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I think your entire model is overly simplistic, and you fail to incorporate the necessary role of an analog perception system into how you view consciousness. You severely underestimate how much the body as a physical thing influences our thoughts, and you consistently ignore the role of...

I'd really appreciate you walking the walk on this, and making an effort to avoid making those who disagree with you feel bad. Perhaps by avoiding calling people nazis and accusing them of blood libel, as a starting point. Once you've got that under your belt, perhaps you could consider...

On the other hand... I expect that a process trait arose that seeks to accept and work within the confines of one's physical reality, and that the particular behavior of not seeking to mutilate the body in order to conform to a hypothetical ideal influenced by transhumanist and post modern...

Translate this please. Because it pretty much reads like "belief in god is theorized to be the product of an actual god-like thing"

Nah, I'm not misrepresenting him. Yes, a brain is physical... but that's not Jarhyn's premise. His premise is that because beliefs exist in the brain, those beliefs are therefore physical. And because of that premise, the belief of a person that they have a mystical inner womanly essence that...

So... yeah... the spacing around restroom doors in the US is largely driven by our tendency to build to the stupidest denominator. It's generally intended to allow someone to access a child who has locked themselves in or someone experiencing a medical situation in a stall. We have better ways...

We do, actually, but it's not nearly as obvious as it is in other mammals. When we're ovulating, our skin and hair will be smoother and shinier, our lips and cheeks will be more pink, our breasts swell slightly and our nipples spend a larger portion of time erect. We also have increased...

Oh no, Jarhyn genuinely argues that transwomen have girly brains, and that's what makes them female instead of male, regardless of whether or not they have entirely typical male anatomies. Because, you know, beliefs are physical.

Actually, it means that *if they pass* they will use the bathroom that corresponds to what *other people* will perceive them as. Jason Momoa in a dress would be considered to be "presenting a woman gender" but he's not going to pass at all. No matter how much makeup and jewelry Dwayne Johnson...

The reproductive tract is a fundamental component. If the differentiation stage doesn't trigger - if the wolffian or mullerian path doesn't begin - the fetus will miscarry. It's nonviable if it doesn't begin that process. It's up there with the brain and the heart and the lungs. If they...

Well that's a silly assumption. Just because many related species share a similar trait now doesn't mean that the same trait was shared by an ancestor that is shared with a species that does not have that trait. It may have been, but it's not necessarily so. In order to support that...

A discussion of animal behavior has fuck all to do with a discussion of anatomical systems.

No, that's inane of you to say. Show me the reproductive phenotype that has evolved in an anisogamous species that supports a third gamete, or which has evolved to support a sperg. That's the only thing you need to do to change my mind. That's all. Go on, I'll wait.

I'm talking about medical fucking conditions, Jokodo. Somehow, you keep trying to insist that those conditions are somehow an evolutionary step? I honestly don't know what you're trying to accomplish. You seem to have a pick-and-choose approach to this interaction, which selectively ignores...

In case this has missed you in the hyperfocus on whether or not reindeer antlers mean that Swyer Syndrome is a disorder or not... Bathrooms are way down on my list of concerns. If people had common sense, I'd say that the common sense approach was sufficient: use whichever bathroom other...

Your speculation is yours alone and does not have any bearing on anyone else. That said - this is the crux of the problem here. You absolutely insist that I have some nefarious overarching malicious goal, and your assumption is just flat fucking wrong. If you would abandon your errant...

Within any anisogamous species, there are two reproductive phenotypes. Members of the species who have the reproductive phenotype that has evolved to support the production of large sessile gametes are called "females". Members of the species who have the reproductive phenotype that has...

It's a false claim to present my view as being based solely on gametes.

...at some point in our history a group of males decided they really really liked big boobs, and a group of females decided they really really liked exaggerated penises... and then sexual selection did its thing. Because unlike natural selection, sexual selection actually *does* select.

We have a terminological abyss at play. Primary sex characteristics are those that are directly involved in and required for reproduction. In humans, that means our internal and external genitals. Secondary sex characteristics are those that are developmentally tied to and dependent upon the...