flora_explora @ flora_explora @beehaw.org

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You could be upfront and say that you are an introvert and don't enjoy talking to others at work?

As a trans woman I never liked public bathrooms before transitioning. I've rarely ever used urinals and peeing while standing seems always messier, even if outdoors. In a toilet stall where you can sit, you can always also use toilet paper. (And especially with a penis you don't have to sit down completely, you can squat over the seat of it is too dirty.) When peeing while standing don't you all get a bit of pee in your underpants?? And people who pee standing while on a toilet with a seat (be it at home or visiting someone) are just disgusting. And I don't know any fellow Germans who stand while peeing at home. One generation up it was still very different. I guess this is one of the outcomes of feminism that taught cis men to be responsible for their own mess. If you never had to clean your urine of the toilet or floor you had hardly any incentive to pay attention. Glad this has somewhat changed.

https://lemmy.ca/post/12726124

So your idea is to get rid of names and replace them by IDs? But how would communication between researchers work then? If I say, "Do you know R283BQ23? Oh no, that's actually R283BQ24". OK, so you propose to use descriptive names for more common species I guess. But how can you make a distinction which species are important enough to have a descriptive name? For specialized researchers the species in their field need a rememberable name. So you end up with a big list of IDs and many new (and some old) descriptive names. You have now just made everything more complicated for everyone. Researchers already work on making the species names workable. If you look at plantsoftheworldonline, they already have a huge database of species IDs with additional information. Why introduce a sequential ID number? Have you worked in biology or taxonomy? (From how you write species names I would think not). I think it's a nice idea to have such a neat order with sequential IDs. But you quickly realize how hard this would be to accomplish the moment you start working with any organism. Just thinking of multiple species that are actually the same or any species that is actually two or species that hybridize a lot or species interactions or species that we simply cannot tell apart yet but that are probably various species. As much as I like order, as much I have to admit that nature is messy and we try to impose an artificial structure onto it that will never fit.

Regarding the actual debate on changing offensive names of species (or whole genera/higher taxonomic orders), I would be in favour. I get why we need consistent rules but the article gives good examples how this can be accomplished. I would also be in favour of more descriptive names and a ban on naming taxa after people. On the other hand, from the hundreds (thousands?) of species I know/had to learn, many are named after people and as I said, it will be very hard to find good descriptive names for millions of species. These rules preventing us from arbitrarily changing names means also that older names stick so often the descriptiveness of names can be deceptive. A made up example could be following: someone newly describes the species you named before O. megalophallus because in the genus Opeatocerata there hasn't been any species with such a long phallus. But then other researchers later find various species more with even larger penises. Now you already have O. megalophallus with a more median penis and have to come up with new descriptive names for the other species...

You realize that there are millions of species (according to wiki about 8-8.7 million eukaryotes alone) out there and that in many fields, there is not a lot of information on how a species looks like etc? Additionally we already have a great chaos of names and terms and it is often not easy to sort out a name for a certain species (that's why there are tools like plantsoftheworldonline). I get the urge to just start from scratch and give them all descriptive names, but this would be a huge undertaking spanning many different areas of research interests. Maybe as a good example, just think of Coleoptera. There are about 400,000 described species with an estimate of "0.9 to 2.1 million total species". Many of these you can really only identify by their genitalia. So what would be descriptive names? Mostly related to genitalia I guess. But that wouldn't help a layman. You could also look at plants: orchids have about 27,000 described species. Often with very minor differences in flower morphology. Or you look at fungi, bacteria, archaea, protists and all the other more cryptic groups. And then you realize, names and the taxonomy of huge groups of taxa frequently change. As an example look at the APG where they massively changed the taxonomy of angiosperm plants. Maybe it would be a good idea if some researchers/taxonomists clean up a bit in their area of expertise. And as you can see, they already do. There won't be any unifying, overarching taxonomy of all taxa though. What's limited the people in the 1800's doesn't limit us today, true. But what limits us today is the sheer amount of information we already collected.

Just look at their previous post...

Interesting, I usually question my English skills if something like this happens!

Ah OK, I see where you are coming from now :)

I'm equally frustrated about cishets and especially cis men :/

This is the same problem as with race. Colorblindness won't help anyone, because there already is a system of structural discrimination in place. The same is true for sexism and gender biases. Just wishing to be in a neutral and fair place won't bring us there. I would really like to be able to skip all the racism, sexism and other discrimination systems as well. But it will take work to change them. And not only that, I would argue that we need to abolish capitalism on the way, too. Because patriarchy and racism are deeply intertwined with capitalism. So, unfortunately no easy task...

Oh, btw it's also interesting that you seem to convolute sex and gender. Because you write "it really shouldn't matter much what's between one's legs." Well, depending on the context it doesn't (you rarely see the genitals of others). Just a reminder that penis ≠ man and vulva ≠ woman.

I think you did not understand the point of the author at all. Using pre-European would just be as bad as using pre-colonial.

It does matter a lot actually in what framework we talk and think about things. I think the author made a good job of explaining why setting everything in Africa's history in relation to this one event of colonialism by Europeans is ignorant and incorrect.

You may have notized that the author didn't give any alternative to the term per-colonial and for a reason. Just using another term would defeat the whole point of trying to abandon the faulty framework behind the term. We need to get rid of thinking about Africa as unimportant, homogeneous and uncivilized. We need to get rid of our ignorance and biased views!

OK, but how are personality disorders any different? And why would you think they aren't real mental illnesses??

Yes sure, beehaw is more progressive. But still I sometimes don't feel so comfortable in its community because it can at times feel very male-centered.

Ahhh, thanks for clarifying. Haven't seen this movie in ages and never even in English

And high-speed trains are chronically late... :/

Other people already gave you on why it's not hbomberguy's fault and I don't have anything to add to that.

But I think maybe it would help you figure out, what you are sad about or what you feel bad for? And maybe this hasn't anything to do with hbomberguy? What I mean is, maybe you are seeing Somerton, his mental health problems, his situation and feeling bad for him. And I get it, I feel bad for his situation, too. But being raised by narcissists and having been in a long term relationship with an abusive chronic liar, I know that feeling bad for someone like this won't help neither you, the other person or anyone they've harmed. It only gives them more fuel to keep on continuing like they've done before. I don't know how to deal best with people like this apart from setting boundaries and keeping my distance. If you're only forgiving without setting boundaries, they will abuse and exploit you. James Somerton was already a mess before he was called out, now he has to face the consequences for his harmful actions and it is hard on everybody. But better to call him out and make him stop his abuse than keep going. You can have empathy with perpetrators but it doesn't help with making them stop.

Thank you! Even on lemmy I find the atmosphere often oblivious or ignorant to marginalized views. The majority here are cis men (regarding the poll earlier this year) and it certainly shows. And the people here are probably mostly left-leaning? So I definitely couldn't imagine sharing a space with anyone more right-leaning than that.

Why include dickless and fat-ass? Are these negative for you?

Haven't watched on fmovies before, thanks for the suggestion I guess :)

Nice! It's even more fun to be able to read all the comments :D