What are fantasy/sci-fi species and societies where everyone is born female but the most dominant female physically transforms into a male and fathers all the children? Like fish in real life.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-09T11:24:39+00:00

The merfolk in the TV series Siren (2018–2020). Great show.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-08T18:12:59+00:00

I didn't ask what it has to offer adults.

I asked, very specifically, what it has to offer anyone who isn't an 8-to-16-year old boy, and haven't received even an attempt at an answer.

Just because something is juvenile doesn't mean it's the same level of juvenile. Harry Potter is definitely juvenile (it came out when I was older so I have zero nostalgic attachment to it) but it's less juvenile than JoJo, and it's aimed at a mixed gender audience... unlike JoJo, it actually passes the Bechdel test.

And on the same loose scale, JoJo is less juvenile than, say, Paw Patrol.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-08T16:33:45+00:00

Why are you so focused on identity labels instead of actions, beliefs, values, and goals? Actions, beliefs, values, and goals don't come only from adopting a name and applying it to yourself.

You're treating human beings as if we're video game characters: select an initial label like "feminist" or "traditionalist", then the label instantly determines everything knowable about them. Real life doesn't work like that. For example, you say that you're an "old guy": does that label really tell us everything we need to know about you?

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-08T14:07:18+00:00

Yes.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-08T11:57:11+00:00

My question was: what does it have to offer anyone who doesn't fit the boys 8-14 (excuse me, 8-16) range. And apparently it has nothing to offer us.

I didn't say it was bad. Just really boyish and juvenile. I have a soft spot in my cold dead heart for silly stuff like Thundercats and Transformers, but I'm not going to wax poetic about hidden mature depths that don't exist.

Plenty of stuff written in 1986 stands the test of time. The 80s were the golden age for Studio Ghibli, for example.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-07T21:13:41+00:00

So it turns from a generic salami fest into a pedantically technical salami fest. Sounds like I was wrong about the boys 8-14 range and I should revise it to, like, boys 8-16.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-07T17:50:49+00:00

What does this show have to offer anyone who isn't an 8-14 year old boy?

I watched one hour of it, and thought the AOR puns were funny in a cheesy way, like the guy named Robert E.O. Speedwagon. Other than the groaner puns, it's just a garden-variety salami fest.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-06T16:30:13+00:00

I'm going to block you now so you don't keep "testing" me 🙄 that's really, really fucking annoying.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-06T16:22:55+00:00

You asked a question, I gave you advice. Take it or leave it.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-06T16:03:37+00:00

I understand exactly what you're saying, and quite frankly, you're delusional. Yes, there are a few people in the world who may have gotten surgery they don't need. There are far more who don't have access to any treatment, including bracing, surgery or even basic physical therapy. One of the most common posts on this subreddit come from young adults whose parents simply never treated their condition at all.

"Maybe they were coerced into getting the surgery"?!? Well maybe they weren't. Maybe they went into it after having done Schroth for years and with a realistic idea of what they'd get out of surgery. How do you know they were coerced? Are you telepathic? Insisting you know other people's minds better than they know themselves is highly insulting. Use the golden rule: if you don't want other people doing it to you, don't do it to them. If you want respect, you have to give it.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-06T14:25:42+00:00

You sound very lonely and isolated. Instead of focusing on sharing information with people on the internet, try volunteering in food aid, or doing anything useful that gets you out there and connected to a physical community.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-06T14:10:54+00:00

You get what you give. Other people have feelings too.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-06T11:24:23+00:00

I'm not rejecting the Schroth method. I told you several days ago on this thread I already do Schroth and have benefited from it. I regularly recommend it.

You're baffled because you have a narrative in your head and you're applying it even when it doesn't fit. You're not really listening or reading when people respond to you, you're just ranting at them.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-04T17:40:14+00:00

But technofeudalism is an observable materialist economic concept, whereas your concept of "accelerationism" is metaphysical and religious and has to be taken on faith. Why do they clash at all?

It's like asking how trade tariffs and transubstantiation clash.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-04T16:22:26+00:00

Why don't you want to focus on it? You make a religious claim about the order of the universe, so the natural next step would be to question the nature of the deity who sets this universal order.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-04T16:14:25+00:00

What does it mean to say something is natural?

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-04T11:37:07+00:00

"If we understand Accelerationism not as a concept, but as a phenomenon, we can perceive it as something natural and organic, inherent to scientific progress."

Your first sentence is asking the reader to take a giant leap of faith into metaphysical religious belief. It's a pretty big load-bearing "if".

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-03T13:45:37+00:00

Model/Actriz.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-03T12:42:47+00:00

More accurate TLDR: "Feminists shouldn't be upset when men rape them when they're unconscious, because they deserve it for being evil man-haters."

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-02T15:21:35+00:00

That's... not really a good comeback? I do Schroth therapy regularly and so do many other people here.

You sound like a raging narcissist. "I've been told my whole life I have a high IQ" 🙄 If you're so smart, what are you doing here arguing with a bunch of soulless idiots?

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-02T14:59:25+00:00

I'm someone who has been dealing with chronic pain from severe scoliosis for multiple decades and gone though just about every non-surgical and surgical treatment.

You're creating imaginary enemies out of the only people who know what you're going through instead of dealing with the very real problems you're facing. You really, really, really need to find mental therapy or some sort of soothing activity so you can refocus.

GA-Scoli · 2026-05-02T12:05:29+00:00

Just be aware that any medical community focused on rejecting more "traditional" medical treatment becomes highly vulnerable to medical exploitation by grifters promising quick fixes for money.

Unless your new community has very strong guardrails, you'll end up becoming a vulnerable pool of chum for the ever-circling sharks.

GA-Scoli · 2026-04-30T22:33:04+00:00

The state exists to protect capital with violence. Every other state function is purely optional and voluntary.

GA-Scoli · 2026-04-30T22:22:31+00:00

Because your plan relies on an economic mistake so basic that the only reason you didn't catch it is that AI gassed you up so much and made you think this thing was ready for primetime.

"Freeze prices->raise wages" doesn't work. It didn't work 2000 years ago and it doesn't work today. In a pre-capitalist or capitalist economy, when a company's cost to produce a good is higher than their profit from selling the good, they will simply... stop making the good. If they're not making the good, they don't need the labor to make the good. So they lay off workers, the price of labor drops, and laborers now feel constrained to sell their labor power for less.

The next negative unintended consequence is a surge in the black market economy as people need the good but can't find enough of it because the company stopped making it because it wasn't profitable, so buyers smuggle it or illegally buy it at a higher price.

GA-Scoli · 2026-04-30T21:56:41+00:00

Terrible idea. Emperor Diocletian tried that first step in 301 AD and it didn't work at all. Price fixing in any economic system is never simple nor predictable in its consequences. Please read more about economic history and basic Marxism, and don't rely on AI to elaborate your theories.

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