It’s a lot easier to get a place at the bar these days.

One thing is, it’s harder to find a scene because most people stay home, but the people who do do out are out to meet people and have fun.

Not my parents. They’re consuming everything they can and are explicit that they don’t worry about after them.

Born in 1947 and 1952.

Nah, the San Jose local accent is distinctive and it’s not on any national news.

The newscaster accent from the '80s was a real thing but it was upper-midwest. Tom Brokaw is the canonical example.

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The fact that there are things called “sports” and “genders” is cultural my peer.

I trained shotokan for a bit having come from a gridiron/rugby background, and there were some exercises (like ring-out shoving exercises) where I was a laughable mismatch with anybody else in the room. One of the trainers was a woman that I had 35cm and 50kg on, if she tried to square up, it would have been hopeless.

But strength isn’t all of it. There was another three-step positional sparring exercise, and that one trainer tied me into knots every time. I wouldn’t have been able to touch her in a real fight, and she would have popped my kidney like a balloon every time.

I’m mostly pissed off about stuff like amateur rugby and field hockey not letting trans women compete. In sports like that, at the pro level, the top team would be all men no question.

But for a bunch of random people in their 20s playing amateur rugby? Piff, the safety/dominance issue is really overblown.

The high end of height, upper body strength and mass, sprinting speed, etc definitely favors higher-test systems. .

But I remember reading an ethnography of a Chinese village in the early days of the PRC, when they were still basically living the Imperial-peasant lifestyle.

Women there at the time of writing were not generally esteemed as beautiful slender luxury possessions, but instead for virtues such as their ability to carry heavy loads on a yoke, and the male/female strength split was not nearly that big.

We don’t need to live in a society where we assume that “generic man” is assumed to have an essential advantage in physical combat over “generic woman”. That’s a choice.

Men being slightly stronger on average than women has a LOT to do with culture.

When I was a kid, girls weren’t even allowed to do the same calisthenics in school. There was severe social opprobrium for women doing strength training, learning martial arts, etc.

This is one of the things about the patriarchy, the things it enforces are seen as natural. Women are put in clothes that limit their mobility, beauty standards demand frailness, etc.

All of my best work started on paper

He knows trans girls will be better at games than him.

I recommend becoming a total weirdo. You’ll fit in way better in the cheap places.

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I looked around a little bit, and mostly the articles seemed to talk about stooping rather than collapsing backwards into the spine.

I think it’s cause he’s wearing lifts and has to use his upper body as a counterweight for his belly.

But he definitely is not there mentally any more, 2016 he was still able to speak in sentences.

It reduces the person who got raped to a body part.

The body part that the rapist wanted access to.

If you can’t understand why that’s hurtful maybe take a step back.

I got raped at about that age.

Using the term “deflowered” to describe what happened to me makes me feel like you were part of it.

If that’s the message you want to send, I guess that’s your call, but you’re not gonna make a lot of friends doing it.

Dead on

Probably coming back from a con.

His posture is so strange, I don’t know how he stays upright.

I’m a woman and I live in Canada, maybe that explains it.

Well the train service will go back to normal and several of our parks and streets won’t be Fan Zones any more.