My personal opinion is that immigration reform is going to fail in the House, so whether same sex couples gained the right to file I-130s for foreign partners is irrelevant since everything is going to fail.
I'm somewhat sympathetic to Aravosis' arguments since nobody should have to wait on a line for justice.
That's the Christian point of view. Jews do not believe that atheists are dead inside or even that there is much wrong with them as long as they are basically ethical, moral people. Jews do not particularly care if Jews believe in God or not. In Judaism actions are more important than belief.
I'll look for the link latter but after WWII, several European Protestants argued that the church could never fully replace the synagogue in the battle against paganism because Jews on a whole will not or can not backtrack into paganism in the same way Christians could. Jews could become irreligious or atheist but not become Pagan.
Freud once argued that Anti-Semitism is a revolt of the Pagan against the Christian. To Freud, Europeana resented the Jews because they resented what Christianity imposed on them, the self-discipline necessary for Monotheism, as opposed to the more loosely-goosey ways of Paganism.
I agree, if a kid is intersex than its best to wait to see what the mental sex of the kid is before doing any surgery. I understand why doctors would want to do surgery right away, its a lot easier from their point of view but the chances of making the wrong choice are basically 50/50. Thats too high. As I undertand doctors usually always decide to make intersex babies girls because its easier.
Rand Paul is reminding me a lot of McCarthy but without the focus or skill to carry out is witch-hunt.
The problem with the GOP is basically that the John Birch Society has taken over the Republican Party and got themselves elected into Congress and are acting accordingly. Conservatives can't care about governance because for the most part, they don't think that government should do much of anything. Many of them have an even more restricted view of government than most Libertarians.
I'd like to add that the case linked above is not exactly what I'm talking about. In the above linked case, the child was born intersex. What I'm referring to is children with a definite biological sex being referred to in gender neutral terms. That I think is treating children as a sociological experiment.
No, I definitely would not do what the Canadian family is doing. I'd refer to my kid as whatever biological gender they are unless that kid ends up being transgendered, where I will make the switch to the kid's prefered gender. As a parent, I reserve right to select their new name if they are still a minor.
No, I definitely would not do what the Canadian family is doing. I'd refer to my kid as whatever biological gender they are unless that kid ends up being transgendered, where I will make the switch to the kid's prefered gender. As a parent, I reserve right to select their new name if they are still a minor.
I'm mainly thinking about why girls would be into wearing uniforms. Most of the people I knew who desperately wished their schools had uniforms were girls. Boys tended not to get into the entire, wouldn't it be cool if we had to wear uniforms thing.
Yes, I think that most Americans of any political leaning would get creeped out by such levels of uniformity and military like discipline. Even parents into strict discipline are going to think that bowing to teacher is way too much.
Yes and they have to rotate it among themselves during the day. Only one girl and one boy gets to be fully clothed at a given time. The rest go around in their underwear.
I think it should be yes as long as this is a choice of the boy rather than his parents. Several months ago, the NYT ran an article on a pre-school in Sweden that decided to use gender neutral terms to refer to their students rather than gendered terms. Like New Dealer, I think this decision was more than a tad ridiculous and basically activism for the sake of activism. Gender is both a biological and social construct and you should not ignore biology for the sake of political activism.
I'm against using children as sociological projects or as pets or dolls. Each person must be treated as an end in him or herself, as a unique individual.
I heard the same thing when I was in the latter days of my anime fandom. I think the animators keep the kids in uniforms because it makes their jobs easier.
My main opposition to uniforms in American public and private schools is that we seem to suck at designing ones that are at least somewhat fashionable for anything. The Japanese on the other hand are great designers of uniforms. Maybe we should outsource.
I think that a lot of uniform fetihism is a result of anime fandom or Harry Potter. When I was really into anime, I knew a lot of people who wished that they could wear the cool school uniforms that Japanese school children get to wear. I never really had the heart to point out to them that American school districts are very unlikely to select sailor dresses for girls and semi-naval uniforms for boys if they ever inact a uniform policy or anything remotely good looking. American institutions, outside maybe the Navy and the Marines, are really horrible at making attractive uniforms.
Its wrong. Making girls wear dresses on formal occassions is based on outmoded concepts of gender. The school can require them to dress nicely on formal occassions but they should be allowed to with pants if they want to.
I think that scientists should realize that not everybody is coming from their background and needs to understand things at a different level than they do. Its like the Four Sons from the Seder, the answer that works for the wise son is that the same as the one that would work for the other sons like the simple son. Too many scientists want everybody to be a wise son, so they do not have to think of ways to explain things in simpler language or terms.
The problem is that a lot of people in the scientific community seem to conflate the two. Any inability for a lay person to not understand scientific concepts is treated as willful or neglectful ignorance.
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On “Get a grip, Mr. Aravosis”
My personal opinion is that immigration reform is going to fail in the House, so whether same sex couples gained the right to file I-130s for foreign partners is irrelevant since everything is going to fail.
I'm somewhat sympathetic to Aravosis' arguments since nobody should have to wait on a line for justice.
On “Atheism, Paganism, and the God of Abraham”
That's the Christian point of view. Jews do not believe that atheists are dead inside or even that there is much wrong with them as long as they are basically ethical, moral people. Jews do not particularly care if Jews believe in God or not. In Judaism actions are more important than belief.
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I'll look for the link latter but after WWII, several European Protestants argued that the church could never fully replace the synagogue in the battle against paganism because Jews on a whole will not or can not backtrack into paganism in the same way Christians could. Jews could become irreligious or atheist but not become Pagan.
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Freud once argued that Anti-Semitism is a revolt of the Pagan against the Christian. To Freud, Europeana resented the Jews because they resented what Christianity imposed on them, the self-discipline necessary for Monotheism, as opposed to the more loosely-goosey ways of Paganism.
On “This Is Why the GOP Can’t Have Nice Things”
I don't want to know, I really don't want to know.
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If Obama was like Bush, we'd be in Syria already. I prefer the United States not to get involved in the Syrian Civil War.
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This.
On “Is This Wrong?”
Did you run around in anime circles? Jealously at the uniforms worn by Japaense teenagers was fairly common from my experience.
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Did you run around in anime circles? Jealously at the uniforms worn by Japaense teenagers was fairly common from my experience.
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I agree, if a kid is intersex than its best to wait to see what the mental sex of the kid is before doing any surgery. I understand why doctors would want to do surgery right away, its a lot easier from their point of view but the chances of making the wrong choice are basically 50/50. Thats too high. As I undertand doctors usually always decide to make intersex babies girls because its easier.
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I think the school invented some for the kids if I'm remembering the article correctly.
On “This Is Why the GOP Can’t Have Nice Things”
Rand Paul is reminding me a lot of McCarthy but without the focus or skill to carry out is witch-hunt.
The problem with the GOP is basically that the John Birch Society has taken over the Republican Party and got themselves elected into Congress and are acting accordingly. Conservatives can't care about governance because for the most part, they don't think that government should do much of anything. Many of them have an even more restricted view of government than most Libertarians.
On “Is This Wrong?”
I'd like to add that the case linked above is not exactly what I'm talking about. In the above linked case, the child was born intersex. What I'm referring to is children with a definite biological sex being referred to in gender neutral terms. That I think is treating children as a sociological experiment.
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No, I definitely would not do what the Canadian family is doing. I'd refer to my kid as whatever biological gender they are unless that kid ends up being transgendered, where I will make the switch to the kid's prefered gender. As a parent, I reserve right to select their new name if they are still a minor.
"
No, I definitely would not do what the Canadian family is doing. I'd refer to my kid as whatever biological gender they are unless that kid ends up being transgendered, where I will make the switch to the kid's prefered gender. As a parent, I reserve right to select their new name if they are still a minor.
"
I'm mainly thinking about why girls would be into wearing uniforms. Most of the people I knew who desperately wished their schools had uniforms were girls. Boys tended not to get into the entire, wouldn't it be cool if we had to wear uniforms thing.
"
Yes, I think that most Americans of any political leaning would get creeped out by such levels of uniformity and military like discipline. Even parents into strict discipline are going to think that bowing to teacher is way too much.
"
Yes and they have to rotate it among themselves during the day. Only one girl and one boy gets to be fully clothed at a given time. The rest go around in their underwear.
"
I think it should be yes as long as this is a choice of the boy rather than his parents. Several months ago, the NYT ran an article on a pre-school in Sweden that decided to use gender neutral terms to refer to their students rather than gendered terms. Like New Dealer, I think this decision was more than a tad ridiculous and basically activism for the sake of activism. Gender is both a biological and social construct and you should not ignore biology for the sake of political activism.
I'm against using children as sociological projects or as pets or dolls. Each person must be treated as an end in him or herself, as a unique individual.
"
I heard the same thing when I was in the latter days of my anime fandom. I think the animators keep the kids in uniforms because it makes their jobs easier.
"
My main opposition to uniforms in American public and private schools is that we seem to suck at designing ones that are at least somewhat fashionable for anything. The Japanese on the other hand are great designers of uniforms. Maybe we should outsource.
"
I think that a lot of uniform fetihism is a result of anime fandom or Harry Potter. When I was really into anime, I knew a lot of people who wished that they could wear the cool school uniforms that Japanese school children get to wear. I never really had the heart to point out to them that American school districts are very unlikely to select sailor dresses for girls and semi-naval uniforms for boys if they ever inact a uniform policy or anything remotely good looking. American institutions, outside maybe the Navy and the Marines, are really horrible at making attractive uniforms.
"
Its wrong. Making girls wear dresses on formal occassions is based on outmoded concepts of gender. The school can require them to dress nicely on formal occassions but they should be allowed to with pants if they want to.
On “The Public and Science”
I think that scientists should realize that not everybody is coming from their background and needs to understand things at a different level than they do. Its like the Four Sons from the Seder, the answer that works for the wise son is that the same as the one that would work for the other sons like the simple son. Too many scientists want everybody to be a wise son, so they do not have to think of ways to explain things in simpler language or terms.
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The problem is that a lot of people in the scientific community seem to conflate the two. Any inability for a lay person to not understand scientific concepts is treated as willful or neglectful ignorance.
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