Gender and uniforms…
09-12-2022, 03:15 PM
#51
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2014
Posts: 774
Originally Posted by flyprdu
The line is where it affects others. Simple.
You having to address someone as they wish does not affect you in the slightest.
You having to address someone as they wish does not affect you in the slightest.
09-12-2022, 03:18 PM
#52
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,899
Originally Posted by flyprdu
It's about hierarchy. Their right to exist exceeds your right to feel comfortable. Sorry.
09-12-2022, 03:18 PM
#53
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 910
Originally Posted by bababouey
compelled speech is a really neat idea, I wonder if it’s been tried before?
A woman wants to be called her. You want to call her sweet cheeks, because that's how you were raised. Who's in the wrong? You are. Because she doesn't want to be referred to that way.
Is that also compelled speech? Are you oppressed because you can't make catcalls anymore in the workplace?
09-12-2022, 03:19 PM
#54
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 910
Originally Posted by ShyGuy
Grasping at straws. I never hindered their right to exist. Someone existing is not something I stop. You can't even make a rational argument. I have to remind myself I'm dealing with a San Francisco voter, then it starts to make sense.
09-12-2022, 03:21 PM
#55
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,899
Originally Posted by flyprdu
Compelled speech is a really snazzy talking point, but it's nonsense.
A woman wants to be called her. You want to call her sweet cheeks, because that's how you were raised. Who's in the wrong? You are. Because she doesn't want to be referred to that way.
Is that also compelled speech? Are you oppressed because you can't make catcalls anymore in the workplace?
A woman wants to be called her. You want to call her sweet cheeks, because that's how you were raised. Who's in the wrong? You are. Because she doesn't want to be referred to that way.
Is that also compelled speech? Are you oppressed because you can't make catcalls anymore in the workplace?
09-12-2022, 03:21 PM
#56
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2013
Position: On the hotel shuttle
Posts: 5,818
Originally Posted by flyprdu
It's about hierarchy. Their right to exist exceeds your right to feel comfortable. Sorry.
09-12-2022, 03:22 PM
#57
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 910
Originally Posted by ShyGuy
No one said sweet cheeks. That's not what this is about. Those are legit gripes. But calling someone by the wrong pronoun in some places is punishable (starting at college campuses here and trying to in Canada).
09-12-2022, 03:24 PM
#59
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 910
Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
How very Postmodernist. No one is questioning anyone's right to exist. No one is questioning anyone's lifestyle. Some people are questioning forced acceptance.
09-12-2022, 03:25 PM
#60
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 910
Originally Posted by BLMPilot
Since the Covid vaccine is going to maim the people that took it, most of these political fights will soon be over.
