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  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzbrain blowing orgasms
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    15 hours ago

    Take that point and explain humans living to about 100 after breeding from 20 to 40, and kids taking ~15 years to become good enough

    Human tribes doing well is good for making children successful, old women have much better skills in finding whatever plant matter they’re gathering, old men are better at tracking and stalking prey. The old people teach the young.

    We evolved towards longer lifespans because groups that live longer survive and continue better








  • I really feel like the old fight is over. I openly walked hand in hand with my boyfriend in 1996 in Sydney and didn’t even get strange looks let alone shouting or hitting

    Boys who acted gay in my all boys high school in the 90s did get bullied for acting gay about as much as I got bullied for having the wrong accent, so pretty bad.

    I think it’s fair for the youth today to try and improve less significant issues when they feel safe, and I don’t think I have seen people told off for using they/them/themself when they don’t know someone’s pronouns because they have never met before

    It’s also the trans people who are getting overt threats from the US government more so than gays, they also rely on hormone therapy and government could deny that usage, driving them to black market hormones and a lot of suicides



  • use “Ms or Mrs”

    1. It was Miss for unmarried women before Ms was coined and popularised for “none of your business whether I’m married or not” so Ms was acceptable regardless
    2. Doesn’t Mrs look like it’s missing a possessive apostrophe, a Mr’s woman?

    And your main point, degender the male pronouns, it wouldn’t work. “Man” used to mean people, male men and female men and child men – boys and girls – had different words, some of which are still around. That’s why people say there’s nothing gendered in “chairman” (which 50 years ago was logically equal to “chairperson”, unless you count other species as people).