Post your random thoughts.

Short answer: Nope.

Long answer: Noooooooooope.

Nope to what?

The terms generally used in the trans community, I find, are "assigned male/female at birth"

Which will at least work until we stop doing that.

What if I was Kirby?

You'd suck.

Also tonight is my last show night. It'll be on Youtube soon.

What's your show?

Well, I'm reasoning that it would be polite to use the pronouns for the person's gender, and don't bother about biological sex. If she feels female, I'll call her female, even if she's biologically a dude.

That's...not what anyone was saying. I mean, that's obvious. Of course you should always refer to someone by their proper pronouns.

I'm just saying I want there to be distinct and succinct terms for everything because things not being defined specifically is strange and scary.

Yeah, but that doesn't necessarily mean creating new and confusing terms instead of explaining the matter at hand in a way that people understand.

Otherwise we create that paranoid OCD sort of environment that spawns statements like "Cisgendered lady-type". Can't we just say "female" and not attempt to specifically emphasize the details? What would the purpose of that be, hmmm?

edited 28th Mar '15 4:38:32 PM by NotSoBadassLongcoat

Well, the thing is that doesn't apply to all situations, y'know? Like yeah, generally all you have to say is "I'm a girl" and that should be enough for people (emphasis on the word should, sadly). But there are reasons these sorts of terms exist, and that's that they're necessary to have certain conversations. It's kinda hard to talk about how much better cisgendered people have it if we don't have the word "cisgendered," y'know?

...Am I making any sense at all here? I've been, like, sleepy all day so if I'm phrasing this wrong, sorry.

You're making sense to me, but I'm already familiar with this stuff.

Zarek, the issue there is you're bothering people with something where they don't want to be bothered. Unless you can make English a language which operates as Basque or Armenian do and have only two grammatical genders - one for live beings and one for inanimate objects, you'll be struggling a bit.

Probably ever since cloning became a theoretical possibility, there have been conspiracy theorists swearing that the Catholic church cloned Jesus from one of the many relics claiming to be bits of him (the hair of Christ, the bloodstained nails from the cross of Christ, the splinters that used to be the cross of Christ, the freakin' foreskin of Christ) in order to bring about the Second Coming.

To my knowledge, the only thing this conspiracy theory has done is inspire the episode of Star Trek TNG where Klingon monks cloned Klingon Jesus and inspire a novel I read for class in high school entitled The Genesis Code.

And those Klingon monks cloned Klingon Jesus to score political power anyway, they couldn't give less of a shit about his Klingon Jesusness

I need to include the phrase "Klingon Jesusness" in my daily life. Way more fun than "the Ways of Kahless."

But is it as cool as "KHAAAN!!!"?

I just realized how much helicopters look like dragonflies. I wonder if that's what they were based on.

I think the going theory is that the references to giant locusts in the book of Revelation is Paul struggling to describe helicopters in terms of what he understood.

Actually, John wrote the book of Revelation.

Gah, so he did. That's as elementary a mistake as not noticing that "how many of each kind of animal did Moses take on the ark?" is a trick question.

edited 28th Mar '15 9:42:45 PM by TParadox

fun fact, almost all the signs of the end of days in the Book of Revelation show up in Avatar the Last Airbender. My Bible class in high school was nerdy, and we were bored, so we just....went through it. It was great.

Damn you Steam sales. Just bought the Sega bundle.

The moon becoming "as blood" describes a lunar eclipse, which happens twice a year.

Or someone trying to kill the Moon Spirit. :P