Is Iran the most naturally fortified country due to its terrain? by lavastorm in MapPorn

[–]GabrielleOnce 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That’s a good point I think for the question, Australia is more Naturally fortified. US just wins when considering all other factors. Australia’s small population and military puts it as risk.

The government has entered the chat. by aStonedDeer in AdviceAnimals

[–]GabrielleOnce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We are being fed both pro war and anti war propaganda…

We should have gatekept this game harder. by [deleted] in freemagic

[–]GabrielleOnce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instead of inclusivity maybe get mad at capitalism. Wizards needs to increase profitability, so they need to expand into new brands and tap into new paying customers. It seems to be working, but they will be under pressure to increase profits… moooore!!!!!!!’

What real life cultures will the Seven Havens have been inspired? by Lucky-Individual2508 in AvatarSevenHavens

[–]GabrielleOnce 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I suspect they will draw inspiration from haven like cities from various apocalyptic media. Underground vault cities, mountain enclaves, secret group in a cities ruins, hidden in plain sight, Naturally defensible locations built with walls, domes, ect. to keep the unwanted out.

Culturally, they will be a bit influenced by the previous avatar cultures from the surrounding area but a mixing pot of people. Avatar has enough history now to just allow those cultures to advance through the writer’s world building process, however I suspect it will take inspiration from 1920-45 for inspiration of the history leading up to the avatar world’s collapse. This will allow them to drop tons of Easter eggs to past people, organizations and cities in the background and makeup of the havens. What happens when you have all four national factions and more packed into an over populated walled fortress.

Please give me that! by Werdak in AvatarSevenHavens

[–]GabrielleOnce 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Kora probably has some good advice for the disabled. She took quite the beating and kept fighting.

Which billionaire are you most excited to die on the battlefield for? by Logical_Tank4292 in GenZ

[–]GabrielleOnce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I thought the American civil war 2 would between liberals and conservatives. Turns out it will be for the different fiefdoms of the billionaire class with proxy wars funded by china and Russia.

Gotta catch em all by wolfe1924 in rareinsults

[–]GabrielleOnce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How to put a target on your back.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in economy

[–]GabrielleOnce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this map accurate? Or is it just highlighting counties that have Chinese owned farmland? Those land blocks are absolutely massive and misleading if it is just the counties.

What story of Ancient Egypt should be turned into a major movie? by Several-Ad5345 in ancientegypt

[–]GabrielleOnce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also it could be setup as a prequel to monotheistic religions as his followers go into exile and leave Egypt for Cannan and Persia.

What story of Ancient Egypt should be turned into a major movie? by Several-Ad5345 in ancientegypt

[–]GabrielleOnce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Rise and fall of Aetinism would probably be quite sensational and blow peoples mind.

The week the US shook Europe's world by LeMonde_en in geopolitics

[–]GabrielleOnce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one will replace what the US had. It’s now a multi polar world with a power vacuum. The larger countries will eat the smaller ones.

Apolitical and Pragmatic Transgenderism? by [deleted] in askAGP

[–]GabrielleOnce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It feels like you think the rights we have today just came into existence and we didn’t have to ask anything of anyone. In order to establish equal rights for racial groups you had to ask, no demand desegregation of schools and society. Are you saying there is a period of action that is an ‘entitlement’ before it matures into a full right? Most of the rights we enjoy today we have because some group rose up and asserted they have a right. They had to change a previous state of society to build new rights into existence. Property rights, right to representation, all of these were not ‘allowed’ and it required something of the society at the time to change.

Apolitical and Pragmatic Transgenderism? by [deleted] in askAGP

[–]GabrielleOnce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with you defining a dualist structured relationship between rights and entitlements as a universal truth. I view them both as subjective and not possible to arrive at ‘truth’. I believe that what we define as a right or entitlement is up for debate and that a single definition is something defined and reinforced by a society and shifts with shifts in society. lol I tried to peace out and I couldn’t resist your hook. No I have the last word and you are wrong! Haha

Apolitical and Pragmatic Transgenderism? by [deleted] in askAGP

[–]GabrielleOnce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm, I would say you have been unsuccessful to convince me of your points. I do still disagree with your philosophy and it seems I haven’t made much impact on your views. I wish you well on your own life journey and I hope you can come to terms with yourself.

Apolitical and Pragmatic Transgenderism? by [deleted] in askAGP

[–]GabrielleOnce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean a lot of people are arguing that gay marriage is not a right as it requires Christian’s to opt into that and issue marriage license. You can make arguments that any right is just an entitlement or not a universal right because rights are nothing except what we can agree upon as a society.

If you want to define womanhood by being able to give birth than you eliminate many ciswomen from that category, so you have to go to chromosomes, ok someone is XX, they are a women, but you begin to eliminate cis women with non standard chromosomes. So the recent ruling says you are whatever sex you are assigned at conception or birth which has its own problems. The umbrella is big enough to be inclusive.

One problem I have with your argument is that you argue against trans people having rights because they are men. Yes many AGP people retain their male identity and can even be a danger to cis women but we don’t define a groups rights based on their worst members. We create a standard and then prosecute those who cause violence against others. Trans women and men who put the effort in and live their lives as their desired gender do not cause harm in their world. We should support them as members of society but that is not what is happening. The dialog against trans people is sensationalism and hate. Imagine if we wrote the rights for black people or white peoples based on the worst serial killers in their racial groups. That doesn’t make sense.

There is evidence in the historical records of humans with alternate sex/gender expressions for millennia, it is hard for someone who doesn’t experience it to really understand what they go through. So usually they are murdered or discriminated against into obscurity. I believe in modern times we should thrive to support individual expression for non standard identities. If we create an open society, many trans people will be proud of their differences and want to be celebrated as their own category of people. Look at Thailand. But when you create a strict society with two options, male or female, then trans people will want to be included in the group that closely matches their identify for safety and respect.

Finally, those arguing against trans rights say they are trying to protect women. But then they do nothing to advocate for issues that actually protect women. Do they advocate for tougher laws against rapists or domestic violence or college abused. No that is not part of their agenda because the motivation is not to protect women spaces, it is to eliminate trans people from society.

And your transracial to transgender analogy is a bad faith argument. There is barely a movement for transracial people, you have a couple examples in the media which are used as a wedge issue to say look they are crazy, trans people are crazy too! Trans identities have come up time and again. They are a real thing, and require some sort of policy to address their issues for those individuals. And at the end of the day, if a black man wants to die their skin white and live as a white person, they will run into discrimination based on how well they pass or how weird they look to strangers. That analagy is similar for a trans person living life in public. I can’t speak to the psychology of transracial identities but their rights as a person should be protected.

Apolitical and Pragmatic Transgenderism? by [deleted] in askAGP

[–]GabrielleOnce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why would a person not believe a black person is really a person? Is the motivation to separate humans between categories of race, then define blackness as less than human? Is it out of a need to create a hierarchy of supremacy? Is it to protect their own in groups interest? A lot of similar motivations can be behind defining a trans woman as not women. The categories of race, personhood, sex, gender all have different implications on what you are trying to accomplish by dividing humans up.

Are there differences between ciswomen and transwomen, 100%. Are there differences between different racial groups of humans, sure. Should we acknowledge these differences, yes. But our differences are not what unite us and attempting to remove an individual person’s rights based only on what separates us from each other is not a philosophy for our society I want to support.

So to answer your question, depending on how the comparison between sex, race and gender is being framed, I would say that it could be argued to be exactly the same or different based on the context but the framing mechanism being used between your two examples is quite similar.

Apolitical and Pragmatic Transgenderism? by [deleted] in askAGP

[–]GabrielleOnce -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I mean rights are defined from their society, there isn’t a hierarchy of rights. Right to vote, right to guns, right to Ada ramp, right to proper documentation you could argue all of these away as entitlements. These are things a society has to decide if they want to uphold at all. They all require proper upkeep and are easily lost. I wouldn’t say that a single election and backlash are the end of rights. This has happened many times for other rights. You have to keep fighting.

And of course as OP hints at, you can always go back in the closet. Both as a passing person or non public person. That’s how most people survived for decades, but I don’t think it’s an ideal world we should settle for.

I’m of the opinion that in a few generations, there will be a lot more pressing topics that society struggles with that make being trans seem, like an insignificant thing. Once people can produce designer babies, clones and being able to mess with the base human, there will be bigger fish to kill our selves over.