OwO what's this? 🐘🔫
I am not sure that's true, language can absolutely be misused, when an individual uses a word in a way nobody recognizes, it fails to function as language and is worth considering genuinely misused. It's only when a "misuse" gains enough traction that people can effectively use it to communicate that it is an evolution rather than a misuse.
The point is that the language is about use, e.g. getting a concept across, and it can absolutely fail or be applied incorrectly.
Take for example if a variety of mugs are on a table and I wanted the red mug. If I said "pass me the green mug", that would be a misuse of "green" as meaning red, and it would fail to communicate, as long as there are other mugs and my meaning cannot be inferred.
If there is clearly only one mug, a person might think I was mistaken or colorblind and still get my intended meaning, but it would still be considered a misuse of "green".
If enough people used "green" to mean red, maybe because my family thought the mistake was funny and adopted "green" to mean red as an in-joke, it might grow out of being a misuse into a new meaning.
The same thing is happening when white children misuse AAVE and generate slang, "gyatt" for example meaning "god" as in "gyatt damn" becomes mistakenly applied to mean a butt because of misunderstanding about how gyatt was originally used. The misuse becomes new slang, but it could have easily remained an obscure and forgotten misuse if it didn't catch-on with enough people such that it took on a new meaning.
yeah, that's not passive income
sorry, what else would a reddit-clone full of reddit users be? I think a lot of people here are trying hard for this place to be reddit 🤷♀️
There is a real psychology to when political alliance / umbrella terms like "trans" get applied to disparate groups ... cis women don't like when trans women are included as women because some trans women didn't grow up as women and thus didn't experience the same sexism, misogyny, and socialization that victimized them.
Some binary trans men and women who have medically transitioned don't like when enbies, esp. those who are able to largely live and conform with the cis gender norms, are lumped together with them as "trans" because they feel that label implies a particular lived experience, of having marked incongruence and dysphoria, yes, but also of going through a medical transition that makes them "freaks" in the eyes of others, targets of violence, and other such experiences that some enbies don't go through.
While I understand the psychology, it's obviously unfair and just wrong morally and factually. If anything I think enbies are liable to experience more discrimination and hate than binary trans people, esp. once the medical transition reaches a point where the trans person is able to conform to the expected gender norms. Enbies in both social and medical transition are often aiming to permanently occupy that in-between space that makes early transition so difficult for so many trans people (and for some people, extends many years if the fails to result in sufficient conformity to cis gender standards). Someone like Jacob Tobia is an enby signing up to live their entire life in the same way I looked and lived in the first 3 - 6 months of transition, a time when society saw me as a "man in a dress".
So the trans woman who feels upset you are "appropriating" her oppression is probably just hurting and jealous of the extent to which you can pass and live in conformity with your assigned gender, while ignorant all the actual incongruence you experience and the situation that puts you in as you take steps away from your assigned gender (socially and personally).
I'm really sorry - there can be a lot of rough edges to alliances between different groups.
The trans alliance only works when we recognize the shared struggle we have against the common enemy, rather than picking apart differences in how we are oppressed and targeting and attacking one another over those differences ... but the enemy is sometimes much harder to strike than our friends and allies, and in-fighting is unfortunately common.
You clearly don't deserve to be treated that way. 🫂
Beyond that, it was an okay tournament for Sullivan [the trans fencer], who faced an uphill battle against most of her more seasoned opponents. She came in 24th place out of 38 total fencers, not including Turner.
You would be right.
But to be honest, trans sports bans have never been about fairness, the majority of laws in the U.S. that have banned trans people from sports target K-12 kids (often just one or two trans kids in each state), and they often ban trans men from playing on the boys teams as well as trans women from playing on girls teams ...
yeah, it's heavily ironic when the anti-trans activist Matt Walsh led the "Rally to End Child Mutilation" while he continues to support non-consensual genital mutilation of intersex infants born with ambiguous genitalia to conform them to our mythologized concept of two sexes. Trans kids don't get surgeries, so the only "child mutilation" happening is to intersex kids. Very rarely, some 17 year old trans minors might be approved for gender-affirming surgeries before they are the age of the majority, but that's what Matt Walsh is calling "child mutilation" here, gender-affirming care already offered to cis people without an age limit, being also offered to trans people that are nearly adults.
It's also heavily ironic that trans people are accused of having a gender ideology since the two-sex model is clearly only propped up by ideology - otherwise why do they need laws to enforce the concept of two sexes and interventions to mutilate children to enforce it?
I think for people who feel safe on blahaj but aren't guaranteed that safety on .world, it might feel like locking /c/196 on Blahaj and the moderators telling everyone to move to .world is a bit like stealing the community. Maybe /u/not_IO meant that 196 on Blahaj should remain unlocked so 196 can continue to exist on Blahaj, but obviously the question is who will moderate the community if the moderators all leave for .world?
I know someone who was fired after responding to a Slack message with an emoji that was interpreted as critical of the CEO of the company, lol. The emoji wasn't offensive or anything, it was just showing support for the message which was if I remember correctly was jokingly criticizing the CEO. I think the employee took up a legal battle after that.
I think it depends on the job and the culture you are in, how replaceable you are, etc. as to how to be instantly fired. I know people who have made mistakes in their job that cost the company lots of money and they weren't fired. I know people who watched TV all day in the open office environment in full view and who weren't fired.
Surprisingly (or maybe not), he's a Trump supporter:
Livelsberger and his first wife divorced in 2018 in part due to political ideological differences, in particular his support for Donald Trump.
Livelsberger's family revealed that Matthew intended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election.
EDIT: I just saw your /s, I'm a fool
"Slave" like any word has contextual meaning. In this context I'm using it to refer to the workers who find themselves caught in a coercive political-economic system. Other similar words are wage slave, proletariat, or just working class. The point is that there is an involuntary aspect which likens it to slavery in the more narrow sense. (The narrow meaning of slave I have in mind being "someone forced into labor without pay".)
All that said, in the U.S. there are still slaves as defined narrowly as people who are forced to work without pay. Slavery is used in prison systems, for example, and is not uncommon among human trafficking victims and immigrants (e.g. read Tomatoland). If your children are women, indigenous, black, are born or become disabled, or belong to various other minority statuses they are at even greater risk of getting swallowed into those forms of "literal" slavery as well.
pretty sure it's making fun of transphobes 😄 it's like post-ironic sincerity or something