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Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by kennywinker »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #9
dgfitz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sincerely, do you get tired of this train of thought? It’s exhausting for me to attempt to constantly think in this paradigm.

It’s common now for people actively seeking any opportunity to be offended on behalf of someone else. There must be some odd entertainment factor to it that you and I don’t understand. I don’t know what it’s like to be so self-certain and absolute that I would take on responsibility of social internet police.

Not really “offended”. I was actually more hoping I could make the original author notice some internalized misogyny. I appreciate when people point out when my thinking is based in bad stereotypes and assumptions. I was going for more of a bros-helping-bros kinda thing.

Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

kennywinker wrote: post #10
dgfitz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sincerely, do you get tired of this train of thought? It’s exhausting for me to attempt to constantly think in this paradigm.

Yes it’s exhausting. Once you see the atmospheric misogyny we’re all soaking in, it’s very hard to ignore tho. See also: https://www.theonion.com/woman-takes-short-half-hour-break-f...

Thanks for following up with that. I think linking an onion article from seven years go definitely adds context to your point of view.

Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by kennywinker »

jpxw wrote: post #6
kennywinker wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're going for a glib lil' fun quip, but that really just sounds like sexism one-step-removed to me. The stereotype of the cat lady, mixed in with the stereotype of women being bad drivers. Unless there's some stereotype about men who like cats I'm not aware of?

Thank god the joke police have arrived to ensure that nobody is entertained inappropriately. Phew, that was a close one.

Serious question: if my reply hadn’t been there when you arrived would you have been entertained? If so - what was entertaining about the comment

Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by kennywinker »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #12
kennywinker wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it’s exhausting. Once you see the atmospheric misogyny we’re all soaking in, it’s very hard to ignore tho. See also: https://www.theonion.com/woman-takes-short-half-hour-break-f...

Thanks for following up with that. I think linking an onion article from seven years go definitely adds context to your point of view.

Oh, sorry is the joke not funny because it’s 7 years old? Because I noticed that “women are bad drivers” jokes have been around since the 1920s…

Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by rini17 »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #5

Now I need Progressive to pay for a round of pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine for me.

Latent toxoplasmosis is literally insidious, hidden inside body fat cells where antibiotics won't reach and only occasionally it gets out to infect more cells. So one round is not enough, you have to take antibiotics for years until all the infected cells die.

Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by [deleted] »

kennywinker wrote: post #14
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for following up with that. I think linking an onion article from seven years go definitely adds context to your point of view.

Oh, sorry is the joke not funny because it’s 7 years old? Because I noticed that “women are bad drivers” jokes have been around since the 1920s…

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Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by black_niggers »

kennywinker wrote: post #13
jpxw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank god the joke police have arrived to ensure that nobody is entertained inappropriately. Phew, that was a close one.

Serious question: if my reply hadn’t been there when you arrived would you have been entertained? If so - what was entertaining about the comment

kill urself f@ggot

Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by [deleted] »

kennywinker wrote: post #11
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s common now for people actively seeking any opportunity to be offended on behalf of someone else. There must be some odd entertainment factor to it that you and I don’t understand. I don’t know what it’s like to be so self-certain and absolute that I would take on responsibility of social internet police.

Not really “offended”. I was actually more hoping I could make the original author notice some internalized misogyny. I appreciate when people point out when my thinking is based in bad stereotypes and assumptions. I was going for more of a bros-helping-bros kinda thing.

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Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by jpxw »

kennywinker wrote: post #13
jpxw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank god the joke police have arrived to ensure that nobody is entertained inappropriately. Phew, that was a close one.

Serious question: if my reply hadn’t been there when you arrived would you have been entertained? If so - what was entertaining about the comment

It was a glib little quip, as you mentioned. That was the entertaining part.

Edit: I’ve just noticed a particularly vile and undeserved comment in reply to you, and to some extent feel responsibility, as it’s part of a comment chain I created. I hope the mods will take action and ban whoever made this comment, although by the looks it’s a burner account. It’s quite jarring to see something like that on HN.

Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)

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Post by whateveracct »

bmeski wrote: post #3

So cat people can’t drive well? We’ve always known this.

what exactly constitutes a "cat person" exactly?

the dichotomy between "dog people" and "cat people" had always been interesting and telling to me.

dog people will go as far as blame you for their "reactive" dog who can "tell when your nervous around him."

not-cat people mostly don't like cats because..the cats are "rude" to them?

In a way, these are similar experiences. You are behaving in a way the animal doesn't like, and the animal is reacting negatively.

With the dog, there isn't much you can easily do about a dog who doesn't know you and feels threatened when you stand up. You're dealing with a few steps removed from a beast in that situation.

But for cats, you can probably just be more cat-polite if you actually want the cat to be nice to you. Same goes for people haha

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