padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
all crime is circumstantialthat most crime is circumstantial?
you can't criminalize an entire group of people based on a hypothetical in a particular circumstance that hasn't been borne out in reality
all crime is circumstantialthat most crime is circumstantial?
I have no idea, presumably there is no epidemictrans women have been de facto using women's bathrooms for a long time - where's this epidemic of rape
that being the case, what reason is there to fear it, besides ignorance?I have no idea, presumably there is no epidemic
A couple years ago I brought up feminism, broadly, to a roommate of mine who had been conditioned by a far more conservative environment than I had, and he asked, rather honestly, "Why should I care?".
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bc you also have to compromise, that's whyBut, as a person of comparative lack of privilege (ie a gay man in a heteronormative world), why should I care about protecting and respecting the feelings of people who lack the insight and empathy to respect me and humanize me?
It isn't difficult. If your response to e.g. "please don't call me a faggot, that word is hurtful in ways you can't understand" is anything other than "fair enough I will try to respect that" then you're just part of the problem.
I do believe that if that is the request that is heard, then that would be the response.But, as a person of comparative lack of privilege (ie a gay man in a heteronormative world), why should I care about protecting and respecting the feelings of people who lack the insight and empathy to respect me and humanize me?
It isn't difficult. If your response to e.g. "please don't call me a faggot, that word is hurtful in ways you can't understand" is anything other than "fair enough I will try to respect that" then you're just part of the problem.
bc you also have to compromise, that's why
that's true, but they're the flashpoint for it so that's the conversation we have to have, and the way the issue is framedobvs the fear about shared changing rooms has nothing to do with trans ppl, for the most part
whatever you expect from themCompromise on what though, existing without discrimination and bigotry around me?
As alluded to above, it's adult material not created by Robert Galbraith eg Harriet Potter and the Philosopher's Boner.ok now we know who j.k. rowling is, but what's "porn"?
we all have to compromise at some pointwhatever you expect from them