Thalidomide, the Y2K bug and the Challenger disaster came to mind when I read the question. There’s nothing to say the person who found the flaw isn’t an expert, themselves.

I legit came here to comment about The Gods Themselves. Stellar novel. Everyone should read it.

Great points about the commercial pressures on science, cults of personality and perceived intelligence of successful people, too. Rumor has it Asimov wrote the book out of spite for another sci-fi writer who willy-nilly used an impossible isotope in his novel and did not care when corrected.

Not a spoiler: there are trisexual interdimensional trans people.

Edit: Zodiak by Neal Stephenson has a similar theme.

I cycle between high and low/no sex drive.

Open relationships work best for me. I know it’s not for everyone, but I support my partners sharing a sexual relationship with someone else while keeping a romantic one going with me, rather than fuck just to keep them happy. Sex without desire rarely makes anyone happy.

That sucks and I’m sorry. Did you dm the head mod? She’s said her dms are finicky so @ing her would probably get a response.

They’re not supposed to ban by default as far as I know, could have been an overzealous mod or a mistake. I get the same thing online, so I find it fucking infuriating to gender personality traits and tone. As an active poster on that sub I don’t want to see things go that way.

If your goal is accessibility, you’re taking quite a long walk to get there.

In trans-inclusive spaces we use “woman,” in reference to the gender, as opposed to female, which usually designates sex.

Like a nature documentar, for example: “The female meetkat seeks out her pack,” as opposed to “The woman meetkat hollers at the girls.”

I can agree everyone should get to enjoy equal access to the web and still believe censoring user names is nice. There’s gotta be a balance between accessibility and preventing harassment.

Have you asked OP to link the comment in the post text?

How about a transcript for the image? That way user names could stay blocked.

Probably 'cause they commented to the same thread.

I disagree.

Never said anything about morality. I said would be nice.

So you don’t have data.

As you can see, women have trouble keeping men out, too.

I’d like to see your data.

Thank you! I have mental health problems so even negative attention is fulfilling.

AND I don’t think rehashing someone’s minor mistake for public theater is cool without the user names removed. People were shitting all over him when he already got clapped back, so I said something.

Absolutely! I encourage support spaces for everyone. I’m calling out the irony that this user is up and down this thread arguing against the women’s community and spouting female priviledge ideology, while now complaining that men can’t have the same thing… or else people will complain and spout male priviledge ideology.

There are many ways that sexism hurts men, which is why I’m down with support spaces and actively discourage all men bullshit when I see it.

Claiming those spaces doomed from the start, because of people behaving exactly like Tittyfrog here, is bad faith as hell.

Removed by mod

Oh good. I don’t follow this com, another comment tipped me off.

While I do enjoy a little bit of chaos and schadenfreude, it would be nice to block out user names. Call out the mistake, not the person.

Most people here are lovely, but it only takes one match to start a fire. Might as well address some bullshit in these comments since I’m gonna get trolled by incels anyway…

side note: I’m not a mod there.

• The women’s com is trans and non-binary inclusive. Anyone who feels at home there (and is respectful) is welcome.

• It’s not all bitching about men. Looking at the last twenty posts, one was about men and two were related to men. We talk about pads and health and essays and positivity memes and do fun activities on fridays.

• I support men making their own support groups. Although the internet itself often feels like a menfolk support group(to me,) I’m sure there are plenty of things an easy to find, curated space, could offer men who want to be just a little more vulnerable, knowing they would be supported by the mods if any toxic women came in to devalue their opinions and experience.

Holy shit I gotta try this oats in spring roll mix thing. Thanks for the tip.

Yeah, and I just like the texture more. Sometimes I rice up parsnips with the quinoa for a pretty interesting texture/flavor. You can follow sushi rice recipes to prep it. I don’t cook the parsnips.

For filling I matchstick any combo of carrots, cucumbers, SPINACH, beets, peppers, whatever, and let 'em marinate in a tiny splish splash of tamari and sesame oil. Add avocado when rolling. Meat is optional but encouraged, if that’s your thing.

My smoothie:

1 banana

1 handfull of fresh spinach

2 big spoons of greek yogurt

1 big spoon of cashew butter

Squirt of lime juice

Enough almond milk to blend

Ice

optional: protein powder and collagen

Add-ons: berries, matcha, mango, salt, flaxmeal, coconut milk, chia seeds

Ooh good to know. I make a lot of quinoa sushi rolls, too. (also with spinach)