pingu1.bsky.social
Part-time boat-dweller, cognitive psychologist and viol player, aging cat lady with ADHD. Pronouns she/her.
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I think the passive voice needs to be banned for a few years while everybody relearns how to be honest again.
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Provided the AV computer has an accessible USB port….
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And worse. We saw the expression of femininity as a sellout when it was by cis women and a threat when it was by trans women. And trans men as either deluded or traitors. We started right but some of us went horribly wrong.
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OK 73 year old feminist cis lady here. If there’s a generational divide, it’s because my generation correctly insisted that forcing people into gender stereotypical expression was bad, then didn’t update after we won and people felt free to express their gender as they wanted. Dungarees or die.
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It’s bullshit anyway. Modern manufacturing jobs likely to be obsolete by the time your kids need one. Technology is moving much faster than reproduction.
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Personality disorder is neither “mental deterioration” nor “mental illness”. And bigotry is just bigotry. Ascribing Trump’s bigotry to armchair mental health diagnosis both negates his agency AND stigmatises good people.
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You’ve got the wrong book.
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It isn’t . It’s what narcissistic bigotry looks like.
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It’s the worst thing. Really. It facilitates all the other evil.
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Correlation is not causation
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But trillions of synapses.
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Oven = often, obvs.
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And connect more strongly or weakly depending on how oven they fire. Which depends on levels of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators whose production is affected by hormones. But as @sexabolition.blog says, it’s complicated. My (cis) ADHD brain managed a PhD on HRT.
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It’s Democrats who need to see it! And take her lead!
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They are sort of wired though. Long Term Potentiation is hard-ish wiring that takes time to unwire. And “what fires together wires together” is fairly literally true. New ways of thinking about ourselves do fairly literally rewire the brain (for good and ill).
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Seems to me the more obvious solution is to make a unisex single occupancy toilet available for people who feel uncomfortable sharing toilet facilities with others.
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MOT is weird.
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Bigot McBigface.
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Well a lot of it’s opportunistic too. Politicians following instead of pointing. Gatecrashing the open door. It’s like abortion as a wedge, but better because trans people are a smaller minority than people who might need an abortion. But the same appeal to “biology 101”. “It’s a baby innit?”
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Meant to write “and small”. Their minoritiness is an advantage. Could we crowdfund a good PR team? We have the crowd.
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I think the combination of well funded and is key. It’s easy to herd cats if there are only three cats and one of them can afford an expensive cat herder.
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How can the rest of us organise to do the same thing? A rapid response press release unit? (I’m just one of a gazillion cis feminists for whom those bigots DO NOT SPEAK)
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That works. Somebody cut and pasted bits of a Sex Matters press release between paragraphs of what started as quite a sane positive review. I bet that’s what happened.
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I mean it didn’t even make sense. It was like a cut and paste. As was as if someone had said “insert some random biological sex bullshit in this for balance”.
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Found it. Won’t link. Better to let it sink from public view. Ugh.
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Sorry I meant the hit piece not the drama.
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Ah sorry! Yeah, could be suspicious.
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When was it? What programme?
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Well the reason minutes get approved at the next meeting is to ensure that they are a true reflection of what people said. So that is normal (guards against minute taking errors or freelancing on the part of the minute taker)
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They had a hit piece about their own show?
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Or pure-bred man. Any deviation from pure bred man is lesser. It’s why “trans exclusionary feminist” is an oxymoron.
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Why do you really really need people to understand this? And who are the non-“everyday normal people” who don’t?
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Online, however, gender is less easy to read. If you want to refer to a coworker you only know from their email sig, it’s good to know what pronouns to use: “in x’s reply, she said….”. And sometimes even f2f people get sir’d when they should be madam’d and it’s sometimes useful to point it out.
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Quite. Which is why it is such a giveaway when people use “DEI” when talking about the UK. At least one man has won a sex discrimination case in the UK.
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Well it sounds like the quality of training you are familiar with is not good. That is not a reason not to have EDI policies. As for pronouns, it sounds as though you care a lot. And everyone uses them ffs. Just use the ones that people prefer, like you hopefully use the name they prefer.
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What you produced was rhetoric. What you are producing is rhetoric. EDI policies are about how to ensure we guard against our own biases. We all have them, including your friend who found the idea “jarring”.
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“Hiring expensive consultants” is sheer well-poisoning. Unconscious bias is real and there are practical and inexpensive measures employers can use to reduce it. And “mandatory pronouns” is just basic civility.
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But that’s not what EDI is.
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That’s us too. My pension + my foreign born husband’s.
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Check the video. Seems it’s not real.
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People really don’t like cheating. But politicians exploit that to cheat instead of taking it seriously.
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Turns out spinning myths is a form of genius if the goal is to make money for yourself and a few random other people.