Not to mention, as a woman who has been mistaken for a man a number of times, generally you turn your head or speak to the person questioning you and they get it immediately. What we look like on social media is not the entirety of us.

I continue to be amused by the degree to which "if men respect women's wishes policing becomes irrelevant" simply fails to compute for people. Women having autonomous wishes is bad enough, but expecting men to *respect* them? Well that's just unreasonable.

I hope that she's a supporter of his and demographically it seems likely. I am a fan of "the squad" and other progressives and share her concerns, as you know. But non-supporters are allowed to attend town halls as well.

what is it?

I hope you didn't think I was hating on cat pictures! And I would love to have a debate with someone else with a children's book profile pic, or any non-human-animal-friendly novel. Is there a way to search for Plague Dogs profile pics?

gotta love cat profile pics arguing on bluesky

do you think he actually doesn't understand what words like explain, evidence, fact, mean?

Any government of a democracy that truly believes in democracy would prioritise education, not in order to have a competent workforce ( which is what successive UK governments have talked about, but in order to have a functioning democracy of educated critical thinkers.

I mean they claim that anyway, we don't count because we're old or ugly (even if they've never seen us) or (as we really know) because we're noncompliant and female

well, no, you're not even arguing, you're evading. Should we test for that? gonads? check! chromosomes? check! amygdala size? no, of course not, but something something people know themselves better than you do. It's called lying. 3/end

This is the version of the Gish gallop where you kinda sorta lay out an argument for neurobiology - some scientifically measurable thing, but then you're not arguing to include THAT as an axis - you're not testing for it to determine the sex of a person, you're just arguing that, 2/

In terms of axes, they still need to be defined. Gamete axis? ovaries or testicles? chromosome axis? what combination of x and y? neurobiology axis? anyone? anyone? Bueller? 1/

It's fine for you to not have a meaningful definition. whatever. I have a meaningful definition and women have been oppressed and fighting that oppression based on that definition for centuries. Throwing it out now is a version of a racist's "I don't see color"

here's the cool part - we use definitions that don't meet your bizarrely picky requirements for definitions. We can know that you and I are alive even if scientists don't know whether to count viruses as alive. Or are you planning to be cremated tomorrow?