Ridiculous Zuccs: Pokemon as Drugs

""Thank you *smiley* *picture of Lugia, "a large Pokémon that resembles a dragon, a plesiosaur, and a bird""

Apparently this is really about drugs.

Links - 27th January 2023 (1 - including Vegans, World Cup 2022)

Vegetarians are Evil - Official Homepage

BBC World Service - The Food Chain, The arctic eating adventure - "‘Suzanne believes you couldn't be a vegan if you wanted to survive only on locally produced food in the region. Because as yet, it isn't possible to grow a protein source like soy’
‘You come to realize that there's not one solution to the food security problem globally, that every geographic area has its, its own potential solutions, and they're each different.’"

Meme - Mostly Peaceful Memes @M...: "Bro @RobertDowneyr looks worse as a vegan than when he was a drug addict"

Fans Think Robert Downey Jr. Looks Old And Sick Because Of His Vegan Diet, Calling Him "Iron Deficiency Man"

Meme - PETA @peta: "Next time you think of eating a chicken, remember that they had a family-just like you."
2ND @SecondNatureDZN: "That's why you order the family meal"

Swedish study finds meat substitutes more difficult to absorb - "A fall 2022 study by Chalmer’s University of Technology in Sweden has shown evidence that the nutrients from some plant-based meat alternatives may be more difficult for the human body to digest compared with their livestock-sourced counterparts...   Although some of the products studied were fortified with iron, researchers conclude that the bioavailability of added iron is still inhibited by phytates. Meanwhile, animal protein products contain the “meat factor,” which stimulates the absorption of nonheme iron in the whole meal as well as zinc absorption."

You'll Never Be Able To Unlearn What Figs Are - "It was eye-opening when we learned that artichokes are actually flowers. And that capers are pickled flower buds. But coming across what figs really are ― and the wasp that makes them possible ― has just made us question every truth we know in this world.  In simple terms, figs are technically not a fruit ― they are inverted flowers... Because fig flowers bloom internally, they need a special process for pollination. They cannot rely on the wind or bees to spread their pollen ― that’s where the fig wasp comes in. The fig cannot survive without the fig wasp to spread its genetic material, and the fig wasp cannot live without the fig, because that’s where it lays its larva ― this relationship is known as mutualism. The female fig wasp enters the male fig ― we don’t eat the male figs, by the way ― to lay its eggs. The male fig is shaped in a way to accommodate the laying of wasp eggs. The female wasp’s wings and antennae break off when entering the small passage in the fig so once it’s in, there is no way out. It’s up to the baby wasps to continue the life cycle. Male baby wasps are born without wings, because their sole purpose is to mate with the female offspring ― technically their sister ― and dig a tunnel out of the fig. It’s the female offspring that make the journey out, bringing pollen with them. If a fig wasp enters a female fig accidentally ― the ones we eat ― instead of a male one, there is no room in the interior for it to reproduce. And it cannot escape, because its wings and antennae have broken off. So the wasp dies inside, which is unfortunate but necessary because that’s how it delivers the pollen giving us the fruit we love.  Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean the crunch in the fig is a wasp carcass. The fig uses an enzyme known as ficin to break down the wasp into protein, though it doesn’t always break down the entire exoskeleton. So, yes, technically when you bite into a fig you are in fact eating fig wasps ― or what once was a fig wasp ― but you can at least console yourself with the fact that they’re incredibly small. Some vegans might choose to stay away from this fruit for this very reason... According to Karla Stockli, the CEO of the California Fig Advisory Board, more than 95 percent of figs produced and sold commercially in California are self-pollinating. And luckily, many of the figs that we buy in the U.S. are from California"

Meme - "VEGAN OPTIONS
Taxi, Train, Bus or E-Scooter"
A Jan 2020 menu from Headquarters Viaduct in Auckland, New Zealand

Meme - "That was the happiest cat they could find.
Veganpet: Vegan Cat Food"
If I were a cat I would be pissed off at vegan cat food too

Meme - "Vegan: drops dead in the house
The dog that has not eaten meat for more than 3 years: *sausage making*"

Meme - Darren @alienated: "PSA for librarians: occasionally check how the World Book encyclopedia is arranged on your shelves"

Peter Vermeulen on Twitter - "According to the anonymous online employee survey, you don't trust management. What's up with that ? #dilbert #engagement"

Meme - "REST IN PEACE "MOM"
GONE BUT NEVER "FORGOTTEN" 10.31.17
ALL SKILL MINORITY M"

Meme - Rob Reiner @robreiner: "If you don't vote for the Democrats or don't vote at all, you are choosing to accept living under Fascism."
"What would you rather live under? Democrats 11% Fascism 89%"
Anyone who opposes a liberal is a "fascist"

Meme - "THE WOMAN WHO CAN COMMAND ME HASN'T BEEN BORN YET.
4 YEARS LATER. *in tutu with young girl*"

ZUBY: on Twitter - "Going too far down the 'left wing' rabbit hole makes people resentful, hysterical, and illogical. Going too far down the 'right wing' rabbit hole makes people bitter, paranoid, and bigoted. Neither like to admit how similar they are to each other in reality."

Meme - "JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE UNIQUE DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE USEFUL *Bent fork*"

Meme - "Cat owners be like: OMG SO CUUUUTEEE!!! *bloody scratches*"

Meme - BJ @bj_ carter: "How do I watch in Australia?"
Al Yankovic @alyankovic: "Roku's working on it. In the meantime there's VPN (Very Probably No) way to watch it legally. I'm sure you have a TORRENT of other questions, but I have to move along, sorry."

Meme - "Which Living Things Should You Study?
Do you like waking up early?
Sure! Um, how early?
Like, before sunrise.
Yeah!
Birds
Wait, there's a time before sunrise?
Is mid-day ok?
Sure!
How do you feel about seeing lots of small, fast, brownish things?
I'm really only active after dusk.
Sure, as long I get to analyze 10,000 camera trap images!
OK, but they'd better be close enough to ID.
How fuzzy do you like your critters?
Generally speaking, SO FUZZY.
How many species do you want to memorize?
Would you rather peer through even bigger instruments at even tinier stuff?
Does the heady musk of a watersnake send you into a tizzy?
Hey, what about all the other amazing arthropods?!?
Eh, needs more mucus.
I don't have to follow your rules!
Do you love peering at tiny stuff with a hand lens?
What do you enjoy peering at?
The undersides of leaves
Copulatory appendages
Plants
Odonates
Microorganisms
Amphibian
Reptiles
Fish
Molluscs"

The Man Who Was Struck by Lightning 4 Times - "Walter Summerford is considered to be history’s unluckiest person as he was struck by lightning three times and once again after he passed away. Many at the time assumed that he had been cursed by someone or something... In 1936, four years after his funeral where Walter was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, his tombstone was struck by lightning"

jody on Twitter - "i just went through my sons belongings and i think he might be cheating at chess"
On the anal beads scandal

Meme - "Study finds that hearing an opposing viewpoint causes no real harm."
Damn "structural violence"!

Man accused of stealing boat to return to Cuba arrested, Florida deputies say - "Cristian Torres Perez, 30, of Miami, was charged with grand theft and burglary"

Meme - "RIGHTEOUSNESS EXAULTETH A NATION: BUT SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE
THE BLOOD OF JESUS...CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN"
"Big Jim's Boobie Bungalow
Truck Parking. Food. Daily Specials"

Meme - "Brioche en Couronne: Shape dough into ring by pulling from center hole. Slash top evenly. *goatse*"

Meme - Sarah: "Hey"
"Hey, what's up?"
"Are u big"
"Pretty big, I played as a center in high school, so I can grab rebounds"
"Meant d"
"I can guard all 5 positions"

Meme - "BERSATU KITA TEGUH, BERCERAI KITA ROBOH
UNITED WE STAND, TOGETHER WE FALL"

Denis Villeneuve Releases Directors Cut Of 'Dune' With 3 Additional Hours Of Really Cool Spaceships Taking Off And Landing Very Slowly | Babylon Bee

Meme - "I am trying to explain to my Chinese friends that the white team are from Africa and the black team are from Europe, but they won't believe me.
Morocco
France"

Qatar seizes rainbow-coloured toys it deems 'un-Islamic' - "Authorities in Qatar, host of next year's football World Cup, have confiscated a line of children's toys from stores deeming their rainbow colours "contrary to Islamic values"."

Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is stopped by police in Qatar while staging LGBT protest - "Qatari officials denied that Tatchell was arrested... The events came on the same day as Qatar's emir raged against what he called an 'unprecedented campaign' of criticism over his country's hosting of this year's football World Cup, saying no other host nation has ever faced the same scrutiny"
Maybe no other host nation has faced the same scrutiny because none have been so problematic

Jordan Cook on Twitter - "If I wanted to watch a bunch of guys struggle to score for 90 minutes, I'd just go to the bar with some friends. #FifaWorldCup"

Qatar World Cup Faces New Edict: Hide the Beer - The New York Times - "The message came from the highest levels of the Qatari state: The beer tents must be moved, and there would be no discussion about it.  With the opening game of the World Cup only days away, Qatari organizers have been working hurriedly in recent days to relocate Budweiser-branded beer stations at eight stadiums after a sudden demand that three people with knowledge of the belated change said had come from inside the country’s royal family... The decision to move the beer stations appeared to be rooted in concern that the prominent presence of alcohol at stadiums during the monthlong World Cup would unsettle the local population and thus represent a potential security problem. But it also highlighted an issue that has stalked the buildup to the first World Cup in the Arab world, and that is expected to be contentious throughout the tournament in Qatar, a conservative Muslim country where access to alcohol is tightly controlled... moves that limit Budweiser’s branding or affect its ability to sell its products could complicate FIFA’s relationship with a powerful partner, not to mention the contractual relationship between the brewer, the governing body and Qatari World Cup organizers."
Naturally, in the Facebook comments all the Muslims were saying that people should respect the host country's culture. Ironic, given that when they go to non-Muslim countries they still demand that people should respect their culture, and that Qatar bid for the World Cup while not intending to respect its rules
Is Qatar no longer "moderate"?

Melissa Chen on Twitter - "All the outrage directed at Qatar has a corollary that will surely be missed by those who need to internalize the following fact: the values they hold dear are not to be found elsewhere in the world but the West. Yet they think the West is uniquely evil & wallow in self-hatred."

Qatari official threatens to break camera during World Cup broadcast

Grinning Qatari fans took photos of Miss Croatia because they disapproved of her outfit local claims - "Grinning Qatari fans were taking of photos of Miss Croatia Ivana Knoll at the World Cup because they disapproved of her outfit, a high-profile local has claimed.  During Croatia's opening match with Morocco the model, labelled the World Cup's sexiest fan, appeared in a red and white bikini top and tight red leggings - catching the eye of many within the crowd... Those visiting Qatar for the World Cup have been advised to cover their shoulders and avoid short skirts, with high fines and even jail sentences for fans who decide to flash their figures.  People on Twitter, however, were not convinced with Mr Al-Jefairi's defence of the men caught on camera... "I was surprised they were not making any problems about dressing, they allow you to wear everything what you want - except in government buildings, and in the end that's fine.'"
In Malaysia people were bitching about government building dress codes

England WAGs told to dress modestly for World Cup in Qatar
Policing what women wear is only bad in the West

Rob Harris on Twitter - "FIFA President Gianni Infantino at news conference in Qatar: “Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker”"
mirax on Twitter - "Totally corrupt mfs taking up anti-racism and anti-colonialism? That's how anyone with 2 braincells knows how empty the progressive rhetoric is."

Subscribe to GrantWahl.com on Twitter - "Just now: Security guard refusing to let me into the stadium for USA-Wales. “You have to change your shirt. It’s not allowed.”"
د. نايف بن نهار on Twitter - "As a Qatari I’m proud of what happened. I don’t know when will the westerners realize that their values aren’t universal. There are other cultures with different values that should be equally respected. Let’s not forget that the West is not the spokesperson for humanity."
Naren k. Dodia on Twitter - "Bit in the UK our Muslim friends are free to wear the clothing of their choice and are not refused entry anywhere because of it…. So why are westerners unable to wear their choice of clothing to a football match in Qatar?"

England fans turned away from World Cup stadium for wearing crusader costumes as supporters asked to 'be aware of deep sensitivities'
Looks like the English flag is banned too

Here are things World Cup fans are restricted from doing in Qatar - "Islam is the official religion of Qatar — and anyone found to be proselytizing for other religions or criticizing Islam "may be criminally prosecuted," the State Department said, in a factsheet about Qatar for World Cup visitors.  It's also not safe to assume you can practice your faith openly: "Qatar allows some non-Muslim religious practice in designated areas like Doha's Religious Complex, but all faiths are not accommodated equally"... In addition to import restrictions on alcohol and pornography, "travelers cannot bring pork products" into the country...   Speech that's deemed critical of the Qatari government could trigger an arrest. Those laws apply both to spoken words and social media.  And while past World Cups have brought a heaping of argy-bargy — scenes of rival crowds yelling or even singing obscenities at one another — open conflicts can bring big problems in Qatar.  "For example, arguing with or insulting others in public could lead to arrest"...   "Homosexuality is criminalized in Qatar," the State Department notes.  "Advocates say that LGBTQ people in Qatar are subjected to conversion therapy, harassment by authorities and imprisonment," as NPR's Becky Sullivan says in her rundown of controversies surrounding the host country...   If a pregnant fan goes to Qatar for the World Cup, they should be prepared to show a marriage certificate if they need prenatal care there... Dress codes in many public areas require that "both men and women cover shoulders, chests, stomachs, and knees, and that tight leggings be covered by a long shirt or dress""

Qatari royal refuses to acknowledge female officials at FIFA ceremony - "Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani was filmed bumping fists with male officials following Bayern Munich's 1-0 victory over Tigres UANL in the Club World Cup final in Qatar yesterday.  But, when female referees Edina Alves Batista and Neuza Back approach, the Sheikh appears to snub them - with the women following instructions to walk straight past the royal... Beckham, 45, has been assured that the country is relaxing its policy on such issues."

Meme - The Washington Post @washingtonpost: "Perspective: As fans keep up with Argentina's success in this year's World Cup, a familiar question arises: Why doesn't the team have more Black players? Argentina is far more diverse than many realize — but the myth that it's a White nation has persisted."
Roti @BinRote: "Because is a Team, not a Netflix movie"

Afro-Argentines - Wikipedia - "According to the Argentine national census of 2010, the total population of Argentines was 40,117,096, of whom 149,493 (0.37%) identified as Afro-Argentine"
Washington Post corrects op-ed about no black players on Argentina soccer team - "The original version of the op-ed cited census figures from 2010 that showed that “roughly one percent” of Argentina’s population of 46 million was black. But the Washington Post later issued a correction noting that the actual number was “far less than” 1%"
Even if it were 1%, 1% of 11 is 0.11 of a player

Meme - "Japan lost but he won *selfie with Miss Croatia*"

What Is Sportswashing (and Does It Work)? - Freakonomics - "CHAMBLEE: The minute they take that money from LIV Golf, they are now dependent upon and subservient to M.B.S. and his thugs. They lose their image, their legacy, because their talents and fame are now being exploited by a government seeking to hide their atrocities. And to whatever extent this country, Saudi Arabia, can hide and euphemize its atrocities, you are in some way ensuring that those atrocities will continue. It’s blood money all the way. When golfers say that this is not political — they couldn’t be more wrong...
Are they on the wrong side of history? Is it truly blood money? Before you give an answer, here’s something to consider: the Saudi investment fund backing this new golf tour is the very same fund that invested billions of dollars in Uber before it went public. It’s the same fund that has since bought huge batches of stock in Boeing, Facebook, Disney, Starbucks, and more. Do you and I have blood on our hands when we take an Uber or buy a coffee?...
MATHESON: Qatar is a country that is the size of Connecticut, but with about a tenth the amount of infrastructure. Think how crazy that would be. It’s like, “Oh, yeah, we’re going to host the World Cup in the United States, but it’s going to all be in Connecticut.” When the United States hosted games back in 1994, they were spread out from L.A. over to New York down to Orlando. So, all over the country. But there’s really no place to spread out games in Qatar.
DUBNER: So, the World Cup is always played in the summer. In Qatar, the summer is too hot to play outdoor football or soccer, and therefore, the Qatar World Cup had to be moved to December, correct?
MATHESON: Right. Let me also point out that the reason that they have the World Cup in the summer is not the nice weather. It’s not because people want to travel. It’s because all of these players have real jobs during the rest of the year playing for their clubs. The English Premier League, the Bundesliga in Germany — all the top players are playing for these leagues, and they’re actually playing games during November, December."

Meme - "It's a scheduling nightmare with Megan gone, we need you to work the 24th and 25th."
"I'm already approved to take off that weekend, 24-27."
"Things have changed, I've scheduled you for morning on the 24th and afternoon on the 25th"
"I'm not coming in on Thanksgiving."
"It's non negotiable, there's no other options. If you want to keep working here, I need you to work the 24th and 25th."
"Guess I quit then, I won't be coming in tonight"
"Please call me now"

Scammers impersonate guest editors to get sham papers published - "Hundreds of articles published in peer-reviewed journals are being retracted after scammers exploited the processes for publishing special issues to get poor-quality papers — sometimes consisting of complete gibberish — into established journals. In some cases, fraudsters posed as scientists and offered to guest-edit issues that they then filled with sham papers... “All of the evidence points to an organized network that tries — in this case successfully — to infiltrate scientific journals with the objective of easily publishing manuscripts from pseudo-scientists or less-productive researchers who want to appear in respectable journals,” wrote three members of the journal’s editorial board in the December article."

No charges brought against MP Louis Ng for holding placard without permit to support hawkers - "Following police investigations, Nee Soon GRC MP Louis Ng will not face criminal charges for failing to apply for a permit before he visited hawkers while holding up a placard in June 2020.  It was earlier reported that Mr Ng was being investigated for holding up a piece of paper that read "Support Them" with a smiley face printed on it... Under the Public Order Act (POA), an assembly is defined as a gathering or meeting with the purpose of demonstrating support for, or opposing the views or actions of, any person, group or government.  It also applies to publicising a cause or campaign, marking or commemorating any event, and includes a demonstration by a single person."
Convenient

Is it true that Vikings let women handle their finances because they thought it was witchcraft? : AskHistorians - "Witchcraft or [seiðr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Viking_Way_(book)) wasn't solely associated with women, although some sorts of things that we would consider 'magic' were considered feminine. (Admittedly, 'magic' isn't quite the right word since 'magic' often suggests superstition or illusion.) I've seen no reason to assume that math was considered magic or a particularly feminine form of magic. Instead, scales and weights for measuring silver are often found in apparently male graves. So the reason you can't find proof that women and witchcraft and math and finances all went together as a regular thing ... is probably because there's no proof to find."

Man gets revenge on school bully by sleeping with his mum - and confesses live on radio - "Rob had 'ghosted' his Arielle after the pair had slept together.  She was upset and confused as she thought they had a future together.  Arielle decided to enlist the help of her local radio show Ramiro, Pebbles, Melissa and Wiggy in Boston, hoping she could rekindle the magic with her toyboy lover.  After introducing herself and laying out the bare bones of her story, she was asked to stay on the line, but keep quiet while the radio hosts called Rob.  Rob was a little surprised to get the call, especially when they told him they had lined up a date for him and the radio station would pick up the bill."

Meme - Dr. Kramain @PawAndPups: "Back in Uni, a girl mocked my presentation one time so I searched for her group and asked the topic they were presenting on. I spent 4 days researching on it and asked her so many questions like it was common knowledge that she cried. Stay blessed precious one."

Meme - Tsayad Maccabees: "I bet y'all didn't know that the real Jews are black"
Darkskin Te: "Pick yo daughter up Thursday. Or we gone have a problem."

Meme - "Historic photo of children listening to Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas" *cowering*"

Meme - "Open "Google Maps', type in "Africa', zoom in where the pin is and use "street view""
Amy Jones (@AmyJone55429931) / Twitter (tracking Kevin's Bending Penis)

Meme - "Teacher: If you don't go to college you'll end up like him!
The Trucker who makes 100k a year:"

Facebook - "Arthur was a radio DJ. His station was looking for a presenter. It was a more senior and more prestigious position, with a higher salary. It  involved him playing songs, announcing traffic and reading the news. Arthur applied. The station rejected him outright. They said that they couldn't consider him, as he wasn't a graduate. Arthur didn't agree with the station. Why would having a university degree have anything to do with a presenter's ability to play songs, read text and be clear and engaging on the radio? He quit and enrolled with hospitality school Shatec. He started by serving coffee and greeting diners at the Westin's Italian restaurant Prego. His enthusiasm impressed his boss, who roped him into the Westin's sales department. Arthur seized his chance, and volunteered for all the difficult assignments. Because of his energy, street smarts and his instinct for sales and marketing, he rose through the ranks in the Westin. He then moved on to Hyatt, then to the Mandarin Hong Kong, his first overseas posting... an international luxury hotel chain was opening a new hotel in Singapore. Arthur's wife thought he would be the ideal person to market it. Without asking his permission, or even telling him, she submitted his resume to the chain's global headquarters in the United States. Headquarters saw Arthur's resume and immediately arranged an interview, which Arthur passed. Headquarters offered Arthur the No. 2 marketing position. The top post of marketing director went to an American. But, quite unexpectedly, the American didn't take the job. Headquarters then hired another marketing director, also an expat. The new guy was due to arrive just before an important board presentation to the directors and the owners. As a good Number 2, without being told by anyone, Arthur prepared the slides for his new boss. It explained the concept for the new hotel, the timelines, and most importantly, the numbers. At the last minute, the headquarters told Arthur to present instead. But Arthur wasn't prepared to be the guy presenting. No worries. Using skills learnt in National Service, Arthur gave an on-the-spot military-style briefing to the board. It involved an analysis of the situation, mission, terrain, the objective, the threats, the command and control functions and so on, from a hospitality perspective. That type of approach is suited to a combat environment, where there is usually little time and the audience are soldiers. But for Arthur to adapt it for an important, last-minute board presentation was a completely new thing. After he finished, the board turned to headquarters and immediately asked how much the incoming expat marketing director would cost. Headquarters told the board. Indicating Arthur, who had just given the presentation of his life, the board asked, "what does the Chinese boy do?" Headquarters said that the Chinese boy was the Number Two, and he would assist the marketing director they had just hired. On the spot, the board made Arthur the marketing director instead. They had just seen his presentation, and they thought he was the right person to carry out all the plans. They didn't need the expat guy. Arthur repaid the board's faith. He marketed the new hotel to great success... Today, Arthur runs a company that manages 95 hotels in 9 countries. He's still opening new hotels around the world. Each hotel is interesting, unique, and evocative. Arthur succeeds because he is energetic, creative and bold. And, you know what? In all his years, nobody has cared if he had a degree, except that radio station. Because he lacked it, the radio station didn't even want to consider Arthur at all. I think the radio station lost a great talent and a marketing powerhouse when they focused on the wrong criteria."
On Far East Hospitality's Arthur Kiong

Links - 26th January 2023 (2 - MCU)

SyFy Wire's Dany Roth Admits to Creating Positive Reviews in Order to Maintain Access While Discussing Captain Marvel's Rotten Tomatoes Controversy - "SyFy Wire’s Dany Roth admitted that access media “plays softball” in order to maintain access with Hollywood celebrities and studios while discussing the recent Captain Marvel Rotten Tomatoes controversy... Swiderski states, “I think they should get rid of fans review entirely.” When asked to elaborate he did, “It’s not a right. They run a website. They run a business. Critic reviews are critic reviews and that’s fine. And listen this isn’t me saying fans can’t have an opinion. But this is a tool. It’s obviously being abused more than it is being used constructively especially around particular films that politically rub some people the wrong way for certain reasons. It’s why we can’t have a nice thing. It would be nice if people used it the way it’s supposed to be used, but no one is. So screw it, goodbye.” Swiderski’s comments echo Samuel L. Jackson’s...   A number of media outlets spun the story that people were “review bombing” Captain Marvel before the movie came out. This was demonstrably false as users could not post an audience review score before the film was out. Nevertheless, these media outlets pushed that narrative with many of them claiming these people were “sexist trolls.”  Rotten Tomatoes would redesign their website removing the Want to See score in response to the media coverage"
Why critics' reviews are suspect. The hoi polloi must be ignored. If you don't shut up and consume, you're problematic

Meme - "Kang nonchalantly asking if he's killed Ant-Man before because he doesn't remember due to the sheer number of times he's killed Avengers is probably the most intimidated I've ever felt about an MCU villain lol."
"I'm glad he's black I want the comic world to fear niggas same way I do"

Meme - Ant Man: "Kang, please, why are you doing this??"
Kang: "In my universe I was fired by Tony Stark, who looked a lot like Tom Cruise, for taking his sandwich out of the shared refrigerator"

Meme - *Young Avengers poster with Wiccan, Speed, Cassie Lang, Kate Bishop, America Chavez, Ironheart, Miles Morales, Young Loki, and Eli Bradley*
"I'm rooting for the villain."

Meme - "Wanda?"
"I knew you'd come-"
"Yeah I'm not here. about Westview. Listen I need a date to my ex's wedding and with Natasha now dead you are now the hottest"

Kevin Feige: MCU Will Soon Have More Female Heroes Than Male
From 2018. So much for the M She U being a conspiracy theory. Given that from Captain Marvel on, the female characters are all shitty (without real or even any flaws - the only potentially interesting one is Agatha Harkness, and the fact that she's a villain is telling), we're seeing the results of this strategy

Meme - Christine Palmer: "It was never gonna work out between us"
Stephen Strange: "Why not?"
Christine Palmer: "Because, Stephen, ...I love BBC and you're not 'B' nor do you have a 'BC'."

Simu Liu Takes Shots At ‘Gatekeepers’ Martin Scorsese & Quentin Tarantino Over Comments About Marvel - "“If the only gatekeepers to movie stardom came from Tarantino and Scorsese, I would never have had the opportunity to lead a $400 million plus movie,” Liu wrote... “I loved the ‘Golden Age’ too.. but it was white as hell.”... “Part of the Marvelization of Hollywood is you have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters,” he said. “But they’re not movie stars. Captain America is the star. Thor is the star.”... While explaining that he doesn’t hate the Marvel films, Tarantino said, “My only axe to grind against them is they’re the only things that seem to be made. And they’re the only things that seem to generate any kind of excitement amongst a fan base or even for the studio making them. That’s what they’re excited about. And so it’s just the fact that they are the entire representation of this era of movies right now. There’s not really much room for anything else. That’s my problem.”...   In 2019, after comparing Marvel films to theme park rides and stating they are not cinema, the “Taxi Driver” director penned an op-ed for the New York Times expanding on his views.  “Many of the elements that define cinema as I know it are there in Marvel pictures. What’s not there is revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger. Nothing is at risk,” he wrote. “The pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are designed as variations on a finite number of themes.”  Scorsese continued, “So, you might ask, what’s my problem? Why not just let superhero films and other franchise films be? The reason is simple. In many places around this country and around the world, franchise films are now your primary choice if you want to see something on the big screen. It’s a perilous time in film exhibition, and there are fewer independent theatres than ever.”   He also wrote of the state of cinema more broadly, “Many films today are perfect products manufactured for immediate consumption. Many of them are well made by teams of talented individuals. All the same, they lack something essential to cinema: the unifying vision of an individual artist. Because, of course, the individual artist is the riskiest factor of all.” Liu, meanwhile, after posting his tweets calling out the two filmmakers, seemed aware of the backlash he was likely to endure.  In another tweet he wrote, “bracing for loser internet trolls like,” accompanied by a clip of himself getting into a martial arts stance in a scene from “Shang-Chi”."
Grievance mongers thrive on offence. Only a "troll" could ever disagree with a liberal

Marvel Studios Producer Considers It A "Red Flag" If Prospective Writers Are Fans Of Original Comics, Prefers To Hire Someone "Who's Out Of The Culture" - "As if it wasn’t obvious enough from simply watching any of the studio’s post-Infinity War output, producer Nate Moore has revealed that he believes the key to Marvel Studios’ success is hiring writers who are “out” of the comic book culture over anyone who loves the source material... Noting that some Marvel writers grew up reading and collecting comics, such as Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, Moore told Belloni, “one thing I think is interesting, and specifically for writers I would say, is that a lot of times we’re pitched writers who love Marvel, and to me that’s always a red flag.”  “I don’t want you to already have a pre-existing idea of what it is, because you grew up with the comics and that’s what you want to recreate,” he explained. “I want someone who’s going to be hard on the material, who can go ‘What is this? I think there’s a movie here. but maybe we should be looking at it in this way'”
No wonder Phase 4 sucks

In Seeming Dig At Taika Waititi, 'Thor' Star Chris Hemsworth Says He Refuses To Work With Any More "Mad Genius" Directors - "In an apparent but plausibly deniable dig against Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi, franchise star Chris Hemsworth has said that not only will he no longer work with any “mad genius” directors, but that he is also only interested in returning as the God of Thunder if “there is something unique and fresh and unexpected to do with the character and the world.”   If there’s anyone who has been privy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s tendency to ruin its characters in service of cheap laughs, it’s Thor quadrilogy star Chris Hemsworth, From retreading the exact same “I must find myself” plot line across nearly every one of his appearances to being demoted from the royal prince of a powerful kingdom to a walking, occasional hammer swinging laughing stock, Hemsworth’s Thor has truly embodied the studio’s post-Infinity War inability to treat its characters with any semblance of respect or care"

'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Producer Defends Changes To Namor's Character: "We Really Anchor Him In That World In A Truth That Publishing Never Really Landed On" - "In a further example of his seeming disdain for the very material upon which the films he works on are based, Marvel Studios producer Nate Moore has stood by the changes made to Namor’s character in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on the grounds that they “really anchored him in that world in a truth that publishing never really landed on”."

It’s time to kill the MCU - "While there’s no denying that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has had profound effects on both the movie business and pop culture in general, there’s also no denying that the project has become unwieldy and aimless. The MCU delighted fans by staying true to the Marvel comics formula. But in so doing, it also managed to recreate everything wrong with Marvel comic books — and in approximately a fifth of the time... What set the MCU apart was its keen eye for continuity and crossovers, just like the comics that inspired it.  The only problem is that the MCU accomplished its goal right out of the gate. Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America and Thor were all entertaining (and sometimes legitimately excellent) films, and set the stage perfectly for a big crossover spectacle. The Avengers delivered almost flawlessly on that premise, delivering well-written banter, unexpected plot twists and memorable action set pieces from start to finish.  However, as any comic book fan can tell you, big crossover events have diminishing returns. The trouble with the MCU is that what began as a moonshot team-up project became something much more formulaic and predictable over time. Think about how many additional origin stories we’ve had to sit through since The Avengers, and how many sequels wound up spinning their wheels until the next big crossover movie.  Think, too, about how many of these films actually did something clever or unexpected with the superhero formula. It’s not many. Even the movies that tried, such as Eternals, didn't necessarily pull it off well.  Worse still: the actual movies and shows became almost totally ancillary to keeping people interested in the MCU. Instead, the whole project has become a race to see who can identify the most references and guess the next potential plot points as quickly as possible. (Bonus points if you work for a major magazine, and can garner a lot of clicks from doing so.) When the next MCU project debuts, go ahead and keep an eye on how much coverage grapples with the movie or show’s themes and storytelling, and how much coverage points out Easter eggs or speculates on when the X-Men are going to show up. It’s a superficial way to engage with the media we consume, but it’s what the MCU has trained us to do... I was determined to read the comics firsthand and continue the story.  The only trouble was that after a trip to my local comic book store, I had no idea where to start. Stories in Marvel comics aren’t self-contained adventures that wrap up within a few years, like the X-Men cartoon. Instead, Marvel continuity ran all the way back to the very first issue of Fantastic Four in 1961. (And, truthfully, some of the stuff before that — but not all of it!) The canon comprised thousands upon thousands of stories, characters and events, some of which contradicted each other, and most of which simply weren’t accessible anymore... Marvel has yearly(ish) crossover events, which shake up the status quo in the Marvel Universe and usually end with a huge battle against some kind of cataclysmic threat. Avengers: Disassembled was the first one I read, and I quickly realized that just reading the monthly Avengers comic wasn’t enough. To get the full story, I also had to read (and, of course, buy) monthly issues of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. It was a lot of extra information — and a lot of extra money.  I followed this cycle for a few years, throughout House of M, Civil War, Siege and Fear Itself. Some crossovers were better than others, but each one of them involved a ton of backstory, a ton of side stories and a ton of follow-up stories.  Eventually, I had a realization: The constant worldbuilding-upon-worldbuilding (at ever-increasing expense) was never going to end. I’d become incredibly invested in the story, but Marvel was never going to provide catharsis. If I wanted an ending, I’d simply have to pick a stopping point myself.  In other words, Marvel comics have spent 60 years creating a messy, labyrinthine, impenetrable mythos, with a steep onboarding cost (in terms of both time and money), and no easy way to get out. The MCU has done the same, but this time around, the process took only a decade."

The MCU Is Best When It Isn't Making Superhero Movies - "The genre of superhero movies has been around for a long while and has been refined into an art form by the MCU. Basically, a superhero movie is either an origin story or a McGuffin hunt... the best movies of the MCU are the ones that don’t heavily rely on the classic superhero genre. It’s when the filmmakers take the canvas of the superhero movie and paint a different genre upon it, that’s when we get something really special. It doesn’t always happen. The first Ant-Man movie was hyped as a heist movie and though it featured a heist it never felt as though the filmmakers committed to the genre and that commitment is the key.  Thor: Ragnarok is a comedy first, a superhero movie second. It has all the CGI, heroics, wisecracks, and trappings of a superhero movie you would expect but director Taika Waititi piles on jokes, wordplay, slapstick, crude humor, broad humor, clever humor, and quintessential Kiwi dryness to give us a genuinely laugh-out-loud funny movie. The MCU has always contained comedy – the Marvel Humor that people tweet about but can’t define – but Thor: Ragnarok was the first movie to go all-in on it. And the result is a hilarious movie that also just happens to be a superhero movie. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, often held up as the best the MCU has produced, is a superhero movie hiding behind a 70s paranoia thriller... Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a horror movie about a magic battle between two Avengers... These days, I find myself pulled towards movies with mixed reviews because I know I’m going to get something interesting one way or another as, in a world of sequels, remakes, and, yes, superhero movies, it’s important that filmmakers keep making movies that stop people in their tracks and make them think about what they’ve just seen."

Meme - Eternals Venn Diagram:
The ones you care about
The ones without a character arc
The ones who don't impact the story"

Jo Wicks's answer to Why are people mad at Brie Larson? - Quora - "I have to say, after watching her in a number of interviews, I find her incredibly obnoxious.  She is extremely rude and abrasive and wears a constant look of disdain.  She comes across as bitter, angry and arrogant.  I speak as a woman, a Feminist in the original sense (equality for all) and somebody who was raised to have good manners.  She's like a petulant, sulky, overgrown brat. I'm constantly waiting for her to stamp her feet."
Answer to Why are people mad at Brie Larson? - Quora - "I’m a woman, I’m a feminist, I don’t hate her but, oh my God.  Men-hating comments aside, her simple attitude alone is enough to show arrogance... While Chris Hemsworth praised his stunt doubles and trainers, Brie jumped in and said,      “See, this is the thing - I did my stunts because I thought that everyone did!”  Bad choice of words. Really, really bad. Her response contrasted sharply against Chris’s. He was putting himself down and then suddenly Brie tried to put herself up above Chris. Things would have been better if Brie had also given her appreciation to people that helped her in the movie or said something else. Anything else would’ve been better. But she didn’t. This created a black-and-white image to audiences: Chris is a humble man, Brie is an arrogant woman.   For me, she came across as thirsty for compliments and seeking recognition. She tried to show that she’s unique - but in a wrong way.  Also, there was a chance to fix her wrongdoings when Chris compared her to Tom Cruise. She could’ve praised Tom for his stunt actions, or even if she doesn’t agree, she could’ve explained what stunt she did that differentiates her from the Mission: Impossible actor, or she could’ve at least made another joke, but she didn’t. Instead, she got offended... In her eyes, it seems EVERYTHING is negative. She got really defensive over simple, harmless things, like how she got salty over people wondering whether she works out or not."
Of course, expecting women to have good manners is misogyny. Only men need to be polite

Meme - "What If? *White Black Panther*"

Meme - "Michael Tuffley Photography is at Dragon*Con September 27
Atlanta, GA, United States
This is a dark timeline #multiverseofmadness #wanda #scarletwitch #captaincarter #cosplay #marvel #dragoncon"

Meme - "r/Marvel
u/ NoobMaster69
NSFW
Having been through a divorce there's no better or painful moment in the MCU than the first few minutes of Endgame. It's hard to rewatch. It's exactly what being divorced is like. You have a family and... then you don't. I don't think I'd ever judge Hawkeye for Ronin. Honestly, I can see why he'd do it."
"Honey, I'm leaving you and I'm taking the kids with me."
"OMG!!! Just like Endgame!!!"

Meme - "If you ever feel stupid, just remember that Rapu thought it was a good idea to demean his last remaining adherent, who had just lost everything... while the only weapon in the universe which could've ended his existence was laying within reach of said adherent."

Meme - "Kang the conqueror when he sees Thor share his powers with all 100 Avengers, Eternals, Thunderbolts, Fantastic 4, Guardians of the Galaxy and thousands of Asgardians, Skrulls, Sorcerers and Wakandan soldiers in the final battle"

Meme - "Janet van Dyne at Tony Stark's funeral when she didn't even meet him *Meghan Markle at the Queen's funeral*"

Meme - "Wait so you're Spider-Man too? Why didn't you just say that?"
"Do look like a fucking idiot to you? Unlike your dumbass friend, I don't tell every fucking person I meet that I'm Spider-Man. The whole reason why we have to deal with this multiversal bullshit is because he can't keep his mouth shut"

Marvel faces backlash for reviving anti-Palestinian Israeli superhero Sabra in upcoming Captain America film - "Marvel has ignited anger around the world after announcing that it is bringing back Israeli superhero Sabra, a racist, anti-Palestine character first introduced in 1980s Hulk comics.  On Sunday, it was announced at the D23 Expo that the upcoming Marvel film Captain America: New World Order will feature Sabra’s Marvel Cinematic Universe debut. Israeli actor Shira Haas has been chosen to play the character... Though some Twitter users argued that the character was named Sabra before the massacre occurred, others countered that by saying the name could have been changed since it is now a reminder of a painful history. Plus, the character is being introduced into the cinematic universe over four decades after it was created, there could have been an evolved approach that didn’t so outrightly take a political stance."
You can never satisfy the woke

Meme - "When she make you nut before you leave the house so u don't have the energy to cheat *Captain Marvel holding Thanos*"

Meme - "> introduces a latina character
> her superpower is crossing borders"
Plus her name is America

Meme - "ok, so have a theory about Vision. You and Stark created him in a machine as a counter to Ultron. There's no reason why you or Tony would give a weapon containing an infinity gem a penis, therefore think Vision died a virgin"
"you really want to know?"
"oh, I already know. I must be right!"
"well Tony's room was next to Vision's at the Avengers Compound. and and he told me he heard more sokovian screams coming from that room when wanda was in there than during the battle of sokovia"

Meme - "Marvel actors: Visiting sick kids in hospitals in character
meanwhile DC actors
Amber Heard: 'Prepare for trouble!'
Ezra Miller: 'And make it double!'"
Comment: "Amber Heard's face is so undefined that everytime I see a meme or a movie with her in it, I have to play Clue to figure out who she is. I never have issues recognizing people, but she is always just generic blonde woman."

Meme - "Kevin Feige: I think I forgot something
Disney: If you forgot, then it wasn't important
Kevin Feige: Yeah, you're right
*Sokovia Accords in rain*"

Meme - "WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE SEE
*Everett Ross and Ulysses Klaue*
WHAT I SEE...
*Bilbo and Gollum*"

Facebook - "Apparently if you depart from Middle-Earth, you end up at Marvel"

Meme - "In this scene Tobbey a matured and aged Spider-Man was trying to teach a young and teen spider boy. That if you will let it go & forgive your enemy he will stab you in your back"

Meme - "Tom: My GF forgot who I am. I'm single now
Andrew: Me too, mine's dead
Tobey: It's ok, I'll teach you boys how to pick up girls
*Bully Maguire x3*"

Meme - "Ursula Ditkovich
Is wholesome and patient
Loves you because of your looks and personality
feeds you cookies
would forgive you
would never cheat on you
not a hypocrite
MJ Watson
Very impatient and gets angry on small mistakes
Won't give a shit about you unless you're a richie or superhero
runs away in the middle of a date in which you're paying the bills
would get ready marry another guy if you make her upset
Won't even think about you when kissing a superhero or richie
HYPOCRITE "

Marvel promised to not objectify women anymore, now here is a shirtless highschool boy from Ms. Marvel : KotakuInAction

Meme - "Kamala collecting boys each episode: *Thanos*"

Meme - Dr Octopus: "Is a loving husband.
Causes his wife's death, and hates himself due to the guilt he feels for it.
Wants to produce a self sustaining energy source for all of mankind, no matter what the cost."
Sandman: "Not a bad person, he just had bad luck
Just wants money to save his dying daughter.
Survives being turned into sand, literally because of how much he loves his daughter."
The Lizard: "Turn everyone into lizards for literally no reason."
Electro: "Spider-Man didn't come to my birthday party."
Mysterio: "Tony Stark called my technology "BARF""

Viral 'Falcon and Winter Soldier' tweet reveals Marvel's worst flaw is back - "when a villain has fascist tendencies, Marvel makes sure we love them; but when the bad guy is a revolutionary anarchist, the studio goes out of its way to make them look totally evil"
What a delusional article. To the left, nuance is unacceptable - the left must be heroes and the right must be villains

Meme - Hulk: "I gained the powers I hate through a horrific accident. My father killed my mother and spent all of my life trying to turn me to evil. I lived in exile as a wanted man pursued by the military that wants to use me as a lab rat. I lost the one person I love." She-Hulk: "I'm perfect"
Meme - Iron Man: "I was tortured as a prisoner of war. I grappled with alcoholism. I had to confront my family's legacy. I became terminally ill because of the same technology keeping me alive. I sacrifice my life to save the universe."
Ironheart (Riri Williams): "I'm perfect"
If you think a female character is bad, shallow or unrealistic, you're just a misogynistic incel

Meme - "Michael Ward: Every person hating on she hulk right now. *sexism alert*"
If you don't shut up and consume, you're a bad person
I'm sure this won't stop people claiming that no one is claiming that everyone who doesn't like She-Hulk is sexist

'She-Hulk Attorney at Law' Episode 1 Review - A Show That Exposes All The Flaws Of Progressive Screenwriting - "The writers opted not to spend numerous episodes taking Walters on the same route that Bruce Banner did to control his anger. Instead, the show decides to fast forward past this arc by explaining that Jennifer is already great at controlling her anger better than Bruce, because she is a woman who deals with men every day... The idea of Jennifer being in complete control of her emotions is not true, because seven minutes into the episode we see her lose control when a group of men talk to her outside of a bar, meaning the entire narrative the show attempts to create is undercut within minutes. Poor writing. When you are dealing with an episode of bad writing, you should always ask yourself “who wrote this?” She-Hulk is written by 38-year-old Chinese-American writer Jessica Gao, whose biggest claim to fame was winning an Emmy for writing the “Pickle Rick” episode of Rick & Morty. Gao is responsible for the majority of the dialogue you will experience in this series. Jennifer Walters as a character sounds like a 40-year-old progressive woman who has made her gender the defining trait of her personality. Shows like this fail because modern Hollywood writers cannot separate their own ideology from the characters that they are writing. So when She-Hulk speaks, it’s Jessica Gao doing the talking... Mark Ruffalo is by far the best part of the first episode, because he acts as the calm voice of reason who is constantly met with disdain for the crime of trying to explain to his cousin the magnitude of the situation that she is in. Yet, as the dialogue states, Jennifer doesn’t take kindly to men telling her what to do.   Nobody who has watched The Incredible Hulk or the first two Avengers movies would have written a line that disregards the tragic story of Bruce Banner, because it would have made no sense. The show doesn’t want the character of Jennifer Walters to be viewed as “emotional” or “difficult,” but after 30 minutes of screen time, she’s done nothing to disprove those characteristics. Jennifer Walters comes off as a character who is mad at the world, but hasn’t accomplished anything for audiences to sympathize with her struggle. This is Woke progressivism in a nutshell... This show was made by people who have brought into the idea that catcalling and “mansplaining” are on the same pillar of trauma as grief and self-loathing."

Rumor: Disney To Race-Swap A Number Of X-Men For The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Use Cameos From Fox Films As "Better Bait" For Fan Interest - ""3 of them have said that one of the main objectives is to « continue to move on, to transit from white men », even if this means leaving money on the table.”  “They know that « unfortunately white men are the money in the whole revenue stream chain, which includes multiple viewings, more merch at higher price points, secondary media spends, etc,” they concluded. “We want to give the minimum possible needed to get the most that we can out of them. We’ll have to throw them a couple of bones.»”"

Meme - "And as you can see, I am not dead. I absolutely should be, I was literally impaled. But this is owned by Disney so there was no blood"

Meme - "Black Panther 2 Has Left Fans Convinced Shuri is Lesbian, Demand Marvel Studios to Show Budding Romance Between Riri Williams and Shuri"
"I mean when your movie is full of women completely drained of femininity, that will happen. Btw Disney is firing a bunch of ppl and putting hiring on hold. So I'm not sure this kinds shit is as popular as twitter tells them it is"

Americans hating poor people

It's amazing how much some Americans hate poor people.

From a post on public transport (this also got blocked by ifunny - go figure):

"europoor *meme of holding a mic to shit* "Anything else?"
"By developed they mean cucked? + no rich person rides a bus unless it's a pr stunt."
"Public transportation is maximum poor lol"
"No. I don't want to be on the bus with the rabble."
"*peasants*"
"Nothing says developed like being forced to cram into that same cabin as the general riffraff to go anywhere for any reason"

Links - 26th January 2023 (1 - Women)

'Vabbing' is dangerous: Doctors warn against TikTok craze of using vaginal discharge as perfume - "Doctors are warning against a new viral TikTok trend that sees single women use their vaginal discharge as perfume.  'Vabbing' — which involves smearing fluid behind the ears and neck — was made popular by American Tiktokker Mandy Lee whose original video racked up 1.5million views.  Proponents claim it increases the chance of attracting men, by spreading their pheromones — chemicals made by the body to attract mates in some animals... Bacteria on women's fingers can lead pelvic inflammatory disease, where the bugs spread from the cervix to organs higher up, Dr Dimitriadi said.  This can lead to scarring in the fallopian tubes, making it difficult for fertilised eggs to reach the womb. Vabbing — a combination of the words 'vagina' and 'dabbing' — was first used as a hashtag on TikTok in June.   Videos containing the phrase have since racked up millions of views.   Dr Dimitriadi, from the Centre for Surgery, a private cosmetic surgery in Paddington, said the act itself is not entirely unsafe.  But 'the question is how you collect the discharge'... Vabbing was coined in 2019 by sex expert and author Shan Boodram, who claimed she had been using the method to attract men for over a decade.  'I am certain that every single time I employ it, it makes me feel like an enchanted goddess with a delicious secret,' she wrote in her book, the game of desire.  A TikTok video by Mandy Lee in June reinvigorated the trend with younger audiences.  'I swear if you vab, you will attract people, like a date, a one-night stand or you'll just get free drinks all night,' she said in the video, which has since been deleted by the platform."

Meme - ella dawson @brosandprose: "A red flag: When your partner loves to "debate" you and these conversations leave you feeling embarrassed, frustrated and stupid. That's not a debate and that's not a conversation, that's your partner demeaning you.
If your partner routinely leaves you feeling like a nitwit, unable to articulate your ideas, opinions and experiences, they are more interested in feeling smart at your expense than in hearing what you have to say."
Women are for loving, not getting into intellectual discussions with

Pete Davidson and Emily Ratajkowski 'are dating' - "Hollywood lothario Pete Davidson is continuing his lucky streak with A-list ladies after catching the eye of newly-single bombshell Emily Ratajkowski.   The former SNL comedian, 28, and the model, 31, are said to be 'in the very early stages' of dating and 'really like each other'... Pete - who was once praised for his 'big d**k energy' by ex Ariana Grande, 29, and most recently had a whirlwind romance with Kim Kardashian, 42 - 'loves how intelligent [Emily] is.'... Grande once tweeted about his '10 inches' and set the internet ablaze with talk of his 'big d*** energy'. Meanwhile Kim admitted that she pursued Pete after hearing about his 'big d**k energy' and was simply 'DTF' (down to f**k), later hinting that she was having the 'best' time of her life in the bedroom with the comedian."
Women like to mock men who say he's not a catch (body parts aside) and say that he has a good personality, but given that at least two of his exes have gushed over his penis it is curious how eager they are to silence other women's voices

Culture as a Moderator of Epistemically Suspect Beliefs - "Fundamentally, scientists are in the business of trying to improve the accuracy of both their own and humanity’s beliefs via the collection of information about the universe. As such, it is no surprise that a community of researchers have become profoundly interested in epistemically suspect beliefs (ESBs), which refer to beliefs that do not cohere with established scientific evidence (e.g., paranormal beliefs; Lobato et al., 2014)... We assessed the degree to which participants endorsed various paranormal beliefs by asking them to judge the plausibility of 12 paranormal belief items (BPA). These items were drawn from the Psi questionnaire (6-items; Roberts and Seager, 1999; Japanese version adopted from Majima, 2015) and Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (6-items; adopted from Tobacyk, 2004). Participants judged the plausibility of each BPA item (e.g., “How likely is it that you possess some form of ‘psychic ability’?”)... We assessed the degree to which participants endorsed pseudoscientific beliefs with 12 pseudoscientific belief (BPS) items (e.g., “Homeopathic remedies foster spontaneous healing”). This scale consisted of six items from Majima (2015), three items from Lobato et al. (2014), and three items from Dekker et al. (2012)... Westerners scored higher on our measure of rationality (i.e., the six rationality subscale items included in the REI), t(296) = 6.22, p < .001, d = 0.72. Consistent with past work, Japanese participants endorsed more paranormal, t(296) = 5.81, p < .001, d = 0.66, and pseudoscientific beliefs, t(296) = 4.81, p < .001, d = 0.56, than Westerners... We observed a significant gender difference for both ESBs in which women were more likely to have stronger ESBs compared to men"
More evidence (including Lobato et al) that women are more irrational than men (in addition to what we know about the Cognitive Reflection Test). Given the link to neurotism, this is expected.
Westerners being more rational than non-Western cultures is also supposed to be a "stereotype"

Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex - "Because of their heavy obligatory investment in offspring and limited offspring number, ancestral women faced the challenge of securing sufficient material resources for reproduction and gaining access to good genes. We review evidence indicating that selection produced two overlapping suites of psychological adaptations to address these challenges. The first set involves coupling—the formation of social partnerships for providing biparental care. The second set involves dual mating, a strategy in which women form long-term relationships with investing partners, while surreptitiously seeking good genes from extrapair mates. The sources of evidence we review include hunter-gather studies, comparative nonhuman studies, cross-cultural studies, and evidence of shifts in women's desires across the ovulatory cycle. We argue that the evidence poses a challenge to some existing theories of human mating and adds to our understanding of the subtlety of women's sexual strategies"

Men and Women Writing Women: The Female Perspective and Feminism in U.S. Novels and African Novels in French by Male and Female Authors - "I have come to the conclusion that literary theories do not necessarily represent truths... I am pleased to find that in the novels I have studied, men are capable of writing from the female perspective in a way that is accurate, respectful, and progressive"
This was the only empirical study I could find. So much for that theory

5 Reasons Why Women and Men Care About Height - "1. Women prefer to date taller men; tall men attract more desirable partners. On average, women have a strong preference for tall men. In fact, women care more about dating taller men than men care about dating shorter women. A study on women and men’s height preferences found that women are most satisfied when their partner was 8 inches (21cm) taller. Men are most satisfied when they are 3 inches (8cm) taller than their partner. Another study found that among men, 13.5 percent prefer to date only women shorter than them. But among women, about half (48.9 percent) preferred to date only men taller than them. Relatedly, a study about height and human mate choice found that, on average, the shortest man a woman would date is 5 feet 9 inches tall. And the shortest woman a man would date is 5 feet 1 inch tall. In the same study, researchers found that 23% of men and 4% of women would accept a relationship where the woman was taller. Finally, researchers have found that women married to taller men report being in better health, have lower BMIs, more education, and higher incomes compared to women married to shorter men.
2. People view short women and men as less attractive and less successful... “shortness is more of a liability than tallness is an asset.”
3. Tall people make more money. Economists call this the “height premium.”
4. Tall people are more educated
5. Short men report being less healthy"
Outside of Singapore, men are also more open-minded than women when it comes to height

Meme - "Caleb 30
61 miles away
*Trigger Warning*
Let me guess...you‘re 25 with 3 kids, and you've done had your fun, now you don't want that, you want a real man to settle down with and take care of you and your kids bc you let a loser nut inside of you. k
I'm 6' even. Have my own house. 2 vehicles. And I make over $75k a year. What do you bring to the table? If the answer is "someone else's kids" then go kick rocks. No man will ever want you. Stop saying your "thicc"....your obese Also, your not a "dog mom", your a pet OWNER"

Meme - Chandler Dean @chandlerjdean: "Love when my girlfriend goes shopping and I go full useless RPG companion mode (blindly following 5 feet behind her, bumping into stuff, contributing absolutely nothing of value, repeating a few stock phrases like "let's roll!" and "you've got this!")"

Meme - Parvaneh @lil_parvaneh: "My friend, who is still a sex worker now, has been asked to do some of the most awful things I've heard of, she's a 'cam—girl'. A customer paid her 3x the price to sit naked & list out all the things she hates about herself & the things she regrets in life. She cried after"

BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, 60 Years of the Contraceptive Pill - "‘When the pill was first introduced, it was argued that it would strengthen the family because we could control when we have kids. But what's happened since then is that divorce has gone up. And the family has got smaller. Contraception is undeniably liberating. But I want to explore the price of that liberation, which I suspect is a sexual culture that can be trivial, and self centered.’...
‘In my practice, I have many young women here, who choose not to use contraception and to have families as single parents. And that's nothing to do with the contraceptive pill, that's to do with a change in attitudes of society’...
‘When an unexpected pregnancy occurs, kind of the flip side of bodily autonomy and my body, my choice is that, you know, the men take a step back and say, okay, well, okay, it's your body, your choice, I'm going to have nothing to do with this. So I think I think it has also increased the responsibility upon women’"
Weird. Liberals tell us no one chooses to be a single mother.
Apparently the pill didn't change social attitudes

BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, What's our moral responsibility to the future? - "Generally speaking, I believe that conservatives tell lies about the past and progressives tell lies about the future. And of the two, I find easier to see through the conservative lie. So that's why I prefer I find progressivism to be dangerous stuff."

Meme - "The Hairstyle Girls love *rich guy*
The Hairstyle Girls hate *poor guy with identical hairstyle*"

'My girlfriend had a baby with a sperm donor so I can't criticise her parenting skills' - "A man whose girlfriend chose to have a baby with a sperm donor instead of him has been urged to end his relationship.  Taking to Reddit, he explained that the couple have been dating for 10 years but never married due to her "commitment issues"... this is so the child is legally hers - and there will be no custody battles if they split...  "Problem is, as the child grows, she becomes increasingly protective.  "By protective, I mean she doesn't let me use common parenting methods, like natural consequences and setting boundaries.  "Everything I try to do, she undermines/undoes it. This is NOT what we had agreed upon before having the child.  "We took parenting classes, read books and attended workshops. Now it seems she has thrown all that out the window.  "Our child can do whatever she wants, eat only jellybeans for breakfast if so she fancies, stay up past midnight if she still wants to play. "Of course that is not healthy. She's doodled on my work laptop and my girlfriend wouldn't even let me sit her down to explain why it's wrong.  "In short, she doesn't say no, doesn't teach the child right from wrong, and doesn't let me do it.  "The kindergarten [nursery] teachers have already complained a ton about behaviour issues and suggest that we have our child evaluated, which we did.  "The specialist gave us some insightful advice that gf chose to ignore because she believes her child is perfect, and she is actively preventing me from carrying out that advice (such as setting a schedule, limiting sugary foods etc.)"  The dad said he's tried discussing the issues with his partner "countless" times and even suggested therapy, but ended up going by himself. He added: "I wanted to try harder because I really love the child even if she's not mine biologically.  "But today I overheard my girlfriend tell her [their daughter] that I 'still need to earn the parent title' and I broke.  "I pulled her aside and told her I can never be the child's parent because she won't let me.  "Now she's mad, accusing me of trying to abandon our child and giving me the cold shoulder."

Meme - "when she has five kids and updates she's lonely on FB
Hug them kids"

Teacher who lost job over OnlyFans page booted from site | Toronto Sun - "There is a prohibition on account holders shooting sexual content in public"

Meme - "My friend, who is still a sex worker now, has been asked to do some of the most awful things I've heard of, she's a 'cam-girl'. A customer paid her 3x the price to sit naked & list out all the things she hates about herself & the things she regrets in life. She cried after"

Coffee and Cleavage: Sex Education on Apple Podcasts - "‘I still get messages like every month from women asking questions. Really, actually, it's really nice. It's like the only time that I feel like I have interactions with women on social media’
‘Yeah, like, oh, hey, girl, how many ccs do you have? I love your boobs. I want to get mine done.’ ‘Yeah, or they have questions. Or they have concerns’"

Infidelity in heterosexual couples: demographic, interpersonal, and personality-related predictors of extradyadic sex - "This study aimed to assess the relative importance of demographic, interpersonal, and personality factors in predicting sexual infidelity in heterosexual couples. A total of 506 men (M age = 32.86 years, SD = 10.60) and 412 women (M age = 27.66 years, SD = 8.93), who indicated they were in a monogamous sexual relationship, completed a series of questionnaires, including the Sexual Excitation/Inhibition (SES/SIS) scales and the Mood and Sexuality Questionnaire, and answered questions about, among others, religiosity, education, income, relationship and sexual satisfaction, and sexual compatibility. Almost one-quarter of men (23.2%) and 19.2% of women indicated that they had "cheated" during their current relationship (i.e., engaged in sexual interactions with someone other than their partner that could jeopardize, or hurt, their relationship). Among men, a logistic regression analysis, explaining 17% of the variance, revealed that a higher propensity of sexual excitation (SES) and sexual inhibition due to "the threat of performance concerns" (SIS1), a lower propensity for sexual inhibition due to "the threat of performance consequences" (SIS2), and an increased tendency to engage in regretful sexual behavior during negative affective states were all significant predictors of infidelity. In women, a similar regression analysis explained 21% of the variance in engaging in infidelity. In addition to SIS1 and SIS2, for which the same patterns were found as for men, low relationship happiness and low compatibility in terms of sexual attitudes and values were predictive of infidelity. The findings of this study suggest that, for both men and women, sexual personality characteristics and, for women, relationship factors are more relevant to the prediction of sexual infidelity than demographic variables such as marital status and religiosity."
Men cheat because they're horny. Women cheat because they're horny and unhappy in their relationship

Does a longer sexual resume affect marriage rates? - "Sociologists have proposed numerous theories for declining marriage rates in the United States, often highlighting demographic, economic, and cultural factors. One controversial theory contends that having multiple non-marital sex partners reduces traditional incentives for men to get married and simultaneously undermines their prospects in the marriage market. For women, multiple partners purportedly reduces their desirability as spouses by evoking a gendered double-standard about promiscuity. Though previous studies have shown that having multiple premarital sex partners is negatively associated with marital quality and stability, to date no research has examined whether having multiple non-marital sex partners affects marriage rates. Data from four waves of the National Survey of Family Growth reveal that American women who report more sex partners are less likely to get married by the time of the survey (though so too were virgins). Yet this finding is potentially misleading given the retrospective and cross-sectional nature of the data. Seventeen waves of prospective data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's 1997 mixed-gender cohort that extend through 2015 show the association between non-marital sex partners and marriage rates is temporary: recent sex partners predict lower odds of marriage, but not lifetime non-marital sex partners. Seemingly unrelated bivariate probit models suggest the short-term association likely reflects a causal effect. Our findings ultimately cast doubt on recent scholarship that has implicated the ready availability of casual sex in the retreat from marriage. Rather, the effect of multiple sex partners on marriage rates is “seasonal” for most Americans."
This is based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort (those born 1980-84), so results might not hold for other cohorts. In any event, high lifetime partners correlates with many recent partners, and later marriage still indicates relatively lower desirability
Also: "Americans with higher reported numbers of non-marital sex partners tend to be smart, highly educated, Jewish or secular, slightly less happy, and live in western states (Wolfinger 2018c)". So even the anti-Semitic crowd have to accept that the Jews are eating their own dog food and they're not part of a conspiracy to corrupt society (at least, not without corrupting themselves too)

Meme - "WHOMEVER SAID MORE THAN A HANDFUL IS A WASTE, WAS NEVER A KID IN A CANDY STORE *Busty women*"

Meme - Woman: "babe you need to change, you need to do better"
Man: "I promise I'll do better. but you must do better too"
Woman: "well if you can't accept me for the way I am then I think this relationship is done"
Clearly women are perfect

Fiona Daly on Twitter - "I just overheard a woman say she uses her boyfriend's laptop to Google Christmas presents she wants so that he gets targeted ads. Communication in the digital age: a love story."

Meme - "What did your friend do that accidentally turned you on?"
"Me and my roommate at the time get a long well with this one girl. One day she came to our apartment for some video gaming. It was getting late, my roommate had already gone to sleep, I was playing Dear Esther and she was watching next to me. All the sudden, she laid her head on my shoulder. I developed a major crush just from that. 8 years later, when I told her about that, she just said sheepishly that she was tired, and there wasn't any intention. Hah, suck to be her, she's my wife now."

Meme - "OnlyFans somehow convinced men to pay prostitutes for NOT having sex with them"

Meme - Feminist News: Schrodinger's Brat @SchrodingrsBrat: "Girls should bring up astrology on a first date. Not because it's an accurate measure of compatibility, but because it self-identifles men who are arrogant, condescending, and incapable of entertaining opinions they disagree with."
Of course, if a woman meets an "anti-vaxxer" or "climate change denier", she has a duty to be arrogant, condescending and incapable of entertaining opinions she disagrees with, even though astrology is objectively more wrong them those positions
Feminism is basically an elaborate shit test

Meme - "Hide My Identity Dear Admin. Please hide my ID. I started dating my teacher when l was doing grade 11. He was married to his colleague but I didn't care, I loved him. He spoiled me rotten. He gave me money every month on the 22nd. I always had the best hair at school. I passed matric and we continued with our relationship. The wife found out and tried to break us but failed. She ended up removing her fat self from the marriage and I became the new wife. He gave her and the kids the house and we moved to Polokwane. Today I have two kids with him and | feel chubby and less beautiful. He doesn't spoil me anymore and we only make love when he's drunk. He's cheating on me with a teenager that failed matric last year. This girl is sending me pictures of them in lodges and restaurants. When I confront him he says I must go if I'm tired of the marriage. I can't go because I am unemployed. I have been praying but God is grey-ticking me. Please help me."

Meme - "majority of men look into the heart not the face *9% - looking at eyes, 91% - looking at breasts*"

Meme - "When you and your gf walk into an orgy trying to be adventurous but her true intentions come out
I want the big one"

Meme - "I'm sorry. I'm leaving you, I've been seeing someone else."
"How long?"
"About 10 inches."

🎀 dove 🎀 on Twitter - "If u ever feel bad ab ur taste in men I once dated a man who texted me “it’s fat cock Friday, see you after class” every single Friday :// and guess where I was every Friday ://///"

Meme - "You and Dating user matched!"
"I wanna go on a date with that handsome fella on the right."
"He said pass. He doesn't like obese chicks"
"You can't reply to this conversation.
This person's Dating profile is no longer available"

Meme - "Women get fat and their tits get bigger '
Men get fat but their dick size stays the same
That doesn't seem fair."

Meme - "I had a great time! The steak was amazing and could not take my eyes off you!"
"Yah it was fun, thank you for the flowers, hey question.. don't think I'm weird"
"Ok what's up?"
"So I couldn't help but notice what appeared to be your *dick* going down your pants leg. Am I right? No way it's that big and noticeable..."
"Omg that is embarrassing but yeah im sure that's what it was"
"Like what's the measurements? Lol"
"Decent size I guess. 10.5 fully hard and I can't get my hand all the way around it."
"Wow umm. I can't do that, I'm tiny and that is so big it's actually gross. Please don't text me back."
"What? You are joking right?"

Size Counts When It Comes to Sex - "being very thin is associated with 22 times the risk that a man will experience some kind of persistent sexual dysfunction, including erectile dysfunction (ED), inability to orgasm, premature ejaculation, and pain with sex, compared to men who are normal weight.  Similarly, men with very large waists, over 40 inches, had a 71% increased risk of having some kind of sexual trouble compared to men who had a waist size under 37 inches... Being underweight appeared to cut a woman’s chances of having sexual difficulties in half compared to a normal-weight, sexually active woman.  And obese women, with BMIs over 30, had 70% less chance of experiencing some kind of sexual dysfunction than their normal-weight counterparts... “There may be a plausible explanation. Women who experience trouble may quit having sex altogether while men may continue, particularly into the older ages.”  Among other surprises in the study for women: Those who reported using marijuana in the last year were about three times more likely than those who did not to report being unable to orgasm.  And women were intense exercisers and competitive athletes were more than four times more likely than those who were light exercisers to report experiencing vaginismus."

Robert Pattinson Bored His Stalker At Dinner: 'She Never Came Back' - ""I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year,” Pattinson revealed in 2009. “She stood outside my apartment every day for weeks – all day every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with her. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back. People get bored of me in, like, two minutes.”"

Meme - "He got dumped for a skinny felon with a big dck"
Emily Graham: Alondra Barkhorn don't it always be the most toxic ones that have the best *dick* tho *cries*
Alondra Barkhorn: Emily Graham yasss girl I know from experience
Emily Graham: Alondra Barkhorn it's rough out here
Alondra Barkhorn: Emily Graham that's my type
Emily Graham: Alondra Barkhorn apparently that's also my type. I'm really into the emotionally unavailable, damaged."

Meme - "me after thinking that telling my bf that i don't like him watching other girls on tiktok because i become genuinely obsessed w the girls he watches to the point where i check their feed multiple times a day and perk up when i hear an audio they used come from his phone or assume that he's thinking of a girl when he sings an audio ik they used and constantly compare myself to them until i hate myself beyond comprehension and genuinely want to rip my skin apart and crawl out of my body so i can no longer be perceived would make him stop"

Meme - "$4.00 Blow Jobs"

Meme - "This is a job for...
*rips open blouse*
CRAP! I'M NOT WEARING MY COSTUME!"

Meme - "my friends: I'm sad
me automatically: *flashes breasts*"

Meme - Women Being Honest @honestwamen: "Money doesn't cure beta @RationalMale"
Mehgan James @MehganJames: "My ex was a great man , but a horrible boyfriend. That's how I knewwww l was different . This Nigga never told me no n I still left. Bills was paid n advance , flew me first class everywhere, courtside seats for the season, shopping everyday damn near and I still lefty. *shrug*
Don't date women from the hood

Links - 25th January 2023 (2 - Trans Mania)

Opinion | A Sexual Assault Case in Loudoun County Isn’t About Trans Issues - The New York Times - "The Right’s Big Lie About a Sexual Assault in Virginia" (Oct 2021)
Former Loudoun County Superintendent Indicted by Special Grand Jury (Dec 2022)

Loudoun Dad Arrested At School Board Meeting Found Not Guilty - "A Loudoun County father, whose arrest at a June 2021 school board meeting was used by the Biden administration to justify a politicized attack on concerned parents, was found not guilty of trespassing... Law enforcement arrested Jon Tigges at a Loudoun school board meeting on June 22, 2021, after he tried expressing concerns about the school district’s “moral decay.” A Virginia district judge found Tigges guilty in October of 2021. Loudoun Circuit Judge Douglas Fleming Jr., however, cleared Tigges of any wrongdoing. Fleming determined that Tigges not only had a First Amendment right to attend the heated meeting but also that the superintendent who shut down the official gathering last summer had no right to declare it an “unlawful assembly.”... Tigges’ arrest in June of 2021 was used by the National School Boards Association (NSBA), in collusion with the Biden White House, to justify the smearing of concerned parents as “domestic terrorists” who required punishment from federal law enforcement.  In September of 2021, the NSBA sent its infamous complaint letter, secretly solicited by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, to the Department of Justice, which sparked a politicized attack on parents who wanted to speak out against corrupt school boards.   “Despite this victory, I have serious concerns about where we are as a country. We’ve been subverted by a darkness that is spilling out in rot at all levels and in both political parties”"

Loudoun County Mishandled Bathroom Sex Assault, Grand Jury Finds - "Loudoun County Public Schools was delinquent in its handling of the multiple high-profile sexual-assaults that occurred in the district last year, a special grand jury found, shedding further light on the events that helped inspire a massive parental-rights uprising in Virginia... the same male high-school student allegedly sexually assaulted two females in the LCPS district. The first incident happened in the girl’s bathroom at Stone Bridge High School (SBHS), where the “gender-fluid” perpetrator, who was wearing a skirt at the time, allegedly sodomized a ninth-grade girl. LCPS allows transgender students to access bathrooms and locker rooms that align with “their consistently asserted gender identity” under a policy that was officially adopted shortly after the bathroom assault allegedly occurred. When the victim’s father challenged the Loudoun school board about the policy, arguing during a public meeting that it would lead to the further victimization of female students, he was told there was no record of a sexual assault having occurred in the bathroom and was ultimately ushered out of the meeting by police.  The assailant in the bathroom attack was then transferred to Broad Run High School (BRHS), also in the LCPS district, where he allegedly sexually abused another female student... “There were several decision points for senior LCPS administrators, up to and including the superintendent, to be transparent and step in and alter the sequence of events leading up to the October 6, 2021 BRHS sexual assault,” the report reads. “They failed at every juncture.”  Even after SBHS informed BRHS that an accused sexual abuser would be joining its student body, school administrators did not probe the matter further...   Counsel representing the district attempted to interfere in the grand-jury investigation, which was mandated by Governor Glenn Youngkin. LCPS filed a motion for an injunction in May, claiming the investigation violated the constitution of Virginia and invaded the privacy of students and faculty. LCPS’ complaint asking to shut down the probe and subsequent prosecutions ultimately failed... there was an observable “lack of cooperation” from the district and the majority of school board members during the investigation

Transgender sexual assault report at BPS could bring new state rules - "Amid hotly disputed claims that a transgender student sexually assaulted a girl in women's restroom at Johnson Middle School, and an investigation of another incident where a girl claimed she was groped in different school restroom by a transgender girl that led to no charges being pressed, Brevard Public Schools is braced for new potential regulations of bathroom access by transgender students... the Brevard County Sheriff's Office released a report in response to a public records request of an investigation into an incident in June when a female student accused a transgender student of grabbing her breasts in the bathroom."
A TRA claimed there was no evidence of trans people perpetrating sexual assault in public bathrooms, then blocked me when I posted these 2 examples. Typical
Another claimed that this doidn't count because it was Florida, then kept dismissing all the examples as "outliers" (presumably January 6 and Charlottesville don't count either because they're outliers)

Transgender woman, 18, sexually assaulted girl, 10, in Morrisons toilet - "A transgender woman threatened to stab a 10-year-old girl’s mother during a terrifying sexual assault in the female toilets of a Morrison’s supermarket.  Katie Dolatowski, 18, admitted grabbing the youngster by her face and forcing her into the cubicle before demanding she take her trousers off at the store in Fife, Scotland"

Transgender Woman Charged With Voyeurism in Target Dressing Room - "Police in Idaho charged a transgender woman this week with videotaping an 18-year-old woman in a Target dressing room.  Authorities from the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office were called to Target on Monday after an 18-year-old woman saw someone taking photos or filming video with an iPhone over the top of a fitting room barrier, East Idaho News reported. The police arrested Shauna Smith, 43, on Tuesday on one felony count of voyeurism. She was booked as a male, under her legal name, Sean Patrick Smith... Target has been at the center of a nationwide controversy over transgender rights since it announced in April that it would allow customers to use the fitting room or restroom that corresponds with their gender identity. The decision prompted the conservative American Family Association to call for a boycott of the retail chain because the group claimed the transgender bathroom and fitting room policy would allow sexual predators to access victims."
Of course this doesn't count because it's a fitting room

After assault, Edmond transgender bathroom policy questioned - Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - "An Edmond police report indicates an Oct. 26 assault in the girls’ bathroom at Memorial High School involved at least one male student who identified as a female.  If Edmond school officials knowingly allowed males to use the girls’ bathroom (and vice versa) based on self-proclaimed gender identity, the school could face the loss of 5 percent of its state funding and be subject to lawsuits by parents under a new law.  An Edmond Police report shows that on Oct. 26 at 8:14 a.m., an officer was called to Memorial High School in reference to a fight. Upon arrival, the officer found a student with injuries in the nurse’s office.  Witness statements included in the report suggest one of the students involved in the reported assault in the girls’ bathroom was a male who identified as a female.  Although the names of minors are redacted from the report, it quotes a student witness stating that one of the students involved in the assault “is a man,” while other student witnesses informed the officer “that they speculated that [name redacted] was a [redacted] but did not know for sure.”  The report shows the officer asked the school’s registrar secretary for the birth certificate of one of the students, “but the certificate of birth did not identify [name redacted] gender.” A separate document, a paternity affidavit, indicated the student’s gender, but the report states that the officer asked Principal Brandi Wheeler about a “discrepancy” in the student records and was informed that the student “was born [redacted] but identifies as a [redacted].”  Michael Grande, who ran for a position on the Edmond School Board last year, said the district has reportedly long allowed students to use bathrooms based on self-proclaimed gender identity rather than biology.   “During that time, just going out on the campaign trail, a lot of parents that we talked to had concerns about transgender boys being in the girls’ bathrooms, all the way down at the middle-school level even, at Edmond,” Grande said. “So a friend of mine sent in some emails, just asking what the policy was.”  Grande said a member of the Edmond School Board responded that the school had allowed males to use girls’ bathrooms (and vice versa) based on gender identity and had done so for roughly a decade."
Weird. I thought this never happens
Comment: "I watched a video abt this with an interview of a lady who wrote the original article on it and lives in the same town in OK. where it happened and it’s way worse than “just punching them in the face”. it wasn’t exactly bc they refused to respond either. Apparently the transgender student had stolen a bunch of the OG victims clothes and was trying to interrupt her to talk to her abt tht while she was actively trying to calm a friend down who was going thru something ? And when she didn’t immediately respond the Trans student became irate and started screaming saying u wanna fight and just started beating this girl til she was knocked cold on the ground and while out was also getting kicked in the head and stomped on her back and another girl in the stall said she feared for her friends life and tried to stop it which in return got her a lil beat up too but not as bad as the first girl. If I can find the link I’ll tag it if anyones interested lol."

Gender-Inclusive Legislation Associated With Increased Harm to Women - "the WOMAN Means Something campaign has catalogued 255 incidents in which males have perpetrated violence against women in non-sex-segregated spaces as of Apr 30/2017. Using even the most stringent category of offenses--those in which biological males identified or expressed (clothing, wig, etc.) as women, the database yields 29 incidents in the UK, USA and Canada."
From 2017

‘I thought my boyfriend of 10 years was going to propose – then he told me he was trans’

Child, 4, who was born a female announces transition with blue cannon at Vancouver Pride Parade - "A four-year-old child born a female officially announced his transition to being a boy with a blue gender reveal cannon at Vancouver's Pride Parade - with his grandmother by his side.  Charlie Danger Lloyd, of British Columbia, Canada, was born female but now identifies as a male after expressing his desire to be a different gender from a young age, his mother Alaina Bourrel, 27, confirmed... 'Charlie jumped with joy as the crowd cheered him on. He couldn't believe the love and support he was shown from the bystanders.' Charlie ecstatically runs into his mother's arms at the end of the video."

No, Jesus was not trans - "Joshua Heath is a junior research fellow at the country’s leading bullshit factory, formerly known as Cambridge University. And one of the fellows he has been researching is Jesus, formerly the country’s divinity of choice and the son of God. Last Sunday during evensong, Heath delivered a sermon at Trinity College chapel, into which he slipped some of his research findings – that artistic depictions of the side wound delivered to Jesus by a Roman soldier look a bit like a vagina. He also suggested that paintings showing Jesus’s penis ‘urge a welcoming rather than hostile response towards the raised voices of trans people’.  Heath sermonised that in a picture from the 14th-century Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg the side wound, which got a panel all to itself, took on ‘a decidedly vaginal appearance’. Now I’ve had a look at this image, and I have to say that though I’m far from being an expert in either Renaissance brushwork or female anatomy, I think young Joshua must’ve seen some pretty bloody odd vaginas in his time. You might equally claim on this ‘evidence’ that Jesus represents the Eye of Sauron or a slice of watermelon.   The very idea that a vagina is a bleeding wound or a cut – somehow incomplete, an injury to a male body – is horribly, in fact definitionally, sexist. In that sense at least, the idea fits in with the modern gender movement... Heath’s spicy trans take was backed up by Dr Michael Banner, the dean of Trinity College... Christianity and trad Christians are easy game. Bearding them in their own den is predicated entirely on it being a very safe bet that they won’t reply in kind. Picking on those who cannot or will not fight back – ironically the very definition of bullying, supposedly a cardinal sin of the new creed that includes ‘trans’ – must make people like Heath feel dead hard. Of course if the sermon had suggested something along the same lines about Islam or its prophet, Heath would now be in hiding, living under a new identity and being ignored by Labour MPs... The message under the message is loud and clear. Bow to your new masters! Same as your old masters."

Transwoman Elite Athletes: Their Extra Percentage Relative to Female Physiology - "There is increasing debate as to whether transwoman athletes should be included in the elite female competition. Most elite sports are divided into male and female divisions because of the greater athletic performance displayed by males. Without the sex division, females would have little chance of winning because males are faster, stronger, and have greater endurance capacity. Male physiology underpins their better athletic performance including increased muscle mass and strength, stronger bones, different skeletal structure, better adapted cardiorespiratory systems, and early developmental effects on brain networks that wires males to be inherently more competitive and aggressive. Testosterone secreted before birth, postnatally, and then after puberty is the major factor that drives these physiological sex differences, and as adults, testosterone levels are ten to fifteen times higher in males than females. The non-overlapping ranges of testosterone between the sexes has led sports regulators, such as the International Olympic Committee, to use 10 nmol/L testosterone as a sole physiological parameter to divide the male and female sporting divisions. Using testosterone levels as a basis for separating female and male elite athletes is arguably flawed. Male physiology cannot be reformatted by estrogen therapy in transwoman athletes because testosterone has driven permanent effects through early life exposure. This descriptive critical review discusses the inherent male physiological advantages that lead to superior athletic performance and then addresses how estrogen therapy fails to create a female-like physiology in the male. Ultimately, the former male physiology of transwoman athletes provides them with a physiological advantage over the cis-female athlete."

Oregon university affiliated children's hospital displays 'safe tucking' guide - "An Oregon children's hospital is displaying a handout teaching individuals how to properly perform "safe tucking" that is intended for "all ages," which includes children.  Oregon Health & Science University's Doernbecher Children's Hospital displays a "Safe tucking" handout that shows individuals how to make "the genital area look smoother and flatter." It states that "tucking is moving the penis, testicles, or both out of the way."... The handout from the children's hospital points individuals to a self-described "women-owned sex toy boutique" store in Portland, which has gender-affirming clothing items as well as sex toys, videos and more, and states that while the store is for people aged 18 and older, it offers appointments before or after hours for "younger shoppers.""

Meme - "WIBTA for applying to women specific scholarships when I'm not a woman. I'm an AFAB non-binary person, who's not out at my college. I don't think it's currently safe for me to be out at my college, so Im just suffering through tbh. I'm studying a STEM field that's desperately trying to train & hire people, & my professor keeps sending me scholarships for women in this field. | feel really bad about applying for them when I'm not a woman, but also I could use the money."

New Hampshire teen one of the youngest to have gender reassignment surgery - "A high school student in New Hampshire is being called a 'pioneer' after becoming one of the youngest people to undergo gender reassignment surgery. But her long and challenging journey began when she was just a child.  At 17 years old, Emily Tressa finally feels fully herself. Last month, she became one of the youngest patients in the country to undergo gender reassignment surgery"
Weird. Liberals keeps telling us this never happens. Chopping off kids' genitals is considered "care" and anyone who lets his personal beliefs get in the way should not be in the medical profession
I posted this and someone continued to claim that minors weren't undergoing surgery. Amazing gaslighting

Elon Musk on Twitter - "Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask, and implicitly ostracizing those who don’t, is neither good nor kind to anyone."
Edip Yüksel on Twitter - "I was fired from college, after 23 years of teaching Philosophy and Logic, for objecting pronouns. I never had a single complaint by any LGBT+ student. I treated every student with dignity & respect. I encouraged them to think for themselves and stand for truth and justice."
dawn 🌞 on Twitter - "Serves you right. Try a little kindness next time."
Aljosa on Twitter - "Shut the fuck up with kindness when you are mean to everyone who doesnt agree with you."
This is a prime example of how the ones promoting "kindness" are themselves vicious

Matt Walsh on Twitter - "Nobody has pronouns. You can't "have" a pronoun any more than you have a preposition or an adverb. The concept doesn't make any sense. Pronouns are not things you can own. They aren't pets or accessories. They are parts of speech. That's it. You don't get to customize them."

Trey Radel on Twitter - "If I, born a biological male, can identify as a biological female, can I, born Caucasian, identify as Black?"

Meme - "How do you learn to climax from prostate stimulation? Ive tried anal over 100 times and never feel those waves of pleasure to chase to climax. Any help on technique or toys would be greatly appreciated. Thanks girls."

Jessica Alves, 39, reveals 'disappointing' experience of dating as a single trans woman - "Jessica Alves has opened up on her 'disappointing' experience of dating as single trans woman.   The Brazilian bombshell, 39, exclusively spoke to MailOnline about her quest to find love, sharing her heartache that men only want to have a sexual experience with her and are 'put off' when she mentions her desire to start a family... The star has spent nearly £1million on almost 80 surgeries to transform herself, undergoing sex reassignment surgery in 2021 after coming out as transgender in 2020... 'I get a lot of attention from men when I am out in public, on my Instagram and on my OnlyFans, but I am still a single woman.'... Jessica went on to reveal her confidence in her look, before calling on the need to 'normalise' having have more trans people on screens."

Sydney woman who transitioned to man SUES psychiatrist for negligence - "A woman who transitioned to a man is suing her psychiatrist for professional negligence after he approved her hormone therapy despite only seeing her for a single appointment. Jay Langadinos, then 19, first met psychiatrist Dr Patrick Toohey on May 7, 2010, after telling a doctor she 'had always felt she was a boy rather than a girl'...  Ms Langadinos said Dr Toohey should have realised she might be autistic and referred her for further assessment by a specialist.  She also says her social phobia should have been treated before any hormone therapy and that she wasn't given any information on how the transition would affect her fertility.   Ms Langadinos claims the surgeries have left her suffering with 'injuries and disabilities'.  She also listed several issues she has faced 'as a result of the negligence'.   They include masculinisation as a result of hormone therapy, loss of her breasts, uterus and ovaries.  She also cited complications from hormone therapy including early menopause, anxiety and depression. Ms Langadinos says her psychological functioning is impaired and her capacity for employment has diminished because of the transition... Ms Langadinos said she had a complicated home life and attraction to girls led to her feeling 'defective' at 17.   Searching for answers online, she came across gender dysphoria and thought 'that's what I have'.   However, she said her transition led to even more unhappiness... Solicitor Anna Kerr, of NSW's Feminist Legal Clinic, referred Ms Langadinos' case to legal firm Slater and Gordon.  'We can expect to see extensive litigation in future years related to gender-affirming cross-sex hormones and surgeries'"

Meme - "Irony here is astounding
Ian Thomas Malone: "Elon Musk is just sad because he identifies as a comic book villain when he's really just a bargain bin Lex Luthor with cheap hairplugs who never had an original idea in his sad life.""

Meme - "Heads up parents. If you are applying for auto insurance for your teenage boy be sure to check non- binary...Cant be proven and it cut my son's auto insurance by half.
Insurance Forms: Male or Non-Binary? Check Non- Binary...BOOM cut quote in half. Saving $134 a month...a month
Oops ooop my sons other parent said 134 it was actually 34 dollars in saving...still that's a big discount."

Taylor Silverman on Twitter - "Non binary often just means white women with nothing interesting about her."
It’s Ma’am, PhDelightful on Twitter - "Or she’s kinda ugly"
veryhammer 🇺🇸 on Twitter - "I'm not aware of an exception. Even if they weren't ugly to start they ended up there."

Meme - "Trans hate crimes on the increase
1.2.1 IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED ANY OF THE FOLLOWING?
People looking at you
People not looking at you
Men not catcalling you
Not being centred in conversation
People not observing the 298th Trans Awareness Day this year
Saying my purple lipstick makes me look like I've died of frostbite
Deliberately mispronouncing 'Xe', 'Xim‘ and ‘Xose'
Breathing in a way that indicates lack of acceptance
Bringing up when l masturbated at work and posted the photos online
Lesbians refusing to date me
Not projecting my image onto a wall on International Women's Day
Not being included in conversations about menstruation
Reading Harry Potter in a threatening way
People liking Primal Scream
Saying ‘women' instead of 'mobile breeding sows'"

James Esses on Twitter - "Me: I don’t recognise the term ‘cis’. Please don’t call me it.
Trans activist: Tough. You can’t change who you are or how others see you.
Me: Well…this is awkward…"

A Surfeit of Empathy and an Absence of Compassion - "So far, I’ve managed to avoid scandal and outrage almost entirely by offering nuanced, non-partisan pieces that explicitly warn against the risks of Us vs. Them thinking. I felt moderately successful in eliciting meaningful, rational dialogues—until I touched the third rail of transgender identity... Within one hour of airing my post, Psychology Today editors had already received complaints from activist groups. Soon thereafter, a wave of posts, tweets, and petitions seeking to defame my article and my character were spreading on the internet. My attempt to call for compassion for all sides of this debate in a further Psychology Today piece earned widespread support from parents and clinicians, but only made matters worse with activists. As my inbox was flooding with hate mail, blog posts that grossly misquoted my work were now painting me as a transphobe and misogynist. One commenter in Psychology Today suggested I should “go to prison” for “harming so many children,” while countless others accused Dr. Littman and me of promoting ideologically-driven pseudoscience. Yet, the sources cited by activists to discredit studies of ROGD invariably take one back to a self-referential loop of other blog posts and opinion pieces by activists. It is a strange world indeed when unscientific ideologues accuse scientists of being pseudoscientific ideologues. It is important to note that Dr. Littman presented empirically derived hypotheses for further investigation, not moral arguments. Activists wish to discredit ROGD as worthy of further study on the grounds that Dr. Littman only surveyed “dismissive” parents who gather on “transphobic” websites. However, the participants heard about the study from one of several sources, including a large pro-gender-affirming Facebook group (Parents of Transgender Children) which posted recruitment information on their own site. The clear majority of study participants also answered that they believe transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other people in their country. No serious scientist or clinician denies the clinical evidence for social acceptance and transitioning to help those with gender dysphoria. But gender dysphoria is a rare condition. The matter for investigation here is that something new and worrying is happening with young people, gender, and “identity,” and that transgender ideology is only a piece in the puzzle. Concurrent shifts in epidemic entitlements ushered by “Generation Me” are likely related. So part of the problem in this non-negotiable call for accommodations might be our inability to stand firm against the tyranny of helicopter-parented, internet-educated children in need of leveraging the authoritative prestige of an “oppressed identity.” Moving too quickly in letting teens in distress make drastic decisions that can permanently alter their body and harm their personal and social adjustment is unproblematically recognized as unwise in other domains. This is why we don’t usually let children get tattoos we know they will regret later or why, as one RODG parent put it, “If we let our kids drive the agenda, they’d never want to go to school and would eat at McDonalds everyday.”  This is where compassion, rather than what Paul Bloom calls “parochial empathy,” is needed... Like many of my colleagues in recent years, I have become very concerned with the rise of language policing and extreme political correctness on college campuses and activist circles. This culture of victimhood, identity politics and social justice activism promotes a simplistic worldview of noble victims and malevolent victimizers. It is eroding free speech, and spreads a climate of fear and fragility on campus and beyond. That our youth care about justice, democracy, and diversity is a good thing, and we should applaud them for this. But encouraging and glorifying victimhood doesn’t help advance that agenda. Cultivating a sense of victimhood impairs coping and flourishing, breeds resentment and anger, increases conflict, and only succeeds in dividing rather than uniting people. The same is true of other sincere but terribly misguided cognitive traps promoted by social justice activists: the insistence that people’s feelings constitute the ultimate authority on truth, that ‘power’ is always bad, and that the powerless always know best. Victimhood culture often mistakes expertise and responsibility for “power.” Thus, doctors, parents, and teachers are “powerful” and bad, and patients, children, and students are “powerless” and good. Never mind that in this age of rampant individualism and customer satisfaction, children routinely bully parents and teachers, professors are terrified of their students, and doctors live in fear of litigation. Our “powerless” youth have certainly been successful in setting their agenda—from driving language policing and removing “harmful” content from course syllabi to making public bathrooms deeply awkward for 99 percent of people. Judging by rising rates of mental distress, this is not doing them any good. In these new culture wars, no issue is more divisive and sacred than the debate around rising rates of transgender teenagers... As it stands, the scare tactics of activists (who warn that unaccommodated trans teens are at high risk of suicide, and even murder) are preventing an important ethical conversation from taking place, and further instilling a culture of fear and victimhood that is setting a generation up for failure. The label “transphobe” is largely synonymous with such easy slurs as “racist,” “misogynist,” “Islamophobe,” “Zionist,” or even “white male,” “settler colonialist,” or “bad feminist.” Play any version of this card on anyone who wishes to introduce moderation into a sensitive conversation, and it will perform the cheap cognitive trick of placing the critic in the “oppressive” camp, thereby pitting them against noble victims."

The dangerous narcissism of the trans lobby - "Remember when oppression meant the government brutally denying you the rights and freedoms enjoyed by everyone else? Now it means blokes agonising over whether or not to paint their nails... In his new book None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary, nonbinary writer Travis Alabanza cites this dilemma as proof of the ‘oppression [of] the gender binary’... after seeing one of Alabanza’s theatre shows, Steve plucks up the courage to paint his nails neon yellow. Alabanza is moved by this brave strike against the forces of oppression. ‘My urge was to hug him’, he writes. Free at last! Thank God Almighty, free at last! It’s almost too ridiculous for words. There’s page after page in this memoir-cum-nonbinary-treatise about Steve and his nails... Turning the histrionics up to 11, he says he found himself ‘mourning Steve’s lost time’. Just to remind you: Steve wasn’t dead or in jail or under house arrest; he just didn’t paint his nails... The story of Steve’s oppressed unpainted fingernails is only one mad example of gender-binary ‘oppression’ in Alabanza’s book. There’s also the tragic tale of Alabanza feeling he cannot go out in public dressed as a witch... if I went to Tesco dressed as a wizard, I’d attract some shouts and jeers, too. Is that oppression? Or how about the time a waiter called Alabanza ‘sir’, which caused his whole body to ‘tense up’? Or the time a doctor looked at Alabanza’s ‘frame’ and said, ‘Yeah, I guess male’? Never mind that Alabanza is male, and thus has a male frame, and thus will be referred to as ‘sir’ by polite waiters – it’s all still ‘systemic oppression’, apparently. Then there’s the terrible act of violence Alabanza experiences. He’s out and about in ladies’ clothing when someone throws a chicken burger at him, ‘in broad daylight’ no less. Now, having food chucked at you is not nice. I once had a portion of chips dumped on me on the night bus to Camberwell. But it’s not oppression, is it? It’s just life in a city that has an abundance of both fast food and drunk young people. And yet Alabanza has written an entire play about the burger incident, called Burgerz, and he mentions it frequently in this new book. You’d think it was a lynching... What the book does do, however – unwittingly, of course – is expose the colossal levels of self-regard and self-pity in the trans movement. The oppression fantasies of this identitarian group are extraordinary. Alabanza says he and others like him live in ‘danger’. You never know ‘what shape that danger will take’, he says. State violence? Imprisonment for your beliefs? Nope – the danger could be a ‘whisper in the street’ or ‘a news presenter mocking your appearance’. Oh, get a grip. Alabanza, by his own admission, dresses like a ‘kindergarten teacher on acid’. Of course people are going to whisper. It is a testament to the narcissism of trans activists that they think they should be able to go out in ridiculous clobber, big blokes in neon mini-skirts and teetering high heels, without anyone so much as murmuring about them... There is a striking double standard in Alabanza’s talk of ‘danger’. One of the things he’s best known for is kicking up a fuss a few years ago when he was refused entry to the female changing room at Topshop in Manchester. The shop assistant quite properly told this man in a dress to go upstairs to Topman and use the male changing room. Alabanza went mad. Topman? How dare the sales girl oppress him like that. He tweeted about this terrible act of ‘transphobia’ and said to Topshop: ‘Who made you in charge of deciding who is woman enough to use your changing room?’ There was a media storm and Topshop caved – it said all its changing rooms would be ‘gender-neutral’ from now on. Tough shit all you teenage girls who liked having a female-only space in which you could try on outfits with friends. Mr Alabanza needs his nonbinary delusions to be publicly validated and as a result any old bloke can now enter your once sacrosanct space. One man’s therapeutic needs taking precedence over the right to privacy of thousands and thousands of girls – show me a better example of ‘male privilege’. Here’s what’s remarkable, though – Alabanza says in his book that the reason he couldn’t go into the ‘male changing rooms’ is because it would be an ‘unsafe place to change’. The men in there would pose a threat to him; he would be ‘at risk from harassment’. So the solution is to make all spaces ‘gender-neutral’ and allow those same men you fear to go anywhere they like, including into the girls’ changing room?... Suck it up, girls. Your loss of privacy and security is a small price to pay for Mr Alabanza having his silly belief that he’s neither male nor female validated in the public square.  And if you criticise Alabanza’s Topshop crusade, if you say it’s wrong and weird for burly males to intrude on girls’ spaces, guess what you’ll be accused of? Yep, oppression. Even violence... Janice Turner of The Times wrote about the Topshop incident. She said it was an example of children’s safety being ‘sacrificed to appease the trans lobby’. Alabanza devotes an entire chapter in his book to wailing over Turner’s column. Apparently reading it was ‘one of the most traumatic’ experiences of his life. Turner’s words were ‘violence washing over me’, he says. This is such gaslighting... Alabanza goes on and on about ‘violence’. He doesn’t mean violence as the rest of us understand it (unless you count the chicken-burger incident, which I guess was a tiny bit violent). No, he means disagreement, criticism, people being disapproving of his nonbinary nonsense. He even describes birth as violent – for him, of course, not his mother... That Alabanza’s book has come out at the same time as Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck for writing a novel is noteworthy... The book confirms just how phoney ‘trans liberation’ is. Alabanza presents himself as an escapee of the gender binary, one of the ‘lucky’ ones who has reached the enlightened heights of ‘gender non-conformity’. In truth, he seems trapped in a gender prison. He seems to think about nothing but gender... ‘For the narcissist, the world is a mirror’, said Lasch. This is what is happening with the trans ideology: it is trying to turn every part of the world into a mirror that faithfully and uncritically reflects the new gender beliefs. And it seems that no collateral price is too high in the pursuit of this most narcissistic of projects. Women’s spaces, girls’ changing rooms, lesbian rights, the English language, scientific truth itself – all may be cast aside in the name of male narcissism; all may be sacrificed at the altar of gender ideology."