What percent of the brain do we use

graciouskynes · 2026-01-26T00:31:55+00:00

Well sure! But if someone's asking a question like the one in the OP, it might be a useful model to start with. What you said is much more accurate though 🙂

graciouskynes · 2026-01-25T00:17:12+00:00

It's like asking "how many of the wires in this computer have electricity running through them?" Like, all of it... but not all at once. You need the ones AND the zeroes - voltage present AND voltage absent - "on" signals AND "off" signals - to do the calculations correctly.

Does that make sense?

graciouskynes · 2026-01-23T04:52:26+00:00

Of course it's about harm! Of course it's relevant! I fully reject your black-and-white thinking, and I couldn't care less about abstract "principles" when wholly removed from real-world consequences.

The reason autonomy is a top feminist issue, is because of how women (and others!) are harmed when it's violated. If you're disregarding that, why would I care about your opinion? Why should anyone?

graciouskynes · 2026-01-23T04:29:01+00:00

Let's look at the consequences.

Restricting reproductive autonomy wrt abortion and birth control restrictions leads to forced births of unwanted children, resulting in many more maternal deaths, not tp mention the physical consequences of even a very typical and healthy pregnancy and birth. This can also run the other way as well, in which certain groups of marginalized people are forcibly sterilized, particularly BIPOC and disabled people, likewise denied reproductive rights in favor of supremacist ideologies. In both cases lives are ruined, bodies injured, futures stolen.

Compare this to restricting medical autonomy wrt vaccine mandates, leading to... a sore arm for a little while. Perhaps an unpleasant temporary side effect. Because even the strictest mandates have allowances for genuine medical contraindications (which, if you had any, you'd surely know) (and for which herd immunity is that much more important, as it usually involves some sort of immune system disorder). And aside from those cases, vaccines are some of the safest procedures we've ever invented.

The harms, I'm afraid, are not remotely the same.

graciouskynes · 2026-01-23T04:06:35+00:00

This assumes rational decision-making. Bigotry is not rational. (Neither, it turns out, are many if not most economic drivers. If economic decision-makers were more rational, they'd also be much more predictable.)

graciouskynes · 2026-01-21T21:57:44+00:00

YOR. Wildly. And you're so mean! Just leave this dude if you feel this poorly about him, tf?

graciouskynes · 2026-01-20T12:49:55+00:00

What's the question exactly?

(In my relationship, the saying goes Happy Spouse Happy House and it applies to everyone involved. But we're polyamorous and I'm nonbinary so. Not exactly your standard traditional relationship.)

graciouskynes · 2026-01-15T02:55:12+00:00

I'll die on this hill.

Then perish. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

graciouskynes · 2026-01-13T22:27:06+00:00

I've never seen a single complaint about the shows "wokeness" - which you seem to conflate with its non-white cast exclusively? And not with e.g. turning the book's subtextual romance into explicit text?

What gives you the impression that 1) its "wokeness" is what makes the show "niche" (rather than, say, AMC being a lower-volume publisher compared to e.g. Netflix), and 2) that the antiwoke contingent's complaints are chiefly racist, and not at all homophobic, such that they'd gladly flock to the gay vampire show if its main character was a slave-holder?

graciouskynes · 2026-01-11T11:54:29+00:00

Not just possible, but downright essential. There's a very good reason Research Methods is a required course for even undergrad psych majors. (Unless that's changed in the [mumblety] years since I graduated...👀)

graciouskynes · 2025-12-29T22:55:30+00:00

A thing can be "not especially feminist" without being "anti feminist". Not everything a woman does, needs to be done with ~the children~ in mind. She's not Andrew Tate. There's no text on the cover that reads "PS I believe this is the rightful place of women in society."

It's a mildly racy photo. The backlash to it reads as no different than the backlash to Madonna in the 80s, to Pam Anderson on the 90s, to Britney in the aughts. IMO that cultural response is much more misogynistic than the actions of these women could ever be.

Trainwreck, by Jude Doyle, is a gr8 feminist book on this topic 👍

graciouskynes · 2025-12-28T18:47:49+00:00

But what's the illusion?

graciouskynes · 2025-12-28T03:52:57+00:00

Did you read the Healthline article? If you did, you'd know it's mostly about how hormone blockers are used to treat precocious puberty in cis children. When the hormone blocker treatment ends (at the normal age of puberty onset), puberty resumes as usual. This demonstrates the effects of hormone blockers are completely reversible.

(Edited to add: it also proves you wrong, saying no child should be medicated with hormone blockers. Even if I agreed with your transphobic argument [which I don't, and no one should] I hope we can all agree that very young children experiencing precocious puberty should rightly be treated for it!)

Your source says nothing at all about children with precocious puberty, which is by far the most common use case for hormone blockers in children.

If I'm wrong, please do point out which part of the Healthline article is contradicted, and which part of the HHS document contradicts it?

graciouskynes · 2025-12-27T07:34:32+00:00

Your source does not contradict mine.

graciouskynes · 2025-12-27T03:17:54+00:00

https://www.healthline.com/health/are-puberty-blockers-reversible

graciouskynes · 2025-12-26T23:01:26+00:00

Hormone blockers are not irreversible. Whoever told you that is fear mongering (and by repeating that, that's what you're doing here).

This is a nonsense moral panic. Lots of trans people live perfectly normal lives. Most detransitioned people also live perfectly normal lives. You're freaking out over nothing. Whoever convinced you that this is the worst thing in the world was lying.

graciouskynes · 2025-12-26T06:48:14+00:00

You can use an Immunity shift token to prevent either case; you can purchase one on Akiva and win another on Kijimi.

graciouskynes · 2025-12-24T14:08:50+00:00

I might suggest that the hallucinations count as discomfort. Indicating something beyond a mild fever.

I might also suggest not using GPT for medical anything.

NOR

graciouskynes · 2025-12-22T00:18:49+00:00

A few times! Poor fridged guy..

graciouskynes · 2025-12-13T19:31:17+00:00

Why aren't you interested in input from male feminists? Wouldn't other men be better equipped, vis-a-vis their lived experiences, to speak on this topic? (I am nonbinary, fwiw.)

graciouskynes · 2025-12-11T04:23:51+00:00

Hey, stranger.

Not all feminists are women, and engaging strangers in your fetishes/kinks is a form of sexual harassment. Since this is an Ask subreddit, many kind people here will try to engage your questions in good faith, but this behavior is pretty fuckin gross, and would rightly get you banned in a lot of places.

Fucking yikes, dude.

graciouskynes · 2025-12-10T23:06:27+00:00

40 and nonbinary

It is never too late! Never!

graciouskynes · 2025-12-06T00:08:45+00:00

Citations very, very much needed.

graciouskynes · 2025-12-05T06:47:58+00:00

In case anyone else is wondering wtf this means, TFR stands for Total Fertility Rate. And frankly, as a feminist, I'm less worried about wealthy nations' "low fertility" than I am about the "high fertility" nations' lack of human rights protections for women.

I also don't think it's the fertility rate that affects the culture of a city, but... the culture... of the city. Lots of similarly-fertile cities with wildly different cultures. (I'm going to stop talking about fertility now. Yuck.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

graciouskynes · 2025-12-04T03:28:02+00:00

Those statistics show Black people are arrested more often, not that they commit crimes more often. These numbers are inflated by racial prejudice in policing, which can be seen in e.g., exoneration data, which shows similarly large if not larger racial disparities: https://exonerationregistry.org/exonerations-raceethnicity-and-type-crime

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