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A little bit of runescape popped up in my life today: https://compete.kotaku.com/20k-runescape-tournament-cant-decide-a-winner-because-1818976318 Its amazing how often I visit a runescape fan forum and how much I haven't heard about this, lol. I'm sure there's a post about it somewhere on this forum, but I'm not gonna go digging through the rs section to find it. In related news, I suddenly really wanna listen to runescape music again.

This game sucks Someone I like?

[bleep] kinda name is lorelei anywayIt's the first member of the Elite Four in gen 1.

http://www.strawpoll.me/13961626/r But in all honesty, I'm just gonna call her Pre and [bleep] democracy

I ran a poll on fb for the name, but one of my friends posted the poll on a Gilmore Girls subreddit, and the poll got more votes than I have fb friends.

Wait this isn't forum games How did this happen Uhhhhhhhhh

Quick, help me win a bar bet! I'm not allowed to Google it, so I'm relying on your collective knowledge, TIF! The goal of this game is to post celebrity couples. So you post the person who is dating the person in the post above yours, then you post your own celebrity. I'll start Angelina Jolie

If I keep the name, I'm gonna call her Pre, which I like a lot. But there's no other words I'm really in love with that shorten to Pre, and I can't really find anything I like on my own, unfort. I'm only good at naming Pokemon, apparently

Went to the humane society to pet cats, and came home with the most lap cat I've ever seen. Her name from her previous owners was Pretty Girl, which is awful, so I need name suggestions. [Hide=picture][/hide]

That's a perspective that only makes sense in a world where gender doesn't impact people's perceptions of one another, and that's not the world we live in.

This is how my father talked about homosexuality for a long time, and he really balked when I started to call him out for being prejudiced. It made it very hard to come out to my family for a long time, and unsurprisingly, when I did, their response was very close to "just don't tell anyone" and then they continued to be pretty heteronormative at me wrt having children and whatnot. Basically, that response translates to "don't tell me about any effects that your gender/sexuality has on your life, and especially don't tell me about issues other people are causing you, and especially especially don't tell me when i hurt you. " Whether or not you mean it that way, that's how it's being perceived. I suggest you examine whether that's the message you want to put out.

I mean, they exist the same way dinner place settings exist. There's nothing inherent to the human experience in the way we put the forks and knives on the table, but it affects our lives in very real ways. There's not a correct or incorrect way to set the table, as far as our DNA is concerned, but certain people will definitely call you out for doing it incorrectly.

I'm getting confused here. From my understanding, and view, people usually use sex to define a person's birth gender. Usually, from my position in the world, because it is important from a medical perspective because currently there are things about sex which cannot be changed to meet gender. From that post I am guessing you are saying that a persons outward appearance is their sex while their gender is whatever they identify as? I'm lost on what your definition of sex is from that paragraph. Sex: Im a man who wants boobs and or a vagina Gender: Im a man who wants to wear dresses and paint my nails Problem: Why is nail painting and dress wearing even a gender thing at all. No doubt the majority of people say that certain activities are mainly or feminine. But at the end of the day its a strawman for identity. There is no real masculine or real feminine and the amount of gender roles you can can check on your list that you agree with doesn't actually change much about you. That calling yourself non binary or female because you paint your nails not only doesn't tell me any information about you but it trivializes other peoples identities by diluting the definition. Kind of like how bots devalue skill capes :lol: Does your friend wish she didn't have female genitals?Does your friend wish she had male genitals? What female gender stuff does she like/dislike? What male gender stuff does she like/dislike? At the end of the day what's the point of an identity that tells me nothing about you. If you told me that youre religiously christian I've learned a lot. If you told me you value pacifism, I've learned a lot too. If you told me your non-binary I gotta spend half an hour figuring out what you mean by it and that its completely different from the last person to say they were. The correct way to interpret that, I think, is that binary gender roles isn't a helpful way to analyze them and figure out who they are. The same way that the jock/nerd dynamic stops being helpful when you become, like, 21. And, to confirm. They, not she. Referring to them with female pronouns is actively incorrect.

Agreed, gender roles don't really exist. There's nothing intrinsically linked to a Y chromosome that prevents me from wearing nail polish. But I still get pushback about it, particularly from people close to me who are older. It's still abnormal to see men who wear nail polish. I know exactly 1 other irl, and he only wears nail polish because I do, afaik. In an ideal world where people aren't segregated into roles based on their sex, gender wouldn't be a useful concept. We don't live in that world,and so we have to have it to critique the segregated roles and for some individuals to figure out how they fit in with those roles.

Lets not get ahead of ourselves. Being forced to take gender classes in university I got some incite on this topic that I wouldn't have cared to get otherwise. Sex and gender were synonyms until about 30 years ago. They both referred to biology until then. Even prominent feminist writers who were questioning societies assumptions about gender identity still used them as synonyms until the distinction was made. That said the distinction was made and people have largely accepted it now. However lets not act like this is some set in stone concept as old as the stars, its not. Its a 30 year old idea that came from radical feminism. It just so happened that this particular idea happened to stick while other ideas like microagressions aren't doing as well. And here's my own bias time how is the word gender useful? I've met more than one transsexual and their attitudes were clearly that "I want to be a girl physically and lives as a girl as best I can to both points". To be more blunt I've never met anyone who's idea about their sex differed from their gender. Also its not modern health science, its modern sociology. Gender is not a scientific term its a sociological one. Marriage is a sociological term Planet is a scientific term Both had similar dilemma's about their meanings at roughly the same time but I'm sure you can see the difference between these two words I have a friend who's non-binary. They absolutely don't fit in with female gender roles. They are "biologically female." Having their sex and gender distinguished helps them express how they want to interact with the world, and how they want the world to interact with them. I'm (mostly) male, both as my sex and gender. I also find it very helpful to distinguish, because while I don't experience physical dysphoria enough to want to change my body, there are huge amounts of masculinity that I want to actively reject, and parts of femininity that I want to take on as my own. I.e., I hate the machismo thing, and I really like to paint my nails. And before I had a framework to separate my sex from my gender roles, I couldn't really examine what I wanted. Ultimately, sex has a pretty high level of determinism (though it is not as simple as x/y chromosomes, as I understand). It is universal across cultures. Gender is determined by societal expectations, and it varies wildly across cultures and generations. Humanity's ability to change sex is limited, but our ability to change gender, to remove harmful gender roles, like toxic masculinity or the wage gap, is 100% within humanity's power, because we made it up in the first place. Gender is helpful because it helps us separate out what is biological and what is social, w.r.t. how we interact with sexes.

I got my first Spear phishing email a couple weeks ago at work, actually. I was very proud.

My recently developed nightmares and the fact that I wake up once a week with my heart going over 200 bpm beg to differ

Had 100% coverage in my hometown, and totality was really cool.

One time, a game shop I visited weekly just stopped checking whether I had a membership after a few times and therefore no one noticed for literally 9 months that I wasn't being charged every month after their system failed, even though I was on a first name basis with multiple baristas, and they would just come hang out while we played sometimes. I also used to go to an ice cream/gas station place on my way home from Taekwondo once a week in high school. They were essentially 2 separate stores, though, and I only ever went to the ice cream place. I would walk in in my gi, pay exact change for a 1-scoop cone, and leave. Once I came back my first college summer, the cashier of the gas station saw me and was like "Hey man, it's been a while!"

Spent two hours looking at a friend's new internet service trying to get it set up. They had to rent a modem, and apparently that modem doesn't have an ethernet in port, it gets data through the cable plugin (aka it uses a coaxial cable). I didn't know that was a thing that was possible. Eventually connected it as the diagram wanted, and the modem showed a steady light on the "internet" light, the computer connected to and stayed connected to the network, but there was just no internet access, for no discernable reason. It's like no one flipped the switch for them or smth. It was very frustrating to try and troubleshoot, and I think it's going to cost them an excessive amount of money to have someone come out and fix it this weekend, when it really seems like it should just work.

On the minecraft server I play on, I tore up an old unfinished public project that no one had worked on for 2 months, only to find out today that someone else had been working on it in some minor way. When they asked about it on the discord, someone else (not me) was like "It's Tyler redoing it, and I think everyone was getting fed up with how shitty it looked." I think I'm about to be at the center of some nice, juicy minecraft drama. -_-

Trying to edit a video, and my computer hates loading files from the hdd instead of the ssd, so previewing anything takes 20 minutes, plus all the recordings have weird speedup/slowdown issues despite the recording software having come with the graphics card. Between this kind of thing and windows 10, I'm more frustrated with this computer than with my 7-year-old laptop which barely runs, and I hate it. Don't build your own computer, kids.

Yeah. There's an update to the gyms coming soonish, but even then I doubt player vs player will be a thing. They still haven't added trading, so...

In order to try and combat the information overload, I made a spreadsheet of all of my Pokemon in PoGo and calculated their various DPS's, so I could figure out who was worth powering up and who I should not. 4 hours later and I still can't decide if it's worth powering up the highest dpsers or not -.-

I get weekly credit card offers and I hate it. These are the even better kind of card offer where you pay $500 a year for access to the card. But it's gold, so you know it's good.