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I think that's exactly the point. The current situation is already bad, tools that reinforce the bad part of the system shouldn't be accepted.

I think there's something missing in this article. It sounded familiar and I remembered the old news when they mentioned Google and Australia. The issue with Google was that the news would show in the search results, which meant there's no need to visit the source.

"I'm a Dad, but I don't have to be a man" is just beautiful.

I don't know your friend, but he may feel like he's losing you as well. The world is burning and cishet men have trouble finding a place to be safe. We assume they don't need one, but most of the space they have is not good.

It's hard to do what I'm going to suggest when you are suffering as well, so put yourself first. Forget any groups, treat you two as your community and ask what exactly is bothering him. What happens that make him feel oppressed? How does you supporting another community harm him? If anything else, his pain is real, he can't put it into words and end up invalidated. That's actually a point you have in common, you may start there.

We really do need more romance in games not being presented as a mean to get a prize. Maybe some randomness could be applied and the same actions would not always result in the desired outcomes.

It was curious when I realized, not many years ago, that people found strange to play a character with a different gender. Imagining a different sexuality is probably the same. In both cases, games don't go deep in making you feel like the other, which is kinda sad.

It's an interesting exercise. It made me think about several issues that I wish to discuss in the future. I don't really agree with your presentation, but I have some suggestions.

You should quantify everything as either 0 or 1. This is a binary scale. There's man and there's woman, no third option, no in between. You can say X and / or Y is part of your identity and if it's always the case or not, the Z.

I understand that you wanted to express that some people are not as much X or Y, but I believe that's a reality for trans and cis people. Non binary, in my personal view, deconstructs genders and don't really put them back together.

All that said, the moment we accept gender as a social construct, we have to accept individual definitions. I tried to work inside what I felt you were aiming to say. You be the judge.

I think something that prevented me from sharing content in spaces that promote discussions was having nothing to say, but I don't really have to every single time.

Another mastodon instance (my first home in the fediverse): @tech.lgbt

Psychologists have constructed a myth – that somewhere there exists some state of health which is the norm, meaning that most people presumably are in that state, and those who are anxious, depressed, neurotic, distressed, or generally unhappy are deviant.

The Sick Woman is a disabled person who couldn’t go to the lecture on disability rights because it was held in a venue without accessibility.

The concept of invisible disability comes to mind. They are not so much invisible as just more easily ignored. Disability becomes invisible when your spaces don't allow our presence, when your activities don't accommodate our participation, when your solution is simply to fix us because you believed we are just wrong.

I knew about the reality women faced when seeking medical treatment before, but the way it was framed resonated with me even more this time. We can be oppressed in so many different ways that we get separated and forget how much society can equalize us by their mistreatment. There are so many ways of oppresing our peers that we should be vigilante not to be contributing to the wrong movement. And silencing is the sin on the menu today.

Silencing is not hearing one's story, and if we believe everyone should have a voice, we need to go after those who can't speak or find it difficult to do so instead of expecting them to show up. Make spreading other people stories part of your political acts, make them visible in the spaces you visit, in the spaces you want them to visit.

Not in Brazil. Charging backfired really quickly and the solution was biodegradable plastic, which might mean just plastic that breaks down in plastic we can't see.

The fact treason is as easy as a spelling mistake is worrisome. Don't trust users not to shoot themselves in the foot.

Thanks for sharing. It's a really good article and an important subject.

It's so absurd that doctors prescribe surgical procedures because they believe you can fix a body to conform to social expectations. They cause harm to no health related benefits.