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  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBiology rule
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    2 months ago

    Male or female vs man or woman are just adjectives vs nouns they both used to reference both gender. Using one for sex and the other for gender is simply inaccurate. This is why one may say that someone is a transgender woman but one never hears that someone is a male woman unless its M A I L woman.




  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBiology rule
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    2 months ago

    You are correct that I might be unclear on how many are passing be virtue of only noticing the portion that do not.

    Still 99.5% of people are cisgender. Some portion of those who are transgender don’t pass. So 99.6–99.7 have a discernible gender. I still think my statement is correct numerically. It’s not even clear what position you are defending and what position beyond a picayune one you think I’m attacking.



  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBiology rule
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    2 months ago

    First it doesn’t really matter what’s between their legs unless you intend to date them. It’s easy enough to determine what most people identify as and thus what you ought to treat them as.

    That said you can tell what virtually everyone has in there pants. 99.5% of people are cisgender. Of the people who are transgender it is usually not terribly hard to see most of the time both what their birth gender is and what gender they identify as which is why its pretty trivial to be polite. Although it is impossible to tell if someone has had surgery at least in the US you could bet on no and be right most of the time because of cost and inequality around here.




  • Basically you doubt… reality and want to somehow assign credit for guns you hallucinated exist even when people used their feet and fists. Face it random joe with a gun saving the day during a mass shooting is so rare as to be non-existent. Good guys with guns are basically worthless in such misadventures.

    If we look at home use is even dumber. Having a gun in the average house increases your chance of death.


  • It’s incredibly easy to believe. Many people own guns most of them don’t go around armed literally all the time. Fewer yet are going to get in a gun fight to the death with a shooter who is actively killing people all around them. Of those willing to do so basically anyone with even half a brain is going to take the shot. By the time you have yelled “drop the” they have enough time to bring the gun to bear on you. It makes more sense to execute you than comply.

    What you are describing is a movie fantasy.


  • For practical purposes imagine yourself in a public area with the gunman actively shooting people with an AR-15, to the left of you a guys head is turned to mush, down the way someone takes a hit to a limb leaving their arm dangling in an unnatural way. All around you are dead and dying you ignore the pistol in your pocket and run at him screaming “I’m going to take you down brudder”.

    The people who subdued people without shooting them probably didn’t have a gun.