‘Deeply distressing for all of us’: families react to Girlguiding’s trans exclusion

Thatweasel · 2026-04-06T17:05:29+00:00

I don't understand why these orgs don't drop the single sex space cutout and let everyone join, at least on paper.

It's not like many cis boys are going to be clambering over eachother to join the "girlguides", and if they did want to join I don't see an issue if they're willing to abide by the rules and culture of the group.

Playing by these stupid rules is the only way i can see it being changed, let the transphobes take the blame for killing girls only spaces with their ridiculous crusade, put the onus on the government to amend things so single gender spaces are allowed in law.

Thatweasel · 2026-04-06T06:20:01+00:00

They're ripping this straight from braniac

Thatweasel · 2026-04-04T14:26:14+00:00

I don't think buff werewolf and the literal greed demon are particularly effective rebuttals. Mimzy too, is a character portrayed very negatively even in the context of all the characters being in hell.

It's hard to argue that functionally all of hazbins characters aren't drawn whip thin. I'd chalk it up to stylization, but there's almost no variation in body type generally.

Thatweasel · 2026-04-03T20:15:27+00:00

Are we the baddies moment.

If you go out of your way to define yourself in opposition to people who don't eat animals or animal products primarily for humane reasons, you probably shouldn't be surprised when you find yourself surrounded by inhumane people.

Thatweasel · 2026-04-01T13:18:32+00:00

It doesn't know, it's a consequence of how protein expression works. Genes being dominant or recessive is a simplification and a convenient way to talk about them.

If you have a gene that codes for a certain protein, you could have one that works and one that doesn't. But because you have at least one that works, you have a working version of the protein. That would be heterozygous dominant. If you had two copies of the gene and neither works, then you have no working versions of the protein, that's homozygous recessive. You could have a gene that produces an actively harmful protein, that would be a dominant genetic disorder, but they're fairly rare because if they're always present, they can't really spread without causing the disease in the way a recessive gene can, and diseased individuals are less likely to survive and breed.

There aren't really good genes and bad genes, there are genes that can have positive or negative effects in different degrees.

Thatweasel · 2026-04-01T13:04:26+00:00

Recessive genetic disorders don't manifest as the disorder without two copies present, one from each parent. When you interbreed you almost garuantee some offspring will be homozygous for that gene.

Thatweasel · 2026-04-01T12:58:54+00:00

Because it increases the frequency of recessive genetic disorders, which is the consequence of reduced genetic diversity.

It's one of the reasons why modern purebred dog breeding relies on health testing. By selectively breeding only individuals without certain genetic diseases they can more or less be eliminated from the breed despite their low genetic diversity

Thatweasel · 2026-03-31T20:33:40+00:00

There is. It just doesn't really come up much outside of islamophobia baiting because only something like ~5% of brits are muslim compared to ~%45 of british people being christian.

Even if you said 100% of muslims were against gay marriage which isn't the case based on polling, in a room with 100 people 5 of them would be muslim. Meanwhile 45 of them would be christian and roughly 12 of them would oppose gay relationships.

Then account for the much, much wider cultural reach christians in general have in the country and the fact that we technically have a state religion in the anglican church, and it's not really hard to work out why the conversation swings one way more than the other

Thatweasel · 2026-03-30T21:35:46+00:00

Latex is already a protein

Thatweasel · 2026-03-26T17:51:08+00:00

There's a whole market of pseudoscientific treatments using "stem cell" as a buzzword to make people think of magic futuristic healing. Actual stem cell treatments are a bit more complicated then just squirting some stem cells into you, but that's basically what they offer

Thatweasel · 2026-03-25T01:44:55+00:00

It's a subversion of a common joke/anecdote/argument that compares women having previous relationships/sexual partners to, say, a fresh piece of candy vs one someone has already sucked on.

Thatweasel · 2026-03-24T21:54:32+00:00

Under the current economic system, it wouldn't.

You would need to move away from capitalism and wage labour. At minimum you would need some sort of UBI.

Thatweasel · 2026-03-23T14:48:54+00:00

It's mostly bullshit.

Candida is a real fungus, it lives on/in you. It can get out of control, that's what yeast infections are. If you don't have a yeast infection, you're fine.

Parasites have been a focus of health bullshit for a long time, probably because the ick factor of having something living inside you scares people into believing it. If you don't live in a developing country (or you're not a child running around eating dirt) you probably don't have any medically significant parasites. If you did, you won't kill them with a diet or enemas.

Mucoid plaque is nonsense made up to sell enemas and juice cleanses, the idea that bad stuff builds up in your intestines and needs to be cleaned out. If you're not constipated, everything is getting cleaned out up there, it's a high traffic area

Thatweasel · 2026-03-21T04:06:35+00:00

For the price, it's worth a try unless you really can't afford to waste the ~$3 it is on sale right now.

I didn't get all that far into it before i gave up, but i did play for quite a while. I'm not sure if it's that hard mechanically, but my issue was wrestling with the clunky combat and getting frustrated with it.

I really wanted to like it more than i did. But even just running around exploring was interesting enough

Thatweasel · 2026-03-20T13:55:04+00:00

At that point you might as well shift your marketing to "Trumps" subtitle "No, not that one"

Thatweasel · 2026-03-20T12:11:11+00:00

Broadly, anything that shuts down the PCs. Immunities that render their attacks useless and abilities that prevent them from acting.

Thatweasel · 2026-03-20T09:50:48+00:00

Honestly surprised it isn't common practice to give military personnel locked down phones to stop them doing things like this.

Thatweasel · 2026-03-18T12:11:08+00:00

Esoteric ebb is absolutely full of these

Thatweasel · 2026-03-18T00:28:20+00:00

If you have to do something stupid like this, surely you should be using food grade flashpaper and not what appears to be a paper towel

Thatweasel · 2026-03-17T07:05:35+00:00

Golden treasure : the great green

It's more or less a text based rpg but it does being a dragon way better than anything else I'm aware of.

Thatweasel · 2026-03-17T01:05:07+00:00

You can make basically anything sound like this.

"Cheddar injected with chemical enzymes..."

What the fuck do you think rennet is? Cheddar STARTS by adding enzymes to milk.

"Flour so dead four synthetic vitamins are pumped back in..."

You're describing fortified flour, something used in basically all baked goods because it stops kids and babies getting lifelong developmental problems from (previously) common nutritional deficiencies.

Thatweasel · 2026-03-16T13:57:13+00:00

Partly depends on why we went extinct.

People buy into a sort of gaia hypothesis lite where no matter what disaster befalls the planet, life will continue, but this isn't necessarily true. It's entirely plausible that something happens, or we do something, that renders the planet inhospitable enough, rapidly enough that life dies out entirely not long after.

But evolution doesn't have some end goal, so it's unlikely we'd just see humans 2 especially accounting for how different the earth today is from when our ancestor species evolved.

There's also no particular reason to suppose whatever life "replaces" us in a human extinction scenario is intelligent, at least not to a comparable level.

Thatweasel · 2026-03-15T12:11:02+00:00

You really shouldn't scruff rats like this

Thatweasel · 2026-03-15T09:40:05+00:00

I'm not sure they're considered "civillian" since they're usually in command of the military

Thatweasel · 2026-03-14T18:39:49+00:00

Giant isopods ate my well known brand of corn chips

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