everyone became left-handed after we stopped hitting them with rulers
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im left handed. im gonna say something controversial that rightoids (what we in the left handed community call right handed people) arent supposed to know.
none of us are really just like this. we forced ourselves to write with our left hand because we wanted to be different. the first left handed person was marilyn manson and he just started doing it because he thought it made him look freaky.
do you also have to have your rib removed or is that an advanced tier of lefthandology?
Ah yes, "socially contagious," ie: Because I see someone else doing something that I also want to do, it makes it feel more socially acceptable for me to do it too.
We should make beheading fascist politicians "socially contagious" too
There's some connection here to how socialist revolutions are viewed as contagious that I'm just not eloquent or smart enough to express. Like, liberation is contagious, motherfuckers. People wake up to the idea that gender is a social construct and realize they don't have to play along. As always, this upsets the fash
There is a spectre haunting the UN 
Woke mind virus 
Well, I do already use Linux and Hexbear. It's time to finally buy some thigh highs.
Can we just get some communal pairs for whoever is supposed to be infected that week?
Can they be compression thigh highs? Im disabled
I'm down, compression helps with my joint pain.
Me too! 
My wife painted my toenails a couple of times last summer and I kinda liked it. Is hexbear rubbing off on me?
I guess autism was socially contagious when they started diagnosing it too. Fucking idiots.
In a weird way, there's a crumb of truth in that. Like, it's not uncommon for diagnoses to spread within families or social networks. For example, 1) One person gets an autism diagnosis, 2) Parents, other family members, and friends learn more about autism and what being autistic is like; they start seeing signs and symptoms in themselves, and 3) With that information, more people learn they're autistic and try to get assessed
That being said, everything in OP's article indicates that this report is hateful, regressive, transphobic bullshit. Shame on the UN for their role in this.
Absolutely, that is the exact thing I’m alluding to. When people feel societal pressures ease against who they are, people are more comfortable being open about it. Or they might feel more comfortable considering that things might not be the way they thought. Someone else in the thread brought up being left handed and how they would teach people to write with their right. We all know what happened when that stopped.
But yeah, there is a certain thread of hate that shouldn’t be ignored here. Trans-exclusionary radical feminism disgusts me in a particular way whenever I see it. It’s a worse version of class warfare and it just seems entirely selfish and obtuse to me.
Reem Alsalem (born 1976) is a Jordanian independent consultant and former civil servant. Since August 2021 she has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
she was like 'yeah hire me i'm an expert in doing violence against women'
Jordanian
famously stoic against the abuses of women and children, the country that proudly works as the eastern flank of Israel's air defence network.
She's been an outspoken terf for a while, sadly not surprising she'd eventually spread the social contagion hoax, too.
Folks, am I going to catch the gay?
This shit is so annoying. They don't cite any research at all. Just dig up a couple cranks with credentials who are willing to confirm their biases. It's like digging up a "historian" who argues Hitler is misunderstood.
Maybe. You need to build up your natural immunity by exposing yourself to dick a few times a year, otherwise the gay could be chronic.
am I going to catch the gay?
It's too late, the gay has gone airborne
What's everybody looking at?
Well yeah, the only way to make a cohesive argument that social being is socially contagious would be through dialectical materialist analysis, which has catastrophic implications for liberal ontology, so all you get are reactionaries cosplaying as feminists citing sex pests misinterpreting studies.
And then I turned my whole workplace gay and transgender / NB! 
The UN pushing reactionary content again 
transphobia is socially contagious.
is it contagious if it has to be actively taught?
I was thinking about all the shitty transphobic jokes in both media and social media.
I can't stop thinking about how doing research into whether it's safe to have a transmission fluid change performed on my new-to-me vehicle is basically self-harm.
If you accept the idea of a social contagion, then yes, social contagions if anything need to be taught. If it didn't need to be taught, there wouldn't be a social element to it and it would just be personal ignorance.
The woman pushing the report.
(who is this woman for those who don't know her by face alone?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reem_Alsalem
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reem_Alsalem
God everything about her said that she went to private schools her whole life
Ah so like another rich private school creep that loves carrying water for the fash?
I don't know that, but damn I'm getting real posh school vibes from her
intersections between gender-based violence against women, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression
Am I reading this right and it's just a euphemism for saying she's very concerned about trans women assaulting people in bathrooms
Yes absolutely
How the hell did she get confirmed to that position?
Off brand Jamie Lee Curtis.
Bizarro Lee Curtis. (Jamie Lee Curtis is a wonderful trans ally)
She subsequently graduated from the University of Oxford in 2003 with a Masters in Human Rights Law.
stepping foot on that island seems to give lethal brainworms
Ok I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but this shit really sucks. This seems like new chapter I petty reactionary bullshit for the UN to be concerning itself with.
Solidarity with my trans comrades fuck these fucking cowards
O7
Transgender consciousness is a machine that turns unacknowledged melancholy and dissociation into gender dysphoria diagnoses.
Dress go spinny, fuck transphobes
Separatism was never my goal, but I think it's becoming a necessity for me. I'll be consumed by hate if I can't somehow work towards a society I can actually fit in to in some way.
something i day (and night) dream about often
I'm much more excited for the advent of antisocially contagious diseases. Even I don't know what that means!
Trump was right. defund the UN.