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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by thefounder on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:57PM (#34003974)
>> I grew up in a very religiously conservative household and was raised to not think "well" of trans people

I wonder, who was raised to think well of trans people? I can't remember last time when I've seen(in person) a transexual person not to mention being discussed as a family matter. Something tells me that trans surgeries were not that popular either.

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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by rideontime on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:12PM (#34004159)
You should get out a little, then.
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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by jacquesm on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:44PM (#34004617)
In Amsterdam drag and trans people always were part of the background and not considered anything special, they sometimes looked extravagant but they were simply also people. We're talking 1970's or so here, my earliest memories of that.
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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by pavlov on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:49PM (#34004677)
> “I can't remember last time when I've seen(in person) a transexual person.”

How do you know? Presumably you’re not doing a genital inspection on most people.

If you assume you can just tell, it’s easy to err into many false positives. (A section of the American far right seems to genuinely believe that Michelle Obama is trans — not just as an insult they like to throw around, but literally.)

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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by jacquesm on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:12PM (#34005003)
> A section of the American far right seems to genuinely believe that Michelle Obama is trans — not just as an insult they like to throw around, but literally.

Which is pretty incredible all by itself. But people seem to be very susceptible to contracting this kind of mind-virus and then becoming instrumental in spreading it. But at the root of these things are some very malicious people. One of them is on trial in NL right now, and I'm really happy to see the structural and deliberate approach to finding out where the limits on just being able to spout off are. The damage these characters do is real, and - ironically - the biggest risk to free speech comes from them.

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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by yunch on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:14PM (#34005868)
> genital inspection

Such a weird meme, why are people so obsessed with this idea of genitals being inspected these days.

Feels a bit like the obsession with koro or fan death. Like come on, no-one wants to look at your nob or your gash, no-one is demanding this. A very silly suggestion.

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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by rodgerd on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:12PM (#34007145)
It is literally a law in some US states that children have to submit to genital inspections to participate in sports.
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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by yunch on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:55AM (#34013087)
No it isn't, that is just a meme people are repeating without thinking.
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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by howinteresting on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:10PM (#34004971)
> I wonder, who was raised to think well of trans people?

Well, we should all try and make the world better, right? Many kids and young adults today have been raised with a sense of curiosity and empathy rather than one of scorn and judgment, and that includes fully supporting trans people. That is surely true of older adults as well, especially those whose parents are trans themselves or have close friends/relatives who are trans.

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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by zoklet-enjoyer on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:50PM (#34005552)
My girlfriend's kids were
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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by sassyonsunday on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:17PM (#34005892)
Hi "Zoklet Enjoyer" it feels like you're trying to amuse fellow travelers with a subtle joke about cuckoldry. Maybe keep stuff like that on Zoklet or 4chan or whatever.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmjyda/the-rise-and-fall-of-... (Zoklet was shut down I guess)

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Re:Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electro... by cooldrcool3 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:32PM (#34009681)
I was raised in a fairly religious household and taught to respect everyone including everyone in the lgbtq community This was in the south as well. I grew up in the 90s if that means anything.
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