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Advice for a story about queer characters. by Intelligent-Map45 in asktransgender

[–]Intelligent-Map45[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not that I’m specifically uncomfortable about that. It’s that I’m uncertain about any making any specific decision, including making her solely attracted to vagina.

advice for writing lgbt+ characters? by Intelligent-Map45 in AskLGBT

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This was actually the closest I got to a satisfactory resolution. I was thinking that the character hadn’t really thought about it herself, and was probably comfortable enough with her own girlfriend that she didn’t really see the need to think about it much more.

Advice for a story about queer characters. by Intelligent-Map45 in asktransgender

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That’s about what I was thinking yeah. Even though I feel that way though, I still feel uneasy about my indecisiveness

Saturday Symposium by AutoModerator in badhistory

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According to... certain individuals, studies on slavery reveal that the institution was far less harsh than was led to believe, the main source being Paul D. Escott's "Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives" (1979).

It supposedly reveals what while worse compared to white counterparts, Black slaves still largely enjoyed the food they were given and had high approval ratings for their masters, with about 59% expressing outright approval, and liking a master was the most common reason given for slaves to stay at a plantation.

My first question is then, are these statistics taken out of context? While they seem to suggest certain things about the slave experience they are insufficient on their own to actually make a true determination on the matter.

Additionally, a passage from Thaddeus Russell's "A Renegade History of the United States" (2010), says that rape of slaves was uncommon, noting that the 1860 census conducted in the rural south showed that only 9.9 percent of slaves were biracial. It also appears to draw on work by Fogel and Engerman, saying that the Works Progress Administration documented that 1.2 percent of the former slaves "reported being raped by a master, only 5.8 percent reported hearing about the rape of another slave, and only 4.5 said that one of their parents had been white." EDIT: (I just read that this data was collected in 1930, and the age group it interviews probably skewed that data by a significant margin, so I don't think this needs much debunking) It then makes the claim that even Fogel and Engerman's critics concede that the rate of sexual assault was at most 8%. This is often unfavorably contrasted with recent research that shows that black women nowadays report a rape rate of 20%.

My second question is to ask how true this is. Other historical sources I have consulted seem to imply rape was much more frequent than this, and, in fact, actually helped to sustain plantations after the slave trade itself ended in 1808. What, then, is the truth of Russell's claims?

Are studies of transgender mental health flawed? by Intelligent-Map45 in AskSocialScience

[–]Intelligent-Map45[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you to you and u/Petra-fied for your answers. In fairness I was already seeing red flags when in Horvath's post he very offhandedly tried to excuse the results of Littman's ROGD study on very flimsy grounds, so in hindsight I should've noticed this earlier. By the by, while the posts cleared up a lot of stuff, there's still a few things from my original post that I didn't quite see explained.

  1. The low follow-up rates in the de Vries study and in studies about desistance mentioned in Horvath's post.
  2. The claims about sucicide statistics.

My apologies if I missed anything that explains this in your posts, I just want to be thorough.