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back when I was a kid we always understood ignorance of a concept wasn't equivalent to its absence
Did you know there is also a recency illusion? Coined by a linguist at Stanford University, it is the belief or impression, on the part of someone who has only recently become aware of a long-established phenomenon, that the phenomenon itself must be of recent origin โก๏ธ w.wiki/6XxG
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Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice
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began to recite the hit broadway musical Come From Away to lighten the mood and boost comradery on the stuck plane and the air marshall shot me
flight attendants @ LGA insisting we "wait for a gate to open" and "don't use the emergency exits". so much for Zohran "Kommie" Mamdani's vision for a walkable new york ๐
this is missouri in a nutshell. for every transphobic nutcase i've met, i've met ten conservatives who just could not give a damn. not exactly an uplifting environment but one i can live and work in at least.
as much as I know the conservative busybody weirdos are out there, and I know some of them, I also know there are a lot of even culturally conservative types for whom "mind your own damn business" is a core tenet