Well, the latter half of 3rd wave feminism and the entire 4th wave are an insult to the word feminism as well. For example, you chastise "trans exclusionary" -- because why a guy with boobs should be counted as a woman? And all pornography gets decried as "objectifying women" -- including gay porn.

In the US, most of the censorship comes from the Dems. Don't forget the PMRC: Tipper Gore, Janet Reno, then two decades later Hillary Clinton (by mid-2000s, after her hubby's term ended).

But, blaming all the evils on porn and thinking of the children is a truly bipartisan effort.

Or, to follow the current topic of the month, Epstein friends with rock-solid proof of being frequent visitors included, beside Trump, Bill Clinton (both close friends), Bill Gates, prince Andrew, etc...

Do Visa and Mastercard refuse to pay for Dildos and vibrators? Or anything that might be used in a sexual manner?

Can the manufacturers guarantee that their products will never be used in an "adult" manner?

How about people who are offended about women's intimate wear?

How about rope vendors - sometimes rope is used in an adult manner.

My examples - Bill Burr is one of those guys who makes a lot of fun of feminists, and no holds barred. If they could cancel him, they sure as hell would.

And then there is Ricky. He goes way out of his way to be offensive. Canceled? He has a bit about transgenders that would cause a 2024 Democrat to have a heart attack, then need to go into therapy. And he's on tour now, packing people in to listen to him.

Both of those guys own their offensiveness.

And what are they doing? mostly calling out hypocrisy. And being funny as funny gets.

I might have mentioned it before, Jerry Seinfeld has a new show coming out. Michael Richards is going to be in it. Even some punishment was due for his transgression, there should probably not be a lifetime penalty for it.

When you wrote "if you look at the diplomas hanging on my wall, and you knew nothing else about me, you'd assume by what I do and where I live and work that I was all in on the Follow The Science!" I kinda expected to see diplomas hanging on your wall if I walked into your office.

Your people insisting on being called "doctor" made me chuckle. We had a guy once who was so incensed at me calling him by his first name instead of doctor that he went to my supervisor and wanted me fired. Supervisor told him there were hundreds of Phd's around, but one person with my skillset, so he was more likely to be let go than me.

The next thing is that at least in my world, the honorifics are reserved for meetings. In person, and outside of that environment it is first names. Occasionally being introduced as "Our resident expert on" if there is someone new present.

When my son was in preschool, the wife and I were constantly ill with whatever might be going around at the time. He'd bring it home, we'd catch it. And the vagaries of viruses, sometimes it was damn nasty.

If we make it a game and make it fun, the kids will pick it up and run with it. I don't get the parental fee fees part of it. I didn't particularly enjoy taking the lad to get his various shots either, but ya gotta do it.

To continue on my earlier statement if the little ones are supposed to wear masks, then let them turn it into fun. Draw on them. Some people are even making decorative masks (search decorative medical masks on Amazon) then sharks teeth medical masks after that. Some of the masks are actually quite pretty. If your wee one is into pretty, there ya go. If they are more into funning and silly, there are masks for that as well.

Make it fun. Make it funny.

Those are actually two very different questions, and should not be grouped together (unless it can be shown that one caused the other).

This! Less infections, less illness, and you don't die from the plague if you don't catch the plague.

I don't know if this would be called theater, but in my case, I decorated my masks. I'd take a sharpie and draw teeth, sometimes shark teeth, sometimes rotten teeth, sometimes The Rolling Stones lips and tongue logo, I had fun with it.

Maybe it's an outlook thing. like laughing at the storm. Beats the hell out of cowering and crying, yaknow?

I'm having much trouble parsing this. There is a dichotomy, when we say that masks don't work, and at the same time, say they keep people who are infected from infecting others.

That sounds to me very much like they worked. If you don't catch the plague from someone who has it, even if asymptomatic, is that not preventing people from contracting the plague? It is just stopping transmission on the transmitter's side, not the receiver of the virus.

And I get the reason why they would work. The virus is "riding" on a vehicle, generally sputum or aerosolized fluid when a person coughs, maybe even just breathes. That won't make its way through the mask. And if it stops transmission, seems like a pretty good thing to me.

As for people believing it keeps them personally safe because it stops the virus from getting through to them, well lots of people have lots of wrong ideas of how a lot of things work. Doesn't change the underlying principle and working of the thing. If I were to make an analogy, it's like server side vs client side. The mask is on the server side, and it is protecting the client side.

Obviously anything I want is a need. Or does that only work if I have boobs?

Yes, so solve the simple problems before they start pretending they can solve the more complex problems.

That's a good question.

Fiverr also has a category for hiring vibe coders, so...free publicity I guess?

Saying "there are things about reality that science has not yet discovered" is quite different than saying, "science is not trustworthy."

You seem to be saying the former, and expecting it to be understood as the latter. Science is not about trust. Trust is for lesser minds.

I don't think that's really true, though; it's just a matter of education.