As a biologist, it is always surprising to me, how frequently people don’t realize that all plants in our environment have some sort of reproduction. Like, that grass also has flowers and all house plants would also flower (except for ferns) if they were growing under the right conditions. Plant blindness is real.

Just that this “robin” isn’t one, it actually is a thrush. A robin would be Erithacus. They are both in different families even (and also look pretty different).

I think even orally taking bioactive estrogen is not ideal because the body tries to filter it out. So when taking estrogen orally you need a much higher dosage then via injections or gels. With plant hormones you’d need an even higher dosage than that…

Ja, stimme dir da voll zu!

Hm, to me this feels like it’s about patriarchal power and that it is therefore inherently violent language.

Find ich gut, wenn die influencer-Kultur dadurch mehr gedeckelt wird. Besonders, wenn sie eh vor allem junge Menschen als Zielgruppe hat, die einfacher zu manipulieren sind.

Hm, so if you don’t want to use the term vanguard anymore, how are you going to talk about the seizing of power by a small authoritarian group during a revolution? And what would be your solution to prevent this from happening?

I really dislike cultivars like this where they have been changed so much it doesn’t look like actual plants…

Zarathustra kann mich mal :P

You mean Pica pica?

Confusingly, there is the animal in the post that is commonly called pika (Ochotona daurica). What I had to think of first was Pica pica though (the Eurasian magpie)

This is not true. It isn’t any prove that people that weigh more than the “healthy” range are less healthy. That is just more stigma against fat people. Obesity as a concept is deeply intervowen with stigma.

I can recommend the podcast “Maintenance Phase”, where the hosts tackle these misconceptions and the stigma with deep dives into the actual research. Most of the debate about health is just bullshit and more about normativity and power than it is about health.

“Overweight” is a fat-shaming term in itself and it is loaded with social stigma and devaluation…

Sure, although in most trans women not as much that C cups would be seen as small.

Anyways, that’s not what the other person was talking about. They used specifically “overweight” as a term to devaluate someone.

What has their weight to do with it? Really no reason to fat-shame! :(

South Korea actually has a major problem with sexism and gender-based violence. Especially with men secretly filming women! It doesn’t seem unlikely that the filming of the gynecologist clinic was done in secret as well. Just because something is illegal doesn’t mean it actually gets punished.

There is also the larger context in which women experience daily sexism and violence. This fundamentally changes how they react to further violence. Victims of sexualized violence often think of themselves as responsible for the violence they receive, because society constantly tells them they are at fault! Victim blaming is part of society’s effort to tell women they are worthless and to keep control over them. If you solely focus on how the victims of this act of violence are at fault here, you are part of the problem.

Funnily enough, I just watched this very informative video on why the lactase-producing gene is actually not necessary at all for you to eat and digest dairy. If your gut biome can digest lactose, you are completely fine ;)

Also, it feels intuitive to think that there are these genetic differences between Europeans and Asians etc. But this is much more complex than you would think. Humans are much more diverse genetically, especially people from Africa. If you test whole populations of people you can maybe see some generic trends, but this does not help predict anything on an individual level. There is way too much variation possible for you to reliably predict a person’s genome. And as hinted above, the genetic variation is much higher on the African continent, where populations are genetically more similar to populations outside of Africa then to other populations in Africa. That’s why there is zero biological basis to racism btw, it is a social construct in its entirety!

Analogous to this is the difference between sexes. The variation within one sex is much higher than between sexes. And also, there is so much fuzziness in how we classify sexes with a plethora of edge cases. That’s why there isn’t any biological basis to sexism either, it is just a social construct.

So saying anything about the bloodline of your child really is meaningless. Unless we’re speaking of individual genetic differences passed down from your ancestors. Then you could calculate certain probabilities based on larger population data how likely it is that your child may have some genetic diseases etc. But even then you wouldn’t know if it firstly actually had a certain genetic mutation and secondly if this mutation will be expressed throughout your child’s life. So this is also not really predictive…

if you get mugged going through a sketchy neighborhood, that does not make it ok for a robber, but it is a valid question whether it was really good idea for you to go there.

This is classical victim blaming! Same like when people ask women what they were wearing when they experience sexualized violence. It shouldn’t matter!

You don’t know anything about the context or what patients have said and done in this clinic. You just assume everyone knew about it and was OK with it. And then you blame them for this assumed participation.

And this is how I find out about the Dr Livesey meme that is already 3 years old…

What the actual fuck? This is victim blaming! Instead of focusing on the responsibility of the perpetrators you keep focusing on the victims. It obviously is a bad idea to have cameras in places like a gynecologist clinic. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to abuse the footage. And even if you want to focus on why there were cameras in a gynecologist clinic, how can you blame the victims instead of actually talking about the people who put the cameras there??