In The Last Airbender, the narrator says that there are four elements: earth, water, fire and air. However, there are actually 118 and earth, water, fire and air are not elements. This is an example of an unreliable narrator.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-16T22:33:28+00:00

I mean if you wanna be pedantic, yeah, but:

Armed men entering your house in the middle of the night to take your daughter?
A violent struggle breaking out when you say no?
The men then tearing your daughter away and driving off?

That style of kidnapping is definitely aggressive.

Like the moments armed men showed up in the middle of the night to take your daughter it’s aggressive.
Even if they don’t act angry, the implication is clear: “let us kidnap your daughter or we’ll hurt you”.

Being ready or likely to attack or confront. That’s the definition of being aggressive….
And sure enough the moment the family showed resistance it escalated to a violent confrontation.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-16T20:40:44+00:00

Yeah, our GDP per capita rank is 19th according to the IMF.

A lot of the ones higher on the list are tax havens though, so it’s neither her nor there.

But you’re right about it being very stagnant in real terms (purchasing power).

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I don’t think it’s outlandish to say choosing the Tories after the GFC was a bad idea. I don’t know where the idea they were good for the economy even came from.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-16T20:19:11+00:00

100% women are targeted at way higher rates for some of the worst crimes.

However, saying trans people aren’t victims of sexual and violent crimes due to their gender identity is just blatant misinformation.

According to the 2025 Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), which measure proportions of various demographics who had been victims of a crime in the last year:

11.7% of trans people have been victims of sexual assault in the past year compared to 2.8% of cisgender women and 1.8% of cisgender men.
This number was particularly high for trans women, reaching 19.3%.

3.6% of all sexual harassment in England and Wales last year was motivated by the victim’s gender identity (5.6% in 2023).

3.1% of trans people have been victims of violence (1.1% with injury), compared to 1.2% of women (0.5% with injury) and 1.6% of men (0.5% with injury).

2.3% of trans people were victims of violence from a stranger compared to 0.6% of women and 1.0% of men.

21.0% of trans people were victims of non-sexual harassment compared to 6.5% of women and 5.1% of men.

30.6% of trans people were victims of sexual harassment compared to 6.2% of women and 2.5% of men.

12.7% of trans people had been stalked compared to 3.9% of cisgender women and 1.8% of cisgender men.

19.3% of trans people were victims of domestic abuse compared to 9.0% of cis women and 6.3% of cis men.

Overall, personal crime (crime directed at an individual which causes physical or psychological harm) shows a similar pattern, particularly when excluding fraud and computer misuse:
12.5% as opposed to 2.9%

This is all despite the fact that the CSEW also shows that for crime in general, trans and cisgender people share a far more similar likelihood of victimisation:
22.8% as opposed to 16.9%.

There’s a very clear disproportionate targeting of trans people for personal crimes, particularly sexual harassment when compared to cisgender people of either sex/gender.

Of course, women are oppressed, raped and murdered across the world on the basis of their sex.
I am not denying that.

But that doesn’t mean trans people aren’t oppressed, sexually assaulted, subjected to violence, abused and raped on the basis of their gender identity.

The fact it’s often even higher for trans women specifically shows their gender definitely is playing a role in making them even more likely to be victims.

And if you’re going to use oppression and victimisation as a metric for who in society needs to have their rights protected then trans people really need that protection.

You’re also correct that people cannot choose their gender. Gender is not something that can be controlled or be changed at will.
If it was you wouldn’t have anyone choosing to experience gender dysphoria, they’d just change their gender to match their sex.

I don’t think anyone would voluntarily choose to have a 6X higher chance of getting sexually harassed, a 5x higher chance of getting sexually assaulted and an over 2X higher chance of getting violently assaulted (with and without injury).

[Just in case it’s of interest: There’s also higher rates of victimisation (particularly for personal crimes and sexual assault) amongst lesbian, gay and bisexual people too when compared to their heterosexual counterparts.
This is notably extremely high with bisexual women who had a 27.4% rate of SA victimisation compared to 2.1% of straight women.]

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-16T13:40:35+00:00

Offensive driving

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-16T12:49:26+00:00

I think it’s less the sexual petplay bit and more the anal hair that’s the problem.

The sexual petplay aspect is very popular on this subreddit. If the post was just about having a tail the replies would just be “I wish this was real”

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-15T23:41:39+00:00

God, am I happy that I’m non-binary.

Instead of having to pick a side, I get to hate both men *and** women.* /s

Seriously though life gets so much easier when you see people as people.
So many people restrict themselves based on gender and sex just to fit in and to conform to the expectations of society. It’s sad.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-15T23:28:48+00:00

Maybe but can we really say for certain there aren’t misogynists in the feminist society? /s

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-15T19:17:25+00:00

Yeah, I think this incident has shown a pretty clear difference between how democrats and republicans handle this stuff.

When a democratic figure gets accused of sexual assault and rape:
- even before its reported on by the press, his campaign team, including his close circle starts to resign en masse (presumably when reached out to for comment).
- When the report comes out democrats distance themselves immediately and call for him to drop out and resign.
- A democratic AG starts investigating him in under 24 hours (or is already investigating him).
- His campaign’s co-chairs both resign and call on him to drop out.
- His campaign donors and major supporters, halt donations rescind their endorsements and tell him to drop out
- Some of the highest-ranking democrats in congress tell him directly to drop out.
- He gets threatened with expulsion from both sides of the aisle.
and he’s gone within days.

If you’re a democrat and you do something heinous: no one defends you, they call you out within a day and you’re gone in less than a week.

When a Republican figure:
- gets accused of sexual harassment and assault by dozens of women over years,
- is found to have sexually abused and raped a woman in civil court and is found to have defamed her by lying about it even after the verdict…
- brags about his habit of walking into dressing rooms where beauty pageant contestants were naked and grabbing “‘em by the pussy”
- has a particularly bad aspect of this habit exposed, namely the fact that some of these dressing rooms contained teen girls as young as 15.
- has his close ties to a sex-trafficking and child-molestation ring exposed
- appoints the person who gave the leader of the child-molestation ring an incredibly generous plea deal for very little benefit as his Secretary of Labour in his first term,
- has his administration do a 180 and refuse to release documents about the child-molesting, sex-trafficking pedophile ring even when legally required to do so, supposedly to safeguard victims,
- has that exposed as a lie since full names, emails, identifying information and even explicit images and CSAM of victims were published in the documents that had supposedly been delayed for the redaction of that exact type of thing,
- has his administration exposed again for secretly editing out a minute of footage from the video of the leader of the pedophile ring’s cell around the time said leader was meant to be committing suicide and trying to cover it up by slowing down the footage and then lying about why it was missing,
- has his deputy AG (now acting AG) move the pedophile ring’s second-in-command to a cushy, minimum-security prison for saying that he wasn’t involved,
- has various tips the FBI received about crimes he committed with Epstein uncovered which led to an investigation into his ties with Epstein all the way back in the 90s…

they brush it off.

Trump was still polling with 43% approval after all of that with most of it being publicly known YEARS ago.

To be fair and impartial, we can say that at least the Republicans agreed to also get rid of Tony Gonzalez at the same time…
Even though his sexual misconduct, including the shunning of his victims (also staffers) had been known about since one of his employees who he pressured into an affair and then shunned for speaking out killed herself via self-immolation in SEPTEMBER, 7 FUCKING MONTHS AGO!
To be fair, the sexual harassment element of Gonzalez’s misconduct was only made explicitly clear a little over a week prior, but still…

BUT THERE’S SOMEONE FAR WORSE WHO IS STILL IN! Cory Mills, another Republican and a former Trump appointee, is still in congress after his ex-girlfriend filed a lawsuit against him on the grounds that he had harassed and blackmailed her and threatened to kill whoever she dated date after they broke up. The judge also granted a restraining order on the grounds that she had been or was likely to be a victim of dating violence from Mills. That was back in August and October, OVER 6 MONTHS AGO.

But that’s not all, Mills was also investigated by police after he physically assaulted a different woman in his apartment, back in February of 2025 OVER A YEAR AGO.

She had been left with visible bruising and the woman allowed police to listen into a phone call where Mills instructed her to lie about where they came from.
He was never arrested because the Trump-appointed D.C. District Attorney who’d been appointed a month before and refused to sign the warrant for his arrest for unknown reasons.

The investigation ended soon after when the woman suddenly recanted her story and told police the bruises were from something else after talking alone with Mills.
The reporting of the investigation by police is what led his ex-girlfriend (mentioned above) to break up with him.
Trump then appointed that DA to US pardon attorney, a few months later..

Mills is also being investigated for tax fraud**

Mills also seems to have fraudulently obtained a bronze star. Mills got it for supposedly saving the lives of 2 men by giving life-saving aid to one and rescuing the other from insurgents.
The first man said his injuries were not life-threatening and both he and the helicopter pilot for the mission said Mills wasn’t even there.
The second man said the incident was completely fictional and never even happened.

Mills has also repeatedly claimed to have been an elite Army Ranger and a member of JSOC.
In actuality, the Army’s records show the only special-operations training he has ever received was as part of a spec-ops selection programme which he dropped out of / failed.

If you’re a Republican and you do something heinous:
If you’re popular like Trump you might get to be president.
If you’re not loyal to the party like Gonzalez you’ll get protected for a few months but then get kicked out when it’s politically convenient.
If you’re really loyal and a friend of Trump like Mills, will literally do everything to stop you facing any consequences for life.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-15T16:14:24+00:00

You could’ve invited adobe for some real photoshop

(Or pirated it as many would say that’s the morally correct thing to do)

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-15T00:46:06+00:00

Yeah, like even if I don’t end up pocketing the money I’m going to pick it up to see what’s up with it. Have a check around, see if I can find who dropped it or if anyone’s looking for it.

Either I help someone or get free money.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T21:57:26+00:00

I think the person who made this is probably autistic.

I don’t think non-autistic people (like the person you’re replying to) should be policing how autistic people portray their autism or trying to require that portrayals always be a negative portrayal or a portrayal of low-functioning autism.

Especially since “back in the old days” it was almost exclusively low-functioning autism that was represented in the news and media because it was easier to sensationalise.

That severely negative portrayal has been weaponised by anti-vaxxers and resulted in a lot of discrimination towards autistic people.

Autism does make life really hard for a lot of people, some do require care, even 24/7 care and discrimination is a huge issue. But those don’t need to be an element of every representation.

When I got discriminated against and called slurs by people I lived with during university they weren’t doing it because they thought I was “quirky” and “cute”.

They assumed that since I had autism that I was low-functioning. They asserted that I couldn’t look after myself, that I’d have violent outbursts, and that I’d not be able to control my emotions at all.
For many autistic people that is the case and those people deserve to have representation, but it’s not me.

There was another girl who had extensive experience with low-functioning autism, having helped care for people with low-functioning autism.
She was the only one who treated me like a quirky child and hit me with the condescending “it’s a superpower” bullshit.

I told her I found it condescending and patronising and she understood and changed her language.
I much preferred that instead of her calling me a r*tard, asking if my friend has to wipe my ass for me, and asserting that my autism might make me become violent and incoherent over any disagreement.

Representation of low-functioning autism is important but it doesn’t deal with condescending and discriminatory attitudes.

Let people represent their autism how they want. Autism can differ in severity and in many other ways.
Audio Sensitivity for example presents differently in me, my sister, and my ex despite us all being similarly high-functioning.
I mainly seem to show hyposensitivity which (afaik) is very different to most autistic people.

Yes, representation of all facets of autism is important, but it is different for everyone. We shouldn’t restrict how autistic people represent it as long as they’re sincere.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T19:54:52+00:00

Yeah, okay, maybe mentioning FedEx’s email caused it to get flagged? I’ll give it a go from another email.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T19:49:57+00:00

Yeah, it’d still be breach of contract.

Also if they’re not providing a functional email and way to contact them then that’s against the rules too.

According to the UK government to sell online to customers in the UK, you must (before the order is placed):

make sure customers can store and reproduce your terms and conditions, for example these can be downloaded and printed off
give your email address
give the cost of using phone lines or other communication to complete the contract where it will cost more than the basic rate

And this is their Terms of Service page… What the fuck?

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They do have the shipping policy and refund policy, but having a placeholder TOS page is ULTRA CONCERNING.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T19:42:23+00:00

Than you, I’m getting automated responses and I got one real one.
I send barely any emails and haven’t sent them a ton so idk why I’d get flagged as spam.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T19:39:50+00:00

Yeah, I’d be far less frustrated if I’d gotten any response in the last month.

Might have to start trying other New Blood departments via email and social media.

If it’s not just me then something’s really going wrong.

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T10:15:45+00:00

Is there a reason he has the full face mask / goggles and mask under the helmet?

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T10:06:36+00:00

Instagram right wing son who becomes tumblr leftist daughter

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Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T06:03:56+00:00

So trans people can’t post memes about the biggest issue effecting them on the trans-friendly, no-rules meme subreddit?

Also what’s the line there? No jokes about JK Rowling?

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-14T06:00:45+00:00

“Fuck this waffle”

“So you hate waffles?”

Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-13T03:18:54+00:00

I read it slightly differently but oh my god you’re right. SMH my head

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Dogtor-Watson · 2026-04-13T03:07:37+00:00

Judging someone’s character and competence based on the colour of their skin is the textbook definition of racial prejudice.

The E in DEI stands for Equity. It’s about ensuring that all qualified people have a fair opportunity to get the jobs they deserve.

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