FLINTA - Frauen, Lesben, Intersexuelle, Nicht-binär, Transgender and Agender. It’s a German acronym, and basically covers all non-cishet men, though with a bent toward the female side of things.
AMAB - assigned male at birth. Basically if the doctor slapped your arse and said “it’s a boy”, you’re AMAB.
Though not acronyms, I’ll expand for clarity:
N word - n****r, a racial slur aimed at black people.
F slur - f****t, a homophobic slur, primarily aimed at male presenting queer people, but pretty common all round.
A lot of FLINTA people don’t like it. It can be especially upsetting to AMAB people who don’t identify as male. It’s not the same, but it’s similar to things like the n-word, or the f-slur. If someone chooses to use the word about themselves, that’s one thing, but if they don’t, there’s a very good chance you’d upset them.
I think doing those things when it’s clear, is fine. As a queer person, when I catch my friends (usually inadvertently) say something queerphobic, I’ll lean it and switch it to be critical of the cishet equivalent.
I think when it’s clear, and when it’s being used for a good reason, then there’s no issue. You make a very good point about your child though. They don’t usually get the nuances that an adult should.
This entire comment is the perfect explanation for my issue with people getting excited over Black Friday/Prime Day. I see so many people every year excitedly saying (or at times bragging), oh I got this, I got that, and it was so cheap. But unless you were already looking at that thing you haven’t saved money. You’ve actually spent more than you would have if it wasn’t on sale.
- if you aren’t smoking already, there isn’t really a good reason to start
This is why I was glad to see all the legislation beginning to come out banning disposables. I swear 95% of disposable users I see are kids who’ve never smoked, and disposables are just the alcopops of the smoking world - cheap, sweet, and used as a gateway in rather than out.
are we really willing to sacrifice ‘good’ for ‘perfect’?
It’s not about sacrificing good for perfect, but rather sacrificing good for profit.
Ubuntu, when I started studying IT after high school, my tutor was very insistent that we know about different weird things, and how tech in general worked, and because Ubuntu was so simple, that’s where he started.
Between that, and just hate, I stayed on that sub for maybe a couple of hours.
Nothing would change. For a start, PA doesn’t control gaza so can’t service it, and secondly israel and Egypt are both blockading Gaza. Independent Gaza would continue to have nothing.