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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
12hr ago
I'm not an idiot, I know why it was listed first. I'm questioning why it was included on the page at all, given that it's not a pejorative term for women. I think you knew that I knew this and are just taking an opportunity to jeer at me like an adolescent.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
12hr ago
Epidurals work. Gender reassignment surgery doesn't.
chose 'gamete-producing organs' as your dividing line because we do not yet know how to fully transition them
Wrong. You seem to have this idea that I'm carving up categories in a convoluted and unintuitive fashion with the specific aim of disenfranchising and ostracizing trans people. That is, you think I'm the mirror image of trans people, who start with the end goal of including males in the category of "women" and work backwards to produce a definition that satisfies that goal, even if it's a contrived one that doesn't match common usage. (Given you're so fond of quoting the Sequences, I'll note that Eliezer points out you can never come up with a truly rational answer if you already know what the answer is "supposed" to be at the beginning of your chain of "reasoning".)
Rather, my gamete-based definition of sex is the one used by biologists and zoologists when examining every sexually reproductive species other than humans: no one thinks that a female giraffe is "any giraffe who identifies as a female giraffe" or some such nonsense. (See Dawkins and Wright for more information.) Humans are mammals, and I have yet to see a persuasive argument why our sexual categories should not be defined in the same way as those of all other mammals are. ("Because it makes some people sad" is not a persuasive argument, even if Scott seems to think so.)
The gamete-based definition of sex is the one that biologists and zoologists use. According to that definition, no trans-identified male is female, nor will become so in either of our lifetimes. In the event that we reach the tech level that enables us to do this, we may have to revise our categories such that people born male but now capable of producing large gametes are considered literally female. But we will cross that bridge when we come to it, and given the current state of the art it doesn't strike me as an especially pressing issue. To the best of my knowledge, no one has even attempted to transplant a uterus, ovaries etc. into a male human recipient, never mind done so successfully such that the male recipient actually can menstruate, become pregnant etc.
even thirty years ago, was called a 'sex-change operation'
Is your contention that the entire medical community made the wrong call when they started referring to these procedures as "gender reassignment" or "gender-affirming" surgeries?
"People in the past used to call things by misleading or inaccurate names – therefore we should continue doing so today". By this "logic", we ought to refer to Native Americans as "Indians", people with Down's syndrome as "mongoloids", Inuits as "Eskimos", rubella as "German measles" and so on. I find it very strange how you freely recognise that people in the past were more ignorant than we are now, but only selectively. I mean, seriously: "the first name applied to something always captures the true Platonic essence of that thing and is never inaccurate or misleading in any way" is one hell of a hot take. Has it never occurred to you that people can be mistaken? Even doctors and surgeons? History is littered with examples of trained medical professionals being mistaken about matters of far graver import than simple naming conventions.
If I'm reading you correctly, you seem to believe that every male who undergoes bottom surgery literally becomes female. I will emphasise that, even if we insist on defining sex according to what's in between your legs, emasculated males are not female. The absence of a penis is not the same thing as the presence of a vagina. Per your genital-based definition of sex, it is currently possible to change one's sex, but only to change it from "male" to "neuter". If you want to say that emasculated men are neither male nor female – well, I still think it's a rather convoluted way of looking at it, but I would object to it less than the claim that emasculated males are literally female.
And here's the part where you tell me that trans-identified males haven't just emasculated themselves, but also undergone bottom surgery which bestowed vaginas upon them. Sorry, not having it. A neovagina is a crude imitation of a vagina, not the genuine article. Everyone with a neovagina will need to dilate it for several hours a day to prevent it from closing up as the open wound that it is. A trans-identified male whose neovagina was bleeding for five consecutive days would be strongly advised to seek medical attention: for a female person, this is called "menstruation". When a symptom of grave illness for one organ looks exactly like normal bodily function for another organ, I think it's fair to say the two organs should not be placed in the same category.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
13hr ago
I'm just we don't live in the world you would have us live in, and that we never will.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
14hr ago
I'm not asking why China locked down entire cities. I'm asking why, if China supposedly succeeded in stopping the spread of COVID using lockdowns, they were still locking down entire cities more than two years after the virus was first discovered.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
14hr ago
You mean, exactly the same way you regard women who've been sexually assaulted in prisons and hospitals as a direct consequence of the policies you endorse?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
16hr ago
China supposedly succeeded with lockdowns.
If they did, one wonders why they deemed it necessary to lock down entire cities of millions of people at the drop of a hat – in 2022. And by "lockdown", I mean millions of people who were physically unable to leave their apartment buildings, with food supplied via drone.
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16hr ago
A lockdown would never have been an effective means of controlling COVID, for the simple reason that, unlike SARS, it spreads asymptomatically.
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23hr ago
Oh man, I've worn out multiple copies of that book. I'm constantly recommending it to people as worth reading even if you have zero interest in writing a novel or fiction of any kind. I can quote so much of it from memory.
- A sex scene that is only half right is like half a kitten.
It is not half as cute as a whole kitten: it is a bloody, godawful mess. - This particular kind of ending is called a deus ex machina, which is French for "are you fucking kidding me?"
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2d ago
One chapter in to GB Stern's The Matriarch.
Going to try some Agatha Christie next, which perennialy seems to be collecting dust on my shelf.
If you haven't read either already, I would highly recommend And Then There Were None and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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3d ago
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3d ago
I have a feeling the SNP is just an utterly spent force. I doubt there's any coming back from Sturgeon's lethal combination of woke posturing and fiscal improprieties.
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3d ago
kyōiku mama sounds like the Japanese equivalent of "tiger mom".
On Wednesday, the UK held an election for local authorities (borough councils, district councils, county councils etc.).
Although the votes are still being counted, the results so far have been astonishing. From a starting position of 2, Nigel Farage's Reform party have gained an incredible 1,426 seats. Labour, who hold an outright majority in the House of Commons after their landslide victory in 2024, have lost a whopping 1,375 seats, and Labour MPs are already calling on incumbent Labour prime minister Keir Starmer to resign within the year. The picture is only marginally better for the Tories, with Kemi Badenoch's Conservative party losing 552 seats so far.
The districts which voted for Reform include working-class districts which reliably voted Labour during the war in Iraq, the fallout after Blair, the Great Recession and when outspoken socialist Jeremy Corbyn led the party. After the general election in 2019, common wisdom had it that the so-called "red wall" had collapsed, with numerous working-class districts making the historic decision to vote for the Tories rather than Labour. Now, it seems, working-class Brits have had it with both major parties, and have decided to take a third option. Brendan O'Neill at Spiked is already arguing this might be the most seismic realignment in UK political history since the founding of Labour itself. If Farage and co. can maintain this momentum until the next House of Commons election, it doesn't seem remotely out of the question that, for the first time since 1906, we might witness a political party other than Labour or the Tories achieving an outright majority in the House.
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3d ago
Of the three Far Crys I've played (the first three), 3 was the best and it wasn't even close. Far Cry is a completely different beast to the franchise it spawned, being a relatively straightforward shooter with no pretensions to philosophical themes or complex characterisation. Far Cry 2 was trying to do the edgy confrontational you're-no-better-than-the-people-you're-fighting deconstructed power fantasy thing, and had one legitimately compelling character in the Jackal – but didn't quite pull it off, and the gameplay design is awfully lazy in ways that disrupt the immersion. Far Cry 3 is where everything came together, with satisfying gameplay and an engaging, thought-provoking story with fleshed-out and believeable characters.
What are your favourite inherently funny words?
Almost all incel slang makes me laugh, owing to the incongruity between how silly it sounds and the deadly seriousness with which members of the community use it. Clavicular, sounding like he's on the brink of tears, spitting out "I am not your JESTER!"? Hilarious. It is utterly beyond me how anyone can use the phrase "cock carousel" with a straight face: how can you say it and not picture a literal carousel, but with all of the plastic horses replaced with gargantuan plastic penises? Basically any portmanteau ending with "-maxx" ("looksmaxx", "moneymaxx", "lethalitymaxx") will make me laugh regardless of context. Their terms for assorted sub-categories of incel ("currycel" for desi incels, "ricecel" for Asian incels) are delightful, and inevitably invite the creation of neologisms ("potatocel" for incels of Hibernian extraction; a Turkish friend proposed "kebabcel").
But the incels' crowning achievement in unintentional (?) hilarity is the abbreviated form of their term for a disfavoured woman, "femoid". The word "femoid" is not particularly funny, and doesn't scan: neither "FEE-moyd" nor "FEM-oyd" really sound satisfying to say, and tend to break the rhythm of the sentence in which they are spoken. Perhaps in recognition of this, some incels abbreviated the word and produced a linguistic masterpiece: foid.
Foid. Foid. Fooooyyd. Foid! FOID.
Utterly marvelous. Pretty much any tweet that uses it will have me laughing, regardless of context. Sometimes these will be clever plays on words (e.g. someone discovered that the First Lady of New York had drawn a comic depicting herself lying on the ground with a police officer kneeling on her back, to which someone quipped "Finally – George Foid"), but they needn't be: simply using it in a completely unrelated context is a reliable recipe for hilarity. It's one of the purest invocations of the WHEEZE meme I've seen in years.
But I want to emphasise: I don't find this word funny because of what it means. "Foid" is funny in a way that "bitch", "whore", "slut", "cunt"* etc. are not, despite being roughly synonymous. It's an inherently funny word: it just sounds funny, completely independent of its meaning.
What are some other examples of inherently funny words?
*Wikipedia has a category page called "Pejorative terms for women", and the first listed example is "adult human female". Uhh, sure thing guys.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
4d ago
as I approach fatherhood
Is your wife expecting?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
4d ago
"For every problem the Lord has made, He has also made a solution." --Thomas Edison
The solution for male people who want to be female people is talk therapy until they understand that they will never be female people no matter what they do. No other solution seems remotely as effective.
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4d ago
I would be very surprised if @Celestial-body-NOS is an enthusiastic advocate for capital punishment, but I've been wrong before.
Given how much you appear to admire Eliezer, and how much stock you put in the Sequences, it would be remiss of me not to mention that Eliezer wrote an entire article arguing that the desire to "change one's sex" is a fundamentally incoherent one.
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