MadotsukiInTheNexus

@MadotsukiInTheNexus

US Rep Steve King (R-Iowa) #fundie #sexist #wingnut

I mean, part of his argument here is technically true. If you go back far enough, I really doubt that there's anyone alive today who isn't descended from someone born as a result of rape/incest. You're talking about ~300,000 just of anatomically modern humans (it's worth noting that most Catholics, with very rare exceptions even on the far-right, accept the geological record and human evolution; he would probably understand what length of time and what number of distant ancestors he's talking about here).

The conclusion doesn't follow, though. For one, taking out births from rape and incest wouldn't make humanity extinct. It would result in a totally different set of people on Earth than the ones alive today, but there would still be people. It also doesn't follow that abortion shouldn't be legal. That's really a stretch.

hurrayforathrowaway and Danielle_Baptiste #sexist

First off, fuck /r/gendercritical.

Now that that's out of the way, though, I don't know that it's bad that she's asking herself some of these things. She's not saying that boys are evil, and that every day science doesn't spend researching how to reproduce asexually is a day wasted. Instead, she's wondering if she could personally raise a male child in a healthy way, helping him to navigate potentially harmful outside influences. It seems like she's also concerned that trauma she's suffered from might cause her to be distant from a male child, which she knows would be morally wrong and very harmful.

Too many parents don't ask themselves that sort of question when they make the decision to have a child, and that's not right for their son/daughter. A lot of users on GC really couldn't care for a boy appropriately, and could easily end up neglectful or outright abusive. It's good that she recognizes that about herself now, before she brings a new life into the world to suffer pointlessly for reasons that he can't really understand.

Akhnai #wingnut

You know, thinking about it for a minute, the "genetically engineered catgirls" thing would be absolutely terrifying in reality. Cats are adorable, but they're also predatory and sadistic. No one wants to give that human size and intelligence. You couldn't even go on your morning jog without a gun, mostly to end your own life if a group of them ambushed you from the bushes and decided to play with their food.

Some incels #sexist

> "I got ran through so many dungeons and quests by pretending to be a girl in WoW"

Just a thought here. Maybe it was because, in a video game like WoW, people often cooperate on difficult missions. Normally, though, they'll only cooperate with people who aren't absurdly dickish. In the effort to "type like a girl", this guy instead faked being a normal, civil adult who doesn't curse at strangers, or post political manifestos that sound like something you'd expect to see in a package with some suspicious powder.

Nah, that can't be. His attempt to make people believe that he was a girl through...uh, giving a female character a female name (as opposed to ManLordMaleHasPenis14[20]88, I guess) fooled everyone.

Mick Williams #fundie

Minister R. A. Artis #fundie

You would think that Satan could come up with something that wasn't *quite* so cliched. Other than the bit about Jesus (which did give Yahweh some character depth) this reads like a shitty short story by an edgy high school freshman.

Darkmanethewanderer #psycho #racist

> "“but doing immigration legal is hard” well so is working for a paycheck, it being hard doesn’t excuse criminal behavior. if it did everyone and their mother would be robbing banks because its an easy way to get quick money."

These things are on totally different levels of "hard". Working for a paycheck can be very difficult, but (possibly with exceptions for a few of the most extreme jobs) it's considerably easier than legally immigrating even under the best case realistic scenario. In many cases immigrating legally isn't hard, it's impossible.

Selwyn Duke

@Malingspann:

As best I can tell, at least some of it definitely did. It's a really tragic and awful story that's been in the news a lot lately in Brazil. I can't tell if either of the two really claimed that the child's castration was an attempt at a sex change, but one of them definitely gave a very different reason when she claimed that it was an act of revenge against his father and compared her anger to the wrath of the Old Testament God. This story has unfortunately been used to slander the LGBT+ community, who are already virulently hated, and a lot of bullshit has been spread about it (including claims that the perpetrators were released from jail on the recommendation of a human rights committee that doesn't actually exist). It wouldn't surprise me at all if the claim was made up entirely, although they could have claimed that later in an attempt to get their charges for torture thrown out.

Why they did it, though, is ultimately not anywhere near as important as what this version of the story is leaving out. Namely, the two women were *batshit insane*. If the "holy wrath of the Old Testament God came over me and made me remove my eight year old son's penis" bit didn't make it obvious, the two were obsessed with some kind of idiosyncratic religion where one of them (Rosana) was the only pastor. She believed that she was a prophet receiving divine revelations that frequently told her how to "care for" (read: horribly abuse) both of her children, including ultimately a revelation from God that she should stab her son 50 times, dismember his body, and put the bits into suitcases.

This really has nothing to do with their being a gay couple or with their child identifying as female (even if one of them really believed that, which I doubt, the two were so detached from reality that their belief that he was transgender wouldn't mean that he actually was) but given the current atmosphere in Brazil, it's been incredibly politicized. In reality, it's just an awful crime committed against a child by two people who were too delusional to even convince anyone to join their cult.

Ray Comfort #fundie #psycho

Ashenox #sexist

I have a history degree, and I'm not really sure how it's relevant here.

A women's studies class isn't a history lesson. The historical bit is a a quick summary. How high or low quality it is, is probably going to depend on how much formal education or personal interest the instructor has in the field. That could range anywhere from an extremely accurate but brief synopsis from a humanities professor who normally teaches about the history of gender dynamics, to a garbled mess from a social scientist with no background in the field, influenced more by pop culture than any real scholarship. It matters, obviously, but it's not what the class is ultimately about.

The modern part is going to sound "worse", because it's what the instructor is really focused on. They're not there to talk about how women have it better now because they're not treated as breeding stock (well, at least not until Trump's Supreme Court inevitably removes any barrier to restrictions on reproductive rights). They're there to teach a class on women's role in society, and that's frankly going to involve a lot of depressing shit.

Xavier, #sexist

Concerned-father2 #sexist #racist

This persons' comments are pretty fucking indefensible, and obviously everyone has their own preferences when it comes to the physical appearance of people who they find attractive (and those preferences aren't usually consciously chosen, so it's both unnecessary and completely useless to feel bad about them). They're not wrong that racists do hide behind that, though, and someone saying that they prefer "Nordic" features...unless your native language isn't English, that's not a normal thing to say and definitely sounds dogwhistle-y af.

Rev. Kenneth Molyneaux #racist #psycho

@Denizen:

"Can someone please, please actually playtest this and then record it and post it to YouTube? I think that would be comedy gold and show how stupid this concept is."

Unless the game's been drastically improved since its first edition, I don't think anyone would actually get much out of this. Its creators didn't really understand tabletop RPGs very well, and so the rules that they created were radically unbalanced and too incomplete for the game to be playable without major additions by the players.