This is what exclusion looks like - It is a door closing on a child who only wanted to take part like everyone else.

Our children should have a place to belong. They should be able to join clubs, activities and community groups without barriers, fear or uncertainty.

It's completely unhinged to make the headline "Trans boys can join Girl Guides" and not "Trans girls can no longer join Girl Guides".

In that context, I don't think this is well intentioned at all. I think it's just holding that trans boys are girls.

I am too irradiated by tumblr discourse to fully appreciate this joke. 😔

I still think the male loneliness epidemic is a real thing. The term has been co opted by bad actors, but there are still feminist psychologists and sociologists who are very concerned about it. But I don't think it means other people aren't lonely, it's an effort to address specific causes.

I think part of the reason people mock the idea of a male loneliness epidemic is that there's a larger, almost universal loneliness epidemic going on.

I really feel for people who turn to AI for romance and friendship. I've been in a place when I was younger where that would've been really tempting to me. I think we need to find ways to address the underlying loneliness, not ridicule the people doing this.

Maybe not the exact opposite, but unrelated at best.

In other words, what women are turning to AI boyfriends for is pretty much exactly the opposite of what the Manosphere tells men and boys they need to be like in order to attract women.

A lot of the appeal seems to be just like, validation and perceived emotional availability.

Like, people don't talk about women who get sucked into these AI relationships (if you can call them that?) a lot, but I have seen things on Reddit. There are whole communities about it.

Sure but you’re way cooler.

I'm saying this less than five minutes after finishing my daily vocab, during which time I reviewed both of them repeatedly.

I'm not saying he's not cute! He is cute, and I love him to death. But something about him isn't quite right.

You have the choice to sacrifice trans people. Perhaps it will save you.

But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect.

You made your choice.