If you WANT to say transracial or transspecies or transnational is a thing, by all means do some research and prove it through studies and peer review. Until then, it is unlikely to be recognized the same way that transgender has because it has a lot of supporting evidence.

I want to play a game with you. You’re demanding evidence for something that some people have a lot of experience with, but most people don’t care to investigate. I wanna do the same thing.

I’ve decided that fish aren’t real. I want you to link a scientific journal article that says fish are real. Not one that presupposes the existence of fish in general, one that asks if fish actually exist and asserts an answer from evidence.

If you can’t prove fish are real, why should anyone have to prove otherkin are real?

Buuuuuuuut, if you really want scientific articles on otherkin…

https://go.openathens.net/redirector/murdoch.edu.au?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fscholarly-journals%2Fjackal-city-empirical-phenomenological-study%2Fdocview%2F2956849512%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D12629

https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/8147

https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/252

https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65

but, let’s not equivocate gender and species

No. Otherkin are valid. The social construct of species isn’t.

Asexual reproduction. Sapiens-Neanderthal hybrids. Tree grafting. Speciation is nonsense with no basis in empirical observation. The only reason it’s become an accepted paradigm in the scientific community is that the convenience outweighs the inaccuracy in a lab context. It doesn’t when we’re talking about otherkin. When we’re talking about otherkin, the cost of continuing to believe in the made up nonsense that is species is too high.

Sure is!

Well, compared to Tim Buckley, yes.

Sometimes comic artists and other creatives put characters in their works who have bad opinions they disagree with. Pizzacake doesn’t agree with the opinion that men can’t be raped, she just depicted it in a comic. Depiction isn’t the same as agreement. If it was, then George Lucas would be a Sith and Mary Shelley would be an abusive parent.

I like her comic. It’s satire. She doesn’t agree with the misandry in the comic, you’re supposed to think the women’s opinions are wrong. She’s on the men’s side.

Right, so when Bernie Sanders says socialism is good, that’s a bland “middle of the road” take given his fan base?

If so, what even is the criticism supposed to mean?

This artstyle looks like “what if Control Alt Delete was drawn by someone who had fashion sense and also talent”.

I like it.

If “maga bad” is an uncontroversial take, then how come Donald Trump is the president?

I liked both comics. I also like bone hurting juice. Fair use is valid.

Link?

Everything is politics.

I can’t see it, my instance has downvotes disabled. But I figured. Lemmy is a toxic and kinphobic place. A bunch of crabs in consensus reality’s bucket, trying to keep the rest of us from escaping.

I know plenty of alienkin. Life from other worlds exists, but conservative realists will tell you that otherkin are “trolling” or “insane”.

Potatoes don’t have a nervous system. As far as we can tell, a nervous system is required to feel pain.

Species is made up bullshit. There’s no such thing as humans.

I dunno. I haven’t had a long enough conversation with one to tell. I’d rather be safe than sorry. Last time we assumed a group of beings were subhuman and enslaved them, it wasn’t good.

And it is impossible to compare this complexity in practice, of course, as there are no criteria for measuring that.

Then why do you believe there’s a huge difference?

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If one human’s inner life were more complex than another’s, would you value their life more?