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I was re-reading The Audacity of Hope today: "Maybe the critics are right. Maybe there's no escaping our great political divide, an endless clash of armies, and any attempts to alter the rules of engagement are futile. Or maybe the trivialization of politics has reached a point of no return, so...

NYT this morning: Starting to bring up unpleasant memories of the end of Diane Feinstein's career... Also, this scene in Doctor Who:

Sure. Grandpa Bunker seldom stops things from being printed at the source, not his style. Remember Noon Against Putin? Rather, he finds out who was responsible, drops a few hints that they've shortened their lifespan, watches them run around from country to country for a couple of months to...

Harris and Biden are actually very similar to one another, in most ways other than appearance. I like her, but I worry about her campaign mode.

Easily the best Transportation Secretary we've had in decades. But a large proportion of Americans have an unconscious sensation of disgust and fear whenever they see two gay men together. Not helpful on the campaign trail, that.

Actually she would just squeak by, as you only have to be 35 at the time you take office, not when you begin your run. But she's also an actual Progressive, highly articulate, beautiful, popular with young voters, y fluida en español, so that's kind of beside the point. Doors shut as she walks...

Akd And Newsom just gutted county social services to the bone. Every agency charged with helping the most desperate unhoused people is currently scrambling to figure out how they're going to run on half their budget, without losing half their staff. That said, you're strongly...

Unless he wishes to clarify, I think it's safe to assume that's what tswizzle's rolleyes emoticon stands for. He doesn't pull that out because he doesn't know the answer, but because even he has enough shame to not want to say "I want them all to disappear somehow" out loud.

Referring to the entirety of the Modern and post-Modern era social sciences as an ideologically driven religion does imply that same general level of intentional ignorance, yes. If you don't want to be mistaken for a Creationist, don't copy their rhetoric.

#notallgods

I would never even suspect you of such. Of course modern hormone therapies should be available, to whoever needs them.

Seriously, why are you playing the blushing maiden? Just say what's on your mind.

How many times have you typed that? Juat tell us what you think, I hate it when people play coy and cutesy about opinions too bullshit to be stated directly.

And then what? After you've unlawfully detained people without charges for long periods and stolen such property as they have, where should they go?

Feminism is defined in many ways, We all know this. But all forms of ferminism should at a minimum be focused on expanding women's rights, not constricting them. Telling a woman that she is a criminal because she refused to use a bathroom or changing room with a iconographic dress on the door is...

Frankly, no. At least, not in quite the way Jarhyn puts it. But I also don't think that's relevant to a question of gender roles, what should be expected, or what should be "allowed". No question of civil rights should be contingent on "proving" that you were biologically compelled to act as you...

Then basing social policy on sex is inappropriate, even if it were possible, and inherently sexist. Using a changing room or applying for a passport or playing soccer are social behaviors, not biological functions. Gender, not sex. This I agree with 100%, which is why what you're trying to do...

What you are defending without really thinking is the philosophical notion that male and female identities are fundamentally separate and non-overlapping. You seize on scientific findings that you feel support that worldview, and ignore or dismiss as unimportant those that find ambiguity and...

I can see how you arrived at those conclusions, but can't quite manage to travel there with you.

Obviously. But two wrongs don't make a right, as my mother always says.