UN "Expert" Says To Affirm Children's Chosen Gender As Early as 2 Years Old

soundsituation · 2022-01-24T01:09:48+00:00

Fun fact, there are only 2 actual lesbians on the team

That's two more than I thought, actually.

soundsituation · 2022-01-23T20:33:09+00:00

Thanks for this, TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_gene

I wonder if that variant positively correlates with elite athleticism. I swear like 80% of post-race/game interviews are about giving thanks to god.

soundsituation · 2022-01-18T20:18:45+00:00

Compelling people to use pronouns that don't reflect one's sex isn't setting a boundary, though. Boundaries by definition can only be defensive. The only way way something like this could be truly defensive, self-protective establishment of boundaries would be like if the trans-identified person decided that they wouldn't be friends with someone who didn't use their preferred pronouns. That's completely their prerogative. Compelled speech isn't.

Also, "don't touch me there" isn't analogous to "don't call me that". "Don't touch me there" doesn't necessitate that the person touches you elsewhere; they can just not touch you at all. But "don't call me that" does necessitate that people call you something else.

soundsituation · 2022-01-16T04:58:55+00:00

They literally can’t conceive of marrying for love

Is he tweeting from 1770?

soundsituation · 2022-01-15T22:59:57+00:00

This comment just killed ten grandmas.

soundsituation · 2022-01-15T22:52:55+00:00

"Don't let them tell you they aren't attracted to you!"

soundsituation · 2022-01-14T20:17:05+00:00

I absolutely believe this is conversion therapy despite the repeated denials to the contrary that appear throughout the paper. It's worth a full read-through, but two things stand out to me as especially telling:

1) The fact that this article only discusses gay males, even though the form of therapy is initially described as being a "clinical trauma treatment for males and females, regardless of their sexuality".
2) This quote at the end: "Many clients who are gay-identified, but wish to explore their attractions in a neutral way, and to resolve any traumas they may discover, do not see this potential shift in their sexuality as a negative side-effect. They often give consent for their sexuality to possibly shift on its own to whatever that result may be", which to me heavily implies that the patient sample consists of gay men who wish they were bi or heterosexual.

soundsituation · 2022-01-14T19:46:27+00:00

Perhaps a very butch woman!

soundsituation · 2022-01-14T06:30:08+00:00

So fucking cool

soundsituation · 2022-01-14T00:09:49+00:00

I know. It's weird behavior and I'm admittedly fascinated by the potential motivation behind it. How long has this been going on? Were they on the reddit sub?

soundsituation · 2022-01-12T23:19:04+00:00

This post has been reported for breaking the "not a debate sub" rule but I am leaving it up because it got some good responses.

u/UwUness2, going forward, please don't post here if you can't follow the rules. You can always ask your questions on s/whatever or s/AskSaidit.

soundsituation · 2022-01-12T23:08:52+00:00

I already answered this guy

That does not matter to this user in the slightest. I have come to accept the likelihood that this person will keep posting the same ridiculous questions over and over again for as long as saidit exists.

soundsituation · 2022-01-12T23:06:06+00:00

The debate one always deletes this user's posts.

soundsituation · 2022-01-12T21:43:35+00:00

Wow. Thank you for all of this: the context, the branching paths and the admission of complexity too. I had interpreted your initial comment more literally. I don't really have anything to add but I do sincerely want to thank you for taking the time to write this up and let you know I've been thinking about it.

soundsituation · 2022-01-11T00:42:15+00:00

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of loss within film. All the sequences pay homage to lost silent films from the early day of cinema. Seances is nostalgic but it is also frequently hilarious. Part of the joy and sadness of Seances is that many possible narratives are created but they can be only viewed once before they disappear forever.

soundsituation · 2022-01-10T21:19:04+00:00

I wanted to know how the part of your quote that I bolded relates to the part that precedes it. My biblical knowledge is spotty. I think I understand your meaning better now, though I'm still not sure if you were implying that being vaxxed is itself the mark (seems pretty harsh), or if you were referring to those knowingly involved in corruption/collusion.

soundsituation · 2022-01-10T04:21:39+00:00

Sandbagging for sure:

The first picture here is where Lia finished 6th in the 100 Free, an event LT didn't do in Ohio...
But wait, in the second picture, Lia did the FIRST 100 OF A 200 in Ohio faster than this - indeed, faster than all but winner in 100 itself!

soundsituation · 2022-01-09T22:29:00+00:00

Why would he pretend to know anything about viruses or drugs or immune systems, or worse, why equate placing faith in demonstrably corrupt institutions and corporations with Christianity? Has he heard of the "mark of the beast"?

I'd love to hear some more about this. Is it essentially selling out, or maybe more appropriately, "selling your soul"?

Catholicism is really nothing without the supernatural, it's essentially Lutheranism without the supernatural

Ha. True.

soundsituation · 2022-01-09T21:48:13+00:00

Last week I encountered the term "moral extortion". It is what it sounds like: a persuasion technique that relies on inducing guilt ("do the work") rather than using reasoned argument. I think it's a useful concept to understand woke tactics in general, and in particular how gender ideologues might target well-meaning but naive LGB people more readily than they do straights.

I think I remember you saying at some point that you're Gen Z, right? If so, yeah, it might be a tough time out there right now. Fortunately though queer theory is really stupid and doesn't stand up to scrutiny, so I really do believe most people will wake up.

soundsituation · 2022-01-09T06:41:35+00:00

I pretty much agree with the specifics of what you wrote, but I think "hopping around from ideology to ideology" implies a randomness to their ideological commitments, when in fact, as OP points out, there is a consistent feature: an attraction to extreme authoritarianism. And actually, I think your comment explains that attraction fairly well.

The trans movement is not a "be yourself" or "live your truth" movement, although that's what they depend on hoodwinking the masses into believing. It's an authoritarian/narcissistic/faux-religious inquisition that demands either faith or silence.

soundsituation · 2022-01-07T23:54:08+00:00

I've only dated one person since the trans inquisition began, and I found out early on that she was also gc. I know it varies by demographics such as location and age, but for what it's worth, almost every person I end up talking to about trans stuff agrees that it's all bullshit.

soundsituation · 2022-01-07T22:15:28+00:00

This is just sad. Half the article is about how much he loves classical music.

soundsituation · 2022-01-04T06:46:21+00:00

I found the pdf if anyone's interested.

I don't know where you got that 54% figure. Taking the cross-cultural average, only about 8% of women currently in relationships "poached" their partners. The percentage is pretty low for men too, around 11%.

soundsituation · 2022-01-03T09:55:14+00:00

I'm sorry but this is a much less catchy spin on The Whistle Song. It also makes Slavic culture look like American meth head culture.

Thanks for sharing,
I enjoyed it.

soundsituation · 2022-01-02T22:05:58+00:00

True societal acceptance of homosexuality will always be fleeting.

Maybe you're right, but I'd like to know why you think this.

soundsituation · 2022-01-01T23:50:51+00:00

type out the text in the image into Google search

Good tip. I think I've tried this before and it didn't work for me so I dismissed it, but it's worth a shot. Just checked DDG and nothing was returned for the tweets in this post.

soundsituation · 2022-01-01T23:47:43+00:00

Yeah, it's from But I'm a Cheerleader. I rewatched it recently so the quote was fresh in my mind.

soundsituation · 2022-01-01T22:23:01+00:00

If you have the original tweet you can archive it yourself; that process would also show you if anyone else has already archived it, which btw is a nice trick for getting around paywalled articles. But yeah with something like this where all the names are blocked out it's impossible.

soundsituation · 2022-01-01T21:43:13+00:00

This isn't directed at you, OP, because it looks like you're just passing along an image that's been in circulation for a little while now, but I really wish people would archive instead of screenshot these things so that we can verify for ourselves whether these are real tweets. That HIV comment is unreal.

soundsituation · 2022-01-01T21:30:22+00:00

Fortunately the hardline blank slateists seem not to have migrated over here.

soundsituation · 2022-01-01T20:49:18+00:00

I used to love carts until I realized how easy it is to create dupes. Not worth the risk for me anymore. It sounds like this guy is a friend, though - enjoy:)

soundsituation · 2021-12-31T22:57:35+00:00

So much for creating safe spaces, right? This would have filled me with such a cold panic that I think I’d have a hard time concentrating on anything else.

soundsituation · 2021-12-31T21:17:46+00:00

Drink less, lose 20 pounds
Learn French
Have a successful summer garden - so far I've only been able to grow good stuff in the winter

soundsituation · 2021-12-31T04:07:21+00:00

Oh there are no gold stars here.

soundsituation · 2021-12-31T04:05:41+00:00

It's a tl;dr. I didn't editorialize. Feel free to do so, though.

soundsituation · 2021-12-31T03:53:02+00:00

With the exception of Jean-Marie Le Pen, all the most high-profile fascists in Europe in the past thirty years have been gay.

Most of the article is spent cataloguing examples of this, although it goes much further back than the past thirty years, even suggesting that Hitler was gay.

This belief in the superiority of homosexuality had a strong German tradition that grew up at the turn of the twentieth century...they preached that gay men were the foundation of all nation-states and represented an elite, warrior caste that should rule.

This was interesting, kinda reminds me of the heterophobe4lyfe guy we have here.

The article ventures a couple potential explanations for the phenomenon: that they are in denial and hyper-focus on toughness as compensation, or

"Generally condemned by a society that continues to be largely hostile to gays, some men may find refuge and a new power status in the far right. Through adherence to the politics espoused by fascist groups, a new identity emerges - one where they aren't outcasts, because they are White Men, superior to everyone else. They render the gay part of their identity invisible - or reject the socially less acceptable parts, like being feminine - while vaunting what they see as superior."

soundsituation · 2021-12-31T00:58:55+00:00

This link goes somewhere very different from what the title suggests.

soundsituation · 2021-12-31T00:05:36+00:00

It would be effective at quickly getting the groomer texts out of schools, but I think I agree with you. Achieving that short-term goal isn't worth giving parents this kind of power.

soundsituation · 2021-12-31T00:04:16+00:00

My understanding is that this bill is strictly about library books, not curriculum-required textbooks. I could be wrong about that but if the bill only deals with library materials, biology/health classes could still have sex-ed instruction.

soundsituation · 2021-12-30T08:26:15+00:00

Archive: https://archive.ph/OmI4D
Current text of the bill: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22%20INT/SB/SB1142%20INT.PDF

soundsituation · 2021-12-29T05:08:05+00:00

James Lindsay did a fantastic episode about this: Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial. It's over two hours long but I found it well worth my time. And it's not a defense of transgenderism or a refutation of transracialism, but rather an explanation for why, from within the Critical Theory framework, one is seen as legitimate and the other isn't. It addresses both philosophy and incentive structures.

soundsituation · 2021-12-25T02:41:32+00:00

He used to swim on the men’s team.

soundsituation · 2021-12-24T22:24:44+00:00

Merry Christmas, Flippy. Saidit is lucky to have you.

soundsituation · 2021-12-17T22:04:32+00:00

This isn't really relevant to our sub. You may want to ask your question on s/lesbians or s/LGBDropTheT.

soundsituation · 2021-12-17T21:50:14+00:00

You can always check the mod logs - they're publicly visible for every sub on this site.

I'm a (new-ish) mod over there and I don't think the sub is being accurately characterized here. Very, very little is removed. Bans are infrequent and are reserved almost exclusively for trolls. That said, it's true that certain opinions unrelated to gender ideology are forbidden from discussion, so I see what the other users here are saying.

soundsituation · 2021-12-15T22:41:02+00:00

Postmodernism. It's more than just epistemological relativism, though. It's a conspiracy theory that claims the very idea of objective truth is a tool of oppression designed to maintain current power structures.

soundsituation · 2021-12-13T23:26:19+00:00

It's true. Go to the L Chat or s/Lesbians or the lesbian circle on Ovarit and you won't find any talk of dick repulsion, because you won't find any talk of dick at all. It's only when men force themselves into lesbian spaces that you see this kind of thing.

soundsituation · 2021-12-13T22:14:28+00:00

teaching phonics...because studies showed it is the only method which works

Didn't know this but I'm not surprised. I also didn't know that schools in the US had switched to a "balanced literacy" approach but at best it sounds like information overload. Phonetic instruction is simple and it gets quick results. All that other stuff kids can learn later on once they have a foundation.

soundsituation · 2021-12-12T03:37:45+00:00

That degree of oversensitivity is not organic, not as a society-wide phenomenon anyway; it's been culturally conditioned. And as such I fully believe it can be unlearned, but without a massive paradigm shift that would require a level of personal motivation that most redditors just don't have. So I agree with you but I think it's as much about culture as it is personality.

soundsituation · 2021-12-12T03:24:46+00:00

Not this

I don't know. I think the answer is simple at an individual/family/community level (basically just taking a genuine and supportive interest in whatever hobbies kids pick up) but elusive at the societal level. In general I'm very anti-propaganda, so that biases me. By the way, I hope you'll post this to s/GenderCritical too.

Edit: more thoughts: I think one of the most important things we can do is promote resilience. There's no getting rid of the sense of otherness felt by people who fall outside the center region of a normal distribution, but we can make an effort to return to a "sticks and stones" mentality. And this can be done sensitively, by sympathizing with kids when they're sad and letting them have that process, but also letting them know that they will be okay and that they might even be tougher when all is said and done. I also think it's important to get kids thinking about their ethics; in the case of a GNC kid, encouraging them to question whether their nonconformity actually hurts anybody, for example.

Also I fixed the link - thank you for letting me know!

soundsituation · 2021-12-12T03:02:19+00:00

When did you start to notice these changes, and what/who exactly are you basing your observations on? I just ask because this hasn't been my experience. None of the Christians I've personally interacted with act like the ones on this site.

soundsituation · 2021-12-11T22:57:32+00:00

This was all foretold

soundsituation · 2021-12-11T22:56:38+00:00

their views have shifted so much and radical Islam is much closer to their new ones

How so?

soundsituation · 2021-12-10T07:58:06+00:00

I'm not the person you asked, but since I'm of a similar mind I'll give you my reason. Both 'gay' and 'bi' work as adjectives; lesbian doesn't, not in English anyway, and not in any language that I'm aware of. I think that when a descriptor takes noun form it's far more likely to be seen, and felt, as an identity category. It's the subtle difference between "I run" or "I like to run" and "I'm a runner"; there's a sense of persona with the noun version where I think a lot more is assumed beyond the essential qualities. I'm not against all identity categories and in fact do sometimes use them to describe myself, but usually only when it's something I'm really proud of, usually something that's been earned, or else when it's a simple convention of the language for which there's no legitimate replacement. I'm not ashamed of being attracted to women but I'm not proud of it either. It just is. So when I do tell people I either say that I'm gay or that I date women. But what usually happens is I mention I'm seeing someone, they assume it's a guy, and I correct them and we move on.

soundsituation · 2021-12-10T03:20:52+00:00

I just haven't seen any trans people advocating for a third category of sports (or restroom facilities, or prison wings, etc.) Who is going to organize it? Unfortunately, I think the whole point for them is specifically to be included in women's spaces and sports.

soundsituation · 2021-12-10T01:37:19+00:00

No, I agree. I don't know that acceleration alone will be sufficient, but I believe it's probably the only way forward.

soundsituation · 2021-12-10T01:14:14+00:00

Same. I don't really care but it's what I'd prefer.

soundsituation · 2021-12-10T00:56:31+00:00

It's possible that a third category will be created, but since there are no meaningful requirements for being trans it would very quickly just turn into a men's 'B' league. And since I doubt these narcissists are interested in anything like that, it would probably never really get off the ground.

soundsituation · 2021-12-09T00:19:29+00:00

I honestly don't know which offends me more, the rejection of romanticism or the rejection of reality. The second one is a greater threat to society right now, but they're both abhorrent.

soundsituation · 2021-12-06T00:52:53+00:00

Please don't drag down the discussion with name calling.

soundsituation · 2021-12-05T23:02:53+00:00

I definitely agree that what matters in a practical sense is tolerance and legal equality, and that trans activism is an authoritarian project while gay activism is a broadly liberal one.

soundsituation · 2021-12-05T22:02:35+00:00

I really appreciate your comments in this thread. Religious LGB perspectives are illuminating and unfortunately rare. That said, I don't see how "the logic is the same between LGB and T". In an earlier comment you said

In terms of the definitions they are using this is accurate -- it would be profoundly detached from reality to see what gay people do in bed as something that is procreative in a strict biological sense.

but I have never heard a gay person claim such. Does this essentially boil down to an objection to the use of the words "marriage" and "sex" to describe anything other than heterosexual marriage and PIV intercourse (because if so, I get that) or is there something deeper I'm missing here?

soundsituation · 2021-12-02T02:31:17+00:00

It's not just this instance. I've seen you do it with lots of other posts too, even when the comment section remains placid. And anyway, isn't reposting just inviting a new "war"?

soundsituation · 2021-12-02T01:36:42+00:00

Why do you delete your posts?

soundsituation · 2021-12-01T21:41:12+00:00

You remove that factor and people are just going to do what they like. There'd probably be a lot more straight women into sports if

I'd say we've already pretty much arrived here. There might be a higher percentage of lesbians in sports than in the general population, but women's sports are overwhelmingly populated by heterosexuals. The idea that straight women don't like sports is very antiquated, and hasn't been true at any point in my lifetime.

soundsituation · 2021-12-01T21:26:07+00:00

I'll never find a women because they're all actually attracted to men but deny that.

Removed for homophobia. This post would be better suited to s/incels.

soundsituation · 2021-11-26T06:42:07+00:00

For now at least. Probably won't be too long before they start demanding people end their relationships to date trans people.

I've wondered about this. Monogamy is distinctly un-queer, and the most exclusionary practice out there outside of celibacy.

soundsituation · 2021-11-24T20:08:04+00:00

Always check the archives for paywalled articles. I find that more often than not, someone has created a snapshot: https://archive.ph/dzKhh

soundsituation · 2021-11-21T19:56:44+00:00

Did anyone else get this message a few days ago?

from lussybaby
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soundsituation · 2021-11-20T22:53:16+00:00

Please don't drag down discussion with name calling.

soundsituation · 2021-11-20T20:41:42+00:00

I got one too.

soundsituation · 2021-11-18T22:04:41+00:00

Why are three of the stars white?

soundsituation · 2021-11-18T06:32:12+00:00

Did you ever see the old Abercrombie & Fitch catalogues, the ones where the models were all naked and not actually modeling the clothes?

soundsituation · 2021-11-17T08:37:42+00:00

Starts at 3:03

soundsituation · 2021-11-17T07:57:48+00:00

Yes, apply code CANDYPANTIES along with proof of human genitalia at checkout. While supplies last.

soundsituation · 2021-11-17T07:24:08+00:00

Would you like to add a side of candy panties for $1 extra?

soundsituation · 2021-11-17T07:22:11+00:00

It's fruit and cheese! Classic combination🍍

soundsituation · 2021-11-17T07:07:27+00:00

Please share this on s/politics and/or s/censorship. Might get buried here.

soundsituation · 2021-11-16T22:58:54+00:00

I left s/lesbians in part because it used to be very biphobic and I was sick of it.

I wasn't using saidit much back when this was happening, but I've gone through the archives and have seen exactly what you're talking about. It seemed to me like it was a troll campaign; lots of new and/or barely used accounts that only ever posted about their disdain for bisexual women.

soundsituation · 2021-11-16T03:34:07+00:00

I can't do that since I don't mod that sub, but I appreciate the information. By the way, what do you mean by supporting trans rights here? Do they censor gc content or what?

soundsituation · 2021-11-16T00:36:33+00:00

I don't have any sperm...

I am a gold star lesbian.

soundsituation · 2021-11-15T23:27:05+00:00

Awesome! Thank you. I'm excited. This piano one is indeed a banger.

soundsituation · 2021-11-15T23:22:45+00:00

Well in that case no one except a non-monogamous pansexual open to an infinite amount of partners, regardless of whether or not they are attracted to them, can escape the bigotry accusation. It's too ridiculous to hold water when taken to its natural conclusion. There's also the issue of "Why can't you?" vs "Why should I have to?" I'm wearing a gray shirt today. Why can't I just wear a yellow one? The fact is that I didn't want to, and that's reason enough.

soundsituation · 2021-11-15T21:39:42+00:00

https://saidit.net/s/DecentralizeAllThings/wiki/index#wiki_youtube_alternatives_and_video_decentralization_list
https://saidit.net/s/AlternativeMedia

soundsituation · 2021-11-15T20:29:58+00:00

I don't know to what extent pedophilia is innate or immutable, but the fact that it causes harm is what sets it apart from sexual orientation.

Our only disagreement here is that I think this is all that matters, from a legal/utilitarian/messaging perspective. In a liberal paradigm (and just to be super clear here since these terms are all muddied now, I mean liberal as opposed to authoritarian, not conservative) it doesn't matter whether something is a choice or not, or how scandalized people are by another person's choice. All that matters is whether actions cause direct material harm and infringe on another person's rights. I believe this renders forced conversion therapy a moot threat, too, because that is an infringement on your rights, for which you committed no previous infringement of your own.

I also don't want homosexuality to be misunderstood as a choice because people assign moral values to choices.

They still do, though. The far right wants us to suck it up and make more white babies for the ethnostate (unless you're not white, in which case they want you deported or genocided, but that's another topic). The religious people want us to either stay celibate or get married/have kids with an opposite sex partner anyway, because they see homosexuality like any other sinful temptation that can and should be resisted. In both cases, our innate attraction, our desires, are beside the point; the expectation is that we align our actions with the collective ideal.

soundsituation · 2021-11-15T02:05:37+00:00

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I really wish gay rights activists hadn't yoked themselves to the immutability argument. Whether we are born this way or not is an interesting scientific question but it ultimately doesn't serve us politically. The best, simplest argument for equal treatment regardless of sexual orientation is an appeal to (classical) liberalism: if it doesn't hurt anyone or infringe on others' rights, allow it, and if so, don't.

soundsituation · 2021-11-15T01:24:50+00:00

Fun fact, your username is actually the title of a 2020 lesbian film. I don't especially recommend it, though, 5.5/10.

soundsituation · 2021-11-15T00:44:28+00:00

I was actually wondering if you had any more examples of metal classical, rhythmic and pretty but still hard af like this one.

soundsituation · 2021-11-14T22:23:20+00:00

You are new here.

Oh I doubt that ;)

soundsituation · 2021-11-13T20:43:09+00:00

I thought I had heard of every fringe diet but Budwig is new to me. And I can sympathize with your aunt; standard cancer treatments sound like absolute hell.

I like the idea of nootropics myself, but they don't really work.

On the whole I have to agree, sadly. There are two that I like (L-Theanine and ashwagandha) but they only seem to work for like a week before I can't notice a difference anymore. Maybe it's better to cycle them.

soundsituation · 2021-11-12T23:26:35+00:00

I used to like r/nootropics but somehow didn't know r/supplements was a thing. Sorry to hear about your aunt. Which diet did she try?

soundsituation · 2021-11-09T21:36:23+00:00

Got anything else like this?

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