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I know nothing about this book but the little intro on goodreads and what you all have said here but it's not in my library hold list

weird corollary, we also only have 6 x 3 = 18 trans men on the site, so a total of maybe 40ish AFAB binary-gender people on the site. there are likely more if we count nonbinary people and those who choose not to disclose their pronouns, but oof, even with an extremely optimistic guess that doubles the number above, we're still looking at under 5% of active users being AFAB.

damn, I sorta want to start a struggle session thread for the prevalence of AMAB people on this site. it's really bizarre to me, as a transfeminine enby, how being in, or not in, online spaces like lemmy, reddit, discord, and such tends to stick through transition.

well my days of not taking James Cameron seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

I swear to god, these gamer bros are just transvestigators in a very poor disguise.

today is my 2nd tranniversary!

…and the date of my first intramuscular injection, which I think is a neat little crossover episode (I was doing subcutaneous injections before but started getting an allergic reaction several weeks back, and before that I was taking pills sublingually but even the max oral dose didn’t get my levels where the dr. wanted ‘em).

how do you know he's autistic?

while you were arguing that marxism means clicking through to articles, I was studying the blade (nah jk that’s a link to the paper the article was based on). the paper’s author states that they’re autistic and they both use and personally prefer identity-first language in their positionality statement:

If Marxists are to be effective, we need to understand the world around us, so we should do some investigation.

I think we may just not agree on this part, comrade – it’s my belief that understanding the likely reasons behind the choice of headline is part of understanding the world around us, and reacting to the headline is a reaction to media bias and, to an extent, the general public’s thought patterns. while reading the article itself is well and good, an evaluation of the headline alone is also valuable.

But the real politics is that Aloy doesn't wear makeup!

no no the real politics is that she has vellus hair.

okay but genuinely what is DEI chin?

scientist is publishing a good study. in a vacuum we're happy about this. it's a good development. But the headline centers the bad worldview of the editors and maybe laymen.

well yeah, the scientist is an autist, and the editor may or may not be. I'd argue the dichotomy is shown perfectly in this example, actually – autistic scientist publishes research about how autistic people have deep emotional lives, newspaper editor interprets it as "omg autistic people have emotions?!"

I want everybody to stop headline reacting.

then headlines should stop having shitty takes. the fault is not on those reacting to something shitty, it's on the person doing the shitty thing.

I am well aware that headlines are shit and written by an editor rather than the author, but I disagree that reacting to them is wrong. the headline is what the publication chose to lead with, and shows the tone they wanted people to be led into the article with. the headline is arguably more in tune with what the general populace would read and identify with than the content of the article, since its entire purpose is to grab potential readers’ attention.

I think if allistics want autistics to not react to their shit takes, they should stop publishing headlines that alienate and demonize us.

the fact that the article takes a more sympathetic tone is nice, but does not negate the fact that the headline is both offensive and just downright awful.

also kinda absurd to think we should go to the effort of finding and reading the article when it’s not linked in the OP or the linked tweet and the headline is this fucking hurtful already.

on iphone safari at least, you can just set the entire site to always to load in desktop mode to sidestep the login requirement and just get a prompt to confirm you’re 18+. you do still get an annoying “login with google” prompt but that at least has an X in the corner to make it go away.