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> If you sign off on postmodern culture, you loose.

In what way? To take OP's examples, in what way do I lose when OnlyFans exists, or when people are able to change their gender if they wish to?




As in you loose agains „the elites“. IMO the current dopamine and consumption driven culture only benefits a very small slice of the society. While externalized costs ruin many lives. Mental and physical health is going down the drain and nobody cares. E.g. obesity pandemic, drugs abuse and so on. People don't abuse junk food because of happiness and content. And yet we all end up paying, at least in countries with state health insurance :)

We as a society are at a loss when people think OnlyFans is a viable career path. Or a hobby, which is even worse. OF is the same as prostitution. Vast majority (if not all) people end up there for very sad reasons and we as a society should strive to eliminate it. Normalizing such abuse of the vulnerable is even worse.

Many cases of gender „change“ are similar symptoms of long running abuse we as a society normalize. E.g. trans athletes. Or over-sexualized display of how some people envision what it is to be a woman.


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Can you elaborate? Have there been a spate of attacks in bathrooms from transgendered folks that I've missed?

They are, of course, still single-gender spaces. What exactly is lost when losing a single-sex space while keeping it to a single gender?


Gender is a social construct and closer to a hobby. Sex is the only real thing that matters.


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> In some jurisdictions, women's prisons have been incarcerating males who say they are women. Some of these males have then subsequently raped, sexually assaulted and even impregnated female inmates who have been forced to cohabit with them.

Do you have any citations? I’d be fascinated to read.


Statistically it barely registers against a backdrop of male guards raping and impregnating women in womens prison.

ie. While technically 'true' it's a massive amplification of an anti trans talking point at the expense a mauch larger real issue that's ignored .. because the propogators don't actually care about women in prison, that's just a mask of concern for the sake of the pretence.


Technically true, but let's not talk, because it goes against the narrative some people are trying to push. Nice.

And then people wonder why all sorts of conspiracy theories pop up and post-truth stuff takes off.


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As stated, trans prisoners pose significantly less threat than male prison guards:

> This is why in women's prisons that prioritise safeguarding of inmates, sex-based staffing ratios are implemented so that there are sufficient female prison guards to keep a watchful eye on any male guards that may be present.

Nice theory, doesn't appear to work in practice:

https://insidetime.org/newsround/male-officer-jailed-over-se...

etc. etc. etc. ( there are many examples of this, in the UK and elsewhere )


it always bums me out to see inflammatory comments like this on hn. also you're wrong and dumb and all that




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