Search results

it's been a long time since I've seen someone manage to shove that many stereotypes - based on the most cursory of "evidence" - into a single paragraph. manages to be deeply yet concisely offensive to both trans women and stereotypes of programmers, specifically related to the autism spectrum...

I see biscuits spewed forth a whole heap of bullshit in my absence let's go thru it That is still absolutely the case. There is certainly nowhere in the US or Europe (I cannot speak to everywhere in the world with as much certainty) where you can get HRT, let alone GRS, without convincing...

Don't have time for long posts rn, just want to note that a terrorist stabbed a professor and two students in a gender studies class in Canada yesterday https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/29/americas/canada-waterloo-university-stabbing/index.html Easily predictable outcome...

credit where it's due, I don't disagree with any of that

To sum up the above The beating heart of GC/TERF ideology is a tightly knit, deeply incestuous group of think tanks etc that promote the same handful of ideas - ROGD (i.e. "social contagion") as a driving force of gender dysphoria and transition, that people aren't cognitively mature until...

So I want to get into that ROGD study and by extension the world of GC/anti-trans NGOs or think tanks etc for the tldr, just skip to the next post if you do want to read all the details, consider it a resource for anyone who'd like to understand the mechanics of the GC scene First, the study...

Not only acceptance but awareness. As recently as 20 years ago there was almost no public trans representation outside the queer community, and the little you could find was often the crudest, most outlandish (and often offensive - Ace Ventura comes to mind as a particularly infamous example)...

I ask again - RW dissensus crew, can yall do better than HMG? surely you have someone better than this clown

ah yes, a poll by an account repeatedly retweeting Jake Shields - who 2 months ago called for the public execution of any providing gender-affirming care to minors, among an endless list of terrible and untrue things he's said about queer people - is definitely something that should be taken...

distraction from whatever matters to these people, which as I said is basically "wokeism" and whatever other nonsense the basic idea I think is that Biden admin/global elites/lizard people/whoever is continuously making up fake events to distract you from their nefarious activities, unless it's...

on the one hand I'm sure that's true, information overload until it's all noise otoh, events happened before the Internet and social media like it's one thing to say "the CIA orchestrated a coup" and another to say "the coup didn't happen, it's a made-up psyop to distract us" it's like an...

The condottieri were true independent contractors, able to switch employers at will Whereas Prigozhin and Wagner are more like, as I understand, subcontractors to the Russian state. Like, Wagner wouldn't take a random contract for the U.S. DoD. Blackwater/Academi would be somewhere in between...

well, that's a complicated question so this simplifies some thing, but Machiavelli lived thru the transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern period, and a key part of that in Europe was the rise of the centralized state in places like France, the Habsburg domains, and England...

another thing that this and the submarine story have really hammered home to me is that there is an entire section of society, or at least Twitter and however much that translates to society, for whom no news is real and everything is a psy-op unless it's on a topic they care about ("wokeism"...

Interestingly by the the Machiavelli was writing, the condottieri he was referring to were in serious and terminal decline as independently powerful forces for a number of reasons, but you can find better parallels in either the later Roman Empire as suggested above, or in the warlords of the...

addendum 2: anyone who is familiar with biology, Darwin, evolution, etc will know that there is no hard and fast line between species and varieties when defining things. or in other words, it's difficult to say where exactly a species ends and another begins. I don't want get sidetracked on...

addendum 1: reminder that the thundering silence of U.S. RW transphobes, TERFs, et al in re non-consensual surgery performed on intersex infants and children to make them conform to the gender binary is all the proof you need that this isn't about protecting children

and to address the "it's the same logic" thing. I'm only going to do this once, because it's very clearly a bad faith argument, but let's get it out of the way. it is, like many transphobic attacks, a slightly (if at all) repackaged retread of homophobic attacks previously deployed against gay...

to get back on track having read a little more about the cat story, it seems to me that what happened is a middle-school kid got bullied, a teacher stood up for the kid, and basically the entire weight of the UK govt (as well as the ofc usual British media/social media TERF/GC crowd) decided to...

With the caveat that idk the details of this particular story, I can say that children identifying as cats (or less commonly, x other non-human thing) in schools has long been a RW talking point here in the US, and it's repeatedly been debunked as total bullshit, i.e...