Huh, just got done watching “The Free State of Jones” and that checks all these boxes.

I doubt OP’d hold it against that film, though.

Having also been born and raised in the United States and having met a variety of people from various walks of life, I am of the opinion that he hit the nail square on the head. I’ve met kind selfless people, sure, but that is the exception to the rule most often.

He wasn’t, Charles was born and raised in Britain, but later in his career he visited the US for his journalist work.

Uhh, nah that’s not new. Charles Dickens explicitly talked mad smack about how greedy and self-enamoured Americans were, and their general worship of the wealthy. It was a severe kick in the head to his previous conceptions of America being a place of prosperity and opportunity.

No, hostile is exactly the word. These are not tactless mistakes - no one is living under a rock and unaware of the conflict of gender. They’ve either digested transphobic rhetoric and accepted it or they’ve understood the obtuseness of the binary and course corrected. Frankly, if you haven’t course corrected, you deserve hostility from the trans community imo.

The only reason someone would be asking what sex you are is if they are wanting to play cloak and dagger romance, where you never state your intentions and still somehow expect to get into the other person’s pants. That’s not a healthy way to romance and never was, and is likely a big reason for why such a large proportion of people get sexually assaulted in the US.

The issue of trans people in sports is a bullshit non-issue and has been for a while. It is exclusively a talking point to try and get laymen to agree that trans people should be regulated. It’s conclusion is the policing of all women’s bodies. It’s already been debunked to the moon and back, so if you don’t give a shit enough to even look up how stupid your claim is, You don’t deserve any amount of respect or tact in this conversation.

It’s mostly just a way of communicating the bizarre nature of infinite series and other problems related to infinity. Just fun thought experiments.

The question “are you male or female” in any convo outside a medical screening is also rude (and kind of a poor question in that context). The question framing is also explicitly hostile towards not-binary identification, as it’s assuming that the person’s biological sex matters more than their own self-perception.You should instead just ask their pronouns or how they identify.

It’s passive aggressiveness responded in kind with passive aggressiveness. The questioner also keeps pushing, so the gun is a very explicit and aggressive “BTFO and let me live my life, stop trying to force me into one of your boxes”

EDIT: Godspeed, mods o7

That’s pretty common actually. It’s called IWB CC (Inside Waist Band Concealed Carry). There’s also AIWB (Appendix Inside Waistband), sometimes just called Appendix carry. The big issue is that it’s not inside a holster. The holster gaurds the trigger so that an ND is more difficult. Holsters also have retention so you’re less likely to have a gun drop, where the gun falls off your person unexpectedly.

Do you work more than 12 hours to make a basic income? I think that’d be a large difference between wherever you are and the US.

Honestly pretty aesthetic way to write the ‘t’. Bet it feels great too.

Bruh, the noodles are there the whole time. I dunno what you’re on about /s

“jup” can either be “yup” or “hup” depending on which language you’re coming from. It’s definitely a fun spelling of the work though

It’s easier to understand if you say “wish into one hand, shit into the other. See which fills up first”

So you know when people mimick a butterfly with their hands? Yeah, just that one-handed.

Call a tailor probably

Oh woops, flipped em. Good call. Editing

The virile black man stereotype? Not in the US. it’s apart of the myth that black men are naturally very strong and thuggish. It’s also usually paired with the concept of them being extremely sexual (think of the giant black penis stereotype and the constant fear mongering surrounding black men ‘stealing’ all the white women). These are extremely old stereotypes that harken back to when black slaves were viewed in a fashion closer to beasts of burden than to human beings.

EDIT: woops, saw my typo, should be fixed now.

It’s because they are in a performing role. They are token individuals destroying their bodies to create entertainment for the audience. It’s no different than how the south treats rodeo as some kind of beacon of equality for black individuals. It’s purely a facade to point at when denying the existence of inequality and dismissing civil rights arguments.

It’s also directly tied to the myth of the primal black man - all brawn and no brain. A racist sex symbol.

EDIT: typos

EDIT 2: flipped brain and brawn, didn’t notice. Fixed.

I know a certain firearms guy who’s pointed out gun culture’s hypocrisy for quite a while (most recent video regarding it).

Leather daddies (Tom of Finland style) are cool. So there’s some things about man-on-man sex that can be cool.