They're not wrong.
The solution is the removal of wealth redistribution from society. Women are free to their sense of entitlement, and men are free to support women, just as long as no one can use the long arm of government to redistribute other people's wealth.
One or more of the vaccines will get FDA approved, regardless of their safety.
Imagine for a moment being the bureaucrat who's called to approve the vaccine. Suppose you have reason for concern, or that it does not meet a certain criteria. You could withhold approval, and watch your name besmirched, your pension taken away, your livelihood gone, your family out in the street, your little children growing up without food as they look at you with their big innocent baby eyes. All this only for the vaccine to get approved anyway, despite your lack of approval, by the next guy, the guy who has been promoted to your job. A guy not as capable or moral as you, but who from now on will hold all the power and authority you once held.
Or you could say 'yes'.
Biting your lips, you sign the dotted line.
Imagine having anorexia and hearing this person, who weights 4 times as much as you, pretends to have anorexia as well.
Are we trusting polls again? Not saying it's not accurate, I don't know.
Regardless, even if majority of US Jews are Democrats that still doesn't make Jews the problem. It's the ideology and the party (/parties) that represents it. I think it's important to understand where the world went wrong philosophically lest we repeat the mistakes again and again. Blaming a small group of people for a ubiquitous problem is missing the mark.
I guess calling for open borders, unrestricted immigration and attacking conservatives
That's not a Jewish thing, that's a Leftist thing.
Aww the trailer reminded me of the Firewatch game for a moment and I got my hopes up. My disappointed was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
Describing his female sparring partners' body parts as being "silky soft," "delicate" and "flimsy" is demeaning and is blatant chauvinism.
In a dojo where men are told to hold back and to pull their punches when sparring women, you are not allowed to refer to women as delicate and flimsy, which they are, because that is demeaning and chauvinistic.
Let us end this "battle of the sexes" once and for all and get back into the true spirit of the martial arts, which is respect, peace and empowerment.
Oh the 90s. The naïveté.
This is a nice time capsule.
I can imagine the barrage of letters you would receive (if not lawsuits) if the question had read "Do Afro-Americans Belong in the Dojo?"
Oddly enough both the far right and far left would at least entertain this question nowadays.
I admit that I have been afraid to spar with some of the men at my school because they were more powerful than I could ever be. And I know I may not be able to "defeat even an untrained man."
This is fringe language in 2021. If a man said that about women he'd be unpersoned.
Apparently it's us.
So I'm looking for some statistics and sadly a lot of it comes from psychological sciences and pro trans organizations both of which I don't trust to be objective about it.
I found this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7317390/ which includes 49 suicides (0.6% of participants). Hard to draw much for pre and post but they conclude:
We observed no increase in suicide death risk over time and even a decrease in suicide death risk in trans women. However, the suicide risk in transgender people is higher than in the general population and seems to occur during every stage of transitioning.
Overall I'd say these numbers are inconclusive. Certainly not something I'd recommend to anyone dealing with this issue as a means to stave off suicide. If transitioning was a solution, I'd expect to see more pronounced increase in overall happiness which these suicide numbers do not convince me is taking place.
(Interestingly enough MtF kill themselves at nearly triple the rate of FtM, which is similar to suicide rate proportions in men and women overall.)
If I can get philosophical about the topic, while overall happiness is a goal in life, how you achieve said happiness is also important. Even if going through surgery and living your life as the opposite sex were to increase your happiness, I'd have to question the price you'd be paying for it. To name two examples out of many, MtF can not get pregnant. FtM have a weaker bone structure and are smaller framed. Both of these things are real and immutable. If you live your life as if you were a woman, but unable to have children, that affects your quality of life. If you live your life as if you were a man, but are physically weaker and more prone to injuries, that affects your quality of life to. Certain life occupations are much harder for you if not outright impossible. This disassociation from reality is a price that puts 'happiness as the goal of life' into question. It's not just being happy, it's how you choose to be happy and what makes you happy.
Instead, how about the following alternative:
Accept reality. Live life according to the hand you were dealt. It may not be what you want, it may feel wrong, but reality does not bend to your will. Maybe you'll grow out of it, maybe it'll get better with time, maybe it will not. I know this isn't possible to all people and sadly some people we have no answer for, but this notion that a transition surgery as a good default solution to people struggling with this is counter productive and destructive.
Put aside the name calling.
There is a big cultural war going on. This isn't an isolated incidence in a void. Also, this isn't my first Rodeo with Blizzard. When they do this, I know exactly where they're going with this and what they're aiming at, and I refuse to entertain it for one milisecond. If this charactization happened 100 years ago, perhaps we'd be having a different tone of conversation.
Even Blizzard has sense enough to avoid mentioning the word trans in game when not necessary. Suffice to describe trans characters and omit the language.
I'm not denying anyone's existence. People are free to feel as whatever they like. And I'm free to reject their feelings. Just because a person feels a certain sex does not mean I'm obligated to play along. Feelings do not make reality. The notion that feeling something makes one so is ridiculous. The notion that people should be coerced to partake in the pretense is beyond monstrous.
Transition works? How so? Does it lower suicide rates? Has there been long term studies showing it improves happiness and quality of life? It doesn't actually change the person's sex. FtM often pass, though from what I read they're generally unhappy. MtF rarely pass, and even that is mostly time limited to the earlier years. Putting children on puberty blockers is child abuse.
From what I've seen the main thing the trans movement has been successful at is generating a lot of noise and using a lot of strong arming to try to force 'acceptance'. The media being extremely far left has helped them a great deal in this.
Many self described trans people have been let down by society, which has pushed them in this direction and encouraged them as being heroic and virtuous. When the dust has settled and their promoters have moved on, the individuals will have to pick up the pieces of their lives. Sadly many of them will find that they do not fit together again.
Works of art do not float in the Ether. Blizzard is very much promoting the idea that if you feel the opposite sex, you belong in the opposite sex, and it is right and proper for you to be seen as one and everyone around you should treat you the way you feel like, disregarding reality. We're here to tell them that is not the case.
If you think this isn't the message Blizzard is promoting, go ahead and go against it in game / on the official Blizzard forums, and best of luck with that.
Lastly, if fiction universe is detached from reality and in magical La-La land you can spawn whichever body you feel like having, then both of Blizzard's 'trans' characters wouldn't be trans, they'd be the opposite sex than they're portrayed as. Not their body being different, but the characters themselves. Instead Blizzard makes a point out of it in both characters' stories.
A single, subtle line in a book that almost nobody is going to buy is now "ruining" a character that has always been known as a male dragon using a female gnome's form?
Yeah.
We need a video compilation of media ridiculing the lab leak alongside current headlines.
Robots will never replace humans at throwing acid in women's faces. Sure they got the motion right, but they lack the human touch.
This one speaks for itself.