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[–] stray@pawb.social 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The character in the first panel of that meme is Tomoko Kuroki from the anime "Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!", commonly shortened to "Watamote".

This is my punishment for trying to avoid making a post just to ask what show this is from.

[–] stray@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Is that soil? The bags say cow manure. (I don't know a hell of a lot about gardening. Maybe that's functionally the same thing??)

Also they're at Lowe's.

[–] stray@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago

But they have a red curtain and everything.

[–] stray@pawb.social 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Did you? They spent the whole post arguing that a trans woman is not a woman. To clarify, a cis woman and a trans woman are different things. Both of these things are women. Cis and trans describe the women.

Some trans women may identify with having once been a man, but it's hardly the case for all of them, especially the ones who recognized their mistaken assignment early. She was always herself. She was never a man unless she herself identified as one.

The wording "used to be a man" and "used to have a penis" makes me wonder if this person is using genital surgery as a determining factor. It's thankfully becoming very acceptable these days to be a girl with a penis or boy with a vagina, so that such surgeries are more of a personal decision rather than a means of legitimizing oneself to society.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Scientific studies also use male and female in reference to human subjects' gender identities. Woman and female are both incredibly old terms which have been used interchangeably as there was no widespread concept of gender identity in the English-speaking world until recently. We had to invent the term "gender identity" to separate gender from sex because they'd previously been used to refer to the same thing.

You seem to be saying that a trans man is female because he was assigned the female sex at birth. Have I understood that correctly?

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%E2%80%93gender_distinction

https://www.etymonline.com/

Small sample of studies using male/female to refer to gender:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6748626/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10685922/

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Women penguins only sounds weird because that's not the normal word for it. They're girl penguins or lady penguins. "Woman" feels too formal and human.

[–] stray@pawb.social 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well, they're right that it is pretty simple. Here's a fun experiment for anyone who thinks this isn't transphobic: try reading it again, but substitute black for trans. Totally reasonable they should have to use another bathroom, right?

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

I agree, but that argument doesn't do anything for people who don't really care about the animals' suffering if it means they get to enjoy meat. They understand what they're doing and have made the informed choice that they're okay with the arrangement. If you want them to stop torturing animals you're going to have to find them another way to get meat or you're going to have to kill them.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So is Sitting Bull. Swedish confectionery isn't terribly woke.

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[–] stray@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand blue even after knowing the answer.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What if I told you beans don't taste like pork ribs? I love beans, but these things are not substitutes for one another, and insisting they are isn't going to make anyone become vegan.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

This was extremely helpful to read, thank you.

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