mean something and that doesn’t make sense. But we should all be against fascism, ofc!
It’s a line from The Kinks’ Lola.
The first bit, not the bit about fascists. But I suspect they’d be on board with that.
Let’s just say that A and B exist on a continuum and it makes things easier for everyone if we blur the lines a little more
I’m somewhat in agreement with this, but I don’t know if we can actually pass the thresholds with superficial physical changes enough to go from A to B. Regardless, it’s easy for me to talk about because I don’t struggle with gender dysphoria, so I don’t really discuss this IRL and just try to “play along” cause they have it hard as it is.
The thing is there is no line, no threshold. Sex/gender consist of many aspects, none of them is a binary and they are more intertwined than you would think.
Let’s start with appearance. Body size is two overlapping bell curves (as in the other comment to my first comment). Same is voice pitch, muscle mass, testosterone levels, …
For organs, there are intersex people and some trans people on stages of transition. Chromosomes: ever met a XXY man or a X0 woman? And it’s not really about the chromosome but a gene on the Y chromosome (SRY) that in rare occasions gets on the X chromosome or is damaged all together.
Do boys prefer boys activities because of their testosterone level or because they are taught to? Is the muscle mass due to the testosterone or due to the “boy sports” they do?
And that doesn’t mean that genders don’t exist. There are prototypes of what a woman is but no one embodies them, many tho are close enough to self identity as a woman or man and this can change during one’s life. There are other categorizations such as “read as female/male”, “assigned at birth”, “socialized as …”, (non-)mentruating, … Some folks claim that this attempt takes away analytic categories while in fact, it adds new ones that are important in different contexts.
So it’s not a threshold but separated steps. You can do activities associated with the genders you weren’t assigned as and broaden the understanding of what a (wo)man can do. You can also identity as and later hormonally transition to. It’s up to you. There is no binary. There never was. Everyone is somewhere in between but many are close enough to one side to embrace it.
I read it like some boys will be girls and some girls will be boys, not all boys and all girls.
I agree, fascists should be shot
Infinite loop?
The issue is that the person who wrote this likely does not have a gun. Fascists will way more often be armed.
Or are afraid to use it. Or, “bUt yOU’lL DIE!” Yeah, violence works that that.
Can we get a candidate on this platform, FFS?
I’m armed and practiced as well as I know how. My eyes are open. You guys?
Couple of weeks ago the pigs were at my black friend’s house. Well WTF? I concealed my shitty 9 and kept walking out to the end of the driveway, chilling on the porch, watching. Not an “open carry” state or a rifle/shotgun would have been in public view.
Turns out the cops treated him fairly. He had let a cousin he didn’t really know stay for a week, bad shit happened, no problem. But none the less, random people pulled up, no uniforms, no cop cars, nada, and went to question him and search his house. I was on a hair-trigger, texting him and his gf, waiting for some bullshit, waiting on handcuffs. I was ready to go weapon drawn, “Who exactly the fuck are you?!”
And no, I’m not macho. I was scared shitless at what I might have to do, vibrating with fear. But after what all goes down in this country, nah, I’m ready to fight back, not matter what that may mean for my personal health. (BTW, if you’re of a similar mindset, it really helps to run, jump, whatever, kick your own ass to simulate the adrenaline, then shoot targets. You won’t be shooting pieces of paper on a static range.)
But I wasn’t the only one armed and watchful. We neighbors all had laughs and drinks when it was over, but we were watching and armed. Nice to know I wasn’t the only one. Looking back, gods, what a relief I wasn’t totally alone.
