@PonyPanda@freespeechextremist.com @metokurist@poa.st I haven't met one that wasn't mentally ill but I have met one that wasn't a sociopath. I subscribed to a friend's gamer boyfriend's youtube channel I knew at 14. Cheery, nerdy, weeb but sociable guy- healthy weight and general appearance. Friend dumped him for a different guy who she, in turn, dumped shortly after declaring herself non-binary. Anyway fast-forward to a year ago, have fallen out of contact with that circle of people but still have this dude as a steam friend and still am subscribed. I think "oh I wonder how that guy's going" and check out his youtube channel. Dude's grown out his hair, gained a tonne of weight and become transgender. Doesn't attempt to change his voice but has changed his name to the generic feminine form of his normal name. Sounds depressed in his videos. Tfw scroll back through his videos and watch him become thinner, healthier and happier looking as he got younger- more people appearing in the videos the further back I go. Ended up in a discord voicecall with him through an old friend (different girl to the one he dated) that I still play vidya with and who also still kept in contact with him. He was very lowkey, didn't try to change his voice in-person either, barely dwelt a second longer on the transgender thing than was necessary in the whole "oh hi yeah remember me" opening small talk. Tbh just sounded like a normal dude- albeit a lot more depressed than he sounded at 14. Doesn't appear to participate in any activism etc. It's tragic tbh- I think he's a lot like what a lot of the more "silent" transgender people are like- just depressed and desperate to change themselves to a form that they think wouldn't be that way. I think they see a happy anime girl and think "if I could be like that then maybe I could be happy", and then this is transformed by the whole transgender brainwashing echo chamber into "if I could be a woman irl maybe then I could be happy." Idk I wish I kept in contact and somehow helped avoid it. tl;dr not all trannies are probably sociopaths, but they're all mentally ill and feelsbad for vulnerable, depressed gamer teens that get groomed

@metokurist@poa.st "the study has been 'misused' by transphobes like yourself and 'the author is quite trans positive.'" Why does the author's personal opinions or feelings have any relevance to whether a study has been misused or not? This is why you can't trust the abstracts or conclusions of studies :/ because these shitty people put their untested hypothesizes and dreams into them. Then this untested theory is given credence purely by being put there. I remember one such example. It was a study about unionization and diversity. The author of the study in the abstract completely dispels the correlation between diversity and likelihood to unionize by saying it is caused by racist actions of the employer. When you actually read the study you find out the author got this conclusion by saying yet another correlation was actually the cause, but it was literally just another correlation and not a cause. It doesn't explain anything, it could easily be working in the opposite direction. So, the original correlation between diversity and unionization is still something to not be lightly ignored. This still didn't stop one person (who didn't read the study, only briefly the abstract) from using this untested unreliable hypothesis to own another person (who also didn't read the study, only the abstract briefly) [https://youtu.be/zgTI6p1_B3k?t=9802] Destiny (who I swear has his audio pitch tuned up to blow your eardrums out) beats his opponents over the head with this last sentence slipped into the abstract which in the study has no evidence provided for why this is an explaining factor. From discussions with a scientist fren, he explained that these abstracts exist purely as advertising to get published and don't have consideration for internet debates. This advertising requires a little bit of magnetization or demagnetization of findings to the discretion of the author.

>What does it mean to be a man, anyway? I think the most important is being "active" as opposed to "passive", as being in control of and choosing your own destiny. Whether that be through physical training, or studying forbidden knowledge, or stalking the girl and shaping her feelings, or machiavellian manipulation of the people around you. https://www.idrlabs.com/king-warrior-magician-lover/test.php Of course anything too threatening like the way I put it above is rather brutally suppressed, but even a minor rendition of those archetypes would really help a lot of the /r9k/ robot stories I heard. I do not think it matters if there is an escapist domain like Sword Art Online or a banal domain like a high school; I only think it matters if the male character is rewarded for being active rather than passive. >and their cuteness is their virtue. There's nothing wrong with that; they just have to understand that they are cute **men** not cute **women**. Teemo and Gnar come to mind. Or to be more precise - there is nothing wrong with being trans**gender** (mind, behavior); there is only something wrong with being trans**sex** (body). I think it is telling that the same people that explained how **gender** and **sex** are distinct suddenly deliberately conflated the terms. Men can play with dolls and wear dresses, we just call them action figures and kilts. Why has this potential choice been covered up? >Kirito Apparently there is something already written on him: >Usually, the complaint with male characters who have all the girls falling for them in anime is that the character does nothing to earn it; the girls just fall for him because it's in the script. In Kirito's case, he's extremely skilled at the game and actively uses his skills to help people weaker than him [...] in other words, the girls who like him have actual legit reasons for liking him. You can say that Kirito is too competent and noble and it strains credulity, or you can say that the girls on this show are dumb for liking him, but not both. The idea that the girls like a guy who is competent and also nice paints them as good judges of character, versus mindless objects who like a character for no apparent reason. >Karen Mead, Japanator.com[6] @kreischer@kiwifarms.cc @cassidyclown@kiwifarms.cc