This is all a matter of definition - if a person wishes to redefine themselves who am I to say they are not as they want to be. I don't mind how trans people define themselves as I don't feel that their definition changes me. If they wish to use my hard ...
If sport was not paid for - only amateur and everyone had to do a real job we would not have an issue. If there was no pay to play there would be way more money for people playing sport because they enjoyed it, and way less attention on the sex of ...
Must admit my reaction is we can disarm a white guy with guns but need to kill a brown guy with a knife - there seems to be a disparity in policing in NZ. I understand that he did not want to be helped, but there are times when help to given wanted or not....
Is there a hint of "not all farmers" going on here. As with "not all men" the quantum does not matter it is how the rest of farmers behave that indicates the direction. Currently farmers are protesting our valid attempts to get cleaner better practices ...
Yes I can but for me I don't want to be looked at while i am changing by people who sexualise my body - male or female! When I am changing I prefer to be in a cubicle. I do not get why it is biological men that bother you? A trans man can use the womens ...
So the fact that i stopped going to a woman's gym because of the amount of women hitting on me in the changing rooms does not count? I want to keep predators out of my space be they male or female! I too have been assaulted by people with penises, I have ...
Wasn't Cumming at one point called Boris's brain? He was also the man responsible for the "herd immunity" theory- but now he is claiming that he told Boris to lock down. Give me a break his run up the country showed he didn't believe in rules for all were ...
I thought that his siting sexual assault allegations was what caused the comment. The woman has not gone to the police (as is her right) so the allegation is legally untested. From my reading there was an assault but not a rape in the legal definition and ...
There is an amazing article that I can't currently find written by a woman in the US that states 1) she smokes as she has 2 jobs and goes to school and nicotine keeps her awake, dulls pain and stops her hunger pangs. 2) She buys fast food as with her ...
My father used to live in Paekakariki and remembered the yanks offering to build the road. They did the survey and pulled out saying the engineering corp couldn't build it as the gradient would be to steep and the ground was not suitable for a road.0
Both not women of colour. Wonder if we will have vigils for the 8 women of Atlanta? Did we have vigils for the women killed by the Yorkshire Ripper? We do have an issue when vigils and outpourings of grief are mostly for young, pretty white women as if ...
sheesh for gods sake we are talking about people being oppressed and you hijack it to an anti-Trans thing. [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.]
It doesn't matter what we say - how many vigils we have. Stopped going to protests when i realised if it was a rally against male violence - white men took centre stage, if it was a rally for people of colour - white men took centre stage, if it was a ...
So does this mean anyone born via IVF or caesarean can not become a US president?
Of course I would and female circumcision. There are medical reasons for male circumcision but these tend to develop in the teenage years. I know some religions require this but some practices need to be moderated, the practice of interfering with a ...
You may like to consider most of our super funds use these traders so if they lose their shirts so does our retirement funds. So whilst it is fun watching Merrell Lynch take a bath we lose both ways as they are "too big to fail" and our super is ravaged
Actually the thing we need to remember is that all the Russian and Ukrainian fishermen were pretested before departure and that worked really well! The problem is that to believe the pretest we must trust the health system of the other country. Why would ...
Had trouble reading Chris Trotter's piece - ever since he lined up with Don Brash I find that I have a level of contempt. If you consort with liars and rouges then you lose the argument before you open your mouth. There were lots of comments and again got ...
Am getting sick of the "why we need special treatment" stories. This is a killer disease that the population of NZ needs protection from. My parents had TB and they were move between hospitals and were required to talk to family through windows for two ...
Wasn't there two old white men in the Greens who flipped out at the last election? The problem is that old white men have run the world into the state its in so any of them with left wing cred are part of that state. When the chips are down they tend to ...
If we are using statistics to drive our health policies, then we do need to differentiate our different genders, as each have specific health needs. Transitioning gender reassignment people have different health needs than gender defined people. We are ...
No not consensual - consent is between equals!!!!!!!!!!!! If one party is in a servant status no consent can be given. In simple terms a person under 16 can not consent (even if some judges don't get that), a person whose employment is controlled by ...
But you need to realise National has hired the guys who gave Scomo his victory against all odds. If you are prepared to play super dirty you have a chance and National is prepared!
Whilst i do not want to invalidate Felicity's concern I do not think it is high on the concerns of people newly out of work and i do have an issue with the invalidating of trans people. They shu\ould not be shut out of safe spaces when they badly need our ...
And we do need to remember that at least one of our clusters came about because air crew were given an exemption from self isolating - which the disease didn't recognize.
So your plan require that people like me remain housebound for the foreseeable future. I am in a wheelchair and use taxis. Currently a wheelchair taxi costs a minimum of $80k with subsidies. If these are replaced by EV's it will be uneconomic to buy a van ...
He thought he had Auckland mayoralty in the bag too. Never count your elections til they are over! Many voters will never forgive him for his New Zealand is run by front bums comment, or his pretty legal mortgage, or his roast busters comments.
If the police turned up with a search warrant then a judge looked at the evidence and ascertained there was enough probable cause. That judges decision is open to scrutiny as was done in the Hagar case where the police were deemed to have neglected to have...
So Sabine to keep your business going you need to pay 2 people 18.23 per hour, wow maybe you need to rethink your business model. If your cost of doing business is so high that the productivity gain made by increasing your labour force by a third at the ...
I also don't need to listen to a Nazi to know that what he/she says is bad. I knew a woman who voted for Hitler who refused to vote again as she said "I believed the lies and didn't hear the bad, and because of my vote millions of people died". Listening ...
Like most countries we have never had the full talk about immigration. We have just taken the guys who will work minimum wage and below as they are fleeing poverty and no opportunities in their own country. I understand that they will do anything to stay ...
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