Republicans' war on transgender people: Omnibus thread

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921

Membership in the “tribe” - that is, whether or not you’re Jewish - is matrilineal but only since the 1st Century AD.

Prior to that, and up to modern times, paternity was a known concept and recognized, and even today Karaite Jews reckon descent only via the father and do not accept matrilineal descent from mixed marriages.

You can also see this in naming conventions among Hebrew speakers which can take the form of [name] [son of] [name]. As an example: Mosheh ben Maimon, better known to history as Maimonides. The “ben” part is the “son of”.

So… if the Jews of the time considered Jesus to have been born out of wedlock he might have been referred to as “son of Mary” (more like ben Mirriam or the like), but if Joseph was considered his father nonetheless he would have been “son of Joseph”. Probably for some Christians who insist Jesus was the son of their god they would avoid the latter form, but there’s actually very little documentation of this sort of thing in the life of Jesus of Nazareth (which might also be how he was commonly referred to) so who really knows?

I don’t think anyone doubted he was Jewish at the time.

922

For the purposes of this law, would the movies White Chicks, Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire all be illegal? Could they be shown in cinemas,
And for that matter, would Just one of the Guys also be illegal?

923

Also, She’s the Man, and the whole Bosom Buddies series.

924

I’ve wondered that as well.

925

It’s not about policy, it’s about being given public permission to hate.

926

Gift link:

What does it mean to be young, female and conservative in America, 2023?
…
Perhaps most of all, it means seeing transgender women as a grave threat to womanhood.

927

I’m still puzzling over the notion of “anti-woke” tampons. I mean, I read the words and all, and they are English words, but the concept of it is just weird to me.

928

Tampons sold by companies that assure you they are only for “real women”. And that otherwise espouse anti-woke philosophy.

929

Oh, I get that intellectually. As I said, they are English words assembled into a sentence. I just don’t get the sentiment behind it on an emotional level.

930

I had no idea how a tampon could be “anti-woke” until i read the article.

They revel in fearing trans women. It’s incredibly depressing.

931

It seems similar to the zealots who asserted that gay marriage would destroy the institution of heterosexual marriage. Huh? How so? How about you just mind your own business?

932

Probably trans men, in this case.

933

With the tampons, yes. But there’s a lot more in the article, and in general, hating on trans women.

934

I don’t think the tampon itself is in any way “anti-woke”, it’s just manufactured by an “anti-woke” company. So you can rest assured that your money is funding the kind of hatred you hold dear.

935

Yeah, neither the manufacturer nor the retailer has any way of controlling how the purchaser uses the tampons, AFAICT. I know people who’ve used tampons as sterile bottle stoppers for liquids in chemistry labs. No idea whether that counts as “woke”.

936

If it’s Victor Frankenstein’s lab, the chemicals in the bottles might cause the tampons to become woke.

937

What would that even mean? You’re in a lab and suddenly a tampon starts screaming “AAAAAAAAAAAGH! I’m a tampon and my ass is stuck in a test tube!”? I’d think it would be kinder if it never “woke” up.

938

The Screaming Tampons is a band name if I ever heard one.

939

I’m imaging that happening in the World of Warcraft Undercity in a lab run by a cackling Undead.

940

Or possibly by a company that doesn’t give a fuck one way or another about transgender people but recognizes that if they market their products as anti-woke lots of bigots will pay extra to buy them.