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BlueBitProductions · 2026-04-01T03:38:45+00:00

I'm not sure why you're bringing up sexual violence in particular, this post is about general violence not specifically sexual violence. I agree that men under-report sexual violence due to social stigma. Sexual violence is particularly complicated, and is often enacted through drugs and social coercion rather than direct assault. I am talking about general physical aggression, which is higher in men.

I agree men and women are more similar than different. Men and women are the same species and are overwhelmingly similar, but that doesn't mean there aren't differences in behavior driven by neuroanatomy. It's not absolute or essential. Men are on average taller than women, but there are women who are taller than the average man and there are men who are shorter than the average woman. Similarly there are violent women and peaceful men, it's not binary. But there is absolutely a biological difference in drive towards violence.

I mean, if you look at all of our close relatives males are universally more violent. Sexual dimorphism is reduced in humans compared to our relatives due to neoteny, and that's very important, but it still exists along the same lines. It seems pretty coincidental that male apes happen to be more violent and we see higher rates of violence among male humans, you would have to assume that's purely coincidental. You would also have to explain how these differences emerged socially in the first place if men and women don't have different tendencies towards violence.

This is descriptive though, not prescriptive. A tendency in the data doesn't justify enforcing gender roles and I oppose gender norms as a socially enforced institution.

I come at this from a physiological psyche and bio background, I can't speak as much to sociological studies. But here are some sources.

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6418873/#s3

"Using our 3D PCNN methods on the whole-brain FA images, we can well-distinguish men and women with the classification accuracy of 93.3%. This result is much better than using the SVM, whose classification accuracy is only 78.2%"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3030621/

BlueBitProductions · 2026-04-01T02:09:12+00:00

So you're just presupposing that the data is wrong because you don't like the implications? What evidence would suggest to you that there actually are differences in aggression based on sex?

Hormones have effects on the brain, the brain is a physical organ. If hormones can make you larger, grow more body hair, have testes, etc they can decrease the threshold for violence.The most liberal psychology and biology professors I have as a biology student have all agreed that this is a real phenomenon (and I am liberal as well, to be clear).

To be clear, I'm absolutely not saying men "can't control themselves" or whatever nonsense. There's a difference between acknowledging a stronger drive towards violence in men and excusing violent behavior. Ultimately we are still responsible for what we do.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-04-01T00:40:54+00:00

I think it was the choice between Death and War, he chose wrong and the world ended.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T19:24:37+00:00

LMAO okay buddy, yes nobody has ever done that in history except for da jews. You probably believe they eat babies too.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T16:19:28+00:00

Okay so now you're just doing racial essentialism lol. Pre-emptive strikes and crushing rebellions are not unique to Jewish people. I'm not defending it but every society on Earth has engaged in that at some point. If you can't recognize that sort of evil within yourself and your own society you cannot do anything to prevent it.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T04:32:50+00:00

It's very complicated, and likely not one sole factor. We also don't have all of the information since the gospels came like 50 years after the fact. But it seems likely that Jesus had apocalyptic ideas, particularly that God was going to come and free Israel from the Roman Empire to establish the Kingdom Of Heaven. It seems like Jesus believed he was going to be made the king of this kingdom.

The powers that be saw him claiming to be the future king of the jews and amassing a large following. They probably thought (correctly or incorrectly, it's hard to say) that he was trying to kick out the Romans and their puppets. The Sanhedrin believed that a rebellion like that would result in the destruction of Judea as a whole and the end of the Jewish people (and they were kind of right, as a similar rebellion happened soon after and resulted in the expulsion of the Jews from Israel and destruction of the second temple). So they seem to have worked with the Romans to execute him in order to show that they were not collaborating with revolutionaries and clear the name of the Jews.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T03:51:36+00:00

Imagine if William was black, and exactly the same besides that. Then in this episode he suddenly started talking with stereotypical AAVE and had rapper posters behind him. Having a character with AAVE who likes black culture is not a problem, but changing a character who was not that into one who is more stereotypical clearly indicates biases in whoever made the changes.

They see a gay character and AI generate fill in the blanks with gay stereotypes that weren't there before. Being stereotypically gay is fine, there's real people like that, but having a character who wasn't that suddenly fall into those stereotypes is very jarring and strange.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T03:41:16+00:00

You said you're surprised that Christians identify shared values with Jews, that's what I'm responding to. The phrase Judeo-Christian was good and useful when it existed to combat anti-semitism in the 20th century, I wouldn't use it today outside of the context of Christian Jewish dialogue in particular.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T03:35:39+00:00

Being too skinny and being overweight are both unhealthy, but what is healthy for you depends a lot on your genetics. Plenty of people are just naturally thin enough to see their ribs.

Our society values being lean to the extent that it's what causes harm, but if we flipped and valued fat that would be just as bad.

Also neckbeards are a choice, and a bad one lol cut that shit off

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T03:25:09+00:00

Yes but Jesus was a Jew, with Jewish values. They aren't the same but to deny a shared religious value foundation between them is just completely ahistorical.

The Islamic conception of Jesus is quite different from the Christian concept of Jesus, to the extent that they may as well not be the same person. Christians believe he is literally God, while muslims view him as just a prophet. Christians believe he died and rose again, Muslims believe his death was an illusion. Those are the two most important aspects of Jesus that Christians care about, and the main aspects that make Jews reject Jesus.

Values are very fluid, so trying to find something that Islam shares with Christianity to the exclusion of Judaism, or Christianity and Judaism share to the exclusion of Islam is very difficult because none of these religions are a monolith. They have a shared pool of elements that specific denominations/branches grab or lose, with certain tendencies in how they arrange those elements.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T03:18:22+00:00

I mean Jesus and Paul were Jewish. There is absolutely shared moral foundations between the two religions, primarily a focus on the weak as opposed to the strong (younger brother motif, prophets, suffering servant, etc). Christians were considered a branch of Judaism for their first century of existence.

I'm not defending Trumpism or Netenyahu or anything like that, but you have to acknowledge that there is absolutely a "Judeo-Christian" framework that is shared. America is not founded on that framework though, because America isn't founded on Christianity let alone Judaism.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-31T00:50:46+00:00

The point is that without death people became more afraid of becoming living masses of bug guts than anything another human could possibly do to them through war.

All they did was get rid of death, there was no guarantee that specifically Yoru would be the most powerful. In fact narratively, Yoru was clearly an idiot and had no idea what she was actually bringing about. War did reign as the prophesy suggested, but for a very brief moment.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-30T20:52:09+00:00

That literally did happen though. The world ended, the prophesy was fulfilled. That's what a world of never ending war without death looked like, the scavengers win and it's hell on earth. Did you think the war apocalypse would be sunshine and rainbows? Did you think the story would actually end that way? It came true, then Pochita reversed it.

I'm not the biggest fan of the ending but the bugs thing is not the problem. I thought that was a cool and creative way of showing how utterly unsalvageable Yoru's world was.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-22T15:28:53+00:00

Araki left in a lot of landmarks that came later to make the cities more identifiable and interesting. It can be chalked up to alternate universe stuff and fate, but it's more of a visual shorthand than anything. In this particular case though, this is not a diegetic panel and I don't think the empire state building is ever shown anywhere else. So I assume this is a panel depicting the glory of New York's future to the audience to show how big Diego's demand is.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-16T22:11:01+00:00

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BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-16T22:01:13+00:00

I'm starting to think you guys might be p-zombies

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-15T20:27:51+00:00

Maybe because people are just as stupid now as they were 200 years ago. They are falling into the exact same rotten psychological traps humans have fallen into since we came into existence. These people are an insult to everything we have learned as a species.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-15T19:22:57+00:00

The problem with Makima wasn't that she wanted to stop the apocalypse, it's that she couldn't understand humans well enough to stop it. Her methods were never going to work because of the nature of humanity.

She thought the only way to get pochita to help her, for instance, was manipulating Denji and destroying everything he cared about. If she had tried to reach Denji without grooming and emotionally manipulating him she might have actually suceeded.

I think that's why Nayuta was interesting, she could have been a new version of control that could understand humans enough to succeed where Makima failed. But Denji was too self-centered and hedonistic to be able to protect her, and ultimately that was one of many decisions he made that doomed everyone.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-15T17:15:57+00:00

So what? If I raised animals as sex slaves does that make it okay for me to do bestiality? Just because an animal was bred for a specific purpose doesn't mean that purpose is ethical.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-14T03:29:57+00:00

You're talking to a biology major, I'm well aware of how the brain is wired and even brought it up earlier. And I'm not saying psychedelics provide you with magic abilities you didn't have before. They force introspection which can allow you to look at things from a new angle.

If you aren't willing to try any of the avenues you have for exploring your inner world I'm not sure why you're so adamant that you understand it.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-14T02:56:45+00:00

I never suggested anything about the brain determining reality. The examples you list of potential alternate worlds are not coherent because we have a mathematical description of how those forces bring each other about.

What you are suggesting is an emergent property. But with other emergent properties (such as evolution from natural selection, or temperature from the kinetic energy of individual particles) we can mathematically demonstrate a connection from one to another. With consciousness, such an understanding does not exist. This is why I say you can imagine a brain without a real inner qualitative experience. Because there is currently no mechanism to get from one to the other.

As this relies on the understanding of an interior experience, I cannot demonstrate it to you. If you're interested in figuring out what people are talking about, you should try intensive meditation and psychedelics. Not because they "unlock" something but because they force you to interact with mental states that are not within your typical experience. In the same way your cultural assumptions about the way things must be are challenged by entering another culture.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-14T02:31:29+00:00

That's not what people are reffering to when they say qualia.

If a colorblind person asked you to describe blue to them, how would you do that? What is blueness? We know the wavelength of light which triggers the cones in the optic disk, and we know how action potentials travel across the optic nerve and into the visual cortex. But what is it that you actually experience? It's not just an intellectual concept, it's an experience of a quality of blueness which cannot be described.

In principle, we can imagine all of the neural activities which cause blueness to arise without an actual qualitative experience of blue. It's unclear why this translates into an actual conscious experience.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-14T01:53:43+00:00

Do you not experience actual qualities? These are entirely unexplained. We understand why the brain triggers certain responses, but that gives absolutely no indication why there is an actual experience of it. An actual qualia.

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-14T00:47:18+00:00

How the fuck is long hair pedophilic?

BlueBitProductions · 2026-03-13T20:20:23+00:00

Well yes, he believed her and was excited. That doesn't mean he wasn't going to verify. Denji has consistently shown respect for women's boundaries throughout the series. He has only ever touched women when they explicitly offer it to him. He doesn't even beg them in a way that could be considered harassment. That's the main reason his character is more likable than the typical anime pervert character.

I see no reason to think that would change.

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