Notices by Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)
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Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 09:26:52 JST 
Taylan Kammer
@mono Warum sind sie so sauer? Was haben Deutsche getan? -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Sunday, 22-May-2022 11:04:20 JST
Taylan Kammer
@Moon @mimorinka @shmibs There was an interesting article about this from some kind of expert in native American cultures...She wrote that identities like "two spirit" mostly existed in those cultures which had strict gender roles and thus couldn't accept a feminine man as an actual man.In less sexist native American cultures, no such identities existed, because feminine men were just feminine men.Sadly I haven't kept a link to the article. Wanna find it again. -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-May-2022 20:31:29 JST
Taylan Kammer
@Moon @kaia Don't think that's a novel realization. :blobcatjoy: Humans really need to depopulate quite a bit. We're an invasive species.I heard one of the best ways to decrease birth rates is to improve women's rights. Comes out that when they have human rights, education, and therefore proper chances in life, it's less likely that they will end up being used as a baby machine by some backwards guy who wants to have lots of minions.Pretty smart really. Two birds with one stone. -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-May-2022 20:31:25 JST
Taylan Kammer
@Moon @kaia Sabine Hossenfelder has a really nice video on why Mars colonization is a fairly absurd pipe dream.(She's a highly experienced no-bullshit physicist and her arguments are based purely on scientific considerations, not anything political. I can only recommend.) -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 14:00:21 JST
Taylan Kammer
@shmibs @helene There's no reason why straight men should see gay men as "rivals" of any kind, least of all in a sexual context. A heterosexual male trying to secure a female mate has no reason to be concerned about competition from a homosexual male, for obvious reasons.Them vs. us mentality might be in part human nature, but there's nothing biologically different about humans that make up some of the modern democracies in which things like homophobia are extremely reduced relative to some other societies (past or present) in which these issues were/are much more pressing.I'm pretty sure, for example, that you don't believe that Northern Europeans are less biologically inclined to be sexist and homophobic than people from the Middle East, right? It would be very ironic if you believed that. :blobcatjoy: That extreme difference in levels of homophobia despite the same biology is good evidence IMO that these things are primarily ideological, even if they tie in to human nature to a limited degree.And it's not like Saudi scientists or the Saudi population are dumb or uneducated about "real biology" either. Least of all the rich elite that keeps the state-enforced homophobia intact. Many of them are probably quite well educated and aware of the softer gradients in sexual dimorphism, disorders and differences of sex development, etc.Also, it's not a coincidence that the most homophobic societies also tend to be the most sexist/patriarchal, like Saudi Arabia. Again goes to show how tightly sexism and homophobia are linked to each other.>it's a little ironic you should respond here to "disavow" the very thing you spend all your time obsessively reinforcingTrans activism is just the newest form sexism has taken in the west, there's nothing pro-patriarchal about opposing it. Violent men bashing women is basically patriarchy 101, and the trans movement encourages that behavior:https://feministwiki.org/wiki/TERFI also disagree with your lumping together of homophobia with "transphobia." The way it's currently used, "transphobia" can refer to any number of completely unrelated things, such as:1. Hatred towards a transwoman or transvestite based on them being perceived as "gay" somehow (regardless of their actual sexual orientation) and thus being seen as a "failed man" or "making a mockery of what a man is supposed to be." This is actually just homophobia. If it happens to target a male person who's actually heterosexual, you could say it's "misdirected homophobia." Analogy: I had a German coworker who looked slightly middle eastern (he was part Spanish I think) and apparently had people holler anti-Turkish racist slurs at him. I'd call that "misdirected racism."2. Literally just disagreeing that a transwoman is female / a woman, but not having any sort of hatred against them or unjustly discriminating against them. In my opinion, it makes absolutely no sense to call this "transphobia" but apparently that's how the word is used now, which is why I can't take accusations of "transphobia" seriously anymore and don't see any sense in comparing it to homophobia. -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 02:43:33 JST
Taylan Kammer
@helene Dogma. -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 02:43:31 JST
Taylan Kammer
@helene Beliefs that are held very deeply for no other reason than the fact that others in your environment do so as well...Of course that leaves the question of who came up with the idea originally.I'd say it was originally rooted in patriarchy, then also encoded into various religions (which were invented by men), and later also e.g. white supremacism (again, mainly men).Why did patriarchal ideology invent homophobia? Well, the ideology says that men are strong and dominant, that their nature is to be on top (both literally and figuratively).Gay men subvert that to some degree, as many of them are somewhat effeminate, and they don't want to take control over a woman. Some patriarchal cultures would tolerate this, but only in limited ways:- Greek pederasty, where the older manly man can use a younger man for pleasure on the side, but are expected to marry (take control over) a woman, and those boys themselves have to become manly men at some point.- Various cultures with "third genders" (two-spirit, hijra, fa'afafine, kathoey aka "ladyboys," etc.) would assign gay/feminine men into a separate social category, apart from the manly "real" men.Other cultures just deemed all gay behaviour to be abhorrent, to make sure the myth of the naturally manly man on top vs. the naturally feminine woman at the bottom is kept believable.Homophobic religions just try to further establish these sex roles by saying that "god" wishes it to be so rather than "nature."White supremacism also has a strong connection to the image of the powerful, straight white man, as opposed to the "degenerate" fake-men of inferior races, which is why white supremacists use terms like "globohomo" to say that there's some globalist conspiracy led by Jews to force homosexuality upon humanity or something. -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 00:48:04 JST
Taylan Kammer
@Moon @shibao I assume that you're serious because from what I can tell this seems kind of "normal" nowadays, but it really is extremely messed up. :blobcatverysad: The sexual "liberation" movement was really 90% a "men's sexual entitlement movement." -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Mar-2022 08:34:03 JST
Taylan Kammer
How scientists can avoid cognitive bias.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNeD2a95ROE -
Taylan Kammer (taylan@pl.tkammer.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Mar-2022 08:34:01 JST
Taylan Kammer
@cjd No need to be so cynical. Scientists aren't any more or less likely than anyone else to be biased.
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