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_Robert_ wrote:
You may be the only one in the theater, Autumn.

Probably not. Not to be cynical, but the increasing ‘wokeness’ in film is unlikely done out of strict altruism from your average producer. There have been quite a few commercial and box office successes so far.

Contrary to Hollywood’s thinking, the vast majority of women are a…

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Can’t wait for movies to get even woker, especially since ‘woke’ seems to predominately mean casting actors from broader demographics in mainstream productions. Maybe one day it will normalize and we can stop doubling down on the disproportionate lionization of the personified cis-het, white male hero fantasy.

Sometimes I wonder if people largely…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Autumn, Unless they have a Lost and Found Department that can get you not only your property and bodily integrity back, but your sense of security and innocence, I wouldn’t take stock in whatever the Sts’ailes are doing.

So basically you don’t know anything about it, yet you’re still somehow dismissive? You know, som…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
However, our society thus far has failed to find a more humane way to address these complex problems of balancing public safety with addressing complex trauma, mental illness, and violent offenders….

Probably. There may be cases where incarceration is the only viable solution or stop gap measure, but it seems like many have b…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Autumn wrote:
At the end of the day, social media sites all fit an awkward space that borders on paradoxical unless we rethink what social media actually is.

Why do you think it’s paradoxical? Because it sinks under the weight of numbers? Reddit looks like it’s in the process of folding up as we speak.

In short, they nee…[Read more]

Most of the allure of these sites ends up being that they carry momentum and they require no fee to use (though Twitter seems to be shifting fast on that front). Twitter had novelty when it emerged in the space. I don’t know how many microblogging sites there were at the time, but one of them was bound to catch on, and when it did, it carried that…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
But I see no reason for a different age of consent for obtaining medical care than for signing any other sort of contract…

If you don’t agree with that age of consent, that’s your business. Just stop mischaracterizing what the policy does.

The consent policy does nothing to deteriorate family.

Then, maybe injecting the state into…

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Unseen wrote:

Autumn wrote:
You keep repeating the notion of ‘parent substitutes’ as if that’s what’s happening, but it isn’t.

I think most of the people who value the family as an institution would beg to differ.

People are free to lie to themselves. The facts remain unaltered. The doctor acts as a doctor and the patient acts as a patient,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Doctors should be a resource for parental decision making, not parent substitutes.

You keep repeating the notion of ‘parent substitutes’ as if that’s what’s happening, but it isn’t.

Which is why we have parents to (do?) surgeries on their kids too, right? Because caring the way a parent does is the qualification for providing…

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People should be encouraged to self-experiment with unproven treatments if they wish.

I agree in principle. I think it gets a lot harder in practice the further the end user gets from research and development. That’s where the lines between false advertising, medical malpractice, and flat out poisoning people may start to blur.

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Unseen wrote:
If that’s the sort of argument you want to trot out, what are parents good for, anyway? Apparently, it’s not guidance or putting a firm “Whoa!” on a potentially bad and irreversible decision.

What are parents good for? Lots of things, but being doctor substitutes tends not to be one of them.

It’s likely far more clear to a fifteen…

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Unseen wrote:
a) I doubt if many of the parents here think parenting is irrelevant or some sort of nonessential role or that some doctor or counselor understands their child better than they do.

Who cares? The doctor doesn’t need to understand their child better than they do. The doctor needs to know appropriate treatment options. The youth knows…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Autumn wrote:
Not really. Under ordinary circumstances, we avoid having youth make decisions of this nature because it’s not ideal, but that doesn’t mean they are incapable of understanding their gender identity, their level of suffering, the need for treatment, and the impacts of treatment. These aren’t ordinary circu…

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Unseen wrote:
Finally, as I asked Autumn above, if a doctor is going to overrule a parent on a healthcare decision, shouldn’t there be an adjudication of neglect first?

It’s not about overriding parents. It’s about whether youths can consent to treatment.

Also, if a doctor can step in in loco parentis here, why not everywhere?

Because it’s not <…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Most parents don’t have much knowledge of allergies or phobias,

Why do you have to repeat the thing I said in the next fucking line as if you’re making a point?

By the same token, it’s nearly impossible to inform children about the impact of important choices going forward, isn’t it?

Not really. Under ordinary circumstances, we av…[Read more]

Few parents have much knowledge of trans care or what it is like to live with gender dysphoria. While that’s true for many potentially medical issues a youth may face, there is a great deal of misinformation and politicization surrounding trans care which may simply invite more bias with the involvement of parents rather than safeguard youth.…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Perhaps the motive is spite because the defendant is an animal right’s activist and the logic may be something like how dear you give water to suffering pigs on the way to slaughter. You have no right to show kindness to my PROPERTY. Also i hate your guts for raising the issue of morality in my business practices.

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Unseen wrote:
@autumn The GOPers are already pushing an agenda against gays in full knowledge that 2/3 of Americans are accepting of gays and lesbians.

That’s the point. The Republicans can gain more ground with fewer numbers because they rally their base and they know they can win even without the majority of the popular vote as long as they can…[Read more]