Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.

[mawnansmiff]

Call me old fashioned, but if a baby is born with a willy then it's a boy, if it's born with a winkle, then it's a girl, end of story *....or rather not so in Scotland.

Changing gender to be made easier in Scotland

A new law will simplify the process of transitioning, but the UK government says it has concerns and may step in.

www.bbc.co.uk

* I appreciate hermaphrodites happen, but very rarely and don't really come into this argument.

Regards,

Jay.

 

[ThermionicScott]

My take is, unless I'm trying to score with someone, I don't care what's in their pants or what they want to call themselves. Baffles me how much energy people put into fretting about this. That's all I've got to say about it.

 

[trouttimes]

 

[Chasing Embers]

My take is, unless I'm trying to score with someone, I don't care what's in their pants or what they want to call themselves. Baffles me how much energy people put into fretting about this. That's all I've got to say about it.

Don't much care for the one strike policy my company adopted a few years ago. One occurrence of mislabeling or identifying with the wrong name results in immediate dismissal even for folks that have been known a certain way for years.

 

[ADKPiper]

What do the aliens think, watching us from afar?
We have forgotten what our own junk means.
Given that reality, how can we reasonably expect that we will not blow ourselves off the face of the planet?
George Carlin was right.

 

[BDIC]

I tend to find all of this very silly these days. Almost as if people are looking for problems and creating them since apparently we don't have enough. As far as I'm concerned you can call yourself whatever the hell you like. The only time I have a problem with it is when you tell me that I'm forced to follow along with it if I don't agree.

 

[NomadOrb]

My take is, unless I'm trying to score with someone, I don't care what's in their pants or what they want to call themselves. Baffles me how much energy people put into fretting about this. That's all I've got to say about it.

Exactly how I feel. It doesn't affect me at all, people identify as all sorts of things I don't understand. The beauty is, I don't have to understand, or care.

 

[Zack Miller]

I tend to find all of this very silly these days. Almost as if people are looking for problems and creating them since apparently we don't have enough. As far as I'm concerned you can call yourself whatever the hell you like. The only time I have a problem with it is when you tell me that I'm forced to follow along with it if I don't agree.

Exactly. Everyone is entitled to his/her delusions. I don’t have to cater to them.

 

[ADKPiper]

Exactly how I feel. It doesn't affect me at all, people identify as all sorts of things I don't understand. The beauty is, I don't have to understand, or care.

Yeah until you refer to one of them as Sir or Mam and they start stamping their feet and calling you names and calling on people to put you out of business.
Joe Rogan just suggested that maybe having people born males fighting against women in MMA might be a bad idea and people started trying to get him banned from spotify.

 

[jaytex1969]

I am a lamp.

 

[BriarBrook]

Yes, that does seem to be the issue with this sort of thing... it's never enough that they have their freedom, they want to force you to talk/act according to their wishes. Not very tolerant!

 

[ADKPiper]

Yes, that does seem to be the issue with this sort of thing... it's never enough that they have their freedom, they want to force you to talk/act according to their wishes. Not very tolerant!

And the day that some dude with a beard wants to put on a dress and have a dump in the bathroom with my daughter we have a problem.
It's difficult to cross my line but that'll do it.

 

[LeafErikson]

A man is a man and a woman is a woman. It’s objective and unequivocal. However, if someone kindly corrects me on what they prefer to be called I will have no qualms. If they aren’t kind about correcting me then we’re going to have a problem because I’m not going to apologize for an honest mistake.

 

[Kobold]

I am a lamp.

 

[mawnansmiff]

For those who claim it doesn't matter how folk define themselves, imagine some guy insisting on sharing the the same female bathroom/changing room whilst your wife or daughter wishes to use the facility just because he calls himself a 'woman'.

Would you be OK with that? I know I wouldn't.

Regards,

Jay.

 

[NomadOrb]

Yeah until you refer to one of them as Sir or Mam and they start stamping their feet and calling you names and calling on people to put you out of business.
Joe Rogan just suggested that maybe having people born males fighting against women in MMA might be a bad idea and people started trying to get him banned from spotify.

Those people exist in every facet of society, it's not just about gender. How many people boycott businesses for their political views? Live and let live. Respect others until they give you a reason not to.

Joe Rogan is not the average person, of course he's going to have push back on almost anything he says. Maybe we should stop giving people that upset us a spotlight.

Fun fact, I inspected Joe Rogan's house in LA when he was selling it. The place was awesome. Fully equipped gym with a full size octagon and signed ufc posters everywhere. It was a treat for me as an MMA fan.

 

[Grangerous]

 

[BriarBrook]

I am a lamp.

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[Briar Tuck]

Don't much care for the one strike policy my company adopted a few years ago. One occurrence of mislabeling or identifying with the wrong name results in immediate dismissal even for folks that have been known a certain way for years.

My wife is still employed and she has to take mandatory training on this madness regularly now. When I was involved in city government a couple of years ago I also had to read through similar nonsense, which fortunately never became an issue during my service.

Fortunately I'm retired now because I consider myself unemployable based on these "requirements". It's nothing short of compelled speech and demoralization.

 

[beefeater33]

It's sad................. It doesn't affect me much, as I'm pretty much a hermit these days, but Jay, you're right.

My eldest daughter wanted to be a nurse in the delivery department at a hospital since she was a little girl. She studied hard, graduated at the top of her class as a registered nurse, landed her dream job, working with newborns at the hospital.

It makes me so sad talking to her now, about how F'in CRAZY it is nowadays.............. She's a bit dis-illusioned about it all:

- She can't say to the parents "You have a wonderful baby Boy/Girl!" upon delivery..... That's grounds for immediate dismissal............ Sad! A LOT of the parents want to let the kid "decide" what gender they are as they grow up!

-She had to take a class on, and has to help male 'MOMS" in the act of "chestfeeding"....... google it. Men take hormones from China or wherever to produce milk and want to feed the newborns.
One man had a baby that wouldn't nurse, and my daughter had to shave the (thick) hair from around this dudes nipples, in an effort to get "nourishment" to the newborn!

-"Throuples" are a thing now- 3 people in the relationship- can't call one Mom or Dad....... again, a firable offence........

I really feel bad for my daughter, it seems her lifelong dream she has worked so hard to achieve has been somewhat shattered, and she's disappointed and feels let down by all the nuttiness in this world nowadays. She feels like she's walking on pins and needles through-out her 12 hour shift, wondering if she'll slip up and get fired.

Yes, the world is going to Hell in this regard........... just my 2 cents.

I'll add that I don't give a flying F what an adult wants to do as an adult, but applying it to newborns in a hospital is just wrong in my book, and I've seen my daughter's dream shattered because of it..............