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Cake day: September 14th, 2024

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  • I think it’s good that you’re trying to back your claims by sources / papers but your response tells me that you’re not trained (yet) in reading papers critically. Those are just some random question that came up from the top of my head and that any scientist would ask if someone were to present the findings of this study at a conference. This kind of rigor, to not blindly accept results but to critically evaluate them and poke holes in the arguments is what makes academia academia. I’m kind of surprised that you throw around papers and then get offended if people don’t blindly accept whatever you say, it’s kind of an interesting appeal to authority fallacy.



  • I can’t be bothered to read the paper, but here are some evergreens that make this result hard to interpret:

    • The sample includes women from all ages and boomer Karens would not report abuse
    • On the other hand, being bi or lesbian has only been accepted by society since the last 10-20 years. Don’t believe me? Just watch some 90s sitcom like Friends.
    • Being bi or lesbian still comes together with a special type of discrimination that a straight woman most likely will never experience; hence, straight women are potentially less sensitized to abuse / might have a different bar for what they consider abuse
    • Putting together these very different groups of people with very different experiences on what is “normal” will result in them having a very different sensitivity towards what they would consider abuse
    • In other words a young, bi/lesbian woman is probably more likely to report abuse than an old straight woman, an old lesbian woman who is just happy might never engage with researchers because of the past societal stigma that makes her keep her life private

    Of course we don’t know any of that, but these psychological studies are difficult to conduct because in theory you’d have to account for these effects and in practice that might be impossible. But again, I haven’t bothered to read the whole thing just to prove a point.











  • What’s there to watch? They’re a Nazi quasi dictatorship and you can watch in real time how the political elites there radicalize more and more. Will we express our concerns when they lock up LGBTQ+ people? Will we strongly condemn when they’re being put in concentration camps because Orban realized you can get away with anything nowadays?

    We’re way past the time where we should just watch, idk what to do exactly honestly but a first step could be to freeze all assets and block their vetoing rights. I don’t want to seem them leave the EU because of all the exile and anti-Orban Hungarians who’d be punished similarly to what happened with brexit though.