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  • Never heard of “Foid” (nor do I know what it means) but “-maxxing” has become pretty widespread now and afaik even the original term (“looksmaxxing”) wasn’t a term dehumanizing women, just a dumb idea (from a community that dehumanizes women). Usually, the term “-maxxing” is used highly ironically, too, from what I could gather and quite disconnected from incel communities (maybe even claimed away, it’s not “their slang” anymore).

    Also I am in my thirties and not really connected to youth slang (much less even to american youth slang since I’m from Germany). To tell me that one does not know what to tell me when making a statement as above is the least helpful thing to do.




  • Yeah. Basically, if they want to ban trans women from women’s sporta for havin an “unfair genetic/biological advantage” over cis women, they’d also have do ban Michael Phelps from any sports because he waa born with measurable advantages like more efficient lungs, some weird shoulder stuff and his muscles tiring more slowly.


  • Statistics. Trans women were allowed (under changing regulations) to compete in women’s olympic tournaments from 2004 until 2026. None has won a medal in this time.
    In 2023, both World Arhletic and World Aquatic banned athletes who went through male puberty from competing in women’s events relevant to global rankings. Before that, there was no domination of trans women in these sports.

    Generally, the number of known trans athletes is very low (like, in the 20s or 30s) and their success is limited at best.




  • One of the most problematic parts of this horrible game is the ability for players to upload their own “skins” – essentially, each player can create a character for themselves in simple photo editing apps such as photoshop. This means that the selection of characters is limited only by the players’ imaginations. On the surface, this seems to be a positive of the game, but it turns out that it is not.

    This unlimited customization dangerously blurs the boundaries of gender and sex, and, especially considering the predominantly young player base of Minecraft, can be very confusing in terms of gender. One of these confused young people is my son, now 21 years old, who, it turns out, had been using the default “girl” skin of Minecraft, often shown in marketing alongside a more fitting masculine character. While this is not concerning on its own, having done so since the age of 11 will surely have contributed to his gender confusion.

    I guess every game now has to have a male protagonist. Because if playing a female character confuses young boys’ genderes, surely playing a mal characte will certainly not confuse young girls in their gender identities.

    Or maybe all video game characters have to be androgynous.

    Or something, idk never understand ppl like this parent.








  • Irgendwie ein komischer Artikel mit verschiedenen Zahlen. Erst heißt es:

    Die Zahlen [der AfD-Anfrage] beziehen sich auf das Jahr 2024 (Stichtag: 10. Dezember 2024). Die Behörden registrierten bundesweit demnach 228 christenfeindliche Straftaten

    und zwei Absätze weiter dann:

    Das Bundesinnenministerium zählte in der Statistik zur “politisch motivierten Kriminalität” 337 christenfeindliche Delikte im Jahr 2024

    Leider werden diese Statistiken nicht weiter eingeordnet und auch nicht erklärt, wie diese unterschidlichen Zahlen zustande gekommen sein könnten.

    Außerdem wird berichtet, dass die OIDAC-Chefin auf eine hohe Dunkelziffer und die OSZE auf eine erhöhte Vulnerabilität christlicher und konvertierter Migrant*innen hinweisen, es folgt aber ein Beispiel eines Cottbuser Pfarrers, dessen Treppenhaus vandalisiert und mit rechtsextremen Symbolen verunstalter wurde. Der genannte, aber nicht verlinkte rbb-Artikel (hier) spricht aber nicht von christfeindlichen Motiven, sondern von Angriffen auf zivilgesellschaftlich engagierte Menschen.
    Dieser Teil des euronews-Artikels liest sich eher, als wolle man rechtsextreme Gewalt statistisch reduzieren, indem man den Fällen, weil sie sich gegen Christ*innen richten, eine andere Motivation unterstellt.
    (Das soll nicht die Gewalt an sich relativieren, Straftaten sind nicht weniger schlimm, weil sie sich gegen Christ*innen richtet, ich hinterfrage lediglich die Darstellung der Motive.)