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"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

Good tags for conceptualizing how much 2% is

Doesn't matter if it was 2 or 0.2 or0.02 or 0.002. If even 1 person is present, we make comfortable room for them.

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this last reblog! but I also just wanna like. talk about how much 1% of the world population actually is.

we're 8 billion, roughly. 8,000,000,000, written out. 1% of that is 80 million. You know what's also pretty exactly 1% of the population? the population of Germany. 2% is roughly the population of Bangladesh, which on the wikipedia list of sovereign countries and dependencies by population is number 8 of 195. Germany is number 19 with 1%. (link)

you could fill most countries with 1% of the population, let alone 2%. The US has around 4%, and on that wikipedia list it's the 3rd most populous country.

1% of the population is not just medically common, it's also generally a lot because the sample size is fucking massive. even 0.5% of the population is still 40 million people. 0.25% is 20 million. and so on.

a whole lot of articles and people talk in percentages like "only 2% of the population", with no mention of the 8 billion sample size, purposefully to make people like intersex people, trans people and others seem like a neglectable amount.

(ETA: ofc no amount of person is neglectable, but you get my point)

I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.

"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.

if you expect people to spend their lives standing behind a counter or driving to and from their storage closet to stand behind that counter, so you can be served your 10$ coffee with appropriate deference, you fully suck and our conversation is over

forget everything anyone has ever told you on the matter the truest marker of adulthood is starting to hear the siren call of high quality kitchenware

to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day

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and you SHOULD get these new things in Not Plastic, not only because plastic is bad for the environment but because over time it will become brittle and fall apart in your hands. u deserve better

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hey sorry we put your good friend jonathan harker in a time loop. yeah he’s about to leave for his business trip again. but at least he’ll send you emails

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hey fun fact did you know that if you're on the schizophrenia spectrum, have psychosis, have psychotic symptoms or traits, etc, that you're loved and your symptoms and traits should not be vilainized or seen as evil or ugly?

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did you know that this also means you shouldn't mock people for behavior you deem "strange" or "unnerving", like talking to themselves, not being able to speak cohesively, acting like they're being watched, and such? and specially not call them "insane" or "crazy" or even worse terms?

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I wanna kiss you in places you’re insecure about

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