54 Years Today: Despite Flying the American Flag, Being Painted with the American Flag, and Sending out Distress Signals in Perfect American English, America's Great Ally Attacked This Ship Killing 34 and Wounding 171. Israel Paid 13 Million as Compensation. We Give Them Billions Each Year.

Archie · 2021-07-21T21:26:12+00:00

That happened dozens of time and in every war the US was involved in. Look up friendly fire incidents in the gulf wars for example. Sometimes it's the execs on the ground who simply don't believe everything the pilot tell them (or assume it's a false flag) and think their info is better, sometimes it's the other way around.

Archie · 2021-06-27T09:16:05+00:00

The simplest explanation is that this was accidental friendly fire, something that happened dozens of times with american troops in every single war.

I wish I could get money for being sane.

Archie · 2021-06-24T20:06:54+00:00

Have you considered that people spreading such ideas could be foreign agents trying to weaken the US?

Archie · 2021-06-14T06:50:05+00:00

Why should I believe you did not make this up on the spot?

Archie · 2021-06-09T18:44:49+00:00

What would be the reason for the attack if they knew it was an American ship?

Archie · 2021-05-25T12:22:23+00:00

I'm sorry to bother you with this here but I have a hard time to reconciliate your two critiques. Usually, libfems are less critical of Islam, while radfems are extremely critical of all religions including Islam for its oppression of women in all aspects of life.

Either they're both more radical and more critical of Islam, or more liberal and less critical. Surely?

Archie · 2021-05-07T19:19:16+00:00

Because this site is not as well-known as reddit, and because we have to share it with people who comment stuff like "all jews are subhumans who need to die for the world to be free" and "if government wanted us to be safe from coronavirus, they'd promote vitamin D and humidifiers instead of vaccines".

I've just browsed s/conspiracy top threads for 5 minutes to find those two comments. They're not made up, and I found dozens of similar comments along the way. Most people 1) will leave the site as soon they see those and 2) do not want to be associated with that. It definitely hurts the movement.

Archie · 2021-05-07T11:33:57+00:00

Depends on what you're looking for. If you're interested in a long lasting relationship, finding other vegetarians when you're one yourself is a major plus. It's a big hassle in the day to day life otherwise.

The other two can be used as red flags or conversation starters, so I don't think they always should be avoided on a profile either. After all, if someone's life goal is to live in a commune on a farm, I'd prefer to be informed before I invest time in developing a relationship with them.

Archie · 2021-05-07T06:55:23+00:00

For those interested, I think this is the SBU study mentioned in the image: https://www.sbu.se/en/publications/sbu-bereder/gender-dysphoria-in-children-and-adolescents-an-inventory-of-the-literature/

The downloadable executive summary is in English.

Archie · 2021-05-07T06:46:28+00:00

Do you have a source? It's a super valuable stat

Archie · 2021-05-04T11:57:26+00:00

I don't disagree with your remarks - but the 41% stat of the presenter is wrong, so this is a moot point. That infamous 41% stat is from a study with 27 self-reported samples. A bit ridiculous to base a world view on this.

Interestingly while we're talking about trans suicid, multiple recent studies support that surgery actually does not lower suicid rates. This could be a sign that we should try to adress the issue through other methods.

Archie · 2021-04-16T06:10:30+00:00

Agreed with everything, this is part of what drove me back to second wave feminism as well.

Archie · 2021-04-15T06:45:20+00:00

Read the room, dude.

Archie · 2021-04-07T08:07:52+00:00

Lack of access to abortion is a direct cause of death and/or suffering for women and hard a direct cause of women being forced to stop studying/stop their career and being forced to end up at home, dependant on a man to even survive.

It has to be a feminist cause. It is indeed one of the most important ones still, because it isn't solved at all in the US, unlike other feminist issues.

Archie · 2021-03-16T16:36:32+00:00

This kind of post really shows that there are at least three "teams" in this. Second wave feminists who denounce women oppression, TRAs, and conservative assholes like the guy who wrote this post who are opposed to the previous two.

That guy is not an ally for us, he just hates trans even more than women.

Archie · 2021-03-13T12:06:35+00:00

Just to nitpick, the oestrogen in water from birth control thing is originally a conservative christian talking point.

Most oestrogen in water come from agriculture. 90% from animal manure, specifically. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101208125813.htm

Archie · 2021-03-13T11:59:09+00:00

That stuff has nothing in common with OP's post.

"Two assholes are pedophiles" is a vastly different claim from gigantic underground operations that somehow nobody denounces (while usually the same people claim that government is inefficient, at the same time).

Archie · 2021-03-09T13:14:21+00:00

Literally all the fights that feminists had to do were against conservatives until those last 5 years. Somehow, I doubt they changed. They're just better regarding trans issues, and that's all. Your aunts are definitely super cool but they're probably not representative of conservative politicians. Conservative feminism is an oxymoron.

Archie · 2021-03-09T13:06:45+00:00

On the one hand it is nice that it gets more people to talk about the issue, but on the other hand I hope the term never catches up.

Changing the meaning of words such as "woman", "gay", "lesbian" and "straight" has always been the goal of TRAs. Creating a new terms like "superstraight" which actually has the same meaning than "straight" should right now is playing into their game. It is acknowledging that the meaning of "straight" changed, and we absolutely do not want that.

"Straight" means you're attracted to the opposite sex. A man attracted to men in dresses is gay or bi. We don't need new words and doing so will only lead to losing the communication battle.

Archie · 2021-02-23T20:24:37+00:00

That's the only keyword in there that doesn't annoy me actually. Basically it's people who see other people, but in a paradigm where everyone trust and communicate with each other. I've seen people doing it who were fine.

Definitely not my cup of tea, but they can do whatever they want as long as they don't try to teach kids that everybody should do the same.

Archie · 2021-02-23T20:15:29+00:00

Also note how this person is "ace" (asexual). Every word is under attack.

In fact, I feel like it doesn't get talked about as much but there's a whole community who will flame you if you say asexuals typically aren't interested in sex. They call asexual people who aren't attracted to everyone of the opposite sex instantly and who are more attracted by people they know and like (= normal people or almost everyone).

And it's terrifying because they attempt to teach this to teenagers everywhere on the internet. For them normalcy will mean asexual.

Archie · 2021-02-22T15:48:34+00:00

You're right to focus. It's hard to change conservatives and they're not the ones that we have to attempt to reach, anyway.

Archie · 2021-02-22T14:48:23+00:00

IIRC, I've done that research before and the answer was that the majority of female hormones dumped in water came from bovine agriculture

Archie · 2021-02-22T13:58:35+00:00

I'm not taking a big risk by saying this here, but I find this review very powerful and difficult to dispute. Thank you for taking the time to do what you're doing.

Archie · 2021-02-21T15:54:34+00:00

No worries that guy is a regular troll

Archie · 2021-02-14T13:55:12+00:00

That context does not redeem the sentence "the weaks are unworthy of love", it just means she thought her husband was not a part of that group, however she defined it.

Archie · 2021-02-14T12:42:56+00:00

Many TRAs previously were conservative incels. There's a real pipeline from one to the other.

Archie · 2021-02-14T12:11:57+00:00

You're right, I should have said classic delusion of people on one extremity of the political spectrum.

Archie · 2021-02-14T12:02:38+00:00

One of the flagships of libertarians. Basically anti government, anti social system, anti any kind of protection for the most vulnerables in our society, which she despised anyway.

Most of reddit probably hasn't read her rags, but they're accidentally right on the issue.

Archie · 2021-02-13T13:25:29+00:00

Classic delusion of the conservative, assuming the majority or even everyone is secretly on his side. Get back to earth sometimes

Archie · 2021-02-07T13:25:46+00:00

One issue is that it seems that the conservative type that is anti-TRA but also anti-women's rights is much more numerous than us, GC feminists.

If we aren't careful enough to keep them out, they will drown our message to extinction.

Archie · 2021-01-25T17:11:17+00:00

It's not that she "wants" them to be political. They are political issues. It's a fact, different political sides have different ideas about those issues. That's true for most if not all of women and health issues, and trans issues as well.

Note that this doesn't mean that there's no right and wrong side. Depending on the issue, there is at least always one side that is less wrong that the other ones.

Archie · 2021-01-25T15:27:18+00:00

My bad, I thought I was on GC. I disagree with your arguments (mostly, the "conscience" of those opposed to abortion matters a lot less than the lives ruined by lack of access to abortion) but you're right about this not being the proper place for this discussion.

Archie · 2021-01-20T15:25:21+00:00

Do you know why you heard so much about Obama's drone strikes? Because under his presidency it was made mandatory to report every single one of them along with every casualty.

Under Trump's command, those requirements were scrapped (!!). And even with the little info we can still get, we know the number of strikes was escalated under Trump.

Archie · 2021-01-20T15:19:43+00:00

Don't you see any irony in supporting Trump to avoid having shameless narcissists in positions of power?

Archie · 2021-01-20T15:12:25+00:00

Don't tell me we have anti-abortion people on a second wave feminism sub

Abortion isn't accessible for every woman if they have to pay for it. And usually, for those who need it the most.

Archie · 2021-01-19T12:15:02+00:00

Oh my fucking god. I have no words. Those incels have found their community...

Archie · 2021-01-18T12:48:55+00:00

The whole concept of having your own pronouns is an internet insanity that should never have gotten any kind of mainstream attention.

Anyone who does it shows they seriously support trans ideology, and well I can't take seriously someone who says that women can have penises.

Archie · 2021-01-14T08:39:24+00:00

The difference feminism and trans activism. Sadly the latter has become more popular lately.

Archie · 2021-01-13T17:03:41+00:00

It's a conservative subreddit though. They're thankfully not really representative of the majority over there.

Not that the woke population is much better.

Archie · 2021-01-02T02:06:35+00:00

. I stopped calling myself a feminist

I understand the struggle but I think that's the opposite of what we should be doing. Imo we need to do our best to reclaim the word. I like to describe myself "like a more old school, second wave feminist". Saying the ideas we support like destroying gender roles are more than a century old helps to defend them.

I do the same with leftism btw. I'm a pro union, pro workers right, anti-religion leftist, not a pro TRAs bullshit liberal.

Archie · 2021-01-01T20:40:25+00:00

This, exactly this. This is the crux of the matter.

Archie · 2020-12-30T14:21:00+00:00

Related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/481/

Archie · 2020-12-30T12:51:48+00:00

Oh, the male violence part is not very hard to prove... Police stats show that >95% of sexual assaults and rapes are done by males. There are not enough trans people to skew that number, whatever sex is used to register their actions.

Archie · 2020-12-30T12:44:24+00:00

Thank you! With this ref I could find and download it from here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/19932112_Transsexuals_in_the_military_Flight_into_hypermasculinity

Archie · 2020-12-30T11:44:32+00:00

I thought that transmeds realized that what they have is a disease and recognize it isn't something to be proud of? They are actually the only trans people that I thought made sense. I thought they focused more on body dysphoria than the brain sex bullshit

They're hated by other TRAs, which is a good sign at least

Archie · 2020-12-30T11:39:44+00:00

There is a paper that is the opposite of trans critical in its attempted message, but the data shows an important reality that TRAs always try to hide: 97% of heterosexuals do not want to have sex with trans people. It's lower for gays, even more for lesbians, and about 50% of bis are okay with it. See figure 1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325490626_Transgender_exclusion_from_the_world_of_dating_Patterns_of_acceptance_and_rejection_of_hypothetical_trans_dating_partners_as_a_function_of_sexual_and_gender_identity

Archie · 2020-12-27T12:19:12+00:00

I'm the most irreligious, "if all religions disappeared the world would be a much better place" atheist, and one of my very good friends is a monk. I simply do not hide my opinions, but do not attack him for his as hard as I would other people. It's possible to keep having fun and respecting each other while having some fundamentally different ideas. I think honesty is better in those cases.

Archie · 2020-12-23T13:51:55+00:00

I play women characters because I prefer to look at women's butts lol

Archie · 2020-12-23T13:44:59+00:00

My browser does not want to download this file. Can you please put some references so I can find it, or another link?

Archie · 2020-12-23T13:38:22+00:00

MRAs or TRAs? (although they're kinda similar people)

Archie · 2020-12-13T11:48:17+00:00

Fuck... I want more public healthcare coverage. Why do I have to choose between this and basic women's rights? The political landscape is so fucked.

Archie · 2020-12-13T11:29:00+00:00

That's most of saidit's population. Even though many feminists migrated from reddit to here, we were never welcome on that website and it shows.

Archie · 2020-12-08T12:05:34+00:00

Basically the left until ~2016. We need the left to go back to its roots, focus on workers rights and well-needed egalitarianism based on reality. Not that woke shit.

Archie · 2020-11-29T16:38:43+00:00

In what context other than those three would you want a paternity test?

Archie · 2020-11-27T16:20:21+00:00

They cannot even prove this theory that it will not break up inside us and be incorporated into our DNA.

Do you think RNA can randomly be incorporated into DNA? It requires dedicated machinery. Retrotransposons and virus carry their own, this vaccine obviously doesn't come with it. How would the RNA even get into the nucleus? That also requires dedicated mechanisms. I believe you're seriously lacking in cell biology. What do you call "working in the biotech industry", were you a technician?

The worry about the vaccine is that it might not work, not that it isn't safe.

Archie · 2020-11-27T16:12:29+00:00

?? If you're that worried about it maybe you don't date the right women

Archie · 2020-11-27T11:23:33+00:00

No, that guy is nuts. He's happy about homosexuals getting persecuted and wants a "great reset" of society, don't expect him not to swallow every speck of bullshit from conspirationists. He's the type to use youtube videos as sources.

Archie · 2020-11-27T11:21:17+00:00

That's a conservative subreddit, what did you expect?

For many of them, the LGB are "degenerates" too.

Archie · 2020-11-27T11:19:13+00:00

Paternity tests are legal in France, although not super easy to get: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F14042

Archie · 2020-11-27T11:15:15+00:00

Imo that one is in the realm of stupid. Kcal count was already printed and that's all that really matter

Archie · 2020-11-27T11:03:36+00:00

which you didn't do

I believe I very explicitely mentioned access to abortion in my original comment, and you answered it well.

Less explicitely, under a Trump government with more and more Trump administration-appointed judges, you can expect that court will less often side with women in most sexual harassment, assault and rape cases (as the vast majority still doesn't come from TRAs).

Quoting your words verbatim

Please quote where I said that under Biden, all women's rights would be safe. I obviously disagree with this position as he panders to TRAs.

Archie · 2020-11-26T15:51:44+00:00

How old are you?

Archie · 2020-11-20T02:38:48+00:00

I can't believe the last paragraph of this article

She continued: ‘Medical training should include exposure to transgender patients. A lot of doctors who are practicing didn’t have that in their training.’

The conclusion should have been that IDs need to keep refering to actual sex or babies will be stillborn and women won't get the kidney they need.

Archie · 2020-11-20T02:31:18+00:00

I kinda agree with you, but the whole concept of gender should disappear and the word should go back to being synonymous with sex.

Archie · 2020-11-20T02:29:30+00:00

Cloth masks aren't perfect, but they limit the spread (including of aerosols, cf previous post), which is a good enough reason for people to wear them.

Archie · 2020-11-20T02:26:42+00:00

I never said any of that, please don't lie or misrepresent my claims. I respect your posts on this sub. What I said was that access to abortion was more important than the rights than Biden threatens, and you presented some good arguments against that.

Archie · 2020-11-20T02:24:25+00:00

Do you have some biology background? I think it could be very insightful for you to find a genetics 101 class as the subject seems to interest you.

To answer your post, only a few genes expressed differently make a world of difference. Most of our DNA is common with other close species, let alone with other members of the same one.

Archie · 2020-11-20T01:22:12+00:00

Do you understand what "suspension" means? It means a mixture containing particules. In this case, the mixture is fine droplets. The mention "droplets and aerosols" you will see in some publications basically means "droplets and very fine droplets".

In any case, masks are effective at limiting spread of aerosols: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72798-7

Archie · 2020-11-20T00:40:18+00:00

Aerosols means water droplets. Those are big enough to be stopped by masks.

What you should use to research scientific publications is the ncbi website or sciencedirect.

Archie · 2020-11-20T00:38:58+00:00

The virus does not travel alone. It is carried by water droplets, who are much bigger and easily stopped by the mask.

Archie · 2020-11-20T00:27:56+00:00

Those are sadly pretty convincing arguments... if onyl dems didn't waste so much with that bullshit

Archie · 2020-11-20T00:24:19+00:00

Well, have you noticed he's still denying having lost the election? It isn't anyone's fault but his that he's seen as a cartoon villain. This is a single example among a long history of similarly ridiculous stuff.

Hard to argue with your second paragraph ; the best course of action would be to change dems opinion on this stuff but it seems hopeless for now

Archie · 2020-11-18T11:18:31+00:00

Yes, their ideas are idiotic, but that guy is delusional and mentally ill too if he believes a single word of what he posted.

Archie · 2020-11-18T11:14:11+00:00

Trump is the embodiment of what we fought against as feminists. He's a self-admitted and proud sexual harasser, a prostitution buyer, not mentioning the rape lawsuits. He got conservative judges in the supreme court that are against abortion.

Trans issues do not matter at all compared to those issues. I'm annoyed by Biden pandering to the TRA crowd, but at least every other women's rights will be safe.

Feminism cannot be right-wing in a country where the right wing fights against women's rights as basic as abortion.

Archie · 2020-11-18T10:59:32+00:00

Agreed, this definitely looks like a "women have it easier" speech.

And it is utterly wrong, r/detrans is full of both mtf and ftm who regret transitioning.

Archie · 2020-11-18T10:50:04+00:00

When this sub was still on reddit, the majority of people were leftist, feminist women.

Saidit is mostly visited by right-wing conservatives who are not feminists and care as little about women's rights as TRAs do. The sub seems invaded by them, on reddit they were less than 5% and easily downvoted, but here it feels like it is half the population of the sub. A major indicator of this is the difference in Trump support.

I'm afraid there's little we can do about it, besides advertizing for the sub on reddit where we can fetch feminists more easily.

Archie · 2020-11-18T10:41:02+00:00

They are trying to destroy humanity

Oh come on. This is not voat. TRAs are just sexist assholes fighting for themselves and their retarded ideas, not some kind of illuminaty conspiracy.

Archie · 2020-11-09T12:35:06+00:00

The best course of action would be that democrats themselves stop pushing for that bullshit, so we can vote for someone that is sane both on that issue and every other issue.

Archie · 2020-11-09T10:46:25+00:00

Trump tried avoiding to do his job in general, which indeed implies less communication with foreign leaders.

Archie · 2020-11-04T10:21:44+00:00

Fine if it's for intersex, go the fuck away for anything else

Archie · 2020-11-01T13:26:23+00:00

That's never going to happen. Thankfully, most people consider that being trans is a mental illness.

Meanwhile, losing abortion access during the next mandate is a very real possibility. Look at what just happened in Poland, all the conditions are here to do the same.

Archie · 2020-10-30T17:54:47+00:00

That sucks. Sadly, it still matters less than losing other women's rights, most notably abortion, so I can't not support him in front of Trump.

Archie · 2020-10-27T09:06:50+00:00

The youtube comment is mistaken: sex is defined entirely and uniquely by gametes. That's what determines if you're male or female. This is why sex is binary. The rest are either causes (chromosomes, genes) or consequences (secondary sexual characteristics) of being of one sex, not a part of the definition of sex.

Many genetic diseases can lead to nonfunctioning reproductive organs or organs with anormal aspect: those do not define a third sex. Those diseases do not lead to a new type of gamete. In fact, most intersex are sterile. The word "intersex" would make sense as an alternative on ID cards, though. But would all of them want their disability exposed like this?

I expect TRAs to answer this "so sterile women have no sex?". Sterile women would have produced functioning ovocytes if they did not have [specific condition], so they're women. No, being of the opposite sex is not a condition.

Archie · 2020-10-16T07:35:50+00:00

Definitely. Plus, I feel like a lot of left-wing users were lost along the way, and they mattered a lot to have in the discussion. We are the side that need the most to discuss and change how we do things, regarding trans people.

Archie · 2020-10-14T09:56:45+00:00

"Biologically, homosexuals don't exist." A direct quote from one of the comments.

This is unbelievable. Incredibly homophobic.

Archie · 2020-10-03T10:33:29+00:00

That's only a good idea if you're sure to win. Even people on the right side can lose an argument if they're not as good at it as their opponent. And then by attempting to engage, you've given the dude an opportunity to spread his ideas.

Archie · 2020-10-01T06:42:59+00:00

In my opinion, it is similar to Munchausen syndrome by proxy. I don't know the reason but 93% of carers are women in those cases, according to wiki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on_another

Archie · 2020-09-19T07:08:02+00:00

Gender critical feminism is feminism. A conservative supreme court is a much more dangerous enemy for GC feminism than all the TRAs in the world. Who cares about bathrooms if we have to start using needles again to get an abortion??

Archie · 2020-09-04T16:44:43+00:00

Yeah, unsurprisingly I bet people in the anti-abortion party aren't that concerned about women's rights being under attack.

Archie · 2020-09-04T07:11:27+00:00

It's not being far-right to care about lost jobs and equality between sexes. Those are very much left-wing issues.

Archie · 2020-08-05T08:44:13+00:00

Oh, there i no doubt that a large number of TRAs are left or far-left.

BUT the opposite isn't true at all. The vast majority of the left isn't made of TRAs and it isn't going to be when they see what those assholes are doing. As you rightly say, radical feminism itself is left-wing and they're kind of the left's spearhead against TRAs among our ranks.

I see we generally agree so I just want to make my point clear: calling TRAs "leftists" risks to alienate leftists who read this sub, when they are the people that we need to peak the most.

Archie · 2020-08-04T05:14:41+00:00

Please don't generalize TRAs as "leftists". Lots of us never heare about their bullshit or have peaked as well, thanks. This kind of saying on this place could be higly damaging for spreading the ideas of this sub.

Archie · 2020-08-03T19:32:28+00:00

Never forget that something like 30% of reddit is under 20 years old. Most likely it is a young, still naive girl still learning how society works. Not only we gotta have mercy with them, we kinda should try to save them from TRA propaganda.

Archie · 2020-08-03T13:03:32+00:00

Can you please share a source for that murdered lesbian couple? Dear lord...

Archie · 2020-08-03T12:34:39+00:00

That one is risky, might get you confused with some far-right activist. It's important to show that rejecting gender ideology can be done across almost all of the political spectrum

Archie · 2020-08-02T13:29:03+00:00

Thank you! This sucks...

Archie · 2020-07-29T08:06:15+00:00

Biden crushed the far-left in the primary even in states where he did not campaign. He doesn't need them, almost all sanders supporters are going to vote for him even if he did not compromize on their most pressed issue (healthcare).

Democrats are indeed more likely to let TRA bullshit go through - but it isn't anywhere close as important than the feminist advances we will lose with more republican judges in the supreme court.

All radfems also are SJWs.

Archie · 2020-07-29T07:51:47+00:00

GC physically assaulted by TRA.

Do you have a link about that? I see TRAs making the threat all. the. time but I think I never saw them actually making the move

Archie · 2020-07-29T07:46:19+00:00

In what field are you?

Archie