To be fair, during the Olympics when the USA men's team wasn't playing, they watched the USA women's team with the same rabid obsession.
Exactly, right down to "social contagion"and the idea that gay people were denying basic biological facts. (The biology in question was reproduction, which gay sex typically does not contribute to).
My analogy is, the "accidental lab leak" origin of COVID was incorrect because of later evidence, not because it was a conspiracy theory endorsed by right wing douche bags. You can't resolve virology by shouting, and it's disturbing that this is still a culture war issue.
I would even put "angry" in quotes. Not that we aren't, but the threshold for our anger being "inappropriate" seems suspiciously low.
You can be wrong when nobody knows something. You just have to follow evidence once you have it.
Subsequent genetic research found HIV came from chimpanzees, and had spread to humans no later than 1911 or so. Early cases in the US were identified from tissue samples from the 50s.
There was a theory, in the 80s, that HIV spread from green monkeys to humans when a batch of poorly sterilized serum was used to amplify and produce a hepatitis vaccine for local use in West Africa. This was scientifically plausible and endorsed by AMFAR.
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
The world cup, the most popular athletic event on the planet, is playing on Fox, the channel these guys love watching, and my co-workers are still watching hockey in the cafeteria. Find someone who loves you the way my co-workers love watching hockey.
Whenever you see someone online saying "my parents kicked me out and that was what made me quit using and get a job" remember you are looking at survivorship bias. The person who OD'ed on the couch of a guy named Gregg isn't here to tell you that "tough love" is just self-indulgent punishing.
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it’s me, aslynn
Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man
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The responsibility for resisting and correcting this behavior shouldn’t fall solely on a specific gender. If you’re a man of conscience and you see another man mimicking Nick Fuentes, fuck him up on sight before the women even get a chance. I mean that.
