Kulturkampf

[TylenolJones]

[Ribosome]

The image of the hallway posted by DataRepublican is an exact match for an old pic on a travel website. 

https://www.tripadvisor.co.nz/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g45963-d97704-i175661027-The_Venetian_Resort-Las_Vegas_Nevada.html

Odd lol.

[NekoFever]

"my wife got tomatoes which are absolutely disgusting"

next line

"the frozen pizza section is my favorite section in the whole store"

made with...tomato sauce

Can you imagine being married to one of these people.

We recently went to India with friends and one of them was a picky eater. We pointed out that maybe India wasn’t the best choice for someone who only liked to eat burgers and fries (incidentally, isn’t it weird that there are no picky eaters who’ll only eat fresh vegetables? 🤔) but no, he insisted he enjoyed a curry.

Within about three days everyone wanted to strangle him.

[filler]

I do not blame him tbh 

Even flies gets diarrhea 😂😂😂

The authentic Indian experience: spending your vacation in a hospital due to food poisoning.

So, it's been 17 hours since watching this and my brain is still "mew mew mew mermer minghje mew nnana mew mew mew" ...so thanks for that

[filler]

"my wife got tomatoes which are absolutely disgusting"

next line

"the frozen pizza section is my favorite section in the whole store"

made with...tomato sauce

I only eat cooked tomatoes tbh 

[Uncle]

I do not blame him tbh 

Even flies gets diarrhea 😂😂😂

The authentic Indian experience: spending your vacation in a hospital due to food poisoning.

So, it's been 17 hours since watching this and my brain is still "mew mew mew mermer minghje mew nnana mew mew mew" ...so thanks for that

found the original of the beautiful music



apparently it is widely known online as "the bacteria song"

[HaughtyFrank]

Boycotting the conference of a party you founded

[filler]

I do not blame him tbh 

Even flies gets diarrhea 😂😂😂

The authentic Indian experience: spending your vacation in a hospital due to food poisoning.

So, it's been 17 hours since watching this and my brain is still "mew mew mew mermer minghje mew nnana mew mew mew" ...so thanks for that

found the original of the beautiful music



apparently it is widely known online as "the bacteria song"

لما القط بتاعي سمع الصوت ده ولع سيجاره و قعد جمبي و قعد يحكيلي هموم الدنيا

[Alpacx]

 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

It is crazy, Rachel.

[Ribosome]

Benji can you decipher this for us?

[filler]

Shame on academia for even entertaining this sort of shit as valid.

As much as I hate to ever defend academia, it's mostly not treated as anything but a joke outside of the fields. The only reason any of this stuff gets cited in political science, for example, is because there's nowhere else to find the claims that the article writer wants to push.

I'd say the media, and even lay people, treat it more seriously than academia does because they have no sense of how much garbage is published across all humanities fields, even the decent ones.

A mechanical engineer explained to me that the university system is one of the only feudalistic institutions left.

[Polident]

That’s over 5lbs of macaroni and cheese.

She’ll need at least two more if it isn’t a solo meal.

[Uncle]

[im g]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G7DsuGIXsAAWNVz?format=jpg&name=large[/img]

Benji can you decipher this for us?

"a hierarchy can only be removed"

makes bold claims without evidence and refuses to substantiate them

ultimately a "removed hierarchy" is just a hierarchy of one layer, "things which are acceptable" vs. "things which are not"

[Ethan]

Benji can you decipher this for us?

Another banger from the same academic

Vanue Vancouver
Thematic Session Title Misgendering in Sports: Female Dopers, Gender Fraudulences, and Racialized Bodies
Organizer Narisa Vickers
Organizer Email narisa.vickers@outlook.com
Organizer Affiliation University of Toronto
Session Description
Imane Khelif, an Algerian Olympic gold medalist, faced immediate misgendering and harassment, fueled by deliberate
misinformation designed to discredit her victory. This session critically examines the faulty sex science often used to
regulate athletes, which relies on oversimplified and biologically reductive measures of sex. Rather than an objective
biological fact, sex—like gender—is socially constructed, shifting throughout history depending on racialized and
colonial anxieties surrounding the body. These flawed frameworks are disproportionately weaponized against athletes
of color, reinforcing colonialist and racist narratives. Through critical discourse analysis, this session situates Khelif’s
case within North American and Algerian histories of colonialism and transphobia, highlighting how these histories
shape the weaponization of gender fraud allegations. Grounded in Black transgender feminist theory and decolonial
queer of color critique, this session equips scholars with tools to challenge harmful misinformation and advocate for
equitable athlete evaluation standards.

[Ethan]

‘Why is the chubby guy running?’: Trans pregnancy, fatness and cultural intelligibility

Since the late 2000s trans pregnancy has received increasing public and academic attention and stories of the ‘pregnant man’ have become a media staple. Existing research has critiqued such spectacularization and the supposed tension between maleness, masculinity and pregnancy that underpins it. Extending that work, this article draws on interview data from an international study of trans reproductive practices and analyzes participants’ experiences of being, and expecting themselves to be, perceived in public space not as spectacularly ‘pregnant men’, but as fat men.

As a starting point we take the experience of one participant whose heavily pregnant participation in a 5k race prompted the question ‘why is the chubby guy running?’. Using Judith Butler’s concept of the cultural intelligibility of gender, we ask why the question asked was not, ‘why is the pregnant guy running?’ We further consider the degree to which pregnant trans people manage their unintelligibility within the matrix of pregnancy, fatness and trans/gender and how this reveals the limits of gender intelligibility itself.

https://westminsterresearch.westminster....ltural.pdf

Sadly, no talk of decolonialization in this one even though running 5ks is peak white colonial power.

[DavidCroquet]

Woman aghast that pregnancy is mistaken for weight gain.

News at 11.

[HaughtyFrank]

‘Why is the chubby guy running?’: Trans pregnancy, fatness and cultural intelligibility

Since the late 2000s trans pregnancy has received increasing public and academic attention and stories of the ‘pregnant man’ have become a media staple. Existing research has critiqued such spectacularization and the supposed tension between maleness, masculinity and pregnancy that underpins it. Extending that work, this article draws on interview data from an international study of trans reproductive practices and analyzes participants’ experiences of being, and expecting themselves to be, perceived in public space not as spectacularly ‘pregnant men’, but as fat men.

As a starting point we take the experience of one participant whose heavily pregnant participation in a 5k race prompted the question ‘why is the chubby guy running?’. Using Judith Butler’s concept of the cultural intelligibility of gender, we ask why the question asked was not, ‘why is the pregnant guy running?’ We further consider the degree to which pregnant trans people manage their unintelligibility within the matrix of pregnancy, fatness and trans/gender and how this reveals the limits of gender intelligibility itself.

https://westminsterresearch.westminster....ltural.pdf

Sadly, no talk of decolonialization in this one even though running 5ks is peak white colonial power.

Huh... why did people not assume that a man was pregnant? An impossible question to answer but I'll try it anyway. 500k please.

[Uncle]

As a starting point we take the experience of one participant whose heavily pregnant participation in a 5k race prompted the question ‘why is the chubby guy running?’. Using Spiders Georg’s concept of the cultural bias against spider consumption, we ask why the question asked was not, ‘why is the otherwise fit guy whose stomach is distended after consuming 30,000 spiders running?’

[Ethan]

The funny thing is that no one actually uttered the words "why is the chubby guy running?", despite it being the anecdote that spawned this academic paper that needed the work of 5 experts from 3 continents.

We take as our starting point an experience recounted by Gage:

"I ran a 5k when I was thirty-nine weeks pregnant, which was kind of hilarious
because I passed … My best friend from childhood and I were running, and we
were sort of laughing because people would look at me, but it was almost like a
fatphobic, ‘why is the chubby guy running?"

[HaughtyFrank]

Brb, going to write a paper about how that one group of teenage girls in highschool was definitely laughing about me

[filler]

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The funny thing is that no one actually uttered the words "why is the chubby guy running?", despite it being the anecdote that spawned this academic paper that needed the work of 5 experts from 3 continents.

We take as our starting point an experience recounted by Gage:

"I ran a 5k when I was thirty-nine weeks pregnant, which was kind of hilarious
because I passed … My best friend from childhood and I were running, and we
were sort of laughing because people would look at me, but it was almost like a
fatphobic, ‘why is the chubby guy running?"

why is the chubby guy running?

More like is that man pregnant? Have I had a stroke?

[HaughtyFrank]

"the valuation of Crip gut knowing"

There are just certain phrases that have become standard in these kind of papers that couldn't be more devoid of meaning. It's just idioms repeated over and over

[HaughtyFrank]

Trans secretly recorded their own surgery and is now suing hospital for talking about their dick and changing patient file to male




https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/transgender-patient-records-during-cancer-surgery.html

[filler]

[Ethan]

Might be just me, but I'd prefer my surgeon and especially my anesthesiologist to know my biological sex before getting part of my lung removed under general anesthesia. 

[benji]

Benji can you decipher this for us?

Although the language is offensive I wouldn't necessarily disagree, nor would most gender crits I imagine, the problem is that the trans movement is not about this. It's about permanently enshrining a specific hierarchy and enforcing it with violence. The LGBTQ2S+ movement mentioned is colonialist, it's attempting to enforce a select groups morals on everyone, especially Indigenous by reinterpreting their gender hierarchies as if they were informed by modern Western queer theory. See also the way they use DSD/intersex people. Or hell, just gay people or men or women in general.

If the gender hierarchy is abolished then there's no sense by which a man could be a woman or non-binary. The trans or non-binary concept only makes sense if you assume a hierarchy. The greater problem for this argument is that the sex binary and hierarchy would remain, hence why they spend so many resources on trying to deny biology. Because they personally cannot do it they do not believe it's possible to have a society in which everyone is not slotted into rigid gender roles and therefore need to abolish the idea that there are sex differences altogether or else nobody will ever like them personally.

This is why you know they aren't smart because if you did somehow achieve this, then men couldn't be women. There would be no frame of reference to refer to in order to declare yourself a lesbian. Trans and non-binary people wouldn't exist because the terms wouldn't mean anything. The genocide is coming from inside the house.

As for the article, it likely just says that everybody needs to read the theory or they'll get lectured more.

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

Of course