Doctor Cringelord
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Michigan has been an interesting case when it comes to polling in recent years.It was a pleasant surprise.
Michigan has been an interesting case when it comes to polling in recent years.It was a pleasant surprise.
If these discussions were just academic debates about the meaning of terms, as with your music example, it would be one thing. Unfortunately people translate those debates into how they interact with flesh and blood humans, using the labels to pigeonhole and limit. Their descriptive value is already limited by the ambiguity you reference, which implies that an individual's self-labelling is at least as valid as someone else's attempt to label them, really moreso as only they know their own perspective and experience.Maybe this is a rant. I am really sick of people acting so confused about the word "woman". Oh my whatever shall we do? Some person made a whole documentary filled with mystery and confusion over this and people commenting are filled with amazement and think it should win an Oscar. I recently made this post in the next paragraph in response to his video. I can't be the only genius on youtube to figure out something this basic that is a concept continually in the face of every single person on planet earth who uses language.
The word "woman" serves the same function linguistically as the words "art", "god", "music", "love", "life", "wealth", "pain". The way language is structured, there is one umbrella term that is intended to include all subcategories of a concept. "Woman" is the umbrella term for all manifestations of the "feminine". These umbrella terms have an indefinable quality and humans spend a great many hours debating whether various subcategories of the term belong to the primary term. "What is music"? It is equally elusive, but we as humans have constructed our language in this manner and can handle the ambiguity of the umbrella term and can spend our countless hours debating its subcategories. Let's do that with the term "woman " as well. We are well rehearsed.
I'm not sure why this triggers me so much. I'm not transgender and haven't suffered that sort of societal pain. I did grow up in very conservative religious environment that spent a lot of time defining gender in ways I felt were unrelatable. Maybe it's just the beligerant stupidity people express that scares me. I do get strongly triggered by it with anxious physiological responses.
New year is kinda funny but awkward time of the year every time. Therefore people are always making some kind of promises to themselves, which sometimes happen and sometimes they don't. However at that time of the year pretty much everyone is looking for some kind of a new start. Therefore I guess that from time to time the political system has to do something that is on this level as well (and with same vision in mind). In other words this is basically what has happened to me today, because this is the day that will go in local history beyond any doubt. In other words this is day that Croatia joined EUs Eurozone and it's borderless Schengen area. Therefore it is first country ever to do both on the same day. What basically changes absolutely everything on the long run. First, that means that I am getting new currency and therefore all digital payments in the country have stopped for a day since the paying system is being upgraded to new currency that is Euro. What means that these days there are also large remakes of ATM machines across the country. As well as double prices on everything that reflect new and old currency, in order to make transition more smooth. However the real change is that the new currency is recognized globally. What really makes any kind of trade, investments or tourism much much more simple. Plus the interest rates on just about everything should drop since the new currency is much more recognized globally. While the other big change is Schengen area, a huge borderless area across Europe that involves hundreds of millions of people living in it. Therefore now I can travel around most of the continent as if it is one country (since this is indeed one big country at this point). Plus globally with this we finally managed to make some more visible distance from autocratic eastern regimes and return where we belonged before WW1 (the Western world). Therefore however you turn this no one can deny that this is a huge day for local history and it will be remembered as such for many generations. Because this is evidently the beginning of new era. However in a sense it is a funny experience, you fall asleep at home in one country and you wake up in another. What is probably the closest you can get to the genuine new start with a new year.