This letter writer makes me embarrassed to be a scientist.

@swankivy

3 ай бұрын

The good news is that he probably isn't a scientist. As I'm sure you know, lots of people love to invoke "science" as if it's some kind of objective black-and-white discipline. But nearly all REAL scientists I know are flexible and curious people who above all love discovery and learning. Obviously there are some exceptions but as this person was here to shut down discussion about what's possible with the human experience, I feel like I was talking to a pretty solid pretender. :)

Most people like this tend to be circle talkers and use straw man fallacies

@swankivy

3 ай бұрын

Yep. That's exactly what he was. The whole "yeah well you're not special at all" "uhhhh I didn't say I was special" "YEAH WELL YOU'LL NEVER CONVINCE ME YOU'RE SPECIAL" was really classic.

I think most of these are people who are so so so itchy and think we're all pretending to avoid solving his problem that he can solve alone. Because fighting isn't going to help him.

So many words have different meanings in different contexts. Have they heard of a slang dictionary 😅? I mean yes but they forget that when their discrimination light bulb comes on!

@swankivy

3 ай бұрын

It's the suggestion that the term is "taken" and will mislead people that really gets me. How do they suddenly become obtuse enough to believe "asexual" indicates human people are reproducing asexually, which is impossible, and therefore there's no excuse for using it? Isn't the very fact that it's OBVIOUS IT'S IMPOSSIBLE justification enough to claim it for an orientation term? Just silly to act like it's going to prevent anyone's understanding.

This is very similar to certain types of people who'll despise people for "not being interested in politics". Don't believe me? Go on youtube, and dare to say that "you don't care about politics". And, you'll see certain types of people who'll shit on you as if you're violating something sacred to them. They'll say stupid shit like: *Just because you don't care about politics.* *That doesn't mean that politics don't care about you.* *You're contributing to the status quo.* *You don't care about the suffering of others.* *Apolitical is unnatural.* *You cannot dislike politics, because it's very important in society.* And, i was like: WTF? 😳 They'll also accuse non-political people of being "smug". When in reality, not everybody who is apathetic toward politics are some kind of monolithic tribe that'll all think the same. If they're talking about certain types of individuals who'll misbehave like that. Then, yes. But what they tend to forget to realize is that there are plenty of political people who'll also do the exact same shit. I've seen plenty of political people who also act as if they are "holier than thou", because they are concerned about political events that deal with people's lives. That'll be no different than saying that people who don't like listening to pop music are being smug. But in reality, not everybody who doesn't like listening to pop music will go around, and trying to claim to be superior. Unless you're talking about certain types of music fans. So i'm really sorry to say this. But it does seem to me that there are people who just cannot tolerate the fact that everybody is different.

Just curious if you know of any of the haters being female as you tend to refer to them as masculine.

@swankivy

3 ай бұрын

If you look at my other Letters videos you'll see many featured commenters being referred to as she or they.

@Astronomater

3 ай бұрын

@@swankivy k. I just didn't want to watch every video again to find out myself. Thx.

@swankivy

3 ай бұрын

@@Astronomater Do you want some examples of other genders being jerks in my videos? To be fair, the majority of the negative messages I get ARE from men, so that does tend to be represented here.