Sam Smith talks about wanting kids: "I want to be with the kids and I want to watch them grow and be with them every day. I want to be mummy."

Overdrive · 2020-11-02T21:09:13+00:00

I'm confused, if he's non binary then why does he want to be mummy. Do non binary people get to pick and choose while at the same time strictly label everyone else?

I had no idea he had come out as non binary this whole time I've thought he was just gay. I was gunna be like, well yeah he's the nurturing side of the gay equation. But no he had to transcend I guess.

Also, he's unafraid of failure and imperfection as non binary? What the fuck does that even mean? Did he feel bad as a gay man? Does he feel like he's not up to snuff with either man or woman so he just shrugs off both and takes from whichever suits him? Hey I'm all for doing what makes you happy but there's a definite pattern where people are so unaccepting of themselves that they have to do away with reality to feel better.

Overdrive · 2020-11-01T17:05:58+00:00

I just thank the gods that her publisher has stood by her against this bullshit and that the book even exists. It all comes down to the service providers. Imagine having a server host or a credit card company telling you can and cannot do.

This is kinda off topic but who the fuck thinks any of this new age censoring is right. If you are on the side of a freaking credit card company...

Overdrive · 2020-10-29T07:11:32+00:00

Women and moms I've seen at work are indeed exhausted. Kids are only going to school two days a week. There's no good way to freaking plan for this, and women are the natural nurturers so when this question gets brought up of course they'd say yes.

Pandemic has brought so many other issues to a halt in the US, like affordable childcare.

Overdrive · 2020-10-21T20:49:34+00:00

Because one makes himself out to be a down to earth family man while the other is fucking Trump.

His wife is a 10 while he sits at aboutta 3. We all know what's happening there.

Overdrive · 2020-10-21T20:28:06+00:00

I don't quite know if I trust a pic of a list someone made, is this official? I'd really like to read a pamphlet you know the one that usually comes from a pharmacy with your pills. The disclosures or whatever.

That said, of fucking course there's side effects. You don't just trick evolution. You don't just stop a growing body. It's going to deteriorate if it doesn't reach it's peak you donkeys. It's just sickening of children is what it is. Inducing condition.

Overdrive · 2020-10-21T20:05:56+00:00

I have no doubt COVID is being weaponized, especially at this point when we know so much more about it. Keep the general population in fear. Keep them shopping at certain online stores. Keep them logging in to the sites that are suddenly essential social distancing tools.

I keep thinking about all the hungry children, suicidal men, and abused women this is hurting around the world. Unable to access critical support in a way that they need. I wonder what those numbers will be.

Overdrive · 2020-10-20T22:39:02+00:00

Jimmy is the best, you reminded me his stream is T minus 1 hour.

So to expose fakers you both have to be within the group they are faking and expose lies and hypocrisy. It's a pretty solid bet. There's a few issues where I do think this way and see value in the people who are a part of it speaking up. Others don't take kindly to those people even if they are on their side in some big ways.

Overdrive · 2020-10-20T20:18:07+00:00

Here's an idea, get the fuck off of Facebook and Twitter. Did it ages ago now here I am.

Overdrive · 2020-10-20T18:35:47+00:00

I would argue with your title wording a bit in that it is a combination of victimhood and the need to fix that creates real lasting damage. Proactive victims can create and drum up all sorts of fuss and support and they are really a force to be reckoned with.

I think one of the best ways to fight back against a group of "victims" is to actually give further voice to the most deranged ones. Put some kind of spotlight on them, showing that whatever it is has gone too far (it has to take a step too far) and you will see pushback.

However the good victims know this and use this, so idk. You take a step too far, push back, you stop. You take a few more steps next time, and you can see how ridiculous notions can slowly gain ground. I wonder how you combat something like that.

Overdrive · 2020-10-20T18:26:49+00:00

Being female and a girl is absolutely not an identity. That is our entire argument. If it is just an identity then why do we need a woman's movement.

If it was that easy, all the old feminists would've "indentified" themselves the fuck out of oppression. Path of least resistance, right?

Unfortunately that is what we are seeing today.

Overdrive · 2020-10-18T16:44:55+00:00

I just don't think people should get banned from places for "dead naming" or using wrong pronouns. Like if my own mother transitioned today, I'd still probably refer to her as my mother even if at other times I would try to respect her and say father or whatever. If my son wanted to transition, I'd still say that I gave birth to a boy. My beliefs are cemented in reality. My mother was a mother when she gave birth to me. My son was a son when I gave birth to him. That is reality and it can never change. Stop lying to people.

Now what do I think about Buck Angel's views? Well for one I know he is very accepting of his history and he is not afraid of living with and admitting to his reality. I wish the trans community as a whole was more accepting of themselves and their history. I have no trouble using he/him when referring to Buck. It doesn't take away at all from the problem that I have with the PHYSICAL REALITY that we are suddenly lacking in certain parts of society.

I would hedge that most of society is ok with referring to whomever as he or she if they so want to. What society as a whole balks at is the people who insist that their reality and history is somehow changed and they should be considered as not something different (MtF, FtM) but that they should absolutely be considered to just be a F or a M and therefore appropriate certain rights, spaces, positions, grants, and contribute to the statistics of the either F or M. I know my views are as different to other GC as are my life experiences, but one thing is for certain and that is penis or vagina that I would hope we would all agree on.

Overdrive · 2020-10-18T01:17:13+00:00

Would love a full watch too if anyone has it or knows anyone who can help!

Unfortunately it seems to be a pretty old video and the Vimeo link from Abigail's Twitter is broken. Can't be found on my end sorry.

Overdrive · 2020-10-17T04:58:36+00:00

You're fucking 8. Hell yes we discriminate against 8 year olds. Can't drink, smoke, vote, drive, rent, have sex, any other service that anyone doesn't feel is appropriate for 8 year olds idk buying a puppy or arresting their parents for feeding them green beans IS NOT GIVEN TO THEM and we reserve that right to deny 8 year olds anything else that we deem irresponsible.

Overdrive · 2020-10-17T04:49:33+00:00

Well we are also tying their hands behind their backs much like we are with parents. They can't question the child and are afraid to. I'm sure medical professionals are out there that don't want to touch this with a 10' pole because they can't in good conscience just go along with the bullshit, and if they did try to see them they'd be suggesting any other avenue of care first. No one wants to lose their license to practice.

Schools are allowed to keep parents in the dark if their child decides they want to change name and gender. Parents can get into hot water and risk losing custody of their children if they don't show 100% commitment and support to a minor's flippant desire even though they are the one adult who knows their child best. I know these things originated as some sort of safeguard or protection for the individual however the way in which they are hindering general practice and parenting today is just bonkers.

Overdrive · 2020-10-16T07:50:59+00:00

Oof I've never actually put together how women who may even have depression and anxiety over their breasts cannot get funding. That IS bullshit.

Women are STILL treated as second class when it comes to healthcare. Hell it took law and regulation in order to put a stop to pregnant women being considered a "pre existing condition" and in general being charged more for insurance.

Overdrive · 2020-10-10T10:06:04+00:00

I'm sorry leave it up because it's obscure is not why Netflix has been indicted.

Overdrive · 2020-10-09T22:08:12+00:00

It's on Netflix. Do I have to explain how wide spread it already was and inevitably would be regardless of any extra attention?

Overdrive · 2020-10-09T22:05:06+00:00

They do.

Overdrive · 2020-10-09T22:03:05+00:00

Would this have anything to do with BLM?

Overdrive · 2020-10-08T23:43:54+00:00

We can't just go "Shhh don't mention this to the creeps!" every time something like this gets released. Wake up a little here, face reality. We have the internet. Creeps are out there. And you can't seriously think we can just hide shit from them. This movie shouldn't have been released and defended by Netflix. They're getting indicted. Such is the way.

Overdrive · 2020-10-07T18:07:33+00:00

I'm not a fan of censorship, however we do censor tons of things when it comes to minors. And I think that's just a-ok. This is definitely about the kids. Not censoring something we don't like. Honestly this movie had moves dirtier than Bring it on! Whatever those old cheerleader movies were. "Why do you view it as dirty, you sexualizing them you sicko?!?!" Because it literally has a close up of little girl taint. It's hard to take it as anything else.

No I fully agree that this issue is on an island all of it's own in regards to censorship and I think there being folks on all sorts of sides speaking up about the lewdness of it speaks to that fact. Sexualizing kids is not okie dokie.

Overdrive · 2020-10-06T09:25:29+00:00

Her career depends on being racist at every fucking conjecture so I wouldn't sit there and listen to a single word she says. These people are self serving morons and through her tiny little fringe career she is doing great harm to young people. Although if yoh are that particular young person and you eat this shit up like your daily Vitamin-O's good for you, you sick dirty capitalized racist piece of shit.

Overdrive · 2020-09-30T22:16:14+00:00

At that point you would not have a debate on your hands but something else akin to a sit down discussion with powerpoint presentations.

I would prefer laying down of facts and real time follow up. Ever since they began to televise the presidential debates, it hasn't really been about that but more about how each candidate holds themselves, and on the spot. In that regard, Trump will always win.

Overdrive · 2020-09-27T17:26:12+00:00

Man this sucks because I love anime. Although a lot of the shows make my eyes roll. One of my biggest concerns with a lot of shows is this insistence on including teeny, tiny baby voiced girl characters and some of them somehow still have big tits. And the huge amount of harem series. There's big problems in creating these unrealistic images and expectations for people and a whole slew of sexual deviants that follow it. I stay away from those series because I find only discomfort in it.

Overdrive · 2020-09-26T03:06:40+00:00

Just do sex, all the time.

Tricks the body into thinking it needs to survive for one last smash.

Overdrive · 2020-09-23T18:10:33+00:00

Yeah that'd be all those friggin idiots telling all their TRA friends and "trans allies" to buy up as many books as they can so that they can all burn them while JKR bats her eyelashes at her newly huge stack of royalty checks.

Dear lord but their idiocy pleases me.

Overdrive · 2020-09-23T09:56:01+00:00

I literally do not trust anyone who calls something transphobic. It's just, all righty what did they actually say or not say here.

That word is being ground into dust.

Overdrive · 2020-09-21T21:50:33+00:00

I swear to god if your ma gets it taken down...😅

Overdrive · 2020-09-21T21:47:46+00:00

It was heavily implied with the way you had worded it and so I had wanted to add clarification in case someone else understood it as I did. It is not a non problem. Painkillers are used however not enough to completely take any pain away. They do help.

Yeah I just don't see access to abortions as being something that furthers a society's morality or immorality, especially if we are talking about sex. Same for the individual. Abortions don't promote loose sex. By that logic condoms do, high heels do, shaved chests do, and I just can't see all those things as being denegrading to society I am sorry.

What I meant by that last bit is my belief that an innocent person shouldn't suffer because of the stupid actions of another. Just because some people drive drunk and injure others doesn't mean we have the right to ban all alcohol.

Overdrive · 2020-09-20T11:47:39+00:00

I'd like to see who actually gets the tap before making any final calls but I do understand the dems were griping about this before and therefore they do not get to gripe about the opposite now. Pay attention to the individual, not which side gets to fill it because the dems fucked all of that up and they did it to themselves.

Overdrive · 2020-09-20T00:45:37+00:00

I was thinking something like that today.

Just bring your own signs, honestly. Paste one up where ever you happen to need to go. If this is truly a free for all, you can print out a bunch and just have some fun. Dicks and vaginas, or just fix the error and slap a woman's sign up over it. Or witches and vampires. What the fuck ever.

I'd feel safer going into a men's toilet in most places to be honest. All the sick fucks are next door.

Overdrive · 2020-09-19T21:38:07+00:00

Abortions are quite painful, expensive and time consuming. So it's not exactly a "no problem" deal slip on into the doctor's real quick. There's a process, and I agree with the process fully. There definitely should be a process of some sort.

I don't really see it as promoting long term degeneracy. Maybe in some cases? However I don't feel that giving some sleaze bag the option to do whatever they want should disqualify the average person's right to use it should the need ever arise.

Overdrive · 2020-09-18T03:13:33+00:00

The Kennedy organization only had to hear from someone that JKR was attacking trans people before they immediately began the process of stripping the award from her.

They only had to hear about it. What kind of vetting process is that. How are these awards even given. Should I be getting one then? I'm pretty sure that I aided in the abetting of climate change. I did some things, said some stuff. Where is my reward J Ken.

First ever in 50 years is not a good thing, guys. That marks the end of an organization if nothing else. No one is thanking you for this. No one is going to take you seriously and you willingly gave up all credibility. Do you think the people you momentarily please actually give a flying fuck and support your cause? Have you made lifelong friendships? Where are those people now? Where is the impact?

The only impact I see is the one in which you single handedly put on display an intense disdain for a woman who has insofar done no actual or illegal harm to anyone and is merely grappling with the vast amount of idealogies that threaten the rational and the reasonable.

Overdrive · 2020-09-14T21:13:56+00:00

Hmmm if only other groups of people would realize where it would be silly of them to tread....

It didn't hurt a bit, did it? To just not insert yourself into those spaces.

Overdrive · 2020-09-14T21:11:00+00:00

Hahaha so true about that last bit

Overdrive · 2020-09-14T21:09:39+00:00

They've got folks in the LGB wanting to give them the boot and why should they include the T when the T is actively attacking them. And those many people have a good point considering that the T is trying to get rid of sex, and by extension, same sex attraction. That is quite literally the basis for gay sexuality.

It's good to see that with GC getting booted off it may have ultimately helped the cause too, kind of like the billboard.

Some of the users in that Vancouver link are just so emotional and aggressive in their replies. And to think that they got to stay on as reddit citizens. Fucking annoying the shit out of people, accosting them left and right for non conforming wrongthink lol fuckin hell the majority of people did not care before you attacked them

Overdrive · 2020-09-08T07:53:06+00:00

Oh wow they are so close to getting it. That's good enough for me really. They are getting smeared and harassed just like the rest and it's because they were at one point in their lives living as women so they will never be exempt. And they're the fucking population boom in the community right now.

Overdrive · 2020-09-06T12:30:38+00:00

I'm pleased to see you use the word racialism. Yesterday my father was recalling the day they combined the word under the now umbrella and overly used term racism. He showed me his old dictionary that listed both.

Anyone out there, this is racialism we are dealing with right now.

Overdrive · 2020-08-31T22:22:10+00:00

The parents are always blamed when their children turn out to be terrible people. A lot of cases have some merit to that. It takes a particularly abusive concoction to create certain serial killers. I do believe criminals are "made" rather than "born".

But there's so, so many cases where in all other respects you had a person who was just going through their young life and with no warning do something heinous. Not giving an opinion on Kyle here, but I have heard parents of accused children speak about the experience. How others accused them of not hugging them enough. Bullshit like that.

Overdrive · 2020-08-21T21:42:04+00:00

Poor Amy, dude. I can't help but think that she got a good dose of what it's like being a "terf" that day. I mean she was being a reasonable TRA. Imagine shutting down and screaming at your own activists. This is why their movement is going to quickly slide downhill, it's going to be old news and companies and huge labels will want to move on to the next woke subject. You label your own supporters like that when all they were doing is what you asked of them...how fragile can you get.

Overdrive · 2020-08-06T18:35:10+00:00

Of course they have the right to. They are your boss and they are paying you. You have the freedom to leave just like they have the freedom to fire you. Shitty work environments exist on every damn street. The pretense of a lot of positions are this way. In fact they will make people feel tired, stressed, hungry, irritated, sad, and all over petty requests. That is why we get paid for them.

Go ahead and call her out on it, that'd be your right if you thought you were unjustly treated. However no one is suing Ellen for being an asshole. She did nothing wrong and broke no laws by being an asshole. Best thing you can do is avoid her, not damn her.

And idk it seems like the rape allegations are pretty much in the forefront right now. However there has been this unshed anger at Ellen that is now all coming swimming back and wrapping around it. Kind of swallows it so I agree to a point I guess.

Overdrive · 2020-08-05T17:46:21+00:00

Was Ellen the one who didn't want employees to chew gum? I think a while ago, those were the kinds of things people were "speaking up" about and it was bullshit. No one should be damning someone for being a hard ass boss. If you don't like them, and you don't like the pay, then leave.

If you ever work directly for a celebrity you won't believe the amount of strange quirks you'd be dealing with. Like Snoop's personal joint roller lol

Overdrive · 2020-08-05T17:32:29+00:00

would help to*

Overdrive · 2020-08-04T20:41:25+00:00

This shit is already getting rug swept on reddit and I get it to a point because you care about the people who get injured or killed, but you have to look at the video.

If he hadn't died, this could've been just another episode of COPS. You struggle, you make it worse. That's how it goes. If you're fucked up enough to struggle and end up on the ground, that's on you. EVEN still, cops are trained to handle you as best they can even if you're drugged out and delirious.

Are there racist cops? Sure. But that's not this. This looks like another policing accident. This movement sprang from this? They're attacking cops but what about free healthcare and college education? That'd be a universal solution that'd elevate everyone out of poverty. What about ending the drug war? That'd halt the stupid amount of arrests over negligible drug charges. Nope. Stop the police it's the police that needs to go. This movement wants to eradicate racism and punish something that protects them 9 times out of 10. Jesus.

Overdrive · 2020-08-04T20:27:21+00:00

Generally they are trained to call for medical aid under the right circumstances. If George had stopped and said, "I need an ambulance" I am sure after a few more questions one would have been called.

Obviously they are trained to trust their senses. Blood, cuts, weakness, dizzyness, profuse sweating, slurred words, and even more obvious signs of course. George, to me, was not acting in a manner that bespoke a need for immediate medical attention.

Overdrive · 2020-07-29T12:11:55+00:00

Twitter is already kicking people off for minute amounts of controversy and very little of anything to do with "hate speech". The banning is happening, and I think it's wrong to call them a platform. I understand that maybe we need to do something else besides abolish 230. Is it possible for companies to self elect the protections that they receive and to enforce their decisions onto them?

Saidit obviously deserves those protections, and many other sites. They deserve them because of their actions. They don't ban people based on beliefs or even faulty news/evidence. I see the problem with getting rid of it, I'm interested in reading from people any ideas.

Overdrive · 2020-07-25T20:53:18+00:00

Lol at someone just speculating about making butch lesbians use the men's toilet. That person has no freaking idea what the issue is at all.

Overdrive · 2020-07-25T02:51:12+00:00

Left to their own devices I'm sure a good many would never have started to transition. At best, it's not worth the trouble trying to continuously get in to a doctor or therapist for each step in transitioning during a pandemic. At worst, there's no one to flaunt your "new self" to indoors alone in your home so they feel they don't need to bother because it's lost the thrill.

Overdrive · 2020-07-25T01:55:20+00:00

Ah yes, what any sane person would do should they encounter words.

Thanks!

Overdrive · 2020-07-23T20:34:24+00:00

Subs shutting down others for no other reason than that they are different is bullshit. I think it'd be reasonable to kick someone out who tries to join a group about cats but starts talking about dogs. I think it's reasonable to kick trolls out, after a good amount of post history was scrutinized to support that. And any threats of violence or "go die" should definitely be banned. Maybe BPT has the notion that if they want a group only for black people, then they should have that. But that notion has to go all ways and it just doesn't, people's eyebrows raise.

Other than that...yeah. No one wants to actually argue with people anymore. No one wants a different perspective or opinion. If I joined a group about cats and struck up some arguments about cats, I'd probably get screamed at and shut down. Because a group about cats is never to be questioned. People's inability to stand by their beliefs and concede to a valid argument to that belief is really quite scary. It's not that I'm attacking those beliefs. You can have yours and I can have mine. The word of the day is concessions.

Overdrive · 2020-07-22T17:26:44+00:00

What the hell even is this article and these people. It's "very confusing" to have the urge to have a child when you can't? It's flipping called being a man. They're making it seem like their issues are what trans women feel, when it's just them as dudes on hormones kinda bummed out about facts of life.

No way in hell their bodies are fighting to have a period. No way in hell they can take hormones and suddenly they get this unexplainable urge to have a baby in their womb. Women don't even experience that, by and large.

Overdrive · 2020-07-22T01:03:06+00:00

I got a little misty eyed too!

Overdrive · 2020-07-22T01:00:41+00:00

D'awww, bless their hearts.

They missed us :']

Hi baby GCyn! Goochie goochie goo

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T22:42:28+00:00

It's not them we are trying to sway, it's everyone else.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T21:17:41+00:00

Peaceful protest works astoundingly well when the people you are protesting against is violent against you. It's the tactic employed by Martin Luther King Jr. And despite how we feel on the inside, it is a tactic well worth considering. JK Rowling calmly replying to all the hate spewed at her comes to mind.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T20:39:35+00:00

They don't have to be a sex nor a gender for them to fight for their own damn spaces.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T20:37:52+00:00

Yes, I'd extend an olive branch to the mentally ill. I get where you're going with that, I know that mental health plays a big role in a lot of trans people's lives and decision making. However we don't know the extent of the overlap, do we? I know the numbers tied to gender dysphoria are clearer however there is no way to generally tell if we are letting people transition on their own diagnosis. We are also forgetting this new wave of peer pressure and overwhelming acceptance to become trans. You should totally work to clear the fog, although it's strange that it's foggy in the first place, because we all know.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T18:50:08+00:00

Yeah I just think our main issue is with the TRA crowd and any trans person appalled at what's happening as well doesn't deserve our hate but our ear.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T18:35:10+00:00

You're not a TERF doesn't matter what they say, let them say it they'll eventually hang themselves.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T18:31:33+00:00

The goods they have been sold is that they can change their sex. Anyone can adopt any gender roles, at any time. I don't quite believe that they are altering their body to fit gender. They think they are altering their body to fit their desired sex which they are attaching to a gender. Both are wrong with my views. They will always be a trans woman, because that is just what they are.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T16:47:20+00:00

May I ask what the tenets of feminism are?

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T16:21:59+00:00

I see, that's pretty understandable. I know where everyone is coming from when they find issue with my standpoint here. I wish I could articulate it well. I just don't want to see anyone smeared for sharing our views. It's not that I want to protect them. More like to extend the olive branch. Because it doesn't matter who you are, if you come out as gender critical you will be smeared.

Let me ask you this. So you've been banned from reddit. Smeared online. Let go from your job. Your government has laws in place that make it shockingly hard to question things. It's shockingly easy to obtain serious hormonal drugs. Your public schools are teaching trans ideology beginning at age five. And here we are, on saidit. Boxed in, shaved off, squared away. Pushed to the back of the closet. What are you going to do? How do you make things happen, and are those things working?

I think about that, and I realize that some of our most valuable allies in this may, in fact be, gender critical trans people. You can hate the idea and that's fine, I just am trying to better understand myself in this too and my views as everything progresses. If a trans person wants to get out and advocate for GC, I say great because I'm doing fuck all just posting on the internet and donating here and there.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T16:00:20+00:00

Anyone can be a feminist, and anyone can be GC. I believe we should be open to that.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T15:57:49+00:00

I take your downvote in spirit!

It's ok, I can see not many here agree that we should also have concern for the silent majority of trans folk. I don't wish to scare any of them away from being GC, because anyone can be GC. It's not just about trans ideology.

I think it'd be worthwhile to consider the fact that if we try to shut down the other side completely, as the TRA's are doing to us, then we are no better.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T09:26:43+00:00

That's just it. There's going to be outliers, and freaks of nature within both females and males. Sports aren't inherently fair in that way. We still make it our job to keep the playing field as level as possible, and any male has that automatic oomph on any female in multiple ways. Are there women who could wipe the board with certain male athletes? Sure. Yet I don't see how we can fairly be like "Oh this one here, he was a real wimp when he played as a male he can play." The matter is that in general, there are risks and advantages. A lot of trans women athletes were actually male competitors before as well. Not trying to be mean, just fair we can't consider the outliers as a means to open up the ring to everybody.

Overdrive · 2020-07-21T00:07:55+00:00

This is one of those "no shit sherlock" things that I for the life of me can't wrap my head around. We really need to do extensive studies that take months or years for this?

Have you seen some of these athletes? Have you seen what some TiM fighters have done to woman fighters? We've been right here this whole time going, uuuuuh she sure looks stronger doc.

And they're like. Let them in until we have proven otherwise! It's frustrating. I get the need for studies. It's still frustrating and it's going to continue to be frustrating for ALL of us as we are just absolutely bombared with stuff we already kinda knew.

Overdrive · 2020-07-20T23:49:38+00:00

You should give to magnora7.

It's not like your money would be directly going to a racist's pockets.

Do you pay taxes?

Overdrive · 2020-07-18T19:30:12+00:00

Wooow if that's true. Wow.

Keep on tweaking and I'll keep on peaking I guess.

Overdrive · 2020-07-17T03:58:16+00:00

It's really awful that parents are becoming afraid to decide what they feel is best for their children and being afraid to speak out about it to the world. That fear is probably hurting so many people.

I'm happy that I read your story, I've become much more confident after a period of really, really confusing times. Those are so real for so many women. You have an awesome fearless momma.

Overdrive · 2020-07-16T20:52:53+00:00

I think it's getting into discussion because it's a fast growing phenomenon. We have no choice but to discuss it.

I feel like the turning point was about 500 miles ago, though...

Overdrive · 2020-07-16T20:14:43+00:00

Abolish section 230, totally up for it.

But I also feel like we should convert these "platforms" into public utilities where our rights are protected and free from seedy interventions like this.

Because damn, try getting banned from a platform. Try finding work after if it was in any way a public affair. Try doing business, networking, meeting and servicing customers without these HUGE "platforms". I hate social media, I am glad that I do not need it. But people depend on them to make a living. So I'm more for making them an essential utility and through that, we all have a right to it and our rights on it.

Anyone know if these companies are even private businesses? Aren't they publicly traded? For anyone willing to do leg work, finding that out can really shut down the whole "they're a private company they can do what they want" argument. They fucking can't. Period. Stop gesticulating for blatant censorship.

Overdrive · 2020-07-15T20:54:50+00:00

Who knew that the modern transactivism movement would eventually grow to encompass rampant homophobia! Why are they trying to erase the LGB who adopted and therefore elevated the T! It's fucking shameful.

Also, she mentions a third gender. Where's the third gender bathroom? Oh, yeah. Just throw the third class gender in with the second class gender.

Overdrive · 2020-07-14T00:48:27+00:00

Jesus christ just adopt.

Overdrive · 2020-07-13T23:41:27+00:00

Don't worry babe, there's plenty of people who don't share their political views simply because they have no wish to go down that rabbit hole continuously with people who won't really listen. You can definitely be friends with people that hold different views than you. Staying silent to ensure your personal safety is an unfortunate must. Staying silent on a topic can be rather powerful in it's own way when we're talking about your immediate peer group.

There's other ways that you can give your silent support, if you wish. Things like signing petitions, writing letters or online research. Spreading accurate information into the web is crucial and you can still do it anonymously. I urge you to do what you can but do not put yourself in any kind of danger to do it.

Overdrive · 2020-07-13T04:43:56+00:00

Here you are again, claiming that women are so very coddled, hm?

Social constructs do not have anything to do with our biology in relation to sex. You for some reason seem to be arguing to us the science which we already know. Men are stronger, faster, blah blah. We understand VERY well why there are women's class in sports and men's class in sports. That is why we are here, sir. We understand the concept of weight class and leagues and the value in rules and regulations pertaining to physical activity of the two biological sexes.

That does not explain, however the social discrimination, or why women tend to take on more service jobs than men, are expected to child rear over the men, to take care of home more than men, or bear more emotional and transgressional load more than men.

What would make you happy? Requiring women to sign up for the draft as well? Cause I'm all for it. Are you discrediting the many women who have already done so, or are currently serving right now? I am curious about you, man. The vitriol that you float around with is interesting.

Overdrive · 2020-07-13T04:07:42+00:00

You're welcome. I just knew it'd be welcomed by you, considering the piles of individual analysis that you have already provided.

Women and Power

You should probably read it to comprehend better.

Overdrive · 2020-07-13T02:23:46+00:00

The sad part is the massive wave of negative that has come her way. People aren't actually listening or reading what she has to say before denouncing her. They are blindly following the very vocally offended. People are calling her phobic but they haven't actually read her tweets! They are going off of what others are saying!

I guarantee that most people do not actually care. They see someone call her phobic, so they go "oh she's phobic" and move on with their day. But Jesus the woman, like many of us, have looked into the issues surrounding the movement. We've come to our own conclusions and we hold our own merit in this. We've got skin in the game. The little kids who are pushed into surgery. The female athletes being pushed to the side. The women who think, wait. If gender doesn't matter, why go to such lengths to flaunt it's stereotypes?

Overdrive · 2020-07-13T02:02:07+00:00

You have some interesting takes however the overall feel coming from your writing is that of someone who has become frightened of any sort of power women and women's groups may come to hold and I'd go so far as to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with women holding power or having a say in a program. I do not believe that women will ever come to completely control any "program" although I do not doubt that there is a "sisterhood" and that women can dictate things in a way that not only hurts men, but also other women!

Anyway, on the contrary power is exactly what has elluded women for a very, very long time. Thousands of years. So if you claim that women are the most coddled I would hope that by that you mean subdued and controlled. You cannot deny that women have been historically persecuted against by no other reason than for being female.

I do have concerns about men's rights in all of this because I have firsthand seen advantages given to women with almost no questions asked. Things like child custody battles, alimony, rape accusations. These powers take place in legal court and benefit women more so than men and in some cases the women involved are truly vile people. Poor mothers, refusal to work, cheaters and liars. Although those can also apply to men. And there are reasons such safety nets were put in place to begin with, I do realize that. It is still frightening to see when men are used and abused in this way and I do not think it is right. If you have any literature on that particular imbalance I'd appreciate it. Something that preferably has a solution that you strongly identify with. Thanks.

Overdrive · 2020-07-13T01:18:41+00:00

Holy shit this gave me info I did not previously have. So if you're a woman with unusually high testosterone you're at about 2.7nm/L but the rules for trans women is that you have to be under 10?!?! That's a huge difference between rare levels found in females and what's just blindly accepted coming in as trans.

Not only that but this article suggests that even with hormone suppression, any muscle advantages and bone structure will essentially stay in place. (It is my uneducated guess here that if the trans person has gone through puberty as a male then the advantages will be there.)

This is some crazy shit.

Overdrive · 2020-07-12T02:37:24+00:00

Can't really blame anyone for toeing the new line these days. So many stories of people losing their jobs, getting harassed and smeared online. That's two HUGE aspects of life by today's standards and without them you're fucked. If the movement has enough power and clout, and also blind faith from many many people in the public, anyone who would otherwise speak up just don't. I really fear that this new movement has become too powerful and is on a path too destructive to even alter.

Overdrive · 2020-07-12T02:00:09+00:00

From what I've been reading, lesbians and lesbian groups have the least amount of funding. Transactivism has more money at hand than the gay and lesbian movements combined.

Overdrive