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[–] 128 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Look, if you take the total human population and look at how many are British evolutionary biologists, it’s an infinitesimal percentage, practically nothing. So we can discount the existence of Richard Dawkins.

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    The queerest element: bismuth. It has a symbol of "Bi". It forms beautiful rainbow crystals. It's also known as a "post-transition" element. It's used in all sorts of important industrial processes. In particular it's gaining interest as a replacement for its neighbor lead in a lot of applications (like solder) as it has many similar properties, but has the bonus of being far less toxic.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    what i'm hearing is that there are greater genders that we have not yet had the bravery to discover

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Developing a never before held gender for a split second before it decays instantly into a still extremely rare but slightly more stable gender

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This shit is gonna really pop off when we hit the island of stability

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    [–] 68 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    It kinda boggles my mind that an evolutionary biologist and atheist has their knickers in a twist due to intersex, trans, and non-binary gender. Bro, if god isn't real, the world is a fucking chaotic mess that decides what does and doesn't work for weird and abstract reasons, and the social construction of God, and binaries are what stop us from advancing. Can you please move the fuck on from people's genitals? You sound like a fucking deacon at a church, you weirdo.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's because he's still into patriarchy, and patriarchy requires clear delineation between men and women, without any room for any other concepts. Look up how Dawkins responded to Elevatorgate. The guy's a misogynist and that's probably the root element for most transphobia.

    Dawkins is a racist too. Look into anything he says about Arabs.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I'm familiar with Elevatorgate, that shit is/was beyond stupid. Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris carried so much water for tolerance of the Iraq War on anti-religious grounds, which is ironic because so many people were grossed out by George W. Bush's declaring this a holy war against terrorism and using crusader language.

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Biological sex is a fucking mess and the roughly 2% estimate that chuds freak out about is itself a very conservative estimate. The load bearing cope that leads them to denying even this is the belief that conditions like Klinefelter syndrome or Turner syndrome shouldn't be counted as intersex conditions. Diagnosis rates are also incredibly low, largely because of bigotry.

    The reality is that not only is the scope of which conditions are considered intersex far too restrictive (even where the 1.7-2% estimate is reached), but these conditions are massively underdiagnosed. A more realistic and all-encompassing view of intersex conditions with an accurate diagnosis count should result an incidence rate of around 5% of the global population, with rates somewhat higher in some communities.

    People cannot handle this reality because it destroys their world view.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    yeah but the part i've always stumbled on is... how? i grew up in europe for fuck's sake, what did i miss in brainwashing class that i was never able to see it as a pillar of my entire worldview. like, even if you dont give a fuck at all, all it comes down to is are we gonna make 2-5% of the population deeply unhappy or are we not going to do that? how does this become a core of your identity for fuck's sake....

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The problem your point here has is hydrogen can't be helium

    That doesn't even have anything to do with the point, the point was that you can't just say something doesn't exist because you arbitrarily decided there's not enough of it. If there was one unicorn in the world, would you say unicorns don't exist?

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Always fun when an evolutionary biologist is like "No we actually can fit everything into neat human categories with no outliers or anything. Because statistics."

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Elements kinda do look like pronouns 🤔

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Hydrogen can't be helium"

    WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK HELIUM CAME FROM, THE DEPTHS OF MY ASSHOLE?

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    It's cool how checks notes Richard Dawkins singled out intersex as the only legitimate non binary/trans identity in order to minimize the existence of trans people just because it makes it look smaller on the graph.

    Wow hes so fuckin objective, I'm sure because he's so rational there's no way there's an ulterior motive for making this point.

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    [+] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    Metals are just transhydrogen

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago

    Indeed, hydrogen can't be helium (except in the case of bigender comrades): that's why trans women are women, not men; and trans men are men, not women. Glad everything is understood.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Why have so many of these outspoken atheist figures started aligning themselves with some kind of de-facto chud shit?

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    represent their frequency by NY's twin towers

    You mean the things that aren't standing anymore?

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Someone did 9/11 on gender (please please let me be the first person in the thread to make this joke)

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Hydrogen Atom: Fuck being Hydrogen, Gimme another proton

    becomes Helium

    big-cool Aaaahhhh yeah!

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    If you think about it the Earth is kinda trans because it has so much of the other elements

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    I am shocked, SHOCKED to learn that Richard Dawkins is a transphobe. Well, not that shocked.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Mfer doesn't know how helium is made lmfao

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