I am S p a r t a c u s

[PermissionToSpeakSir]

I am a woman.

I was a girl.

I am an adult human female.

Something a man can never be.

I am a woman.

People refer to me has her and she.

Sometimes said with deep contempt and misogyny.

I am a woman.

Something a male will never be.

I have a vagina and uterus.

I menstruate and have given birth.

I am a mother.

Something a male will never be.

I have been insulted, assaulted, belittled, dismissed, held back, intimidated, stereotyped, terrorised, mocked, shamed, humiliated because I am a woman.

Something a male can never be.

I feel insulted, appropriated, offended, anxious, tense, depressed, hurt and under siege, when a male claims to be a woman or anyone says a male can be female.

It is not civil or respectful to treat me this way.

I am a woman.

I am Spartacus.

Sporticus! Yeah!
Oh Ghost, I really don’t have the energy to do this.
I’m sure you have some very valid reasons and reasonings, let’s just be grown up and let it go

I am Spartacus.

Being a woman isn't a decision I've made. It is material reality and it affects my life every day.

PuffyCat

Sure. No problems.

Omfg. Yesterday 23:14 GhostTess appropriated my words.

What a twisted and sick violation.

Even this bit: "I feel insulted, appropriated, offended, anxious, tense, depressed, hurt and under siege, when a male claims to be a woman or anyone says a male can be female."

Talk about a total disregard for the degree of stress and discomfort that impostors cause women like myself.

Show some respect.

I am a woman, something a male will never and can never be - and no, a male can not be a mother either.

Wtf is wrong with some people?

I'm much too lazy to be Sporticus, can I be Napicus instead?

Some of the same words were used and the message was completely different. I mean, it wasn't meant to be transphobic right? I was assured of that in the comments below your original post.

@PermissionToSpeakSir

About hundred posts here repeated your words.

Again, do you not understand the meaning of the words "I am Spartacus" ?!!

An enslaved Dude, then lots of people standing up and saying the exact same thing.

Plus, I thought @ was now banned by you and your friends, for people you don't like.

Why are you only being aggressive and rude towards one poster who was civil.

Not trying to be funny here but I actually had to read GhostTess’s last offering out loud to try and make some sense of it, I’ve got a doctorate in physics so I don’t reckon I’m a thicko, but fuck me, did that make sense to anyone else?

Ah, @Puffycat , a physics PhD?

What a coincidence, me too! Where did you study and what was your field?

LuMarie, debating someone who joins a debate isn't "aggressive and rude". It's kinda the point, if you think about it

And I think everyone gets that you don't understand the Spartacus reference. What I don't get is that you seem to see not understanding the reference as a good thing.

The point about faster than light travel (which I assume is what Ghost means by ftl) is that it doesn’t happen.*

Nor does ‘time travel differently close to the speed of light’. Time travel doesn’t mean that ‘the time travels’. **

It’s a while since I did my physics PhD** but I’m pretty sure they won’t have decided to rewrite all the terminology in the past 20 years.

• yes I’ve heard of tachyons and they have bugger all to do with adulthood or womanhood. **It means drawing a lot of oversimplified stationary-frame diagrams with clock faces on, from what I recall, whilst trying to picture 4D shapes in your head *Lasers, since you ask. Big ones.

I clearly haven’t got any better st footnotes in the past years. Oops.

I'm still Spartacus.

Gender identity does not = woman.

Woman is not a gender role or identity or feeling. Biology matters. Facts matter.

Why come here and be so difficult ?

I'm Spartacus
A woman is an adult female human of the sex that gestates and bears young
The word does not mean people of the sex that produces motile gametes.
I won't use it to describe a man. Nor she, nor her, nor girl.

I'm Spartacus. No he gets a she out of me.

Some of the same words were used and the message was completely different

You re-wrote the words to tell the exact lie that causes me anxiety and distress. Is there no limits to your instinct to worm your way into what you are not and then wear it like a costume - much to the discomfort and distress of those you impersonate?

This particular person doesn't even seem to know what "I'm Spartacus" means in this context. They just know that it's a thing that women have and therefore they want it too, and we're being evil in not having extended them an engraved invitation.

There's been some serious grade deflation here overnight

Last week all you needed to tell the difference between boys and girls was 'advanced Biology' and now it's a PhD in Physics.

Soon it'll only be Stephen Hawking who can accurately sex babies and we'll have to send him photos of all of them via our time dilation machine.

Tough times.

To clarify, they seem to think that "I'm Spartacus" means "I'm a woman". It does not.

A small child can tell you who is a boy and who is a girl.

The dog that lives up the road can too (he's scared of men).

I am sparticus

My life has been one long negotiation in relation to my sex which is adult human female of the type that bears young.

LuMarie did you just assume Spartacus's gender?

They just know that it's a thing that women have and therefore they want it too, and we're being evil in not having extended them an engraved invitation

They do seem to think it means 'I am woman' don't they?

"So, at close to light speeds time travels differently."

Time slows down perceptibly as you go faster. It doesn't "travel"

"A child but definition is someone who hasn't had puberty yet or hasn't reached the age of majority. In such a case as time dilation one might reach the age of majority but not puberty."

No. You have not understood this subject at all.

When time slows down for that child who travels at a relativistic speed to another star, for example,, the child ages slower. That means that when she returns to Earth, she will be younger than her twin who remained here. She will not have reached the age of majority, either.

You really shouldn't make digs at people on subjects you clearly don't understand