Yeah, gotta say, when i see a thread title here, i never have thought to myself, 'I bet that's a Ziprhead thread.'
"This week in trans" says it all to me, that Metaphor has an obsession, not just with trans people, but digging up the most idiotic trans people to put them on display. It's been tempting to start a "this week in Australian gay culture" where every week I impugn a different idiotic Australian gay person for being a complete tool bag. That's not an attack, right? Right? Beuller?
Bullshit, Jarhyn. Have you been tracking M's threads, reading his posts, examining them, paying attention?
Can you read English, or is it your second language?
I thought you were brighter than this nonsense you keep spouting, not only about Metaphor, but Emily, and myself one time, when I explained to you (very nicely, delicately) that dragging a woman out of a bar by her hair was NEVER an option a legitimate police officer would take, or indeed ANY rational, not-insane individual with authority granted to them from someone above their pay-grade: i.e. Not any yahoo with whatever genitalia who has only the brute power and lack of intellectual discipline and genuine courage that fuels many a TV-infected gun nut here and elsewhere.
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And rocks are not agents. Get used to it.
Rocks are exactly the agents that they are, in the capacity they have, to be influenced by physics as they will and reflect the translation of the extant forces back out, again as they will. That is all this means, and if you wish to say that rocks are not things which get influenced by physics and translate those forces as they reflect them back on reality, I do not know what to say.
This seems more built around a desire to be more special than rocks in every way. We are definitely more complicated than a rock, but to say that it is not complicated at all to be a rock is still anthropomorphic faff.
At any rate, I think that "never" and "always" are problematic stances to ever take and must rely on heaping quantities of doubt. Never and Always don't leave much room for that doubt.
As it is, the part you quoted makes my point: all I did was bring up a shape Metaphor seems fond of: every week they post a new shit thread wherein they whinge about trans people. None of the threads celebrate anything about it, they just attack attack attack. Even when metaphor bends the slightest bit to accede any thing about the rights to privacy of trans people, it is done right on the back of "there are only two sexes and only sex matters for social recognition", and more recently "nobody can pass against me, so nobody deserves it", as if "passing" Metaphor's recognition should be the bar of whether you have a right to respectful privacy. The begged question as the subject is whether "sex" actually matters socially AT ALL for legal purposes outside of extreme edge cases that we are already so far beyond fucking wrong that the issues created by trans people in those spaces are artifacts of other insane treatment; that by eliminating the other insanity, the "trans issues" involved evaporate in a puff of smoke (such as with prison populations and society needing reform there, or with athletes and sports being about hormone and androgen exposures over an agreed-on timeframe per sport.
Sometimes kids are psychopaths. Sometimes a person, however be-boobed and be-ovaried they are, presents that the safest path forward for all parties lies in the "dragging" of that person by their hair. Sometimes people post what in one or two doses would be sane warning but posted from the same direction from the same source consistently constitutes an irrational vendetta.
You should know that by now I don't go for much tv at all, let alone shoot-em-ups. About as "guns" I get is "Trigun", which I recommend for anyone who appreciates LOVE(u) AND(u) PEACE(u) (it's a joke about the anime).
I'll ask you, who is the voice who argues that any use of violence is a tragedy?
After about 10 years of reading his posts, I put Metaphor on Ignore. About 50% of the time I'll go incognito so as to read an OP just to make sure I'm not (statistically likely to be) missing any signs of substantive change that would drive me to reverse their status.
If you are not incensed enough about this to have put me on ignore for a time, I wouldn't mind discussing it in any context you wish.
As it is I don't take any issue with disagreeing. You are being kind of mean about it, though, seeing as I am not being mean about disagreeing with you. I am just tired, as a person with gender issues, of the constant aspersions cast over people with gender issues by the pattern of this thread's OP.
Imagine for a moment that you had a constant stream of bilious propaganda (it is bile, from where I stand) spewed "weekly" on the one internet place you actually tend to visit outside of direct messengers or Reddit targeting you and your friends.
It would be like growing up with Mexican heritage and occasionally smoking weed in the age when "Marijuana" hit the papers, and they use your culture and something you do as the basis for a concentrated propaganda effort against your "race", really against your community and people who "look like and talk like"? It wouldn't feel great. I can see more situations where it's appropriate to drag a person by their hair than I can see of where it is appropriate to drive such a one-sided narrative!
I had, and still have, concerns about the conduct of trans people with respect to certain edge cases; and the conduct towards trans people in others. I try to make these clear and propose solutions towards those issues, though, and where the real problems seem to be. It's just not the behavior I see consistently applied by Bomb, Metaphor, or Emily. Having concerns and letting those concerns rule you are two very different things.
I accept that the things we wish we were agents of, we are not. I am not the agent of my own happiness, though what I do with that happiness I am the most powerful agent of, generally. And so I accept that Emily, Metaphor, and AM, Bomb and the like who generally post in such threads may not fully have agency over what looms large in society to them. But they do have agency over deciding what to do about it. They decide to come here and repeatedly post threads that are propaganda against me and mine.
This is the reason they and I have conflict. Observe that I don't have any gripe with you; perhaps it is just my usual prickliness that you see? You ask questions and you have doubts and concerns. I don't think that you have ever expressed something that isn't a clearly legitimate concern. These can be discussed happily, with little consternation, if any (and I don't run from merely a little consternation), in public or private.
