Standing against a guy that's a raving lunatic doesn't make it OK to be senile. Hilary was a shit candidate and look what that got us.

Possibly, or maybe your comment wasn't well written enough.

Because we can debate all-day about what is a man or a women or non-binary and gender roles etc. But I would say debating what is a male or female is much easier and simply comes down to genetics.

Edit: imagine getting down voted for saying XX chromosomes are female and XY is male haha, I guess we're just ignoring the science of genetics now

That's absolutely not what I'm saying and I don't appreciate the insinuation.

Is English your second language? I didn't say it can't be associated to a person or group, I said it doesn't need to.

I also didn't say that you can't have more than one problem, I just addressed the one you seemed to be concerned with and defined it as one that I'm not interested in debating.

Which sports do the women often beat the men in?

Vernacular doesn't need to belong to a person or even a group of people.

If your problem is with the people who say it and not the word itself, that's a different issue and one that I'm not really interested in debating.

There are very few women chess players at the top level of the game. The reasons for this are debatable, it could simply be that women are less interested in chess or that women are put off by a male dominated "sport", but I've also heard that men are much more likely to have a specific type of autism that makes them especially suited to doing well at chess.

I'm absolutely open minded to the idea that women can become top level chess players and that women's titles could be made redundant, but I think it's reasonable to see the evidence of this before we say that it's an equal playing field for both sexes. I'd suggest that we should see a decent proportion of women in the top one hundred players of the world, or even the top two hundred and fifty.

Given the current ranking of chess players, it's really hard to say that women have the same chess ability as the men and I absolutely don't want that to come across as sexism, it's just factual.

https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml

I would argue that if you had a tumor at age ten then waiting until 18 may not be possible, but you could wait until you're 18 to make permanent changes to your body as part of a transition. Although I accept that gender dysphoria can be extremely challenging to mental health, I don't think it's equatable to dying from cancer.

There are many things children can do to transition up to the point they are an adult and fully responsible for themselves that are wholly reversible. I personally think that's where the line should be drawn.

I do understand however that it's an extremely nuanced subject and I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert. I can only speak from personal experience that I wouldn't want to be held to account for many of the things I said, the beliefs I had and the opinions that I held when I was a child (I don't even want to be held to account for some of those things as an adult, but that's life, after you're considered an adult, it's on you).

If sex doesn't matter in curling or chess, then why are there different competitions for men and women in curling and why do women get their own titles in chess?

I do understand the sentiment of what you're saying, but it's not the reality we live in.

Imagine criticising someone for using a word despite it having been in the vernacular for years.

Thank you for pointing out that this is only an issue for places where wild cats have been non-native.

It's a shame that this needs to be a "hot take", I was hoping we'd be leaving that shit behind on Reddit.

If I can't vote until I'm 25 then I don't want to be paying tax until I'm 25.

No taxation without representation.

If we're talking about Lemmy rather than wider society then;

Inb4; I'm broadly in support of trans people and trans rights/equality but I think there are three small snagging issues

That people who identify as a women but who went through puberty as a male shouldn't be competing in women's sports. I think it's a basic issue of fairness and that it ultimately disincentives people born female from entering a career in sports competitions.

That there is a serious debate to be had about trans people in women's changing rooms. I know it is a very nuanced and sensitive topic and I don't pretend that I have the answer, but I don't think it is as simple as "I identify as X so I'll use X changing room". I'd like to make it clear that I don't think this is a "sneaky perv" issue but rather a debate about spaces that should possibly be reserved for people born as female.

That no permanent changes should be made to the bodies of children. If you're not old enough to get a tattoo, piercing, drink, smoke etc. Then you're not old enough to make an extremely important decision that will effect you for the rest of your life.

I've had great and terrible gins. I remember a bottle called St James from France which was so bad that it's one of the few bottles of alcohol in my life that I ended up pouring down the sink, I couldn't get it to taste good regardless of what I tried mixing it with.

Same, although I tolerate a mushroom here or there now, I never select them to eat by my own choice.

I was in a cafe recently and the table next to me ordered mushroom soup, the smell nearly made me sick, I was pretty hungover that day though!

Yep, any fleas about the house will jump on to the cat and then die.

No need to decontaminate the entire house, just make sure that fleas can't make a home on your cat.

I've tried bovril but I don't like it as much, it also has more salt.

Real