Cool redaction rendering the message unreadable.

24/7 stream of this trash

Why should we want them gone? They’re fun!

Imagine being horrified of your own thoughts. They’re you. Just welcome them & delight in their wild machinations.

Wouldn’t that be nice? Too good to be true, though.

The lack of link in this post is a crime.

How is this NSFW?

You claim anecdotally that a lesbian wouldn’t say they scissor. Pointing out that they do say it suffices. Your experience doesn’t encompass all lesbians of every generation, so we can refer to LGBT+ publications, direct anecdotes, history, & scholarly research. We have direct anecdotes from a podcast & affirming comments. The wikipedia article even calls out exactly what you’re doing & cites scholarly research. It explains with references that it is or was common for some tribadists not to recognize that word (or variants) & use scissoring more broadly to describe their activity.

Elsewhere, you add that a specific sense of scissoring (that the comic didn’t specify) of rubbing genitals together isn’t real. The cited references have some interesting quotes. In a Hite report

Sex with a woman for me has involved kissing, feeling one another completely, and basically humping – pressing mound of Venus against mound of Venus or each other’s leg.

Another cited reference explains tribade historically meant a woman taking the role of penetrator (with dildo or clitoris) before describing Anne Lister’s diary where she mentions genital to genital contact in her tribadism.

Most of their sexual activity seems to involve Anne touching Mrs. Barlow’s “queer” (as she calls the female genitals) and tribadically rubbing on her.

Anne manipulates Mrs. Barlow digitally but would prefer full-body tribadism, queer to queer, as she says elsewhere.

So, they do say they do that, too, even ages ago.

As for the ngram viewer, it’s not essential, however

• it’s true the corpora don’t reflect general language & culture, only that in a corpora including over 40 university libraries around the world
• similar trend as corpus without scientific literature indicates that’s not a source of bias
• we’re only reviewing recent texts with high quality OCR, so OCR issues don’t apply: OCR improved, not poorly printed archaic texts, tribbing doesn’t contain mistakable characters like long s ſ so OCR error should be uniform, not Chinese or a language difficult for OCR.

It indicates tribbing hasn’t historically appeared in print much.

pride.com says it’s real

Scissoring is specifically genital on genital tribbing. Some people find varying degrees of success with scissoring vs. other forms of tribbing, but it’s definitely a thing (despite what many have come to think).

No, it’s not going to look like when you made your Barbies scissor (and we know you did) because humans have joints, and fat, and can get tired in strenuous positions. But with enough practice, communication, and trouble shooting, YES it is attainable for you to scissor if you really really want to.

The podcast they link to corroborates

“People are also spreading rumors that lesbians don’t scissor, which I don’t understand,” McCafferty said. “I’m like, that’s not true.”

“It’s literally all I do,” Myrick deadpanned.

The two commiserated over apparent frustrations that even lesbians are saying scissoring isn’t a thing.

“I’m like, ‘Then what are you doing?’” Myrick fired back, before turning the blame onto the wider availability of strap-ons in the midwest.

Wikipedia mentions the debate

Some lesbian and bisexual women do not engage in the scissoring position because they find or think it would be physically uncomfortable. They may also think it is a misconception that lesbians engage in the act and is therefore not representative of lesbian sexual practices, attributing it more so to the male fantasies of the heterosexual porn industry. By contrast, some sources, including Shere Hite’s 1976 and 1981 research, indicate that women may enjoy performing the scissoring position with other women because it is a variation of vulva-to-vulva contact or can allow for maximum such contact and therefore an elevated level of intimacy.

and that scissoring is a common umbrella term, which matches my recollection

Scissoring is commonly used as an umbrella term for all forms of tribadism, and many lesbian and bisexual women are unaware that some of the sexual acts they include in their lovemaking are aspects of and are formally labeled tribadism, as tribadism is commonly omitted from mainstream sex research.

It also mentions that tribade and related words had become archaic by the 20th century. ngrams confirms tribbing was obscure until it only recently took off in the last decade: I think pretty much everyone called it scissoring or rubbing before.

Blast them with piss, fling feces in their faces, go full primate. 🐒

chatGPT is doing humanity a service here

The incredibly short treaty (I’m surprised the comments haven’t linked yet) lacks an expulsion provision. At best, per article 13, every other party may (with 1 year notice) withdraw from the treaty & join a new treaty excluding the party they want to expel. Article 8 prohibits parties of the treaty from entering “into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty”.

A unanimous agreement to change the treaty to enable expulsion is another possibility.

Science isn’t a culture or a belief system

The mug doesn’t claim anything you wrote, either (or give a fuck 😄).

With all the cranks on here, downvotes are a sign of doing something right. Some instances hide downvotes entirely. Others offer settings to not show them.

Not sure blocking them affects the downvote count shown to you.

So, your argument is that

explanation = approval

? That pathetically superficial take pretty much amounts to media illiteracy^[1]: see fallacy Confusing an Explanation with an Excuse.

Can anyone factually explain atrocities in your presence without you treating any explanation as a defense even when it’s explicitly stated that the explained subject is immoral?

They answered the question & your not liking the answer doesn’t make it less true. There are better ways to deal with facts than insufferable irrationality.

The answers to all those questions may be yes.

People who make those works aren’t necessarily the best authorities on their condition even if they have it: they’re still fallible humans with blind spots who’ve only lived as themselves without another version of themselves to compare. Much like how competent speakers may lack explicit awareness of the subtle nuances of their language & may succumb to over-analysis suggesting false rules, just having a condition doesn’t make someone acutely aware of the distinctions that set it apart, so they may misattribute.

They may also be flat out wrong about having the condition, since it is the internet after all.

Some of it is a matter of degree where it’s relatable to everybody within manageable limits but a dysfunction beyond those limits.

Are untrained people as accurate at diagnosing themselves as the professionals with degrees who spend years to train for it?

Your judgement seems baseless and irrational. Be better.

That’s the whole western hemisphere.

I also loathed when they tried to teach me that custom, especially the whole utensils switching hands deal: it’s frustrating for a young child who will fumble and drop utensils to the floor trying pointlessly unnecessary maneuvers.

I loathe the European convention just as much: bring pointy, sharp thing to mouth in less coordinated hand? Fuck no.

I don’t follow either convention. Instead

• utensil that approaches mouth (fork or spoon) in dominant hand: least chance of fumbling, dropping food, self-injury
• knife in non-dominant hand: cutting doesn’t require fine coordination (practice makes it 2nd nature) & fumbled knife ends up on plate
• utensils never switch hands: minimizes fumbling.

Basically, the European convention with opposite hands.

Exposure therapy: nuke yourself a few times. Your anxiety will vanish.

Are there really that many blind (or perhaps low-sighted?) people surfing specifically memes communities though?

If you neglect the matter, then you’ll ensure the systemic discriminatory exclusion here continues. Mastodon & other social media platforms regularly set alt text.

Accessibility is definitely difficult

It ain’t: you already have the text. Set it.

it is really hard for someone without specialized tools to even so much as see that accessibility text

It isn’t. Pretty much every OS nowadays has it built in so it can be enabled. Boldly claiming otherwise indicates ignorance. Instead of proclaiming untrue assumptions as fact, it’d be better to admit your inexperience & ignorance on these matters and address that: I seriously doubt you tried.

And looking at several previous post to this community

Bad example to follow.

So what is your argument for any added value that offers

Accessibility adds value to everyone: introduction. That ableism is wrong & we can address it as was indicated shouldn’t be hard arguments to figure out.

So what is your argument for any added value that offers, for someone to see simply the single word

Straw man: not suggested at all, which you would know if you followed the accessibility link that was provided.

Looks like social media done right. 😄