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saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

– Ariel Dimitri, Instagram Account: "dimoetry"

They're seeking to get rid of Title IX, which prevents sex-based discrimination in federally funded schools. Their logic goes that this would allow boy's sports to be funded more if they're not kept to the same level as girls' sports. If they're not hindered by equality, then boy's sports will have the chance to become bigger and help more young men. At the cost of women, of course.

This push of girls from sports is good to them as they believe it will "increase fertility" and "encourage feminine values". As the Heritage Foundation puts it:

"Moderate exercise supports fertility and mental well-being far more reliably than does the high-intensity, elite model of sports, which, as science shows, produces Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) and elevated rates of menstrual disruption in many top-notch female athletes....... High-intensity exercise increases infertility; moderate exercise assists fertility more than any other approach to exercise assists it. Many women are drawn to activities that emphasize rhythm, coordination, community, and graceful exertion. A small but significant number thrive in highly competitive environments, and we are a better country for making those opportunities available (which might well have happened even without Title IX). Our goal, however, should be virtue and health grounded in reality and freedom, not the imposition of a male-oriented competitive ideal.".

As always, this isn't about helping boys, it's about controlling girls. But let's see what they say about boy's sports:

"Nor should we forget what happens when we ignore the effects of Title IX on men. Competition is much more central to male identity and sports are a main avenue for the safe but real expression of male competitive drive. Sports are also central to male friendships, which generally are more about doing things in common and less about saying things. Of course, men still compete and still form friendships, but both competitive drive and male friendship have suffered under the weaponized application of Title IX—and limiting the growth of male sports cannot be irrelevant to such inimical developments."

While girls are encouraged to do gentle ladylike activities, boys should not worry about "saying things" and have friendships based around only common activities. We don't live in a world where boys' sports are constantly sacrificed like they claim Title IX does. Looking at the top sports teams in the US, you can see it's not the case immediately.

There's a lot of things I skimmed over/neglected, so I implore you to please read this article by Transitics covering this. It's infinitely more tolerable than reading what the Heritage Foundation wrote, though I advise you read that too.

Twinssss

I was replaying Ib because I loooove this game and I found THIS piece (don't ask me how I really don't know I just went to the wrong room and when trying to go back I appeared in this room somehow)

I have never seen it before so no wonder why I could never get the 100% full gallery lol