KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
2d ago
I think the idea is plausible, I just also think that my screenshot of half a twitter thread and one old tech talk is not the strongest evidence in favor of it.
KingOfTheBailey
3d ago
Best? How about worst? Here's a weirdo on X claiming that Google was to online trans social contagion what the Wuhan Institute was to covid. The account has been banned, so all I have is this screenshot and a link to Ogi Ogas' Google Tech Talk, A Billion Wicked Thoughts:
And what we found from our research is that there are four parts of the body that men are interested in universally, in every country we looked at including preliterate, unwired countries as well. Four body parts that all heterosexual men are interested in — it's breasts, butts, feet, and the fourth body part was a big surprise to us, something we completely didn't anticipate. It turns out that the fourth body part that heretosexual men are very interested in looking at is the penis.
Ogi then talks about "shemale porn" (as well as Edward Cullen; remember, this is 2011) as an "erotical illusion":
An erotical illusion combines different sexual cues in new combinations to trick out the sexual brain. So let me talk about shemale porn. Again, this is very popular among heterosexual men; gay men are not interested in shemale porn. This was a surprise, when we went into this we had no idea that shemale porn was going to be so popular. Obviously this is something that men aren't comfortable talking about but the data is quite overwhelming about that this is universally popular, immensely popular. So why are straight men so interested in shemale porn?
I don't know if it's as clear a smoking gun as the departed poaster says, but the talk is certainly interesting, and I could imagine impressionable young men rewiring themselves if they jerked it to enough shemale porn during their formative years. Ogi also talks about paranormal romance as a way for authors to manipulate the cues that trigger female erotical illusions in new ways. Someone should do an effortpost on the line from paranormal romance to romantasy and the women that wirehead themselves on it ("we saw many women in their mid to late 40s who are just absolutely sexually obsessed with Edward Cullen"), but I'll stay on today's topic.
It's probably also worth trying to untangle why, despite all the rhetoric around passing, some trans-identifying men seem to put effort into specifically not passing, despite claiming the exact opposite. If you're that worried about passing, a trans pride flag on your laptop or a trans tattoo is really not going to make it easier. The only thing I can think of is that for this class of trans-identifying man, it's less about passing as a woman and more about forcing other people to interact with him as a woman.
Also don't forget the things that Strangio said to SCOTUS during Skrmetti: it's been known for some time that "there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates".
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
KingOfTheBailey
9d ago
There's a really interesting post from /r/TheMotte that you might enjoy: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/c7bkqh/examining_1999s_culture_through_its_best_movies/
It seems like culture around 1999 was different on this point in a really important way, which I think led us to the ennui of the middle-aged office worker asking, "is this it?" This isn't as much of a thing on the more recent years. I think it's been replaced by a view that even the "soulless middle-class existence" would be a significant step up from what the younger millenials, zoomers, and alphas actually got: the economic engine hiccupping as it lurched from crisis to crisis, houses accelerating to many multiples of median annual income, immigration changing hometowns and countries beyond recognition, dating being so messed up that finding a partner is tough enough, let alone someone seriously keen on starting a family, ...
KingOfTheBailey
14d ago
I wonder if this is reading too much into some pretty standard complaints about kid TV shows that existed since the 60s.
I think it is. GP would have a more solid case if he went after Korra. Suki's "I'm a warrior, but I'm a girl too" line would never be spoken by any of the Modern Girlbosses. Sokka is meant to be young and immature so that he can grow up across the show, and no modern western show would give Sokka the arc that he got. A I'll grant GP that Master Pakku is an idiot, and his refusal to teach Katara (the only living waterbender in the southern water tribe) would have meant that knowledge dying out among half of the water tribes. (His mind is changed by the presence of a trinket, so that the rest of the plot can happen.)
KingOfTheBailey
14d ago
They do it because it probably still works on the normies. I sometimes read the newspapers while waiting for takeout, and even the local right-wing rag had a piece on Lucy Connolly finally leaving prison. ICYMI, Lucy had the book thrown at her for writing and deleting an intemperate tweet in response to (I think) Axel Rudakubana's murder spree. The article studiously noted his country of birth and his British citizenship, while being noticeably silent about his ethnicity.
I was once told that it was the second- and third-generation children of migrants that are at greatest risk of radicalization. They form an idealized version of their home country because they didn't experience the things that made their parents or grandparents leave, and they don't yet fit in. When I was younger, I would sagely nod along and say "yes, yes, this is why we must provide more community resources to prevent radicalization" or whatever. Now I'm just baffled as to why, knowing this, we're still attempting to import infinity people.
KingOfTheBailey
17d ago
I showed up to the office in a (literal) robe and wizard hat with a tarot deck to do readings with. It was kind of a success even, I expected to play it as an ironic bit but normies people actually took it completely straight without batting an eye, and were even delighted that the ever-reclusive Rayon who never wore anything other than a plain black shirt has a quirky side after all.
That's really cool. And may we never forget bloodninja; perhaps we can fix AI gooners by LoRA-ing the models they talk to with his work.
KingOfTheBailey
22d ago
Perhaps the muse visited our OP and he had to write today. I suggest OP crosslinks to his post when the Friday Fun Thread drops.
KingOfTheBailey
23d ago
Add "birb" to that list, too.
KingOfTheBailey
26d ago
Serpentard
If only I had this word for pro-Slytherin edgelords back in HP's heyday. What do they call Griffindor?
KingOfTheBailey
26d ago
The real-life version of James Bond would be The Sandbaggers, where they do sit in meetings a lot but it's also the greatest spy show ever made and one of the best media recommendations I got from this forum.
KingOfTheBailey
26d ago
KingOfTheBailey
29d ago
The absence of specific articles is probably due to the effect documented in The Sixth Meditation on Superweapons. You noticed what was Actually Being Said, not the literal words on the screen.
Here is an eleven-year-old reddit thread that mentions the phenomenon (written by a woman asking why men don't give up), so what you're describing is something that definitely existed at the time you're talking about:
However, if women are going to pretty much shut down every avenue for approaching them (bars ["I just want to hang out with my friends"], clubs ["I just want to dance!"], bookstores ["Don't interrupt my reading!"], grocery stores ["I HAVE to go here, don't bother me."], classes/workshops ["I'm here to learn, only!"], etc), what avenues ARE available for meeting women organically (eg. not via dating website/match-makers)?
There's also this classic compare-and-contrast of the headlines of Jessica Valenti's opinion pieces.
Probably because the "E-Meter" (aka "electropsychometer", "Hubbard Electrometer") is used in Scientology's "auditing" process.
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