Yeah, I think the Heritage Foundation and a few other groups are deliberately recruiting and paying people for anti trans propaganda. Consider how Riley Gaines has made an entire career out of tying with someone for fifth place at a swim competition.

There’s a phenomenon of fake detransitioners as well. Maia Poet and Chloe Cole.

There’s a huge phenomenon of people who are experts in random fields pretending that it gives the competence to speak about trans issues.

Eg, Helen Joyce is a mathematician but has made her entire career into being aggrieved about trans people.

Her anti trans stuff was also a good warning sign.

When someone says something like this, even in frustration,

All teachers have vented in a way that you would probably find disturbing.

The same way people in the medical profession make dark jokes. Sometimes people vent like this to cope.

Now, putting it in text shows a shocking lack of judgment.

See the knitting debacle… where SciShow put out an episode about the science of knitting which was poorly researched and it was clear that they had consulted zero knitters.

I’ve always really liked SciShow - to the point I’ve assigned some episodes to my students - but it’s just embarrassing when it would have been trivially easy to hit up Ravelry and run the video past people who won’t call yarn “string.”

A lot of straight cis men seek out gay trans men, as if we are just tomboys. Getting called “she”/“her,” dealing with their insecurities about being attracted to a man, a general denial of who I am…

Because they aren’t comparable and don’t belong in the same sentence honestly. The name is the same, genitals are getting mutilated, but one usually means a lifetime of pain and discomfort while the other usually means some loss of sensitivity.

Female circumcision is done explicitly so that the girl will never experience sexual pleasure. No anesthesia, sometimes they rub animal shit in, sometimes they sew the vagina close to get forced open on the wedding night.

Male circumcision is usually done in a hospital, and usually the intent is more something like thinking it prevents phimosis - which it might actually even be medically necessary in that case. It’s not done in a way to deliberately destroy function.

It’s also a fun way to share art! I like to leave some of my prints in the books I’m going to donate.

male or female

Both are bad, but not comparable. Usually you don’t have your holes sewn together with a male circumcision.

Ohhhh, 90 minute is already a treat in itself. That sounds delicious.

It was delicious. Apparently can’t get it here in the states.

One of the weirdest things about that experience was that I witnessed some anti-polish racism? Like this British guy walked in and was just savage to all of the employees. Didn’t realize hating polish people was still a thing.

Reminds me of “The Necklace.”

The only vodka I’ve ever had that tasted good - enjoyable and not just something I tolerated for the alcohol - was a shot of buffalograss(?) flavored vodka at a polish restaurant in London.

Yes! I was reading him during ElevatorGate, and I remember the reaction to that stupid Dawkin’s “Dear Muslima” comment. (What a s surprise Dawkins turned out to be a complete chucklefuck.)

Not a hint of sexual pest behavior, still very actively fighting back against conservative Republican shit heels.

Pharyngula and Slacktivist are ancient and still running. I’ve been reading both since I graduated high school/had a Google Reader feed with 1k+ blogs. Both very different: Pharyngula is a ran by an atheist biology professor, while slacktivist is a Baptist laid off journalist who was/is working retail.

The big thing with these blogs in the heyday of blogging - these comment sections were spectacular. Slacktivist drew me in because he did page-by-page analysis of the Left Behind series, and the commenters would write often high effort, good fan-fiction in response to whatever passage. On Pharyngula, you could see multiple actual scientists rip a stray creationist wandering in to shreds.

There’s just something different about old school blog culture versus “link aggregators” - nothing like the feeling of a “free Friday thread.”

Perhaps they can also install many public toilets, and advertise a safe, loosely patrolled area to enjoy commemorative anal sex.

It may not deter all of the Nazis, but still manage to be a fitting memorial.

Didn’t you see what happened to Horst Wessel Charlie Kirk? Those radical left transgenders froze his peaches!

There’s an entire genre of these weird “fruit Love Island” AI dramas that pop up on my TikTok. It’s terribly animated anthropomorphic fruit, and the plot is usually that the wife is cheating on the husband with the boss and gets pregnant.

We “learned” that in 6th grade science.

I remember the same teacher had a test question which was something like “you and a friend are playing at a landfill, and your friend spills sulfuric acid all over themselves, what should you do?” and the ‘correct’ answer was “pour sodium hydroxide on the spill” instead of my answer of “pour water on the spill.”

I had another science teacher who made a huge deal about her chronic Lyme, which is this really weird alternative medicine thing.

This is the best one, IMHO. I’d want to make it painful.