Depends on your region, but in general if you can find at least 3 people you want to live with, you can apply to establish a cooperative.

Do note that securing a mortgage would probably be a bit harder than buying on your own, but with more people you can acquire a larger space and split the costs that way.

Fundamentally, it’s unlikely it will be cheaper than buying outright - however you’ll have a community of people to rely on if at any point you become temporarily unable to pay your installments, which can make it safer than self-ownership.

But the biggest plus comes when the mortgage is paid off, as then the coop can decide if you’d rather slash prices to include just bills, or keep the same monthly amount but put the extra towards a shared coop fund that can be used to convert more landlord owned properties into cooperative housing.

In my area - non-mortgaged coop properties have about 40% lower monthly payments.

establish 👏 tenant 👏 owned 👏 cooperatives 👏

idk I feel its pretty useful in finding others like you? also how do you mean “make survey data more difficult”? like not inconveniencing others is commendable, but this sounds like internalized enby erasure?

also if you’re not represented in survey data, it makes it that much easier for conservative proponents to point at gender surveys and say “well there’s practically no one who doesn’t fall in the binary buckets so there obviously must be something wrong with them and not the system”

as in, being yourself is the goal, but by being publicly open about it, you help others feel confident in pursuing what their authentic self is.

but again, you do you boo and I’m gonna keep being me by confusing all the guys in the gym lockers 🤪

please enlighten me how building an entire civilization on finite fossil fuel resources doesn’t come to an end

The real estate company’s ads for ‘presale’ lots in Gaza and plans to ‘prepare the groundwork for a return’ to the enclave were meant to be ‘a joke’ for its followers

Ha ha, what if we pretend to build houses on bombed people’s land. that would be funny i think.

Exactly? As in, I identify as gender fluid not because my gender defines me, but precisely because the binary “male” and “female” genders don’t directly apply to my identity, so a new term that better aligns with how I feel is useful.

So if it’s “silly” to “create” a “new” gender, what do you suggest as an alternative?

Which is why so many people struggle to empathize. But I agree, just because most people can walk, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t build more access ramps.

Gender≠Sex

"We could define two colours: Reds are all wavelengths longer than 600nm Blues are all that are 600nm or shorter.

Or we take the amplitude of the intensity of light and sort it from brightest to dimmest.

We could go by genetics. Then we only have a handful of colours (blue, red and green)

What I am saying is: we’ve already defined what it is and the discussion is very simple. By all definitions, colour means different things to different people and by trying to fit them all in a predefined box all you’re doing is limiting yourself to seeing only in black and white."

Yeah, I agree that OP’s explanation right above is precise and short.

Obviously every culture has their own definition of things (same way Japanese people considered blue and green to be the same colour) but that doesn’t mean either is right, they’re both made up to serve a purpose.

Eg. It’s useful to break down the gender spectrum as it allows us to be more precise and descriptive with our language, same way it can be useful to differentiate between blue and green. Still, if you’re blue-green colour blind you probably don’t really care if someone else has two words for what you perceive to be the same colour…

I’d prefer if someone doesn’t murder me because they think murder is bad

Yeah, that does make you a bigot. Just because the christian status quo wants to uphold strict gender roles and outdated puritan values doesn’t make those beliefs any less hateful. As a self proclaimed bigot, please tell me what do you think is so sinful about anal sex or cross dressing? And do you really think enslaving people because of those things is somehow less sinful? If that’s what your god calls justice I really don’t think we should take their hateful judgment seriously.