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 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago

A cybertruck!

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

forced birth

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Texas and Farscape crossover: a mama truck births a vehicle, that vehicle is a crossover SUV.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fundamentalists: "As it says in GOD'S WORD"

God's Word: "if a foetus is fully formed treat it like a person, if it's not, don't"

Fundamentalists: "wait.. what"

[+] festnt@sh.itjust.works -20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[+] festnt@sh.itjust.works -8 points 1 month 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 12 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In this example a child would be a pickup truck.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i dont see how the adult pickup truck wouldn't be a fully built one, since real children aren't considered fully developed human beings

plus the pickup truck could be called elderly when it's parts aren't working as well.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is where the metaphor breaks down. Cars don't reproduce through sexual activity or experience a long period of maturity.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

my whole point was that it wasn't a good metaphor