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Also any claim that being trans causes mental illness or vice-versa is merely post hoc ergo propter hoc so please stop

small anecdote: I know a guy, his family is the most hardcore group of right-wing conservatives you'll ever meet. and yes I mean the whole family. We used to go out to this community centre to go swimming and in the locker rooms one of the first things you'd probably notice is all the old Russian chaps walking around with their wangs hanging out. and this guy was totally fine with it

fun fact: his son just came out to me as bisexual :P so there is that

roake said:

why- said:

why is it that whenever people think of trans people that's the image they come up with? you do know there are trans guys too, right

And I don't want anyone with a vagina in the bathroom with my son.

why not? Nobody goes around bathrooms whipping out their private parts. and people with vaginas would be using the stalls anyways

Ok thanks for clarifying your position.

Now like I said before, I wholeheartedly agree with you on certain points. Cortana is not human and does not have rights. Cortana is a piece of software designed to serve information at request. But the way I see it, and the way I believe Microsoft sees it, is that personifying her as a woman brings along a certain attitude from the user. Now granted, give a human any such machine and they will abuse it somehow, like the fateful Tay, but Microsoft believes that Cortana is a proxy to a much larger issue of sexism and they're trying to work on pushing that back by having her stand up for herself

Now, it seems from your earlier comments that you don't seem to see this type of sexism as a problem, or even that sexism is the problem, and I'm not trying to tell you what to believe. I'm just trying to say what I think. Microsoft is thinking, and you can take that however you will
(p.s. I hope this doesn't come off as snarky. I'm really trying to be civil )

iPhone Galaxy?