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This is just grift, genetics doesn’t fucking work that way. We don’t understand how intelligence correlates with different genes and we probably never will.
I read a couple of articles by that lesbians are trans now woman trying to understand the fucking gripe, and I just ran flat into the wall of them only being able to articulate harm by making aspersions and innuendos.
Like, they spend all this time talking about “harmful surgeries”, but like, no pre-adolescents are getting top or bottom surgery? (I don’t even know of any adolescents who are receiving them) The few cases where someone has gone on to regret surgery usually coincide with a lot of other mental health issues.
I just don’t see the harm, even if you buy their argument (which obviously I don’t) that it is purely cultural pressure creating the pattern of uhh transification and not just a more accepting society. Where are the victims? If you believe this is systemic, extrinsic, and harmful you should expect to see a LOT of people regretting their transitions, which uh… you don’t. So gosh, even if you believe the premise that pop-culture is creating the TRANS’S’S why would you give a shit without legitimate examples of harm? Unless… I dunno, you’re prejudiced for other reasons?
I would say that overall, the community on average didn’t behave too badly, and the mods did a good job of shutting shit down once it became clear what kind of headspace they were in.
A lot of unintentional harm as a meme post that wasn’t particularly mean-spirited would draw them in again. Of course some people kept teasing them about wanting to fuck the bunny cop. That was the main egregious thing.
Just gonna reply to my own post and not delete since I’m not a coward.
I got this wrong, the author is actually POC and does have some genuine critiques with elements of the climate activist space in Germany—not US. Why was this posted in c/dunk tank?
With that said, the article itself has some disingenuous takes on the face of it, though I’m willing to be corrected. There’s this bait and switch in which promoting low or no meat diets is equivocated with neglecting the harm done by palm oil production. I absolutely agree that western activists can do much better jobs at highlighting where their corporations are causing harm through environmental degradation and violence against indigenous peoples, but the framing used was weird, claiming that vegans promoting a plant-based diet was neglecting leveling critiques at palm oil production.
There’s other things too, but the general trend is a fairly surface level critique when I know there’s more complex aspects to a lot of the issues raised. Also a degree of naïveté about how power is going to respond to genuine criticism— trust me, everyone is dismissed and sidelined if they target the sacred cows of capitalism
It’s well known that during his first dance with his first wife he whispered to her “I’m the alpha in this relationship”, it is less well known that he said the same thing to every one of his children, dogs, and sandwiches.
Goddamn your yimbys are saints, I only wish I could get mine to even discuss high density. Try out luxury condos should be built to enable the wealthy to abandon their current places and leave them vacant for others with lower income, bringing rents down!
It’s like the stupidest hermit crab theory of housing you could possibly imagine.
Don’t fuck with potentially spoiled meat. Definitely depends on the conditions, but if they weren’t kept at foodsafe temperatures then they absolutely shouldn’t have been consumed.