(Part 2) Best products from r/TopMindsOfReddit

> Like what reading? I like to read!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sexing-Body-Politics-Construction-Sexuality/dp/0465077145

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Bodies-Matter-Discursive-Limits-Sex-Routledge-Classics/041561015X/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CNDN34DGBXQGMJRNHAEQ

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sexing-Brain-Lesley-Rogers-2000-06-01/dp/B01HC0RD82/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481591782&sr=1-2&keywords=sexing+the+brain

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Delusions-Gender-Science-Behind-Differences/dp/1848312202/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CNDN34DGBXQGMJRNHAEQ

http://bennorton.com/gender-is-not-alone-the-social-construction-of-sex/

http://www.dana.org/Cerebrum/2003/Extreme_Problems_with_Essential_Differences/

would be good places to start, plus numerous other papers, some books and blog posts I don't have quite the google-fu to relocate, and a lot of more tangential stuff. (I originally came to this mostly through the study of the theory of bodies and embodiement in art, as well as my spouse's academic studies in gender and sexuality). In getting to grips with this material and the general position it's important to move away from the facile strawman of the idea that biology is disregarded in a social constructionist view; more profoundly, social constructionists realise that social environment reshapes biology.

>Yeah it is. If you believe trans women only transition because of quote unquote "gender" which is purely social...you're wrong.

But what is a 'gender role'? If you restrict it to something as facile as 'girls like pink' then you can make anything absurd. It's worth remembering that the term 'gender roles' was originally coined by the sexologist John Money to describe the behaviours inhabited by unassigned intersex individuals trying to express a single binary gender identity. From a performative standpoint, gender roles are the entirety of the behaviour with which we signal the gender identity we wish to and are trained to project towards society. To say such things are not bound up in the trans experience is simply wrong; many trans folk experience feelings of dysphoria at being identified as their wrong gender, and lessening of these feelings or even positive counter-feelings at being identified as their correct gender. This is purely a matter of social perception. Therapeutically speaking, people transition because it helps to alleviate their feelings of dysphoria. Whether the underlying cause of the dysphoric state is genetic, epigenetic, foetal or psychological (or even spiritual) or some subtle combination of factors which differs on an individual basis is immaterial to the benefits provided by transition to the majority of those who seriously seek it. This is, it is important to note, only the medically legitimised narrative of the trans experience.

I can’t help but think about the people on the other end of these comments and upvotes. Read an excellent book about how it happened to people in Kansas but I just don’t understand the victory-foreclosure and victory-unemployment crowed. Their beliefs aren’t founded in anything beyond faith in “their” guy

>The Nazis came to power on the back of socialist promises...

That's not even close to true.

Really great book on the rise of the Nazis here

Y'know that is if you're interested in learning and not continuing to go through life with your pants on your head.

I mean, technically millennialism as a doctrine has been a common feature of Western religious doctrines since Jewish apocalypticism started to become popular during the intertestamental period (200BCE-100CE) in which writings about looming end of the world started to proliferate across the Jewish diaspora like in communities like the Essenes that sprung up in preparation for the literal apocalypse. Fast-forwarding to the early days of Christianity, the early Christians thought that the day of judgement would be soon - as in within their own lifetimes. Millennialist groups would spring up often over the next two thousand years, such as the Anabaptists of Münster, who claimed that the German city would be the new Jerusalem and started an exceedingly bloody uprising in 1534. Then, as now, millennialist theology provides an idea that someday (hopefully soon), there will be a cosmic righting of wrongs in which the virtuous will be eternally rewarded and the sinners eternally punished. This kind of thinking - which is as much a revenge fantasy as it is a desire for righteousness, can be highly seductive to poor, desperate and unworldly people who feel like they’ve lost their lot in life and must instead rely on a supernatural cataclysm to make their lives “the way it should be”. Eschatology is a really fascinating subject and learning about it makes a lot of the motivations of the religious far right of the Abrahamic faiths clearer.

Here are some great books for further reading:

A History of the End of the World - Jonathan Kirsch

The Pursuit of the Millenium. Revolutionary Messianism in Medieval and Reformation Europe and Its Bearing on Modern Totalitarian Movements. - Norman Cohn

I remember reading about the Great Deluge in some of the creationists 'textbooks' my mom had lying around when I was little. Their ideas don't actually seem to change all that much. The bulk of creationist arguments I've run into all have a direct lineage to early creationist thinkers.

There's a pretty good book called The Creationists which goes into their history and their ideas. Reading this was a revelation for me. I could recognize almost all of the beliefs I'd been bombarded with growing up.

Excuse me sir, but there are several visionaries in the MLP FanFic community that have gone on to great things. One brony went on to sell 50 copies of his autobiography on Amazon's self-published platform. He may become the next Chuck Tingle!!!

Race IS a euphemism for sub-species. Saying "no it's not" isn't exactly a compelling counter-argument. Every species has sub-species within it. Have you really not ever noticed that we don't call anything else on this planet another human sub-species? Do you think we are the one species on earth that is magically not subject to evolution, and that we don't have any diversity? The reason you never hear this is because we use the term race, to de-animalize the language when dealing with people.


And if you don't deny that the African Lion and the Asian Lion have real and meaningful differences between them, then why would you argue that an African Human and an Asian Human have no difference between them. The African Human and the Asian Human are MUCH more distinct than an African Lion and an Asian Lion are from each other.


And humans DID need to adapt. Obviously. Why do you think some groups developed light skin and dark skin? Because in different parts of the world, people needed different melanin levels to appropriately let in the right amount of vitamin D, while also guarding against harmful UV rays. Why do you think some people developed an epicanthic eye fold and some did not? The East Asians, evolving on the desert steppe there in Asia, had to deal with an unusual amount of glare compared to any other human group, which lead to more narrow eyes. You are deeply underinformed if you aren't aware of the fact that the different human groups faced vastly different selective pressures, having traveled to wildly different environments. You think that a Black African moving up to icy Scandinavia wouldn't need to adapt to the new environment? Are you twelve?


And they DO die out, that's how evolution works. The creature doesn't morph like a pokemon. Ones that are maladapted to the new environment do not survive and do not reproduce, and the few that ARE properly adapted bottleneck the genome and reset the species at a new normal, in a relatively quick time.


You think meaningful evolution takes millions of years? At least learn something about the subject before attempting to speak with some authority. Evolutionary changes happen very quickly, they are just usually few and far between due to the relative stability of environments. As soon as a massive environmental shift happens, evolutionary adaptation to that change will happen very quickly. An animal species can change core attributes within a very short time, as humans have proved through breeding wolves into all the different dog breeds we have today. Or by experiments where we put creatures in certain environments, and find that they can physiologically adapt within decades.


"Rapid Evolution Changes Species in Real Time"


http://discovermagazine.com/2015/march/19-life-in-the-fast-lane


"Instant" Evolution Seen in Darwin's Finches, Study Says


https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060714-evolution.html


"Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island"


https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-lizard-evolution.html


Watching Evolution Happen in Two Lifetimes


https://www.quantamagazine.org/watching-evolution-happen-in-two-lifetimes-20160922/


Lastly, interbreeding and producing fertile children in absolutely NO WAY interferes with the fact that the different human populations are all branching evolutions of the species Homo Sapiens. By definition, sub-species of the same species can of course interbreed with each other and produce fertile offspring. That's what makes them sub-species, and not different species.


Two animals are considered sub-species of the same species, when they could interbreed and produce fertile offspring, but are still distinguishable from each other with over 80% accuracy. So the African Lion and the Asian Lion are both obviously Lions, they could both obviously breed with each other and produce fertile offspring, but they are also distinct enough from one another, than humans can tell the two breeds apart with over 80% accuracy.


Now ask yourself. Can African Humans and Asian Humans interbreed and produce fertile offspring? Yes, they can. Which means we know that they are the same species. Now ask yourself, can you distinguish between an African Human and an Asian Human with over 80% accuracy? Then you know that by the rules of science, African Humans and Asian Humans are both members of the species Homo Sapiens, and are two different sub-species of that species.


Also, your implication that there aren't major genetic differences between the races is false. Scientists, forensic anthropologists, and other important fields regularly use DNA evidence to determine the race of a subject. The race of a person can be determined from their DNA with extreme accuracy, and can even tell what race the father was (by checking the Y chromosome), and what race the mother was, (by checking the Mitochondrial DNA).


You really should read a book called "The 10,000 Year Explosion" by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending.


https://www.amazon.com/000-Year-Explosion-Civilization-Accelerated/dp/0465020429


This book details how humans have evolved a great deal over the past 10,000 years. I really hope you take a look, because your idea that evolution is a slow process that takes millions of years is just patently wrong, and your idea that humans didn't evolve and adapt to wildly different environments in isolation from each other over a long enough period to become distinct enough from each other to be worth mentioning is ridiculous.

I suggest reading Phillp K.Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale instead; this is the short story that turned into Total Recall, and if you need a work of fiction involving drugs and saving the world this one is much better written.

For a comedic novel-length story, John Dies at the End is absolutely hilarious. (The book, not the movie.)

I don't think you looked very hard, a quick google search brought up this article mentioning this book that talks about the disparity in educational outcomes and what their research found. Quote:

"our research shows that boys’ underperformance in school has more to do with society’s norms about masculinity … Boys involved in extracurricular cultural activities such as music, art, drama, and foreign languages report higher levels of school engagement and get better grades than other boys. But these activities are often denigrated as un-masculine."

And hey, guess what? It turns out feminists have a name for that, toxic masculinity, and in fact toxic masculinity and the negative effects it has on both men and women is a very widespread topic of research and discussion, pretty much any reputable feminist is going to know about and condemn it.

Or if you want more academic sources, you could look at papers like this one, from the feminist journal "Gender Issues".

Now, if you're asking why feminists tend to focus on the gender gap in fields where men are over represented as opposed to those where women are over represented, it's in large part because those tend to be the fields that pay more - engineering and computer science are some of the best paid STEM fields, while fields like Biology, Psychology, Education and Arts fall short. Of course this is just a trend, health sciences for example tends to be pretty well paid, but if you compare both groups overall the male dominated fields are substantially ahead.

> When you're knowingly being surveilled(already proven), a golf course is the safest place to hold private conversations.

https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Shark-Long-Range-Microphone-Premium/dp/B01BTCW64A

I'm a deep state surveillance agent! Thanks amazon!

> not your fault you haven't met the right person.

It might be though. At least, one key thing about getting dates is that you have to focus on yourself and your interests, because meeting someone who shares those interests is way more important than mastering "The Art of War Relationships"

If anyone's interested, here's a good book on this bullshit that I read after an old boss tried to push me to start doing auricular acupuncture and showed me his energy crystals (addiction therapy--and people wonder why so many drug rehabs suck)

https://www.amazon.com/Trick-Treatment-Undeniable-Alternative-Medicine-ebook/dp/B001CDZZHW/

I don't keep up with coffee maker news but I think it was just the keurig 2.0 that had DRM. We have an older model without any drm crap.

If this one ever dies I'm going to get this one:
https://www.amazon.com/BUNN-MCU-Single-Multi-Use-Coffee/dp/B009PLQ5H2

I don't buy kcups anyway. I prefer my coffee fresh and we have a huge variety of locally roasted coffee.

Just gonna post this book here, in case anyone is interested in learning what the Weimar Republic was like from a huge collection of primary source documents. Americans use stories about the rise of fascism to shape political debate and this is a great tool that I think can nuance and illuminate a broad array of topics.

Honestly, I recommend her book, Crash Override which details the whole thing pretty well. It's kind of a sad read, but it's also inspiring.

Apparently we're racist because major news publications didn't cover the attack of the 23rd top billed actor in the movie Love Magical, which has 100% positive reviews from seven people on Amazon (who recommend it with a drink).

This isn't to downplay the severity of the incident; in fact I believe it occurred (while Trumpets immediately questioned the Smollett case) - this just suggests a reason only the fake news NYP reported on it.

$18.00. So he was pretty close.

Also, I would really like to see his research behind his 5.6 million produced each year claim.

No, you do not, but I will tell you anyway:

• J-Rod: A class of EBE from the Zeta Reticulum area. The J-Rod associated with Dr Burisch was housed in a pressurized hydrogen "Clean Sphere" at Level 5 of S4. He had a degenerative neurological condition. The J-Rod is similar in appearance to that of the "grey" aliens recovered from Roswell.
  
  P+52k-yr J-Rods (here after called 52's) note…. they are from Gliese 876, halfway between Earth and Zeta Reticulum.
  
  P+45k-yr. J-Rods (hereafter called 45's) note…. they are from Reticulum and don't suffer the disease as do the 52's.*
  
  Further totally not insane reading.
  

No it's just stickers: https://www.amazon.com/Rarefren-Mystery-Booster-Collectible-Stickers/dp/B07TDD13BM

But we should totally design one! It can be called FrenWorld

Mechanically, there should be different factions/types like how in Pokemon and MTG operate. So Clowns, Frens, MAGAs and Incels. They need to generate "energy" with some kind of resource that lets them play different monsters/spells/artifacts. This could be fucking hilarious.

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0399594493/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505431279&sr=8-1&keywords=trump+book

4.5 stars.

Stop acting the victim, because people can easily look up that you are lying.

Edit: Honestly, 4.5 stars is astonishing to me. I feel like they aren't removing enough reviews, but I guess you are okay with that.

Right here comrade

https://www.amazon.com/Rarefren-Mystery-Booster-Collectible-Stickers/dp/B07TDD13BM

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