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[–]our_team_is_winning 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

You know those silly teen mag type questionaires which started long ago like "Which Beatle are you?" and I don't even know what's popular now, "which member of BTS are you?" Or "Which Star Wars character are you?" or such? THAT is how I feel about "which one of 200 fake genders are you?" And your answer to that quiz does NOT deserve to be taken seriously nor protected by law!

"But according to this internet quiz I'm most like the Han Solo character! My pronoun is Han and you have to refer to my car as the Millennium Falcon or I'll pout!" It's that stupid.

[–]purrvana 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I always think of it as goth, skater, or emo, etc. We never put those things on your driver's license, so we shouldn't put 'gray-gender' or 'demi-gender' or 'non-binary', etc, either.

[–]aloris342 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think one of the main problems here is that with us all being isolated from each other physically because of Covid-19, organizations such as Zoom count as essentially the public square. So this is problematic. I think this highlights that, as citizens, we need to push back on government restrictions on freedom of movement, even in a pandemic. When all of this first began, it was meant to be temporary. A few weeks to slow the spread and learn more about the virus. Now it has been almost a year, we know the virus will never go away, even with vaccinations, we have some tools to fight it, and yet there are still restrictions. These restrictions constrain our right to have private discussions with other people, to organize for political activity etc. (And how easy would it be, in addition, to translate this reasoning into "women aren't safe to go out unless they are with a male minder" once we have lost the right to sex-specific restrooms). So when various organizations step up to sue for retention of civil liberties during a pandemic, I think we need to support that.

[–]jet199 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The world seriously needs a better alternative to Zoom.

[–]devushka 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, why is Zoom the video conference call tool of choice? I'd never even heard of it before the pandemic.