Taboo Topics (Heavily moderated)

[SaintCrazy]

I actually prefer Other or the "prefer not to share" option, for two reasons: one, I really don't think my race matters very much to any context, and two, a lot of forms or surveys don't include the option for mixed-race or "check all that apply". If they do allow specifics, that's all fine and good, but could we say that a person has so many races in their family history that checking all the boxes actually doesn't tell you anything. In fact, you'd think it's better to get more specific, but really it just blurs the lines between races even more. Questions like that only seem to serve to separate people of different races further, and that in itself has a somewhat racist, or at least xenophobic aura to it.

A person's ethnicity is a less touchy subject, I think, because it's more to do with culture and nationality. Of course, there are an infinite number of descriptors you could use for that, so its harder to simplify a person's ethnicity.

[corsica]

off topic, but i sincerely don't understand how sex with a trans* person works

like

i dunno it just confuses me???? please to enlighten me

[Vax]

Do you mean once a person has physically transitioned through surgery?

If not then I'm pretty sure it works the same as it would between any other gender/sexuality combination. Just doing what each party is most comfortable with. I would assume just because one does not want to have specific sexual organs does not mean they wouldn't want to use them for sex with their significant other from time to time if that's something they're comfortable with. Take that with a grain of salt of course because I am not trans* and I'm not really too in the know about trans relationships. Just going off of how I would intemperate it

[Lambeth]

I believe for those who go all they way, their organs do not actually work. Science has not gotten that good yet.

[SaintCrazy]

Of course there are also some transgender folk who prefer to keep their original organs.

[Null]

I have a problem.

[Reyo]

I have a solution.

[Tetrunes]

This was on imgur tonight, I thought I'd share it, and asked what you all thought of this person's view; I agree with them, a side that uses facts, and doesn't defend itself with the religion card.

[Cori]

Bodily autonomy is a rule that I've known about for a while now and it basically reinforced my position as a pro-choicer. If people have to have our consent to use our bodies after we die, then a fetus needs consent to use a woman's uterus before it is born.

[Reyo]

I've become rather apathetic about the whole "pro-life vs. pro-choice" debate to be honest. It happened right around the time I was at a friend's house, and the conversation eventually became a circle jerk to make fun of this one girl for a paper she wrote on pro-life.

Two things that still get me, though, is when people try to promote the pro-choice point of view by saying that the fetus is neither alive, nor human.

[Riku]

Bodily autonomy is a rule that I've known about for a while now and it basically reinforced my position as a pro-choicer. If people have to have our consent to use our bodies after we die, then a fetus needs consent to use a woman's uterus before it is born.

What's more, should one really forcibly subject a child to an existence where for at least the first eighteen years of it, they're likely resented or otherwise ill-cared for? Situations like that are potentially just as harmful for the child as they are the parent.


I mean, don't get me wrong. I still wish abortion wasn't a thing. but I've kind of come to the conclusion that it's going to happen regardless, and there are certain times where it has reason.

[TheStranger]

The abortion debate is basically unsolvable. It just comes down to which side has the most support. If you honestly, HONESTLY, belive that a fetus has a soul or whatever, then no arguments on Earth are going to sway you.

[Lambeth]

Pro-life people are more about being anti-woman than pro-life.

[Reyo]

I can't help but feel that that's just as negative a stereotype as pro-choice people being irresponsible sex maniacs.

[Lambeth]

Every pro-life politician doesn't seem to have a problem with war and capital punishment, at any rate.