Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pothole purge saw nearly 8,000 craters filled in a single day – the same number that would usually take New York’s Department of Transport (DOT) a week.
It’s important to remember there is no default or baseline for defining a human person. With race, if someone just says “person” without specifying race/color, does that imply “white” (or whatever other default) to you? And if I just say “people”, does that mean straight people only and not gay people?
How about gender? Are “people” just the men, or just the women? Cis/trans is the same. There is no default here, just a bunch of people with different backgrounds trying to do their best.
Also, if it just so happens you’re one of the folks who considers “cis” a slur, I’d ask if you feel the same about the most accurate terms for your gender, race/ethnicity, etc.
Okej but why do you want to define a human person or whatever, in this scenario? I don’t care about cis/trans or anything, I don’t identify as cis or man or woman. But grouping people based on things they have no choice in and then telling them because you are born like this, it’s your responsibility to do whatever I ask of you, sounds weird to me. People are dealing with their own issues as people who identify as trans are.
It’s important to remember there is no default or baseline for defining a human person. With race, if someone just says “person” without specifying race/color, does that imply “white” (or whatever other default) to you? And if I just say “people”, does that mean straight people only and not gay people?
How about gender? Are “people” just the men, or just the women? Cis/trans is the same. There is no default here, just a bunch of people with different backgrounds trying to do their best.
Also, if it just so happens you’re one of the folks who considers “cis” a slur, I’d ask if you feel the same about the most accurate terms for your gender, race/ethnicity, etc.
Okej but why do you want to define a human person or whatever, in this scenario? I don’t care about cis/trans or anything, I don’t identify as cis or man or woman. But grouping people based on things they have no choice in and then telling them because you are born like this, it’s your responsibility to do whatever I ask of you, sounds weird to me. People are dealing with their own issues as people who identify as trans are.