CocaKoala

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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> Why exactly can't you explain that you're male? What would an explanation provide that saying "I prefer masculine pronouns" doesn't? > If they do it because they don't even believe you're the gende
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
As somebody who has misgendered people on accident and been accidentally misgendered, I've never seen anything other than gentle, polite correction when it occurs. When it occurs more than once, it starts to move from the realm of &quo
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
So if I say that I'm a man and somebody doesn't believe me, what can I do? Wouldn't it be easier to say "An individual is the ultimate authority on what pronouns are correct, and their word should be taken over that of e
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Wait, have I mischaracterized your argument in any way? Because I'm honestly not trying to do that, I'm just trying to follow your position to its logical conclusion. If somebody says about me, "She's been really busy th
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
So if somebody _mistakes_ me for a girl, I can correct them, but if they deliberately decide to refer to me as "she", I have to accept it?
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> This is way different than the transgender case in that no deep-seated & conflicting beliefs came into play. What deep-seated and conflicting beliefs come into play here? This doesn't need to be about transgender issues, that&
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Well, you said that people don't get to choose the pronouns that other people refer to them by, and the reason that people can do this with names but not pronouns is because pronouns are a syntactic construct. Thus, when people misgend
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
When I was younger, I had fairly long hair. I've always been kind of a scrawny person with a fairly neutral face, so if you didn't look closely it was pretty easy to mistake me for a girl. If somebody mistook me for a girl and ref
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> I don't get to choose the pronouns that other people refer to me by, and neither does anyone else I know. Why not? People do similar things all the time. If I introduced my friend Richard to you and he said "Please, call me R
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
The goal of "get an enthusiastic yes" is not to criminalize sex without explicit consent, but rather to normalize the idea that if you _don't_ have explicit consent, then you shouldn't have sex.
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> Personally, I don't like the idea of requiring "explicit verbal consent" Why not? When two people don't have the presumption of consent, what's the harm in checking to make sure "hey, is this something you
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> just like you don't resolve robberies by "teaching criminals not to steal" Do you tell banks that they shouldn't have kept so much money in the vaults if they didn't want to get robbed?
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> after each incident the most you can do to prevent another one, is to analyse what more you could have done, or you could do in the future. Sure. Which is why, in addition to telling people to wear seat belts, we also make people take
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
You can (and I suspect people DO) tell women "don't be alone with people you don't trust". That's not in contention. Victim blaming is when you say "Well, if you hadn't been alone with somebody you didn&#x
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Here's the way I've always thought about it. If you're walking in a bad neighborhood at 3am and you get mugged, should you have chosen your path more wisely? Maybe. But would anybody say that _because you chose to walk in a b
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Some women, although the number is certainly an ongoing debate, make false rape accusations, yes. I'm not sure what you mean by "social justice groupings", but "sometimes people lie" still isn't mutually exclus
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
And, just so that I make this clear: you've tried to imply several times with your argument that women aren't marginalized, but you've done this purely by bringing up other groups that are marginalized (Women couldn't vo
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
I'm still confused. Are you saying that "Black Men" and "Men" are the same group?
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
So are you saying that the two sides of the "Me Too" movement are "All Women" and "Black Men"? Because otherwise, I still don't understand your point.
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
"Women are and have been marginalized in the US" is not a statement which is mutually exclusive with "Black people are and have been marginalized in the US", so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make her
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> I can't imagine students paying $4 a couple times a day for a Starbucks coffee when they're paying with borrowed money. This is just grossly irresponsible. When I was in college, undergrads would have to purchase a meal plan,
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Sure, but being arrested by the cops isn't confidential communication.
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Police DO wear body cameras! For example, there was a shooting in Albuquerque, with five police officers present, and all five officers were wearing cameras. Unfortunately, all five cameras malfunctioned at exactly the same time and none of
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Why is that uncomfortable? I don't think anybody takes issue with the idea that some engineers are great at being engineers but not great at being managers, and so it's important to have a career track for senior engineers to cont
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
and what happens when the id expires or you change your address or you change your name or the id gets lost or destroyed?
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
You can get an ID card that works as legal id but isn't a driver's license, but it still requires going to the DMV and burning at LEAST several hours, which isn't an option available to everybody.
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
> What's the opposite of "ragequit"? Assuming you're trying to invert the 'rage' part of rage quitting and not the 'quit' part (or even both), I think the sentiment you're angling to express i
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
The goal behind "page count" as a metric is to give you an idea of how much depth you should be going into on whatever topic you're writing about. If you're supposed to produce a twenty page paper and you've got 13
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by CocaKoala 8y ago
Why do you want OSI to weigh in? The license describes itself as not Open Source, according to https://commonsclause.com/ > It this “Open Source”? [sic] > No, at least not by the official definition set forth by the O

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