Your quote reminds me of one of the biggest misconceptions about Judith Butler’s work who wrote so much about gender…

People constantly misquote them and say that Butler wrote that “gender is a performance” and assume that Butler meant that gender is fake.

What Butler Butler actually wrote is that “gender is performative”, ie. it involves a performance that communicates our gender identity to others without the performance being the end-all-be-all of gender.

The “”“alpha male’s”“” masculinity is so fragile, they threw a conniption when seeing a picture of a fit woman.

No, you see it’s not like education makes you see past your own prejudices and that makes you more liberal. If you are liberal you get awarded an education by the shadowy cabal that controls the education system with DEI measures! This guy only wants a tRuE mERiToCrACy where disenfranchised, downtrodden bigots get a chance to attend university where they are taught about the superiority of their white Aryan race.

/s if it isn’t apparent.

Without doubt, it will. Though the GD party is not keen on joining the EU anymore anyway and favor Russia. Laws like this will make it easy for the GD to blame the EU when the EU makes the inevitable decision to suspend Georgia’s admission process.

Visual agnosia?

Technically this year, but already after the last elections in 2020, there were credible allegations of election fraud in favor of the ruling GD party which resulted in massive protests. Since then GD has only tightened its hold of the country’s institutions and has suppressed civil society. You can see why the upcoming elections aren’t looking promising…

So much this.

It is the very definition of being cis to not understand wanting to be a different gender than the one being assigned at birth. People who are uncomfortable with their assigned gender are not cis.

But many need a while to realize that other people do not feel the way they do.

WillStealYourUsername has already given a very good overview, to add to that…

It is a highly individual process and while many trans people share certain experiences, no two trans people will have exactly the same kind of journey.

While the public perception of trans people is very much focused on the rather rare cases of young children who will insist on being trans from an early age on. While these cases definitely exist, far more trans people are going through a gradual process of realization. There may be a final “egg crack” (the moment of final realization), but it is usually preceded by a slow process of smaller realizations and it is nowhere near a linear process…

As WillStealYourUsername describes so well, in hindsight all the signs and individual quirks make sense, but most people have to attain a certain level of self-acceptance before being able to recognize the various symptoms for what they are.

In my personal case, it was an intense jealousy of fem people that would never go away and culminated in a moment where I had an emotional meltdown over a fictional character who transitioned from male to female in their storyline. That’s when I finally realized that I could do the same thing if I got my shit together and accepted being trans.

Yeah, I was pretty much convinced of the same thing while still in school: How could my class mates not want to change their gender? It’s the most amazing thing in the world to do! Who would say no to that?

A little long maybe, I assume it won’t be long until it’s just “likensub”.

I would prefer to burn Meta/Facebook to the ground too, but that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t point out Zuckerberg & Co.'s obvious sexism and racism.

Some notes for those unfamiliar with the 2CV: The manufacturer, Citroen, intended the 2CV to be as cheap as possible. It was introduced in 1948, in an era when cars were beginning to become more common and it was meant to serve the lowest end of the market, a car that everyone could afford.

Many of the 2CV’s shortcomings were ways to keep production costs low and it was pretty ingenious in that regard. It saw some revisions over its 40 years (!) of production, but the core idea remained the same: It should be affordable.

When production ended in the late 80s, it was still selling relatively well, but new emission standards foreshadowed its obsolescence and the huge amount of manual labor that was required to produce it made it unprofitable for Citroen.

No need to thank me. I am just as grief-stricken as you are.

I can see why Arkane Austin was shut down after Redfall failed, but I do not get why they’d shut down Tango Gameworks after the success of “Hi-Fi Rush” and being MS’ only Japanese studio.

How often does it need to be said? Do not preorder games based on what they looked like in the trailers!

They did! See the article over here.

It may sound silly to some, but “Guilty Gear Strive” - i.e. Bridget - was very important to me. Once I realized that I was envious of a character from a game who could have something that I had not (a transition), it was the final crack in the egg. If I wanted to have what Bridget had, I had to pursue it IRL and I do since then.

Seems like Elon thinks he can use Teslas as compute resources without the cars being charged…

Yeah, the “landed gentry” of the mods and the courageous admins fighting to freedom against their oppression.

Yeah, trans people in the UK are in horrible danger.
In regards to Hillary Cass I am not even sure how much of this is actual regret and how much is her trying to save her reputation in regards to her scientific credentials. It may be politically opportune to write a report full of bigoted pseudo-science that slanders the academic community who does actual science, but it comes at a price.