This week in trans: first "female" four-star admiral in U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is a man

[Jarhyn]

The absurd bit of pretense was the idiotic picture with that claim about the feet. I was mocking it.
I don't doubt the geometric and biological influences on stances. I doubt the generalization about the effect on the angle of the feet.

My feet are parallel and I have not had to do a thing. The people I know - male and female - whose foot angles do not follow that claim have not altered their natural stance or gait.

This is Emily not understanding yet again that the thing that changes how someone's feet are positioned is the shape of their pelvis not the shape of their genitals, and the comorbidity is just a trap of confounding data.

If your question is "how does someone stand" the answer is "look at their feet while they are standing", not "look at their junk".

If the question is "what junk does someone have", THEN the answer is "look at their junk." Even so, you should ask yourself WHY you are asking that question and whether you will be slapped (or shot) over trying to get answers

And let's be clear, I will slap someone or worse should they try to find out.

You know, this whole toes thing is funny. When I was young a lot of kids noticed that my own toes turn in "an unexpected way" and then made such differences the basis for teasing. And here we are again grown adults making (not even greatly) noticable cosmetic differences the basis for teasing.

This is an absolutely, 100% irrational and ridiculous response. I was LITERALLY talking about pelvis shape.

It's not my fault that you are ignorant of the differences in pelvis that are sex-linked results of a dimorphic species.

The hilarious part was that you were on about it. You bring up "sex linked" as if it matters, and that's why I laugh at everything you stand for.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Anyone remember that last time nearly one million people were killed by an easily transmitted disease and people said, ‘Hey, it ain’t so bad.’

I didn't say it wasn't bad. But this class of viruses *is* endemic to our species, and it *will* remain endemic. It *will* mutate faster than we can possibly vaccinate. The good news is that it will most likely mutate to a *less damaging* strain, hopefully soon.

It's not realistic to pretend that we can actually eradicate this virus in the same way we've done with polio, small pox, etc. It mutates too easily and too frequently. But the vast majority of viruses in this class are not particularly dangerous, so there's a really good chance it will revert to that mean.

I completely agree. Had we taken it more seriously, we would have had tens of millions fewer cases, hundreds of thousands of fewer deaths, and then people got vaccinated, we’d be much better off now and into the future with fewer children of Covid floating out there.