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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dropped the bomb and left.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, that's Ultra Magnus. Wrong '80s cartoon character.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Ultra Magnus

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I shall make use of this whenever I shall enter discourse with the common enemy. Alas, thanks for allowing the addition of thy knowledge to me little brain. Perchance.

Edit: forgot to tip my fedora

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can't just say "perchance"!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Maybe they declared it.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Can someone explain the meme? I'm a little slow.

[–] CADmonkey 95 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Human embryos (and probably others) start out female, and grow the male parts a fee weeks later. There is probably someone lurking who can give better details but that's the gist of it. Thats why men have nipples.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

And my axe!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Omg is my seam meant to be a...

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

That’s right, you have a scrotussy.

[–] LemmysMum 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your penis is an enlarged clitoris and your testicles are ovaries that fell out.

[–] MyFairJulia 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not if i have something to say about it and i do! I will undergo gender confirmation surgery to fix that!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You pretty much nailed it.

Also, it gets much more complicated than that; at least 2% of humans are intersex, meaning they’re a mix of male and female, everywhere from outward presentation (rare) to chromosomal (more common).

It’s not just gender that’s a spectrum: sex is, too. I said ‘at least’ because it’s possible for people to go their whole lives without realising they’re intersex. 2% is huge: if you know 100 people, statistically 2 of them are intersex. Most of us know more than that.

The ‘only two genders’ thing is biologically bullshit. Biology is never cut and dried.

eta: for reference, I have a disorder that’s been in the spotlight lately – Ehlers-Danlos – and you’ve probably at least heard of it. You’ve likely talked to someone who has it recently. It occurs in 1 in 20,000 people. Again, roughly 1 in 50 have intersex traits. I wish this had the visibility it deserves. It’s exceedingly normal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah the Y chromosome doesn't kick in until later in fetal development.

There's actually a surprisingly small amount of biological information stored on the Y chromosome, IIRC the vast majority lies on the X.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's only around 700 genes in the Y chromosome, with only about 70 actually making proteins. Compare the X chromosome with about 800 protein-coding genes and 20-25,000 total genes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

About the nipples. You’re right in that we all get them by default. As I understand it the only reason males keep them is because evolutionarily it would take more energy to remove them than keep them. Basically we’re all slackers at the genetic level.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Thanks for explaining.

[–] Jimbob0i0 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The He-Man series back in the 80s always ended with little moral quips, so this is mimicking that.

The fact is that all fetuses start off assuming female, and then the presence of certain chromosomes trigger male anatomy.

Hence all males being trans if life starts at conception, as at X week development shifts to generate the male oriented organs.

At least that's my understanding of this meme...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

presence of certain chromosomes

well, the presence of certain hormones that are usually regulated by some genes on certain chromosomes

[–] Jimbob0i0 6 points 1 year ago

Good point, thanks for the correction there!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And the reception of those hormones, which may not exist or may not be functional for some people.

Turns out making beings out of trillions of cells of 100s of types (all of which have basically the same 3 or 6 billion base pair genome, yet have to act very differently) is complicated and any process has many steps, which involve various genes, receptors, signals, etc, all of which could be interrupted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation! That makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Embryos develop proto female genitalia that turns into male genitalia (or further develops into female genitalia). Iirc the seam on your testicles is where the opening closed.

[–] School_Lunch 15 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Fetuses all start as female.

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[–] instamat 14 points 1 year ago

During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Basically, testosterone is one hell of a drug.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny enough, I don't think the original He-Man has nipples, so this might not apply to him.

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[–] LavaPlanet 9 points 1 year ago

Have you seen the real skeletor on (what was Twitter)? Similar awesome humour, dealing truths, love it. Bought myself a skeletor shirt, because of.

[–] UltraMagnus0001 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Interesting findings, but intersex is a different thing to transgender (though more than a few people are both).

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