DaveTLV @Surasanji@qoto.org

@ninapaley I'll have to watch it when I'm not at work. :)

@Glitches@spinster.xyz My sister used to help me beat levels in the second Legend of Zelda game because five year old Dave couldn't handle it. It is one of my earliest solid memories of my sister, her helping me with video games and the like, even though she was 12-13 at the time and really had very little interest in hanging out with her five year old baby bro. This was back when NES was the new hotness, though.

@Glitches@spinster.xyz I had an older sister for those activities. :3

@ninapaley I'm very curious how Judaism and Feminism intersect for you, if you wouldn't mind sharing.

I consider myself Jewish culturally and ethnically, but am a strong agnostic-atheist and do not follow any religion.

I still can't help myself in finding intersection between Jewish people and their other beliefs and how the two have interacted.

@sim @Pricey Women should be allowed to feel safe in their spaces.

I do agree that there are some people who are dysphoric, and that is absolutely a mental illness that requires treatment- much as my Bipolar requires treatment for me to be healthy.

I am now, however, well educated enough in psychology to say how, exactly, these persons should best be treated. I take medication to help me be healthy, I go to therapy, I learn how my brain works and how to live with my condition.

If the best practice for these few people is surgery, hormones, and what haves you, then so be it. I doubt the majority of the peoples who with SRS and all the rest are same people who are making women's spaces unsafe for women.

Basically, if you've got a penis you don't belong in the women's bathroom or at the women's gym. If you've gone all the way with SRS, hormones, medicines, what have you, maybe there is an argument there- but it specifically isn't my space to argue for or against. It's not my bathroom or changing room that these individuals would be asking to enter.

I feel like, ultimately, I can have an opinion and I'll share it freely but the decision has to be made by women when it comes to the whole spaces thing. It's up to them to share or not share these spaces, and people need to remember that no one is REQUIRED to share their private spaces.

This isn't like desegregating schools which is an absolute good, after all.

@Glitches@spinster.xyz came for the coffee, stayed for the doggos.

@ninapaley Awesome. I'm positive she'd love that in her ever-growing collection of Judaica and haggadot.

@ninapaley Hi Nina,

Did you (or are you) make(ing) a Seder-Masochism haggadah? I think my Mother would love it. She's always been an Orange on the Seder table kinda lady. :)

@Pricey @sim I am required by 'best friend' code to cheer for Arsenal, despite not really caring whatsoever. I'm sorry.

@Pricey For sure, it is very important for women to be represented by women. Historically speaking you truly can't trust men to represent women. The data is all there and very clear.

@Pricey @sim Cole Porter is fantastic. Don't care much for football, though. :P

@sim @Pricey Potentially, but how much that influence effects an individual would be difficult to tell. As Pricey has pointed out there are also external factors to consider.

@sim @Pricey There are differences in personality/character between any two people.

@Pricey So, with that definition, it sounds very much a good thing for both men and women. We all would be positively uplifted by the shedding of stereotypes.

@Starlit_Fire Winter here is rainy, cool. I love it.

@Pricey what does Gender Critical mean in this instance? How would you define it?

@Glitches@spinster.xyz @AthenasWrench I will be sure to do that.

She's a very chatty kitty and likes to sit with me. I would also die for her. She's my Baby Cat <3

@Glitches@spinster.xyz @AthenasWrench I, too, have pictures of my fantastic cat!

One is her engaging in her favorite past time of playing in a plastic bag.

The second is her layin' out and bein' all 'I'm fantastic!'