Everything posted by TeacherJane
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What is the deal with all the skin lasers shops around Bangkok
There are a number of lasers and techniques, not all equally subject to testing in peer review. So I would approach all of them with caution
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Thai Cabinet rejects gender recognition bill, citing crime concerns
Kathoey are not LGBTQ. The word glosses better as intersex, and that's how they are seen. You cant choose to become or come out as, a kathoei... Regarding them as transgender, or gay, is cultural appropriation. People who appropriate 'third sex' categories, for things like gender identities, ought to remember the historical use of a 'thrd sex' ie. a eunuch or neuter, physically ambiguous and defaulting to effeminacy. Kathoei are only aware of it in middle childhood, unlike current Western narratives that have 3 to 5 year olds profess a trans identity. Earlier in childhood, adults will be aware of kathoey tendencies in the male child: play behavior, and body language, and the like. Naturally self-awareness intensifies during puberty, although they dont develop macho frames or muscle mass. No one claims them, literally, to be natal women with penises. Just that they are biologically 'off' as men. This is the point of commonality with Western transsexuals, but only with the early onset subset.
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Thai abortion rights advocates call for increased legal services access
Why be soft on them? ignore the ethics and they brought it on themselves. Consider the ethics, and the dilemmas are too serious, to be brushed aside with 'reproductive choice'
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Compensated/renumerated blood and plasma donation
Consider thandonations are not only for patients, because laboratories use blood collection to secure biological materials.
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Compensated/renumerated blood and plasma donation
Is it possible to be paid here, for donating blood or plasma?
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Thai man and transwoman arrested on child porn charges
Whatever the rights and wrongs, this is 21st century teenage stuff, to share DIY porn of themselves, and their friends, having sex. Assuming the 13 year old was of normal physical development, the P word is scarcely appropriate, if no more than 7 years was the age difference. Its all very irrelevant to the molestation of real children by actual grown ups, whatever is the rights and wrongs.
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Do they check paperwork? (TEFL accreditation, bachelor's degree)
Fakes are indeed readily available. But who exactly checks them, and how rigorously?
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Do they check paperwork? (TEFL accreditation, bachelor's degree)
Yes, teachers have a complex that they are undervalued. I could argue we are overvalued. It isn't a difficult job, how hard is it to edutain kindergarterners. Its a matter of the teacher as to their worth.
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Do they check paperwork? (TEFL accreditation, bachelor's degree)
I was told that by law, TEFL certificates need to be accredited, so they can be checked. But do they ever check fake degrees? Because I doubt everyone with a fake bachelor's or TEFL has been deported. My intuition is nobody cares, and the papers are some formality
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How do you feel about photography?
Obviously the are issues of personal space and consent, so intuitive respect wouldn't go amiss... but how can you legislate something such as this?
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Diversity Ambassadors: Thai Diplomat Opens Up About LGBTQ+ Experience
Its a statistical effect, surely?
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Diversity Ambassadors: Thai Diplomat Opens Up About LGBTQ+ Experience
Do you think no kathoey work in offices?
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Diversity Ambassadors: Thai Diplomat Opens Up About LGBTQ+ Experience
Even in Thailand, only a small number of human beings will be kathoey. Is it a mystery, so few of them are visibly successful? Kathoey I have met report no such problems at school, work, or elsewhere. The pro and anti prejudices exist onlybin the farang's interpretation.
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Snake I found in my rabbits cage ......... ID please.
This isndefinotely a Xenopeltis or sunbeam snake, a member of the revolutionary radiation, that gave us pythons and boas, but not classically a member of either group. This is a nonvenomous, burrowing predator, with a small.gape, and is therefore able to ingestbonly small prey, despite its ecological status as a dietary generalist. Sunbeams do have a reputation as ophiophages, or predators of other snakes. I never had much luck with imports of this species, but friends of mine found them to be easy once they were acclimatised and in good health.
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On line drug store in Thailand
Just contact a brick and mortar pharmacy you know to be reputable, and have them ship a small ammpunt for personal use
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Any minerals and fossils dealer at Bangkok ?
Oddly this is something I never sourced, satisfactorily, in Thailand. Granted I lean more to fossils, and specifically plabtscand vertebrates. But its curious.
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Is changing the age of criminal responsibility in Thailand wise
A 12 year old knows that theft, arson, rape, murder, and et cetera, are wrongful both in that they incur a punishment, and in a more abstract, moral sense Children's awareness of this is, in fact, before the age of 12. Though awareness does not occur overnight, it is completed before age 12 in the developmentally normal, for gods sake.