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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (16 children)

is "the science of biology" code speak for transphobia?

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  • [+] [S] 2 points 1 year ago* (8 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I am open to giving benefit of the doubt, but when someone is "apolitical", but also doesn't like left wing talking points, doesn't directly say what they are talking about and vehemently defends russian war of aggression in other threads, I can't help but suspect transphobia.

    Obviously, your story is the other extreme, but I rarely see that side of the discussion.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    anyone that says they are "apolitical, or i hate trump,,but" yea those are right wingers, trying to not be called out. or my favorite is how they pretend to be a center right, or on the left it always begins with" i support this and this dem BUT,,,,"

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    I mean, yeah, my point isn't that only one side is ever correct, but it does usually lean towards one end of the political spectrum than the other in the online discussions. People who are accepting of LGBT+ are on average more level headed and have better critical thinking. Though you can meet trolls and assholes anywhere if you search hard enough

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    While I don't think the two sexes have the same physical capabilities, I dislike how being a woman is such a hyperspecific category in sports like someone could be born AFAB and lived as a woman their entire life only to be found as intersex in some test and now they're automatically a man and should use masculine pronouns.

    And as someone who is AFAB, growing up I was often discouraged from going outside, and the gym was off-limits, which would've been a disadvantage for me if it wasn't for calisthenics. It's not like the physical strength of a man and woman is so far apart either. Some people even claim that an out-of-shape man can overpower a trained woman. In Tug-of-War I'm able to win against an AMAB and I haven't had any HRT yet lol

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  • [+] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
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    No you didn't say anything wrong re: women participating in physical activities, it's just that the professor had a point. Not that the two sexes have the same physical capability or ceiling (your professor didn’t even factor puberty and hormones), but that women aren't as strong as they could be because of how society treats them differently. Lots of girls aren't even allowed to go outside and play rough for example. Because they don't become as physically capable it becomes a feedback loop where people assume they are weak so they are discouraged from physically demanding activities.

    And me mentioning the Tug-of-War thing wasn't about what you said but a statement against the people I mentioned beforehand who claimed that the physical disparity was so high that an out of shape man can beat a trained woman.

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    What people exactly are you referring to?

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