Caporegime
The idea that an individual can dictate other people's perception of them strikes me as Orwellian.
Have you read Orwell?
The idea that an individual can dictate other people's perception of them strikes me as Orwellian.
Yes.Have you read Orwell?
The idea that an individual can dictate ...Yes.
The idea that an individual can dictate ...
Odd take but well ok
Trying to dictate perception is the Orwellian part.
I won't be a dick [snip]
1984 is one of my favorite books of all time and I've read it at least half a dozen times. And what happening today with the control of language is straight out of the Insoc playbook, and it's frightening.Apparently, yes. Yes, you will.
I'm speaking specifically about 1984 and the way in which the protagonist was coerced into re-aligning his views. I'm 50 and it's been a while since I read 1984 in high school, but I'm reasonably sure that coercing people's views was a tactic that was employed in that book.
This is why it comes to mind when I see someone expects to dictate someone else's perception.
The idea that an individual can dictate other people's perception of them strikes me as Orwellian.
We all have an idea of what we want other people to think of us, but the best we can reasonably hope for is to make a convincing-enough case that others agree.
If I just demand that others "identify" me as (insert whatever trait here) the best result I should expect is coerced-pretending.
YupOur names aren't even something we give ourselves so what does it even matter if someone wants to be called something different than what their parents forced onto them?
Yup
I remember at school there were times when teachers looked almost relieved when the second or third kid in a class would say something like "can you call me..."
It's also fairly basic levels of politeness to call someone by their preferred name, I've knew kids who hated their first name so everyone called them by their middle name, or like my sister who always preferred the short version of her name, even my parents usually called her by that.
I've said it before but I've known people for years before finding out their actual on the birth certificate first name, because literally everyone called them by a different name.
Our names aren't even something we give ourselves so what does it even matter if someone wants to be called something different than what their parents forced onto them?
You may want to have a word with the majority of trans people as they disagree with you.Our sex isn't something we chose ourselves
People are free to do whatever they wish (within the legal framework), what you can't do is demand, coerce, or intimidate others to follow suit.so what does it even matter if someone wants to use different pronouns than what they were assigned at birth?
Yup
I remember at school there were times when teachers looked almost relieved when the second or third kid with the same name in a class would say something like "can you call me..."*
It's also fairly basic levels of politeness to call someone by their preferred name, I've knew kids who hated their first name so everyone called them by their middle name, or like my sister who always preferred the short version of her name, even my parents usually called her by that.
I've said it before but I've known people for years before finding out their actual on the birth certificate first name, because literally everyone called them by a different name.
*I can imagine how bad it might be for some teachers in years when the likes of every third kid was a Britney or a David, or worse due to some fad TV/film series or celeb.
It's misleading because it's a lie. It's 1-19 year olds. Check the data.
You say "Western country" to purposely exclude Korea? Yeah cultural this and that in Korea, but the U.S. is an rather unstable country with high mental illness a lack of safety nets. I don't removing guns would have much impact on suicide rates. And it's misleading because it doesn't mention that. People will think based on that statistic that 30k+ people are gunned down in the street each year, but that's not true.
The thread title says mass shooting... your infographics isn't related, so why bring it up?
Not to any sort of noticeable degree no. Plenty of other countries have higher suicide rates where guns are far harder to come by.Do you think the high suicide rate might be due to the fact of how easy it is to kill yourself with a gun?
So canada in a few years time then?If we were to place suicide booths on every street corner would the suicide rate go up or down?
Not to any sort of noticeable degree no. Plenty of other countries have higher suicide rates where guns are far harder to come by.
So canada in a few years time then?
Proper schools use surnames