• 9 Posts
  • 576 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 9th, 2023

help-circle








  • Depends on what we qualify as an animal and what we qualify as a fart. Would a plant’s waste gas, oxygen, be considered a fart? Sloths experience at least 10 continuous hours of oxygen production. Photosynthetic jellyfish deal with constant, full body internal farting.

    Even if we only believe animals can fart, that leaves coral with an order of magnitude more farts, and siphonophores with a dozen orders of magnitude more than that.








  • I admit, I do genuinely love the left wing resolution to the question. “Just give people the freedom to harmlessly be themselves, or else” pretty succinctly cuts through the stochastic terrorism. From the outside, it seems like a complete philosophy with room for future development, edges only apparent when we begin to question what’s human or harmless.

    Simply absolving people of the need to care about something is a gloriously tantalizing gesture, and simultaneously collectivizing them through a broader umbrella is powerful. It’s religion for atheists.


  • I guess it’s fine to accept that there is no single answer to a question, but the absence of concrete definability in a colloquial term is just upsetting on its face. I recognize that there’s no real need for it to be monolithic, but even figuring out how to phrase my question without seeming threatening was a challenge.

    In the end, I just want folks to feel safe when I speak to them, and through the answers imparted upon me, I’m inching closer to the level of inclusion that I strive toward. I sincerely appreciate the answer, and if there’s anything that I’ve said here that seems at odds with my stated goal, I apologize.




  • What do you wish to actually know?

    The definition of sex, and where it bleeds into gender or doesn’t. I felt like I had a complete understanding of the difference between sex and gender, but there were a few months, a while back, where the terms were used interchangeably and I began to subtly question whether I actually understood them.

    Now, several months later, I thought to ask in a relatively neutral space. You guys confirmed that I just happened to see many people misusing words for a bit, which I appreciate.











OSZAR »