A_Very_Big_Fan

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[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

This position looks like a fever dream

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the most cursed one on the sub so far

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I thought this was gonna be a post about the perfect Armored Core 😞

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now downvote me to hell and then ask an admin delete my comment for being transphobic

Cringe

And they didn't say we shouldn't have any teams, they said teams not be divided by sex.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it hard? I've built several PCs and repair seems like a good line of work for me, but I know nothing about the individual components of the parts

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If a gender diverse person tells me that their gender changed, then their gender changed.

The problem is that you're assuming the past gender of trans women categorically.

But to say that the only way for trans people to be is the way you perceive them to be

I am quite explicitly not saying this.

You said:

She wasn’t born a man. Trans women don’t “become” women. They stop hiding the fact they are

I'm trying to tell you that this claim is not just wrong, but it's a harmful over-generalization. I was not a girl for the first ~12-16 years of my life, and that's why I'm telling you our identities (past and present) are ours to determine, not yours. I was a boy, I did become a girl. I was comfortably cis for a long time, but things changed as I grew up.

Reading this stuff today only serves to drag those anxieties back up, because if we assume your claim is true then I either wasn't a boy back then, or I'm not a trans woman now. I have to sit here and think about how you're wrong, and why trans people don't have to have always been trans in order to transition and be valid.

That's what motivated me to respond to you. Whether or not you're willing to grapple with the idea that you may be hurting people is your prerogative, I'm just telling you those claims have done harm to me in the past and may be harmful to others now, specifically young people.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Different people use different words about their transition, and I think you're imposing your own experience onto others. To say that trans women categorically weren't men in the past totally invalidates how I have always described my transition. I don't share your experience, and I don't describe my past self the way you seem to think I should.

I was comfortable with my gender, and I don't think it was invalid for me to have identified as a boy. That's not who I am now, but that doesn't invalidate my identity for the first 16 years of my life. And I think if speaking, behaving, or filling the social role of a male doesn't make it valid to say that I used to be a boy, then that feels invalidating to everything I thought made me a woman. :/

But I think all of this is heavily philosophical and subjective, so I'm not saying your feelings are wrong either. But to say that the only way for trans people to be is the way you perceive them to be is not just silly, it runs the risk of invalidating everyone else who doesn't share your feelings on the matter. Our identities are our own to express, not yours.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah those things might be healthy but I don't see how it's relevant to this discussion....

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't seem to work, at least on my instance (lemm.ee)... I just tested it through this post which links to this thread, but it navigated me to lemmy.nl from lemm.ee

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Any plans to make it easier to interact with links to other instances?

The QoL value to automatically open links to other instances inside my current instance would be enormous.

 

After reading/having so many discussions about religion on Reddit and elsewhere on the internet, it's clear to me that faith means different things to different people. (Especially between theistic and atheistic communities)

So now I'm curious, how would you define "faith" and what is your relationship with it?

 

Inspired by the debate between Matt Dillahunty and Jordan Peterson.

 

Guess I'll get things started here! Tell me what you believe about the creation of the universe, and any god(s) that may be out there. But most importantly, let's hear why you believe it!

 

I guess I will kick things off here:

An omnibenevolent god would never condone and regulate the enslavement of your fellow man. Therefore, the Old Testament contradicts the claim that The Bible was written or divinely inspired by an omnibenevolent god.

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