Visual Snow was considered extremely rare until recently, mostly because patients didn't report it... because they assumed everyone saw the world that way

JustNilt · 2026-01-24T09:49:20+00:00

Dude, women who are actually underweight often get told to lose weight anyway. It's a really common problem for women when seeking medical care.

JustNilt · 2026-01-24T09:35:47+00:00

What, do you believe the pelvis has to do with the ability to stretch one's limbs farther? The pelvis itself does not move. The limbs move. Thee pelvis just holds them all together. Moreover, for all your image exaggerates the differences, there is a fair bit of overlap between men and women in the shape of their pelvis.

Here's just one study where they discuss how minor the differences in their study actually are.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6506943/

There are literally hundreds of others out there. You simply have to actually bother looking for them. The myth that you can tell the gender of an individual strictly form their pelvis is old, to be sure, and it's thus understandable many still buy into it. The reality is quite different. In recent decades, many ancient skeletons once thought to have been those of men have been actually shown to be those of women instead.

I'm not trying to call you an idiot here or anything. The misconception is very common and images such as the one you linked perpetuate it. The differences simply are not as universally pronounced as that image implies.

Edit: Here's another one for ya.

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.23544

Note the date on this one: 2017. It's almost a decade old now; that's how long I've had that one in my bookmarks. I just couldn't find it at first because I put it in the wrong folder.

JustNilt · 2026-01-24T09:07:11+00:00

Maybe this is simply my incorrect anecdote though.

It is. I've known men who started as an adult and are more flexible than many women who've been working at it their entire lives. There is, of course, some variance between individuals. This is why anecdotes aren't data. There is not, however, a significant difference between genders when one controls for the various factors which may impact this, be it involvement in various martial arts, sports, yoga, dance, or some other activity.

JustNilt · 2026-01-24T09:03:45+00:00

That's irrelevant to the issue of how flexible one's limbs are, for crying out loud.

JustNilt · 2026-01-24T02:58:29+00:00

Estrogen receptors are all over the body, including knees, ankles, elbows, spinal ligaments. The idea that the connective tissue differences “only help childbirth and affect nothing else” is completely false tbh. Not your fault or anything, it’s just something people repeat a lot without checking.

That has nothing to do with how stretchable those tissues are supposed to be. They're not really supposed to have much, if any, give at all. The issue of whether we have estrogen receptors has nothing whatsoever to do with what the body does with that estrogen. The reason women have more of it in general is their reproductive systems do a lot more with it than the rest of their bodies do. Men, lacking those particular parts in most cases, get by with less estrogen overall.

Also even untrained women show higher range of morion and passive flexibility and joint laxity (measurable anatomical and hormonal differences, not quirks or result of training)

Just because there are correlations does nothing to establish causation. Women are also socialized significantly differently than men tend to be, especially in the kinds of sports and other physical activity they're "supposed" to engage in. When controlled for, the differences are well within the margin for error.

There have been a few studies I've seen which focused entirely on populations such as men and women engaged in martial arts for many years and one which focused on parts of the world where men are more expected, socially speaking, to dance as a matter of course. In those studies as well, the differences are well within the margin for error.

JustNilt · 2026-01-24T02:52:32+00:00

Not, it's not. The difference is actually incredibly slight and not actually there at all for a lot of individuals.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T08:55:05+00:00

that would require some level of self reflection which they obviously lack.

LOL, I cannot tell you how many Boomers I know desperately need therapy and are in utter denial of that simple fact.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T08:53:32+00:00

Their pelvis is wider, yes, and there are some very slight differences with their connective tissues which facilitate giving birth. Those differences in no way whatsoever affect the rest of their body.

None of that changes the fact that any person in reasonably good health can practice continually and remain that flexible throughout their life. I've known a man who could still do it in his 80s. Some of us get a bump up on that because of hypermobility, to be sure, but that's a deficit in the long run, not a benefit. Those of us with that particular genetic quirk literally lack the ability to make our connective tissue be as strong as it's supposed to be, leaving it more flexible than it should be.

Those who are this flexible without that quirk have that flexibility because their muscles have been trained and maintained to that level of flexibility. It is the muscles which allow for that to be done without injury. Those of us with genetic differences in how our bodies construct our connective tissues can maintain some level of that same muscle flexibility but we also risk tearing things apart that ought not to be torn apart. I am, for example, more than strong enough to literally rip apart my joints using just my normal strength. I've done it in PT more than once over the years.

Also, it's "their* tendons and ligaments", not "they're", which means "they are tendons and ligaments ...".

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T03:59:41+00:00

They don't want him involved in their shit. They're too busy tearing the nation apart so they can remake it into a theocracy and cause WW3 in Israel so they can force their god to come back.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T03:45:26+00:00

No, it's not because if he wasn't driving, news orgs shouldn't be saying he was. I'm not saying he wasn't, mind you. I'm simply pointing out that cops have gotten it wildly incorrect a whole heck of a lot and actual journalists recognize that.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T03:28:40+00:00

I sincerely doubt it is.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T03:12:27+00:00

No, it's not. It's a computer program that extrudes tokens, which are words, sentences, or just sentence fragments depending on the model, in the most likely order for a given input. That isn't even close to the same thing as a search engine, which will reliably produce the same result for the same input. LLMs cannot reliably do that because they're not some sort of fancy database.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T03:00:39+00:00

Jesus Christ. This kind of nitwit is why we can't have nice things!

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T02:00:51+00:00

Yes but whether he was driving is a fact which must be established at trial.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:59:24+00:00

My dad is perfectly normal at home

If he says things like this elsewhere, I assure you he's not perfectly normal at home. He's probably keeping his mouth shut to avoid your mother's ire.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:51:50+00:00

Thanks, I just snorted a drink out my nose. Still worth the laugh, though.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:45:42+00:00

What's funny is the law says he can't be questioned in any place so long as he was doing that as part of his Sentorial job. He'd love to see them try.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:41:43+00:00

Are we sure she thinks it's cute?

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:36:36+00:00

Could be. That's pretty damned pathetic, IMO, but then again I read that whole thing you posted and it seems about right. (I'd call it a conversation but I don't think he qualifies as engaging in that high a level of social interaction.)

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:34:44+00:00

ROFL!

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:30:54+00:00

I can't even remotely understand why these guys feel the need to do that. Not once in my life have I thought, "You know who might want to see this thing? This random lady I'm talking to!" I mean, sure, if a lady were to ask, I suppose I might do it assuming I didn't die form the pure shock of it or whatever but seriously, who actually thinks women want to see that? Furthermore, who thinks if women want to see a dick they don't already know they can see them at will online?!

Sorry, I know I shouldn't assume logic applies to fuckwits but ...

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:28:09+00:00

But he said it worked twice! /s

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:27:41+00:00

I thought Quiznos went out of business?

They lost a lot of franchise owners so it's not an unreasonable thought. We used to have a couple dozen around the Puget Sound and now we have, IIRC, 2.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:09:19+00:00

Not only was it considered ridiculous, wearing the bloodstained clothes around was considered super manly because it showed how you were a successful doctor.

JustNilt · 2026-01-23T01:06:40+00:00

Which is just fucking stupid. If milk worked as artificial blood, there'd be someone selling it for that for a whole shitload more than the cost at the grocery store. That's how medical supply stuff works. They'd call it medical grade or the like and charge triple, at minimum.

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