Raze

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  1. Women can sense if you don’t actually like them or if they feel you are out of their league they would rather reject you before you can reject them.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hpjM_NNFQw
  3. eu·tha·na·sia /ˌyo͞oTHəˈnāZH(ē)ə,ˌyo͞oTHəˈnāzēə/ noun the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversiblecoma. The practice is illegal in most countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/opinion/canada-euthanasia.html Should euthanasia be legal?
  4. Gender dysphoria is a term that describes a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity. This sense of unease or dissatisfaction may be so intense it can lead to depression and anxiety and have a harmful impact on daily life. Originally gender dysphoria in minor boys was rare, and in minor girls extremely rare, and the popular protocol for treatment was called “watchful waiting” where the doctor would basically have the child continue to live as their birth sex and wait to start transitioning until they were older if they still had gender dysphoria. However this treatment has been updated https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for Now it is recommended for minors with gender dysphoria to be put on puberty blockers, and then if their gender dysphoria persists to begin cross hormone therapy to begin transitioning earlier. The idea being that this way when the transgender person is an adult since they didn’t go through their birth sex puberty they will look more like the opposite sex, in addition going through puberty for someone with gender dysphoria can be very emotionally painful and dysphroic. However this approach is controversial, see this criticism by a Physician from the bottom of the above link where he speaks in defense of the original watchful waiting approach Currently rates of gender dysphoria in minors is skyrocketing See this graph of referrals to a gender clinic in the UK https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/ For more data, here is some data on referrals of children with gender dysphoria in the USA No one knows for sure why the rate is increasing. Some argue that this is just the natural rate of gender dysphoric youth, but they didn’t come out in the past due to a hostile environment. Others say this is peer contagion and most of these children do not have true gender dysphoria. In addition, there is growing controversy about the treatments. Puberty blockers were initially thought to be completely reversible with minimal side effects. However recently a Swedish investigative journalist documentary was released about some patients reporting serious side effects. See here: https://www.svtplay.se/video/33358590/uppdrag-granskning/mission-investigate-trans-children-avsnitt-1 There are also class action lawsuits for hormonal replacement therapies https://www.nationalconsumerlawyers.com/hrt/lawsuit/ In the past, reports of patients having regret for undergoing transgender surgeries and treatments was rare. However, there are a growing number of people who call themselves “detransitioners” coming out and claiming to regret the treatments. Some are even sueing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZVpTFUAsBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8P8RJwVrZQ Here are some reports of transition regret from the Reddit form /r/detrans (note these are anonymous posts and cannot be confirmed) https://imgur.com/a/t9kSpNs So what do you think? Should minors be allowed to begin transition or should the old watchful waiting approach be brought back? Or is there a better way?
  5. https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_urges.pdf
  6. I meant when they stopped doing watchful waiting and started transitioning minors, that became standard after 2015.
  7. The difference is that a man taking testosterone will not experience extreme changes like someone born a woman will. So if the trans person decides they want to go back to living as their birth sex they now have permanent changes that make them look like the opposite sex. see:
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHfAMh6Edm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPCU03Dp8Zw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddfiZXyLM2Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMfJU2mATY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ALIRDr5_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovS27WQU5-g
  9. some minors are receiving surgeries https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/
  10. Those studies were done before the new paradigm, no one knows what the modern regret rate is
  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsyP80BydV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqANXVTLN4 http://happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2012/05/surrendering-i-letting-go-of-suffering.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1Rp184IT4
  12. TITLE: A Catholic Approach to Identity Politics w/ Mary Eberstadt TITLE: Oct. 10, 2013 - Leonard Sax - Faith & Boys and Girls; The Great Disappointment
  13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuJ-B-NGeYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p8ZggaGDrM
  14. I think it’s going down for other reasons, such as more competition with developing countries and some poorly thought out education methods. The problem with staying away from offensive ideas is that they may be correct, many beliefs we consider normal now were once strange and offensive.
  15. Universities and academia are some of the most important institutions in the country. A large amount of culture and policies are downstream from what is popular in Academia as leading institutions hire from graduates of them. In 1972 there was a 13% gap in men getting college degrees over women, currently there is a 15% gap in women getting college degrees over men. Academia has been shifting from male dominated to female dominated, and this is causing a stage green transition. First, why is academia shifting to become female dominated? 1) cultural roadblocks and discrimination against women in academia have been mostly removed. 2) women seem to do better overall in the education system, see this short video explanation 3) Stage green advocacy has pushed for more support for women and girls in education so they receive much more financial aid and scholarship money So why does a female dominated academia cause a shift from stage orange to stage green? Because certain stage green values are more popular among women. https://quillette.com/2022/10/08/sex-and-the-academy/ However, this may also be causing problems. Many now suggest academia could be dying. Academic research has become less disruptive and more incremental overtime There are reports of academics becoming burnt out by the environment https://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid https://archive.is/3CgXk https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/academics-are-really-really-worried-about-their-freedom/615724/ Now admissions in universities is declining, and many academics are resigning. https://archive.is/M2Wxf https://archive.is/DlNF3 What is your opinion? Is this a problem? What is the solution?
  16. TITLE: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of Community in America TITLE: Charles Murray on Coming Apart These two videos discuss the decline of civil life in America and atomization of society. Basically society is becoming far less socially connected, and people are becoming more isolated. This is a problem as lack of civic engagement can damage government function, breed crime, and create other issues. the situation seems to have worsened recently, see this graph: this is dangerous because lonely societies can breed totalitarianism: https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-rooted-in-loneliness What is your opinion? Is this a problem? What are the solutions?
  17. Get ifs therapy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7GVaW4SESc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHhn7NCjGiA https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychologically-minded/201604/how-choose-therapist
  18. To show the context of the conversation on Twitter he’s responding to