[–] 34 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Fairly simple:

Female as an adjective: acceptable, except when used unnecessarily to suggest their being female is an "other" category or otherwise seems irrelevant (e.g. "I went to the female podiatriast to get my ingrown toenail taken care of" or "I got cut off by a female driver on my way to work.")

Female as a noun: unacceptable, except in descriptive reports or scientific/medical references where the use of "female" can essentially be short for "female subject", (e.g. "white female, five foot seven, blonde, with a tattoo on right forearm" or "the female of the species tends to be larger than the males...")

Basically, adjective: yes, when relevant

Noun: no, unless your are specifically supposed to by policy or convention.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I live in a small town on an island with 8k people in it that has its own international airport. I arrive an hour before if I have checked bags, drop bags off, go home, pick up the family, drop them off at the airport, drop the car off next door at my work, walk back to the airport, walk through security and board the plane.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I preferred Inquisition, especially in terms of the stories and challenges of the characters, and especially their use of LGBT storylines.

    In Inquisition, Krem is trans. Is that an issue? No, it's just part of their character. Is that even the most focused on thing about Krem? Absolutely not, Krem is a badass, that's the focus on Krem.

    Dorian is gay. Is that a problem? Yes, but not specifically for some particularly homophobic reason, it's mostly about his role and the pressure to marry his betrothed and generally come back to Tevinter and their ways, which Dorian has been fairly steadily against (not just the pressure to not be gay). It wasn't a simple "I'm gay and want my parents to accept who I am" story.

    Then there's Veilguard. Where we have a drawn-out thing about how Taash is non-binary, and for some reason that is a huge problem for their mother, even though the Qun have been accepting of trans people the whole time (but supposedly get their loincloths in a wad about non-binary? Come on). And that becomes their, like... whole deal. They're even bisexual, which is treated as a non-issue (thankfully). And they're the big dragon-slayer person, who rarely offers anything in terms of killing dragons. It seems like Taash's entire existence in the game is for a ham-fisted egg story, and it just gets tedious, frankly.

    Every other character has interesting storyline and interesting interplay. Taash gets... one story, and a beat-you-over-the-head allegory in terms of accepting her Qun parts or her Rivian parts, with the painfully obvious answer of "both." Basically, we are too far along to have the cardboard cut-out non-binary character in a story and calling it representation.

    Gameplay-wise, I missed the tactical system for fighting from Inquisition, though once I got the hang of the ability system of Veilguard it was an okay replacement. Definitely more fluid.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    One of my biggest pet peeves that sets me off a little every time is when I saw "what" and they say it again at the same volume and speed.

    Then I glare at them for two seconds, and loudly and slowly say "WWWHHHAAAAAATTT?" and they act affronted for having to repeat themselves again.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I feel like you're taking a very different lesson from that. He's saying God is the landlord, and the pharisees are the tenants, and when God sent them person after person to get them to behave right, they mistreated them, and then prophesizes his own death by them. Then he says the Kingdom of God will be taken from them (the bad tenants) and given to the rejected (which is a regular theme for Jesus, chilling with the social rejects and talking shit to the religious leaders).

    Basically, he's not applauding the tenants. He's saying the Landlord (God) is going to kick them out of his vineyard (his kingdom) for being assholes.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I get what you're saying, and to a degree I agree with it.

    It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't want to care. I don't want to care about what genders people (in general) go by, and would rather be polite to individuals I come across by referring to them the way they ask (in the same way I refer to people who go by a shortened name or their middle name). I have not cared about high school girls sports and won't until my daughter reaches high school... or rather, I have wanted not to. It's a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of the population, and I want their existence to not register with me until I come across them organically (e.g. a trans girl on my daughter's cross country team). I want to not know about neo-pronouns without either taking a gender studies class or meeting someone who uses them (which I have yet to in 43 years). Or if there is a trans character or one who uses neo-pronouns in a game that just is that without that being their whole character (e.g. Krem from Dragon Age Inquisition). I want those people to just exist in the world without me giving any more concern to their sense of identity or whatever as any other of the 10 billion people on the planet I don't know and don't give a shit about except they are humans and I want them to be well.

    I WANT to not care, but I'm not being let to because people feel the need to pick on them, make laws against them existing, or deny them equal opportunities for spurious reasons. And every time a conservative type complains about everything trans related and having to deal with pronouns and everything else, I'm like "it's because of you! You're doing this! I wouldn't have to be concerned with them beyond knowing they exist if it weren't for you!"

    I don't want to sound callous, because I do care about how LGBTQ+ people are treated. And I wish I didn't because they just existed without me having to care.

    Edit: I also think people are misunderstanding your point. Like I said, I never cared about girls high school sports, so when some conservative speaking against trans girls on girls soccer teams offering some hyperbole of The Rock (or comparable AMAB player) on a girls soccer team to suggest the supposed absurdity of having a trans girl on the team, you couldn't pay me to care (about that argument). Even if it were to be the case, which it never, ever, ever is.

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