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  1. SomeRandom

    Republican candidates?

    Sorry, but I have to ask. Can you get disqualified from running as president in the States? Because I feel like if any of our politicians were involved in a trial that was the equivalent of the Indictment Trump is currently going through, they’d never be able to serve in office again. Never mind...
  2. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Ahh fair enough Honestly, it’s probably a bit more complicated. I’ll admit that I haven’t exactly brushed up on the scientific literature as of late (pertaining to this specifically.) Plus I am but a layman, so forgive me if I appear to be presenting info in a sort of “dumb way.” I vaguely...
  3. SomeRandom

    Is it Reasonable to believe God is Transgender?

    I suppose it can depend on the tradition. But I would think a divine being is above such human concepts That said, having grown up Hindu, there are quite a few stories of God manifesting as male and female and even switching at will. So I grew up with presentations of the divine as literally...
  4. SomeRandom

    Republican candidates?

    Okay, can you or maybe someone here give me a bit of insider background context? Because my news stations here are kind of looking at DeSantis like he’s an absolute nutjob (no offence.) They’re being polite in the phrasing, but that’s the general vibe I’ve been getting. But simultaneously, he’s...
  5. SomeRandom

    Sikh Queenslanders allowed to carry ceremonial knives in schools after court ruling

    And I agree with you, actually. That just speaks to human history in general, I suppose. How powerful religious institutions became over time. They greatly shaped cultures around the world, for better or worse. That’s just reality. But we should be careful not to hold that against currently...
  6. SomeRandom

    Sikh Queenslanders allowed to carry ceremonial knives in schools after court ruling

    Whilst I’m generally against religious exemptions in public spaces and value freedom from religion I also very much value freedom of religion. It’s why, despite my own personal feelings of circumcision, for example, I am against banning it (even with medical exemptions.) I might not like it...
  7. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    I didn’t say it would. Just that going against the advice of the medical profession (ie stopping folks from using the hormones, or drugs whatever you wish to label it as you suggested) would. Or is that not what you meant? Also I think the term body dysmorphia was already taken. Or it used to...
  8. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Ahh, there is indeed an instinctual reaction that assesses for danger. But I would need to see studies that confirm that women can innately detect the sex of another. They might be able to see discrepancies in cultural presentations of gender, both masculine and feminine. Which in itself begs...
  9. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    And I do not blame such individuals one bit if that is what they choose to do. Though it is terrible that they even have to do so in the first place. I’m sure victims who have been raped in public women’s rooms similarly avoid public women’s restrooms for the same reason. And again, it’s...
  10. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Well idk depends on the area, I guess And the circumstance I remember as a kid at the shops there was a disabled man who happened to use the women’s whilst I was there. I have to assume the men’s was unavailable or perhaps he just happened to have a female carer with him. No one gave him any...
  11. SomeRandom

    Barbie

    Sorry. Had a long day Lol I’m just a little bit tired of folks bashing everything related to (weirdly enough) little girls movies lately. It’s exhausting and these same crowds often have the audacity to decry others as “snowflakes.” I guess I needed a rant lol
  12. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Well I will say right back at ya, Yeah, nah, mate. I agree that all public policies should be criticised, reviewed, refined and if necessary scrapped. But I will have to point out, as a criticism of the policy in question, how one can even properly implement it? I mean in actuality. Because...
  13. SomeRandom

    Kali and Satan??

    Interesting I did not know that So this is inspired by Ma Mahatmyam? That’s cool
  14. SomeRandom

    Kali and Satan??

    Huh, yeah that tracks, honestly Oh I so want to see a reenactment I’m visiting Fiji at the end of this month. Maybe a local Temple will oblige lol
  15. SomeRandom

    Kali and Satan??

    Ahh, I do. Ma Kali is another aspect (for lack of a better term) for Ma Durga. Incidentally, there’s quite a few depictions of Ma Durga riding a tiger are there not? (And on a Lion as well? Right?) I have a tiny statue of that, which I love. It’s gold and has been painted. I think I got it in...
  16. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Yeah, you sound like a teacher, no offence lol. I have quite a few cousins who teach in various subjects and age groups. All of them have one thing in common. When we’re all hanging out (usually drinking) they will ask me a random weird hypothetical and then press further and further on my...
  17. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Oh, it is? I must be thinking of a different term then lol Don’t mind me
  18. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Could also just be because I live in an area with quite an abundance of umm “enhancers” around, if you catch my drift ;)
  19. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Offence is taken not given, as they say. Okay I don’t really hold that to be entirely true. But what one person finds endearing can be horrifying to another. Trust me, as an Aussie, our terms of endearment are considered curse words in other Western countries lol Whilst I can agree that terms...
  20. SomeRandom

    What exactly makes someone a TERF?

    Hmm we likely are. Whilst I did include RF, I was talking in a more “general sense” I guess. More so in a “real world” kind of setting, rather than simply on RF Though I suppose I may have unthinkingly included other forums I’ve been on lol
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