Things you're supposed to give a shit about, but you don't.

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You know those little things in life that people like to morally police and make you feel guilty about but you just can't muster up the shit to give?

This is a confession thread. I'll start.

I don't give a shit that you supposedly shouldn't feed bread to ducks. I don't care. Don't eat it then. People have been feeding them bread for decades and now we're supposed to bring them organic bloody walnuts or something? Or some other crap they don't want that doesn't float?
They can have my slightly mouldy bread and be grateful.

Over to you.

Even pandas aren't interested in other pandas.

"Would you like to shag that panda over there and try to save your species from extinction?"

"... Meh. Sounds like hard work."

@OneLimeShark you are very out of date on trans issues. A few years ago there was a distinction between transvestites and transsexuals. Then Stonewall added cross dressers under the trans umbrella.

Now 95% of men who identify as trans have a working penis and no intention of ever removing it. There's absolutely no need for a transwoman to have any kind of surgery, hormones or anything else to change from a man to a transwoman - all they have to do is claim they have a feeling.

Biological women are women by sex.

Trans women are women by gender.

In all honesty I don't purport to be an expert on the matter but as someone who lost a friend to suicide because they were incessantly bullied for identifying as trans I feel people should just be kinder and keep hurtful opinions (which they are completely entitled to) to themselves.

After all, we would show social tact and not body shame someone for their appearance so why do some people feel it's ok to shame people for feeling trapped in the wrong body?

We have the medical means to help these people so let them transition and live their lives in peace. There is too much hatred and violence in the world already without causing more.

I do understand why some biological women feel threatened and we absolutely should have discussions around making them feel safer but we can't have those discussions if one side is even refusing to acknowledge the existence of the other.

@heathspeedwell Not as out of date as many others here.

Woman is a biological descriptor, like tall is a descriptor of height. Women means an adult human female, like mare means a female horse and so on.
It does not mean someone who likes wearing skirts, if that were the case then all the scots guards would have been called women back in the day when they wore kilts.

@OneLimeShark it's actually considered transphobic to suggest that men who identify as transwomen 'transition'. There doesn't need to be any process at all.

Watch this two minute video about a Stonewall ambassador called Alex Drummond.

Could someone explain to me what a gender is?
Genuine question, I have been trying for ages to find out.

No one should be bullied or mocked...I'm sorry about your friend.

However, I don't personally believe in gender. There is biological sex. Male, female and in incredibly rare cases intersex conditions.

In a nutshell: @bouquetofpheasants misquoted @OneLimeShark and now it looks like she's making a statement that she strongly disagrees with... even though @OneLimeShark actually didn't say it in the first place.

Hope that helps 😂

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Trans women are not biological women but they are women!!!
no they are not, multiple exclamation marks doesn’t make it true

It was easier when we were just discussing duck rape.

No one can explain to me what a gender is?
Seriously laws are being made on this and no one can describe or explain it?

Sadly men who identify as women are just as likely (if not more likely) to be violent as any other men. The prison figures from show that around 70% of transwomen in prison have committed violent or sexual crimes.

Men, however they identify, do not belong in women's toilets or changing rooms. I'm sorry if this makes some men feel sad, but keeping women and girls safe is far more important.

At a guess I reckon hobbies/interests/dress sense

😂

Isen't that personality? or is that something else now?

This is it isn't it.

We are expected to believe that trans women pose the same risk to us as women do. Whereas they pose the same risk as men do to us.

Really - the worst thing you've ever read here???

Personality....how very old fashioned of you?! 😂

Women are more likely to kill their own children esp single mothers - and you think men are violent? Gtfoh

@Fariha31 I expect you can use Google as well as the next person and are just making a point.

However here is the WHO definition:

Gender refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other.

The idea of gender as the set of social expectations and norms put on people based on their biological sex is much older than the trans debate.

What are you talking about?
This is a thread about what you don't give a shit about. This seems to bother you a lot to the extent of name calling other posters?
If it doesn't bother you, don't respond.