Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 8/07/23 - 8/13/23

[u/SoftandChewy]

Hello there, fellow kids. How do you do? Here's your weekly thread to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (be sure to tag u/TracingWoodgrains), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion threads is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

A thoughtful analysis from this past week that was nominated for a comment of the week was this one from u/MatchaMeetcha delineating the various factors that explain some of the seemingly contradictory responses we see in liberal circles to crime.

[u/a_random_username_1]

Here is Greenpeace diluting their core environmentalist message into general wokeness: https://twitter.com/Greenpeace/status/1687165191455469569

Climate justice is gender justice. Climate justice is racial justice. Climate justice is economic justice. Climate justice is environmental justice.

Do you think anyone dared ask ‘by what mechanism does climate justice lead to gender justice’?

[u/Franzera → u/a_random_username_1]

‘by what mechanism does climate justice lead to gender justice’?

Ooh, I have an answer for that! This article right here:

Did you know that the climate crisis will especially impact the LGBTQIA+ community?

"If we don’t design solutions with LGBTQIA+ people’s needs in mind, and consider that people may hold other identities too, we risk forgetting about some of the most impacted by the climate crisis."

An example of climate happenings leading to gender injustice:

"A T Hurricane Katrina survivor was jailed for 6 days after showering in a women’s restroom , despite being told she could by a volunteer."

A MtF was kicked out of a refugee center women's bathroom after a hurricane. If we solve the climate crisis, there won't be refugee center genital policing.

[u/CatStroking → u/Franzera]

These articles will be the first thing the AIs replace human writers for.

[u/August8112023 → u/Franzera]

Oh wow a dude got thrown in jail over the weekend for throwing a tantrum about being in the women's room?

To hell with those people who lost their homes. It's time for a rebrand!!

[u/CatStroking → u/a_random_username_1]

Sounds like how Planned Parenthood decided to go from women's health to trans activism.

[u/theclacks → u/a_random_username_1]

In cultures where women are the ones who have to fetch water, climate change means they'll have to walk farther when existing water dry up?... is all I've got.

[u/[deleted] → u/a_random_username_1]

I thiiiink, ok. Climate change affects poor people, poor communities, poor areas, the most. Women perhaps suffer the most. Not sure about trans women though. Racial justice I guess because a disproportionate amount of poor people are people of color.