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Laurelai  ·  3774 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cis feminism is a failure to the trans community

im aware that geneusutwerk is a person, in fact thats the entire point of my activism.

Laurelai  ·  3774 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cis feminism is a failure to the trans community

I dont need a book written by a privileged white cis woman to tell me about intersectionality because i live the experience every day of my life. Those books are for you people. The people who dont face multiple axes of oppression, honestly what can this book tell me about my life that I dont already know?

I dismissed her work and your suggestion like i did because you tried to tell someone who lives on multiple axes of oppression to read a book on multiple axes of oppression, i found it a bit insulting and patronizing.

You are more worried about logically constructed arguments than real life pain faced by human beings when people are seldom convinced by logic, they are convinced by emotion and use logic to justify it after the fact.

Im just honest about being motivated by emotion.

This writing was a reaction to the marginalization transgender people face within activism and within the regular everyday world. Where the people who are supposed to be on our side instead show solidarity with the people who want us dead and spend their money trying to keep laws protecting trans women from being passed, or working to repeal existing protections. This wasnt to convince someone on the internet with no vested interest in the situation, this was a war cry to other trans women who know exactly what we face and have seen it too. I dont have to prove it to them using logic because they live it every single day just like i do.

Im speaking truth to power, not writing a scientific paper.

Deal with it.

Laurelai  ·  3775 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cis feminism is a failure to the trans community

well put.

Laurelai  ·  3776 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cis feminism is a failure to the trans community

You must be new.

Laurelai  ·  3776 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cis feminism is a failure to the trans community

Yes ignore the person who lives the reality as opposed to the cis woman with privilege, thank you for highlighting the point :)

Laurelai  ·  4088 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Results are In.

Right that again puts the burden on the users to mass ignore someone.

Laurelai  ·  4088 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Results are In.

There is no report button among other things, plus ignoring isnt really a good solution for moderation. Say you have one guy who harasses women, each woman here has to block this person instead of one person reporting him. It puts the burden on those who get attacked or have verbal abuse thrown at them.

Laurelai  ·  4089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Results are In.

Its not just seeing one offensive comment in itself, its lack of moderation. Women face far more harassment in general just for admitting being women online than men do.

Here this video will help explain things better than I can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZAxwsg9J9Q

Laurelai  ·  4089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Results are In.

I think the lack of women here and on reddit speaks for itself.

Laurelai  ·  4090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Results are In.

When most women see someone saying something sexist on a website they just leave, plus there isnt a way to report a comment for being abusive or hostile. It really only takes seeing it once to ruin it.

Laurelai  ·  4090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Results are In.

If you want more women here make the space welcoming to women.

Laurelai  ·  4090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Results are In.

:)

Laurelai  ·  4090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Results are In.

Its transgender people not transgendered

Laurelai  ·  4094 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Is Barrett Brown Facing 100 Years in Prison?

He was kind of a dick.

Laurelai  ·  4108 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How vandals are destroying Wikipedia from the inside

Im almost tempted to actually use my account to actually start fact checking stuff now.

Laurelai  ·  4108 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIL bulgarian politicians have jedi reflexes

fixed it sorry

Laurelai  ·  4108 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIL bulgarian politicians have jedi reflexes

fixed

Laurelai  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Carbon Planets Turn Earth’s Chemistry on Its Head

Who knows it might be in our lifetimes.

Laurelai  ·  4111 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you deal with failure?

I used to worry about it a lot when i was younger, that just led to more mistakes. Now I just kind of roll with it.

Laurelai  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cthulhu's Fruit Candied

Awesome.

Laurelai  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cthulhu's Fruit Candied

How does it taste?

Laurelai  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you do for a living? What would you like to do?

I stopped playing ages ago, i started in 3rd edition and stopped when they changed what the cards look like.

Laurelai  ·  4113 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the hell is the guardian letting this person write for them?

tl;dr woman spouts transphobic vitrol in the guise of an oped piece

Laurelai  ·  4113 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stupid is Winning: We are in the final years of our internet

Personally ill never give up the laptop/desktop. Tablets are nice toys and good for ebooks but honestly I cant get much real work done with them.

Laurelai  ·  4113 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A graph of hubski

Cool stuff, thanks for unblocking me.

Laurelai  ·  4114 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is driving me crazy - what do we call ourselves?

How about people.

Laurelai  ·  4115 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An important part of the hubski TOS new users from reddit should see.

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Laurelai  ·  4115 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Expansion of ignoring

oh lol

Laurelai  ·  4115 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Expansion of ignoring

huh? I have you followed, not ignored.