As a TS woman do I stand a chance against men?

Mod note: Please remember that profanity, including masked profanity is not allowed on MAP. Thanks

 

Mod note: Joking about murdering and raping women is against MAP's Terms of Service. MAP is a place where we want people from all walks of life to feel welcome. Also, on a minor note, it is not family friendly either.

On a personal, non-moderator team note. as a female martial artist I was very disappointed to see several people think that it was funny. People on here I normally have respected.

 

I will, as an individual, continue to speak up against finding rape and murder of women a point of humor for men. Just as I will continue to speak up against issues like racism, homophobia, etc. And that is all I will say for now, so as not to derail the thread.

 

As I’ve said before , if I made the the kind of jokes on here I make at work I’d (quite rightfully) be permabanned pretty quick , there’s a time and place.

 

I've had trouble logging into map for a few weeks so sorry to bring this back around. But for what its worth, I reported the joke and started the conversation with the mod team, not aaradia. So beyond the usual "if there's a problem with modding, talk to us privately, not in thread" thing, just wanted to (very late) speak up against aaradia taking the flak for it since it was me who brought it to the mod team.

 

Haha don't be sorry mate that's an awesome response. I do need to preface this with saying that I'm pretty bad at theory. I got by in uni by being very very good at writing, not by being bright!

But, while I don't disagree with any of your points on the origins of the EU, my impression is it still goes against Realism? Or at least classical realism doesn't seem to be able to accept that countries would willingly give up sovereignty or submit to a larger power whether it was in the interests of their security or not? My understanding is that realism basically struggles with international organisations as it is? They can justify it for the big boys, they're using it for their own ends and really its a dictatorship led by the dominant power rather than a cooperation etc etc. But it is rather mute on why weaker powers willingly take part.

And while it might make sense for France and Germany (everthing you mentioned about the root reasons for the ECSC is absolutely fascinating to me and pretty amazing that its a really unknown part of history in common knowledge) to have taken part, the fact that places like Croatia, the Baltics, and the other states that individually have no power in the EU but would still be willing to join doesn't seem to slot comfortably into how realism views the world.