Attorney: Were to present for your son’s birth (asked of the biological mother). I believe I read this in “the coffee news” many years ago.
Vanessa: “My dad left before I was born!”
Deadpool: “My dad left before I was CONCEIVED!”
My dad left before he was born!
Know your audience. You’d think attorneys were better at that, but I guess witnesses don’t decide whether someone gets made attorney or not.
I think it’s a funny meeting of worlds thing. Like the kinda of people who can afford law school are generally not the kinds who grew up in an every day setting
Colloquial speech vs professional jargon
Also a lot of what (good) trial lawyers do is cover all the small loopholes, so questions that seem silly are because Dr X-acto got off on murder by claiming it was an autopsy in 1798 or whatever. Or it’s a bad trial lawyer and it is silly.
Is the first one not offensive to the Lemmy community?
can you elaborate on why it may be?
Probably because some trans women have beards and the kind of person who would think that trans inclusiveness is a special Lemmy thing is often also the kind of person who doesn’t bother to learn that sex, gender, and gender expression are different things and suspects that ignorance in jokes from a time where that ignorance was the norm to the point of being near-absolute is SUPER triggering to rational non-bigots? 🤷
If sex and gender are two different things, can you define gender without referring to sex? Honest question
well written ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex–gender_distinction
This article refers to sex throughout its entirety; the ask was for a definition of gender without reference to sex
I’m not very interested in these questions, but my understanding is that gender refers to a role in society, while sex is more qbout biology.
You should stick to designing coasts.
Unlike your award winning fjords, your sealioning is tiresome and unoriginal.
Sealioning? Apologies, but I don’t understand what you mean. May I trouble you to please elaborate?
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Of course.
Gender is a spectrum between feminine and masculine. It is determined by society and can change depending on when and where you live.
For example, a skirt is seen as something feminine. But go to Scotland and there it is something masculine instead.
Thanks. There’s a lot of bad faith replies here; I appreciate the honest engagement. I get the feeling that we’re heading into circular logic territory if we were to discuss what it means to be “masculine” or “feminine” in a gender-fluid, sex-abstracted context. It’d be best if we leave it here, as much as it pains me to stifle my own curiosity.
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Even if you ignore the whole beard aspect, the witness started their first sentence with He. That alone makes the next question redundant anyway
