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> Therapy isn't supposed to scale. As I see it "therapy" is already a catch-all terms for many very different things. In my experience, sometimes "it's the relationship that heals"…

As a fun aside on language, I prefer "they", explicitly, e.g. I pick "they" in pronoun dropdowns, I often wear a "they" pronoun pin, and so on. But insofar as people think in terms…

You said "this makes sense", but the rest of your comment is essentially still in disagreement. > A subtler approach that started with "why shouldn't boys wear pink?" and progresse…

> We could make a lot of progress in trans acceptance very quickly by just reframing the whole thing in these terms. [...] But arguing that males shouldn't need to live up to an ar…

Kind of a tangent, but I think the cultural/social side is bigger and messier than your questions suggest, and I think boiling this down to "biological vs cultural" misses that. > …

> Some women are tetrachromats with an extra colour sense, while men are more likely to have red/green colour blindness. If I'm not mistaken, red/green color blindness is more comm…

> Perhaps this is an insensitive question/comment, but do trans women feel like they have the wrong body or the wrong wholesale gender? It varies. > In my experience with trans wom…

> But if, instead of extending it, you try to contract it, then without crossing into metaphysics, you'll stop at the brain. Dunno about the other poster, but I can promise you I w…

> But the fact remains that a hand or a heart or a lung can be removed or replaced without loss of self. A brain can't. Here's a related observation that tipped me a bit away from …

Throwing blame on "the prevalence of psychotherapy" into this conversation, writing it all off to "pseudo-science" and emphasizing "lifestyle" (as in "if you exercised more you'd b…

> It appears this world has become manically trigger-happy to label something as -ist or -istic Also to label something as maniacal, perhaps.

"Women divorce men more often than the other way around; this seems to bear out that men are more dissatisfied in marriage" seems like a stretch to me. At any rate, it reminds me o…

Leaning into society's stereotypes is one way to bend to people's implicit demands to change your writing (and quite possibly thinking). But sure, if the metric you're optimizing i…

> It's a trope to say that our "best minds are working on ads". "The last generation was better because they read _books_ and had _discipline_ and didn't waste their time on frivol…

> This study found that the "marshmallow test"—as a single measure—is no more or less predictive than a basket of other measures of self-control the study tested, or any of those o…

> Buyers clicking on the ad, rather than just stashing the product name, and later buying it offline, or through another channel. I'm not talking about measuring clicks on the ad. …

A-B testing will tell you whether internet advertising works. Pick an ad. Assign users at random into groups A and B. Show users in group A the ad. Don't show users in group B the …

> Naturally, they don't explain all the ways they didn't solve the problem when they finally do solve a problem. I do think something related to this is less obvious than you're su…

> Advertisers will produce statistics to prove that their kind of marketing "works". But how could one prove such a thing? It would involve peering into people's minds. Or, say, ru…

I think a bit of disillusionment with mathematics is healthy, but it's misguided to call this kind of thing "a fundamental flaw in mathematics". For one thing, in my experience, wo…

Alright, I'm pretty burned out on this conversation so this is gonna be my last post. It's been distracting me and I want my real life back. I'll just try to wrap up the bits I fin…

> Contrapoints is a homophobic monster who supports shaming people with "genital preferences" Jesus, what was the phrase you used? "Straight to ideological slander"? > I'm super be…

What set of rules are you actually picturing that you think echelon has that they're not applying to themselves? As far as I can tell, the rules they're suggesting for singular "th…

FWIW, I agree with you that "it seems like you dislike trans folk" isn't a good place to go, for a number of reasons. For one, it's a tactical mistake to pull out that kind of accu…