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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 127 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look, if you take the total human population and look at how many are British evolutionary biologists, it’s an infinitesimal percentage, practically nothing. So we can discount the existence of Richard Dawkins.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

Fucking finally.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

So we can discount the existence of Richard Dawkins.

Way ahead of you there.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Unless you're talking about gas giants, then a bunch of that hydrogen can be metal too.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The queerest element: bismuth. It has a symbol of "Bi". It forms beautiful rainbow crystals. It's also known as a "post-transition" element. It's used in all sorts of important industrial processes. In particular it's gaining interest as a replacement for its neighbor lead in a lot of applications (like solder) as it has many similar properties, but has the bonus of being far less toxic.

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[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

cant wait for them to find the island of stability where once we start having 140+ genders maybe some of them start having socially prescribed roles again.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

🤘🏿HELL YEAH!!!

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

what i'm hearing is that there are greater genders that we have not yet had the bravery to discover

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Developing a never before held gender for a split second before it decays instantly into a still extremely rare but slightly more stable gender

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who here volunteers to be the Victor Ninov of gender

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] RION@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This shit is gonna really pop off when we hit the island of stability

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

gender that lasts 0.00000000001 seconds instead of 0.00000000000000000000000001 seconds

[–] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or when they finally split the gender atom. Radioactive gender everywhere.

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[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It kinda boggles my mind that an evolutionary biologist and atheist has their knickers in a twist due to intersex, trans, and non-binary gender. Bro, if god isn't real, the world is a fucking chaotic mess that decides what does and doesn't work for weird and abstract reasons, and the social construction of God, and binaries are what stop us from advancing. Can you please move the fuck on from people's genitals? You sound like a fucking deacon at a church, you weirdo.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's because he's still into patriarchy, and patriarchy requires clear delineation between men and women, without any room for any other concepts. Look up how Dawkins responded to Elevatorgate. The guy's a misogynist and that's probably the root element for most transphobia.

Dawkins is a racist too. Look into anything he says about Arabs.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm familiar with Elevatorgate, that shit is/was beyond stupid. Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris carried so much water for tolerance of the Iraq War on anti-religious grounds, which is ironic because so many people were grossed out by George W. Bush's declaring this a holy war against terrorism and using crusader language.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

at least hitchens tried out waterboarding, dawkins hasn't contributed anything of value to society in 40 or 50 years and harris might never have.

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[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Biological sex is a fucking mess and the roughly 2% estimate that chuds freak out about is itself a very conservative estimate. The load bearing cope that leads them to denying even this is the belief that conditions like Klinefelter syndrome or Turner syndrome shouldn't be counted as intersex conditions. Diagnosis rates are also incredibly low, largely because of bigotry.

The reality is that not only is the scope of which conditions are considered intersex far too restrictive (even where the 1.7-2% estimate is reached), but these conditions are massively underdiagnosed. A more realistic and all-encompassing view of intersex conditions with an accurate diagnosis count should result an incidence rate of around 5% of the global population, with rates somewhat higher in some communities.

People cannot handle this reality because it destroys their world view.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah but the part i've always stumbled on is... how? i grew up in europe for fuck's sake, what did i miss in brainwashing class that i was never able to see it as a pillar of my entire worldview. like, even if you dont give a fuck at all, all it comes down to is are we gonna make 2-5% of the population deeply unhappy or are we not going to do that? how does this become a core of your identity for fuck's sake....

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 1 year ago

Short answer: recognizing intersex validity challenges the status quo, therefore it must be opposed

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

second-plane "A third sex has struck the twin towers"

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem your point here has is hydrogen can't be helium

That doesn't even have anything to do with the point, the point was that you can't just say something doesn't exist because you arbitrarily decided there's not enough of it. If there was one unicorn in the world, would you say unicorns don't exist?

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By that logic, we should just eradicate the rich because they're statistically insignificant and don't really exist if you cut off your axis.

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Hydrogen can become helium too. Regardless, talk about stretching the metaphor

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elements kinda do look like pronouns 🤔

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago
[–] jayWL@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Hydrogen can't be helium"

WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK HELIUM CAME FROM, THE DEPTHS OF MY ASSHOLE?

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[–] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Always fun when an evolutionary biologist is like "No we actually can fit everything into neat human categories with no outliers or anything. Because statistics."

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[–] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

It's cool how checks notes Richard Dawkins singled out intersex as the only legitimate non binary/trans identity in order to minimize the existence of trans people just because it makes it look smaller on the graph.

Wow hes so fuckin objective, I'm sure because he's so rational there's no way there's an ulterior motive for making this point.

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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Metals are just transhydrogen

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Indeed, hydrogen can't be helium (except in the case of bigender comrades): that's why trans women are women, not men; and trans men are men, not women. Glad everything is understood.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Why have so many of these outspoken atheist figures started aligning themselves with some kind of de-facto chud shit?

[–] MalarchoBidenism@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

They have mistaken "religious conservatives have bad arguments" for "I am very smart and good at logic" so now everything they don't intuitively understand must be wrong.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Because the New Atheist people were always reactionary.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

represent their frequency by NY's twin towers

You mean the things that aren't standing anymore?

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Taliban DESTROYED gender.

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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] axont@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone did 9/11 on gender (please please let me be the first person in the thread to make this joke)

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hydrogen Atom: Fuck being Hydrogen, Gimme another proton

becomes Helium

big-cool Aaaahhhh yeah!

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

I am shocked, SHOCKED to learn that Richard Dawkins is a transphobe. Well, not that shocked.

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

If you think about it the Earth is kinda trans because it has so much of the other elements

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Mfer doesn't know how helium is made lmfao

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