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Posted 6 months ago

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A social values issue? Really?

File this in my “incredibly irritated by this assinine bullshit” category of posts.  According to Questioning Transphobia, Paul Scott (running for Michigan Secretary of State) has one of his TOP FOUR campaign priorities as:

I will make it a priority to ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed to change the sex on their driver’s license in any circumstance.


Why?

“It’s a social values issue. If you are born a male, you should be known as a male. Same as with a female, she should be known as a female,” he said.

When asked to explain how such a mandate from the Secretary of State would benefit Michigan, he said it was about “preventing people who are males genetically from dressing as a woman and going into female bathrooms.”


Really? Ugh, I don’t even know what to say.  Well, I know a few things.

  1. Who the hell checks I.D.’s at bathroom doors?
  2. Why does this ”bathroom defense” always come up during these arguments?  Has there ever been a case of a transgender individual using their trans status to justify doing something obscene that was done in the bathroom?  I don’t think so.
  3. Do you really want people who look and identify as male to be FORCED to use FEMALE bathrooms?   How on earth would this fix anything?  I would feel uncomfortable if there was someone who was obviously a male in the female bathroom.  Paul Scott wants these people to use their “assigned at birth sex” bathroom - when they live and are known as a completely different gender?
  4. This is seriously one of his MAIN CAMPAIGN GOALS?  Really?


I could go on.  But I won’t, because I’m crabby about this subject.

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Posted 9 months ago

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Many female video game characters are, unfortunately, designed primarily to be aesthetically pleasing to the straight male primary audience (and in many cases, the straight male game designers and artists). Far too many games have the problem of “Wait? That’s meant to be armour? I thought it was lingerie!” for their female characters. Male characters get tough leather or iron armour whereas female characters wind up in a skimpy piece of cloth that wouldn’t keep you from catching a death of cold, let alone serve as protection against incoming arrows or fireballs. This leads to a lot of male players creating female characters for no reason other than to ogle their pixelated behinds. I’ve even seen guides to in-game trading that explicitly recommend that the player creates a female character to get extra trade, and that they should pretend to be female and helpless to make other players ore willing to trade with them. The author of this particular document didn’t seem to realise either that some of the players might actually be female or the females are not generally helpless and pathetic.
Yes, there are women in gaming… and some of them have Y chromosomes | Geek Feminism Blog

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Posted 1 year ago

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Thank you for making the bathrooms Unisex and trans-friendly. I hope this is something you do throughout ALL your stores.
An anonymous bulletin board note at Whole Foods in Hillcrest.

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Posted 1 year ago

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sigh.

Warning, some incredibly dumb quotes ahead. Basically, the North Dakota House was voting on an anti-discrimination bill that would prevent people from discriminating against gay individuals. And it didn’t pass in the House. That blows my mind. Of course when you have people who think like this…

“If this bill passes, I can still preach about [opposition to] divorce and living together, but I would no longer be able to have an opinion in my own place of business on whether homosexuality was a proper or improper lifestyle,” Weisz said. “Their rights have now superseded my rights.”



This comes only days after New Hampshire struck down what they called the “bathroom bill” (offensive in title…) that would have extended hate crime legislation to include transgender men and women.

Two steps forward, one step back…

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