C'mon Babe We're Gonna Paint The Town

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Why must dogs be off leash in nature to thrive? Is it really as important as Sarah is always saying? In short, yes, they do need and yes, it is that important. Dig into why in this episode.

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Hairless Bat or Naked Bulldog Bat (Cheiromeles torquatus), family Molossidae, found in SE Asia

this is also how you can differentiate youth liberation from encouraging predatory behavior. yes, there's a lot of misinformation on development, such as the 'frontal lobe fully develops at 25' thing, that doesn't mean a 25 year old and a 5 year old are in the same place developmentally. I will raise an eyebrow at anyone who is very insistent that young children and adults are identical. I don't even understand how you could unironically believe this (that is, without ulterior motives) when developmental trauma exists and presents the way it does.

I highly recommend reading the book for yourself, but I'll give an excerpt from chapter 5 that hopefully explains the theory. I've added single quotation marks where I feel the wording is a bit dated, but I hope you'll agree the theory itself remains sensible

"Perhaps the best way to describe how my subconscious sex feels to me is to say that it seems as if, on some level, my brain expects my body to be 'female.' Indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that our brains have an intrinsic understanding of what sex our bodies 'should' be. For example, there have been numerous instances in which male infants have been surgically reassigned as female shortly after birth due to botched circumcisions or cloacal exstrophy (a non-intersex medical condition). Despite being raised female and appearing to have 'female' genitals, the majority of such children eventually come to identify as male, demonstrating that brain sex may override both socialization and genital sex"

Serano writes a few pages later, building off of this theory and toward what she calls "gender dissonance":

"For me, the hardest part about being trans has not been the discrimination or ridicule that I have faced for defying societal gender norms, but rather the internal pain I experienced when my subconscious and conscious sexes were at odds with one another... subconsciously seeing myself as female while consciously dealing with the fact that I was [physically] 'male'."

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.