If you were tasked with picking an impossible choice. What would you pick? I want to hear y’all talk about why you picked the choice you did. You don't have to but I would like to hear what you considered and your thought process.
This one particularly makes me curious because blind from birth people seem to be more inclined to pick blind from birth while sighted tend to pick sight than blind. This is not a wrong answer, but it makes me curious why people would be so afraid of experiencing something so foreign, unfamiliar and hard to conceptualize. A blind from birth person has no idea what sight is. They don’t know about things like colors (they may know the abstract concept if you say somethings green it’s green). People born with sight have trouble even conceptualizing that, not knowing things like direction and feeling completely disoriented. It's easy to get trapped in the thought of "but I can’t see the beauty in the world" but you must have to realize that blind from birth people do see beauty in this world it’s just that it’s not sight. They can vary from different senses, I mean let’s assume you can still smell, feel, hear, taste. While you might find beauty in certain colors a blind from birth person may find beauty in things like texture, feel. People who are sensory (I should know I’m a sensory person) I can relate to that because I like the soft feelings of blankets, smooth surfaces etc.
You know what my polls aren’t difficult enough. I’m going to expose the non visually impaired people to a bit of blind culture. I’m going to ask an uncomfortable question that I’ve personally asked other blind people and talked about it with them. Assuming you have no other choice, and you must select one of the following: Would you rather be blind from birth or develop blindness after being sighted? I want you to understand that usually this isn’t a choice people get to make, I still have no idea if my vision will rapidly deteriorate.
I will say that the two arguments I’ve heard on both sides of the coin. My blind from birth friend stated she would rather be blind from birth, this is all she ever knows about the world. Even though it’s hard for her she wouldn’t have it any other way, she enjoys the fact that she can’t see faces understand the concept of beauty etc. She would rather not have to lose something that she had prior, as it would be an excruciating experience knowing what once was. I agreed with her on this point the concept doesn’t exactly entice me. That’s why this poll is uncomfortable. You really have to think though because consider the second argument.
If you were sighted before you have an imagination still, you can understand dimensions, visualize things. You can have dreams as you once did. You have access to memories of when you were sighted although they may fade away. I get recommended yt shorts from someone who argues he’d rather not have it any other way. He’s able to remember his kids' faces by feel and see the memory. He’s able to do things that blind from birth people may. It be. It’s also important to understand that being blind does not mean just a lack of visual perception like you close your eyes. You may still see light, movement of light etc. it’s not a unified experience. So which would it be?
I’m so glad I’m not on tumblr because that thread about asking for basic common courtesy would be overran by people saying bigotry. "B-but some people are bad and you shouldn’t respect them that encourages bad behavior" I can hear the discourse comments in my head this is how badly corporate social media has fucked with us. when you can just vividly imagine all the hateful comments you’re going to get just for being yourself.
The worst thing you can do if you want to be an ally is argue with us about semantics. Genuinely, because not only do you not know what it’s like but you’re being extremely dismissive of our experiences and our feelings. Talking over us, arguing with us about things is just not the way to show your support. You can ask questions, but be respectful. I’ve seen too many "allies" ask questions before trying to use the answers to contradict us. Even if you have the best of intentions saying things like "well are you sure that’s the real you?" is extremely disrespectful towards us. We’ve spent quite a lot of time pondering and exploring before being publicly queer, of course we are sure. Casting doubt on whether we are truly what we say we are is the easiest way to get us to not want you in our spaces. Asking us to speak on extremely triggering or heated political questions is not the way to go either. We understand you’re curious but don’t put us on the spot by asking things like "well how do you feel about transgender people in sports?". I’m sure there’s people who’d be willing to answer that for you but most of us would be uncomfortable especially being put on the spot like that publicly
@puppygirlhornypost it’s not even that, the simple fact is that after a few years of hrt there literally isn’t an advantage, in fact most cis woman athletes typically have much higher testosterone levels compared to trans women, and many cis women, especially one’s black and African in heritage, get excluded for having testosterone levels that are naturally too high, not to mention intersex people (which also fall into this category a lot of the time)
But this is all assuming an actually sound reasoning and argument, attacking the “why do you care, don’t you think the people running the sports know better than you?” Works better, especially if the person you’re talking to is even a little reasonable you can then quickly start pointing out the people spreading this stuff and their motivations, compare it to people “just asking questions” about black crime statistics, since it’s a similar tactic, this is a better approach because you don’t concede the framing, which is the only way that argument can hold any water (you need to dispel the idea that this is something that needs to be talked about and is in any way important)
@Clover true true. I forgot that the people raising the question regarding trans sports are more often than not asking it out of genuine intent or concern
Wikipedia what makes you say bhyve is a type 2? I thought bhyve was similar to kvm. If it is that’s arguably a type 1, it’s not like I’m going to be installing much on the FreeBSD host