I mean, I’m very specifically talking about the subject in the article: non-medically-necessary surgery on people well below the age of consent. I would argue that neither a child’s doctor nor their parents have the ethical standing to make that choice for them, especially based on the testimony from adult intersex…

I actually saw an episode of House where this happened: a child was born intersexed, and the parents essentially “picked” a gender that turned out to be the wrong one.

The issue is that this is a situation where it cannot be decided by the patient. These are infants and newborns, having non-medically-necessary surgery done on them by doctors who want to shoehorn them into one of the two “acceptable” genital configurations. Obviously if it’s medically necessary or reconstructive…

I think that the adult activists who are speaking out and being candid about surgeries (really, mutilations) that were performed on them as children are exceedingly brave.

I wonder how heavy of a lift it would be to actually ban the practice in CA? I mean, we’ve banned reparative therapy on minors, and this seems similarly damaging. 

CBD is a powerful anti-inflammatory. My doctor had me on several different Rx drugs (for seemingly unrelated conditions; GI problems, arthritis; depression) to which I had troublesome side effects. I told him I wanted off alk of them because of side effects, and he told me to get a CBD vape pen; gave me the…

Pedant alert: When a hive gets too big, the OLD queen is the one who says, “Jesus, this place is fucking crowded. C’mon.” She is the one who goes, not the new queen.

just going by the pics on this post, i would guess it’s a very small swarm. a mature hive of european honey bees can have up to 120,000 individual bees. you’d be looking at covering the entire top of the umbrella, or having the hive several inches deep with bees. admittedly, this kind of behavior typically means their…

It would be such a clear indicator of a dickless, heartless coward. I hope to god I never meet a person who has done this.

A Giraffe foot mount? Seriously? If I went into someone’s house and saw one of those I would not think “this is someone who I’d like to be friends with”. You have to be special kind of horrible to say “look at this body part of a once beautiful animal that I purchased”. Trophy hunters are oxygen thieves and statistics…

Because Jack Dorsey is a fucking asshole.

TERFs are freaking scary towards trans women. It’s horrifying how nasty they are. And they go from zero to sixty in about five seconds.

So is Facebook. I’m currently in a thread where we are sharing what’s gotten our posts deleted or us temporarily banned. None of it is “bad” in ethical standards, and all the Nazis get a pass. The page “Woke People” is threatened with a shutdown by Facebook every time it posts something with “white supremacist” in the…

At some point the evidence supports a conclusion: Twitter is simply okay with welcoming white supremacists, MRAs, TERFs, and other hateful scum. And worse, contemptuous of people who stand up to the hateful scum.

How the fuck is this banned on Twitter but fucking Trump can incite violence against journalists and generally trash-talk anyone critical of him?

trans-exclusionary radical feminists who do not believe that the rights of trans people should be included in discussions of women’s rights

“optics like progressives like you want to see”

I was so glad when Boston got knocked out of the running for HQ2, we have enough problems with housing and public transportation, Amazon would only make it worse.

You are right. As a corporation, there’s 100% no reason for Bezos or Amazon to give a shit about the homeless. It’s insanely depressing because I’d imagine the rising cost of living associated with housing companies like Amazon, is a big contributor to the rise in homelessness in that area, but there’s no reason as a…

Sometimes you have to lose to win, though. Like standing up to a bully even though you know you are going to walk away with a bloody nose.