It’s a new-ish term, I believe. Trying to get away from the notion that the trans experience is all negative things
It’s a new-ish term, I believe. Trying to get away from the notion that the trans experience is all negative things
Well you’re also not going around holding written pieces of text to someone’s face to talk to them in real life, yet that’s how we’re communicating here, and you don’t seem to find that weird. It doesn’t need to be the same to be a helpful analogue. Sounds from your mouth -> written text, facial expressions and gestures -> emoji/emoticons. There’s actual research demonstrating that people actually do parse and react to emojis and emoticons in the same way they would to real facial expressions.
So do you also expect everyone over 12 to always keep a pokerface in real life conversations, or is this rule confined to virtual spaces for some arbitrary reason?
Well in your original comment you were just talking about “incest” generally, and then going on to mention you marrying your first cousin as a hypothetical example. That made it seem like you would want a child coming out of that relationship to be criminalized, and that’s what I was responding to. For direct siblings it might indeed be another matter.
But there are enough situations where it is easily known, even without genetic testing. For example, if a woman gets a child at a comparatively high age, like 40 or so, there is a significantly increased risk of birth defects, comparable to that for pregnancies between first cousins. I’m only talking about those kind of things. Why shouldn’t that be criminalized then, too?
having biological kids born out of incest should be criminalized as that comes under child abuse
It’s the same as any other situation where a couple has known genetic traits that make birth defects much more likely. Why should it be criminalized if the parents are related, but not when the parents are unrelated, even though the outcome for the child is the same?
Or, maybe, they’re just using the most well-known instance of fascism in history as a concrete example, in order to not overcomplicate the message. Jumping to accusations of racism at the slightest suspicion is not gonna help anyone.