Far.

Well that’s completely wrong then. You are therefore wrong about masculinity meaning confidence . You agree?

So women can’t be confident in themselves without being masculine?

Right. And I’ve always viewed the notion of trans as weirdly social conservatism - because it seems to buy into sexism. I would think a fight against gender stereotypes would be better than a fight to be able to use flexible labels to fit in gender stereotypes. But I guess it amounts to the same thing.

Cool. But then isn’t the fight for trans rights sort of the wrong fight? Why not fight directly against all gender stereotypes and inequalities? Which as a progressive 80’s kid, was what I’ve fought for all my life. Dress and act how you like and it shouldn’t have anything to do with what’s between your legs at birth.

When my wife and I had our first baby, my wife suffered from postpartum depression. A counselor was visiting our home and went through a questionnaire with her. Like statements ‘I am able to laugh and enjoy things’, and ‘I look forward with enjoyment to things’ - she had to rate how strongly she agreed with each. She didn’t agree with much at the time (luckily only lasted a month or two). My mom was visiting at the time and could apparently overhear this. Afterward my mom commented to me ‘even I knew the right answers to those questions’. It hit me then that her generation were just as fucked up but the mentality for them was to just fake it and never admit any problems. The ‘correct’ answer was always to sound like everything was fine.

If anything can be masculine, then what does it mean to be masculine? I’m all for call yourself whatever you want, be how you want to be; but a certain logical consistency would be nice. If there are no differences between genders, that’s great, but then what’s the meaning of being trans or not?

But now we’ve got AI to ‘fix’ the images.

Nothing wrong with the concept of communism. In practice it always leads to authoritarianism, fascism and the loss of personal freedoms. But look at the U.S. as it suffers late stage capitalism with a populist dictatorship growing - it’s exactly the same.

And the proof is that his ear isn’t scarred from the bullet hitting the real Trump.

In this case if ‘Trump’ starts talking in coherent sentences, we’ll know he’s been replaced.

You could have just … not written that.

By your definition, there have never been any genocides. Jewish people still exist.

Isn’t ketchup pretty much just red sugar gel?