Virtue SignalingEven r/dinosaurs isn't safe from virtue signalling

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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No gay dinosaurs?

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 8 insightful - 9 fun8 insightful - 8 fun9 insightful - 9 fun -  (0 children)

Those dinos had cloacal preferences.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah 10 insightful - 8 fun10 insightful - 7 fun11 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

Well we have to assume that some dinosaurs identified as non-binary asexual demiromantics.

[–]NeedMoreCoffee~=[,,_,,]=^_^= 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

bulletjournal also had a page with some girl drawing herself with her masectomy scars because she was getting it done on wednesday.

Its just ugh...

For being 1% of people they sure as fuck are EVERYWHERE. Even passed one on the street few weeks ago. Cold, raining, windy, everyone in warm jackets and pants, woman without shirt and masectomy scars in full view. Like no, your silhouette says woman and its just awkward as fuck for everyone to see it. Let alone when its cold then its just pathetic.

[–]hufflepuff-poet 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That double mastectomies on teen girls has become commonplace enough to spill over into non-TQ subs is such a gut punch. The world is gonna look back and be like "wtf were we thinking" after this is all over...

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I hope that in decades to come people will look back on all of this in the same way we look back on the lobotomies of the early 20th century.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's often the analogy I use when people say that gender reassignment helps people.

"Don't forget that in its day, the invention of the lobotomy won the Nobel Prize and was seen as a safe and helpful procedure for mental health conditions and, in the case of the Kennedy daughter, teenage willfulness."

[–]Rosefield 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not 1%. It's 0,03 %

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Why does Reddit seemingly have such a high self-identifying asexual population? There are people I know IRL who I suspect are but they don’t openly label themselves as such and aren’t part of any such real world community as far as I can tell.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can't say anything for sure ... but my guess is people who don't want to be seen as sex objects are rejecting sexuality completely. It's mental health as well as a social issue. To keep themselves safe in "inclusive and open" society, they're using asexuality to remove themselves from it, since that's the only way their boundaries will be respected.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Redditors are typically very young. For many of them, their only exposure to sex is through pornography. I've read speculation that the various pharmaceuticals many children are given at increasingly young ages may be a factor as well.

I suspect that the 'asexual' label, much like the trans label for women, is more about asserting boundaries and maybe in this case, protecting themselves from the grooming they encounter online.