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I'm pretty sure his VP pick this time won't be as significant as his VP pick last time, who after all refused to overthrow the election for him. There's no guarantee that whoever gets the job this time around will have that much integrity.

Meadmaker wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:59 pm And a leading candidate for Vice President once shot a dog, so she's unacceptable.

Hey, don't forget that she also shot three horses, so it's okay.

It's kind of sad that they have a boilerplate on standby for when this sort of thing happens. Not if, when.

I can't think of a time I've ever heard "cis" or "cisgender" outside of the internet. If you have a bunch of trans friends, as I do, you hear it more often. If I understand the meaning right it's like being one of the Italian mobsters in the movie Shaft . Well I have no idea wha...

About the only thing you can say honestly about that situation is "we don't know everything". In fact, we know very little.

Meadmaker wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:01 am I can't think of a time I've ever heard "cis" or "cisgender" outside of the internet.

If you have a bunch of trans friends, as I do, you hear it more often.

Yep, I was bullied extensively at school - rarely physically, though that did happen, but verbally and psychologically. It made me into a human that was scared to put his head up because of the fear that if I did, words of abuse would follow, or occasionally a small rock. I did band and theatre, whe...

stanky wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:01 pm I've never heard anyone use either term.
(But i don't get out much)

Yeah, if you haven't heard about the Right's war on Woke by now, how's life in that cave deep in the woods?

Sorry, but as a bullied kid myself, I am particularly sensitive to the reasons kids bully other kids. In the most progressive capital city in Australia, a kid wearing a cat-ear headband probably wouldn't be bullied - in fact they might be seen as pretty cool. But in conservative middle America, &quo...

Hardly surprising. Yes, "cis" is being used as a slur, like "woke" has become.