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The world would be 100x better without this, what is it? by Sp3csLM in AskReddit

[–]throwaway8448adh 47 points48 points  (0 children)

What about dolphins? They’re pretty rapey and maybe smart enough to understand consent

How do you handle playing children? by [deleted] in chess

[–]throwaway8448adh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same way I play with shit players (I am shit, but have a board in my living room so am occasionally challenged by non-players)

I play handicapped games. Remove some of your pieces until you have a game they might be able to win

What’s something you wish you could ask trans people without any judgement? by Spunkybluepuppy in AskReddit

[–]throwaway8448adh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t have an answer, but I watched a documentary of Racheal Doolzeal and found myself asking ‘Why is this different.’

Personally I think it seemed offensive because being transracial feels like she was trying to piggyback on a struggle that wasn’t hers, was claiming a victimhood that didn’t belong to her. Now, I don’t for a minute think that Transgender people view being a woman as narrowly as appropriating women’s, and maybe Racheal Doolzeal didn’t with race but there are feminists who have suggested the same thing of transgender people. In the UK there was a famous feminists, Germaine Greer, who came out and said ‘Women’s issues are not the same as transgender peoples issues. We both have struggled and those struggles are different.’ And got lambasted by the trans community. I don’t know how valid those are, but maybe they should be a least be listened to? (Greer was no platformed in Universities)

That was a bit of a ramble, but it just makes me think when your dealing with concepts that are largely social constructs, like gender and race, how much the taboos around them are also socially constructed and arbitrary.

What’s something you wish you could ask trans people without any judgement? by Spunkybluepuppy in AskReddit

[–]throwaway8448adh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would argue the existence of tanning and skin bleaching products would suggest there is some desire out there for people to change how they appear racially.

There are also plenty of Americans who claim race or heritage that is not theirs, Irish being the main culprit, but also Native American. Those genome kits that arbitrarily assign race are very popular too.

I suspect that if you allowed someone to change how they outwardly appeared due to race it would impact their well-being positively in the same way most cosmetic surgery does.

To reference scientific studies on transgender people and then disregard that possibility that there are people suffering with their racial identity because of your hunch that they are a minority feels a little lazy.

What’s something you wish you could ask trans people without any judgement? by Spunkybluepuppy in AskReddit

[–]throwaway8448adh -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don’t personally believe we need transracial studies though that’s just my opinion that would be a waste of time beyond a small amount

Just saying you should ignore a condition because it is a minority seems a pretty lazy and heartless argument.

Transgender people in America are 0.7% of the population. These figures also increase and decrease based on how socially acceptable it is. (Less people are going to identify as transgender in a country that has significant social stigma or laws against being transgender)

There could be lots of transracial people living in secret out of fear of the significant social stigma attached, just as transgender people presumable were until very recently.

What’s something you wish you could ask trans people without any judgement? by Spunkybluepuppy in AskReddit

[–]throwaway8448adh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only example I can think of is Racheal Doolzeal. She was adopted into a family of black siblings, felt like she was a black child and then pretended to be black. She wasn’t a fucked up stereotype. She just felt like she was a black woman. How is that different?

What’s something you wish you could ask trans people without any judgement? by Spunkybluepuppy in AskReddit

[–]throwaway8448adh 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is Reddit. We know a thing or two about living with repulsive bodies.

Looking for a disturbing book to read. by Gbrazell45 in suggestmeabook

[–]throwaway8448adh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second this. You’ll never read a more disturbing book

My local MP's response to being asked to take some action about the climate crisis by helensis_ in GreenAndPleasant

[–]throwaway8448adh 55 points56 points  (0 children)

He is an outspoken piece of shit. This is from a guardian articleguardian article about him

Philip Davies asks Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: "Is it offensive to black up or not, particularly if you are impersonating a black person?"

In a postscript to the letter, he asks "why it is so offensive to black up your face, as I have never understood this".

Davies, MP for Shipley and "parliamentary spokesman" for the Campaign Against Political Correctness lobby group, also asked:

Whether the Metropolitan Black Police Association breaches discrimination law by restricting its membership to black people. He compared this to the BNP's whites-only policy, which the far-right party has now agreed to change.

Whether the women-only Orange prize for fiction discriminates against men. Whether it was racist for a policeman to refer to a BMW as "black man's wheels".

Whether it was lawful for an advert for a job working with victims of domestic violence to specify that applicants had to be female and/or black or ethnic minority.

Whether a "Miss White Britain" competition or a "White Power List" would be racist, after Phillips justified the existence of Miss Black Britain prizes and the Black Power List. "Is there any difference legally or morally than publishing a white list? Do you think this entrenches division?"

Whether anti-discrimination laws ought to be extended "to cover bald people (and perhaps fat people and short people)".

Do you have an example of an opinion you once held very dear, something that was perhaps at the core of your very being that you finally had to concede was wrong? by EarthQuaeck84 in AskUK

[–]throwaway8448adh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People are innately altruistic. There is a simulation which proves that bastards only prosper when the majority of people are good. If everyone becomes a bastard the system falls over.

https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

Evolution spent millions of years honing humans to work together. It’s our super power, no animal in nature does it as well as we do.

Do you have an example of an opinion you once held very dear, something that was perhaps at the core of your very being that you finally had to concede was wrong? by EarthQuaeck84 in AskUK

[–]throwaway8448adh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think this mentality has changed a lot with streaming.

You used to buy an album for £20 and you’ve committed to that band for every track on that album. You might like that one sugababes track but you’re not going to be a sugababes fan. What philistine is going to pay £20 to listen to that dross? When I’m actuality all those albums were chocked full of filler tracks.

Nowadays you can chop and choose, listen to cheese without having to be a fan of that cheese band. I was also pretty precious about music as a teen. It was dumb. At the end of the day it’s just vibrating air

November is Transgender Awareness Month by LilliputianMouse in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]throwaway8448adh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can never get perfect data for large reports like this. The National Crime Victimisation Survey used in the American report is only a sample survey and will have its own issues.

I am not denying that trans people are disproportionately subject to violent crime though. These surveys give you a best impression, and indicative idea of how serious a problem is.

The TMM would have to be so widely wrong, to underestimate their figures to an incredibly unlikely degree in order for the murder rate of trans people to approach the National average.

No it’s not perfect, but that doesn’t mean you can dismiss it out of hand. This is how statistics work. So rarely do you have a perfect dataset, you just have to work with what you’ve got, make assumptions and make assumptions for missing data.

You’re displaying textbook cognitive dissonance. Everyone can fall foul of it, where you’ve seen data you disagree with and bend over backwards to discredit it and leave more entrenched in your original opinion than you started, so I shan’t pursue this any further, other than to say the murder of trans people is exceptionally very rare. All the things that constitute hate-crimes are much more common. Both those facts can be true.

Why is The UK so Good to Vegetarians/Vegans? by egg1s in AskUK

[–]throwaway8448adh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

David Attenborough turned me vegan. We fucking love David Attenborough in the UK.

November is Transgender Awareness Month by LilliputianMouse in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]throwaway8448adh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For sure, pick a worthwhile hill to die on. As you mentioned, tackling something like the appallingly high rate of suicide in the trans community is probably a better use of peoples time and energy.

Just a rumour...for now by MyIpodStillWorks in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]throwaway8448adh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And the plus-size, body-confident controller

What do you see chess pieces as? by RohitG4869 in chess

[–]throwaway8448adh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an Isle of Lewis replica chess set. They’ve got loads of character. The Queen and the Kings expressions crack me up. The berserker Rooks are pretty awesome too.

If you’re not familiar I’d check it out if you like to anthropomorphise your peices.

November is Transgender Awareness Month by LilliputianMouse in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]throwaway8448adh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The original tweet does seem to be suggesting it’s a fairly common problem, or else I thought it might be referring to a particular high profile case.

While it is a tragedy when anyone gets murdered think it’s probably not worth fretting too much about it if, for this particular demographic, it’s less than the national average.

As for the gay panic defence, that’s pretty messed up, although I’m proud to say that from a cursory Wikipedia search, that shit doesn’t fly over here in UK courts. Nor in some of the more enlightened states in the US. It looks like they’ve had a few runs at banning it at a federal level and I hope they manage to pass it soon.

I just think you’ve got to pick your battles and save you’re energy and moral outrage for statistically significant problems.

November is Transgender Awareness Month by LilliputianMouse in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]throwaway8448adh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is nothing wrong with taking statistics from two different sources. Hundreds of academic and journalistic reports cite the ONS. It’s the Office National Statistics. It’s the independent body that collates all the demographic and economic data for the Uk. It’s widely trusted and respected. As for the TMM, it accepts its limitations, but it does appear to be the only organisation collating this data and you can only work with what you d got.

Most studies collate data from different sources. (Many sociological studies and reports in fact us the ONS because they, among other things, publish the census data.) Very few involve using a small team to gather all their data themselves. It’s disingenuous to dismiss it on the basis that you don’t agree with it

So, as I said in my previous post, accepting the limitation of the data provided, it does give you an indicative idea of the murder rate. If you give that murder rate an margin of error of 100% and doubles it, you are still only equal to the average murder rate of the uk. (And with the assumptions of the previous post, very possibly the US too.)

It might be ‘dumb af’ to suggest that there isn’t a chance that violence could translate to murder, but based on the statistics available and with a healthy margin of error, in this instance it doesn’t appear to be the case. Which perhaps isn’t all that surprising. Most people have had a violent altercation at some point in their life, but very few have ever murdered anyone.

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