Worst of Social Justice

[Eiki-mun]

Male and female are oppressive binary terms. Please use "masculine-coded" and "feminine-coded" instead.

[rookie]

So I guess using words like Dog and Bitch are out?

[ironbite]

.................................HOW IS THAT A THING!?

[Sigmaleph]

"platonic partners"

Friends. I think the word you're looking for is friends.

how can you be both bigender and transmasculine? i'm missing something big here.

Transmasculine is not the same as trans man. It usually implies someone who is afab and more masculine than feminine but doesn't quite identify as male. Which is fairly consistent with being bigender.

Also, "platonic partners" has different connotations than just friends. Or it could just be an in-joke, who knows.



Insert customary remark about how Worst of SJ often ends up being "things I don't like about Tumblr".

[Second Coming of Madman]

Whatever, Louisa Farrakhan. Those reparations apparently didn't exist...

[I am lizard]

Whatever, Louisa Farrakhan. Those reparations apparently didn't exist...

Why must we turn it into a pissing contest?

[Sylvana]

"HIS response to HER not wanting to play

->

I hope they are both male or female..."

I'd say this explains a lot about your average radflake.

Reading comprehension aside. Having two dogs of the same gender most oftenly causes fights and aggression as they both vie for dominance. A male and female dog together is generally more peaceful.

[Askold]

"HIS response to HER not wanting to play

->

I hope they are both male or female..."

I'd say this explains a lot about your average radflake.

Reading comprehension aside. Having two dogs of the same gender most oftenly causes fights and aggression as they both vie for dominance. A male and female dog together is generally more peaceful.

Actually, I think the commenter hoped that the dogs were same gender because they think "forcing" a male and female dog to live together is like forcing two random people into a relationship regardless of their sexuality. Or something like that.

And despite the fact that homosexual behaviour (bisexual too I think) has been documented in animals the majority of them are probably not homosexual. I think this is Tumblr taking the fight against heteronormativity too far once again.

[ironbite]

"HIS response to HER not wanting to play

->

I hope they are both male or female..."

I'd say this explains a lot about your average radflake.

Reading comprehension aside. Having two dogs of the same gender most oftenly causes fights and aggression as they both vie for dominance. A male and female dog together is generally more peaceful.

Yeah bout that.  My sister has a male and female dogs who fight like they're trying to kill one another most days.

[rookie]

Normally two dogs of the same gender, hell two dogs, will sort out dominance issue themselves. Usually the older dog wins. But it depends on so many different variables. But let's look at that pic again. The one on top is a puppy. There's something I've seen quite often. The puppy tries to play, nipping and jumping and yelping and making a general nuisance of himself. If the bitch in the pic doesn't want to play she'll tell the whipper snapper. And that's a common response, to cuddle. Soley based on that pic (which is cute as hell) that's his way of respecting her as alpha.

[Ultimate Paragon]

I can no longer tell intentional parodies and unintentional self-parodies apart.

Radflakes are killing satire faster than hipsters killed irony.

[Sigmaleph]

That's not serious, but it's not satire, either. It's not meant to ridicule anything. It's just a funny piece of narrative reinterpretation.

Also, that's my new favourite Lion King headcanon.

[Ultimate Paragon]

And yes, it's legit:

https://archive.is/l5aby

[SCarpelan]

And yes, it's legit:

https://archive.is/l5aby

There is some truth in this. There's a psychological phenomenon (I'm too lazy to look for the correct name for it right now) that describes how people tend to internalize negative expectations. In mixed classrooms the pupils are often subjected to gendered stereotypes that cause for example girls to internalize that they aren't as good in mathematical subjects as boys and as a result they don't put as much effort to these subjects strengthening the stereotype. In girls only schools the girls have better results in mathematical subjects when there isn't as much pressure to conform to this stereotype. The boys on the other hand aren't expected to behave as "nice" as girls and thus their general school success suffers.

Of course, a better way than segregation to deal with this is to use teacher education to get rid of these stereotypes.

Edit:

Another hypothesis came to my mind on this issue. There might also be a difference in how people of different genders respond to teaching methods. A method that favors the way boys are socialized to think might cause girl students to have lower success and the other way around. I wonder if there are any studies on the subject from this point of view.

[The_Queen]

And yes, it's legit:

https://archive.is/l5aby

Yeah, this is actually true. And this shouldn't be in the thread, as she is merely stating a fact (that some studies state X) instead of arguing for that end (racial segregation is good).

Now, if you really want to get mad, read Justice Thomas' dissent in Parents Involved v. First Seattle School District, 551 U.S. 701. There he actually argues that point.