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Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:00 pm
by Ape+lust
Shatterface wrote: Love to know if Owen Jones actually coughed up the taxi fare intesponse to that tweet.
Is this guy a comedian? He's his own Pride float.

https://imgur.com/A3eTMwu.jpg

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:02 pm
by Shatterface
Really? wrote:
Shatterface wrote:
As I am about to go outside in some outrageously colourful short shorts, and an even brighter crop-top, showing my hairy midriff, I prepare for the unwanted attention this may bring. I think about how it is not just trans and queer bodies that edits themselves outside but how, also, with the heat there are other people that may be having these fears and new anxieties.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/26/as-a-que ... to=cbshare
What do crop tops and short shorts have to do with being trans or nonbinary? This person has some strange prejudices.
He identifies as Daisy Duke-kin.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:04 pm
by Shatterface
In a certain light he could be mistaken for a woman. That light being a laser pen in your eyes.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:15 pm
by Ape+lust
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: Thanks to those expressing a concern for my wife. She is doing better, but we still don't know what is causing the unusual rhythm disturbances.
Hi Cap'n, I'm glad to see you back. It's good to know your missus is doing a bit better :clap:

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:17 pm
by free thoughtpolice
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote: I just got back from a beer/grocery run into town. There is a bird sanctuary/park about a 1/2 mile down the road on the way in where I usually take a walk. Today, when I headed back to the car I had a fairly close encounter with a fairly big sow black bear and her very young cub. Fortunately there was no bear on bear crime and she just chased her cub up a tree and then followed it up a bit. It was right by the trail though and I didn't want to walk right past it so I took the long way back to my car.
I had a mama and her cub here the other day, 100 feet from the house. They left on their own accord.
We have consistent numbers of bears here that live in the park/farm/suburban boundaries here and are human shy enough to forage around here without causing trouble and and keeping out of sight in general. Usually they are active early morning and evening and you don't see them midday1:00 pm.
At one point, I was about 50 feet from the bears that were obscured by a salal thicket. I see what looks like a really big black dog and continued on the trail that led past them, then turned back to the bears and opened up and I could see a big healthy bear with a tiny little cub beside the trail back to my car. She wasn't aggressive, stood up at one point to get a look at me then just corralled her cub up the tree and followed it up a bit.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:38 pm
by Brive1987


A Nazi liberal no less.

I assume the individualism he espouses needs to conform to collective based norms ....

:think:

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:39 pm
by Shatterface
We have trouble with bears where I live. I say bears, but I probably mean hedgehogs. They carry fleas and can be a pain if you stand on one in your bare feet. Moths can also be annoying.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:42 pm
by Brive1987
We have problems with brown snakes seeking sun.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:48 pm
by free thoughtpolice
Shatterface wrote: We have trouble with bears where I live. I say bears, but I probably mean hedgehogs. They carry fleas and can be a pain if you stand on one in your bare feet. Moths can also be annoying.
Shatterface wrote: We have trouble with bears where I live. I say bears, but I probably mean hedgehogs. They carry fleas and can be a pain if you stand on one in your bare feet. Moths can also be annoying.
I hear those hedgehogs can be prickly little bastards. :drool:
To my knowledge at least they haven't been used for anal rape.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:49 pm
by KiwiInOz
Shatterface wrote: We have trouble with bears where I live. I say bears, but I probably mean hedgehogs. They carry fleas and can be a pain if you stand on one in your bare feet. Moths can also be annoying.
A badger up the trousers can probably be disconcerting, too.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:50 pm
by KiwiInOz
Brive1987 wrote: We have problems with brown snakes seeking sun.
Just as long as they don't come by leaky boat.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:00 pm
by Brive1987
Kirbmarc wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: https://i.imgur.com/qLf5EvE.jpg

For future reference.
This is a lie. I never conflated Sam Harris with Lauren Southern.

Troll better next time.
"You Lie" - how Carrier-esque

Concern noted. I have amended and I think we now have consensus. :dance:

Who said this dialog would be futile? :clap:

https://i.imgur.com/1BltJKs.jpg

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:02 pm
by Ape+lust
Muscato is spinning another one of his cinematic schoolboy fantasies. This time, he's being FORCED to put on the street-fightin' black cocktail dress again. All 5'5" of doughy Muscato is ready for two-fisted justice.

They're all doing this right now, Peez included. Violence is coming, through no fault of their own.

Reminds me of end-times Christians and their burning need for global destruction, without which their pointless little lives will continue without relief.

https://imgur.com/E4wrsLZ.png

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:04 pm
by Brive1987
Hmmm. Best done "right".

https://i.imgur.com/abtRtC9.jpg

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:15 pm
by Really?
Ape+lust wrote: Muscato is spinning another one of his cinematic schoolboy fantasies. This time, he's being FORCED to put on the street-fightin' black cocktail dress again. All 5'5" of doughy Muscato is ready for two-fisted justice.

They're all doing this right now, Peez included. Violence is coming, through no fault of their own.

Reminds me of end-times Christians and their burning need for global destruction, without which their pointless little lives will continue without relief.

https://imgur.com/E4wrsLZ.png
Can you blame her for being scared? She is about to lose her right to have an abortion on demand.

And that last tweet sounds like a terroristic threat.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:20 pm
by Shatterface
I used to think dull, boring and tedious were synonyms but reading Brive's posts has made me appreciate the subtle differences.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:25 pm
by Matt Cavanaugh
Muskrat cried for an hour straight over a supreme court ruling? Is it even physically possible to cry for an hour straight? Doesn't the body have to throttle back and just mewl or whimper for stretches?

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:28 pm
by Really?
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Muskrat cried for an hour straight over a supreme court ruling? Is it even physically possible to cry for an hour straight? Doesn't the body have to throttle back and just mewl or whimper for stretches?
Nah. Danielle is in tip-top shape, which is why she will be so useful to La Resistence as an agent of righteous violence.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:34 pm
by ConcentratedH2O, OM
Muscato talks like an 18-year-old kid who has just read his first philosophy book, and thinks that no-one else has come to the deep, deep conclusions about history that he has. Next he'll be tweeting that he's just noticed that a textbook drawing of an atom looks like our Solar System, so maybe we're just an electron in, like, a bigger universe.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:55 pm
by Brive1987
Shatterface wrote: I used to think dull, boring and tedious were synonyms but reading Brive's posts has made me appreciate the subtle differences.
You appear to be thinking now at least. That's progress. Thank me later.

:)

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:56 pm
by ConcentratedH2O, OM
I'm sure that the immigrants he has been shouting support for are very happy to have Meyers's support.

Smashing the system, one margarita at a time.

https://i.imgur.com/yifttDC.png

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:56 pm
by Ape+lust
Really? wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Muskrat cried for an hour straight over a supreme court ruling? Is it even physically possible to cry for an hour straight? Doesn't the body have to throttle back and just mewl or whimper for stretches?
Nah. Danielle is in tip-top shape, which is why she will be so useful to La Resistence as an agent of righteous violence.
Well, he'll need it if he gets his way. He's got such a hard-on for Trump, he's too stupid to realize he's agitating to replace him with a dominionist with the experience and connections to get things done. ALL the left-leaning idiots salivating about Trump's removal are actually clamoring to shoot themselves in the face.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:11 pm
by Ape+lust
This is ridiculous. Eric Clanton's pretrial hearing has been rescheduled yet again, to August 8.

https://imgur.com/tLh5B9B.png

https://twitter.com/Spicoli1981/status/ ... 4656416768

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:11 pm
by Brive1987
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: I'm sure that the immigrants he has been shouting support for are very happy to have Meyers's support.

Smashing the system, one margarita at a time.

https://i.imgur.com/yifttDC.png
Should white chefs sell burritos? A Portland food cart’s revealing controversy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/foo ... 942e0cbf7c

https://thepicturesmakemyheadhurt.files ... spirit.jpg

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:21 pm
by Old_ones
Brive1987 wrote: https://i.imgur.com/qLf5EvE.jpg

For future reference.
Sam Harris and Sargon are supporters of Margaret Thatcher? There is no conservatism aside from "alt-light" "alt-right" and the Nazis? Kirbmarc has called Sam Harris a Nazi? I wasn't going to bother commenting, but this graphic is too bizarre not to.

On the other hand, I can agree that PZ is an SJW.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:37 pm
by AndrewV69
Really? wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote:
Lsuoma wrote: So Kennedy is going to retire from SCOTUS next month. Leftards are going to regret Billary not getting elected for at least another generation.
Blame Russia. Blame Bernie Sanders. Blame misogynist. Hillary is blameless. You know? The usual.

I have to admit I'm starting to get nervous. Scalia and Kennedy were both conservatives so the balance on the court is mostly unchanged. But Kennedy was at least okay with the gays. I know some of you are thinking, "gay marriage is a done deal, stop worrying." It really isn't though. The Texas state legislature has pretty much nullified gay marriage and the same can happen nationwide.
Social media is a dumpster fire today because of this shit. The SJWs really have lost their minds.

What does everyone think of the claim I saw on Vox and CNN, that abortion will be illegal in 20 states within 18 months?
Here in Canukistan, CBC was up in arms because apparently abortion is going to be made illegal in the USA.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:42 pm
by Brive1987
Nb I have graciously folded in the face of the accusation of being a liar-liar with a new Authorized version.

Also nb, there are an infinity of spectra describing an infinity of ideological/political lenses.

This one is looking at the intersection of civic values, collectivism and current popular label constructs. A response to Kirb's inability to understand that left liberals are orientated to SJWs (in effect if not origin) and that the broad use of the tag "nazi" shows a lazy, if not stupid mindset.

A spectrum covering economic worldview would be a different model.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:51 pm
by Really?
Brive1987 wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: I'm sure that the immigrants he has been shouting support for are very happy to have Meyers's support.

Smashing the system, one margarita at a time.

https://i.imgur.com/yifttDC.png
Should white chefs sell burritos? A Portland food cart’s revealing controversy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/foo ... 942e0cbf7c

https://thepicturesmakemyheadhurt.files ... spirit.jpg
Why does Professor PZ Myers think Mexican immigrant refugee children aren't valid?

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:10 pm
by Matt Cavanaugh
Sometimes I really hate being fucking Cassandra.

Americans blame law-breaking parents, not Trump, for border separation

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:15 pm
by Matt Cavanaugh
Shatterface wrote: In a certain light he could be mistaken for a woman. That light being a laser pen in your eyes.
Okay, that one was worth putting up with you PMSing for the past two weeks.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:18 pm
by Matt Cavanaugh
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: Muscato talks like an 18-year-old kid who has just read his first philosophy book, and thinks that no-one else has come to the deep, deep conclusions about history that he has. Next he'll be tweeting that he's just noticed that a textbook drawing of an atom looks like our Solar System, so maybe we're just an electron in, like, a bigger universe.
And it's always a crap shoot whether said 18-year-old will declare either The Fountainhead or Cat's Cradle as the most profound work of fiction evah.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:20 pm
by CommanderTuvok
Ape+lust wrote: This is ridiculous. Eric Clanton's pretrial hearing has been rescheduled yet again, to August 8.

https://imgur.com/tLh5B9B.png

https://twitter.com/Spicoli1981/status/ ... 4656416768
Fucking hell. Hurry up. I want Clanton locked up in a rat-infested cell. Next to PZ Meyers.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:31 pm
by Matt Cavanaugh
CommanderTuvok wrote: Fucking hell. Hurry up. I want Clanton locked up in a rat-infested cell. Next to PZ Meyers.
I had in mind a syphilitic child-rapist, but whatever.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:39 pm
by Brive1987
This is how I imagine the Orbit in Syria.


Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:02 pm
by AndrewV69
So what she is saying is that it is back to kitchen for American women, also barefoot and with a bun in the oven. So does she have a point or is this hopeful wishing on her part?


Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:10 pm
by Brive1987
The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:12 pm
by Brive1987

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:17 pm
by Brive1987
Here is a social project the Democrats, party of the oppressed, could get behind.

The added benefit is they can still bash men. Albeit POCs.


Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:22 pm
by Brive1987
PragerU


:lol: :lol: PZ should set those Uncle Toms straight.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:58 pm
by Old_ones
Brive1987 wrote: The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif
Is there some actual connection between this and the Democratic party, or did you just see some random left wing nuttiness from the states and assume they were related? My experience of the Democratic party is that they tend to stay relatively close to the center, and aren't generally in touch with all the crazy shit that liberal activists are into. When I was young and stupid(er) I used to view that as a bad thing.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 9:21 pm
by jugheadnaut
Really? wrote:
What does everyone think of the claim I saw on Vox and CNN, that abortion will be illegal in 20 states within 18 months?
I'd imagine the main anti-abortion thrust of the newly constituted conservative court will be to weaken the "undue burden" standard currently limiting abortion regulation, perhaps changing it to a standard where states must simply show the regulation is rationally related to a state interest. If successful, it may mean post viability abortion will be illegal in 20 or so states with narrowly tailored exceptions, certainly not all abortions. Despite the screaming that would result, this would mean those 20 states have abortion restrictions roughly equivalent to France. If there's a concerted effort from the conservative wing to completely override Roe and Casey, I'm almost certain Roberts would insist on a compromise and threaten to work with the 4 liberal justices instead if the other conservative justices don't comply.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 9:30 pm
by jugheadnaut
Old_ones wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif
Is there some actual connection between this and the Democratic party, or did you just see some random left wing nuttiness from the states and assume they were related? My experience of the Democratic party is that they tend to stay relatively close to the center, and aren't generally in touch with all the crazy shit that liberal activists are into. When I was young and stupid(er) I used to view that as a bad thing.
Given that it's an anti-abortion organization, ties to the Republican party seem more likely.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 9:44 pm
by Brive1987
Old_ones wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif
Is there some actual connection between this and the Democratic party, or did you just see some random left wing nuttiness from the states and assume they were related? My experience of the Democratic party is that they tend to stay relatively close to the center, and aren't generally in touch with all the crazy shit that liberal activists are into. When I was young and stupid(er) I used to view that as a bad thing.
You see no tension between the Democrats party for the people' mantra, their use of abortion as an elitist white-centric dog whistle vis-a-vis the Supreme Court opportunity and the practical support of abortion by the left as a panacea to (apparent) black social failure?

Ok.

The genocide pic is obviously a continued riff on a pit theme.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 9:49 pm
by CaptainFluffyBunny
Brive1987 wrote: The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif
You really don't realize that site has nothing to do with the Democrats? Who are almost entirely running on abortion rights?

Serioously, are you okay?

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:17 pm
by Brive1987
It was a criticism of Democrats expediency and moral shadiness.

So my comment had a couple of layers at play. I see I will need to spell it out with appropriate gestures.


Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:31 pm
by Brive1987
The possible "threat of" cessation ....


Clearer? :)

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:44 pm
by feathers
A certain Sarah MacLean (who?) claiming she "threw out a manuscript and started all over" (why sure baby) is now "some novelists" (plural)? So who are the others? Oh wait, Laura Davis (who?).

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:50 pm
by Kirbmarc
Brive1987 wrote:
Old_ones wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif
Is there some actual connection between this and the Democratic party, or did you just see some random left wing nuttiness from the states and assume they were related? My experience of the Democratic party is that they tend to stay relatively close to the center, and aren't generally in touch with all the crazy shit that liberal activists are into. When I was young and stupid(er) I used to view that as a bad thing.
You see no tension between the Democrats party for the people' mantra, their use of abortion as an elitist white-centric dog whistle vis-a-vis the Supreme Court opportunity and the practical support of abortion by the left as a panacea to (apparent) black social failure?

Ok.

The genocide pic is obviously a continued riff on a pit theme.
For the conservative/reactionary right abortion is a genocide.

For the SJWs police shootings are a genocide.

For the alt-right immigration of non-white people is a genocide.

Everything is genocide these days.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:54 pm
by Kirbmarc
Abortion to avoid having single teen mothers who can't support themselves is actually not a bad thing, even if more easily available contraception is better

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:08 pm
by Matt Cavanaugh
Whoever designed those graphics should've not made it out of the womb.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:28 pm
by Matt Cavanaugh
FYI, ESPN's annual porn edition is out:

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/ ... issue-2018#!

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:41 pm
by Shatterface
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif
You really don't realize that site has nothing to do with the Democrats? Who are almost entirely running on abortion rights?

Serioously, are you okay?
The black genocide argument has been around even longer than the equally retarded white genocide, and is based on the same Christian/Islamist belief systems.

It's only 'Democrat' if people assume all black people vote the same way, simply because they are black.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:57 pm
by MarcusAu
It's not just a black genocide...it's a femicide...

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:20 am
by Shatterface
Starbucks to pay for all transgender staff’s surgeries

Starbucks has announced plans to offer comprehensive care for transgender employees, covering several procedures that are usually excluded by insurers.

In the new plan announced on Monday, Starbucks said that in addition to covering bottom surgery, they will now cover all other medical steps in a person’s transition.
This will cover several other procedures that were previously considered cosmetic – which can often be hard to obtain as insurers typically refuse to cover them.

The international coffee chain will now cover procedures including top surgeries in the form of breast reduction or augmentation, hair removal or transplants and facial feminisation surgery.

As well as covering all gender-confirming surgeries, the coffee chain will also help trans employees find appropriate doctors and healthcare providers.

Starbucks has covered bottom surgery since 2012, making it one of the first national employers to do so in the US.

Although many employers now provide coverage for bottom surgery, many trans people have highlighted the need for comprehensive coverage.

Trans advocates have highlighted that medical transition is often represented as one surgery, when it actually involves multiple procedures that take many years.

Ron Crawford, vice president of benefits at Starbucks, explained that the new plan hoped to be fully inclusive.

“The approach was driven not just by the company’s desire to provide truly inclusive coverage, and by powerful conversations with transgender partners about how those benefits would allow them to truly be who they are.
“You have to think of it from an equity perspective.”

He added: “Nobody else is doing this. We would love to see more employers doing this.”

Starbucks worked with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) in order to determine which procedures were required to help transgender employees.

Jamison Green, who worked with Starbucks on behalf of WPATH, said that the company was the first to ever partner with the charity.

Green said: “Starbucks was not afraid to ask all the right questions and demand that people get the best possible care.

''We produced a list of the most crucial benefits and those that are deemed problematic to insurance companies, such as facial feminization and electrolysis.”

Two Starbucks chains are currently involved in a legal battle after a transgender man filed a discrimination complaint against them.

The complaint from Paul Bray was originally thrown out but was then reinstated after an appeals court maintained the suit.

Bray is filing complaints against Starbucks coffee shops in Eden Prairie and Edina, Minnesota, saying their treatment of him changed after he told them he was transgender in March 2013, after changing his name.

Bray shared the information with an employee, Adam Voth, so as to explain any confusion with the names on his credit card, and Voth promised to keep it confidential.

However afterwards, another Eden Prairie Starbucks employee, Sophia Peka, who Bray had formed a friendship with over a year of visiting the coffee shop, began to discriminate against him.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/26/s ... surgeries/

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:47 am
by feathers
Brive1987 wrote:
Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:38 pm
I think you may have misread that, Paul, it probably said "all trite".

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 3:39 am
by TheMudbrooker
Kirbmarc wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:
Old_ones wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif
Is there some actual connection between this and the Democratic party, or did you just see some random left wing nuttiness from the states and assume they were related? My experience of the Democratic party is that they tend to stay relatively close to the center, and aren't generally in touch with all the crazy shit that liberal activists are into. When I was young and stupid(er) I used to view that as a bad thing.
You see no tension between the Democrats party for the people' mantra, their use of abortion as an elitist white-centric dog whistle vis-a-vis the Supreme Court opportunity and the practical support of abortion by the left as a panacea to (apparent) black social failure?

Ok.

The genocide pic is obviously a continued riff on a pit theme.
For the conservative/reactionary right abortion is a genocide.

For the SJWs police shootings are a genocide.

For the alt-right immigration of non-white people is a genocide.

Everything is genocide these days.
People who think everything is genocide should all be rounded up and shot.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:11 am
by feathers
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:34 pm
Muscato talks like an 18-year-old kid who has just read his first philosophy book, and thinks that no-one else has come to the deep, deep conclusions about history that he has. Next he'll be tweeting that he's just noticed that a textbook drawing of an atom looks like our Solar System, so maybe we're just an electron in, like, a bigger universe.
If the only book you've ever read is about Nazis, everyone looks like a Nazi.

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:25 am
by KiwiInOz
feathers wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:34 pm
Muscato talks like an 18-year-old kid who has just read his first philosophy book, and thinks that no-one else has come to the deep, deep conclusions about history that he has. Next he'll be tweeting that he's just noticed that a textbook drawing of an atom looks like our Solar System, so maybe we're just an electron in, like, a bigger universe.
If the only book you've ever read is about Nazis, everyone looks like a Nazi.
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Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:38 am
by screwtape
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I watched 'Farmlands' last night, and was bewildered to hear a member of the government declare that expropriation of the white farmers' lands would be perfectly legal as they would pass laws making it legal. Thus the legal is conflated with the moral by the elision of the connecting reasoning. Mrs Screwtape is planning a trip to SA next year for a conference and I'd like to make her aware that this might not be the safest place to go, but she's alert enough to recognise Lauren Southern's name and will probably dismiss the documentary as far right propaganda, and I shall have to live with the opprobrium of being guilty of wrongthink. It seems there is little chance of finding any reporting of the subject in more mainstream media. I'm not sure her usual trick for African travels will work there (she wears longer than fashionable skirts and a rather prominent crucifix, so people assume she's a nun).

Re: There are 2018 genders... and a bitch ain't one

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:39 am
by Old_ones
Brive1987 wrote:
Old_ones wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: The Democrats are desperately trying to find something. Anything. To scaffold their mid terms on.

The possible cessation of the future genocide of black babies seems an unlikely hook. But hey. You work with whatever material comes to hand.

And at least you can dress it up as white urban female empowerment, fighting the patriarchy.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/images/top_banner_2.gif
Is there some actual connection between this and the Democratic party, or did you just see some random left wing nuttiness from the states and assume they were related? My experience of the Democratic party is that they tend to stay relatively close to the center, and aren't generally in touch with all the crazy shit that liberal activists are into. When I was young and stupid(er) I used to view that as a bad thing.
You see no tension between the Democrats party for the people' mantra, their use of abortion as an elitist white-centric dog whistle vis-a-vis the Supreme Court opportunity and the practical support of abortion by the left as a panacea to (apparent) black social failure?

Ok.

The genocide pic is obviously a continued riff on a pit theme.
I see an obvious tension between promoting this kind of idiocy and getting elected. Just because there were liberals who believed that George W. Bush was behind the 9/11 attack doesn't mean that theory ever became an official position of the Democratic party. You could argue that there "wasn't tension" between that conspiracy theory and what some Democrats were thinking and saying in 2004, but the fact that neither John Kerry nor any other major Democratic candidate campaigned on that would make it dishonest to characterize it as a Democratic position. This isn't hard to understand - its the same objection people have to seeing Kathy Newman put words in Jordan Peterson's mouth, or that some pitters have had to being assigned their positions by the baboons when they tried to comment on Pharyngula. On a related note, I don't see any see much tension between Stormfront.org and any given tirade that Trump launches into about immigration, but I've also never treated the latest ravings by some retard on stormfront as the latest position of the Republican party. See how that works?