Omg a bunch of people were named by Boomers and then had their genitals mutilated! Pour one out for circumcised American Millennials.
Yeah, I used to be one of those “meh who cares” about being circumcised, but as I’ve gotten older and thought more about the practice, it disgusts me. I have zero plans of having children, but if I ever had a son, the idea of almost immediately cutting off a piece of his fucking penis because their psychotic god has a fetish for children’s foreskins, is nauseating, horrific, and barbaric.
Like what the fuck people?
Was listening to NPR the other day where they were talking about some female genital mutilation in some African nation. It’s so goddamn horrifying, and the statistics they gave for how many women in that country had received FGM were deeply depressing.
I know that male circumcision isn’t at the level of barbarism that most ritual FGM seems to be, but it did make me think about the double standard.
Every day, in the US at least, x thousands of newborns/infants are having their genitals mutilated without second thought.
That’s… really fucked up.
Adding to that, the opposition to using “they/them” pronouns seems ridiculous too. There are entire countries where using singular pronouns while talking to/about someone is considered extremely offensive and referring to individuals by using plural pronouns is the norm.
If billions of people can manage without getting confused about whether or not you’re talking about an individual or group of people, I’m sure that even the English speakers who are opposed to this because of the “confusion” it causes can do it with very little effort - especially since third person gender neutral pronouns are already a thing in English!
Singular they has been in use in English since at least 1375¹, without anyone getting confused or complaining until these homophobic snowflakes.
If anyone’s getting “confused” it’s clearly not the language’s fault.
Maybe they should get their brains looked at, if they’re so easily “confused” by something that’s been in use for centuries without any issues.
(¹ Also, nothing to do with this, but the more I read about it the more that 1375 work cited as the first appearance, William and the Werewolf / Guillaume de Palerne, looks like a medieval version of modern furry smut, or the kind of stuff Anne Rice used to write before she caught religion…)
We also used to have a singular version of the pronoun “you”, which was thou, but somehow people are able to cope with you being both singular and plural. But telling them that they has been both singular and plural for over 700 years is way too much for them to cope with.
That’s not a reason many Republicans would accept though. They think being beaten by a relative is a good thing. Especially if the person being beaten is a child.
Yeah I’m trans and my wife is a cis lady and neither of our current legal names are our birth name. No one’s used my birth name for at least a decade but when we visit my in-laws I’m the only one who doesn’t call her by hers. Always amuses me when I stop to think about it.
Hulk Hogan is a Republican?
Why is it always washed up actors or once-famous-but-not-so-much-now people that are Republicans?
Not just a Republican, but was on stage with Trump at the RNC.
Also, he’s a racist. He literally called himself a racist and then used the N-word. He just didn’t know he was being recorded at the time.
He’s also the bootlicking, anti-union snitch that ratted out Jesse Ventura to McMahon.
Gonna leave this here. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, by Ryan Holiday.
Tangentially, same author, Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Tbh, didn’t click into either of your links here, but enough to state the following…
Gonna leave this here. [“I’m a professional liar, and you, personally, are stupid for listening to anything I say”]
Tangentially, the same author, [“Buy my book, I’m now going to tell you the truth”]
The second book is about how the news cycle is broken. A lot about write-first, verify later. Or manufactured outrage. Or straight up falsehoods.
It’s a good book, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The first book is almost a specific case of it…Hulk Hogans sex tape scandal, and the people who bankrolled his lawsuit against Gawker because of a completely unrelated personal grudge.
All shit-sloshing gutters eventually end at the RNC. It’s like the famous section of that classic poem from the old gop poet, No-wokeius Bartholomew Pussyhound III:
“Give me your washed up, your publicly disgraced and purposefully-undereducated, your convicted masses yearning to molest underage boys in churches and motels while wearing flag shirts… I’m gonna scare those goofy fuckers into giving me money by talking almost exclusively in acronyms that they don’t understand, but are terrified of!”
Why is Marjorie going by “Hulk” now?
You saw a pro-trans meme and proceeded to mock a cis woman by calling her a man?
Oof.
I hate to do this to you but we apparently have to whip out the dictionary.
They aren’t saying she looks like a man, it’s a reference to a pretty specific insult she was called in the house recently. Though I guess someone could argue that insult was transphobic, I’d have to think about it but I certainly wouldn’t push back
Youre right that they didnt say she looked like “a” man. They said she looked like the specific man in this photo - Hulk Hogan.
I understood the reference. It’s still not a great look for people to ‘dunk’ on butch women for being butch, no matter how badly built their bodies are.
He even went by Hollywood at one point in time.
Gender affirming bandana with hair attached to it.
