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Nature vs. nurture is a false dichotomy, in humans AND all but the simplest animals. Every human behavior you see is a natural behavior, because if it weren't we wouldn't be capable of developing it. This is why your childhood trauma or your excellent education or whatever can't make you fly or become a mind reader.

However, we're built to adapt to our surroundings, and most traits and behaviors that we develop, we develop because of the way some of our base traits interact with our environments. This happens on multiple levels, from the cellular level to the very cognitive and symbolic way in which you learn and adopt various social constructs, and all of these levels interact with each other, which is why it's pretty hard to determine what causes what exactly, but don't worry, they pay me to do a lot of math so we can do it a bit better and I'm doing my best :)

Here's a simple example: you'd think that vision is "natural", right? Animals are born with eyes so the fact that they can see is a natural trait. Well, if you cover a newborn kitten's eyes and leave it like that for a couple of months, once you take off the covering the kitten is blind. Its eyes OUGHT to work properly, but because the kitten's brain missed the sensitive periods necessary to develop its visual cortex, it will now be blind forever. If you put a newborn kitten's head in a box that's painted with vertical stripes, the kitten will only be able to perceive vertical lines with its brain for the rest of its life.

EVERYTHING about humans functions like this. You almost always need some type of environmental input to trigger some sort of trait, whether it's a nutrient or a characteristic of the uterine environment or certain reinforcement patterns or specific social norms or how popular you are in high school.

Every trait you have is simultaneously 100% nature and 100% nurture.

So to say that your sexuality was formed by your life experiences (and everyone has some amount of weird or fucked up life experiences, we live in a society) is a pretty bland and obvious statement to me because most things about you were formed by the thick and complex patina of your life experiences.

Some news in the manosphere right now, not that anyone wanted to know.

Apparently they are being prosecuted for additional sexual offenses:

The CPS has decided to prosecute Andrew Tate, 39, with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. The CPS has decided to prosecute Tristan Tate, 38, with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Andrew Tate's "War Room"

There is talk about assessing vulnerability of women, removing their support systems, how to punish them, etc

• being a problematic hater will heal you

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

Rowling believes that she has a right to commit sexual violence against women she believes don't deserve rights or safety.

Her response to receiving criticism on posting said upskirt was to essentially argue that the trans woman had it coming and as was basically asking for it because of what she was wearing.

Also consider Mikinakoos' as they're extending support beyond their traditional service areas due to the scale of this emergency!

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