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Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by IAmBroom »

benj111 wrote: post #70
malfist wrote: post #66

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Is it? Did "all lives matter" help prevent police brutality? Or was it an attempt at whataboutism so you don't have to do anything?

There wasn't really an all lives matter on the same sense as the black lives matter movement. Plus there's 'all lives matter' as in the proponent doesn't want to do anything, and 'all lives matter' as in police brutality is bad no matter who it's aimed at, and should be stopped completely. The latter more closely mirrors the parents example. Further I would say your example is flawed. BLM assumed a level of racism th…

BLM also never claimed cops were KKK members. You're really fictionalizing the movement and its history; also, you have presented zero credibility as an expert in how much racism exists among US police forces.

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

pron wrote: post #89
austin-cheney wrote: post #76

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I am not aware of actual code removal but skirting in that direction there was a movement, just a couple years back, to replace words that had become more offensive than they were in the recent past. One example is renaming master to main . I am not stating any opinion for or against any words or terms in this context.

Somewhat on a tangent, but when people talk about offensive language in the context of cultural criticism they don't mean terms that cause the people who hear them to be offended but things that may diminish the value of some people in the eyes of the people who hear them. I.e. something is offensive, in this sense, to some group X not if people in group X are offended when they themselves are exposed to it but if pe…

This is insightful. Thank you.

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by DonsDiscountGas »

> her colleagues used high-energy X-rays to create 3D scans of two female pelvises that had been donated through a body donor organ programme.

Would be really interesting to get a few dozen of these and map out the variability. Gotta start somewhere though

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Post by tempaccountabgd »

xtajv wrote: post #144
xtajv wrote: post #141

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(Nonconsensual) genital mutilation is bad no matter who you are or what parts you have. Also: If pain becomes a contest, we're all losers. Also: Thank you for complaining. There is much to complain about. There's so much to complain about that we can sit in a circle and take turns complaining and everybody will probably learn something.

Spot to complain about intersex genital mutilation:

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Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

zahlman wrote: post #100
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #48

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> Respectfully, if we didn’t shutter men all the time, Respectfully, what are you talking about?

Presumably, GP is referring to the crystal-clear attempt to do exactly that, in GGP.

Yes, yes, you're right, I see that on HN all the time.

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by rdevilla »

zahlman wrote: post #42
telesilla wrote: post #29

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Respectfully, this article is not about the male experience, it's okay to talk about women without putting men in the story.

No, it's important context, and attempting to suppress it does everyone a disservice. Without taking these kinds of points of comparison into consideration, one becomes susceptible to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy , and may become convinced about supposed bias where the evidence doesn't support the claim, contradicts it or even shows the opposite. Another classic example is the discourse around "mis…

> But you would get silenced in many places (e.g., banned from the Canada subreddit) for pointing to those statistics.

Canada has an incredibly censorious culture. I have been downvoted to -4 [0] [1] and flagged for merely suggesting that Canadians do not care about medical privacy (or privacy in general) in light of things like Bill C-22 and DNA collection at the US border [2].

Interestingly enough, questioning gender ideology and being trans critical (maybe even transphobic) is now acceptable on HN [3], but Canadians have something very dark to hide when it comes to respecting medical privacy given how hard posts of this nature are downvoted, flagged, and censored.

    Surprised he didn't willingly relinquish a sample.

    Privacy is not actually a core Canadian value.
    Neither in spirit nor in letter do Canadians actually
    demonstrate that they give a shit about privacy; see
    for instance Bill C-22.

    I invite commenters to demonstrate otherwise instead of
    merely downvoting incontrovertible facts.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571182

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571396

[2] https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/canadian-man-denied-en...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538165

Re: Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

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Post by filoleg »

selimthegrim wrote: post #157
TacticalCoder wrote: post #83

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> I'm also shocked to see how prolific FGM is too (230 million women?!) And talk to any gyn doc in the west: it's happening among those communities in the west too (but on a lesser scale). In several EU western countries the most common gynelogical surgery act is re-building the hymen (so that the woman can pretend she's a virgin once she marries, often forcibly by her family). You may not have gyn doctors friend but…

Saudi Arabia does not do FGM. What does that tell you?

I am not the person you are asking, but (to me personally) it just says that Saudi Arabia had made massive strides to become a modern 21st century society, as opposed to some of their regional neighbors who still practice FGM on a notable scale.

The fact that SA recently (past ~15 years) passed quite a few reforms that significantly lax old theocracy rules (e.g., women are now legally allowed to drive, they are no longer obligated to wear hijab outside, no male chaperone requirements, western-tier public music festivals and concerts can now be hosted, etc.) only solidified that opinion.

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Post by entropicdrifter »

SecretDreams wrote: post #111
amirhirsch wrote: post #101

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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. If you are the editor of Gray’s Anatomy, incompetence is malice.

> incompetence is malice A subtle distinction, but I'd flip this as "malice is incompetence".

Both ring true, in this case.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

amenhotep wrote: post #156
JKCalhoun wrote: post #93

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> Bias towards women would be understood by most readers as favouring them. We run in different circles I guess.

It's a word that's commonly used incorrectly, yes.

Ahhh, I see. I suck at grammar.

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Post by reverius42 »

denkmoon wrote: post #86
JesseMReeves wrote: post #62

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Whether removing the tip of your finger or the whole arm, the imposition on bodily autonomy is equal. It is a violation of your personal sovereignty at the deepest level.

What about fingernails? Would cutting a fingernail without consent be equal?
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