Wait, I’m actually really curious about this Babylon 5 tidbit. Who was that? What happened?

Barely relevant, but does anyone else find that article thumbnail is absolutely terrible? I was genuinely confused for a moment, not sure what I was looking at.

FWIW, I got it now, I’m not quite that inept.

Right, norms change, but there will always be norms. People have traits and tendencies that we can map out. I fall into many norms, and outside of many others.

And the belief that gender and sex are the same thing, is a predominantly conservative, and right-wing view.

Lastly, it’s amusing to me that you’d insinuate that I assume what people are like because of their gender.

Oh well, trolls gonna troll. Hope you have fun, keep it civil. 🤷

I’m sorry it doesn’t make sense to you. But firstly, I didn’t claim I was “against” gender norms, but simply that me and my friends don’t care.

Norms exist, period. You cannot force norms to disappear, but you can make it easy and painless to reject them for how you act in life. I am not against them, I simply pay them no mind.

And gender is more than chromosomes, it’s personal, it’s identity, it’s intimate. Gender need not be something so easily and rigidly defined, we have another term for that, “sex”.

What kind of right-wing values do you think I hold? Because again, “gender = chromosomes” is not a leftist value.

Assuming you’re saying all this in good faith, I can confidently say your assertions on what leftists believe is entirely off the mark.

In my experience the more left you are, the less you care about gender norms, stereotypes, and roles. More importantly, the most left-wing people I know are the least onboard with the framing of “gender = sex” and “gender is binary”.

Personally in my own political journey, the more radically left I’ve gotten, the more conscious I’ve been of how things actually work for marginalized and queer folk. I used to be largely politically unconscious, and I used to think that “all the trans stuff” was confusing and weird “how can you be non-binary? That doesn’t make any sense at all.”

However, the more I’ve understood the world through a leftist lens, the more I’ve actually comprehended the reality the LGBTQ+ community lives in… and it’s gotten less scary as a result.

I’m very left, and I do not believe an ounce of what you say I’d believe.

I’m sorry, maybe I’m not understanding.

Are you trying to claim that trans individuals are automatically right-wing? I don’t believe I’ve seen any facts bear that out.

Alt-right playbook is, and always will be incredible

Canada is not immune to what is happening in the USA. Reactionaries can exist anywhere.

If a certain group of workers is too critical to be allowed to strike, then they’re too critical to be forced to work in poor conditions. “Back to work” legislation should not exist to bind the workers, but bind the companies.

“Sorry, you’re too important to Canada’s infrastructure, you can’t be allowed to mistreat your workers. As punishment for letting it get this bad, you must agree to ALL of their terms, and in return, they’ll begin working first thing tomorrow. Guess you should have been more agreeable BEFORE the strike.”

I dunno, forcing strikes to end in any situation seems dangerously close to forced labour. But maybe I’m just a dirty commie.

(edited a spelling mistake)

Love to see it!

I really like antennapod. It works really well for all of my podcasts.

https://antennapod.org/

https://github.com/AntennaPod

Why?

Yes, during the last update the admins revoked all the auth keys, forcing everyone to login again. There was some concern over security, related to the exploit that was used to compromise lemmy.world