dandelion
@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 days ago:
deliberately misinterpreting “fuck X” as articulating a sex-negative attitude is so non-serious and shows such bad-faith 🙄
are you just upset that you didn’t have anything to offer, and this seemed clever to you?
either way, I’m blocking you for your bad faith; I am happy to waste time engaging with serious people, but I have no time for your silliness
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 days ago:
fair enough; I tend to just click “reconnect” a few times, it usually only takes a couple tries
but good point about not visiting reddit, lol
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 days ago:
btw, they don’t successfully block all VPN users; using mullvad you can just reconnect until you’re on a VPN server that isn’t blocked (in case you still want to access Reddit with a VPN)
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 days ago:
hm, I hear you - but I think that would have to be embedded in the context of the meme; it’s not like anyone knows you are a “cocksucker” in a non-pejorative sense; homophobia is what makes the meme successful, and I don’t think anything changes from the fact that you happen to be creating or sharing it
basically the homophobia is in the audience that interprets and receives the meme, the meme succeeds because it plays on that homophobia, and so the meme is “homophobic” in that sense
I have trouble imagining these memes being shared and being popular gay communities I’m a part for that reason - the audience might find the implication that sucking cock is itself wrong as homophobic and uncomfortable
it should be clarified that when I point out the homophobia, it’s not meant as some attempt to cancel the memes or indicate loyalty or protection to Trump, instead I’m just trying to point out reactionary threads that remain, the way misogyny and homophobia are common even in anti-Trump sentiment
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 days ago:
this is a premium comment, no notes
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 days ago:
to be blunt, I don’t believe you
if you call someone a cocksucker, it’s obviously intended as an insult
telling me actually you think sucking cock is totally fine and it’s actually just about the hypocrisy of the cocksucker is not believable - that’s not why these memes succeed, people are just enjoying labeling Donald Trump as a cocksucker in a pejorative way
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 days ago:
Not every joke involving gays, are bashing at homosexuality.
I do think jokes where the entire joke is that Donald Trump sucks dick is intended to be funny because homosexuality is taboo and sucking dick is considered bad, not just to Trump, but to people in general.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 days ago:
it’s too good not to be a joke 😅
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 4 days ago:
still homophobic tho, conservatives are just the wrong people to be calling it out (and if anything conservatives are the ideal target audience for the homophobic memes, since they are the ones most likely to be bothered by their Daddy being a closeted gay)
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I also notice I hate when something I love becomes too popular, precisely because it loses its initial associations with the group I was happy to associate with, and becomes associated with a larger group that I don’t feel connection with (or worse, becomes a toxic fan base I actively don’t want to be associated with - e.g. Rick and Morty, I love the show but developed shame for that once it became popular and its biggest fans created negative associations with liking the show).
- Comment on Not impressed 5 days ago:
my mom started to dye her hair when I was a small child, and not joking - I’m still not over it … I really do hold onto things that long, and I’m beginning to wonder if I might be on the spectrum 😅
- Comment on 5 days ago:
it’s associative, the negative associations with Call of Duty players cannot be transferred to a console that doesn’t support that game, so for people who want to avoid those associations it’s a plus
- Comment on Not impressed 5 days ago:
I’m mostly joking, but not getting over it so many years later is a symptom of autism, fyi
- Comment on Not impressed 6 days ago:
autism has entered the chat
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 1 week ago:
Trump’s transgender mice 🤭
- Comment on Goddamn it, Gary 2 weeks ago:
cannabis finally helped me grok the Kline bottle, took a lot of visualizing and mental exploration but I got there
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 4 weeks ago:
it’s an honor to be your first upvote 🫡
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I have a “security blanket” too, but it’s a pillow I was given as a small child.
I’ve also felt ashamed for sleeping with it, it feels like it makes me infantile or not grown up, so I put it in a closet for many years. The past year or two, though, I’ve realized the comfort is more important to me than feeling ashamed, so I sleep with the pillow every night, usually I hug the pillow and sleep with it against me. It’s one of the few such comforts, and nothing else comforts me like it - even other pillows or plushes I have tried.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 months ago:
clit.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 2 months ago:
I am particular about forks and spoons, preferring they are thin and relatively straight - this fork looks too thick, but I don’t mind how narrow it is
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 months ago:
I had to scroll too far to find this answer.
Most of the criticism of it I’ve seen is about how the concept’s been warped to mean women aren’t putting out enough for specific men.
this is it in a nutshell. Men clearly experience loneliness, what’s problematic is the way “male loneliness” has been weaponized against women, as if it’s not a byproduct of patriarchy but actually a result of women’s neglect (or worse, an insidious assumption that women have an obligation to date men because they are lonely).
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
sorry, I conflated what you said about falsifiability being the most popular framework with thinking he did solve the problem of induction, lol - I had just woken up when I responded to you, my apologies 😅
Popper is great, also recommend Hilary Putnam’s “The ‘Corroboration’ of Theories” on Popper. I admittedly adore Putnam, but it’s a nice overview of Popper’s view of induction and its problems.
Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) and his idea of paradigm shifts is also worth mentioning here, and Kuhn comes up in Putnam’s chapter, too.
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
I’m not sure recommending Popper to someone who has never studied philosophy, and who is reading on their own, a good idea … I would probably start with a small intro to philosophy book like Blackburn’s Think and then try to find lectures or resources that help teach Popper, rather than just diving into source material with no guidance.
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
I didn’t want to say it, but I do think this is a possibility - people like Pete Buttigieg were philosophy majors. However, it’s probably a bit of both - being wealthy and connected probably still makes up a minority of philosophy majors, and yet they still outperform on graduate entrance exams generally.
You might be interested in reading The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart for a non-wealthy philosopher’s perspective on business. :-)
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 2 months ago:
There are like 1 in 100 people born trans, a similar number born intersex. It’s as common as having green eyes or having red hair.
Regardless, I figure the scientists are probably looking at this with more detail and seriousness than either of us.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 2 months ago:
wasn’t aware the sexism was intended as a light-hearted joke, my bad apparently
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 2 months ago:
gender dysphoria is not what I’m talking about, since not all transgender people have dysphoria
right, I get that, but most research has not treated being trans outside the context of gender dysphoria, so when talking about studies or the clinical and scientific context usually non-binary and non-dysphoric trans folks are left out of the picture.
It is good to be expansive in our concept of being trans for social justice reasons, and to not gatekeep for harm reduction reasons, but since scientists and clinicians are gatekeepers, what we can say about their findings are limited to the criteria they use. It is usually more accurate to say “a study found X or Y about people with gender dysphoria”, even though it’s not uncommon for that to be presented as “a study found X or Y about trans people” in more mainstream contexts.
To be clear – “transgender” the noun is not referring to a person (“that person is a transgender”* – proscribed) but rather as a substitute for “transgenderism”* (proscribed).
I have never seen this usage, and like you I’m skeptical that is right. I could see “being transgender” as a substitute for “transgenderism”, but not just “transgender”.
but it’s also clearly not purely genetic, given there are identical twins where one is cis and the other not.
The presence of identical twins where one is cis and one is trans is not proof that gender identity is not genetic - there are many reasons people do not transition or acknowledge their gender identity, such as the strong social pressure to not be trans. There can also be epigenetic differences so while identical twins may share a genome, how it is expressed differs based on a variety of conditions that alter epigenetics, such as stress or illness.
We see the same with sexual orientation by the way.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 2 months ago:
I think clinically the term gender dysphoria is used, but the trans community would probably prefer trans be used as an adjective and not a noun, someone is transgender, but not “a transgender”, if that makes sense.
also, the twin studies show gender identity is genetic and heritable:
…m.wikipedia.org/…/Causes_of_gender_incongruence
The significant percentage of identical twin pairs in which both twins are trans and the virtual absence of dizygotic twins (raised in the same family at the same time) in which both were trans would provide evidence that transgender identity is significantly influenced by genetics if both sets were raised in different families.
In 2018 a review of family and twin studies found that there was “significant and consistent evidence” for gender identity being genetically heritable.
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
yes, thought the facts and studies they link to remain true regardless - this is the strongest argument for getting a philosophy degree, it makes sense they present it
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
ironically philosophy majors perform better on graduate school entrance exams like thd LSAT than most other majors, and philosophy graduates tend to be more successful and be better earners than business major graduates
arugably, philosophy is one of the better majors in terms of outcomes