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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Trans women in sports. What's fair? in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
Unseen wrote:
When someone expresses the belief that they are not the gender biology gave them, like most beliefs, it is either true or false is it not?It’s not as simple as that. Sex is biological but gender is psychological and social. So someone can be born male and have a female psychological and social identity.
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Unseen replied to the topic Trans women in sports. What's fair? in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
_Robert_ wrote:
Never understood the connection between sports and “scholar”-ships”. You are great at tennis, so we’ll pay for your chemistry degree. Some kid, good at chemistry gets denied.I will have to assume that the one-two puncher gets taken on because of their added value. Rightly or wrongly, success in sports is good for the revenue…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Trans women in sports. What's fair? in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
When someone expresses the belief that they are not the gender biology gave them, like most beliefs, it is either true or false is it not? Maybe the best approach is to offer these folks therapy. How far do we give in to this “I identify as” phenomenon. For example, do you remember Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who identified as black to such…[Read more]
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Trans women in sports. What's fair? in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
_Robert_ wrote:
Frankly, fuck the trajectory of sports. The commercialization, and the “win at any cost” and constant effort at cheating.Right now, the main controversy isn’t at the pro level. It’s at the high school and college level. My daughter didn’t want to go pro (as a swimmer? pretty much not a “thing”). She just wanted a…
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Unseen replied to the topic Trans women in sports. What's fair? in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
_Robert_ wrote:
Frankly, fuck the trajectory of sports. The commercialization, and the “win at any cost” and constant effort at cheating.Right now, the main controversy isn’t at the pro level. It’s at the high school and college level.
My daughter didn’t want to go pro (as a swimmer? pretty much not a “thing”). She just wanted a scholarship and…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School May 25th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year agoEnco,
From my vantage your post showed up originally and now is linkless. I was not familiar with that guy. Listened to him for an hour or so while i handicpapped equines. Just a little too verbose for my liking. So nothing against his analytical capability just not my cup of goat cheese. Reminds me of Rachel Maddow. She drives me nuts. Get to…[Read more]
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Trans women in sports. What's fair? in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
I remember when Lance Armstrong was dominating bike racing, our CEO came out wearing a little bike racing outfit and gave a video speech to his thousands of employees about being a winner like him.
Two weeks later Armstrong was found to be cheating with steroids.
Frankly, fuck the trajectory of sports. The commercialization, and the “win at any…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Trans women in sports. What's fair? in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
We’re all sympathetic with trans people, but it’s a difficult dilemma to resolve satisfactorily. In the UK it’s just been decided legally that for some purposes, such as women’s safe spaces, a person’s biological sex is what matters and not their social and psychological gender. So, in effect, we’ve decided that for some purposes, you can’t c…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic Trans women in sports. What's fair? in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
Before I begin, I recognize that Trump and MAGA come at this issue from a either a hate- or religion-based angle. Let’s set that aside and realize that it’s a real issue that would eventually come up without them.
How seriously to take gender identity is becoming impossible to sidestep in the world of…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School May 25th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year agoThis guy is pro israel and pretty much a straight shooter. “Tell me in what other war has a country supplied humanitarian aid to its enemy?” This thought has occurred to me repeatedly. When the allies were terror bombing the Germans they were sending food? When the Germans were killing civilians and causing the worst humanitarian conditions in…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School May 25th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year agoEnco,
It seems i really got your goat. Goat love is your emetic. Imagine a peripatetic goat fucker, worse a peripatetic sucker fucker of goats! Ya know with the goat facing the cliff and barriers on either side of that poor goat. Now posit a Muslim being true to Islam. I will take the goat fucker.
But yea globalize the intifada. Nice little…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School May 25th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year agoTheEncogitationer wrote:
If Anti-Israel protesters have other accusations, I am open to hearing them.Problems of sufficiency, distribution, and security of aid would not be problems if Israel were genocidal, because a genocidal Israel wouldn’t even bother with sending or allowing aid. And the UN has never been an i…
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago
Unseen wrote:
Comments, additions, etc. welcome, especially from Pope Beanie.I try my best to keep my FYIs to reactors short, but it’s really difficult! I could recommend dozens of songs, because there are almost no bad songs. I try to include links when I recommend something, which takes time to fetch and include, and recently I focus on…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School May 25th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year agoEnco,
“Oh my fucking god that guy is naked in public and trying to make that goat pregant!”
Oh my fucking god that guy is naked in public and trying to impregnate that goat! Neither ring quite true as excited utterances.
Ok so i am assuming you want a more detailed explanation of hearsay and exceptions to hearsay rule. Hearsay is defined as…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School May 25th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year ago@Enco
Feeding Gazan civilians you say? WTH are you talking about?
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School June 1st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year ago@_Robert_ JP can’t say he is a Christian because he is just smart enough not to be one. Unfortunately, he is intellectually dishonest enough the placate his incel, right wing, manosphere of fan boys, who love to talk-up the bible’s subservient status of women.
Perfectly explained. His followers are not smart enough or have enough experience of…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School June 1st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year agoAgain again, Bullwinkle? I’m detecting a pattern here.
I was waiting for that 🙂
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Sunday School June 1st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year agoJP can’t say he is a Christian because he is just smart enough not to be one. Unfortunately, he is intellectually dishonest enough the placate his incel, right wing, manosphere of fan boys, who love to talk-up the bible’s subservient status of women.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School June 1st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year ago@Enco – Coincidentally, I was reading this Quillette article yesterday. I agree with what you say.
I was very deliberate and careful in my wording of the post 🙂
New knowledge make things better if understood and used right.
Yes, but what is common sense to one person is often seen as special knowledge to another.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School June 1st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year agoThanks Strega, someone is paying attention in school 🙂 The problem is Sunday School follows Saturday night! I feel younger already.
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