[–] 16 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

Do people doubt your competence because of your penis? Do they pay you less because you have a beard?

The comic is recognizing the existing systemic inequality between men and women, and how trans women suffer from both the system, and TERFs.

What you're not seeing in the comic is the billionaire driving past in his Ferrari, blowing smoke on these three. It's all about perspective. Non rich men are on top of the bottom.

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  • [–] 30 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    It's actually not. People who are brilliant in one topic could be easily stupid in another. Picasso couldn't do calculus. Fish can't climb trees.

    It's very rare to find an actual stupid person. Uneducated, sure. Ignorant, you betcha. But to be actually stupid across the board, you either need to have a real genetic deficiency, or be stubborn in your ignorance.

    And I found that people who think others are stupid very often do so because they are ignorant themselves about the multiple types of intelligence.

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  • [–] 20 points 19 hours ago* (6 children)

    way WAY more ugly people

    This is objectively false because beauty/ugly is not a linear scale.

    If it were a linear scale then 50% of people would be ugly and 50% would be beautiful. If it's a scale with two axes, then 25% would be ugly, and 75% would be beautiful to somebody.

    And beauty has way more than two scales. Some can be funny and be attractive, they can be pretty and be attractive, they could be caring and be attractive. The list goes on and on.

    And what ends up being the case is that the vast majority of people are beautiful, to someone. Except for the dumb fucks that think that others are ugly. They're beautiful to nobody.

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