Re:Is the Attack Helicopter Dead?
by Kye on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:46PM
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Good time to re-evaluate your associations. That's a really obnoxious meme that I'm glad has died down outside circles of people who still obstinately see gender identity as something to debate and criticize rather than recognize and accept.
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How does one re-evaluate associations and what good does it do? Are associations not automatic by nature?
Additionally, aren't the people you describe (who don't accept an asexual view of gender identity) exactly who was using the meme the whole time? I don't think that group has become much smaller recently (still the majority of people), so if the meme has died down I think it is rather because people have become bored of it.
... of people who still obstinately see gender identity as something to debate and criticize rather than recognize and accept.
I hope you see the point behind that.
That's a good point. A male identifying himself as a woman makes about as much sense as a Polish identifying as a Korean.
Lets not have this degenerate into transphobia. My critique is directed towards gender identity in general and equally applies to cis people.
My critique was too. Makes no sense to identify with a category you don't actually belong to.
Re:Is the Attack Helicopter Dead?
by s1artibartfast on Friday October 11, 2024 @12:39PM
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This topic makes me think about identity and who gets to change the definition of it and who doesn't.
I think it is fascinating how the battleground has shifted over time from conflict over objective interaction in the real world to etymology and the internal classification systems people use to model the world.