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Because the common person didn't know what the process entailed. Details were kept purposefully sparce and couched in medical jargon to purposefully hide what was being done. This is common practice, look at the medical language surrounding abortion for instance, where they use euphemistic...

Here's the thing, Lobotomy actually seemed to pacify the worst cases of mental illness on which it was used and made them easier to handle (remember, this was practiced when we still has asylums). Add on that at the time the "experts" on the Human Brain were all saying it was harmless and the...

Even if you go back to, say, the 17th century when Christendom was at it's height you didn't see Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants throwing the term "Heresy" around against each other, nor did you see it used between the various Protestant sects. They used much stronger language than they do...

Whoever told you this isn't familiar with the origin of either work. Modern scholar date the codification of both the Book of Judges, which the story of Sampson is taken from, and the 12 Labors to the 6th Century BC. Given the geographic distance between Greece and Israel, I doubt they were...

Goddamn Yankees rewriting history yet again. No, the first successful English Colony in the Americas wasn't Plymouth, Plymouth was the second, the first was Jamestown Virginia in 1607 as good 13 years earlier. Larger point stands though. This is very much the case, by the time of the American...

I've covered the lead up to the Revolution in other posts and it was about a lot more than taxes, and in fact, when you look at the full list of things leading up to it, it was clear it what about their Rights as Englishmen (in the second sense, some colonies even specifically referred back to...

Yes. Didn't you know, Planned Parenthood is one of the primary providers who sell hormones to trans people? They've got a MASSIVE investment on the line, just like how much money they make off Abortion. Can you REALLY blame them for working to protect their financial interests? Planned...

. . . Abhorsen, while I think folks are going to far this argument doesn't do you any favors. Firstly, "hate speech" was not a thing until the 1970s, the first Hate Speech laws were passed then AFAIK, and most of what we consider falling under "Hate Speech" is easily shown to have been part of...

It really depends on the situation. Bear in mind, in the 19th century and through the early 20th century, public education often wasn't just co-ed, it was co-grade. You had boys and girls from the ages of six to sixteen in a one room schoolhouse with one or two teachers and you got generally...

In fairness *vomits* to Vaush, there was a period a few years ago where Progressive Puritans were trying to conflate Short Stacks with Lolis. It appears to have generally failed though, as from what I've seen Short Stacks have broken out and become popular across multiple fandoms at this point...

They're conflating Autism and Attention Deficit Disorder. Many people who have Autism ALSO have ADD, and some people who want to expand the definition of Autism want ADD included in it's "spectrum", but ADD is a very different set of mental differences than Autism and generally tracks more with...

The ADD boom was related to a different but related issue: the feminization of education. And I don't mean this in the sense of "education getting soft" I mean it in the sense of "education being oriented to how females learn". You also have the dramatic drop off rate of usage of stimulants in...

Body dysphoria is a well known medical thing, sexual dysphoria SHOULD just be considered a subset of body dysphoria and similar treatments tried, which in my understanding mostly attempting to correct the incorrect mental perception, rather than amputating the offending body part. Then there is...

I suspect a lot of child "transitions" are...

And to Americans, all three look "white".

Certainly they do. As does Great Britain and the Italian Peninsula... as well as Great Britain and the Greek Peninsula. However, both Greeks and Italians are considered "white" under American ethnic standards. In fact, proper Spanish people from the Iberian peninsula who immigrate to the US...

I mean, this doesn't really come off as all that surprising. It wasn't really until very recently that "Latino" or "Hispanic" and "White" were considered separate ethnic categories. Arguably, given that other European Mediterranean ethnicities like Italian and Greek are considered "White"...

While some of it might have originated there, the core of the Sexual Revolution and Gender Theory did not. The core motivations for both of those came from the US, specifically founded in the Kinsey Reports published in the late 40s and early 50s and the later "research" of John Money who's...

While I agree in broad strokes that you're correct, and the KGB infiltration ended mostly with the fall of the USSR in the 80s and that what we have in the west is mostly self sustaining at this point, one thing you may not be aware of is that as early as the 00s and 10s China began their own...

So back on the entire poor innocent PornHub... Long story short, they've had a loophole in their verification system for pornographers for years that's meant to prevent the uploading of porn made with unwilling participants, and everyone at PornHub knows about it, up to the CEO, and are...