foxglove

Thank you for your useful comment, however this community is for women only to comment and post in. Hope you understand 🧡

For those that are curious, the user was sharing the definition of a suffragette, i.e. an activist who fights for the rights of women to vote.

OK, I'm not sure I really am a "culinary genius", but I'm a good enough home cook that people frequently confuse me with a culinary genius. I certainly put in a lot of effort, and sometimes it pays off. 😁

Below me is a person with a doggo 👇

absolutely! You have worked really hard and more than deserve to treat yourself 💖

There is a part of me that assumes every celebrity is likely guilty ... people who rise to that level of fame are often bad people.

I mean, even Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are guilty 😬

Sure, maybe my generalizations are unfair or untrue, but there is something pragmatic happening about psychologically steeling myself, knowing I should be prepared for anyone to later be found guilty because of how common it seems among celebs.

Over 160 actors, writers, directors, etc. famously signed a petition to free Roman Polanski after he was arrested for unspeakable sexual crimes to a minor:

The petition was signed by many prominent individuals in the film industry including Guillermo del Toro, Martin Scorsese, Sam Mendes, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Michael Mann, Woody Allen, Darren Aronofsky, Harrison Ford, Jeremy Irons, and Wong Kar-wai.

A full list is here.

If I try to answer that, steam comes out of my ears and I get nowhere. So I imagine the question is "why does a friend deserve good things", and that leads me to think anyone inherently deserves good things, and from there I remind myself that I am included in "anyone" too! 😊

thank you for your comment, but this community is for women only - hope you understand 🤎

lol, no worries - and you're not the only clueless person to comment here unawares 😅 definitely doesn't make you an idiot - we all make mistakes!

thanks for your comment, but this community is for women only - hope you understand 💚

hey, thank you for your valuable comment, but unfortunately this community happens to be a space where only women are permitted to post and comment. Hope you understand! 🧡

bonus tip: if you want a vegan / plant-based buttermilk, I suggest using pea milk or soy milk (both high high enough protein contents) and putting a little bit of lemon juice or vinegar and allowing the proteins to curdle. It works well!

But yeah, oat milk is amazing, esp. in coffee. For something like pancakes I would probably prefer the added fats that cashews provide, but the flavor of oat milk is perfect for this too.

fipto is using the same talking points anti-trans activists (like Matt Walsh) use to argue that intersex people aren't real or legitimate - "hermaphroditism" in humans historically referred to when genitals are ambiguous or there is a combination of sex organs, including true hermaphroditism where the body develops ovaries and testes.

fipto's point is only that in a narrow sense we haven't yet recorded a case where an individual like this has produced a mature egg as well as viable sperm at the same time, though I think that may be false, since there is a recorded case of a true hermaphrodite who ovulated and successfully fathered a child (produced both eggs and sperm). This is rather rare, even for true hermaphrodites, though. (@[email protected] you may care to see this too.)

As an aside about terminology: "hermaphrodite" is an outdated term, and the term "intersex" replaced it. Already a new term has begun to replace intersex in many contexts: "differences in sexual development" (DSD).

fipto's point is somewhat irrelevant, though - there are humans who are true hermaphrodites and fipto's motivations in making her point here are questionable.

The reality is that there is no great controversy among scientists on this, and the scientists themselves were happy to refer to people with ambiguous genitals as "hermaphrodites", and the scarcity of people producing both eggs and sperm don't undermine anything about the existence or reality of intersex individuals, because someone's sex and gender is much more complicated than just which gamete they produce.

For fipto, however, who probably believes someone's sex is based on the gamete they produce (a common lie peddled by anti-trans and anti-intersex activists), the lack of individuals with both eggs and sperm proves to them that intersex individuals do not actually exist. They probably think each of those intersex individuals can be actually classified with the binary sex system that the evidence does not support, and which scientists have moved on from. The main motivations to hold onto a view like this are, like for anti-vaxxers and creationists, social and political rather than based in evidence.

recommended follow-up:

• the video Sex & Sensibility by a biologist who debunks and responds to anti-science content by creationists, and in this case anti-trans and anti-intersex activists like fipto
• the Nature article Sex Redefined covers a lot of the same territory about how science has now moved on from thinking in terms of a strictly binary sex for humans
• for more about the overlap between other anti-science movements and the anti-trans movement, this review of Matt Walsh's What is a Woman is worthwhile
• the 2023 documentary Every Body might be of interest (was very interesting learning about Alisha Weigel, for example - and it was eye-opening to learn the anti-trans movement are the ones advocating child mutilation, through non-consensual surgeries on intersex children).

thanks for your contribution, but this community is for women only, hope you understand 😊