Planetes is so fucking good - up until episode 11, it’s just light-hearted workplace fluff, and awe about the grandeur of space. Then in punches you in the emotional gut and shifts the tone entirely, to harsh political commentary about the way that exploitation of the global south is the basis that new technologies are slotted into - that regardless of the technologies themselves, the relationship stays the same - and on the validity of armed terrorism as a response.
the catholic old white guy asked me to explain lgbtq+ to him and it was honestly kind of funny
“okay! you have 15 seconds to explain non-binary to me if there are only male and female genders”
me: if you lost your genitals would you still feel like a man?
“no”
would you feel like a woman?
“no?”
so you wouldn’t feel male or female
“yeah what’s your point?”
So, you wouldn’t fit into the gender binary of male or female? :)
him:
“so non-binary just means not feeling male or female?”
Yeah basically
“so why do they use “they” so much”?
if you were a woman would you want to be called a man?
“no…”
And the opposite?
“no…”
Why why would you want someone to call you male or female if you’re not male or female then?”
it’s not a perfect way of thinking but i had 15 seconds and i think it got the point across
if someone challenges you to break through a wall within fifteen seconds, you use a wrecking ball, not precision tools. I think you did marvelously.
the catholic old white guy asked me to explain lgbtq+ to him and it was honestly kind of funny
“okay! you have 15 seconds to explain non-binary to me if there are only male and female genders”
me: if you lost your genitals would you still feel like a man?
“no”
would you feel like a woman?
“no?”
so you wouldn’t feel male or female
“yeah what’s your point?”
So, you wouldn’t fit into the gender binary of male or female? :)
him:
“so non-binary just means not feeling male or female?”
Yeah basically
“so why do they use “they” so much”?
if you were a woman would you want to be called a man?
“no…”
And the opposite?
“no…”
Why why would you want someone to call you male or female if you’re not male or female then?”
it’s not a perfect way of thinking but i had 15 seconds and i think it got the point across
if someone challenges you to break through a wall within fifteen seconds, you use a wrecking ball, not precision tools. I think you did marvelously.
Important to note that ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (a direct quote from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.
Not trying to deflect from the blatant and virulent transmisogyny present here. Just giving a bit more info.
Erin Reed did a good breakdown of the ruling here:
The fact that chess competitions are gender-divided in the first place proves they think one [presumed binary] sex needs to be protected from the other.
And yet, with many competitions, for all the claim is that women need protecting from men, it's not until the men are threatened by the women that they actually enforce that divide.
It's still misogyny, which still leads to transphobia as well.
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this is a common misconception that gets brought up with a lot of gender divides - chess is not separated into men and women, but rather open and women - women can and do participate in open tournaments and some (notably: Judit Polgar, who was rank 6 in the world at her peak) actually refused to participate in women's tournaments
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this kind of nonsense just muddies the waters about the actual things that hold women back in games like chess, namely lack of a pipeline and lack of institutional support
This is fascinating and I love the part with the mushrooms and the worms if this really works but my favorite part is that we spent decades like “oh no....oil is soaking into fur and feathers....if only we had something that could soak up all this oil”
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