Transphobes be like: "No matter how much you try to reshape it with excessive physical force, or melt it by applying excessive heat, still a slab of raw iron!" (Is there some synonym for melting that could sound "gross"?)

[–] Foxfire@pawb.social 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I'm not sure, but you could always make a metaphor. Might I suggest the word sloughing, which is generally used to mean the shedding of dead tissue? Like say, "no matter how hot you work the iron to slough its form-". Though then again, might be a big ask for a transphobe to use a rhetorical device like that.

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago

Ignore it on the side of the road, offer no help, but celebrate its ability to participate in capitalism!

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

forced birth

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The term "pro-life" is proof for the right being the one engaging in "political correctness".

[+] festnt@sh.itjust.works -17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

and a child would be a pickup truck without the engine or what?

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

In this example a child would be a pickup truck.

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what makes you think a child is not a ful-fledged ~~human~~ automobile?

[+] festnt@sh.itjust.works -6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i was making fun of the post because a fetus or a child arent just adults with parts missing

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A fetus technically is a human with most of the parts missing, so is a heart transplant or a strand of fallen out hair.

In practice though, during the usual period where abortion can happen a fetus is not much more human than a load of semen. Okay, it's technically diploid, but still just a bunch of cells.

Refusing an abortion for the life of the "child" in the first few months is like refusing a heart transplant for the wellbeing of your original heart.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

i meant a fetus is not just a human with a bunch of parts missing. there are other differences to go with that, like being way smaller and needing another person's body to survive.

edit: for example, a fetus isn't just an adult's legs, while in the post, the "truck fetus" is the equivalent of that