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    Comings, Goings and New Arrivals 0x0A: Hasta La Vista, or Welcome Back. I Guess it Depends...

    I keep trying to will this place into being something it used to be, or maybe just how I imagine it used to be, and it's not healthy. I'm taking an indefinite break.
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    [RD] HuffPost: "I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means."

    I really do have to encourage you to spend more time outside of your bubble if you think anything I've said in this thread is a fringe belief. edit: i'm out.
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    [RD] HuffPost: "I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means."

    If you think that a cis woman having broad shoulders is equivalent to a trans woman having a surgically-constructed vagina, then I really don't know what to tell you.
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    [RD] HuffPost: "I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means."

    Essentially, what I'm trying to get at is that trans-ness isn't simply an abstract identity, it's an embodied physical reality, if that makes sense, that the trans-ness of any individual trans person isn't a question of their relationship to an abstract identification as trans but to the body...
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    [RD] HuffPost: "I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means."

    I think you are pretty radically overstating what present-day medical technology is able to achieve. edit: I don't think this line of discussion is productive, if Lexicus wishes to answer my second question I would appreciate it, otherwise I am happy to leave it there.
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    [RD] HuffPost: "I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means."

    Why, what do intersex or other conditions have to do with trans people? edit: see below
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    [RD] HuffPost: "I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means."

    I'm struggling to understand this question. Do you think that there are trans people who are physically indistinguishable from cis people? edit: Anyway, that isn't really the point, it should be clear enough that the great trans people are not physically indistinguishable from cis people, so my...
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    Trump's Rump

    I think that the Democrats are bound to a very rigid sense of procedure, of "the right way to do things", that makes it very easy to obstruct them when they're out of power, and very easy to overrule them while they're in power. They believe in procedure where the Republicans believe in...
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    [RD] HuffPost: "I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means."

    Sure, I'll grant that in this scenario, we could attribute non-attraction simply to transphobia- but that scenario is essentially science-fiction, no such "undetectable" person exists or plausibly could exist with current medical technology, or even with any medical technology we can reasonably...
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    General Politics the second: But what is politics?

    I don't think we can attribute this tendency to bad actors at the top, I think it's built into the logic of hierarchical organisation. The hierarchy has to sustain itself moment to moment in order to function, if people did not maintain consistent relations of dominance and subordination then it...
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    General Politics the second: But what is politics?

    Does deference to expertise imply subordination, though? "Hierarchy" implies not simply elevating certain people, but placing others beneath them, Humans do seem to have an innate tendency to differentiate individuals by status, I think that leftist enthusiasm for primitive egalitarianism can...
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    What Book Are You Reading XV - The Pile Keeps Growing!

    That series of letters had a spate of, ah, unconstructive usage a few years back, so it was added to the auto-filter. Guess it hasn't been removed.
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    What Book Are You Reading XV - The Pile Keeps Growing!

    Finished Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye. It's an overview of the emergence of the commercial economy of Northern Europe from the Carolingian era to the Early Modern period, focusing as the name suggests on the coastal regions connected by the North Sea...
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    POST THE 53rd IMAGE IN YOUR SILLY PICTURES FOLDER

    (I feel I should clarify that this is intended as a contribution to the thread rather than a reaction to it.)
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