Maybe it's my age but I am struggling to keep up with current day definitions of sex and gender, so I would appreciate some help.
In looking at a definition of the "I" in LGBTQIA+, it says in part: "When an intersex person is old enough to choose a gender identity, they can choose to identify as male, female, or a combination."
Is non-binary covered by this definition, or is it a sub-set of one of the other letters?
Australia only did 277,000 tests yesterday and that's turning people away.
Thats the thing that the modelling doesn't take into account.
Its all nice and pretty on a computer simulation, but reality simply cannot push through enough tests to confirm/deny people so the higher the numbers the more inaccurate they actually are.
The other day when our positive cases were down just happened to coincide with testing centres being closed down because they couldn't push through enough people. The majority of those people were simply getting tested for travel reasons.
I'm old school and binary numbers converting them to decimals etc is what I understand, non binary humans I dont get, Darcy is a pleasant young lady and thats I how I view her. I think you lose something as a unique individual when you become a non gender abstract object and I wonder what has led to this decision to describe herself in such a neutral manner.
Continuing down the numbers theme for a minute, and i hope you can follow me, but to me its less about binary, and more about real vs imaginary numbers.
Real numbers are the numbers we all know and love and use everyday. Imaginary numbers don't exist, but we made them up to help us work things out and describe things in a simpler way.
Perhaps being 'non-binary' falls instead on the imaginary number scale. That is, it serves a specific purpose but is largely irrelevant to everyday use.
Why do you worry about it, you've done and are doing nothing wrong!
This non-binary stuff, it's like a punter too gutless to place a bet on the nose!
Practicing i guess.
I had the same issues with the Ellen/Elliot page thing. Its only a matter of time until someone i know does something similar, so i'm being a good boy scout and being prepared.
I don't have a problem with Darcy telling her story, I'm dead against people who continually message and lecture me publicly about not wanting to be labelled / categorised coming out and demanding I refer to them by a label.
A label is something generally earned and given to a person or object by a 3rd party, not something you demand for yourself unless you are full of yourself.
You can wear a name tag all you like, but that doesn't require others to refer to you by it.
I think that is a very wide brush you are painting wish.
Darcy made one post letting everyone know something somewhat private about themselves and letting people know the best way to go about addressing them to avoid embarrassment.
I think thats fair.
** As a side note, i have caught myself on no less than 10 occasions having to edit out a 'her/she' from my posts, despite proof reading (which i don't normally do). I guarantee i will miss 1 soon enough. If i was chatting face to face, i'd have no hope of addressing them correctly.
I'd say it's more arbitrary than correct, it's the label you have when you're not having a label!
Scoundrels will refer to "they" as "it", and be labelled a hater while being grammatically correct!
Will there be a future in which a female athlete claims prejudicial treatment within the AFLW for not being part of a minority, it seems an absurd suggestion, is it? Imagine that, being treated unfairly by gender bigots for identifying as female!
That would be an interesting question to pose Darcy or others, "Do they believe there is a still a place for females in AFLW?"
In this case arbitrary IS correct.
The first thing i thought about was Darcy has been very pro-female/anti-male with the comments that went viral early on - "Smash the patriarchy" Does Darcy owe one side an apology now because they are somewhat 'fence sitting' now coming out as trans?
Darcy has always been very opinionated and boundary pushing....sometimes a little too much for my liking, it just seems to come back and bite them now.
The part of this I struggle to understand is that they / them fight for recognition and the right not to be categorised / labelled, then immediately ask to be identified with a specific label!
To me this contradictory behaviour seems to be the exactly opposed to respecting an individuals privacy and rights, and that then reduces the whole event to a form of attention seeking behaviour, so that is why I think it comes across as somewhat disingenuous.
It's a behaviour that seems to be repeated in public frequently. An overt desire to be self-declared as somehow different, uncategorised, apart from mainstream society, special even, then a demand for identification that seems driven by an overarching desire for some form of inclusion. Not just on gender issues, but politics, religion, tribalism, fashion, etc., etc.., it's just become another trend / meme with language warped and reduced to a narcissistic absurdity!
Is it a having your cake and eating it scenario?
I think its a matter of not wanting a label.....that is incorrect.
1. Florida (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, & Miami Dolphins) & New York State (NY Jets, NY Giants, & Buffalo Bills). California used to have 3 but lost the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas. Texas has 2 as well. EDIT: I failed my own trivia question! California does indeed have 3 teams: LA Chargers, SF 49ers & LA Rams. D'oh! Also, some wouldn't give the Jets & Giants to NY State, but they're based there in the same way that Washington FC is based in Washington DC.
2. Good get. Most would have guessed the obvious: the Washington FC. But they play home games at FedEx Field in neighbouring Maryland.
3. Again, good get that you didn't include NY Jets & Giants as they share a stadium in neighbouring New Jersey, not very far from New York City. But Buffalo Bills play their home games in Buffalo which is in NY State.
I always forget about Buffalo.
I wouldn't include New York in Q1 as you said (and i knew) Jets and Giants play out of New Jersey. So i'd say California and Florida would be the correct answers. (FWIW, i couldn't tell you where jacksonville is which is why i didn't think of Florida....insignificant in so many ways) re Texas, they have 3 NBA teams (out of 30) but only 2 NFL teams out of 32
Looks like Jordan Mailata is entrenched now at the Philadelphia Eagles at Left Tackle. And the Philly Eagles, after a poor start, are now in the hunt for a wild card spot for the playoffs. At least 1 poster on this site won't want them to succeed. To make the playoffs, Philly needs to take the spot currently occupied by Minnesota Vikings. The stats site 538 crunched the numbers and gives Philly a 38% chance of doing just that.
After MNF the stats had the vikings (after winning) only a 39% chance of taking the spot.
We (vikings) play the 10-4 rams this week and will have to do it without at least our star running back who is on the Covid list. Thankfully, his backup Mattison, will be coming back into the lineup from the covid list. We've been hit by a quite a few players going onto the covid list of late. We also play the NFC leading Packers again (although we beat them first time round) this time @ lambeau though.
Eagles have an easier draw, but i think its the Saints who might pip all the above as they have an even easier draw.
