because there is no way to really tell how effective one troop in combat will be until it comes to actual combat No way of providing a complete evaluation, perhaps, but a great many useful indicators. Take the example of Greece with it's contingent of national service conscripts who serve for a yea...

No. Drag allows performers play the role of characters which may have different pronouns to themselves.

There is a long history of drag within queer culture which is not appropriative or harmful to trans folks.

I stand corrected:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-bearers/

The EU and UK spend a little over 300 billion, and get considerably less bang per buck than the US does. China spends a little under 300 billion, and gets considerably more bang per buck than the US. The US is bigger, but we aren't talking different orders of magnitude in spending compared to simil...

We need to fine people whose thoughts and prayers fail for false product claims. Peddling defective merchandise is criminal and this should be no different. All we need to do is expand the powers of current government regulators to include this. Wasn't there a case where a church prayed for a bar(o...

And it tells you in the article that these numbers are likely undercounted: "This tally and others in the Komodo analysis are likely an undercount because they didn’t include treatment that wasn’t covered by insurance and were limited to pediatric patients with a gender dysphoria diagnosis. Practit...

You said "Being gay is not a choice". It seemed pretty clear that was what you were saying...but if you are backing away from that assertion now that is fine. Sorry, being gay is not a choice. What does that have to do with sexual preference being a binary? You seem to be making to background assum...

Likewise , puberty blockers can delay the onset of puberty so children don't have to undergo irreversable changes to their bodies. Giving them time to decide for themselves. The fact that most people who go on puberty blockers end up on hrt and transitioning in adult life is liekly a sign of how un...

I said nothing at all to suggest sexual preference is binary. You said "Being gay is not a choice". It seemed pretty clear that was what you were saying...but if you are backing away from that assertion now that is fine. Sorry, being gay is not a choice. What does that have to do with sexual prefer...

Interesting that you would assume monogamous relationships make ppl better off. Do you mean socially, financially, emotionally or spiritually? Because i would doubt that a majority of humans are inherently (ie biologically programmed to be) monogamous. Cheating exists and has always existed as long ...

At the start of this video they briefly mentions reverse cargo Cult (not sure if they go into details): https://youtu.be/9_0E9IzXT34 Which is basically the idea that having built a plane out of sand (like a cargo Cult) and finding it doesn't fly, to reverse the idea and assume that real planes also ...

Surely it's less a matter of scale and more a matter of what system of checks and balances exist within a particular nation? China, for instance, is rather larger than the US in terms of population, and yet considerably more effective in applying Presidential will. I would be curious to hear, howev...

It seems like another mass shooting another chance to criticize Americans (CF the thread about nuts) but this time the shootings were in a school in Serbia. So i am going to make a prediction. The Serbian government will demonstrate its power, preventing a repeat of this incident, in a way the US st...

A) No, evidence shows that comprehensivd sex education leads to lower rates of unwanted pregnancy in teens and lower rates of sexual activity in general. We have multiple countries worth of evidence for this. You didn't answer my question but answered a different one (for example perhaps we could h...

Criticism of purity balls:

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewco ... ei-redir=1

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Wed May 03, 2023 7:52 am

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Something more modern, perhaps? Emanuele Stifano's tribute to La Spigolatrice di Sapri. A true inspiration to young girls

What is it you object to about this statue?

Had to look this up, some context:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58723918

Rather than go into the weeds of specific skirmishes in the culture war, I believe there are two main questions here: (a) Can exposure to hypersexualized content at a young age cause some minors to experiment sexually earlier than they otherwise would have? (b) Can exposure/encouragement of alterna...

drag performee are being sexualised when they read stories to children in libraries You what? Why are drag performers reading stories to children in libraries? Why not? Children like stories, being read stories is good, children like characters dressing up and drag performers dress up like the best...

You are exaggerating a bit here. It was a single Christian charter school in Florida which did this. I mean it is Florida - what do you expect? Jamie always does. But, on the subject of the censorship of art for the sake of the children, would you take action regarding Pan and the She-Goat? What I'...

Meanwhile in France:
https://youtu.be/pz9r7jZgUFg