Mizzou?

You clearly didn’t go to UW. There were no letter grades.

That’s extrapolation from personal belief. I have no such chip; all I asked for was being allowed a seat at the table, which was vehemently declined.

Cheers, and best of luck!

I’m unimpressed. I scrolled the homepage and found little of value.

FreeCodeCamp.org has a lot of guided resources. Khan Academy as well. If you can only really learn in person (which, I’ll admit, is a problem for me as well), look up local makerspaces. They don’t always have tech courses, but they always have someone who knows tech.

How am I doing so? Please, let me know so that I can avoid doing so in the future. “Fucking pathetic” only indicates that you did not like what I said, not any alternative worldview other than “you’re cis, and therefore the enemy.”

NO U

Is that really your thesis?

I’m sure you could be more condescending. Give it a go!

I wrote one comment and was content to leave it there. The only reason the conversation has dragged on is that I had no right to participate on a public forum.

I’ve been engaged in activism for quite some time, and the reactions I got increasingly irritated by are exactly how you kill sympathy for your cause. Engage. Educate. Telling people they shouldn’t even be there by the trans community is so tone-deaf that I’m having trouble following how the vitriol advances the movement.

I’m trying to help. I’m trying to explain how organizing and building a community works, and I keep being told that being cis means I have nothing to contribute. It’s sort of devolved into vegans attacking vegetarians for cruelty. Neither eats meat, yet they focus on their differences instead of realizing they have the same ethics, just draw lines differently.

I didn’t silence you! I participated in the conversation and was told I wasn’t qualified to speak. This is middle school bullshit.

OK, let me get more blunt: Attacking anyone who isn’t exactly like you is authoritarianism. How’s that been working out for your cause? Posting on a site with cis members inherently invites them into the conversation, and attacking them for being “other” is exactly the right way to lose support.

Then what are you saying? Because from my perspective, you’re trying to proclaim activism without having taken Activism 098.

You’re still saying your supporters have no right to a voice unless they’re exactly like you. That is a very slippery slope, since, ostensibly, the point of a day of awareness is to promote conversation. That’s exactly the sort of argument people make to oppose trans rights in the first place.

I’m saying that telling anyone cis to shut the fuck up is hurting your cause instead of boosting visibility. You can’t have both, which is tautological, so you’re actively attacking people you support you for having the audacity to join the conversation. This is not how movements gain traction.

Doesn’t this just assert that grades themselves are somewhat meaningless?

By this logic, anyone who isn’t Black shouldn’t talk for all of Black History Month. It’s an absurd expectation.

Interesting perspective. And yeah, having functioning transit and infrastructure changes the calculus.

But I’m going to push back on the trauma point. I had such moments growing up, and the net result was making sure I had my gloves in the future to avoid a repeat.

You’re proving my point. The trans community isn’t doing itself any favours by saying “the is a day where everyone who isn’t trans needs to shut the fuck up.”

I’m not one to pray, but Hegseth would be nice. I mean, give the guy a chance to just spend all day drinking!