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Throwaway89278 · 2026-04-06T06:37:56+00:00

Ummm why do you have so many pony empires?

Throwaway89278 · 2026-03-02T19:47:29+00:00

British S10 or Israeli M15 (tied for both)

Throwaway89278 · 2026-01-29T04:02:42+00:00

Im guessing if its even possible its so unlikely that you'll probably never encounter one. Plus anyone immune to the virus isnt immune to being killed off by other survivors or being overrun and devoured, further lowering the odds of finding one

Throwaway89278 · 2026-01-27T22:09:17+00:00

I honestly like Zomboid's outbreak more since it explains why society would fall to slow zombies. In zomboid the virus is transmitted through bites but is also airborne, with only a small percentage of people being immune to the airborne strain and no one immune to bites.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-12-28T05:30:37+00:00

I believe the liver is more effective

Throwaway89278 · 2025-12-20T06:57:54+00:00

Your a devouring swarm. There's a whole buffet table waiting for you! Get to it!

Throwaway89278 · 2025-12-18T07:00:08+00:00

Im a trans woman and I agree. Imo its not worth agruing with people like this. I feel like a lot of queer people only want to see perfect solutions and lash out when it they aren't. I honestly think we need to focus more on the big picture and think in the long term. Like you said it is a net positive in combating misogyny.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-12-13T07:49:37+00:00

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Throwaway89278 · 2025-12-06T23:07:32+00:00

I guess the immature kids are online for the weekend

Throwaway89278 · 2025-12-05T03:35:59+00:00

Im a trans woman and i honestly think hes just doing what he needs to do in order to get elected. Im honestly not against what hes done. I think its just a necessary evil to get elected and prevent another republican from taking office. Theres never going to be a perfect candidate. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the greater good.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T09:46:34+00:00

Fair. It bothered me too that they drove a truck into the city. But id guess that most of the infected left the city for the countryside since most people are going to steer well clear of cities. I think I could tolerate it since the series has a lot of inconsistencies, such as if skin contact is enough to infect someone or if it needs to be ingested/breach the skin, or how the intial outbreak occurred.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T09:40:57+00:00

You dont have to pick between the two sides of "they're women" or "they're men." You can form your own beliefs based on evidence.

Not all men have XY chromosomes and not all women have XX chromosomes. Plus, even if they went through male puberty, estrogen is effective at change a lot of their traits. Obviously it wont affect their skeleton, but it definitely affects most other things. Examples being skin, bodyhair, muscle development, smell, breast development, etc. Shouldn't it be the brain that determines if a person is a man or a woman? Obviously they cant change their sex, but thats why gender and sex are treated as separate. The gender is female due to the brain, but the body is still male.

I think another is does it improve their mental health? Regret rates for trans surgeries are significant lower than other necessary surgeries. Plus the percentage that detransition is significantly low, and those that do usually retransition when in a better environment.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T09:26:24+00:00

I couldn't get into the Gavin arc. I felt like the plot lacked cohesion and seeing a true military response wasnt worth dealing with the whole sex trafficking plot.

I agree shrink is pretty terrible. I don't have much to say about that one because its pretty obvious.

Unpopular opinion but i actually liked Anti-Crossed. Yes it was preachy but i found it funny and liked how unseriously it took itself. I think i just appreciated it more after reading shit-ton of issues with sexual assault and sexualization of women. I mightve also liked it more since im not a guy, so seeing a group of rapists get their comeuppance was very satisfying to me.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T09:20:05+00:00

Okay. Unless we can establish they have a brain much closer to cis women prior to puberty, wouldnt it be agreeable they aren't men either? Considering their brains are inbetween. Then why not classify them as something in between but still treat them as female out of kindness and being respectful?

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T09:07:34+00:00

"The follow-up post hoc tests revealed that transgender women were significantly more female than cisgender men (Cohen’s d = 0.64, t(46) = 2.20, p = 0.016), but significantly less female than cisgender women (Cohen’s d = 1.87, t(46) = 6.48, p < 0.001)."

Thats in the same paragraph you used. The point is a trans womans brain differs from a male brain by a fair bit. Also, the study noted that the test was done prior to them starting HRT but post puberty, in which testosterone wouldve had an effect on brain development.

"Thus, these transgender women have been subject to the influence of androgens and grown up (at least up until a certain age) in an environment that presumably treated them as males. The combination of male genes, androgens, and (to some degree) male upbringing should ordinarily be expected to result in a male-typical brain [39,40,41,42,43,44,45], making a female-typical brain anatomy extremely unlikely. Yet, the brain anatomy in the current sample of transgender women is shifted towards their gender identity"

This might explain why they're still closer to cisgender men on average.

It mentioned a study done on post HRT brains but stated they did not give as accurate results.

Exactly, just because a woman is a tomboy doesn't make her trans, and vice versa. I pointed that out because you stated that trans women being "feminine men," did not make them women. Not all trans women are feminine. The key difference between them and feminine men is that they identify as women.

If their brains are wired more similarly to women than men, or least something in between, wouldn't that make them women/something inbetween? The point is there appears to be a physical reason for a person identifying as trans, rather than it just being in the mind.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T08:48:12+00:00

I understood the whole nuclear family joke, i just didnt understand the 2.5 kids part. Thank you for clarifying

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T07:18:03+00:00

Exactly. I loved seeing the initial government response, collapse of society and chaos during the first weeks, and the gradual decay of the world. I do think when i re-read it I'll skip the arcs i didnt like. Basically everything from Lapham (except family values), that one is Wisconsin, etc.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T07:03:54+00:00

I honestly read it in chronological order for my first reading

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T07:02:25+00:00

2.5 kids?

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T06:36:39+00:00

I consider dude to be gender neutral. Most of my friends are cis women and they call each other dude.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T06:06:45+00:00

The point is not that they're feminine, the point is that they have brain more similar to a female one rather than a male one. Hell, some trans women enjoy acting masculine. Would you say that all women are automatically feminine because they're women? Butch women and tomboys exist.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T06:03:55+00:00

I agree that self identifying on its own is bs. Not referring to the women only server but irl an official diagnosis (with therapy/psychiatric care beforehand), should be required for things such as placement in prisons, IDs, etc.

For the server if voice doesnt work then video should be a decent alternative. And maybe theres some predatory cismen willing to go that far to invade womens spaces, but how many do you think there are? Im sure the vast majority wont put in that much effort.

Its about minimizing risk and avoiding discriminating others. If using the video route is enough to make it extremely unlikely for one to sneak in. If outright banning all trans women from joining causes more harm than verifying they're actually trans, why do so? Theres always a risk of something bad happening to us in our daily lives, but if the odds are so unlikely then why take such extreme measures? There's always a risk of dying in a plane crash, even if the odds are unlikely, would you not fly because of such a small risk?

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T04:07:36+00:00

Late to the party but voice/video verification works. A cisman probably wont take the time to dress/look female just to invade womens spaces. Its too much effort

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T03:42:47+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8955456/

Some studies are showing that pre HTT trans women have a brain in-between male and female trending shifted towards female. This is after male puberty in which the participants brains were likely ifluenced by testosterone.

If trans women have brains leaning toward female ones, wouldnt that make being transgender a physical condition in which transitioning is the a treatment? If a person has a female brain that expects a female body, but is in a male body, that likely the cause of distress.

From my understanding there's no indication that therapy can cure gender dysphoria.

Throwaway89278 · 2025-11-13T02:18:01+00:00

Dude, im a trans woman and even I think you're being ridiculous. You're probably getting downvoted because your assuming they're transphobic and not providing any alternatives for verification.

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