I read that as the admiral ackbar dab...

Somebody explain trap so. I've never heard of it.

I should point out this is only a thing that happens in fiction. It’s an outdated ‘straight male fear of anything different’ thing.

Trap is used, as far as I understand, for extremely passing trans women. It's mostly a term applied to younger trans who are impossible to pick out as not cis women. You see plenty of tumblrs linked as such.

The problem is, it can be seen as essentially an excuse to be used by men to say why they're attracted to good looking trans women, "hey I was fooled! She's a trap!". This can then extend to a reason or defence for violence against trans women, "hey I was fooled, I lost my shit and beat the crap of them, look, they look just like the real thing!".

As mentioned though, some younger trans use the term as a badge of honour, so it's not like it's a clear cut thing. I guess in a way it's similar to how black guys may use the term BBC when it's clear that's also a problematic term.

It's a minefield, this stuff eh? I know a trans woman for example who is voting against the gender identification thing atm. There's not a unified voice on many of these things.

Don’t forget that today is the last day you can have your say on the Gender Recognition Act - I posted the details in the feminism thread

WTF

You're allowed to hate on trap if it's the hiphop species that WON"T FUCKING DIE

Yossarian wrote:

This may have been the most WTF? notification I’ve ever seen on my phone.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/19/facebook-hires-nick-clegg-as-head-of-global-affairs

Click Neg

Yes, @Cosby, @Bollockoff, @someoneelseicantrememberwhobuttheydidntlikeitmuch

You've got until 11pm today to fill this out. I highly recommend it, as it is an important issue.

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/come-out-trans-equality-0

I had a bit of an online security issue tonight. I happened to be going through some stuff on my account settings on eBay when I noticed that my email address was set as some random thing entirely. Clearly someone has had access to my eBay account and changed the registered email address. It’s a bad one to get infiltrated, as my eBay and Paypal accounts are linked, like most people’s. And Paypal’s linked straight to my bank account.

I’ve wiped it clean, put my own email address back in, changed passwords across as many websites as I can think of (all to different passwords, of course) and set up two-factor authorisation anywhere I could but hadn’t already.

Not much else I can do, and I’m grateful to have caught this before the infiltrator made any moves. They hadn’t purchased anything, hadn’t taken any cash, etc. Most likely they were laying low and would start with small purchases in a few months time – then once proven solid, sell the account details to someone else.

Anyway, I headed straight over to haveibeenpwned.com to check my various email addresses against known hacks. There do seem to be a few big ones since last time I checked. I highly recommend using it to check up on your own past security – if nothing else it gives you a reality check on any old passwords you really should be changing.

Most times anything of mine gets compromised, it turns out to be linked to a Ubisoft account or old accounts with XMBC-based apps like Plex and Boxee. Anywhere I’ve used a similar password to one of those gets pwned pretty regularly. Watch yourselves, chaps.

Ah come on! And you a gamer.

Apparently it is the owned/pwned thing, I knew that. Didn't realise it had shifted into account hacking jargon, thought it was just for commentating on teabagging and suchlike.

nick_md wrote:

Trap is used, as far as I understand, for extremely passing trans women. It's mostly a term applied to younger trans who are impossible to pick out as not cis women. You see plenty of tumblrs linked as such. The problem is, it can be seen as essentially an excuse to be used by men to say why they're attracted to good looking trans women, "hey I was fooled! She's a trap!". This can then extend to a reason or defence for violence against trans women, "hey I was fooled, I lost my shit and beat the crap of them, look, they look just like the real thing!". As mentioned though, some younger trans use the term as a badge of honour, so it's not like it's a clear cut thing. I guess in a way it's similar to how black guys may use the term BBC when it's clear that's also a problematic term. It's a minefield, this stuff eh? I know a trans woman for example who is voting against the gender identification thing atm. There's not a unified voice on many of these things.

I find the best solution is to use all the terms all the time.

Is Initiative Q going to make me rich then? Because if so, I need you all to sign up and be a part of my pyramid.