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I was being heavily sarcastic

Fair enough, but nevertheless the correct comparison would be between circumcised and uncircumcised Europeans

Europe is probably different in all sorts of ways, which is why a direct comparison between North American and European populations would not be very meaningful.

NO I DEMAND TO HOLD DOORS OPEN FOR M'LADY

The correct comparison would be between circumcised and uncircumcised Europeans, and I think you would find that circumcision indeed does lower rates of HIV and HPV.

Well it's not equivalent to a polio vaccine, of course...

Typically someone will now point out that it's maybe comparable to certain kinds of relatively tame female circumcision, which is perhaps true. Obviously it's not the same as removing the whole clitoris.

...why wouldn't it?

Prepare for oceans of butthurt

Also a guy could be gay if he masterbates [sic] and so he thinks he is being turned on by other guys.

It seemed to me that previous posters were asserting just that. I agree that men intentionally contacting lesbians on dating sites is ridiculous and entitled.

Ok yeah but what you're describing here has got to be the most moronic prank conceivable

Well, it does seem to me that this article was kind of about men in the first place. Via lesbians, certainly, but still. I had understood "but what about the men?!" to be an accusation of derailment of discussions about women; e.g. A: "we need to stop violence against women!" B:"but what about violence against men?!"

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I think she means to imply that it is not the rule; i.e. that flat-out harassment, while disturbingly common, does not represent the majority of dating-site-interactions. Thus leaving 'some' out is kind of misleading.

Whether this is true or not, I don't know, but it does seem likely since women do continue to use…

Yes, and also socially determined things can be easily changed by individual willpower, so you should feel bad if you're not attracted to obese hairy people with bad breath and no legs.

Well. I don't think the idea is usually that there should be no beauty standards at all.

It's that mass media combined with male dominance makes female beauty standards unrealistic to the point of impossibility. Cosmo models often literally don't have spines! Deepness of the male voice isn't really like that.

Your voice does have a "natural" pitch and it's not really super feasible to change it through practice. Apparently a lot of guys with high voices actually end up straining their throats doing this unconsciously though. I forget where I read that so it might be bullshit.

That said I don't think you should feel bad for…

I think the idea is that the idea of a binary itself might be biologically determined, but the specifics are pretty arbitrary. Maybe also certain ancient preferences ('killing', 'gathering') might tend to be associated with one end or the other. So like, yeah the aristocrats wore frills, but that's because people…

You could imagine that there's a biological imperative towards going for "girl stuff" or "boy stuff" but that what exactly that stuff is is determined by culture. Obviously that would have to be true to some extent (is a knife a weapon or a cooking tool?) but maybe it's also true of seemingly arbitrary things like…