• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    I love their little diagrams showing us just how fucking wrong they are.

    “That’s a female skull! (As long as you ignore 40% of the bone mass)”

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      What stops you from doing the same to them. This is the funniest shit. Why don’t we work. This is how deep they go and we’re like “I’m tired I’m so sweepy guys why can’t the other swide jus pway nice”

      pirate some photo shop. Drink a couple beers and fucking troll. What happened to the left being comedians and artists. Too busy selling feet pics?

      Let’s fucking go.

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        People are tired because there’s literally no winning with tactics like that. The idiotic tactics on display in the OP aren’t about realistically “winning” the culture war. It’s just sowing so many nonsense weeds that any reasonable discussion is choked off of the vine. When you allow inanity like “male/female skull assignment” as a platform instead of “simply being correct”, the whole game goes down the toilet. It’s now just “who can shout the loudest and the longest and into the most ears directly”. That’s not a race with a finish line, it’s the cultural equivalent to a “last person shitting” contest and these motherfuckers are full of shit.

        If you have a mind to think, you can only turn it off so long. And when the reasonable person does switch theirs back on, they’ll eventually have to contend with the mess.

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        There’s no winning against them fighting fire with fire. They’re masters of this stuff. Of double speak, hypocrisy, avoiding accountability, distraction, and so forth. I don’t want to fight just to fight. I want to fight to win.

        I agree with you that a fight must be fought. But, maximizing efficiency, what exactly is the fight?

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    After the advent of DNA testing, many anthropologists and archeologists were embarrassed because skeletal remains were missexed.

    Even my A&P textbook had this garbage in it. It claimed racial difference in the skull and sex difference in the Hip bones. But it’s bullshit. The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is with DNA.

    ‘The Mismeasure of Man’ by Gould is a fascinating history of bio-determinism and psudoscientific attempt to measure it.

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      The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is to be interested in what they’re interested in, and not say stuff like “ay, babey, you’d looked better with more meat on those bones!” Otherwise, just ride the vibe and see where the mood takes you.

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      Archaeologist here, maybe it’s just new wave training but widely taught that it’s not an easy task to sex skeletons on morphology alone.

      Sure some features appear more commonly amongst men and some more commonly amongst women, but there is considerable overlap.

      Pelvis are generally identifiable, but the bio-archaeologists I know prefer to say the skeleton displays female characteristics without providing a definitive biological sex. They have to have some great evidence before claiming for certain.

      Also fun fact, you can’t measure this morphology when there’s still skin and muscle fucking attached.

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      The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is with DNA.

      What about sexing a pope?

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    Ah, yes, the bastion of radical progressivism and LGBTQ+ rights, the… Catholic Church?

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    The hilarious thing about all these fascist trying to claim that the new Pope is woke is that he’s more conservative than Francis.

    Prevost opposes the ordination of women to the diaconate, arguing it “doesn’t necessarily solve a problem” and could create new issues.[106]

    Prevost opposes euthanasia, abortion, and the death penalty.

    Prevost opposed the inclusion of “gender ideology” in Peruvian school curricula, stating it promotes “genders that don’t exist”.[81][121] In 2012, he criticized popular culture’s sympathy for the “homosexual lifestyle” and same-sex families.[122] Prevost expressed reservations about “sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the gospel”

    Just because he doesn’t hate brown people and doesn’t like trump they’re doing trans phrenology on him lol.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    I really don’t understand that they’re trying to say here. Dude actually has pretty strong zygomatic arches. We can’t all be Abe Lincoln.

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    The internet is bringing back 19th Century eugenics pseudo science. I wonder if they think he has dimples on the back of his skull because he has creole ancestry…