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Free outer eugenia wrote:

Doctors most certainly do assign gender. Where do you think gender is assigned? By God and the angels? A doctor says "its a boy" or "its a girl" and that's what goes on the birth certificate.

It comes from what sex organs you have.

Honestly, gender and sex is a great subject to study, especially casually (imo). I've been reading some case studies on it, like there was this one guy who had a botched circumcision when he was a baby so his parents tried to turn him into a girl, even had corrective surgery as a baby. So this guy grew up with his parents trying to make him into a girl, and he constantly rejected it, eventually he grew up and sex reassignment surgery, got married and became a step-father to his wife's kids, his parents then came out and said how he was actually genetically male and came clean. Gender, in most cases, is determined, at least psychologically, during growth in the womb, which is why in the case of the guy, he suffered gender dysphoria (in the correct usage of the term, not edgy transphobia). I also read on an article (the same article as the case study I mention earlier in this comment) that there are about 6 (common-ish) biological sexes, at least chromosomal-wise, and on another article I read about 5-alpha-reductase deficiency, where a biological male is born without male genitalia because of the deficiency (due to the inability to make/convert a form of testosterone), so they look physically female, despite identifying as male, then when puberty comes around they get another dose of 5-alpha-reductase and they start growing male genitalia, albeit a bit smaller than average.

Common-ish biological sexes: http://www.joshuakennon.com/the-six-common-biological-sexes-in-humans/
5-ARD: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/boys-who-only-develop-penis-when-they-hit-age-12/

Egohedonia wrote:

We definitely need more studies regarding gender and sexuality.
Oh and hi everybody. New in the region.

FLAGS ARE JUST SPOOKS
I like yours though

Egohedonia wrote:

I like its colors myself. The red shows off my damn dirty parasitic moocher communism, the black my ruthless and brutal rich-eating cop-killing anarchism and the white just says I'm a white boy on the internet.
We need a good flag so we can put it everywhere in our anarcho-states and pledge our allegiance to it and compare burning it to being literally Hitler deserving eventual but inescapable death by gulag.

3edgy5me

Pantuxia wrote:

3edgy5me

Spoiler warning (unless it was clear from the flag already): I'm the overlord of edge. That's what I become when I debate. I also have been debating for years and tend to not take them seriously. In short, I crack jokes. Oh noes. I am also an anti-work anarcho-communist egoist. Pleasure to meet you all. I feel we can be the bestest of friends. Let's hug.

Egohedonia wrote:

So what form of anarchism is the dominant one in you? What do you focus on primarily aside from the usual states and corporations f--king up your life?

Well I'm a mutualist, so I'm a fan of socialism blended with individualism by means of "non-capitalistic free-markets", primarily through labour-backed credit and free association. I often identify with anarcho syndicalism because it's quite hard to find other mutualists to protest and stuff with (also anarcho-capitalists tend to be surprisingly reactionary and authoritarian [sorry non-sucky ancaps]), and also mutualism is very similar to syndicalism, particularly in our current organisation of anti-state opposition, but yeah.

Otherwise, I'm primarily a postgrad computer science researcher, which drives an interest in counter-economics and transhumanism. I can't see how anyone can be a statist or capitalist in light of where advances in 3D printing, AI, and human augmentation are going; should the state or the financially-empowered have monopolised access to these technologies, we are truly f*cked as a species, as the most successful form of totalitarian tyranny awaits in that circumstance. On the side, I'm a queer activist and have protested in and helped run an LGBT support group, and to a slightly lesser degree I'm also a neurodiversity activist, for whatever that's worth.

Egohedonia wrote:

What's funny about ancaps is they accuse ancoms of misinterpreting their ideology, then go ahead and do the same with the old-ass Venezuela-, "you like welfare"-, "you wanna stop people doing what they want"- and "it's not a state because you say so"-memes. Ah well, truly free markets would be non-capitalistic anyway because that doesn't accumulate as much capital to its actors as say an oligopoly, corporatism, cartel or even monopoly, which they falsely say isn't possible for businesses to do on their own. I'd say ancaps are misguided minarchist capitalists with extra arrogance over their strand of economic science-ideology. I'm all for anarchist and left unity, as futile as the attempts may seem, but could ancaps ever be a part of that?

Maybe.

"The Community of Egohedonia is a fledgling, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare."

wait what

Egohedonia wrote:

So what form of anarchism is the dominant one in you? What do you focus on primarily aside from the usual states and corporations f--king up your life?

I'm an AnCom, but I've been looking into social ecology and solarpunk anarchism recently. I could probably fit them into the AnCom ideology, since you can trace back their origins to Bookchin, then back to Kropotkin. I'm currently a sixth form student, studying medical science, hopefully going to Uni next year to do a Masters degree in Biochemistry.

Egohedonia wrote:

What's funny about ancaps is they accuse ancoms of misinterpreting their ideology, then go ahead and do the same with the old-ass Venezuela-, "you like welfare"-, "you wanna stop people doing what they want"- and "it's not a state because you say so"-memes. Ah well, truly free markets would be non-capitalistic anyway because that doesn't accumulate as much capital to its actors as say an oligopoly, corporatism, cartel or even monopoly, which they falsely say isn't possible for businesses to do on their own. I'd say ancaps are misguided minarchist capitalists with extra arrogance over their strand of economic science-ideology. I'm all for anarchist and left unity, as futile as the attempts may seem, but could ancaps ever be a part of that?

Corporations would be drastically reduced under a real free market. If people really had the choice they wouldn't sell their work to such a system.

As for AnCaps, not all are bad, but all are definitely mis-guided in some areas.

Egohedonia wrote:

"The Community of Egohedonia is a fledgling, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare."
wait what

I have that as well. I think you start off with it by default, and have to get a specific issue to ban it.

Egohedonia wrote:

I'm all for anarchist and left unity, as futile as the attempts may seem, but could ancaps ever be a part of that?

Anarchism must strive to become an organic movement, not a club of intellectuals with alliances with other intellectuals. Ancaps are not only ridiculous to the working class, they are also a ultra misguided minority. A serious alternative has no interest to create relations with them.