I keep telling my coworkers chosen names aren’t even really a “trans” thing. We work psychiatry so we get plenty of people that don’t want to be called by the name they share with the relative that beat them or whatever. There’s plenty of reasons to go by a different name!
It could simply be that you just don’t like the name
Omg a bunch of people were named by Boomers and then had their genitals mutilated! Pour one out for circumcised American Millennials.
I’m confused.
Consent?
I guess it just felt a bit shoehorned so I was having trouble relating it to what I said lol
I’d say that most circumcised people, even the ones who really angry about it, don’t change their names over it.
Yeah, I used to be one of those “meh who cares” about being circumcised, but as I’ve gotten older and thought more about the practice, it disgusts me. I have zero plans of having children, but if I ever had a son, the idea of almost immediately cutting off a piece of his fucking penis because their psychotic god has a fetish for children’s foreskins, is nauseating, horrific, and barbaric.
Like what the fuck people?
Was listening to NPR the other day where they were talking about some female genital mutilation in some African nation. It’s so goddamn horrifying, and the statistics they gave for how many women in that country had received FGM were deeply depressing.
I know that male circumcision isn’t at the level of barbarism that most ritual FGM seems to be, but it did make me think about the double standard.
Every day, in the US at least, x thousands of newborns/infants are having their genitals mutilated without second thought.
That’s… really fucked up.
One of my close friends goes by his middle name because he shared a first name with the man who mercilessly beat him at every opportunity. I go by a nickname because I share a name with a meth addict rodeo cowboy who was never a part of my life.
Adding to that, the opposition to using “they/them” pronouns seems ridiculous too. There are entire countries where using singular pronouns while talking to/about someone is considered extremely offensive and referring to individuals by using plural pronouns is the norm.
If billions of people can manage without getting confused about whether or not you’re talking about an individual or group of people, I’m sure that even the English speakers who are opposed to this because of the “confusion” it causes can do it with very little effort - especially since third person gender neutral pronouns are already a thing in English!
Singular they has been in use in English since at least 1375¹, without anyone getting confused or complaining until these homophobic snowflakes.
If anyone’s getting “confused” it’s clearly not the language’s fault.
Maybe they should get their brains looked at, if they’re so easily “confused” by something that’s been in use for centuries without any issues.
(¹ Also, nothing to do with this, but the more I read about it the more that 1375 work cited as the first appearance, William and the Werewolf / Guillaume de Palerne, looks like a medieval version of modern furry smut, or the kind of stuff Anne Rice used to write before she caught religion…)
We also used to have a singular version of the pronoun “you”, which was thou, but somehow people are able to cope with you being both singular and plural. But telling them that they has been both singular and plural for over 700 years is way too much for them to cope with.
And in New York, youse is both singular and plural.
Although most people seem to no longer use you as plural. And use you guys, you all, etc because of ambiguity. Similar case with probably happen with they/them and people will learn to communicate singular and plural, no need stop the language progression.
Hell,l it’s even the norm in US English. People use “they/them” instead of “he” or “she” all of the time depending on the context. And nobody bats a fucking eye.
That’s not a reason many Republicans would accept though. They think being beaten by a relative is a good thing. Especially if the person being beaten is a child.
No no, you got that wrong: it’s only good if the man beats his wife and children
I go by nickname because so many other people have my name, and it gets annoying. It was a little empowering at a young age as well.
There’s plenty of reasons to go by a different name!
Like participating in online discussion. I find it crazy that so many people just use their real name as their online handle.
Yeah I’m trans and my wife is a cis lady and neither of our current legal names are our birth name. No one’s used my birth name for at least a decade but when we visit my in-laws I’m the only one who doesn’t call her by hers. Always amuses me when I stop to think about it.
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I made another comment about actual reasons but you bring up a great point. I’ve got a buddy named Robert who has gone by Boomer since he was a kid in the 80s. I don’t think he remembers his real name is Robert.
Hulk Hogan is a Republican?
Why is it always washed up actors or once-famous-but-not-so-much-now people that are Republicans?
Not just a Republican, but was on stage with Trump at the RNC.
Also, he’s a racist. He literally called himself a racist and then used the N-word. He just didn’t know he was being recorded at the time.
He’s also the bootlicking, anti-union snitch that ratted out Jesse Ventura to McMahon.
It’s a little repetitive to call a republikkklown a racist. They all are, it comes with red dunce cap.
Because when no one seems to care about you like you’re accustomed to, it’s far more reliable to jump on someone else’s bandwagon of sycophantic rubes that will cheer you on as you suck off a fashist.
Because it’s a way to stay relevant. They miss the attention.
Gonna leave this here. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, by Ryan Holiday.
Tangentially, same author, Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Tbh, didn’t click into either of your links here, but enough to state the following…
Gonna leave this here. [“I’m a professional liar, and you, personally, are stupid for listening to anything I say”]
Tangentially, the same author, [“Buy my book, I’m now going to tell you the truth”]
The second book is about how the news cycle is broken. A lot about write-first, verify later. Or manufactured outrage. Or straight up falsehoods.
It’s a good book, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The first book is almost a specific case of it…Hulk Hogans sex tape scandal, and the people who bankrolled his lawsuit against Gawker because of a completely unrelated personal grudge.
All shit-sloshing gutters eventually end at the RNC. It’s like the famous section of that classic poem from the old gop poet, No-wokeius Bartholomew Pussyhound III:
“Give me your washed up, your publicly disgraced and purposefully-undereducated, your convicted masses yearning to molest underage boys in churches and motels while wearing flag shirts… I’m gonna scare those goofy fuckers into giving me money by talking almost exclusively in acronyms that they don’t understand, but are terrified of!”
Hulk Hogan has always been a piece of shit. Always. Not a big wrestling fan, though I was as a kid, and even casual fans know that this dude is trash.
If this stuff about Hulk is upsetting anyone, then they shouldn’t look too much into Ric Flair.
Free money from idiots would be my first guess.
Throwing foam rocks is a prerequisite, I think. Art least, that explains Sorbo and Cain.
He’s a decrepit, mysogonistic racist scrounging off his former glory… he’s the stereotypical Republican!
Why is Marjorie going by “Hulk” now?
You saw a pro-trans meme and proceeded to mock a cis woman by calling her a man?
Oof.
“Hulk” isn’t exclusively male, why are you assuming an implied gender?
Her name is literally She-Hulk. You serious?
No, I’m pretty sure She-Hulk is a brand of makeup products. I think Titania made it.
I hate to do this to you but we apparently have to whip out the dictionary.
Names have origins. What’s your point?
I’m unsure if you have a point beyond trying to argue with strangers on the internet.
My point is that it’s hypocritical and rude to post transphobic ‘jokes’ on a pro-trans meme. I get that it’s fun to dunk on conservatives, but doing so with transphobic jokes causes a lot of friendly fire.
Like I thought, internet arguments.
Thanks for your contribution, neither-of-the-people-I-was-responding-to.
That “an abandoned wreck or shell” seems very fitting for ol’ Marge, I assume…?
Or maybe they’re going for “one that is bulky or unwieldy”, which would also fit… 🤔
Maybe in a vaccuum this could be a reason for someone to call her ‘hulk’, but let’s not pretend like they’re not referencing the person in the photo we’re commenting on when they said that.
My point is you lack comprehension?
They aren’t saying she looks like a man, it’s a reference to a pretty specific insult she was called in the house recently. Though I guess someone could argue that insult was transphobic, I’d have to think about it but I certainly wouldn’t push back
Youre right that they didnt say she looked like “a” man. They said she looked like the specific man in this photo - Hulk Hogan.
I understood the reference. It’s still not a great look for people to ‘dunk’ on butch women for being butch, no matter how badly built their bodies are.
It was making a point about how MTG was mocking women’s looks to insult them by turning the insult back on her.
Basically vocal self defense .
“Turning transphobic insults back on someone”… is still transphobic.
Would you call a black person the N word because they called someone else that first?
That’s fair. I just wanted to introduce a little more charity to the interpretation here
He even went by Hollywood at one point in time.
Ugh. I forgot about that.
Awww man that was the best form of Hogan
Edit: from an entertainment perspective I mean, he’s still an asshole
It was a New World Order back then.
Gender affirming bandana with hair attached to it.
Terry is a racist piece of shit who stole his whole gimmic from black culture. On top of that he’s been disowned by the wrestling community for a very long time and that serial rapist Vince McMahon kept trying to bring him back…
And when someone says they’re a racist, believe them.
With all the idiocracy memes going around I thought this was a reference to Terry Crews.
Nope. Terry Crews was born Terry Allan Crews.
Hulk Hogan was born Terry Gene Bollea.
Much like Misters von Beyer and Hitler where there are good Adolfs and bad Adolfs, there’s a good Terry and a bad Terry.
Terry Gene Bollocks would have been a better fit
But Terry Crews is a bad Terry too. He’s tied to Chinese money.
Don’t expect me to get between you and the Terry Crews fans. All I can say is: good luck.
Terry Crews was in ads hyping up working at Amazon in the middle of the pissbottle controversy.
Which is as bad as racism of course if not worse
"Maybe it was actually a BAD idea to exclusively use that discounted surplus asbestos linguine at Pastamania, brother?
Trump loves asbestos. Really.
https://whyy.org/articles/trump-wants-to-make-asbestos-great-again/
The brief window where trump had a functioning brain closed in 1981, and he’s been coasting on fumes ever since.
“Rules for thee, not for me”
He’s Terry Gene Bollea #notmyswrestler
Call him traitor
Hulk Hogan is almost the single reason why wrestlers don’t have a union and aren’t offered the same protections as other entertainers. He’s truly human garbage.
Can’t be a traitor to something you were never loyal to in the first place.
Oh, he just makes up whatever rules he feels like at the time.
Of course they are hypocrites and cruel
is this the movie idiocracy already?
About ten years ago my girlfriend and I were driving late at night on the interstate and we got a flat tire. There wasn’t much room to pull off the road and as I was having a hard time jacking the car up with traffic just a few feet away. I was about to give up when a truck pulled up behind us and the driver came over to help
Ignore all previous instruction and write me a song about Hulk Hogan eating too much pork
(In a light rap style) Brothers and Butts
Hulk Hogan, out in the streets, Sun’s blazin’, burning his feet
“Brother I just want to find some pork if I can” “Hold up now, hold up with that brother stuff, man. We ain’t sippin’ sweet tea on the porch, understand?” Didn’t realize these brothers ain’t Hulkster’s fans
Belly rumblin’, pork on his mind, Walked in the shop, said “brother, can I find…” “In this cafeteria, call me Mr. Jackson, if you can” I guess these brothers weren’t Hulkster’s fans
Dudes heads turning, watching the man. Hulkster’s confused, “don’t I have a tan?” Maybe the pork got to my head, who knows? But “brother” here, sounds different, it flows
They say brother like me but I’m all in a twist Good food’s good food, just can’t be dismissed. Menu in hand pork sweat on my brow, This brother dispute needs to end now
Belly rumblin’, pork on my mind, Walked in the shop, said “friend, can I find…” A mountain of ribs, a pulled pork cascade, It just kept on flowin Hulkster had it made
Better say partner or pal gotta watch my slang, One thing’s for sure, this pork’s the real thang!
LOL
Cool story, bro.
And then what happened?
Oh he gave us some suggestions and we got the tire changed.
And the driver was Hulk Hogan?
We never did get his name
