Or even just 31 > 0, haha. But yeah, viruses are kind of a moving target.

Yes, I’ve heard this “medical researchers are evil” argument before, and I was just as unmoved then.

Thank you! Friend-families are... idk, I don’t believe in God or fate or anything, but they make me wonder

Sorry *hugs you*. If it helps, I appreciate you telling your story. I honestly just went through this thread looking for people like you, er, like us, who have to protect ourselves from our families. It’s good not to be alone.

Thanks. Wednesday my mom made it very clear she didn’t want me in her life anymore, which was more painful the first time she did it, and not so bad this time. My relationship with my dad was almost starting to improve, but I think that’s probably done with now.

Religious people are overwhelmingly sexist and mysogynistic because PEOPLE are overwhelmingly sexist and mysognynistic AND people are overwhelmingly religious. Correlation is not causation. Religion is a mirror, a symptom, not the cause. But sure, write me off—you probably know more than I do. What better way to work…

And I suppose, out of those three groups, you insist that you’re in the first one right? The people who work toward progress don’t do it by alienating the other two groups. Anyone who thinks change is anything but slow and generational would benefit from a history book. I’m sorry if that frustrates you, but those are…

If religion was our problem, then only religious people would be sexist. That’s not the case. Sexism, the patriarchy—those are are all secular issues. You want to help women and girls? Then you must accept they can be empowered within their own culture, and that they can model their spirituality to suit them.…

There is no “us and them,” and the sooner you realize that, the better. They are us and we are them. The theists aren’t our problem, we are all the problem.

No, YOU should learn how to recognize a good source and you should educate other people as well. I will do my best to correct this, sure. Nonetheless, the nature of Wikipedia isn’t going to change—it’s always going to be a garbage source for one reason or another. I’m really bothered that you even seem to know that,…

You just quoted wikipedia at me... I feel extremely disrespected. I’m not even sure where to begin. You are clearly okay with doing no research (Wikipedia is NOT research) and regurgitating falsehoods. This is a huge problem and you should look inside yourself and ask yourself if you’re really okay with that.

I am not offended at all, but just because someone said that she was 9 when she was married doesn’t make it true. Well-regulated sources agree that she was at least 15. If you’d like me to go into more detail about how I know this is true, I’d be happy to—I’m not sure exactly how much you know about Islam, but I’d be…

I disagree. Aisha was promised to Mohammed at a young age (9 or 10) but they were not officially married (having sex) until she was 15. I understand that it’s not your intention, but people use this misinformation to hurt Islam and I’d like to see it stop spreading.

LMAO

I agree. I find “alt right” just as disgusting as “neo nazi” so I don’t see why we should be concerned about having multiple terms.

I think that’s where we actually disagree—how we perceive humanity at large. I think that most people are, at their core, reasonable.

You don’t know that, and I’d argue that we’ve also made a lot more environmental breakthroughs as of late. How many miles to the gallon do you figure the Model T got?

So they might still view it was sinful. So what? There were things in the 1850s that they viewed as sinful that people still did. It’s just really hard for me to imagine (assuming we are talking about a straight female teenager) that there is someone who would trade “not going to die in childbirth” for “no more gay…

For like a couple of weeks, maybe. Most people have gotten over it, most likely they would too. Unless they were gay, then they’d be into it.

But pollution HASN’T taken out the entire human race yet. We’ve made progress on just about every front, including our ability to cut back on pollution (which is slow, I’ll grant that). Maybe she wouldn’t care, but if I were born in 1850 and woke up today, I’d be fucking excited about being allowed to vote that I’d…