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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Having been a teenager during the bronie era




Ah. I keep forgetting you people are all still a bunch of kids... (shakes fist at cloud mumbling about lawn)


No, I'm talking about the original 80s MLP. The one with absolutely zero male fanbase at the time, at least around here, but loved by five year old girls who also loved being princesses and dressing in pink.




Also, IMO, multi monitor setups are highly popular in the workplace among both men and women




Yeah, but how many (non-autist) women build a man cave around them and approach them with the same piety and tech enthusiasm as hardcore gamers approach building the ultimate gaming rig?




That said, on the trans question, I’ve met trans women who struck me as masculine in their hobbies, some who struck me as more autistic than anything else, and some who struck me very feminine in a stereotypical sense, like being a reader of romance novels or having strong opinions about makeup in the way only women and guys like James Charles do. If some fraction of gay men are feminine, like gay hairdressers, it doesn’t beggar belief that some trans women would be, too.




I'm not disputing the existence of feminine trans women at all. I'm saying that the autistic / hardcore-nerd-male-until-ackshually-I'm-a-women MtF are a different population that should not be grouped with "normal" trans women for any analysis because their behavior and "origin stories" will differ so significantly and result in any data being a complete mess. If anything, the gay men I know have more balanced feminine interests and are pretty much what you'd expect from non-autistic men who don't have to care about fitting masculine stereotypes and couldn't give a damn about whether women find them attractive or not.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Very much so, as I just wrote in another comment.


A cishet couple I know have a fancy multimonitor remote work setup and a large My Little Pony collection in their respective studies which I find funny for fitting stereotypes about men vs women so well. No points for guessing which room is closer to every MtF person I've ever known IRL or online (hint: it's not the one with the MLP collection).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


One big issue is the difference between the, for lack of better labels, the meaningfully transsexual transgender person, and the the "trender" transgender person.




IMO an even more problematic issue that confounds all discussions about transgenderism is that trans people are treated as one group instead of being separated into people on autism spectrum and the rest. Every "non-famous" MTF person (ie. I've run into them in real life / specific FB groups / other forums in person instead of reading about them from some source) I know of are obviously on the spectrum, many of them are deeply weird in other ways and they have stereotypical hardcore male intellectual interests (to the extent that some tech groups have multiple orders of magnitude more MTF people than actual women). Not surprisingly none seem to have shown any indication of feeling "woman trapped in a man's body" as kids / teenagers / young adults. I have a hard time believing their experience or behavior matches particularly closely to the "modal" MTF group who felt they were born into the wrong gender from young age.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Some root factor makes people both more likely to be non-cis AND more likely to be non-cis sexually assaulted




Am I really the only one who sees an obvious link?


It's autism. Being on the autism spectrum is massively more common among people who are trans (particularly MTF in modern world). Likewise not understanding social cues and being generally weird exposes one to all sorts of issues (and then there's the combination of autism spectrum running in families and how that may affect the previous generation or two's behavior towards future victims...).


Also this being Aella's survey, it almost certainly has a massive self selection bias for people on the spectrum so that's a huge confounding factor.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


plenty of shots of their analog synths if you enjoy such things.




I spot at least two Minimoogs (the main one and another under it), an Arp Odyssey and of course two of their custom made electronic drumsets. It's wild that they managed to get all those different sound fx live from just a couple of synths with absolutely no patch memory. Also there doesn't seem to be any sequencing which would have formed the backbone of any more modern performance. And the Odyssey of course goes out of tune around 6:55 (synths from that era weren't exactly known for their tuning stability particularly under hot stage lights).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My biggest regret when working for a couple of months in Germany some 20 years ago was that I never had the opportunity to listen to Autobahn while driving on the autobahn because my coworker's car stereo was broken. Particularly as I was working on directly synthesizer related tech.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Believe it or not, "Americans" is also a category of people you aren't allowed to just say "You're a bunch of demons" about.




I take it you’ll also be banning anyone who does the same about Europeans, right? Right? (Who am I kidding, of course you won’t)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Is there any way for me to verify that I'm actually getting an honest response from an LLM, and that it's not just telegraphing back whatever I already implied when prompting it?




Why would you assume a literal text predictor to not telegraph back what you implied when prompting?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
TIL I live in the world’s wokest country. FML.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


as likes and payments and praise come immediately after a sexual display or act




I’m pretty sure they come immediately during the act. At least based on a few ripped videos I’ve seen where the (literal) cash machine sounds start going wild when the action gets hot.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Luckily for them, AI is already freeing them from the tyranny of human providers!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
After that it moved firmly into The Jerry Springer Show-territory.