Look you guys, there has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t vote. There has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t get married. There has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t adopt children. Transwomen are male citizens and have always enjoyed the rights and privileges that go along with that. Transwomen have never been institutionally oppressed for being trans. Like, enough.
This is such a combination of factually inaccurate statements and then just absurd goal-post moving.
Would you suggest that women’s oppression ended in 1919 or 1964? This would be before Roe, before the phrase “sexual harassment” was even invented? If I said that women aren’t oppressed because we can vote or that the legality of gay marriage means institutional homophobia is over you would rightfully laugh at me because of course access just to the ballot and legal marriage doesn’t make up the whole of institutional oppression.
But you’re also wrong on the details:
I mean, to start, it’s been documented that a totally straight married couple trying to adopt in the 1950s and 60s would likely be denied if the straight, cis, happily married mother said she wanted to adopt a daughter instead of a son…that being a strong enough sign of suspiciously lesbian urges that the couple should not adopt. Chances that even a straight married man who once was caught cross-dressing (which is in many places still on the books as a crime) would be allowed to adopt in that environment? They wouldn’t even try.
Littleton v. Prange in 1999 was a case where a trans woman married to a man tried to sue the doctor who negligence killed her husband and was denied by the Texas Courts because her marriage was ruled invalid.
Michael Kantaras, a transgender man, was denied custody of his children in 1998 because his marriage was, again ruled invalid.
A new species is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States.
Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist.
The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers
pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for
farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there.
That also allowed coyotes to spread from the prairies, and the white farmers brought dogs into the region.
Over time, wolves began mating with their new, genetically similar neighbors.
The resulting offspring — which has been called the eastern coyote
or, to some, the “coywolf” — now number in the millions, according to
researchers at North Carolina State University.
Interspecies-bred animals are typically less vigorous than their parents, The Economist reported — if the offspring survive at all.
That’s not the case at all with the wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, which has developed into a sum greater than the whole of its parts.
At about 55 pounds, the hybrid animal is about twice as heavy as a
standard coyote, and her large jaws, faster legs and muscular body allow her to take down small deer and even hunt moose in packs, and the animal
is skilled at hunting in both open terrain and dense woodland.
An analysis of 437 hybrid animals found that coyote DNA dominates her
genetic makeup, with about one-tenth of its DNA from dogs, usually
larger dogs such as Doberman pinschers and German shepherds, and a
quarter from wolves.
The animal’s cry starts out as a deep-pitched wolf howl that morphs into higher-pitched yipping — like a coyote.
Her dog DNA may carry an additional advantage.
Some scientists think the hybrid animal is able to adapt to city life
— which neither coyotes or wolves have managed to do on their own —
because her dog ancestry allows her to tolerate people and noise.
The coywolves have spread into some of the nation’s largest cities —
including New York, Boston and Washington — using railway corridors.
The interbreeding allows the animal to diversify her diet and eat
discarded food, along with rodents and smaller mammals — including cats,
which coywolves eat skull and all — and they have evolved to become
nocturnal to avoid humans.
The animals are also smart enough to learn to look both ways before crossing roads.
Not all researchers agree the animal is a distinct species, arguing
that one species does not interbreed with another — although the
hybrid’s existence raises the question of whether wolves and coyotes are
distinct species in the first place.
But scientists who have studied the animal say the mixing of genes
has been much faster, extensive and transformational than anyone had
noticed until fairly recently.
“(This) amazing contemporary evolution story (is) happening right
underneath our nose,” said Roland Kays, a researcher at North Carolina
State.
THIS SHIT IS SO WILD AND IT’S ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING. If you’d like to watch the entire Nature documentary referenced in that “watch this report” link, you can find the whole thing on Youtube. It’s a terrific documentary and a really interesting look at an animal most people don’t even seem to realize exists. The extent to which coywolves have adapted to urban life and the ways in which they’re very distinct from the species they’ve sprung from is pretty incredible.
i would like to point out that not only will next year be twenty mineteen, it will also be Minecraft’s 10 year anniversary and i, for one, will be popping the FATTEST bottles o’ enchanting
i was doing a (mostly) no kills playthrough in dishonored, or at least non-lethal for the main targets. i was primed to get the lord regent done, and i expose his crimes and get the guards to take him away. Success! The achievement pops up and the hud changes to say that i finished. i watch the guy get hauled off by guards and then i hang around to listen to his confession over the loudspeaker.
about a minute later i get the achievement for killing the lord regent - not non-lethally, but for straight up ganking him. i’m dumbfounded for a moment before remembering that i rewired one of those walls of light things to kill anyone who walked through it just for funsies like an hour earlier and just.. forgot about it, or that anyone who walked through that hallway would get vaporized.
I can’t really call it a ‘bug’ because it’s my own dumbassery that caused it to occur, but ………………
