#experimenting on humans

[kharmii]

Thoughts on books such as Gender Queer being in school libraries? I've gotten into major arguments over how it's literally porn and was accused of abusing trans kids by not wanting to let them explore their gender identity.

The person had no response for "there's literally images of simulated sex acts" but I got dogpiled anyway.

The one I heard about was called All Boys Aren't Blue which was basically an activist manifesto depicting anal rape of a minor and incest. It was so graphic the pundits and parents at school board meetings couldn't read the offending passages out loud. Left wing pundits like, "Why are you trying to censor us? Maybe a fourteen year old anal rape incest survivor needs to read this for solidarity!"

Right wing pundits argued that there is only so much shelf space in a middle school library, so excluding obscene alphabet sexual propaganda material isn't 'censoring' per se. It's deciding that there are countless other books more deserving of shelf space. Sheez, when I was a kid in middle school reading Babysitter's Club and Sweet Valley Twins, I wasn't allowed to read the Sweet Valley High books until I was in 7th grade because some of the topics might have been too grown up for a child up to eleven years of age.

It would have never occurred to anybody back then that someday books about rape of a minor or genital mutilation would be sneaked into middle school libraries. They're obviously evangelizing, and I would even go so far as to consider this a real time science experiment on our youth. Get enough of them to experience gender confusion at a young enough age, make it a profound enough social contagion, and BOOM! That many more young people to carve up and pump full of drugs their bodies don't need and aren't used to cure an actual bodily dysfuntion.

Side Note: People are posting the usual 'blame white supremacists' dog whistles in that last post blathering about whypipo are to blame for TERFs.... Examples:

Get it! Classic suffragettes (who actually did meaningful work fighting for women's rights, as opposed to modern feminists who post this sort of shit) were racist too! White women, white men, white everything are nothing but racists, and therefore none of their good works past or present are worth a damn. White people are EVIL, so we might as well hate ourselves and mutilate our genitals, so we become Darwinism fails.

Hey anon, have you noticed that the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF TERFS ARE WHITE WOMEN AND WHITE PASSING? (What does white passing even mean, you retarded troglodyte bits of human smegma projecting your undesirability as a breeding partner onto the white race. That's what I suspect is behind a lot of this deep down).

Anyway, if a lot of whypipo are represented as they claim, then one can also make the argument that whypipo are over-represented in the gay/trans movement as well. Seriously, are a lot of non-white countries mutilating their children? Are libraries in China, India, Iran, Brazil, etc, etc, full of books brainwashing little girls into questioning their gender and mutilating their reproductive organs? -Or is this bullshit only being pushed in first world countries, possibly with the side effect of causing civilizational collapse?

Side Note 2: I'd be curious to see the racial makeup broken down of people who get fully sterilized after gender transition surgery. Is it like 99% white? How many weirdo parents are giving their children puberty blockers in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, etc. etc.....

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[catmask]

when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people

the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[salvadorbonaparte]

Every once in a while a new music genre gets invented and people from all different countries are like this slaps we got to start doing that and combine it with our own music styles and that's beautiful

[flintpunks-mind]

A co-worker of mine was standing outside with me during a break from customers to share a cigarette with me, and told me about how he had lost his brother that he was close with some years ago. He told me about how they used to be in a band together with some friends, and how ever since he'd died, he hadn't played any music because he'd been too scared and anxious. I told him about how I'd lost my brother to suicide some years ago.

I went home and pulled out an old tiny wooden box my brother had given me before he'd died. I'd been using it to store guitar picks I'd collected over the years, including one guitar pick that used to be his. I haven't played the guitar since he'd died, my hands are too small to play some of the chords, so I play bass and piano instead.

I went to work the next day and gifted my brothers old guitar pick to my co-worker. I told him that it'd been sitting in a box for ten years unused, and would probably sit there for longer if I kept it there. Told him that I thought he deserved to have it, because I bet he could put it to better use than I ever would. Told him I didn't feel like it was coincidence that me and him would cross paths with each other in our lives, and that it seemed suiting that we had these similar experiences but split in two halves. That somehow, I felt like he was meant to have the guitar pick. I told him that I knew he'd not played guitar since his brother died, but that if he ever decided to play again one of these days, maybe he'd be able to honor both of our brothers by using that guitar pick.

He almost cried. He thanked me. Then he went home that night and for the first time in years he played the guitar.

I don't know what the meaning of life is or what my purpose is, but I do believe that love and human connection is one of the most important things in life. It's finding ways to tell strangers you love them and share experiences with others. I think it's all just about love.

[qaletheian]

"I may have been the puppet, but I'll always be in control."

Bill design by @donniipao, such a cool concept!

(close up under the cut).

[pickled-flowers]

Sex positivity is also about not calling Ace people prude and using virgin as an insult 👍 hope that helps

[cannibalspicnic]

What cracks me up about Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape is that aside from the vampirism, Daniel's just having such a typical cocaine experience.

He goes home with a guy because he has coke, then ends up listening to the guy rant and bitch about his ex until dawn, then witnesses an implosion between the guy and his current partner, then is forced to answer the question, "Am I boring?" from said partner while trying to figure out the best way to leave.

This is just a regular night on cocaine.

[wren-kitchens]

im annoyed and a little pedantic so can i just say as a blanket statement

queerbaiting is when the promotion for a FICTIONAL STORY intentionally hints towards two characters having a romantic relationship, without any intention to follow through in the show, in order to get queer people watching without discouraging the homophobic enjoyers of the show

queerbaiting is NOT:

a celebrity who you think is queer because theyre gnc or they have a 'vibe'. that is a real person and they cannot queerbait

two friends of the same gender pretending to flirt with each other for fun. those are real people and they cannot queerbait

a show with two characters of the same gender who are canonically friends that YOU PERSONALLY think would be better in a relationship. that's not bating, that's shipping, and subject to opinion

there are more but those are the main examples of people misunderstanding what queerbaiting is and being mad at something that isn't actually a problem

[kharmii]

The tide continues to turn! More and more mainstream news is forced to admit the truth and what we’ve been shouting from the rooftops for almost 2 years. If left alone, kids will grow out of their gender confusion. Permanently medicalizing them and removing their body parts when they are vulnerable, unsure and still developing is a CRIME against humanity. Child Mutilation Advocates better start thinking of a good reason why they ever supported this, for history will be very unkind to them. #GaysAgainstGroomers

It's a social contagion people need to stop glorifying on social media. It's going to be crazy to see where we will be in ten, twenty years when these kids into it now are grown up. Hopefully most of them will end up alive, unmutilated and living normal, heteronormative lifestyles because they got over the silly phase based on a trend or -at worst- a fetish.

[uncanny-tranny]

The leftism/anticapitalism leaving people's bodies the zeptosecond you imply that disabled people who aren't "productive" still matter in society and need to be treated like intrinsic equals who have a place in this world:

[whalesfall]

btw. your search for the most morally upright and ethical piece of media that has the most correct “representation” will destroy your ability to find the most profound and beautiful and human of stories. and may even destroy the stories themselves before they are created. if you even care.

[i-loved-silly]

yandere monster x darling who found them in the woods. Darling y/n who showed them a bit of kindness by not running away immediately and offering a bit of food from their bag. The creature looked thin but large in height and certainly not weak in any way.

You’ve heard legends about this monster. Legends that strictly stated that it killed anyone who crossed the woods and was the opposite of forgiving. But it didn’t try to hurt you so why not!

Oh and it would never hurt you. Not after you treated it so kindly. Surely it must mean you hold them so dearly in your heart, right? You’re not like the other village people

Yan!monster who didn’t realize it until hours after it last saw you. How stupid of them, you were gone already! They should have followed you back home, you would have welcomed them in right? You like them after all. And they like you.

They’ll spend the rest of their lives searching for that feeling again, for you specifically.

They know the woods like the back of their hand, they’ll search endlessly until they catch a bit of your scent. No matter how long it takes. It pays attention whenever it hears or smells another human, but it’s never you. And those humans never come out of the woods again. Come find them please, they yearn to hear your voice again and the softness of your expression. They don’t know what they’ll do if they don’t find you soon

[where-that-old-train-goes]

not normal about orpheus and eurydice. you loved someone so much it opened the stones of the underworld. so much that death had to listen. so much that everything stopped for your love. so much that you turned around. so much that even when you did wrong. she forgave you.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"oh please everyone has gay thoughts sometimes" so what i'm hearing is that heteronormativity is so ingrained that a significant percentage of the population regularly experiences bisexual attraction? but dismisses it as something that all straight people experience? this is so concerning are you guys okay