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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 20:58:27 JST 
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@georgia -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 15:55:05 JST
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@mjg59 @lxo
Come on. There is nothing transphobic about pointing out rudimentary biological facts. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 20:59:46 JST
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@mjg59 @lxo @quasi Genetic sex and testosterone levels are measurable, and the measurements made on Imane Khelif revealed them to be genetically male and their T levels correspondingly in the male range. Same situation for transwomen. And like I said, studies show that suppressing T doesn't diminish all advantage. Certain things are irreversible anyway, like the size/shape to which some body parts grow/change (lung capacity, Q angle, etc.) so the study results were to be expected. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 16:09:42 JST
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@mjg59 @lxo @quasi
Surely that can't be good grounds for written policy? Especially if it's about eligibility to partaking in competitions with large amounts of money and fame attached?
People even ruin their health with steroids to win competitions. What's to prevent a man from just claiming to be a woman to win prizes? -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 16:00:25 JST
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@mjg59 @lxo @quasi
All right. Glad to discuss it from that perspective.
What defines someone as being a woman, in your view? -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 15:40:30 JST
Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
@mjg59 @quasi @lxo
This is about sports, right? And the question of whether it's fair to let transwomen (males) compete in women's sports.
I agree that sex is clearly (enough) defined and determined to answer that question. (The answer is: No, it's unfair to women to let males compete against them.)
You're saying that not every single human being can be clearly determined to be female or male, and presenting this as a counter argument, is that correct?
If so, then I think this is an example of the continuum fallacy or decision-point fallacy.
Just because there may be people whose sex is difficult to determine and opens up philosophical debates on where to draw the line, doesn't mean that there is no line or that we can never tell which side of the line someone falls.
In the case of the vast majority of human beings, their sex is unambiguous. This includes most trans people. There is really no question about the sex of, say, Lia Thomas or Laurel Hubbard. They are very obviously male and very obviously benefitted from this. Their abilities were unremarkable while performing against men; but once they began competing against women, they were suddenly snatching gold medals, breaking national records, going to the Olympics, and so on.
Note that there is also scientific evidence that transwomen retain advantage for many years even if they suppress their T levels. See recent studies conducted by Hilton et al. on this topic.
That's also why it was unfair to let Imane Khelif compete in women's boxing. Their former coach admitted that Khelif had to start taking T suppressants to be eligible. (This is only required of genetically male athletes competing in women's sports.)
Khelif may have been assumed female at birth due to an intersex condition (most likely 5ARD) and it must have been truly tragic to learn that this was probably the main reason they were performing so well against women. It's really saddening. But it is what it is. It would be unfair to let someone like Khelif continue competing against women when Khelif has benefitted from years of physical development and training under the effects of high T produced by internal testes; something a woman could only match by taking steroids for years. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 23:21:44 JST
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@lucy @azureazure Isn't MP3 like royalty-free or something at this point due to age? -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 10:58:34 JST
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I feel like this is @kaia kind of humor. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 04:09:34 JST
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@kaia
✂️ urgently needed for this man
Or maybe just directly go for the rope. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 18:56:18 JST
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This gave me a good laugh due to how utterly stupid it is.
Guy 1: Thai Ladyboys are more feminine than American women.
Guy 2: Because they're not infected by the woke mind virus!
Uhhhhhh what? :blobcat-extremejoy: -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 18:50:20 JST
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@rosey Refuse it. Be a chad. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 21:17:16 JST
Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
@Hyolobrika Doable but difficult:
- Make sure server host / ISP doesn't block ports.
- Request IP to be removed from blacklists if it is on some due to IP having previously been abused.
- Request some mail providers specifically whitelist it because they have their own whitelists/blacklists.
- Make sure to implement SPF, DMARC, and DKIM.
- Make sure you don't accidentally set it up as an open relay.
- Make sure PTR records are set correctly for rDNS.
I may have forgotten some steps lol. The FeministWiki has a mail server that seems to be working quite well, but still occasionally runs into issues. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 18:57:03 JST
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@georgia @Hyolobrika @lilli @VeganMemes
The EU actually outlawed the killing of male chicks, but companies diverted to other shady business of course.
There was a good German documentary about it, I think on ZDF.
Basically they ship them to Poland, where they're raised in terrible conditions, then they're slaughtered and the meat shipped to somewhere in Africa. I forgot which country, but may be Ghana. May be multiple different countries...
They have less meat than the ridiculous meat chickens our modern industry breeds, but they can outcompete the local chickens in the African countries they're shipped to, so they put the chicken farmers there out of business. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 02:01:55 JST
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Victoria Smith is absolutely brilliant.
Regarding feminists who vote Republican (or other conservative parties where they live) because of the extreme misogyny we see from liberals in connection with the transgender movement:
https://thecritic.co.uk/donald-trump-doesnt-know-what-a-woman-is-either/
"Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either"
> “Grab ‘em by the pussy” misogynists make no distinction between sex (as a biological reality) and gender (as a social hierarchy). The two are completely intertwined — just as they are for trans activists. Right-wing men are not going to one day “forget” their own gender ideology and just see women for who we are, in all our diversity. To them, we are “protected” whether we like it or not. When trans activist Andrea Long Chu defines “as female any psychic operation in which the self is sacrificed to make room for the desires of another”, Trump is in total agreement. He’s all for essentialised feminine submission. He merely takes a dim view of male people who base their whole identities on a sexualised version of it (if he thinks of them at all). -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 03:15:10 JST
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For those who still don't understand in what sense "the west" is still a patriarchy. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 11:08:18 JST
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Hayao Miyazaki being an amazing person:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXIWrglxTA8
From what I know, few people in Japan are open to admitting atrocities committed by the Japanese, due to national pride. Miyazaki is different. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 07:10:30 JST
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@georgia Repent! Dinner!
I typo'd sinner as dinner and decided to keep it. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 22:52:47 JST
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@prettygood
> developed for millions of dollars by an all-star team of designers and engineers
To be honest, 99% of that money probably goes to the managerial class, and the designers and engineers are burnt out and cynical because they can never do what they really want to do.
Which is why corposlop software is often not even any better, or only barely so. If people who are passionate about design and software were also paid really really well... *insert "society if xyz" meme* -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 22:06:16 JST
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@abcdw Yes: https://blogs.feministwiki.org/taylan/2023/08/26/free-software-and-the-new-sexism/ -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 20:43:33 JST
Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
Sometimes I still randomly think back to when I was cancelled out of the #Guix community (for supporting women's rights) and it reinvigorates my insomnia and gives me light panic attacks.
Then for a moment I feel motivated to do something against it. But then I remember the entirety of "FOSS" is now dominated by the same sexist nonsense, which is "Code of Conduct" documents written by men hostile to feminism, all patting each other on the back telling themselves how good and progressive they are for using a CoC that was written by a dude who doesn't believe sexism exists.
It's actually infuriating. Drive out women, drive out people who care about freedom of expression, drive out neurodivergent people who don't want authoritarian control over their choice of words, and then wonder why Free Software is in shambles and corporations gain ever more control.
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