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  • The part that becomes transphobic is the insistence that the definitions are “transwoman” and “woman”. A trans woman (note the space) is a type of woman, no one denies that. It’d be like using the term “blondewoman” and insisting that they are different from every other kind of “woman”, and not included in womanhood.

    I see, I wasn’t aware of this perspective.

    Ada also pretty clearly stated why she didn’t link to the offending content: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/14101300 in that she didn’t want to start a brigade, which I honestly think is pretty upstanding behaviour on her part.

    Not trans specific, and not really related, but I disagree with this view. Brigades are bad, they are the internet version of a street brawl and produce nothing of value. What I dislike is that “stopping brigades” usually also prevents actual discourse.

    Let me just ask you (the general you, not the person I’m replying to) what exactly the need for defining trans women as not biologically female actually is?

    What is the actual need for defining trans women separately then? Why are certain people so obsessed by this need?

    I can only speak for myself: Since forever when someone uses the word “woman” in a conversation it is implicitly understood that they are referring to a cis woman. What rubs me the wrong way is that it feels like someone is forcefully trying to change that implicit meaning to mean “cis woman or trans woman” which would then necessitate referring to a cis woman as a “cis woman” instead of simply a “woman”, which in turn feels like I’m being forced to change the way I speak. I personally don’t think this is the case, but it is what it feels like. To me trans women are women as in, included in womanhood, and when I say the word “woman” in a casual conversation I’m implicitly referring to a cis woman.


  • Wtf, this isn’t hate. This is someone stating their perspective with no harmful intent. If anything that comment is a great starter to a serious discussion on the topic.

    If Ada doesn’t want such content on their instance they have the right to defederade and I fully support their right to it, no matter the reason (it is their instance after all).

    I can understand why someone would disagree with that comment, but calling it transphobia or hate speech?




  • Shayeta@feddit.orgOPtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devPain
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    2 months ago

    It isn’t, at work we’re in the process of evaluating how useful it can be and a bunch of people received Cursor licenses to test it out.

    If you’re trying to do something common it works great as long as you are concise enough. The moment you try to get it to do something obscure it starts failing miserably.






  • Yup, it’s something I myself recently started to realise and have been forcing myself to read things that actually interest me.

    While in elementary and middle school every 2 months we had a specific book we had to read and then would discuss it in class and would be graded based on our input.

    Reading books and writing essays has been cemented in my mind as a boring chore that is forced upon me. It took years before it even occured to me that reading might be a fun activity, and a couple more before I actively started trying to read again. It’s difficult to break away from the mould I’ve been set to during my childhood, but I’m slowly chipping away at it.

    Children SHOULD read, but how can we get them to WANT to read?