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by adrienne 10y ago
Modern medicine also uses leeches.[1] Their saliva is a natural anticoagulant and their sucking promotes oxygenation. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech#Medicinal_use_of_leeches
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by adrienne 10y ago
Pinker isn't an anthropologist, and his statements about "universal" gender roles across every fucking society in history are false. Common, sure. Universal, nope.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yes but the whole point is that that's only "worthwhile" for you , and it contributes to fucking everyone else in the housing market over.
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by adrienne 10y ago
There absolutely is: free movement of labor. Unfortunately that's the solution capitalists absolutely will not countenance, and they will happily stoke xenophobia and buy off the most reactionary elements of government in order to keep
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by adrienne 10y ago
Less than one-quarter of the country, actually. Half the country didn't vote.
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by adrienne 10y ago
No, that place is a Crisis Pregnancy Center (an anti-abortion facility set up to look like a real repro health clinic). You can tell from the scaremongering about abortion they do here, for instance: http://www.realoptions.net&#
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by adrienne 10y ago
Well, certainly not as of tomorrow!
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by adrienne 10y ago
Except she has very clearly stated her preference in this regard, and that is trivial to discover. Why are you people so afraid to Google things?
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by adrienne 10y ago
I just sent an email to the mods about those comments. And yes, i acknowledge that they are newer than your last post to me. I see how my comment implied otherwise, and i apologize for that. I am really, really appalled at those comments an
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by adrienne 10y ago
User 'wtbob has posted three comments in this thread full of really appalling transphobia and they don't seem to be getting downvoted. Meanwhile i'm down 30+ points.
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by adrienne 10y ago
If people are downvoting me for incivilty, they should also be downvoting all the misgendering, which is fundamentally uncivil no matter how calm and even the tone in which it is done.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Misgendering people is uncivil . It is insulting and dehumanizing. Why don't you start requiring civilty from your fellow HN commenters, rather than just me?
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yes, it's true that everything is politics! Misgendering people is transphobic politics! It shows a tremendous lack of respect for people and it's deeply offensive; that doesn't change because it's done in a "civi
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yeah, exactly. In my observation, even when people are trying to use "they" - like if they're telling someone a story where they're deliberately obfuscating someone's gender - folks often slip up midway through.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Precisely. Except i don't think it's a "mistake".
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by adrienne 10y ago
Think of me as a particularly disapproving Greek chorus.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Dictionaries are reflections of usage rather than arbiters of it -- but yes, generally speaking, singular "they" is for use in situations where people's gender is ambiguous or unknown. And in particular , calling trans peopl
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by adrienne 10y ago
No, the correct way to do this is to use the individual's pronouns. Please note that the AP and the NYT have basically adopted the GLAAD style guide on this issue: http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender The NY
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by adrienne 10y ago
Even if you assume my comments are pointless pedantry - since when has pointless pedantry been uncommon or unwelcome on Hacker News? It is wrong to misgender people. It is unacceptable . Why is it somehow more terrible to point that ou
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by adrienne 10y ago
People's identities are not a "political inclination" and to say they are is transphobic.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Manning is a woman, not a guy. It is fucking disgusting how many people here want to misgender her.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Chelsea Manning is a woman; please do not misgender her by referring to her as "that guy".
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yes, but Ms. Manning's gender is neither indeterminate nor unknown. Ms. Manning is a woman, and she has publicly stated that her pronouns are she/her. This is not difficult information to find.
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by adrienne 10y ago
She was always a woman; she just presented as a man for many years. The NYT presented the information quite well when they said, "Ms. Manning was still known as Bradley Manning when she deployed with her unit to Iraq in late 2009.&quot
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by adrienne 10y ago
Manning is a woman; is there some reason you're calling her a "they"?
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by adrienne 10y ago
"There are no ends. There are only means." -U.K. Le Guin
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by adrienne 10y ago
No, it's not all misogyny, just a great deal of it.
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by adrienne 10y ago
You do know that "technology" and "capitalism" are not synonyms, right? And that a whole lot of technological advances have occurred outside of a capitalist context? It serves the interests of the powerful to pretend lik
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by adrienne 10y ago
Um. No, he definitely didn't leave theology out of his mathematics. See, for instance: http://inters.org/Newton-Scholium-Principia-Mathematica "This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as L
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by adrienne 10y ago
About 23%, actually. Roughly half the country didn't vote , or they did but their votes weren't counted because of voter suppression laws largely passed by Republicans.

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