I identify as an Armstrong-Whitworth FK10, mainly because I think a plane with four wings is cool.
Posted on 07/04/2021 8:17:03 AM PDT by tbw2
Ditto.
That reminds me of a somewhat underrated movie (IMO) that came out some years ago: IMDB Description: "Chef" in which a well known chef gets flamed in a review by a food critic, and ends up using Twitter (I think) to flame back, totally ignorant of the fact that the entire world not only sees it, but loves to see people dismembering each other online.
He had no idea how twitter worked, and thought he was sending a personal reply to someone with over 100K followers, not knowing all of them would see it and repeat it. (See preview here: "Chef" Preview)
When the critic shows up in the restaurant again, the chef has a meltdown: "Chef" Restaurant Meltdown)
While the chef is having his "very public" meltdown in his high end restaurant, you can see all the patrons recording it on their phones.
He ends up losing his job as a high end chef because nobody would hire him, and has to go to work in a food truck, and finds that working at that was quite fulfilling for him.
As I have opined before-this is one of the most unsavory aspects of our modern world, is that one can no longer make a public mistake without the possibility of a family/friendship/career ending outcome due to that "15 Minutes of Fame" we are now all subject to.
I’m carrying a 4.5 GPA there!
It’s a great science fiction story that tries to speculate, if brain chemistry can now make a man identify as a woman, could brain chemistry be manipulated to make someone identify as something else his or her body is not ... like an attack helicopter.
After initially liking it, the woke science fiction crowd turned against it furiously.
The story’s view that transition could be externally manipulated or could be from a good or neutral state to a bad state (an attack helicopter carrying out nasty attacks) threatened their notion that transgenderism was unique, pure, self-emergent and authentic.
The fact that the story was not declared to be written by someone known to be transgender him/herself also infuriated the notion that everyone except straight white Christian males has the sole right to tell their stories, and straight white Christian males should shut up.
Some time later, the editor of the story said that it was written by a man in the process of transitioning to a female identity, and this new Vox story repeats that. The Vox story also puts out that the author committed himself for suicidal feelings because of people being mean on Twitter. All those things still have no public evidence.
I identify as an Armstrong-Whitworth FK10, mainly because I think a plane with four wings is cool.
Bkmk
I have a book titled ‘The Ship Who Could Sing,’ which while a much older book would send the leftists nuts crazier than they currently are by this story.
Forgot who wrote it.....
I pull it out every so often because it is a wonderfully written book.
I’m not normally a sci-fi fan...very few authors wrote well.
And once the feminists started writing the genre really went nuts.
Might be ‘The Ship Who Sang.’
Cannot recall the exact title.
Don't destroy people on Twitter until you know they're conservative.
I have no sympathy for these people at all, no matter what their travails. They are wasted human beings.
True, but just for now. I’m seriously considering changing my identity to this plane.
I read the article. To sum up the position of both the author of the article and the author of the book story:
Don't destroy people on Twitter until you know they're conservative.
Anne McCaffrey?
Setting aside all of the noise, it’s a well-written piece. The archived copy is cited in a footnote to the Wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Attack_Helicopter
Twitter didn’t ruin any life.
There is no such thing as a trans woman.
There is no such thing as a masculine identity.
People’s comments on Twitter don’t constitute reality.
Twitter isn’t reality.
“the intersection of gender and American hegemony” is meaningless babble.
No sane person needs to figure out his/her gender.
No sane person explores his/her gender.
Why you should never put an article in front of my face and ask my opinion.
Anne McCaffrey?
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Yes! Awesome writer.
“Perhaps you are referring to The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey.”
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Yes! I checked it out from a local library and purchased the paperback.
Should be titled “How Twitter Idiots Can Save a Life”. After the cancel mob said that the story was clearly not written by a woman, the guy at least paused his progression towards getting himself castrated.
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