SupposeNotDec 24
Daniel Keys Moran
Nicely written.
Dec 23 at 11:01amWeb
Show threadCharlie StrossDec 23
@fatsam Funny, isn't it, how conservative bans on "gender affirming healthcare" never seem to touch their Viagra and Cialis prescriptions.
Show threadDaniel Keys MoranDec 23

@cstross that point about the sports that kids get pushed into is pretty goddamn serious as well. I've played basketball my entire life until last year, I finally had to give it up, but I loved sports, still do. Basketball, baseball, a dozen others. Things I wouldn't let my kids do when they were young? Football, boxing -- I played football, I boxed 13 amateur fights and quit after my last knockout. Ears rang for 3 days.

The rotten shit conservative parents do to their kids goes on and on.

Show threadCharlie StrossDec 23
@fatsam That's American football, yes? (As opposed to real football, aka soccer.)
Show threadDaniel Keys MoranDec 23

@cstross right, the one where you get CTE.

I boxed, played CTEball for years, and grew up in the worst lead filled air the world had ever seen. My sons are way calmer than I am, and while I think that's in large measure due to their mother, Amy Stout, breathing clean air and not getting their brains rattled probably helped.

Show threadsu_liamDec 24
@cstross @fatsam Could also probably include rugby and Australian-rules football. But yeah, we do know the long-term effects of teens playing football(et al), and they’re bleak.
Show threadBillDec 24

@fatsam @cstross

Boxing, the only sport where the goal is intentional brain damage

Show threadAlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈♾️Dec 23

@cstross @fatsam
Don't forget the boob jobs (increase, decrease) and hair transplants.

(The USA military are massive purchasers of Viagra btw)

Show threadChrisJan 1
@AlisonW @cstross @fatsam once upon a time you'd fix bayonets but ok
Show threadChu 朱Dec 23

@fatsam

In Canada I'd add hockey to that list. The injuries can get nuts. American football is probably the worst though.

Show threadArazilDec 23
@fatsam Another point: Is anyone going to put up with our terrible healthcare system just to "chase a trend"? I just spent several weeks on the phone fighting with my pharmacy benefits provider over covering a $130 bottle of pills. 
Show threadRealGene ☣️Dec 24
@fatsam
…or even making sure they're fully vaccinated, including for HPV.
Show threadJacquelineDec 31
@fatsam I wish I was irreversibly feminized during puberty smh
Show threadJacquelineDec 31

@fatsam

I would have been better off if I was allowed to transition during puberty

Show threadBlender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )Dec 31
@fatsam as an anti-paternalist I say, fine. We don't know. So what? A person wants to do it. It's this person's fucking right to do it. If you think a person needs to understand what the person does, well then 99.99% of all activities should be not-allowed. This is stupid. This is why I am an anti-paternalist. Let people have freedom for fuck sake.
Show threadDaniel Keys MoranJan 1
@blenderdumbass age restriction laws, it says on your profile. That mean what I think?
Show threadBlender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )Jan 1
@fatsam this: https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/fHq5j7usBzGsCdaTgwAGEJ
Age Verification and Chat Controll are FUCKING STUPID!!!

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