Yeah whatever you say

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

No safety regulations

so hard to be sex positive in a "women and even men should be able to healthily masturbate and enjoy physical pleasure" kinda way while also being very very anti sex industry is hard sometimes.

This is exactly the distinction that gets lost in the "discourse." Being anti-industry isn't about being anti-pleasure or anti-human nature; it’s about being anti-commodity.

"Ugh. Me see Grug go in jerk cave again."

I know it's very Gender Crit 101 but it does still baffle me when people say things like, "Identity is something you feel inside of you so it can't be questioned" Other then gender other identifier that I can think works that way. If you claim to be a skater but you don't skate, you're going to be questioned. If you call yourself a Catholic but don't believe in the holy trinity you're going to be questioned. If you call yourself a Leftist but exclusively vote for right wing leaders you're going to be questioned. Identity labels are put under scrutiny all the time and on a functional level this questioning allows the group to maintain its purpose without being derailed.

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

It’s really difficult to discuss anything to do with “trans” when the trans community can’t even agree on what “trans” is.

hi I’d like to know what do radfems think of things like those candles that are in the shape of a woman’s body or lamps of the same concept? Those are the two I can name off the top of my head of things like that but I also mean just your general typical pieces of furniture and/or decorations. And what do you guys think of jewelry like that too? Like yoni and boob necklaces/rings/etc

i don't think making objects with boob, ass, dick or vulva patterns is inherently any different than making an object that has e.g. the shape of an eye, mouth or hand on it. it is a single body part. it is not torn off a body, but it just represents itself (or possibly acts as a symbol for something else). but if you make a statue of a female torso, where the head, legs and arms are cut off, the association to dismemberment, sexual objectification and identity erasure is always going to be there, no matter the intent. it's no longer just a single organ or a single symbol, it is a body, and you are left wondering where the rest of it is. why does it not have a face? why is it so silent and unmoving? why is it so similar to something a serial killer would want to create?