Archive | July 2026

The Cesspool of Hate and Bigotry Right Under Many Parents’ Noses

Jul31

Let me make some feminist observations coming from a place you probably wouldn’t expect to find feminist observations at all – online video gaming and especially massive multiplayer online video gaming (MMOs).

One game I’ve played is called Black Desert Online (hereafter abbreviated BDO). It has one of the most extensive character customization editors in the entire online gaming world. The character face alone has 39 separate small regions that can be adjusted in every conceivable dimension including the ears. The body has 19 separate regions adjustable via sliders and that’s not counting the hands, each of which has 3 adjustable regions per finger and the palm region which is a total of 51 potential adjustments across the body from neck to foot. (Toes are not individually adjustable.)

You can create a character template and then save it. You can share saved templates publicly. And shared templates can be named.

I’ve seen some incredible templates done, which look nothing like the default character that Pearl Abyss has created. I’ve seen hundreds of celebrity templates that, depending on the gender of the specific class (classes are gender locked), look like famous actors, actresses, sports figures, or even a few politicians.

But for all of this extremely creative work, we then find the other templates. You don’t find this with male gender classes, only female gender classes.

Templates in which the character’s breasts are so large you wonder how the character can possibly stand. Character templates with buttocks so large that you wonder if something is medically wrong with them. Character templates titled “Mommy”, “Waifu”, “Cutie”. There used to be a lot of “Ho” templates but Pearl Abyss apparently cracked down and forced those to be retitled or deleted. You do still see some character templates with “THOT” in them.

Another game I’ve played is Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR). SWTOR doesn’t have character creators. You can basically choose one of 4 body types but you can make extensive face adjustments, just nothing like BDO. But SWTOR’s brilliance is that it has so many character outfits you can put your character into. Mandalorian armor sets (a few dozen choices), Jedi robe or armor sets (a few dozen choices), Sith robe and armor choices, several dozen choices that look like smuggler and bounty hunter type armor. And the beauty of this system is that almost any class can wear almost any outfit set. (A tiny number are gender locked.)

And given these choices, as a role-player, I almost always had my female characters dressed in full coverings most of the time. The rare time they were not was usually some in-character function, like attending a gala and wearing an evening gown.

And further, you can have dozens of potential companions in SWTOR to fight alongside you (one companion at a time but you can switch any time except in the middle of a fight). And many of those characters are female too.

So what do many of those female characters and companions get dressed in most often? The least covering most revealing outfits possible.

Then let’s talk about MMO game chat systems. Most MMOs have channels that are pretty wide reaching. In BDO there are several channels that reach the entire instance of the game world. In SWTOR there are general channels that reach wide sections of the game world. In WOW, there are general channels that reach wide segments of the game world.

These are a built in feature of almost every MMO in existence. And if you listen to these channels, you find yourself immersed in a total culture of absolutely pure misogyny and hate. Hatred of women, hatred of anyone not white (the use of the N-word is common), hatred of anyone who is queer but especially hatred of trans women and gay men, and more.

These channels are among the most toxic, abusive channels of communications in the world today. And none of these companies police these channels. No policing action is done. The most vile, hateful things are said in these channels.

There is non-stop racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic chatter going on in these game channels 24 hours a day, 7 days a week except when the servers are down for maintenance.

People talk about 4Chan and 8Chan as toxic places on the dark web but MMO game chat systems, and the cultures they create which are inhabited by MILLIONS OF YOUR MEN AND TEENAGE BOYS are conditioning these young men and teenage boys to become bigots in every part of their corrupt little souls.

Are there those that resist? Sure, but most don’t fight the tide. Those who don’t want to hear it, because they have no real policing powers and the owners of the games refuse to police their chat systems, usually just turn off global or wide reaching channels that becomes hotbeds of bigotry.

The online social media culture of hate and negativity that we see on Facebook, Threads, BlueSky, X, and other social media platforms did not arise overnight from whole cloth. It arose from these MMO game chat systems that have been unpoliced since the mid-1990s, places of toxic hate and abuse against anyone the majority deems “less than”. Then those people grew up and moved on to other social media where they brought their sense of entitlement, hatred, and bigotry with them.

You cannot clean up social media systems without first going after related communication systems like MMO game chat systems, the systems that start programming kids who are in their early teens to hate and mock anyone different from themselves.

And that’s going to require legislation that neither major party wants to touch right now.

Big tech is out of control, not just in AI, but in its open support of sexual abuse, its support of production of child sexual assault materials (CSAM), it’s production of openly racist materials.

If this is not reigned in on a society wide scale, it will destroy civilization. Elon Musk fears people of color and people of religions other than Christianity. He and his tech bros are a bigger threat to civilization than any other single factor right now.

Trans Women Are Not Men And Never Were

Jul6

In the last 20 years there have been 50 peer reviewed scientific studies examining over 6099 trans athletes asking whether trans women have an advantage in sports over cisgender women. None of these studies have shown any advantage, yet ignorant people continue to claim that “common sense” insists this is true.

Body composition and physical fitness in transgender versus cisgender individuals: a systematic review with meta-analysis

New Study Once Again Shows Trans Women Have No Physical Advantage Over Cis Athletes

The critical error of most transphobes is in thinking that transgender women are just men making a choice.

But there are now 30+ years of biological research showing that trans women are biologically distinct from cisgender men. Neurologically, trans women have brain structures that closely match cisgender women. Frontal cortex thickness and neuron density matches that of cisgender women. Multiple structures in the hypothalamus match those of cisgender women.

A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality

Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus

A sex difference in the hypothalamic uncinate nucleus: relationship to gender identity

There are other signs as well. Well over 90% of cisgender men have ring fingers longer than their index fingers. Cisgender women have index fingers as long as their ring finger or longer. Most trans women have female index to ring finger ratios, not male ratios.

Digit ratio (2D:4D) and transgender identity: new original data and a meta-analysis

There are physical things that men generally cannot do but women can. Trans women can often do those actions but cisgender men almost never can. These “tricks” rely on women having a lower center of gravity than men, usually due to more combined muscle/fat mass in the lower body. After several years on HRT many trans women can do these tricks too, because they’ve acquired female proportions, not male proportions.

The US Air Force discovered that, even before starting HRT, trans women performed 18%-30% lower on average than cisgender men. They also showed that after 2-4 years of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT), that trans women showed no advantages over cisgender women in lower body strength, or in run speeds and only a tiny advantage in upper body strength.

The goal of the study was to determine when transgender Air Force service members, both MTF and FTM, should begin to be tested on the scale that matches their gender identity and not the scale that matches assigned sex at birth. It gave a definitive answer to that and showed that after 2 years of GAHT they should be tested on the same scale as their gender identity, and that after 4 years or GAHT, any remaining advantages they saw early on were gone or nearly gone.

Fit Transitioning: When Can Transgender Airmen Fitness Test in Their Affirmed Gender?

A British study showed that trans women, after 2+ years of GAHT, had decreases in VO2 Max (amount of oxygen reaching the muscles) that matched the VO2 Max levels of cisgender women.

Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study

Over and over again, science tells us that transgender women are biologically distinct from cisgender men. It tells us that, except for genitalia, they are biologically more like women than men.

I recently saw one discussion where a pro-trans advocate answered the question “What is a woman?” from a medical perspective. Her response was that a woman is any individual born with a neurological template that more closely matches the average female neurological template and that a man is any individual whose neurological template more closely matches the average male neurological template. And that’s a scientifically correct answer that is grounded in the research that has been accomplished over the last 31+ years. (Zhou et al. discovered the initial BSTc differences in the hypothalamus in 1995, which opened the floodgates for transgender neurological research.)

I’ll accept a call for more scientific research into this question but right now, today, in 2026, there is NO DATA that supports the claim that trans women have an unfair advantage over cisgender women in sports. I’ll even accept a call for each sport to study the issue, scientifically, as to whether trans women can play that sport. Would more research help? Yes. And perhaps sport by sport rules would alleviate concerns.

But if you claim otherwise, that trans women have some inherent “advantage”, you are a scientifically illiterate bigot and your opinion is garbage unworthy of serious consideration.