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American football is like a whole other topic for a number of reasons, but I think maybe people need to be more careful when they start comparing the attitude of fear towards transition at a young age to the attitude of apathy towards sports/other stress injuries from common extracurricular activities for kids because a lot of the time I see the conversation turn towards “oh wow why do we let kids do sports it’s affecting their body for life this is so terrible” which is kind of just the opposite of the point you’re trying to make. You are now also saying “I don’t think kids should be allowed to do things that make them happy if there is any risk of it having a long-term/irreversible affect on their body”. And like obviously these are two completely different things from a cultural perspective and sports injuries are not the same as gender affirming care, but like you have to actually think about what you’re saying when you initiate a conversation comparing the two. The conclusion needs to be “kids should be allowed to make these decisions for themselves and should be properly informed and given proper care”, and when you start bashing sports (and other activities that can cause stress injuries, I mean I have a bad shoulder from playing violin for ~7 years completely of my own volition) based on the reasoning that kids are incapable of understanding how it will affect them in the long run, you are just using your own analogy against your own argument.

Woke little sister, flushed and in between heavy breaths: "we should be doing this. It's perfectly fine. Incest taboos are based in eugenics."

it's not enough to say "IP law doesn't prevent theft" (<- true) we must also stress that IP law enables and causes theft and then legally bars the original creators from using their creations, until corporations are mass producing the IP for immense profit while the original creators die in poverty (<- also very extremely true!!!)

being able to go to work with hickeys and bite marks on your neck is a human right.

The only difference between a chud religion and a woke religion is whether or not said religion has the weight of the government or other powerful institutions behind it. No matter how beautiful and egalitarian and morally aspirational the original texts of a religion are, there is absolutely nothing stopping institutional actors from twisting those words to defend the powerful and demonize the powerless. Bitches in the U.S. will be like "Buddhism is such a peaceful religion, you never hear about Buddhist extremists" yeah of course YOU haven't heard of Buddhist extremists you couldn't find Myanmar on a map if your life depended on ir

i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk

I know this is meant to be funny but it actually makes such a good point about how ADHD and executive dysfunction can impact people in really major ways, including financially

everyone who has a horrible tornado phobia despite not being threatened by them is sane. and the insane people are the ones in tornado alley who are chill about it. Btw. literally think about it tornado so scary

people in the notes confused how someone can have the tornado phobia but not fear hurricanes: I don't know how to explain it, but there is something more predictable about a hurricane. a tornado is just some shit that pops out of the sky. literally shouldn't be allowed

to be honest im really sick of the fact that fat people are supposed to suck it up when other peoples worst fear is looking like them