Which gender are you?

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Which gender are you?

Female
8
14%
Male
37
66%
Alchemical Androgyne
5
9%
None of your business
3
5%
It's complicated
1
2%
Other
2
4%
 
Total votes : 56

Re: Which gender are you?

Postby Elvis » Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:49 pm

semper occultus » Sat Nov 21, 2015 6:53 pm wrote:
Brussels tells British mothers: get back to work

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/predictions/politics/11692661/Brussels-tells-British-mothers-get-back-to-work.html

Britain has too many stay-at-home mothers and must do more to get them into work, the European Union has said.

British women are twice as likely as those in the rest of Europe to choose not to work in order to care for their children or elderly relations, EU figures show.

The large number of mothers who work part-time or not at all is a “social challenge” that the Government must address by providing more state-funded child care, according to a report issued by the European Council.



BLEAH!! Why don't the busybodies mind their own beeswax.
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby backtoiam » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:29 am

Elvis » Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:49 pm wrote:
semper occultus » Sat Nov 21, 2015 6:53 pm wrote:
Brussels tells British mothers: get back to work

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/predictions/politics/11692661/Brussels-tells-British-mothers-get-back-to-work.html

Britain has too many stay-at-home mothers and must do more to get them into work, the European Union has said.

British women are twice as likely as those in the rest of Europe to choose not to work in order to care for their children or elderly relations, EU figures show.

The large number of mothers who work part-time or not at all is a “social challenge” that the Government must address by providing more state-funded child care, according to a report issued by the European Council.



BLEAH!! Why don't the busybodies mind their own beeswax.



The family unit, just like a nation, a gender, a religion, a tribe, a race, a color, or any construct that unifies a group of people into a cohesive unit is on the table to be obliterated. The family unit, a father, a mother, is a cancer on society according to the PTB because it stands in the way of total control of the human mind.

Sight, sound, action. Television. Never before in history has it been possible to sit people down in front a television set, put the mind in alpha stage, and program, or deprogram, the human mind into a state of reverse, as it is today. All constructs are being ripped. Period. End of story.

It, all unifying constructs, that unite groups of people, will be obliterated and nothing will stop it. You can see it's clever works on this very forum.

Humanity as we know it IS ALREADY being fed nano materials through food and air.

(don't ask me to prove it, supervisors, I promise i'll stop after this post, ok? unless you push it, lets all have smiley faces...ok? i'm willing to go all the way, lets not go there, ok?)

All social constructs that unify groups of people are being ripped to shreds in a very intentional and methodical way. Total control is the goal.

This is also known as a "breakaway civilization" in which the herd will of course be a herd, and the sheep herders will remain pure human biology free of nanotech refinements connected to a hive mind borg computer. Actually, they intend to give themselves enhancements too, and they already have, but they have no intention of being connected to the main herd algorithm.

This IS what it is.

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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby Agent Orange Cooper » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:40 am

I like the cut of your jib, backtoiam.
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby backtoiam » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:45 am

Agent Orange Cooper » Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:40 pm wrote:I like the cut of your jib, backtoiam.


I'm too old to make a difference, and too old to be scared.
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby DrEvil » Sun Nov 22, 2015 2:47 am

All social constructs that unify groups of people are being ripped to shreds in a very intentional and methodical way. Total control is the goal.


I think you're wrong about this one. Some of the old social constructs are losing traction, but new ones are popping up in their place. Societies and cultures change over time and the old guard are often uncomfortable with that. I'm in my late thirties and twenty-somethings are in some aspects completely alien to me. Things change.
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby backtoiam » Sun Nov 22, 2015 2:56 am

Joao » Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:40 pm wrote:What I have in mind is something like this:

Monash University wrote:What is the difference between sex and gender?

Sex = male and female
Gender = masculine and feminine

So in essence:
Sex refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs.
Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine.

So while your sex as male or female is a biological fact that is the same in any culture, what that sex means in terms of your gender role as a 'man' or a 'woman' in society can be quite different cross culturally. These 'gender roles' have an impact on the health of the individual.

In sociological terms 'gender role' refers to the characteristics and behaviours that different cultures attribute to the sexes. What it means to be a 'real man' in any culture requires male sex plus what our various cultures define as masculine characteristics and behaviours, likewise a 'real woman' needs female sex and feminine characteristics. To summarise:

'man' = male sex+ masculine social role (a 'real man', 'masculine' or 'manly')
'woman' = female sex + feminine social role (a 'real woman', 'feminine' or 'womanly')

Basic, yes, and if it's really so simple then great. The question is: Are those definitions reasonable and sufficiently comprehensive, or do they carry baggage and/or omit important items? Anything can be nitpicked but since my head has nearly exploded form the recent use of "liberal" on this board to mean "left", I think it bears taking time to agree on fundamentals around such a similarly divisive subject.

This topic is much more interesting than my employment and social obligations, but I'm under the Man's thumb. Save a pitchfork to impale me on after the moral "mental illness" police have rounded up all the trans-people for reeducation.



Slomo has gone out on a limb and i'm not gonna leave him hanging. He was nice about this, but not me, i'm gonna say it like it is.


Has anybody noticed, that intentionally, these semantic gyronastics were turned backwards?

Sex and gender were intentionally turned backwards and the definitions do not match? anybody?

you don't think that was on purpose do ya?

trust me, I could say more, but I don't think I need to
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby backtoiam » Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:14 am

Sex = male and female
Gender = masculine and feminine


please tell me why this is not reversed?

and i'll be honest with you. I don't give a fuck about this bullshit. i'm defending rigorous intuition forum against this sort of bullshit. I have no dog in this gender fight. but, i'm willing to bite a little asshole for rig int, just saiyinn..
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby coffin_dodger » Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:39 am

backto said:
Has anybody noticed, that intentionally, these semantic gyronastics were turned backwards?


Yes, backtoiam - I have.

I've just 'tuned in' to you, mate. Sometimes it takes a while.

The reason they will play with dolls is because at 4 years old stupid adults have not spoiled their childlike magic.


Indeed.

Hidden in plain sight is crucial to the continuation of manipulation. There are cracks appearing though, that's why we are being driven towards (amongst many other things) the horrors of war, to over-ride thoughts of 'what the hell is going on here?' with basic survival thoughts. Confusion also assists this process dramatically.
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby backtoiam » Sun Nov 22, 2015 10:00 am

Hidden in plain sight is crucial to the continuation of manipulation. There are cracks appearing though, that's why we are being driven towards (amongst many other things) the horrors of war, to over-ride thoughts of 'what the hell is going on here?' with basic survival thoughts. Confusion also assists this process dramatically.


Next to the force of nature itself, there is nothing more powerful than a human thought.

Every skyscraper started with one single human thought.

If I wanted to, I could tell another human that there was gold buried in a grove of trees, and be vague, about exactly which tree it was buried under.

I could keep that human digging for the rest of his life, in vain, because I planted one single thought in his head.

There is nothing more powerful than a human thought, next the force of nature itself.

Be careful what you think, because, every action, is, without question, preceded by a thought.

Let your thoughts be your own.

The human brain does not come with an owners manual. Don't let anybody write one for you. Do it yourself.
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby coffin_dodger » Sun Nov 22, 2015 10:32 am

backto:
There is nothing more powerful than a human thought, next the force of nature itself.


Once this is realised, it becomes abundantly apparent where the 'mechanics' of the power of control are rooted. I had attempted, rather clumsily, to convey these ideas in a series of blog posts - recently deceased - when the site 'went down' recently.

To internally admit one has been fooled is devestating to the thinking mind. Almost impossible to reconcile. But it's actually happening. It's a thing. It is unstoppable once triggered.
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby American Dream » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:07 pm

Transgender Day of Remembrance: Critique is Resistance; Resistance is Revolution

L'lerrét Jazelle Ailith

I am L’lerrét Jazelle Ailith. I am Lourdes Ashley Hunter. I am Janet Mock. I am Laverne Cox. I am Isis King. I am CeCe McDonald. I am Islan Nettles. I am Mia Henderson. I am Shelley Hilliard. I am Brittany Stergis. I am Tiffany Edwards. I am Gizzy Fowler. I am Marsha P. Johnson. I am every black trans woman that has had to live her life fighting the systems and people around her that seek to eradicate her existence. I am the woman that you have beaten, taunted, harassed, fired, and shamed. I live authentically in my truth, blazing a fiery path behind me that actively melts away the icy, exclusionary aura of the world that I must navigate. My hands are outstretched and am grasping every single one of my sisters that the TDOR lists are trying to engulf. I am them. They are us. We stand in solidarity to redefine our own realities and to rebuild our community that was broken apart at the hands of white supremacy and colonialism. We stand against the entrapment of the boxes of gender normativity and rebuke those who seek to place invisible cloaks across our claimed identities and articulated narratives. We refuse to operate in ways to fit systems and institutions that are inherently built to keep us out or seek to subjugate us. We are the revolution. We are stronger than the commodified victim narrative that has been forced onto our lived experiences. We are greater than the pity and sensationalization of all the TDOR events around the nation.


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I want to take a moment to honor all of my sisters who have been murdered for living in their truths. If it weren’t for them dying for what they believe in and dying for each and every other sister that walks this Earth, I wouldn’t be here owning my voice. I wouldn’t be able to stand strong and unwavering proclaiming and owning my transness, blackness, queerness – hell, my penis! – if it weren’t for those Goddesses who owned those things and never let go. I wouldn’t have been inspired to love this skin I’m in if it weren’t for their legacies. But I also uplift the sisters by my side who live and love and teach me each and every day to never apologize for my authenticity. While we are all at our TDOR events or celebrating trans lives throughout the week, let’s begin to push our analyses a bit further. Let’s begin to engage in dialogue that acknowledges intersectional identities.

I implore you to sit back and ask yourself how you contribute to the violence and injustice against trans women of color. How do you reinforce the marginalization and ostracism of myself and my sisters? It’s all fine that we become aware of our lives but we need more than for you to finally see that we are walking this Earth. We need you to hear us. We need you to sit quietly, take notes, and begin to conceptualize what a restructured system that is void of misogynist, racist, ableist, etc oppression would look like. It’s not enough to read the names of my sisters killed off by the normative nature of this capitalistic system. Moments of silence are not enough. Calling us courageous is not enough. Having one or two trans friends is not enough. We need to begin to develop more complex analysis of the world in which we live. We need to rebuke assimilationism. It is an imperative to eradicate the prison industrial complex and the criminalization of sex work in all forms. I implore you to begin to question what has been engrained in you since birth. Own yourself and you can begin to see the truth.



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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby divideandconquer » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:38 pm

DrEvil » Sun Nov 22, 2015 2:47 am wrote:
All social constructs that unify groups of people are being ripped to shreds in a very intentional and methodical way. Total control is the goal.


I think you're wrong about this one. Some of the old social constructs are losing traction, but new ones are popping up in their place. Societies and cultures change over time and the old guard are often uncomfortable with that. I'm in my late thirties and twenty-somethings are in some aspects completely alien to me. Things change.


"New ones" that, to paraphrase Orwell, in a time of universal confusion, makes stating the obvious not only a revolutionary act, but makes you at best, politically incorrect, at worst, jobless, in extreme cases, maybe even life-less.

There is no doubt that the family is an enemy to the agenda of the global elites, the owners, who at the very top, are such a small group of people that they fit into a 747, and who, unlike us, are united. Remember, there is no such thing as a shared interest when one owns and the other labors...they are always working against us, despite their never-ending propaganda.

By asserting a bunch of convoluted notions, creating false dichotomies, and destroying/tearing down not only social constructs but essential truths, they seek to replace what they've destroyed with either nothing and/or "solutions" that are only beneficial to them. Read Bella Dodd's testimony to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1952.

So there is always a hidden agenda, always under the guise of human/civil rights, that powerfully influences left wing ideology, as well as right-wing ideology, however, right-wing ideology--anything that supports war, corporations, wealth-- is more transparent for the most part.

For instance, take the feminism movement, largely confined to white, middle and upper-middle class women. While this movement struggles to maintain workplace equality and eliminate gender discrimination--a very good thing--believe it or not, there was/is more nefarious reasons behind this movement: to fragment families, splinter classes; to increase the number of hard-pressed taxpayers; to create another division: men and women, etc..

Today, the US has the highest family fragmentation rates in the industrial world, not because women are gaining equality to men, but because those at the top made sure to sabotage the economic infrastructure, to sabotage morality at the same time they were promoting their version of "feminism". They created a very unfriendly family/economic, morally relative environment where the choice to be a full-time mother was eliminated for most women, and where that choice, if taken, is disparaged and ridiculed. 40-50 years ago, it was possible to raise large families--sometimes over ten kids-- with one parent working in a middle class job--teacher, cop, etc. Today it's almost impossible to raise even a small family without both parents working full-time jobs and still struggle to pay the bills.

Once again, under the guise of civil rights, now it's the LGBT community that's being used to forward their plan. Yes, just like some women benefited from the women's movement, members of the LGBT community will benefit by gaining acceptance, maybe acquire civil rights, all a very good thing, but it's important to understand how they're also being used to forward a completely different kind of harmful reality that only benefits the oligarchy.

As Thomas Pynchon said, “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers,” and most people are asking the wrong questions.
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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby American Dream » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:53 pm

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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby backtoiam » Sun Nov 22, 2015 1:24 pm

American Dream » Sun Nov 22, 2015 11:07 am wrote:
Transgender Day of Remembrance: Critique is Resistance; Resistance is Revolution

L'lerrét Jazelle Ailith

I am L’lerrét Jazelle Ailith. I am Lourdes Ashley Hunter. I am Janet Mock. I am Laverne Cox. I am Isis King. I am CeCe McDonald. I am Islan Nettles. I am Mia Henderson. I am Shelley Hilliard. I am Brittany Stergis. I am Tiffany Edwards. I am Gizzy Fowler. I am Marsha P. Johnson. I am every black trans woman that has had to live her life fighting the systems and people around her that seek to eradicate her existence. I am the woman that you have beaten, taunted, harassed, fired, and shamed. I live authentically in my truth, blazing a fiery path behind me that actively melts away the icy, exclusionary aura of the world that I must navigate. My hands are outstretched and am grasping every single one of my sisters that the TDOR lists are trying to engulf. I am them. They are us. We stand in solidarity to redefine our own realities and to rebuild our community that was broken apart at the hands of white supremacy and colonialism. We stand against the entrapment of the boxes of gender normativity and rebuke those who seek to place invisible cloaks across our claimed identities and articulated narratives. We refuse to operate in ways to fit systems and institutions that are inherently built to keep us out or seek to subjugate us. We are the revolution. We are stronger than the commodified victim narrative that has been forced onto our lived experiences. We are greater than the pity and sensationalization of all the TDOR events around the nation.


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I want to take a moment to honor all of my sisters who have been murdered for living in their truths. If it weren’t for them dying for what they believe in and dying for each and every other sister that walks this Earth, I wouldn’t be here owning my voice. I wouldn’t be able to stand strong and unwavering proclaiming and owning my transness, blackness, queerness – hell, my penis! – if it weren’t for those Goddesses who owned those things and never let go. I wouldn’t have been inspired to love this skin I’m in if it weren’t for their legacies. But I also uplift the sisters by my side who live and love and teach me each and every day to never apologize for my authenticity. While we are all at our TDOR events or celebrating trans lives throughout the week, let’s begin to push our analyses a bit further. Let’s begin to engage in dialogue that acknowledges intersectional identities.

I implore you to sit back and ask yourself how you contribute to the violence and injustice against trans women of color. How do you reinforce the marginalization and ostracism of myself and my sisters? It’s all fine that we become aware of our lives but we need more than for you to finally see that we are walking this Earth. We need you to hear us. We need you to sit quietly, take notes, and begin to conceptualize what a restructured system that is void of misogynist, racist, ableist, etc oppression would look like. It’s not enough to read the names of my sisters killed off by the normative nature of this capitalistic system. Moments of silence are not enough. Calling us courageous is not enough. Having one or two trans friends is not enough. We need to begin to develop more complex analysis of the world in which we live. We need to rebuke assimilationism. It is an imperative to eradicate the prison industrial complex and the criminalization of sex work in all forms. I implore you to begin to question what has been engrained in you since birth. Own yourself and you can begin to see the truth.



http://www.autostraddle.com/transgender ... on-265427/



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Re: Which gender are you?

Postby brainpanhandler » Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:39 pm

backtoiam » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:24 pm wrote:
American Dream » Sun Nov 22, 2015 11:07 am wrote:
Transgender Day of Remembrance: Critique is Resistance; Resistance is Revolution

L'lerrét Jazelle Ailith

I am L’lerrét Jazelle Ailith. I am Lourdes Ashley Hunter. I am Janet Mock. I am Laverne Cox. I am Isis King. I am CeCe McDonald. I am Islan Nettles. I am Mia Henderson. I am Shelley Hilliard. I am Brittany Stergis. I am Tiffany Edwards. I am Gizzy Fowler. I am Marsha P. Johnson. I am every black trans woman that has had to live her life fighting the systems and people around her that seek to eradicate her existence. I am the woman that you have beaten, taunted, harassed, fired, and shamed. I live authentically in my truth, blazing a fiery path behind me that actively melts away the icy, exclusionary aura of the world that I must navigate. My hands are outstretched and am grasping every single one of my sisters that the TDOR lists are trying to engulf. I am them. They are us. We stand in solidarity to redefine our own realities and to rebuild our community that was broken apart at the hands of white supremacy and colonialism. We stand against the entrapment of the boxes of gender normativity and rebuke those who seek to place invisible cloaks across our claimed identities and articulated narratives. We refuse to operate in ways to fit systems and institutions that are inherently built to keep us out or seek to subjugate us. We are the revolution. We are stronger than the commodified victim narrative that has been forced onto our lived experiences. We are greater than the pity and sensationalization of all the TDOR events around the nation.


Image
Art Wriply M. Bennet

I want to take a moment to honor all of my sisters who have been murdered for living in their truths. If it weren’t for them dying for what they believe in and dying for each and every other sister that walks this Earth, I wouldn’t be here owning my voice. I wouldn’t be able to stand strong and unwavering proclaiming and owning my transness, blackness, queerness – hell, my penis! – if it weren’t for those Goddesses who owned those things and never let go. I wouldn’t have been inspired to love this skin I’m in if it weren’t for their legacies. But I also uplift the sisters by my side who live and love and teach me each and every day to never apologize for my authenticity. While we are all at our TDOR events or celebrating trans lives throughout the week, let’s begin to push our analyses a bit further. Let’s begin to engage in dialogue that acknowledges intersectional identities.

I implore you to sit back and ask yourself how you contribute to the violence and injustice against trans women of color. How do you reinforce the marginalization and ostracism of myself and my sisters? It’s all fine that we become aware of our lives but we need more than for you to finally see that we are walking this Earth. We need you to hear us. We need you to sit quietly, take notes, and begin to conceptualize what a restructured system that is void of misogynist, racist, ableist, etc oppression would look like. It’s not enough to read the names of my sisters killed off by the normative nature of this capitalistic system. Moments of silence are not enough. Calling us courageous is not enough. Having one or two trans friends is not enough. We need to begin to develop more complex analysis of the world in which we live. We need to rebuke assimilationism. It is an imperative to eradicate the prison industrial complex and the criminalization of sex work in all forms. I implore you to begin to question what has been engrained in you since birth. Own yourself and you can begin to see the truth.



http://www.autostraddle.com/transgender ... on-265427/



I was planning on having a good day. I had no idea that millions of black transgender women were under assault. Now I have to find some to protect. AD, I only have so much activist time in my schedule...really? You could have done better than this damn joke.... :hrumph


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