you can’t understand their mind

This is what I find most bizarre… how often people will default to “Well, I don’t understand why they’d be like that”.

And I just am fascinated by the like… So what? Is that level of complete empathy required to be decent to folk?

I have no idea what it’s like to be trans, how could I? I’m not trans. Am I meant to hate people who have lives different to mine? Isn’t that endlessly exhausting?

But then I guess I have no idea what it’s like to let your ego run so hot you believe that your own understanding is a gate that other’s must satisfy before I treat them as people.

really?

the vast majority of trans debates in the english media sphere don’t even have trans people in the debate about them lol.

Otherwise it’s like, some fringe netflix shows and a small part of the indie gaming space are the only places, the chances of being exposed to trans representation in media without specifically searching it out is minimal.

Like, I’m very much in the online media spaces that are most welcoming of trans people and I still see very little unless I would specifically search for LBTQ+ media.

I did a quick google to get a frame of reference, and within video games since 2020, there are 17 trans characters, of which only 4 games would be considered mainstream (Last of Us 2, Cyberpunk, Baldurs Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy)… That’s not many, and I don’t think we can really consider many of the games Super Lesbian Animal RPG to really be representative of regular media?

For films it’s 23 films since 2020 of which I have heard of only 1 film, the rest are all indie art-house… Again not really representative of what people will see unless they search it out.

so you’re saying the transes are now squatters trying to get free welfare, and disrespecting those of us who pay rent to live in people’s heads?!!

yeah, I would prefer offside being like.

It’s based on the feet, and for VAR to overrule the onfield decision, the foot must be at least a set distance past the last foot of the defender to account for margin of error.

I don’t want to see any umming and ahhing about “oh, it’s milimeters off”, if it’s like… Less than 5cm, it’s onfield decision, especially if that distance could fall within the system’s margin for error.

Follow the way cricket does it for LBW reviews. The ball tracking must show over half the ball hitting/missing the stumps for it to be overturned, otherwise the onfield decision stands.

I feel that technology in sports work best when used to prevent clear mistakes in onfield judgements, not when used to split hairs on technicalities. Ruby has a great approach, onfield referee will say “Onfield decision is try, can you check for forward pass/grounding/whatever… Is that clear evidence to over-turn the try?”

I feel like football is too into trying to provide clear evidence to uphold the onfield decision, when that should be the default and it should be clear evidence to overturn otherwise you’re stuck forever in margin calls where no outcome can be clearly upheld.

lol what was the context of this in the show?

I mean… Tottenham are one of the more sustainable and less shady premier league clubs, and Joe Lewis is far from a moral and stand-up fellow.

No private entity with the money to own a top flight club got there by being decent.