[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I first got into D&D I didn't know what edition I was playing. I knew there were multiple editions, but I couldn't find the edition number. The box just said Dungeons and Dragons.

It was 4E, and I played multiple other systems before I finally got into 5E.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alright, so I'm on team "alone in the woods with a bear", but since you want to talk statistics, let's talk statistics and the heteronormativity embedded in your statistics.

The figure I'm familiar with is that 1/4 of women have been sexually assaulted. Maybe you have a figure that says 1/3, that's fine. But crucially, these figures do not say who did it. What you've made is an assumption that women only get sexually assaulted by men. Personally, I think that the vast, vast majority of sexual assaults on women are done by men. But not all. I don't believe you can transfer those two statistics - women sexually assaulted and women sexually assaulted by a man - 1:1.

Let me explain where I'm coming from. Half of transgender and nonbinary people have been sexually assaulted. That's double the number of women! This factor, double, is consistent across sources I've seen that investigate both figures with the same methodology. You might have a source that says 1/3 of women are sexually assaulted, that's fine, but the ones that investigate rates for both women and trans people say it's twice as many trans people.

I could go ahead and assume, if I wanted, that half of all trans people have been sexually assaulted by a cis person. That's the same assumption you made that 1/3 or 1/4 of women have been sexually assaulted by a man. But it's a bad assumption. I know lots of trans people who've been sexually assaulted, and most of the time it was by a fellow trans person. You see, trans people have our own community that's isolated from the cisgender dating scene as a matter of safety, and that means isolated, lonely people let their guard down around fellow transes and the victims can't get away from their abusers, nor are trans friends of trans abusers willing to give up a social network in which the abuser is embedded. It's messy and disgusting and it wouldn't be a problem if cis people just accepted us, but it's where we are. I would be wrong to assume all rapists of trans people are cis people.

And I read way too deep into your comment and got a vibe that you were making the assumption that all sexual abusers of women are men. You probably don't actually think that and didn't mean to make any kind of implication along those lines. So I'm just leaving this comment as a general reminder not to use heteronormativity to inform our statistical analyses.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd love to hang out with a sun bear.

Sun bears are shy and reclusive animals, and usually do not attack humans unless provoked to do so, or if they are injured or with their cubs; their timid nature led these bears to be often tamed and kept as pets in the past

Definitely would rather be in the woods with a strange sun bear than a strange man. What if he tries to get me into Magic The Gathering?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer to call it the Sokka problem.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

George Lucas created the Star Wars movies after R2D2 and C-3PO crash landed in an escape pod in his backyard, and they told him the story of the Empire, the rebels, and the Jedi. Earth is the only planet that has Star Wars because it's where R2 and Threepio ended up.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Big caves are called caverns

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but the thing is, Th4tguyII has the most upvoted comment in this subthread. Language is a democracy and the people have spoken.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You just contradicted yourself.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

whispersDon't forget that the Tenno defeated the Man In The Wall (for now) with a loving male-on-male caress.

I saw someone theorise that the opposite of indifference is sympathy. Tagfer says the murmur seem like they just want to be involved with what's going on in reality. The Tenno ability to love a monster is the hard counter to whatever the Man In The Wall is planning. Whether the Man In The Wall is the indifference, or the murmur is, or they both are, or neither are, sympathy was the key to stopping Them and it may continue to be. We don't know what motivates Them, but I think winning this battle for good is gonna take some forgiveness and empathy. And also They're queer AF. I dunno what it is but They give off that vibe. Kinda reminds me of the Collector from Owl House, who's a demiboy.

By the way, there's a void that works a lot like the void from Warframe in the books Glitch and The Outside. Both books are extremely queer. So much so that the sequel to The Outside is about "how do you run a queer atheist commune full of mentally ill people who have magic powers". It's brilliant!

Second DreamThe protagonists of both books are basically Tenno

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Video games aren't a duopoly. There's lots of great indie games coming out. I just started playing The Talos Principle 2, which came out this year. Helldivers is from what I hear a smashing success, and Hades 2 is coming out soon!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why doesn't the Chinese federal government just ban new coal developments?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Probably osteoarthritis

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