Ducks are delicious and eat the way you describe. If I eat ducks I’m eating those things once removed and enjoying it, too.

The vet wasn’t sure. She said his other teeth looked fine. He seems to be healthy other than being 10 Kg.

This guy had a full set of chompers but his brother from another mother lost his upper canines and a bunch of his little teeth. Now his upper lip gets stuck on his lower canines and he looks silly.

We have another car that size. Toothless is a good sized adult cat. His brother from another mother dwarfs him by over 10 pounds.

We all have lives. I sometimes remember that I was discussing something with someone weeks later.

In the end my trans friends, LGBTQ friends, my lesbian daughter, and my son and daughter’s LGBTQ, non-binary, and trans friends and everyone who knows me knows that I’m not a transphobe. They know that I’m an ally. They know that they can count on me for support and that I will actively protect them.

Being labelled a transphobe by someone who doesn’t know me and obviously has rather extreme views is less than meaningless to me. I engaged in the coversation to try to help her to understand my position and that labelling anyone who wasn’t interested in having sex with her, no matter how much of an ally they really were, was counterproductive. I did my best. I’m going to keep doing my best to be an ally no matter how much people who demand thought perfection label me. That’s just who I am.

Your approach was and continues to be a complete failure. You can triple down and fail again or you can choose to try something different. Do you want to talk or do you want to walk away? Those are your only two options at this point.

Fanatics try to expand the meanings of words to make their message more inflammatory in an attempt to bully and shame people who don’t agree with them into doing what they want. It’s a standard play from the extremist playbook.

Dismissing the truth as pedantry doesn’t change the fact that it’s the truth. Your beliefs don’t change reality.

It’s in the definition. Murder is the killing of one human being by another. Vegan fanatics try to shame everyone else by calling it murder but it just makes me laugh. They try so very hard but just sound silly.

Murder is the killing of a human. You can’t murder a non-human.

I want to come back as bacon.

The first time we harvested one of our pigs we had a wake for him. We ate all kinds of delicious cuts and raised a toasted to him.

To Biggun. He was a nice pig and he is a tasty pig.

TO BIGGUN!

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It is a citation. I used a citation generator. It doesn’t satisfy your pedantism but it’s definitely a citation.

Do a Google search for, “straight fragility” and you will find everything you need.

violently cries and sobs - Lemmy.World. (n.d.). https://lemmy.world/comment/11268292

Better?

Sure it is.

I think we need another word. Transphobic suggests fear or hate. I neither fear not rate trans people as I’ve made clear multiple times. If I’m not interested in having sex with men am I androphobic? I’m just not interested in trans people sexually. I’m transdisinterested, not transphobic.

That was the point of my meme.

They’re trying to use it as a slur but it perfectly captures what I’m trying to say and that pisses them off.

Another… (I was thinking in the shower.)

On the continuum from a raging, murderous transphobe to the perfect ally where is the point where you can label someone a transphobe?

I’ve already told you that I have had a pair of transfem friends for 50 years, a transmasc friend for 10 years, my kids have non-binary and trans friends who I treat with the same dignity and respect that I treat everyone else in my life is the simple fact that I’m interested in cis women enough to get me labelled a transphobe? What if I’m that raging, murderous transphobe but I have sex with trans women? Is being a transphobe like a scorecard, you can have a perfect score but a single wrong answer and you’re a transphobe?

I’m not being an ass or trolling. I genuinely want to understand your perspective on these questions to inform further discussion.

I asked a longtime lesbian friend whose partner is a retired human rights lawyer who specialized in LGBTQ+ rights law about this conversation and the partner mentioned absolutism (which I mentioned in another part of this discussion.) I just wonder if that’s what’s going on here.

I’m off to a maker fair with my family today so I probably won’t get back to this until late this evening. I hope you have a good day.

I’ve been chewing on this. I have a question. It’s a bit of a thought experiment.

If you’re a man (biological male) and I’m not at all interested in having sex with you and you decide to transition to a woman at what point along that transition am I a transphobe if I still don’t want to have sex with you?