Almost there! Just one more step left on the Gay Agenda:

✔️ look cute

✔️ be gay

✔️ hang out with friends

✔️ make memes

✔️ trick wise protectors of heterosexuality into accepting gay animals

◻️ be treated with decency by society

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I call bullshit.

I do not see brunch anywhere on that list.

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8 points

What if I’m straight and all about some brunch?

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10 points

I may have some news for you…

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6 points

The Brunch Amendment of 2008 lists all the people welcome to brunch and explicitly states that allies are allowed.

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1 point

You have to twerk in gay city first.

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6 points

I’ve heard of the Gay Agenda for years now, and yet I still am a slob and totally lack any fabulousness. Who do I write to in order to complain?

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51 points

Animal sexual behavior is under-reported in general, I think. Do not forget to report!

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Probably because a lot of it is real fucked up, and makes people uncomfortable.

Like female bedbugs not having vaginas and so males have a sharp penis and literally stab the females with it often resulting in death of the female, because it’s literally just an open wound.

Further, male angler fish only exist to find the female, touch her, get stuck to her, and get absorbed by her body until all that’s left is the testes, now absorbed by and part of the female. The female can hold multiple testes of multiple males inside of her and choose to self-impregnate whenever she chooses.

Don’t even get me started on felines and spiny penises so the female can’t escape once the male has entered.

Like a huge amount of animal sex is rape.

Yeah I don’t spend my time reporting it because all it does is remind me how lucky I am to be human and be able to have a consensual, loving relationship with another human.

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I think the point is, human discomfort shouldn’t play a role in scientific reporting. Humans have projected a lot of human social elements (sex and gender roles, etc) onto animals and called it science, but it’s not objective. If we are self censoring, we can’t effectively share knowledge with others and we might miss important things down the line.

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29 points

If cat cock upsets you, don’t look up duck dick.

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19 points

i mean they could look up Echidna Dick

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8 points

try hyena clit instead

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16 points

Like a huge amount of animal sex is rape.

Pretty much all duck sex. Sometimes males will gang rape a female to death.

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But but but puzzle vagina

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2 points

Not all some.

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12 points

Like a huge amount of animal sex is rape.

The documentary on koalas I watched 2-3 decades ago was kind of traumatizing.

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8 points

Like a huge amount of animal sex is rape.

Female garter snakes at the Narcisse Snake Dens in Manitoba would agree.

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Like female bedbugs not having vaginas and so males have a sharp penis and literally stab the females with it often resulting in death of the female, because it’s literally just an open wound.

Is it bad that part of me is like “GOOD!” because, “fuck bed bugs!”?

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fuck bed bugs!

You can’t. They don’t have vaginas.

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I’m pretty sure female bedbugs do have vaginas and it’s just that the males don’t care. Also it’s somehow better if they stab them.

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3 points

Ok but that anglerfish thing is kinda hot.

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37 points

The very idea of sexuality being divisible into distinct types is a uniquely human construct.

Animals don’t think “I’m gonna go find another dude to have gay sex with,” they just get the urge and act on it with whoever looks good nearby.

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6 points

Animals tend to force sex, as well. Humans call it rape.

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1 point

Well, animals don’t have informed consent like we do.

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In some cases, no consent at all.

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Maybe not to the same degree of specificity, but “do you want to have sex with me” is one of those things that’s really high on the informed consent priority list.

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A lot of species have complex biological adaptations, and social instincts and behaviors specifically for convincing someone to willfully have sex with them. That’s informed consent.

A simple example is elaborate bird plumage and mating dances.

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Animals don’t think “I’m gonna go find another dude to have gay sex with,” they just get the urge and act on it with whoever looks good nearby.

Several animal species are famously monogamous, penguns for example.

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7 points

Penguins (emperors at least) must work together for the eggs to survive.

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4 points

That doesn’t explain why the same couples keep coming back to each other season after season.

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-11 points

I consider myself an animal and consider your statement false.

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28 points

“iT’s NoT nAtUrAL”

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sO yOuR ArE SaYiNg HeTeRoSeXuAlItY iS nOt NaTuRAl ?! /s

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26 points

People who publish scientific articles should be forced to declare their religious views at the top of the article so that if anything is listed other than “none” then it can just be automatically discarded unless it’s replicated by a non-religious scientist. Religion just ruins everything, like running a computer with Windows.

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I don’t consider myself as religious, but this is just such a bad take.

I too dislike religion, but judging people based on their beliefs and discrediting their views because of it is exactly the problem.

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I think understanding one’s own biases is not a problem. Ethics in science is currently a problem. Political lobbying affiliations and funding sources for studies should really be prominently displayed as well.

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I disagree. For hundreds of years, illogical religious beliefs have biased science. People should have a right to know if scientists have religious beliefs so they can be weary of their agendas affecting the results. Many religious beliefs are obviously illogical and make no sense and if a scientist believes them, it does illuminate the likelihood of the accuracy of their results.

For many years “scientists” said homosexuality was caused by “mental illness” and then suddenly they decided it’s not. There were entire scientific programs devoted to racist beliefs that were psuedoscientific and often impacted by religious views justifying racism. Of course religion biases science and is a problem in having unbiased research!

I don’t think we should outlaw religious people from practicing science, but their views should at least be known so people can scrutinize their work more closely.

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Question… do you realize how fascist this sounds?

You might mean well, but all you’re doing is changing who’s being discriminated against.

Not cool.

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What field would be the cut off? Is religion going to influence how a metallurgist analyzes microstructure? How about how a chemist developing new polymers? Who gets to decide? If a scientist allows their religion, or any external influence, to influence their work they are a bad scientist. Which is why we have peer review and reproducible results. There is no need to label anyone. If their work is shit there is mechanisms to correct it, which we are seeing in the article.

People’s relationship with religion is not up to you, just how the opinions of the religious shouldn’t get to dictate the lives LGBT+. They might be in it for community and don’t belive the “fantasy”. If an individual is spouting hate that is one thing, but judging individuals by their religion is the same persecution the religious zelots dish out.

Edit: some wording

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It’s not about religion, haters will be haters, religion is just a tool haters use to prop up their views

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There’s a mutualism there. Assholes promote religion as a way to get status and impunity. Religion promotes assholes because they’re useful in manipulating populations raised to be asshole-like.

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4 points

So it’s religion

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3 points

Someone teaches them to hate. That is often religion.

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20 points

They are already supposed to declare conflicts of interest.

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I don’t think most people would consider their religion a conflict of interest. I would agree that it is for scientific research, and probably a whole lot of other things…

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My brother is an astrophysicist, and a Catholic. It’s fascinating to me, honestly.

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You have an ideological viewpoint that says that all people with a certain identity are wrong. And you present yourself as moral.

You sound like a fundamentalist, to me.

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I interpreted it as “You hold beliefs that directly contradict the work you’re performing, therefore, you have a bias that needs to be shown wasn’t a factor in your research by having your research successfully replicated by those who do not share your bias.”

A Crusade was never launched on behalf of science, people were never burned at the stake because of science, babies are not still being mutilated at birth against their will (circumcision or genital mutilation of young girls) because of science, and AIDs was not spread unchecked across the world due to government’s lack of science.

It’s religion, it ruins literally everything, especially science.

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I’m a strong atheist, but you’re kinda pick and choosing the facts. Skepticism isn’t about replacing one dogma with another.

China had a whole thing with persecuting those with religious beliefs. It’s certainly the minority, but state enforced atheism has created great horrors. Anything can be warped and disfigured into a horrific belief system used to justify anything.

Those who are religious should be held to the same level of scientific scrutiny as everyone else. There’s no evidence to show that Andrew Wakefield was Christian, and look at the shit show that caused

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I don’t read it as saying they’re wrong. I read it as saying it’s unreliable. If someone has a cacaine addiction, I’m not going to trust them to hold on to some crack and not use it. If they can prove themselves reliable then they may be trusted.

I don’t think I agree with this person’s opinion, but it’s not what you said it was.

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I think a better way to phrase that might be: I’m not going to trust a cocaine addict who tells me that cocaine is a safe and healthy alternative to my morning cup of coffee. I would like to see those findings peer reviewed and replicated by people that don’t have a vested interest in making access to cocaine easier.

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I’m as atheist as atheist gets, and I completely disagree with this, and it honestly smacks of edgy teen r/atheism. Just because you’re religious doesn’t mean you’d engage in that kind of dishonesty. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries in human history were made by religious people.

Also:

“Religion just ruins everything, like running a computer with Windows.” “@secretlyaddictedtolinux”

Username absolutely does NOT check out, lol

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The only people with no religion are solipsists. Believing in consensus reality is a religious view. What’s it like being a solipsist?

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7 points

Uh, no.

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If you have a scientific argument for realism, I’d love to hear it, and so would every scientist ever, because it’s never been proven.

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Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes

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Hey Sith!

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2 points

it’s a very sexy and aerodynamic experience

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