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the trans community has done all the work for institutional bigotry, while the bigots can disguise their hatred as progressivism.

let me give a few examples:

1. homophobes were condemned for hating gay people. discrimination on the basis of sexual attraction was made illegal. conversion therapy was classified as a human rights violation. it was understood that homosexuals were exclusively same-sex attracted.

under gender ideology, homosexuals are seen as bigots for their sexual orientation. homosexuals are pressured to perform sex acts on the opposite sex under the guise of inclusivity. rights organizations around the globe have replaced "sex" with "gender presentation", effectively erasing homosexuality.

2. misogynists were condemned for hating women. female-only spaces were integral to women's safety. women were encouraged to defy gender norms, to reject the beauty standards created to further oppress them. female oppression was acknowledged and fought against by feminists. threats of rape and violence against women used to be a heinous, unjustifiable act deserving of public outcry.

under gender ideology, noncomformity to female beauty standards and traditional roles means you aren't a woman. female-only spaces are seen as a form of bigotry. female oppression is now a made-up term used to perpetuate transmisogyny. feminists who exclude males deserve to be raped and murdered, and this violence against women is co-signed by politicians and celebrities and institutions alike.

my point is, the trans community is doing nothing special. nothing revolutionary. gender ideology has revived bigotry under a new name, with shiny new terms, but the bigotry remains the same and the bigots are fucking revelling in it. gone are the days of their persecution. as long as they use the perfect phrases and the correct terminology, they are free to make their laws, change our institutions, and share their hateful views on a worldwide stage to the applause of millions. while the world is none the wiser.

that's why this modern form of bigotry is much more insidious, because it manipulates human empathy and moral-correctness to reinstall oppressive systems in shadow. it weaponizes pre-existing oppression to further its goals. it uses fear tactics to discredit the groups bringing facts, statistics, and reality to the conversation. it rewrites history and forces its way into credible movements to bolster its reputability. it becomes a place of refuge, a shield for the most hateful.

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.

I've spotted a huge decline over the last two years. What's upsetting is how so many of our current third years have declined since their first year. I did a seminar with them the other day, on the topic of the environmental impacts of different diets. One guy told me confidently that there would be no additional agricultural lands if we all went vegetarian.

"Cool," I said. "What's your source for that?"

"I'm sure I read it," he said.

"Fair," said I, "go and look it up. Find an academic source, let's assess it to see if it's robust."

The first thing he did was go to Google, and then read the AI summary.

"That's not a source," I said. "Find me a source."

Five minutes later, he happily tells me that a Guardian article says so, and mentions the World Economic Forum.

"Okay," I said. "Neither of those are academic sources, and the WEF is secondary anyway. Go to Google Scholar, and find a journal article."

Ten minutes later, he tells me he can only find articles that say it's a very complex issue in spite of pop cultural received wisdom, and we don't actually know.

A THIRD YEAR. This man has a dissertation due in THREE MONTHS. This is a skill we taught him in first year, and it's all dribbled out of his ears in the quest for easy summaries from an autocomplete algorithm. And I dearly wish I could say he's an exception, but Jesus Christ, that would be a lie.

I'm currently writing a lecture for the second years for their research methods module, and I normally wouldn't need to do this. But I'm having to re-introduce them to the basic concepts of how to actually analyse findings rather than lazily take whatever they seem to say at face value. I'm trying to find a good paper that had Surprising findings, because I want to show them a research question and a set of results and then get them to speculate and research on why they found something so different, but that's a difficult thing to search for.

This, as I said in the post, is a noticeable and significant problem in the last two years. It is affecting students who were fine three years ago, and now aren't. It is a very specific issue that is affecting very specific skills, including previously very intelligent people

This is already attested in the literature. Meanwhile, the for-profit education system has not changed in the last two years

Additionally, prior to the last 2-3 years, I had failed one student ever, and flagged one student ever for plagiarism. This year we've had to deal with five separate plagiarism cases on the Masters course alone, all of whom admitted to LLM use. Not one of them can analyse information worth a damn; all of them had excellent prior undergrad scores.

I feel like even feminists shy away of using the word "sexual harassment" in that context. But especially in cohabitation it takes on a very relevant scope. If you go on reddit (obviously I’ve also heard in real life, it’s basically a trope, but reddit is SO FULL of these stories), it’s full of (especially) women talking about how their partners interrupt them while working from home, while doing household things or providing childcare or while sick or recuperating from birth or struggling with pregnancy or while they are trying to sleep or do other things and their partners touch them sexually even when they have made it clear that right now, they are not interested. A lot of these posts talk about how it’s a constant source of (di)stress and pressure while living in their own home (and how it effectively kills their mood WHEN they are in the mood)

And predictably the comments (especially from men) are like “oh what’s the point of getting married if you still don’t get sex” and "don't get married guys!!!". Comments standing up for OP or backing them up often talk (rightfully! This is not a criticism!) about boundaries and consent and how being married or in a relationship does not mean you don’t need consent. Again, perfectly right. But I feel like what is missing in that conversation is that the situation being described – that’s sexual harassment. That’s what that is, constantly sexually touching someone or making advances when they have, at that time, indicated that they are not interested.

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these are the people running reddit. these are the people banning feminism subs, lesbian subs, PMS/PMDD subs, endometriosis subs, PCOS subs, and more for "transphobia".

this is why female-only subreddits are only allowed when it involves women as the subject for men to consume and jerk off to: (usually violent) porn, or corrective rape against lesbians, or violent fantasies against women.

1. your math teacher is way funnier than you're giving them credit for

..... Porn. It's literally ALL porn and fetish. ALL pf it that I saw, including an incest fetish post.