Both: What is the story or meaning behind your username? Why did you choose it?

Yayme · 2020-08-08T02:36:16+00:00

Well I kind of regret sharing now. I want to be exotic!

Yayme · 2020-08-07T19:27:42+00:00

This is insane to me. Can you imagine if Trump said he was going to turn off the water and power to homes that were found to be harboring illegal immigrants? The outrage would be unstoppable. With the state of things now, people would probably literally burn the country to the ground. This guy is acting like a dictator! Freaking Stalin reincarnate. What next? If we don't like what you're doing, we're going to chuck a molitav cocktail in to your house and shoot you when you come out? This is insane!

And just for the record, I am totally in favor of low wage immigrant workers. I have a cleaning lady, a landscaper, a handyman, I hire college students to work for me, and I have rental property. From my perspective, the more low wage workers the better. I'm just using the illegal immigrant issue to prove a point - not suggesting that Trump should actually do that.

Yayme · 2020-08-07T16:53:02+00:00

Thanks for taking it the way it was intended :-)

It's not like it was horrible error that made me gasp. I'm just killing time, trying to avoid putting together a report I have to get out today.

Yayme · 2020-08-07T16:41:43+00:00

Yay! Me!

Also, my real name is hidden in there too.

Yayme · 2020-08-07T16:40:08+00:00

Not trying to be a grammar Nazi, or whatever. I'm just procrastinating... scrolling through the comments tab, and saw your post, and thought I'd let you know it's actually "piqued."

Is it peak or pique your interest?

The traditional idiom is to pique one's interest, with pique meaning “to provoke or arouse.” Like perk, however, peaked can also make sense in context. Peak means “to bring to a maximum value or intensity,” and this is certainly what one might mean when saying, “my interest was peaked.”

Yayme · 2020-08-07T16:33:41+00:00

I have to say dong_master, I agree with you about the cities. It's crazy to me that people even want to live like that.

Yayme · 2020-08-07T14:24:51+00:00

Every other slur on there notes that it's "contemptuous."

Yayme · 2020-08-06T16:54:35+00:00

According to California's own law, that's a human rights violation. - On September 25, 2012, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed Assembly Bill (AB) 685, making California the first state in the nation to legislatively recognize the human right to water.

It is hereby declared to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes

If I were in LA, I would certainly reach out the Public Utilities Commission, which is the body that governs these things, and inquire about why LA is allowed to violate their own law.

https://twitter.com/californiapuc

Edit to add: Here is a Berkeley Law pamphlet about it. I mean, it legitimately looks like he's breaking the California law. - https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/Water_Report_2013_Interactive_FINAL(1).pdf

The Duty to Consider

The human right to water is more than just a declaration in statute. AB 685 creates an ongoing

obligation for state agencies to consider the human

right to water in every relevant agency decision and

activity. The duty to consider cannot be fulfilled

through a single administrative action by a state

agency. The bill’s legislative intent was “to create

a state policy priority and direct state agencies to

explicitly consider the human right to water within

their relevant administrative processes, measures

and actions.”54 AB 685 identifies a specific list

of factors—safety, affordability, and accessibility—that agencies must consider when revising,

adopting, or establishing policies, regulations, and

grant criteria related to domestic water use.55

Yayme · 2020-08-06T16:25:38+00:00

I don't think he is aware.

I think he was a cross dresser before coming out as trans. Then he started seeing Buck Angel's wife, who was a dominatrix. And suddenly, he (Wachowski) is a "woman." Jeez. None of that sentence makes any sense! Buck is a woman pretending to be a man, who was married to a dominatrix, who cheated on Buck with a man pretending to be a woman. Holy crap!

The whole thing is rooted in porn and sex. Because fucking is all women are good for I guess (in their minds).

Yayme · 2020-08-06T16:21:10+00:00

I'm not sure that they've actually had bottom surgery. I heard Bruce Jenner didn't get it because they procedure isn't really very good, and I had always assumed it was the same for them.

If you read about poor Jazz Jennings you'll see he's had to get surgery several times. The reason being, they put him on puberty blockers, so his genitals never developed, and they didn't have anything to construct his neo-vag out of. I feel sorry for that kid.

Yayme · 2020-08-06T16:08:05+00:00

Wachowski found it in what may seem a surprising place — pornography. “The first images I saw that struck a chord with me were trans images in pornography. It was something that unlocked in my brain and I saw these wonderful fearless performers becoming desirable. In my head I could take the leap where I felt that if I could be desirable maybe I could be loved. Will somebody love me? That’s my answer.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/lilly-wachowski-talks-trans-visibility-rare-public-appearance-1228603

Yayme · 2020-08-06T15:31:38+00:00

18 years ago my brother was mowing, and found a little baby kitten. He asked me to take it and I said no. Then he called me and held out the phone so I could hear it crying (he had to keep it in the basement because he had dogs.) So I've had her ever since.

10 years ago I was driving to a neighbors graduation party and saw a puppy running down the highway. We turned around and went back to help it. Four other cars had pulled over on the highway to try to help it too. A highway patrol passed all of us idiots on the side of the highway, and pulled over the block the lane next to the shoulder so we didn't get hit. I chased the "puppy" (turned out to be an 8 year old pom) down in to the weeds, and one of the men helping started yelling "GRAB HIM! GRAB HIM!" So I reached out and snatched him by the scruff of the neck. He turned and made a biting motion towards my arm, but never bit. The cop gave me and the dog a ride home, and the dog slept on my lap the whole way. And I've had him ever since.

Last year my husband left the garage door open when he went to work. I went out to take the kid to school, and a little bitty kitty came running up so happy to see us, just meowing away. I chucked him in the fence and drove off. When I got home he came running up to the car and was about to run under it. I realized he was going to be too dumb to live, and needed help, so we've had him for about a year now.

Yayme · 2020-08-06T15:10:59+00:00

Honestly, I think they've already pushed things too far with the "Corona Crisis", and only the people that were already living in fear of germs are the ones that still believe it.

Riots in Portland get no mention of Covid, while people partying at the Lake of the Ozarks are called Grandma-killers.

I know dozens of people that have tested positive, and only one went to the hospital, and he already had cancer.

Most people I know aren't even reading the news anymore. They just went too far. You can't keep trying to ramp the fear up to 11, while people can see with their own eyes that the fear should be around a 3. It just doesn't work, and people stop believing you.

Yayme · 2020-08-04T16:17:58+00:00

I've read studies that say the trans population is actually more diverse than the US population, so I'm not sure that it really is more prevalent in the white community. I think it's just the transbians that are more prevalent in the white community, and they're very loud about wanting people to like girldicks so they seem more prevalent.

I think most of the TIMs that are gay men actually want to go stealth.

And that's not even addressing the massive increase is TIFs.

And I think most of the toxic allies are white because... unfortunately... feminism. Feminism got twisted in to some "make men feel good about anything they do" movement and so here we are.

So I do think you're just noticing the obnoxious, loud, minority. Which I do know is their argument. But they've decided to let the obnoxious, loud minority lead their movement, so what else can a person notice?

If the sane trans people, that realize TIMs are still biologically men, wanted to lead the movement, we probably wouldn't even be having this conversation. But they've either decided or have been drown out by the people who think calling their penis a vagina magically literally turns it in to a vagina. So here we are.

Yayme · 2020-08-04T15:54:01+00:00

I feel like you're missing the men in sports that transition mainly to have an advantage, and the men in prison that transition so they can be housed with the women.

And I guess you should include the child abuse cases, where you have the kids as young as 4 and 5 whose parents are telling them they're trans. Those are the cases that piss me off.

Yayme · 2020-07-30T19:04:30+00:00

Eeeeewwwwww

Yayme · 2020-07-29T22:23:38+00:00

Chad.

Yayme · 2020-07-29T13:51:46+00:00

I know of two people in Las Vegas and one person in St. Louis this happened to. They all went to get tested, got tired of waiting, so they left before they got tested, and then got results saying they were positive.

Yayme · 2020-07-28T03:00:35+00:00

I feel bad... I assumed.

I freaking love 'em!

Yayme · 2020-07-26T03:00:38+00:00

Hey. I'm Catholic. Welcome home :-)

Just ignore the anti-religious stuff, and you'll be fine. Or maybe even listen to it? I know I believe in a higher power, but I'm certain what it is. LOL. Maybe we should look in to Buddhism?

Yayme · 2020-07-25T20:15:43+00:00

It seems like getting subscribers on reddit was so much easier. Will Saidit be making efforts to attract more people/traffic to its platform?

You're looking for help to get people to subscribe to biblical submission. It's a sub about homeschooling children and keeping women at home. Your sub includes such gems as "I have a husband, a home and a child on the way. Why should I care about equality."

Maybe your lack of traffic is a hint?

Yayme · 2020-07-25T16:14:20+00:00

I think part of the aggressiveness of the TWAW campaign is because if all of society believes they are women, then maybe they will finally feel like women themselves. Because this article makes it pretty obvious that they know they're not women... when they talk about wanting periods for validation, and the altering their hormones so they can have a "cycle."

I wish trash TV was still a thing. I would love to see a Maury Povich episode where he brings a bunch of TIMS on, and gives them lie detector tests. "We asked you if you believe you are a woman... you answered yes. The test determined.. THAT IS A LIE"

Maybe TIMS are like fairies. And if we don't all sit around saying "I do believe in fairies! I do believe in fairies! I do believe in fairies!" They'll just go away?

Jesus, I watch too much TV.

Yayme · 2020-07-25T15:46:40+00:00

LOL!!!

Yayme · 2020-07-25T15:36:01+00:00

Honestly, to me, this whole article just makes it even more obvious that they're not women. They just want to live the experience they think women have.

When I decided to get pregnant, it wasn't because I wanted to get pregnant. It was because I wanted to have a baby. The pregnancy was a means to an end, not the goal it's self. And I HATED being pregnant. Not just because of the acid reflux, or the shortness of breath, or the dietary restrictions, or the never-ending doctor visits, or the daily shots of blood thinner in my stomach (I had a blood clot in my 20ies) - I hated literally the act of being pregnant.

I hated having something inside of me. Maybe I was damaged by the movie Alien when I was a kid, but it completely freaked me out to have this thing living inside me, moving around, peeing in me. It completely freaked me out when she'd kick her foot out to hard my stomach would distend, and you could see there was something living inside of me.

Plus there was the constant worry that this baby, who I already loved so much, might be dead inside me and I wouldn't even know it. How awful - to be carrying around inside me the corpse of something I loved so much.

No, I HATED being pregnant.

And the lie of them being women "because they feel like women" is really obvious in this article to me. They don't know what women feel like, they know what they think women feel like.

Yayme · 2020-07-25T15:10:01+00:00

I mean... I actually like the movies he does. Swiss Army Man and Come to Daddy were quirky and funny. I've heard good things about Horns too.

Just because I think he's a sexist asshole, doesn't mean I'm going to deny that I liked his work. That's pretty much what the TIMS are doing to JK. So I would feel like a hypocrite if I didn't point out that I actually did like his work.

And in my opinion, I think this whole "crediting him with the HP series" will backfire. Can you imagine how awkward it would feel to be in his shoes, and have a bunch of people giving you credit for what was a LOT of hard work on JK's part.

Maybe he's a closet transJK though, and he'll start to believe he actually did write it, and deserves her money and her awards and her house all that?

Yayme · 2020-07-25T04:12:21+00:00

Maybe they’re not all “objects?” maybe they’re using beams of.... whatever? So that wouldn’t really be a flying object.

Yayme · 2020-07-24T20:07:24+00:00

Yay for blocking! I wonder if what I'm feeling now is a tiny bit like what the allied troops felt at the end of WWII?

Yayme · 2020-07-24T15:24:34+00:00

Women have spent decades trying to get to where we want in society - where we don't have to stay home and raise children, where we can be accepted for not looking like a sex-doll, where we can be educated.

Men have done nothing to support each other, or to make changes in the way they are "allowed" to behave in soceity. And now there's such a huge population of men who want to jump ship and become "women" and take advantage of everything we've fought for.

Maybe they should work to make "men" more inclusive of what they want.

Because they are NOT women, they are men. And all of their arguments rely on believing the original life - TWAW.

But I do agree with everything you said.

Yayme · 2020-07-24T15:18:00+00:00

I'm not living in a country with socialized healthcare. But I was using the ACA for two years, and it was a disaster. I didn't qualify for subsidies because we made too much. It started out $600 a month for myself and my daughter. The next year it was $760 per month, and the final year it would have been $860 per month.

We use almost no medical care. Like I said, I had to pay $5K out of pocket to get suspicious moles removed. I feel like the few are using the vast majority of the resources. And FFS is a prime example of that.

I have compassion for those that have real medical issues, and I would love to find a way to help support them. Especially children. My husbands sister died from leukemia when she was around 11, and it was a huge financial burden on the family, as well as being emotionally devastating. And I do donate to the Ronald McDonald house to try to help those with children in need.

What is it a dog whistle for?

Yayme · 2020-07-24T14:52:13+00:00

No one hates TIMS. Well, they shouldn't.

But gender critical women are against what TIMS believe because for as long as women existed, being a woman meant you had to be feminine. And a lot of us don't want to be feminine, and fought for decades to be accepted with what would be considered traditionally masculine behavior.

And just when we were on the cusp of getting rid of those old stupid stereotypes, TIMS came around and said "I like to be feminine, therefore I am LITERALLY a woman." It's offensive to all women that are not feminine, and don't want to be feminine. It doesn't understand in the slightest what being a woman actually entails - and reduces us to a dress and a pretty face.

And that's not even getting in to giving children hormones, or perform double mastectomies on 14 year old girls, and letting 6'5" men play contact sports against women, or pressuring gay men and lesbian women to have sex with people they don't want to have sex with, or letting men in women's prisons where they're raping women.

The whole thing is a shit show.

Yayme · 2020-07-24T14:42:19+00:00

I knew it wouldn't be a popular comment here, and in retrospect maybe I shouldn't have made it. I know that radical feminism has it's roots in Marxism, and I do think it's disrespectful to go against what I know are the basic beliefs of radical feminism in what is literally a radical feminism sub. I'm not here to troll, and posting what I know is against the basic beliefs does seem like trolling.

So I'm going to go ahead and delete the comment.

Yayme · 2020-07-24T13:51:33+00:00

Yeah I've noticed they often compare trying to keep transwomen from women's bathrooms to racial segregation

They do this specifically because racial segregation is such a huge stain on America's history. But they're ignoring that racial segregation included swimming pools, libraries, schools, buses, lunch counters, drinking fountains, AND bathrooms.

And not only were the facilities for black people were far inferior to the white bathrooms, they were also not very many of them. They intentionally had a limited number of bathrooms for black people, to keep them away from town. If you can't pee while you travel, then you pretty much can't travel. Also, black men and black women had to share the same bathroom.

Everything about racial segregation was designed to make black people feel inferior to white people. Not letting TIMS in women's bathrooms is not to "make them feel inferior." There is a bathroom right next door to the women's bathroom that is just as well designed as the women's and is perfectly usable. They're not being asked to hold it in for hours and hours in order to limit their travel and keep them out of public spaces. They're just being asked to use the sex-appropriate bathroom.

To say that it's discrimination would mean that ALL men are being discriminated against - that we are supplying them with inferior bathrooms intentionally, to make sure they know their place.

It's such a dishonest argument to compare it to racial segregation.

Yayme · 2020-07-24T13:13:08+00:00

So, I was going to address the whole "slut-shaming" argument.

I do understand that shaming sex-workers is not helpful in the slightest, and in fact probably does real damage. And I also understand that women usually turn to sex-work either out of complete desperation, or because some pimp has gotten them hooked on drugs.

I think liberal feminism's embrace of sex-work is sort of a "live for today" answer to the problem of how can women make ends meet. I mean, I have to doubt that anyone wants their child, or their sister, or their mother, or their girlfriend, or whatever doing sex work. And if feminism is to advocate for women, I think it needs to consider the future of women as well as the current state of women. We need to build a good path for the women that will come after us... and I don't think anyone legitimately views sex-work as a good path for future girls.

And I know that women who have engaged in sex work often claim that it's done no damage to them.... but the facts speak a different story. I saw a doc about porn workers, and it mentioned that quite a few ex porn starts actually shoot themselves in the vagina to commit suicide (which broke my heart). So, I tried to google the stats on it.. and found out there is a category of porn dedicated to shooting women in the vagina.

I kind of hate people right now, and I feel damaged for knowing that's what gets some people off.

Yayme · 2020-07-24T03:14:48+00:00

I have. It tastes like nothing really. You can mostly just taste the veggies and the dressings and the bun. I mean, it's not bad, but it's not beef.

Yayme · 2020-07-24T02:18:42+00:00

Whenever anyone says "transwomen" are women, replace "transwomen" with "men", and you will see why they don't belong in women's spaces.

Thanks for coming to my Captain Obvious Talk.

Yayme · 2020-07-24T00:05:29+00:00

I think BLM, if it ever even was real, has long since been compromised.

It's funny, I'm pretty anti-transwomen shoehorning their way in to women's spaces, so I see the BLM movement as trying to further shove the trans agenda down people's throats, trying to make it about how black TRANS lives matter. You feel like it's about trying to subjugate white people (I think). I also see people who say it's a communist movement. I think probably all of that is a little true. When something gets that big, you get a lot of fringe groups that join and try to get attention on their causes, and it just turns in to a big cluster fuck.

I don't have a problem with calling out police violence though - and it sounds like you don't either.

So because the solution takes personal responsibility and actually making a difference in your own community instead of tearing it down, black people cant do it? All they can do is riot about something that probably won't even affect them? But something that will affect more of them, they stay silent on.

The life expectancy of white men actually went down recently. Like by 1/4 a year, or some small number... but it went down. From fentanyl. I don't really see a lot of white people doing marches for that. The opoiod issue has finally gotten some press, but it's taken decades. Does that mean white should be denied medical care, because white people obviously don't give a shit about their health, when so many white people are dying from fentanyl overdoses?

Yayme · 2020-07-23T23:30:11+00:00

They are saying the amount of black people being killed by police is currently being blown out of proportion

This is where I think your opinion diverges from most everyone else. I think any amount of unjustified killing by the police should be cause for scrutiny, changes in policy such as and mandatory body cams, and murder charges against police officers, regardless of the victims race.

and if black lives do matter they wouldn't being killing each other like they do.

Honestly, that makes zero sense. Because they are the victims of violence more often, they don't deserve the protection of the law?

And maybe your issue is that BLM isn't protesting gang violence. But let's be honest here, who are they going to protest? Like are they supposed to march up and down the street with signs saying "De-fund the Crips" and "De-fund the Bloods"

Yayme · 2020-07-23T21:19:30+00:00

So, it looks like you seem to be assuming that BLM is actually a grassroots organization that is fighting against police brutality. I do disagree with that assumption... but it looks like you believe it. And you're arguing against it. That's just weird to me.

Someone says "We need to stop police from killing black people" and your only response is "not until they stop killing each other." If I said "We need to end police brutality against white men" would your response be "not until they stop killing each other?"

It doesn't really seem like you care about black on black violence. It seems like you're just worried about ... well.. about the police not being able to kill black people. And that my friend, is a weird thing to worry about. I mean, even if like 50 out of 100 black men shoot each other, does that mean it's ok for the police to kill some too?

Unfortunately, abusers know to look for the vulnerable in society and prey on them. Same with the rapist priests. They knew to prey on children who came from shitty families. Would you say that until their families care about them, it's ok for priests to rape them? Probably not. Same with poor black men who might be in gangs. Even if their society doesn't care about them, it's not ok for the police to kill them.

And, when you talk about black on black violence, you have to take in to consideration the decade the CIA spent selling cheap cocaine in the hood. This is what allowed the gangs to make money, and to spread their violence across the country. They literally got their seed money from the CIA.

Which does kind of make it seem like, at least to the government, black lives don't really matter.

Yayme · 2020-07-23T20:08:17+00:00

The ability to mute users would solve the problem. From what I’ve been seeing it’s just a handful of the same people over and over.

Yayme · 2020-07-23T19:54:22+00:00

Debate with a TRA always boils down to the following issues -

"You can't debate the issues because you're harming trans people by talking about it." What an insidious way to get your agenda through.

We're supposed to believe that a person who identifies as Xer is doing it in good faith, while Piers is assumed to be identifying as a two-spirit penguin for malicious reasons.

I also always love "When trans people tell you they feel something, believe them." But when you point out that actual women feel in danger with them in their spaces, they hand wave it away as women being drama queens.

If you ask if TIMS should be allowed to participate win women's sports, you're questioning their "right to exist." Playing rugby is not synonymous with existing.

If you talk about having separate bathrooms they scream "BLACK WOMEN!"

Absolutely nothing about what they say is honest. It's all an appeal to emotion.

Yayme · 2020-07-23T19:25:13+00:00

He's wearing ladies glasses.

Yayme · 2020-07-23T17:15:11+00:00

What is your answer? Abolish private property and take people's homes and give them to the poor? You people always talk about how we have more vacant homes than we have homeless, and how we should take them. You know most of those homes are in places like Flint Michigan, right? You want to move all the homeless to places that are already experiencing a blight.

Or, we could build government housing, and provide that. Like we did with the housing projects. That turned out great too, right? Put all the poor people in one district, so they get zero money in taxes for the public school system or police or libraries, or even grocery stores with fresh food.

Pretty much everything the government runs is bloated, corrupt, and mismanaged. I'd prefer not to let them get their hooks in to housing.

If you want to suggest raising the minimum wage, I'm all for that. But lets go ahead an avoid communism. For everyone's sake.

Yayme · 2020-07-23T17:00:46+00:00

I mean, this article is kind of pointless. It would have been much more meaningful to compare the state minimum wage with the housing costs, rather than the federal minimum wage. Which does still leave most states short. But, it's not hard data to get. So it makes me suspect their housing costs data as well.

If you're going to provide numbers, you should make sure they're meaningful, because there is always going to be some asshole like me, who works with numbers for a living, who is going to come in and say "What you're looking at here is not relevant."

Below is a list of the actual minimum wage for each state

1 . Alabama $7.25 (Federal, no state minimum)

2 . Alaska $10.19

3 . Arizona $12.00

4 . Arkansas $10.00

5 . California $13.00*

6 . Colorado $12.00

7 . Connecticut $11.00 ($12.00 effective 9/1/20)

8 . Delaware $9.25

9 . Washington D.C. $15.00

10 . Florida $8.56

11 . Georgia $5.15 (Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the $7.25 Federal minimum wage)

12 . Hawaii $10.10

13 . Idaho $7.25

14 . Illinois $10.00

15 . Indiana $7.25

16 . Iowa $7.25

17 . Kansas $7.25

18 . Kentucky $7.25

19 . Louisiana $7.25 (Federal, no state minimum)

20 . Maine $12.00

21 . Maryland $11.00

22 . Massachusetts $12.75

23 . Michigan $9.65

24 . Minnesota $10.00**

25 . Mississippi $7.25 (Federal, no state minimum)

26 . Missouri $9.45

27 . Montana $8.65

28 . Nebraska $9.00

29 . Nevada $8.00***

30 . New Hampshire $7.25 (Federal, no state minimum)

31 . New Jersey $11.00

32 . New Mexico $9.00

33 . New York $11.80**** (statewide)

34 . North Carolina $7.25

35 . North Dakota $7.25

36 . Ohio $8.70

37 . Oklahoma $7.25

38 . Oregon $11.50****

39 . Pennsylvania $7.25

40 . Rhode Island $10.50

41 . South Carolina $7.25 (Federal, no state minimum)

42 . South Dakota $9.30

43 . Tennessee $7.25 (Federal, no state minimum)

44 . Texas $7.25

45 . Utah $7.25

46 . Vermont $10.96

47 . Virginia $7.25

48 . Washington $13.50

49 . West Virginia $8.75

50 . Wisconsin $7.25

51 . Wyoming $5.15 (Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the $7.25 Federal minimum wage)

Yayme · 2020-07-23T03:54:43+00:00

Ok. What I feel like you're trying to figure out is if it's a federal crime, not necessarily a felony. Like meaning it applies to everyone in the US.

States have different laws. Like, in Colorado marijuana is legal, and in other states in not. And in fact, it's still illegal at a federal level.

There are federal weapons laws, like laws about selling guns, or convicted felons having guns, or using gun committing some crimes. But I don't think, on a federal level, there is a law regarding pointing a non-working gun at someone.

And I think pointing a non-working gun at someone in order to scare them would be considered assault if anything, assuming you are not defending yourself with it. Assault is where you make someone think you're going to hurt them. Battery is where you actually hurt them. That's why people usually get charged with assault and battery.

But no, I don't think at a federal level, across all of the US, we have one law regarding pointing a non-working gun at someone. I think those laws are handled at a state level.

Yayme · 2020-07-23T03:14:54+00:00

I feel like you're fucking with me at this point man, so I'm just going to leave you this link and call the conversation over on my part.

Non-powder & Toy Guns: State by State

Edit to add: I think I figured it out. You're not from the US are you?

Yayme · 2020-07-23T01:26:58+00:00

It's because the antibody test tests for all conronaviruses, not just Covid.

A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/serology-overview.html

Yayme · 2020-07-22T22:26:48+00:00

Same :-)

Yayme · 2020-07-22T15:57:05+00:00

I don't think we will agree

Probably not fully. I can see where you're coming from - I get frustrated when an RFP in my wheelhouse is put out, but 100% set aside for disable veterans. But not frustrated enough to want to do away with AA altogether.

Can I ask - have you ever been impacted by AA at all? Either negative or positive, or do you just dislike it in theory?

Yayme · 2020-07-22T14:10:22+00:00

Well, at a Federal Level, there was the case below. But it's a guy robbing a bank, not a guy defending his property, so obviously it's quite a different use of a fake or unloaded gun.

Arrest and trial of Lamont Julius McLaughlin

At approximately 9:30 a.m. on July 26, 1984 Lamont Julius McLaughlin and a companion entered a bank in Baltimore, Maryland wearing stocking masks and gloves.[7] McLaughlin "displayed a dark handgun" and ordered patrons to put their hands up.[7] McLaughlin's companion then jumped over the counter and placed approximately $3,400 in a brown paper bag.[7] When McLaughlin and his companion attempted to leave the bank, they were immediately apprehended by police.[7] Officers seized McLaughlin's gun, but discovered it was not loaded.[7] At trial, McLaughlin pleaded guilty to charges of bank robbery and bank larceny.[8] He was also found guilt of assault during a bank robbery “by the use of a dangerous weapon" based on the district court's determination that the unloaded gun was a "dangerous weapon" within the meaning of federal bank robbery statutes.[9] On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed McLaughlin's conviction.[8] McLaughlin appealed again to the Supreme Court of the United States, which granted certiorari on November 4, 1985.[10]

Opinion of the Court

Writing for a unanimous court, Justice John Paul Stevens provided three reasons why an unloaded gun is a "dangerous weapon" under the federal bank robbery statute.[8] First, Justice Stevens argued that "the law reasonably may presume that such an article is always dangerous even though it may not be armed at a particular time or place."[8] Second, he argued that "the display of a gun instills fear in the average citizen," even if it is not loaded, and "creates an immediate danger that a violent response will ensue."[11] Third, he argued that an unloaded gun "can cause harm when used as a bludgeon."[12]

Yayme · 2020-07-22T13:28:00+00:00

I don't see how the doctor argument is invalid at all. So if that person is admitted and doesn't graduate, she just wasted resources and time that could have been used for someone more capable that can graduate and can become a doctor.

is not the same thing as

I don't want my doctor to have been admitted to medical school only thanks to to his ethnicity, with lower scores than others that were not admitted.

I don't have the interests of low performers at heart when I want high performers to get the privilege they're applying for and that they deserve.

And maybe AA is outdated, maybe we have made enough progress where it's unnecessary. But it doesn't really seem like it from where I'm sitting.

And I think there's a difference between forcing people to give the chronically overlooked a chance, and forcing them to keep incompetent students/contractors/musicians. Except I guess maybe in Europe where they pretty much can't get rid of people for any reason.

Yayme · 2020-07-22T13:11:01+00:00

Again, I'm not worried about people "respecting me" so that argument carries no weight with me. I don't care if someone I beat out on a job "respects me." I'm worried about being successful.

I agree that addressing disparities would be a much better solution.

Just because someone gets admitted to college because of preferential treatment doesn't mean they get to graduate, so the doctor argument seems invalid. too.

Again, I feel that anyone arguing against affirmative action, which has benefited me, doesn't really have MY best interests at heart, so I'm not really going to care what they say. BUT, I 100% agree that it would be better to address these issues at the root, rather than way on down the line, like we do now.

Yayme · 2020-07-22T12:58:31+00:00

Whaaaaaat? It's the Missouri (where St. Louis is) statue on Unlawful Use of a Weapon. Which is what they're being charged with.

I have no idea how I can explain it better than that. And your smug little "Try again" isn't really helping.

If it were a felony to point a fake gun at people, all water pistols would be outlawed. All toy guns would be outlawed. Children playing cops and robbers would be committing felonies.

I don't understand your thinking here.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T22:20:29+00:00

And that's fair enough.. but I'll be honest, people being resentful would never be enough reason to persuade me to be for or against anything.

People will always be resentful. If you could say that it doesn't help the people it's targeted to help, or show how it's not necessary (not you specifically, just people who are against it in general) then I might be persuaded to change my mind. But resentful people are going to resent. And, I would wonder if they have my best interests in mind if they're so resentful of institutions trying to level the playing field a little.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T21:48:35+00:00

I'll be disappointed too. My kid keep begging to ride around with four and five kids on the golf cart, and it amuses me to no end to yell "NO, IT'S NOT A DAMN CLOWN CAR!"

Yayme · 2020-07-21T21:47:05+00:00

Unfortunately, just because the police killed him, doesn't mean he was committing a crime.

I quoted the statute for you below... but is a BB gun considered lethal? I don't even know.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T21:44:56+00:00

2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 571.030. — Unlawful use of weapons--exceptions--penalties. 571.030. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful use of weapons if he or she knowingly:

(1) Carries concealed upon or about his or her person a knife, a firearm, a blackjack or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use; or

(2) Sets a spring gun; or

(3) Discharges or shoots a firearm into a dwelling house, a railroad train, boat, aircraft, or motor vehicle as defined in section 302.010, RSMo, or any building or structure used for the assembling of people; or

(4) Exhibits, in the presence of one or more persons, any weapon readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner; or

(5) Possesses or discharges a firearm or projectile weapon while intoxicated; or

(6) Discharges a firearm within one hundred yards of any occupied schoolhouse, courthouse, or church building; or

(7) Discharges or shoots a firearm at a mark, at any object, or at random, on, along or across a public highway or discharges or shoots a firearm into any outbuilding; or

(8) Carries a firearm or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use into any church or place where people have assembled for worship, or into any election precinct on any election day, or into any building owned or occupied by any agency of the federal government, state government, or political subdivision thereof; or

(9) Discharges or shoots a firearm at or from a motor vehicle, as defined in section 301.010, RSMo, discharges or shoots a firearm at any person, or at any other motor vehicle, or at any building or habitable structure, unless the person was lawfully acting in self-defense; or

(10) Carries a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any other weapon readily capable of lethal use into any school, onto any school bus, or onto the premises of any function or activity sponsored or sanctioned by school officials or the district school board.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T18:34:37+00:00

They've told the police. That's why the whole felony weapons charge probably won't stick either, and it's probably a bluff too. The weapon has to be lethal for it to be a felony charge, I believe.

Which is why the keep reporting that his was unloaded and there was no ammo in the house.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T18:07:50+00:00

Um, read it? Just like I did?

Or do you mean the people rioting? They weren't supposed to know. That was the whole point. It's called a bluff.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T18:02:34+00:00

It wasn't a real gun. And she doesn't know shit about guns, they already said that.

The inoperable pistol was taken by police while the AR-15 rifle that Mark McCloskey was holding, was reportedly seized by police on July 10, 2020 at the home

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/st-louis-couple-pointed-guns-protesters-charged/63-be631d76-b3fc-4180-9d69-612b79bbc91d

Yayme · 2020-07-21T17:54:37+00:00

I've read her gun wasn't even real. He said she doesn't know shit about guns.

Watkins told reporters the pistol Patricia McCloskey used was only a prop from a federal trial that the couple used in a case. Both of them are attorneys.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/st-louis-couple-pointed-guns-protesters-charged/63-be631d76-b3fc-4180-9d69-612b79bbc91d

Yayme · 2020-07-21T16:03:23+00:00

So, if you're going to talk about this, you have to talk about affirmative action. Which is really what this is. Do you think affirmative action is a bad thing?

I guess I personally don't. I mean, I have benefited from it. I am a small business owner, and I contract with major corporations and government agencies. They are required by law to have a diverse supply chain (if they're a tier 1 government supplier or a government agency.)

And the truth is, it's hard to break in to the "Old Boy's Network" of corporate contracting. I guess I'm fortunate enough in that my line of work is similar to accounting, so men do typically view it as "women's work." But it was still hard as hell to get to a point where my business was operating under it's own momentum, and I wasn't always struggling to prove that I know what I'm talking about when I'm pushing back against a man in the industry.

And I realize that doing it "blind" is suppose to remove all bias. But should we allow for some bias? And I'm honestly pretty skeptical that even when judging "blind" the judges don't know who the person playing is. Don't they all sort of have their own flavor? Like when the judges on Ink Master judge blind, they all sort of know who did the tattoo. I would assume the judges will know who is auditing, and will try to guess, and in some instances can guess.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T15:34:21+00:00

Hollywood does business with stars who pull this kind of crap all the time and it's no big deal.

Um, no they don't. Robert Downey Jr. was almost out of the biz because no film could get him insured, since he was such a flake. Same thing happened to Lindsay Lohan. I suspect the reason Juliette Lewis stopped working is because of her drug abuse. Britney Spears stopped getting work.

When you derail projects you stop getting projects.

Honestly, I feel like you have some weird agenda posting all this. Johnny, is that you???

Yayme · 2020-07-21T14:27:03+00:00

Ah, well, I didn't realize the Disney Exec got with you and explained all their reasons for firing Johnny Depp. Clearly, you know exactly what went down, and why.

It couldn't have had anything to do with him needing his lines fed to him through an ear piece. Or being pretty strung out on drugs and alcohol. Or completely broke, so he was taking pretty much any role offered him just to make a buck, completely ruining his own brand.

No, you know exactly why. And it's the boogywoman who did it.

He used to be a star you could bank on. People would come to see it just for Johnny Depp. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Blow. Hell I just watched Donny Brasco like two nights ago. Now he's a 57 year old eccentric old-dude. Hell, even the idea of a 57 year old woman still having a contract with Disney seems implausible.

But, go ahead and blame it on a woman. Ha!

Yayme · 2020-07-21T13:19:51+00:00

This whole situation pisses me off.

What were the alternate scenarios if this thing escalated? They either let the protesters hurl rocks through their window while the couple sit inside shouting "We're on your side!".... OR they wait until protesters hurl rocks through the window and shoot them dead.

To me, it makes more sense for them to outside saying "We're armed, so lets not escalate this."

And to say that people are not allowed to defend their property during riots is just plain bullshit. Is it because they were the homeowners? If they would have been hired security guards would it have been ok then?

This whole thing just feels like an intimidation practice by the City of St Louis to tell people they are helpless during the riots.

Peaceful protests my fucking aunt fanny.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T12:49:31+00:00

I was just confused. When I read the headline, I thought some filthy commie pink-o had gotten his comeuppance. Then I read the article, and it said nothing about seizing the means of production, and then I read the name of the sub, and I got it.

Can't we just accept that everybody except me is human filth?

I'll allow it.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T12:39:38+00:00

That's crazy!

Also, kind-of a heads up, I guess "clown world" is a term used by antisemitic people. There was a huge discussion about it on the old GC, and to be honest I thought it was just someone being a drama queen and looking for an excuse to police others language.

Then we get here, where the anti-Semites are rampant, and lo and behold, "Clown World" is everywhere!

Yayme · 2020-07-21T12:28:08+00:00

No. It excuses Disney dropping him.

Yayme · 2020-07-21T03:22:41+00:00

Wait... do Asians call white people pinkies??

Yayme · 2020-07-21T03:17:45+00:00

If you can make it all the way to the end, it's not that bad.

Spoiler alert -

"Obviously a man isn’t anyone who identifies as one — despite identifying as one, the most important facets of manhood never came to me, namely the dick that I am still angry at God for not giving me. A man is a man, he was born as one. And I am a female — and to say it another way, a woman. And a woman cannot be a man. But I can be a lesbian, which is the next best thing. As it would turn out, it is even better."

Yayme · 2020-07-21T03:07:03+00:00

Awwwwwwwe

Yayme · 2020-07-21T03:03:03+00:00

Or maybe it's because Johnny Depp is a shit show? Have you read this interview?

Over the past 18 months, there has been little but bad news for Depp. In addition to the financial woes, there were reports he couldn’t remember his lines and had to have them fed to him through an earpiece. He had split from his longtime lawyer and agent. And he was alone. His tabloid-scarred divorce from actress Heard is complete, but not before there were persuasive allegations of physical abuse that Depp vehemently denies. Depp’s inner circle had begged him to not wed Heard or to at least obtain a prenup. Depp ignored his loved ones’ advice. And there were whispers that Depp’s recreational drug and alcohol use were crippling him.......

There are a few things Depp insists TMG got wrong – for example, the $30,000 a month the Mandels claimed he spent on wine.

“It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine,” says Depp. “Because it was far more.”

Depp says they got the Hunter S. Thompson cannon story wrong too. “By the way, it was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the fucking sky,” says Depp. “It was $5 million.”

Yayme · 2020-07-20T23:50:54+00:00

That was actually really funny.

Yayme · 2020-07-20T23:50:46+00:00

Spoiler alert: They're both white, dude.

Ooooh. I get what you're saying. The racist should be played by an Asian or a black person.

Yayme · 2020-07-20T22:53:15+00:00

Did you even GCDebatesQT before?

From the sidebar - The rules about language usage will not be changed. Use of TERF, MTT, FTT, TIF, TIM, and the t-slur and misgendering of other users is not permitted.

Edit to add: The idea was that it was supposed to be respectful debate. It wasn't supposed to make anyone feel shitty. And maybe I could understand more about trans people, and they could understand more about me. So, most people tried to be nice.

Natal woman. Trans man. Whatever you want to say.

Yayme · 2020-07-20T22:51:21+00:00

Would you say women with very small breasts have mental health issues simply because their breasts are very small?

Most of the ones I know, unfortunately, have had very low self esteem. And most of them get breast implants.

TQs say "man" does not mean male and "woman" does not mean female, and that the words "man" and "woman" refer to the social roles and gender instead of sex.

Some of them will give lip service to that argument for like two seconds, and then shout on about how TWAW, and they need to be in women's sports, like we divide sports for social reasons, and not biological reasons.

And now the new argument is that biological sex is a spectrum.

They believe that they are women because they believe they are women. That's really all it amounts too. And playing along with them and coddling them is just making it worse. I feel bad for the ones who have legitimate dysphoria. But my sympathy only extends so far.

Yayme · 2020-07-20T22:30:50+00:00

Well good for Schuyler! I stand corrected. Though most of what you linked actually happened when he was still a she. It was certainly hard determine when he transitioned. It looks like below is the relevant part, since he transitioned in 2014... and the rest of it is when he was competing with women.

In 2019, Bailar completed his college career posting the "third fastest" time for 100-yard-breaststroke for the Harvard team in the 2018-2019 season and won his third Ivy-League Championship ring as part of the Crimson's highest ranked team since the1960/1961 season - 8th at the 2019 NCAA Championships.[27][28] Although Bailar began his college swimming career with low expectations, his final 100-yard breaststroke time ranked him in the top 15% of all NCAA swims for the season and in the top 34% of all NCAA Division 1 swims for the season.[29]

The other two are kind of silly. A racewalker who never even competed, and a person who boxed one man.

But good for Schuyler! I mean, it's not like he was crushing records like the transwomen do... but, when he was on a team, his team did do pretty well. He didn't ruin it for them.

Yayme · 2020-07-20T21:58:36+00:00

No. I said a fake penis is not the same class of penis as a real penis. And then I said maybe trans women would be considered in the class of men that has a fake penis, I guess.

And yes, I'm saying men with a MICRO penis probably have mental health issues. Maybe you're not familiar with a micro penis? It's less than three inches when erect. You can browse their sub at reddit if you want, and make your own determinations as to their mental health. But the sub description is -A community dedicated to the 0.06% of men with micropenis. Whether you want positivity and support, humiliation and teasing, or simply discussion; if it has to do with abnormally small penises, it belongs here.

I suspect you're just itching to get on your high horse and preach some moral outrage to me because I'm being honest here and saying dick size and quality matters. But I don't care. It does matter. There is no way I would have dated a man with a fake penis, or a micro-penis when I was looking for a life partner. And if you think most people don't feel they way I do, then you're either deluding yourself, of your clueless.

So, why any trans man would think it's going to be a better life with a fake penis, is beyond my understanding. Most people aren't looking for a sympathy project when they're choosing a life partner. They're looking for a good fit for everything - sexually, values, morals, lifestyle, goals. And SEX is a big part of that for most people. And for most people who like dick, size and being real matters.

GC says trans men cannot compete in women's sports if they are on performance enhancing drugs, such as testosterone.

So, I answered all your questions. What about mine....

What do you mean by a "man?"

Do you mean these transmen should be housed in men's prisions if they commit a crime? Most of them don't really want that.

Do you mean they should be able to wear masculine clothes? They can.

Do you mean they should be able to compete in men's sports? They never seem to want to do that. Except the one wrestler Mack Beggs, who suddenly fell off the face of the Earth after highschool. I've been watching to see how well he competes against real men, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. That asshole ruining the wrestling experience for every woman in his district. Selfish cheater.

Or do you mean what I suspect you mean - which is that gay men should have sex with them.

Yayme · 2020-07-20T14:21:12+00:00

I used to spend a lot of time in the conspiracy subreddit, and there was an obvious anti-Jewish contingent there.

Tons of posts against the white hats, and talking about how the Jewish people were exaggerating the violence there. One of the posts that stood out to me what about a little boy who was hurt in a bombing - the OP had all these other posts showing how it was staged because of whatever reason - the kid was smiling. The white hats staged him - he was barely bleeding. Whatever the reasons. But as soon as you looked in to the article at all, you would find out the little boys brother was killed in the same bombing.

They would compare the murdered Jewish people to cookies. And who knows, maybe the number of people killed in the Holocaust has been inflated - maybe, like with Covid, they counted every single Jewish death as a Holocaust victim. I don't know. But to compare burning human being to baking cookies is obviously going to be met with disgust. And that's WHY you do it. Fucking childish edgelords.

They show the same picture over and over of the Jewish people involved in the MSM. I've seen that picture for at least five years now.

They talk about how much money we give to Isreal - which FYI, is in the form of weapons, not cold hard cash. Now, if you want to talk about proxy wars, and us giving them weapons, that's a discussion worth having. But to imply that we're giving them cash is just disingenuous.

I do believe there is probably a lot of child abuse going on in the Orthodox communities. Unfortunately our religious leaders of all stripes have proven to be disgusting degenerates. And if you want to talk about ALL of them, I think that's fine. But to single out one religion, and to keep posting that one graphic and repulsive story over and over about the little boy getting raped in a bath house is just rage-bait.

If you want to talk about the Rothschilds, lets do it. I'm all ears. If you want to look at how the international bankers are trying to start one world government, and Covid is part of that agenda. Let's talk about it!

But to just post over and over stupid racial slurs against ALL Jewish people for the sake of getting a reaction is honestly tired, and old, and repetitive, and not worthy of any kind of response from anyone.

I'm not saying to censor it. As I said, I've been a big fan of conspiracies forever, so I've read it all a million times, and I know to just ignore it. But it's hateful and juvenile, and I can see how it rubs some people the wrong way.

Yayme · 2020-07-19T23:00:55+00:00

My questions are, can you explain why a neopenis/phalloplasty is not a penis? Phalloplasty, which is the construction of a penis, was originally created for men that weren't even "trans", why weren't their neopenises as real as any other man's penis?

A man-made penis is not the same as a nature made penis. I would suspect that men, born as men, who needed a phalloplasty probably had some serious issues with it as well. I doubt they were like "oops, my dick got ripped off in a horse riding accident, but now I have the faux penis made out of arm skin, and it's literally the exact same thing, and I have zero mental issues or mental scars. I'm A-OK."

If the penis of a man that has erectile dysfunction and can not get hard on its own so it needs a device called a penile implant to make it go hard and can not release sperm is still a penis, then why is the neopenis which can not get hard on its own and needs a device called a penile implant to get hard and can not release sperm be a penis? Can you explain why?

Pretty much the same answer as above. You're talking about faux, or unusable penises. These are men who were in accidents, or men who have medical conditions. Medicine has looked for an answer to help them function as men, because they ARE men... but to act like it's the gold standard of a man is disingenuous. And I do feel bad for them, but it still doesn't change the fact that I am skeptical that they are going to through life with a non-functioning, faux penis and they have zero mental issues from that.

Men with micro-penises have serious mental issues from that too.

Basically what you're saying is, look at this group of men who were disfigured, or who have serious medical conditions. We still consider them men, so why don't we consider women who do this to themselves men as well. And honestly, at the end of the day, maybe these transmen are considered about the same class of men as the natal men who lost their penises in some freak accident.

And if a man is something with a penis, then imagine that a man removes all of his genitals in surgery, why will he still remain a man after surgery?

What do you mean by a "man?"

Do you mean these transmen should be housed in men's prisions if they commit a crime? Most of them don't really want that.

Do you mean they should be able to wear masculine clothes? They can.

Do you mean they should be able to compete in men's sports? They never seem to want to do that. Except the one wrestler Mack Beggs, who suddenly fell off the face of the Earth after highschool. I've been watching to see how well he competes against real men, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. That asshole ruining the wrestling experience for every woman in his district. Selfish cheater.

Or do you mean what I suspect you mean - which is that gay men should have sex with them.

I think most gay men are ALL about the penis. I would guess that even a natal man who had a faux penis that didn't function would have a hard time finding partners at a gay orgy.

So. To sum it up - Is it a penis? Again. A glass eye isn't an eye. Fake boobs, aren't the same either. A prosthetic leg isn't the same. Do they all function in a similar manner? Sure. But they're not the same as the natural thing they are made to mimic. I'll be honest, as a straight woman, I wouldn't want a fake penis made from leg skin that you have to pop up, or whatever. I just can't see it being sexy to look at, or interact with, or any of that stuff.

And I'm sorry if that's cold, but at least for me, it's honest. I'd stay WITH my husband if he lost his dick... but I doubt that I would have gotten with him in the first place if he had a faux dick.

Yayme · 2020-07-19T19:02:58+00:00

I don't know about useful, but I really like sky guide. You can point it at anything in the sky and it will identify it.

Yayme · 2020-07-19T18:45:38+00:00

Men are more likely to be violently attacked or murdered by a stranger on the street, but they don't have it constantly rubbed in their face all the time. They are allowed to go about their lives comfortable and happy. Why is that?

I guess I disagree with the assumption that they're all comfortable and happy and seemingly oblivious to the danger they're in.

I had two young black men deliver and set up my treadmill, and when I pointed to the stairs to show them the way to the basement, they both stiffened up a little, and seemed nervous about going downstairs alone in the house in a rural area. I suspect it was because of the color of their skin.

I was taking cab home from the mall around Christmastime one year, and I was staying with a friend who lived on a dead end road. The white cab driver definitely freaked the fuck out about that. He kept saying "This is a dead end road." I felt bad for him.

I've read accounts of men who work for the utility companies almost all having a conceal and carry license.

I think part of the issue of feeling like it's "rubbed in women's faces" stems from blaming the victim. If a man gets assaulted, it's because he was in a bad neighborhood. If a woman gets raped, she was dressed like a slut.

Yayme · 2020-07-17T19:14:11+00:00

I've never understood this argument. Even assuming it's true (spoiler alert, it's not) The argument is "My brain thinks my body should be a woman's body." Ok, so you have brain damage, or a birth defect in your brain, or whatever. That still doesn't physically make you a woman. We don't segregate spaces and sports based on "feelings." We segregate based on biological reasons, for women's safety and for fairness.

How do you get from having a birth defect, to being literally a woman? Are all the women with "man hands" literally men?

And of course, a lot of people say you don't even need dysphoria to transition. These are the men that want to be "the vessel of another's desire" or the women who don't want to be victims. Or whatever. These are the people who don't fit in with the stereotypes associated with their gender - the feminine men, and the masculine women.

And then there are the complete and total sickos. The wax my balls folks.

Yayme · 2020-07-17T02:15:58+00:00

I love the phrase magic woman essence.

Yayme · 2020-07-16T18:44:51+00:00

So, lets imagine your complaint in a real world scenario.

Imagine that I don't like the boy scouts. Maybe I'm super allergic to pollen, so I can't go in the woods, so I don't want anyone to go in the woods. Should the boy scouts let me in to their meetings, so I can stand there and argue with them about how bad the woods suck. And tell them they're unfair assholes, because since I can't go in to the woods, no one should.

Is that what you imagine freedom of speech means? Forcing audiences to listen?

You're the digital version of a protest group. It happens to women's meetings all the time. People sneak in, and then use a megaphone to disrupt the speaker because they don't like the ideas being discussed.

Your beliefs are not PRO free speech, your beliefs are ANTI free speech. You don't like what's being said, so you want to shut it down. You can't just leave us alone to say what we want within our private space. You need to come in with your megaphone and shout us down.

Just mute pinkpill feminism. Problem solved.

Yayme · 2020-07-15T22:33:01+00:00

Well, I guess I wasn't completely honest.

Sometimes he looks like this

Or this

Surely you can tell by his unicorn that he identifies at they/them, you filthy transphobe!

Yayme · 2020-07-15T22:16:54+00:00

Yup.

Yayme · 2020-07-15T19:28:28+00:00

I believe what happened was there was a bill proposed that would let people change their gender marker if they self-id, and discussion/debate was encouraged among the public. Maya took the encouragement to discuss the bill in good faith, and did so, not realizing that by "discuss the bill" they meant "only praise the bill."

During a facebook discussion she referred to the above neckbeard as a he, when in fact his preferred pronouns are "they/them." She apologized and did not "misgender" him again.

(We should have a "they" bathroom. Men's, Women's, and They's. It can be full of neckbearded snowflakes like him. hahahahahahaha)

The company she had a contract with did not renew her contract. I'm not sure if they said it was because she misgendered neckbeard, or not.

Also, in googling for pictures of the neckbeard I learned that he has since been suspended from his position on some council for calling the people he was governing TERFS and stuff like that.

Yayme · 2020-07-15T15:34:00+00:00

My favorite -

"Trans women are not safe in the men's bathroom because men are dangerous."

Then why would women be safe in the women's bathroom with transwomen, who are men.

TRANSWOMEN ARE WOMENAFJAKFJIOEPFAJEIOPJFE!

It all comes down to believing the one big lie. TWAW. That's called begging the question. When the original, basic premise of your argument is wrong, then every conclusion you come to will be wrong as well. You're arguments are begging the question, not supporting it.

Yayme · 2020-07-15T14:43:26+00:00

As has been said many times, it's not a debate sub.

Also, it's also a female only space. Which I gather gets your panties in a wad. Most men claim women need input from men to keep us from only have one viewpoint, or turning in to a hug box, or to broaden our perspective, or some such sexist idea that us women are a monolith, and we all think the same thing, and are incapable of disagreeing with each other. Eyeroll. If you lurk there you can see that's not the case at all.

If you went to a seddit for gay men, and started talking about how vaginas are da bomb, and sucking dicks is stupid, and if only these gay men would just try a vagina, they'd like it - do you think your presence would be welcome? People don't owe you a debate, and people like you, who feel entitled to a debate, are quite numerous and get very fucking tedious.

And Maybe the Gender Critical concepts are new to you, and you want to discuss and explore them. If that's the case, you can do that at https://saidit.net/s/gendercriticalguys. Or you can debate them at https://saidit.net/s/gcdebatesqt.

But honestly, your whole attitude adds to the toxicity of life in general right now - thinking that you need to "debate" everyone whose beliefs don't align perfectly with your beliefs and ideals. Are you really any different than a twitter mob trying to shout down others with death threats and hate speech? We're just a bunch of women who want to be left alone, and the very idea of that offends you.

Yayme