It is pretty arbitrary which names we consider masculine and which names we consider feminine. On Big Brother Canada, there was a man named Hope. A man named Ashley works as a writer for Marvel Studios.

Transphobes claim it’s too confusing to call someone by a new name but have no problem with people changing their name when they get married or just because they want to

How does it protect their identity when I can Google and find Whoopi Goldberg’s real name?

I didn’t say everyone had a problem with transgender people, I said everyone was fine with celebrities making up fake names

JK Rowling used her initials because the publisher thought the books would sell better under a less feminine name. She now uses an even more masculine pen name for her detective novels. There’s nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but it’s kind of hypocritical given her outspoken anti-trans viewpoints.

We were dangerously close to electing someone like Trump until Trump scared us into voting liberal

He was almost assassinated the day before the national convention. I wonder who the candidate would have been

What a bizarre take

Surrender now or prepare to fight

I argue that magic doesn’t exist by definition. If it actually, provably, exists we define it as not magical. Why isn’t magnetism considered magic? Because it exists and can be studied.

Trump admitted to being sexually attracted to his own daughter when she was 13. Why was he not strung up for that?

And OJ Simpson is a murderer

“Nothing nowhere never”

I look at the spectrum as like a horseshoe, the extreme ends are the two ends and pro-choice is the curved end. The curved end is pro-choice and the extremely ends are anti-choice. It’s uncommon, but there are people who believe abortion should be forced in some situations.

I think it’ll take a collapse of America and complete restructuring of the government to fix things

They keep claiming all immigrants are dangerous criminals, while not being at all concerned that a dangerous criminal is in charge of the government

Same, I used to participate in antinatalist forums because I strongly believe that it’s selfish to bring new life into the world when you could instead love one of the children already in need of a home. But I don’t agree with the extreme antinatalist stance that nobody should be born ever. I think if you get pregnant and you want kids, by all means, keep it. Antinatalists are extremely cynical people who think life isn’t worth living at all.

I was against abortion myself when I was younger. But even if you see it as murder, at some point you should realize the situation isn’t black and white and there are situations where abortion makes sense. A friend of my sister is having an abortion because the fetus has a rare condition where it’s intestines are growing on the outside and it won’t live long anyway if born. I would think most sensible people would at least be okay with abortion in situations like that. Why make a baby be born to suffer and die immediately?

Also, it would be nice if so called “pro-life” people supported helping the child stay alive after they’re born, like accessible food and healthcare for everyone

That’s why I put “pro-life” in quotes in the title

All the dogs in the world have been replaced in the 33 years since I was born