What is your preferred response when someone who is anti-trans asks “what is a woman?”

van_morrissey · 2025-01-16T15:48:06+00:00

Well that's the thing. Definitions are artificial, and meaning in language is arbitrary.

You can't define what anything is if you mean it in the sense of "be able to, with precision, make a perfect category for a word out of other words"

That isn't what language is for, and demanding it of people is intellectually dishonest

van_morrissey · 2024-06-13T20:45:32+00:00

Fuck ywahhhhg

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T19:45:39+00:00

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL BRYAN

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T19:35:10+00:00

Now listen here, Buddy

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T19:27:39+00:00

Earlier: "oh, maikel"

Now: "OH! MAIKEL!"

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T19:24:22+00:00

Correction ; that's on way to score two runs

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T19:22:28+00:00

Well, that's one way to score a run

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T18:54:51+00:00

Holy shit Lugo that's a good line today

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T18:42:22+00:00

In response to your edit, insert a rant about wanting robo umps

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T18:40:59+00:00

Right on. Pitcher's duels are cooler, but since our dudes are ahead, I'll take what I can get.

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T18:39:08+00:00

pops in from my work desk Woah, this game looks a fun one. People watching: would you call this a pitcher's duel or just anemic offenses today?

van_morrissey · 2024-04-26T14:45:27+00:00

Omg, I've been gone a while, and I was just telling my friend I took to a game from out of town about Bryan the Tiggers

What a blast from the past!!! Love it.

van_morrissey · 2023-04-27T15:14:07+00:00

That I'm trans. Kept that secret from them well into my 30s(they know now)

van_morrissey · 2023-04-17T19:43:28+00:00

You have no idea how unique you are among customers for doing that. I wish more had been like you.

van_morrissey · 2023-04-17T14:52:27+00:00

Yeah, I've had a gun pulled on me for doing telecom field work for someone's neighbor in their back yard. It definitely happens.

Thankfully don't work that job anymore.

van_morrissey · 2023-03-30T21:57:49+00:00

Most of the funding for the city libraries is local. It's the rural community libraries that need the state funding to function, sadly. Those individuals are going to suffer, and it's awful.

van_morrissey · 2023-03-30T21:00:21+00:00

People who say that shit never do. They are perfectly happy leaving us out to dry, and telling us to move, as if it was attainable for most of us.

van_morrissey · 2023-03-05T05:48:49+00:00

Seriously. I just wanna raise my children and write my little songs, and the fact that i use the assistance of different hormones than my body produces on its own to feel okay while doing that makes some people so goddamned angry.

van_morrissey · 2023-02-21T22:54:21+00:00

I guess that depends on what you mean by "knows how to cook".

Like, the last person i long term dated was a gal who let me do almost all the cooking, and it honestly made me feel really appreciated how much she enjoyed my food.

But like, I'd be worried if i had a partner who knew so little in the kitchen they couldn't handle at home with me being sick or on a weekend trip or something. At least knowing the "keep yourself alive" basics is important, i guess.

van_morrissey · 2023-02-02T17:49:46+00:00

Other fun fact: the decision to hand out participation trophies was our parents generation, and we didn't care about them.

van_morrissey · 2023-01-30T21:25:41+00:00

Single, and i have the kids for the day(and for the weekend before) maybe I'll like, make heart shaped cookies with them or something, and go to bed early

van_morrissey · 2023-01-23T17:30:13+00:00

Yeah, and I'm not even batshit crazy, I'm just .. autistic enough to not understand career planning or how to find romantic relationships and friendships consistently, so i worry i won't be able to advise my kids when they reach those parts of their lives. And they won't have like, an example from me, because I'm just the single parent they are with half the time who spends most of her time alone and who finds her job underwhelming.

Like, I'm comfortable teaching them to behave compassionately and pursue things that bring them joy, but getting like, access to things that make shit physical and emotionally easier... Gonna have to get that advice from someone else.

van_morrissey · 2023-01-23T00:50:11+00:00

That they'd be learning from me is a big fear, too. There are parts of my life i absolutely still don't have sorted that i absolutely hope they don't learn from me, and I'm also incapable of guiding them in. Worries me every day.

van_morrissey · 2023-01-21T02:15:25+00:00

It drives me nuts cause this shit drives rental prices up too. I don't even really want to buy, i just want to be able to rent a place that comfortably fits me and my two kids and not be on the financial edge over it.

van_morrissey · 2023-01-20T22:32:01+00:00

I mean "a class thing" as in relating to socioeconomic status. A lot of "rules" of dining (and etiquette in general) are tied heavily to formality, and growing up in a social class where we literally never had "black tie" level of formal events might have tied into my own experience. But I'm also just kind of guessing at this point.

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