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As I understand your post, (and if wrong, I apologise and feel free to ignore or correct) you are looking for evidence surrounding the equality or otherwise (and/or different range results) within specific transgender groups in competition. For example, where a competition or event exists within...
Trans athletes.
I am assuming here that the issue of whether trans people exist or are self-justied or have rights and are not satanists or anything is a given.
Please note/see that this is a longer post. No need to inform me or others and feel free at this stage to leave it alone. I am more...
BrachioPEP said:
(I meant want to focus on the legal, rather than ‘not’ want to.).
I appreciate the correction, but that is nonetheless what your post actually implies, even if down to a typo (the inclusion of the word 'not' - you could have edited it)
I was caught up in double negative...
(I meant want to focus on the legal, rather than ‘not’ want to.).
I don’t necessarily advocate legal changes or censorship. I just wonder how or if things would be different if a person/people started crying or walked out… maybe en-masse, to share their true feelings regarding such a supposed...
I would very closely liken Rock’s assault/abuse/attack on Smith’s wife (a point totally ignore or rejected) to calling a spotty kid ‘Pizza face’. It is not harassment and may be legal. Like the radio host example I gave, YOU may not want to focus on the legality, but I am focussing on the...
To be fair, Chris Rock may not have been targetting (or may not even have known about) her hair problem, and motive is a factor. I still think this is a wake up call generally and Smith's wife may still have felt violated.
Please consider any/all points raised before responding.
This seems to be a unique situation in many ways.
Some of us consider discrimination to be wrong. No-one seems to in the case of Chris Rock publicly humiliating a women’s condition live on TV in front of millions – not unlike sex shaming...
Will Smith was wrong to hit Chris Rock and should be punished. According to the law if possible and according to any violations to the Oscars.
This is the part that I agree with and that I see in all the media. However, all aspects relating to Chris Rock seem to have nothing bad to say. So here...
Hi Hackenslash.
Very kind of you to offer.
Myself and Borg (who is one of the leaders of the Phylogeny Explorer Project) are currently looking at a whole range of things to generate more interest and manage things better and more effectively, which includes a new (first time) CRM system and...
You are totally right there, yet there it is in peer review, and there he remains, decades on, debating his peers, successfully in almost all cases on the topic. Whilst not relevant (what I or anyone believes), I do not buy the argumenmt at all, and I know why. But explaining why and dealing...
Hi Hackenslash
Reasons for restriction are more to do with democracy/reward, but either could work.
Getting feedback from active, involved people (like people who vote) seems a nice way of rewarding them and showing appreciation to those known to care rather than equality with passing members...
It was perfectly valid and reasonable, Sparhafoc. Thanks. I wonder if you'd care to join a selected member discussion on ways in which we can energise the group. It has already been suggested (by myself actually) to have video interviews with popular youtubers and/or philosophers etc. and...
On another (Facebook) group, (of 1000 members) we published a quality, extensive magazine which was purel and exclusively for the group (I’m not sure any magazine for a group is as big, comprehensive etc. as it) and we asked for feedback via a 1 minute survey. After 2+ weeks, pinning to...
Hi Sparhafoc et al.
I apologise for my absence from logging in (e.g. as a mod) since November 2020. I have no excuse.
I shall resume my duties in the admin/moderator roles forthwith.
My apologies for absence (e.g. as a mod). I have no excuse.
Example one.
I was born deaf, had operations from aged 4 to correct it, it deteriorated over the years and I had further operations. Recently, I have been almost entirely deaf in one ear for a couple of years and so I went to see an...
At the passing of James Randi, I was going to ask Aron Ra if he had heard this story/song from the great Australian comic, musician and atheist, Tim Minchin. There are several performances online and a lyric version. But this is from the 2012 Reason Rally and if you notice the bottom of the...
His, 'Project Alpha' spawned a lot of skeptical organisations since it happened and gave Banachech (sic?) his big break who also helpeed create and regulate the $1 million challenge and other preliminary tests. Randi was a huge influence on me, too. I never met him (it was on my bucket list) by...
A great contributor to truth, facts, testing, science and reality and separating that from everything else. He demonstrated that research scientists in their own labs can be deceived, setting new standards, exposing fakes, frauds and the ignorant and openmly inviting claimants of the...
Well maybe, in that sense, if you can come up with an infinite number of different attributes for something, then there will be a different perfection for each one of them. Perfect in different eyes because their definition of perfect is different. But I disagree. Let’s take the, ‘perfect’...