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matryoshka  ·  4329 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Not Your Mom’s Trans 101

    Okay, I found that link both interesting and disputable.

That was pretty much the reason I submitted it in the first place. :P

I myself do not wholly agree with the position that biological sex is a 100% social construct, but I did find that the points raised in the article gave me an interesting and novel perspective on gender. I've got to be honest though, I'm not certain what you mean by:

    What I don't really get is, what do transpeople associate with gender?

I should probably state as full disclosure that I am cis, but I am fairly certain that most transpeople associate the same things with gender as cispeople do. As well, most cispeople and transpeople are not 100% stereotypically masculine or feminine. In my experience, most transpeople are not disgusted by typically cis behaviour (although then again that's just my experience).

matryoshka  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

Woah, I'm surprised to hear that from you of all people. Any particular reason(s)?

matryoshka  ·  4336 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Monopoly to lose one of its classic tokens

    Because war is bad and kitties are good.

A statement we can all agree on. :D

matryoshka  ·  4336 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Monopoly to lose one of its classic tokens

If the comments on that page are correct, it seems that I'm the only one who always liked the thimble the most. :/

Bloody hell. Even the MMR-causes-autism people didn't go as far as saying that measles was a brilliant and wonderful thing to have... I hope.

Much as I'd like to take credit (:P), the script and blog were both created by Adam Cadre.

matryoshka  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: California Boy Scout group challenges ban on gays.

Awesome. I've never bought the argument that as a private organization the Boy Scouts could not let gay people in if they wanted to - the "right" to discriminate against LGBT people is not a real right at all.