He's a toddler with a loaded gun. It's not the toddler that's scary.

God he is such a toddler

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

Anyway, I hope I'm not imposing my experience here. I'm glad you're writing about it.

But ultimately, parenting is not fundamentally a gendered experience, it's a caregiving experience. And that has a whole host of devalued, invisible labor dynamics which aren't talked about enough. That genderless labor is overwhelmingly gender segregated in society and that needs to be unpacked.

And you're right, it can be difficult to parse how much of one's motivations and reflexes are conditioned by AGAB. I noticed cishetnormative dynamics arising in divisions of labor which we both had to actively work to overcome.

Personally, I saw it as an opportunity to be the kind of man and father I wanted to see in the world. But I also struggled with the ways that everyone around me acted like I was following a regressive kind of motherhood, not a progressive kind of fatherhood, or a nonbinary parenthood.

🙋🏻 If you're looking for input, I'm a nonbinary trans man who chose to carry two kids with my cis male partner. I think it's totally valid to lean into those questions in your writing, because they do arise in complicated ways.

I mean, I'm the pot calling out the kettle here

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It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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When labeling and grouping your layers is no longer enough, and you find yourself also color coding them, it might be time to reassess

That looks amazing 😳

Yeah the whole thing is so on the nose

"The regime's rubber stamp machine has rubber stamped another stupid idea placed in front of it"

Seriously. Just give provide an edit history, and a short timer to prevent bad faith edits. 99% of all edits are for typos or clarifying word choices.
Tbh they're probably withholding it to save server space 😒

I hope imposter syndrome has been well and truly put to bed for us all

I've heard that such cases are prosecuted internally and tend not to see the light of day, so if it's happening the only way we'd hear about it is if bystanders witness and record it happening. So 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Something about this whole business reminds me of the ontological argument: "I can conceive of it, therefore it exists." It's like they think being unable to distinguish between thought and reality is the same thing as proof. Feels=reals.