PostmodernPythia

joined 1 year ago
[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

The left doesn’t have the money to prop up a decent counterpropaganda apparatus.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but none of that applies to a South African born in South Africa to South African parents.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As someone who has extensive personal experience with severe mental illness, I appreciate very much your desire to defend us (your instinct would usually be right), but psychopathy is a weird one. If the previous commenter had said “mental illness” instead of psychopathy specifically, I’d be pissed. But there is evidence that psychopaths advance in business management. I realize it’s not exactly JAMA, but here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2019/10/27/senior-executives-are-more-likely-to-be-psychopaths/?sh=24aa505d47c4

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Modern US conservative policy isn’t a complex question. The answer is always money or sadism.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t want to do-over the Civil War.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Except how often do you hear about radical feminists who aren’t TERFs anywhere in mainstream discourse? For much of the population, TERFs are the only “radical feminists” they hear about. (I reject the idea that a belief that biology is destiny as compatible with feminism in any case.). It’s not so much people in this community I worry about getting the wrong idea, it’s everywhere else.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, then in certain circumstances your disgust response that directly contradicts the evidence may result in a lower chance of your survival. Your body, your call. I wholeheartedly support your right to refuse care. I, however, am rather fond of living and will use whatever medical intervention works best.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a trans-inclusive radical feminist sick of radical feminism being tainted by their bullshit, I strongly disagree. Let them pick a new name showing how far they’ve strayed from the feminist ideal that biology shouldn’t determine destiny.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Leeches are still used, and are very effective in some cases. It’s ok to be grossed out by medicine. That doesn’t mean it’s outdated or shouldn’t exist.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One in five reported. The other 4/5 probably don’t want to talk about it.

[–] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

Gender identity isn’t something you stop respecting because of a bad take, no matter how bad. She should go to a women’s prison for a long time. But, unless there are people willing to defend a refusal to accept someone’s gender and rape as a de facto punishment for a crime, this is indefensible. It’s extra (and barbaric) punishment because she’s trans. That’s wrong. Period.

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