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they call me the problem ignorer for reasons that i know but dont feel like addressing right now

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in your opinion, how can one convince people to not be bioessentialist or at least, less bioessentialist?

I'd take a similar approach with gender as I'd suggest for race there.

This would entail teaching people to treat others as distinct individuals who can cover the whole range of human experiences and values rather than as members of a stereotyped monolith. Joke example: I'm a hardcore atheist from El Salvador and I don't think Dragon Ball Z is very good.

Based on what I have seen, a lot of sexists build these "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" narratives largely by uncritically absorbing existing stereotypes and then reinforcing them through confirmation bias and other errors.

For example, my father was convinced that women are bad at driving. Whenever he saw someone driving badly, he'd say something like "I bet that's a woman", and then when he checked he immediately dismissed and forgot about any results that didn't match his stereotypes. If the driver was a woman that was evidence he was right, but if the driver was a man that was not evidence he was wrong.

He didn't seem to think women had much individuality or variety to them. Just based on their gender, he expected them to have several traits that are not remotely universal.

And, of course, he also believed that black people were criminal by nature, among other things.

Not helping matters is the fact that racists try and sometimes succeed at hijacking people's emotional reactions by flooding them with selectively-reported outrage bait stories about minorities committing crimes. This is a self-radicalization and recruitment move that TERFs also rely on in an effort to make people react to trans women with disgust and fear.

So the ability to stay cool and evaluate evidence rationally in general seems valuable for avoiding some of these of errors, and that is something that can be taught. I actually taught the critical thinking class at my high school (but don't think a single class by a weird teenager would be enough).

And of course there is also the matter of ignorance, both the "innocent" ignorance of just not knowing there are lots of people who don't fit the stereotypes and the more deliberate ignorance that arises from people who want their models of the world to be simple, which means not a lot of people can be doing anything non-standard about gender.

So I think education, critical thinking, meeting more people, and taking a more individualized view of others rather than treating them as representatives of an entire demographic all help at least a little bit.

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Idk, with all the discussion about what Democrats need to do differently or whatever I think the reality is that voters just hold Trump to a lower standard than they do other politicians (in a way that benefits Trump), and while you can try to overcome that in other ways there's ultimately nothing you can do about it

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floating the idea of mixing creatine into a bottle of orange jubilee mad dog and calling it “estus.” I think this is the most worried I’ve heard my friends because they know I’d do it for the bit.

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i love in dreams where ill go. "no wayyyy i have that exact same item in my house thats a crazy coincidence lol ^_^" like. where do you think we pulled the asset from babygirl hugs you

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The Russian government spent $100,000 on Facebook ads as part of Russia’s broader intervention in the 2016 election and we’re still talking about it, the Israel lobby spent $100,000,000 as part of Israel’s broader intervention in the 2024 election and it’s already been forgotten

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I agree that a lot of the "the real evil guys in WW2 were the communists" types just need to be told they're morons, but that does not mean you should be justifying any malfeasance the USSR did. You wouldn't say American Internment camps were justified just because the Nazis were even more evil

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following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

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Hardest part of writing is accepting that some people will not fucking get it & you just have to like cope with that because over-explaining it just makes it worse

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I figure Tracy the Romance Demon is rather peeved I didn't draw her yesterday...

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Haha, take that Elon Musk and Doald Trump. I just drew you kissing each other. Bet you feel silly now that you're a [f-slur]. I'm very smart and definitely progressive.

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A bad photoshop will always be funnier than an AI image no matter what

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chat drop your fave war criminal in the comments

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face makeup is evil. i don’t care. like eyeshadow can be a fun and creative thing and it’s not like anybody is going to think you genuinely have purple eyelids but face makeup that’s made to look “natural” just ends up making you think your normal skin is something to be covered up and distorts your perception of your face. the whole “it makes ppl more confident!” thing is a lie because it’s not that the makeup itself is making you feel confident it’s that it creates an association with confidence and the results of that is you end up hating your face which is the opposite of building your self-confidence.

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Someone said Fat People can't do this on twitter and someone posted this as a response and i think its important people see things like this to know they're just fatphobic and wrong

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the idea of tumblr being dead is so funny to me because it’s the only social media where i actually feel like other people are online at the same time