@TannerSwett There are definitely tendencies, but you're not going to be able to look at a brain and say "yeah, that's a guy" or "yeah, that's a girl".
Lemme see. I wonder what to think about gender dysphoria.
There's "cis gender dysphoria" too—many if not most cis men are going to be offended if you refer to them as women.
Vice versa doesn't seem to be nearly as common.
Myself, I don't seem to have a strong sense of gender identity. I've actually thought about going by Elizabeth. But in any case, I personally am not going to be offended by any choice of pronouns or whatever for referring to me.
@TannerSwett that's not what dysphoria means. IIRC It's when you look in the mirror and see something other than what you expected.
Say someone shaved your head in your sleep. You wake up, look in the mirror, and it's a shock. Who's that? It's not me, I have hair! Normally you'd get used to it in a couple days and be fine.
Now let's say you decided to call me a woman. I get a couple choices. I can get offended, I can get annoyed, or I can get over it and ignore it. But it's not a dysphoria, unless you somehow hypnotized me to think I was a woman or something.
How Do You Catch an Alien That Can Compartmentalize?
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My story has an alien species. These aliens:
Look identical to human beings
Cannot be discovered by scans of any kind
Act like humans
However, they have a very special ability: They have the ability to compartmentalize cert...
I have this question here, "Internment Camp for Magical Creatures" which was put on hold - and looking back I can see why. Since it was put on hold I have edited it, added details and made it much more clear - and someone even upvoted it. How do I get "the hold" removed"?
And more generally, wh...
"Q: If I’m uncomfortable with a particular pronoun, can I just avoid using it?
We are asking everyone to use all stated pronouns as you would naturally write. Explicitly avoiding using someone’s pronouns because you are uncomfortable is a way of refusing to recognize their identity and is a violation of the Code of Conduct."
So you're saying my pronoun CAN be "Stack Exchange Admin?"
@NexTerren Nah, it's only about this little list that was linked here - and the comment is absolutely right, obviously I will always make a grammar mistake exactly once, never twice or something like that. Foreign languages are sooooooo easy to master.
If you could get "Stack Exchange Admin" accepted by that site though...
How the heck is someone supposed to know if I'm intentionally avoiding using pronouns, or just not using them cause I normally wouldn't in that situation?
Scrolling back up through my last few dozen comments, I haven't used a third-person pronoun once. Which means if I try not to, it'll make very little difference in my writing.
1) The last week or two has been extraordinarily unpleasant for all of us. I know that most of us in this room are annoyed at the way Monica was treated, and I know that most of us are pissed off at SE for a lot of their actions. I'm in both of those groups. I would like to ask that we try to keep things toned down here and be mindful of how messages appear to folks coming in from off-site.
@Gryphon Nobody's complained. It's made at least two people feel uncomfortable – just be more careful in future, okay? We're all in this together. ☺ (Edit: In the context of the other messages being removed, I think it's fine now.)
@AndyD273 Oh, I think I remember moving that. My bad. I may have picked up a couple innocent messages by mistake - the commands for selecting messages individually and in groups involve holding shift or control or going one-by-one, and I likely butterfingered a message or two. I'm out of practice.
@Mephistopheles While it is not at all disallowed to discuss sensitive topics (and please don't tell me that you are not aware that it is a sensitive topic), it is expected to be professional and, in general "nice".
@HDE226868 Erm, I made a joke about removing files from computers getting deleted getting me, specifically, fired. That wasn't nice? To whom wasn't it nice to? Myself?
Yeah, file jokes are fine. Although I deleted a rather large log file in lab today, so sore subject. . . I really wish that particular command would append log files, rather than . . . write over them. facepalm
@HDE226868 I have had a real case of someone deleting their .git folder, because they had thought that would fix them not being able to push/pull from GitHub (GitHub was down at the time)
Okay, I have to run (quite literally). Feel free to ping me if anything comes up; I'll be online in a few hours. See y'all around. Don't blow up too many planets have too much fun in the meantime.
@Mephistopheles But seriously, 100% not intended as an insult to you. Just found the wording humorous, like the "Two sentence stories" you see on Reddit.
So best news of today that came out of this whole SE thing
I was able to find the name of this one emoji I used to use all the time in high school (semi-ironically, because that was the kind of guy I was back then).
How Do You Catch an Alien That Can Compartmentalize?
alienstag2tag3
My story has an alien species. These aliens:
Look identical to human beings
Cannot be discovered by scans of any kind
Act like humans
However, they have a very special ability: They have the ability to compartmentalize cert...
I have this question here, "Internment Camp for Magical Creatures" which was put on hold - and looking back I can see why. Since it was put on hold I have edited it, added details and made it much more clear - and someone even upvoted it. How do I get "the hold" removed"?
And more generally, wh...
The Factory Floor
The Factory Floor