Personal: I don't iron shit. Now I do own an ironing board and an iron, but for a long while there I didn't.
Transness: Thanks for the heads-up about the asterisk. Now I know! Trans can be short for so many things, but I also kind of get why one wouldn't want to use "transsexual" in everyday speech even when it's the most appropriate term: length, and also people tend to have negative associations with anything "sexual" (see: gay rights people call gay people gay, anti-gay people call gay people homosexual).
Philosophical: I loved the first course I ever had on philosophy, and absolutely loathed the second, because the second was ethics, and most ethical systems don't even attempt to be objective. Happily, that stopped me thinking that my own ideas about morality were somehow flawed, and also disillusioned me about philosophy: it's useful to think about thinking, and fun, but a lot of it is just people justifying irrational belief systems and thus to be taken with a grain of salt.
Re: It's cool if I'm actually too late to this party.
Personal: I don't iron shit. Now I do own an ironing board and an iron, but for a long while there I didn't.
Transness: Thanks for the heads-up about the asterisk. Now I know! Trans can be short for so many things, but I also kind of get why one wouldn't want to use "transsexual" in everyday speech even when it's the most appropriate term: length, and also people tend to have negative associations with anything "sexual" (see: gay rights people call gay people gay, anti-gay people call gay people homosexual).
Philosophical: I loved the first course I ever had on philosophy, and absolutely loathed the second, because the second was ethics, and most ethical systems don't even attempt to be objective. Happily, that stopped me thinking that my own ideas about morality were somehow flawed, and also disillusioned me about philosophy: it's useful to think about thinking, and fun, but a lot of it is just people justifying irrational belief systems and thus to be taken with a grain of salt.
Political: *nod*nod*nod*