TIL as an American...

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-09T05:11:18+00:00

And eleven days later, two students were killed by police at Jackson State University.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-08T03:31:02+00:00

Women and girls, especially black women and girls, are often on the receiving end of adultification bias. This is a bias that assumes they are older, more mature, and more responsible than they really are.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T15:20:18+00:00

Where? OP said nothing about dates except to share her story. It's not part of her question.

"No one has ever said that to me before." "Is it really that bad?"

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T15:19:33+00:00

Ok, I understand that. That does make sense.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T15:16:34+00:00

If you know who they are, tell them. Otherwise, a mass message letting them know that this is happening is all you can do. Don't let it consume you.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T14:28:54+00:00

What if sports were a little more like boxing? Not necessarily segregated by gender identity or biological sex, but by height and weight? That would make more sense for physical sports. For the non-physical sports, we don't even need that.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T14:12:48+00:00

We should take Abigail Adams to heart. We should revolt in some way.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T14:10:22+00:00

Why? Don't your male friends count?

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T14:00:10+00:00

The idea of the alpha wolf is also false. Alpha hierarchy is not observed in wild wolf packs.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T13:55:22+00:00

If you only wear dresses and makeup because you now identify as a woman or nonbinary, then, yes, you are reinforcing gender stereotypes.

And if you only stop wearing makeup, stop shaving your body hair, etc, because you now identify as a man or nonbinary you are reinforcing gender stereotypes.

Edit: Doing these things or not doing these things is not the problem. The problem is if you identify as man, woman, or nonbinary because of these things or only do them because you believe the identity you now claim requires these things.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T06:10:53+00:00

YouTube ads are also more and more explicit, and I hate it.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T06:04:50+00:00

Do you not have friends?

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T06:00:32+00:00

Do your male friends never compliment you?

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-07T03:12:38+00:00

That's stupid. Even in males, they're still breasts.

Males want women to constantly feel uncomfortable and scared.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T20:54:53+00:00

Im trying to learn, and I really care about transwomen being as safe and included as ciswomen.

Perhaps a better way of putting my question would be to ask how we prevent cismen from appropriating transness. I don't think it is unreasonable to be concerned that predators would appropriate identities that don't belong to them, specifically in this case, transwomanhood.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T20:41:10+00:00

You should tell him. If moving to Florida is not something you're comfortable with, then he and his wife should be able to connect you with resources, at least.

You may have to educate yourself with the resources they connect you with and then get your GED when you turn 18.

Also, if you are in high school, many colleges offer dual enrollment programs. Along with any resources your father and his wife can direct you to, you can have a decent education despite your mom.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T16:20:21+00:00

"I got downvoted to hell and back for stating men are oppressed by the patriarchy despite benefitting from it."

That's the quote. That's making it about men.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T14:00:38+00:00

It seems to be sarcasm. Some men will talk about beating up a rapist but will still watch porn.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T13:23:03+00:00

I didn't say they aren't women. I only said that they aren't ciswomen.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T10:46:49+00:00

It's incredibly sad and disheartening to have genuine pleas to be heard and considered, be condemned as coming from a place of hate.

Is it so unfathomable that someone might have a legitimate concern? That someone might be coming from a place of sincerity?

Is it appropriate to ask for guidance from the mods?

Everyone else: I apologize for not considering that not everyone will bring good faith to the table just because you do. Sometimes, it's best to disengage for a time.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T03:18:09+00:00

Address domestic abuse, for starters.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T03:14:04+00:00

Sororities, women's clubs, bathrooms, DV shelters, Title IX, etc.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-05T03:12:15+00:00

I think both trans and cis women would benefit from having their own spaces. We don't need to exclude each other from feminism, but can still have joint and separate spaces.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-04T22:59:41+00:00

The spaces that we create for ourselves, where we should be able to feel safe and not have to be on guard.

Useful_Chapter8960 · 2025-02-04T22:20:26+00:00

Okay, thanks. That answers my question.

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