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[–]Femaleisnthateful 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

My mother gets mad when I say I didn't get any value out of my humanities undergraduate degree. Shit like this is why. I remember literature professors who insisted everything was about sex. My gender studies class wasn't this bad, but I'm sure this is standard, now. Too many weirdos who think their personal opinions - and gross fetishes - have some sort of ordained moral standing. Being forced to memorize this stuff and regurgitate it on exams was the worst, and explains so much about society today.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I got a bit out of the humanities classes I took, although most of that was meeting some other students I got along with and privately discussing how fucking insane the teacher was afterwards. Though we pretty much more or less had our own alternative network of sorts to avoid the activist teachers and warn each other where we could.

Surprisingly diverse group honestly, turns out when you get a bunch of people who are basically just there to learn get their degree and move onto a career small details like differences of opinion on religion or politics matter so little in the face of the more pressing issues of having to eggshell step around whatever professors pet peeves and unfair grading scales were.

I had a few productive class discussions actually, including ones on trans women in sports surprisingly. Where the general consensus was, if you'll pardon my vary awkward wording. That there really wasn't anything of men's league and most men didn't care. If women, or trans women, their own personal identification being irrelevant, could qualify for the top league and play at the same level as the best men, they would. And since that was extremely rare the cause must be due to innate biological disadvantages in the specific context of whatever the game being played was. Usually sheer physical strength. So a female league in that sense is essentially a kind of "handicapped league" where the restriction in so that the people who share the "handicap" can play together in a fair way. No different than say, a league for blind people, a sighted person who wants to play on the blind league has an unfair advantage. A blind person who wants to play on the sighted league does not. The former is unsporting. The later, if the person can somehow compensate for the disability and compete, is essentially the essence of what sports are about. Even if it's utterly unrealistic and only a hypothetical discussion.

Naturally the one person who was screaming bloody murder at the idea that males are biologically stronger than females was the trans-masculine type, or so I assumed, I actually didn't bother to ask because frankly their identify was none of my business and they seemed like a bit of a cunt I'd rather not deal with, surprisingly accurate assumption, and hilarious total disregard for facts like a child sticking their fingers in their ears.

How dare you say men are stronger than women!!!!!

Here's a chart of top Olympic running times segregated by gender. Here's a huge gap.

"PATRIARCHY!"

Here's a chart showing various muscle mass measurements of males and females and here's another chart showing the muscle mass of people who are taking cross sex hormones and we can see a definite gap that is consistent with biological sex that is not totally diminished regardless of hormone use.

"BIGOT lalalalalala"

Scary stuff. Don't know what happened to that person of indeterminate pronouns. I assume they failed out due to mental health issues at some point they kind of dropped off my radar. Kinda like the weird Pikachu obsessed Lesbian who communicated only in Pokemon noises. Weird person. Didn't hate her I rather enjoyed the rediculous hilarious approach to social relations. Although if you are answering the teachers question by saying "Piiiikaaachuuu" unfortunately that's not a recognized disability and you won't get credits. Think she lasted two semesters, very impressive.

[–]Athelhilda4 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol. And I thought I have bad social skills.

[–]shadeviking 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

We’re all, very much, easily bisexual.

Then why doesn't he tell gay students to watch straight porn? I guess conversion therapy is one of those "okay when we do it" things.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"If you’re straight, watch gay or lesbian porn and see how quickly you feel aroused. And how you can’t control that. You’ll realize that, ‘Oh, d—, I could be sexualized by people who are like me.’”

So I got turned on by the lesbian porn. But the gay porn just grossed me out. So I guess that makes me a homophobic lesbian?

[–]Caessium 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'd argue that what partners you tend to choose is a better indicator of your sexual preferences than what arouses you, especially when it comes to porn, which is made to be as arousing as possible. Otherwise, we get legions of bisexual women that have never slept with another woman in their life, nor do they intend to.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Getting bit by a Viagra spider can make people sexually aroused but it doesn't mean you are sexually attracted to the spider. Arousal as a sole metric for sexuality makes little sense.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Getting bit by a Viagra spider

Spider-Man, Spider-Man,
Permanent boner Spider-Man.
Spins his web, any size,
Likes to do it across MJ’s eyes.
Lookout, here comes the Spider-Man!

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But then, we already do get that from women who realized "queer" is perfect- instead of being a boring basic white girl, you can be a victim, you can get the power that only comes from oppression, and most important- a straight boring basic woman saying they're queer sounds enough like being gay nerdy Melvin won't hit on you, but hunky Chad will not only know it's word salad and you're DTF, but he might even be able to get threesomes out of it.

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    [–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I thought it wasn't a choice. These people can change their narrative at the drop of a hat.

    There seems to be movement towards walking back the “born this way” narrative now that it has achieved what it was intended to (to make equal rights impossible to argue against). I suspect that it isn’t the gays walking it back but the Queer Theorists, because the born this way argument is bad for their trans arguments (it’s very obvious that trans is not innate) and the drive to “Queer” everything.

    [–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I mean if this was the 90's you could probably get that professor in some hot shit for implying it is a choice. I don't think there was ever much evidence postulated on whether it was a choice or not so I've not seem much consensus.

    The whole argument surrounding it is kinda dumb honestly. Clearly one isn't consciously chosing what to and what not to get turned on by. But one is (hopefully otherwise it's rape) choosing their sexual partners. And plenty of men marry women they are not attracted to. Or maybe they lose their attraction to each other as they get older.

    So like, does marrying women make men gay then? The whole argument is pretty silly.

    I think the main thread behind it being a choice or not wasn't so much based on science but was based on social attitudes towards discrimination. Since if one can choose to be gay one can argue that one can also choose not to be gay, therefore it's not discrimination towards an innate trait. They're afraid that if people know the underlying causes behind homosexuality they'll try to fix it. And there's likely truth to that fear seeing throughout the history of medicine how people could do some terrible stuff to fix problems they thought they knew the solutions for.

    Regardless I do think sexuality is a bit more fluid than the hardcore religious types will say but not so much so that it's a conscious decision one can will themselves towards. Childhood experiences pavlovian responses and genetics likely all play factors into the phenomenon. And we should consider economic factors as well since gay 4 pay is also a thing.

    I reckon that if you watch loads of gay porn it will fuck with your head and your sexual drives. But then again that's true for basically any kind of pornography.