MeerderWörter’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2016)

MeerderWörter’s comments from the Our Shared Shelf group.

Mahmoud wrote: "Meerderwörter wrote: "Okay, other example: If people would run around shouting open-heart surgery should be stopped, I am damn sure everyone with open-heart surgery will come and say: Uhm, you know..."

Sorry, but I'm not gonna tell ya.

Mahmoud wrote: "Meerderwörter wrote "Mahmoud wrote: "Sascha wrote : "If you are not prepared to listen and try to understand what people who are violated in their human rights for being intersex then it would real..."

Okay, other example: If people would run around shouting open-heart surgery should be stopped, I am damn sure everyone with open-heart surgery will come and say: Uhm, you know, open-heart surgery has helped me a lot and I don't think we should stop it.

The thing is, no one intersex person has ever publically said we shouldn't stop these surgeries and *I* know very well why that is the case.

Lewis wrote: "Mahmoud wrote: "My uncle was born with a cleft lip..okay...my grandpa when my uncle was two years old...took him to a plastic surgeon...fixed his lip!
40 years after..my uncle discovered that he al..."

Sex isn't binary either but I guess some people will never understand it:)

Mahmoud wrote: "Sascha wrote : "If you are not prepared to listen and try to understand what people who are violated in their human rights for being intersex then it would really be great if you could just shut up..."

It is quite surprising how on the one hand you write this sentence:
"Give them the choices..but don't convince them otherwise!!"

And yet what you do is the complete opposite.
And for the rest, I beg your pardon when I don't reply.

Ross wrote: "Michaela wrote: "Pam wrote: "Guys, I completely understand your points.

I don't think you understand mine. But it's just a conversation on symantics so I'll drop it."

I guess i'm with you, Pam. I..."

And he should be remembered in the right way, I'm just repeating what I said further above for now.

„My body is not a disorder“
~ Kitty Anderson
9/2/2018
Christiansborg Palace (Danish Parliament)

Robert wrote: "I am sharing a link to a story I saw last evening about an artist who created a statue depicting Harvey Weinstein seated on a couch holding an Oscar in his hand.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainme..."

My feelings on this can be seen easily in this question:
Do we want statues of John Smith erected somewhere?

That's all I have to say to that.

Laure wrote: "This article on The Atlantic describes the findings and hypotheses of a research article in Psychological Science about the gender gap in STEM fields. Paradoxically, the more a country is "gender-e..."

Can we be sure there is a correlation? Many things seem to correlate while actually they don't. That's just what's coming to my mind now.

Emma wrote: "Justyna wrote: "This book was incredibly eye-opening, and thank you Emma for suggesting it.

Coming from a 99.99% white Catholic country (when I was growing up, the statistics might be a bit differ..."

I doubt it's the case but it feels like Austria is 99,99% white. Catholic, no not 99%, but maybe 80? Definitely the majority...

Emma wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "So I was writing a thread on Twitter today about some thoughts that I had regarding intersectionality, and when to use it and why it is important, especially for us as feminis..."

Thank you. I think it especially applies to us feminists...

So I was writing a thread on Twitter today about some thoughts that I had regarding intersectionality, and when to use it and why it is important, especially for us as feminists:
https://twitter.com/MeerderWorter/sta...

Wanna revive this topic as I find it very important and it is also a topic that affects me personally very much. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts, as I want to learn more.

Lewis wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "We also need to make sure that people feel safe online, and that people can grieve their loss (Tina Fountaine, Colten Boushie...) and not be attacked with racial slurs.
That's..."

I wouldn't have known it either wouldn't I follow dozens of people from #NativeTwitter (which is a hashtag as well)

Malobee wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "We also need to make sure that people feel safe online, and that people can grieve their loss (Tina Fountaine, Colten Boushie...) and not be attacked with racial slurs.
That's..."

The good thing is that it stays around - and I will have a look on it so that I can help out if need be. The art with this is to know what to do when - to educate, to block or to report...

We also need to make sure that people feel safe online, and that people can grieve their loss (Tina Fountaine, Colten Boushie...) and not be attacked with racial slurs.
That's the reason why the hashtag #SettlerCollector was invented - so that allies can take over and Native people can rest and don't have to face racism all the time.

Racism is something that affects not only Black people but people of colour in general.

One of these injustices can be seen in how the Canadian justice system failed Coulten Boushie and Tina Fountaine.
Of course we Non-Natives can help Indigenous people online on social media, like it is possible via the #settlercollector hashtag, but that is just a drop at the hot stone - what we actually need to do is so much more.

Florian wrote: "I love your enthusiastic :)

However, some people in that community cannot make a donation like that. Maybe 2-3 pounds is not that much for currencies just like dollars or euros but in some countri..."

I know what you're talking about, and I know not everyone can make a donation. What I wanted to show is that it is more than possible to reach the goal.
There are many ways to change the world, this is just one of them.

That is really fast. Let's hope the goal is met fast and they can start dishing out the money to causes worth it.

Let's share it, and slowly we will meet the goal. If every one of us members donates 10 pounds, we'd have more money together than 2 million pounds, since we're at 1,5 millions already, everyone of us would need spend only about 2-3 pounds and we'd achieve the goal.

Here is another link to the report:
https://oiieurope.org/amnesty-interna...

There is so much that needs to change that sometimes you don't know where to look first...

Speaking of IGM as being outlawed - the Human Rights Declaration alone is against it.
And there are many laws that outlaw it not specifically, but via other issues.
Yes, it is still happening and it makes me sick that it is still happening!

The thing is, IGM is actually only a small proportion of what is actually going on... well, we can do nothing but fight.

Michaela wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "Because Valentine's Day is just over:
https://www.ilga-europe.org/blog/priv..."

I'm really glad this is outlawed in germany..."

IGM is outlawed in Germany via many laws, yet it is still happening. Law is complicated, and doctors saying it is a medical necessity (it's not but they come up with all kinds of reasons why that would be the case!) makes it lawful.

Read the Amnesty report on Denmark and Germany here that was published on this last May:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/new...