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If the current method was good enough by itself, this conversation would not exist anywhere. Humans are still evolving and the current method is showing cracks as evident by this very conversation. We're only at the beginning of this debate. Maybe adding gender divisions is the best that we can...

There is probably a better way which doesn't involve women being subject to accusations of being male.

The problem is we do not want to modify tradition to accommodate reality. We do not want to adapt to new information. Dividing by sex worked well enough in the past, but obviously it's not working anymore. The cat's not going back in the bag, adapt. That's basically what I've been saying the...

Where have I caked for anyone? As a black same gender loving black man, I can see things that you cannot just like as a black woman you can see some things that I cannot. This is being treated as a black and white issue in which we have all the information/all possible perspectives or the only...

That's why the problem exists. Divisions can't be based on sex/gender anymore. That was just an easy way to do it, likely to have always left some people out. It doesn't actually represent humanity today and I doubt it ever truly did nor will it in the future. A new metric must be developed at...

I see, so the divisions would be like a videogame: "easy", "moderate", "hard". I suppose I just don't classify non-obstruction as doing something. Yeah, I can see there may be consequences to it but if you are the bouncer at the club, I walk up with a knife and you don't obstruct my entrance...

I'd argue they are being ignored. The establishment isn't doing anything. It isn't changing, they're just integrating "lunch counters". There is no work in just allowing them to compete. What's the difference between that and the open division besides the name? That goes with the above point...

Why do you think them (subordinate group) advocating for a separate division would work when the majority (dominant group) could just ignore them? Who is barred from the male division? On the surface. Males playing dress-up is just an idea that you have about transsexuals. The reality is...

It's a cognitive bias. If you were to view the country objectively, "straightness" floods every facet of contemporary and historic society so completely, you would laugh at yourself for saying this. As a heterosexual in a heterosexual world, heterosexuality is so fundamentally pervasive in your...

So basically a "female division" and an "open division" (because the male division is also open)? I think they are good proposals. Since the transsexual community is likely not in control of division creation, I'm not sure if it is them that need to develop "common sense". The cis gender...

I wonder if his yelling that he was not suicidal actually "worked." I'm still not convinced there wasn't some white people behind this hoax. It was so ridiculous, came across like a typical white amateur writer badly writing a black character in a movie. Seems like he was talking to his...

Reparations to FBA is actually beneficial to everyone else as well and I believe that's the biggest reason nobody wants to do it. Kamala Harris was right when she said any policy that helps black people will help everyone but her conclusion was to do the opposite thing as her premise. Kamala...

Because they can't. Because they are likely thinking it is psychologically detrimental as well but just because they think it, just because they attack us with these "Industry Baby's" and "WAP's" don't mean they're actually having a negative effect. Our minds and how it responds to reality (and...

Agreed and that's why I echoed a previous sentiment in my last comment: We grossly underestimate how distorted our vision actually is. We grossly underestimate the effects of our unquestioned beliefs. If you have some about "WAP" or "Industry Baby" that cause you to mistake illusion for truth...

I think you hit on a good point. Industry Baby is not objectively a non-threat. Simultaneously, it is not objectively a threat. Objectively, no one knows if or how much it is a threat or non-threat. Because of that and how easily the opposition to it backfires and becomes yet another weapon...

I'm just saying some things are threats and some things aren't and our personal beliefs about ourselves can change a non-threat into a threat. "Industry Baby" is not an objective threat and no one can prove otherwise. It just shows black men in a way that is contrary to many black men's beliefs...

We're not talking about guns and bullets. I made an analogy of a bomb detonating just to point out there is no threat with these aforementioned "weapons" until we make it so. But these are not the same as physical weapons. "Could be?" How could they be damaged? Is there evidence to show this...

2009 It's internalize racism because you disregard context. The truth is, any race of people in our position would be doing exactly what we are doing, but that part is never acknowledged when black people use the phrase, "no other race would…" You'd have to believe this behavior is in black...

In order for it to be a weapon, we had to agree that it could hurt us. No one has any proof that these types of weapons (distractions) hurt directly. The hurt comes indirectly, as ART implied: we fight over the efficacy of the weapon, weaponizing it. If all of us agree that it can't hurt us...

Which is actually good news. To defeat white supremacy, all we need do is change our minds about the things that trigger us.