Good point, yeah. Reactionaries often don't realize that the weird "SJW" they're reacting to is a troll or a sock puppet.

Agreed, the small character limit is an absolutely evil genius move if your goal is to fuck up society and discourse. It's baffling to me that so much discourse is still happening at that hellhole of a website.
Furthermore, since a lot of people were either banned (some for better reasons than others) or left on their own and went on to other websites, echo chambers were created and Twitter itself became an echo chamber for the wokes. So if you look just at Twitter it will seem like the overton window has shifted but that's not at all true in reality. People running off to their own online echo chambers and getting used to not having their opinions challenged is a problem although tbh I don't know what the solution would be.

I know, right? I always see these overblown reactions to some idiots' stupid takes online, and every goddamn anti-SJW reactionary is like "ThE LeFt iS sAyInG ThAt"... Like dude, the left isn't a hive mind, in fact the overwhelming majority of leftists are tired of the woke performative stuff that doesn't actually solve the real problems. Making a movie character gay won't help people who live paycheck to paycheck and can't afford healthcare, but the online part of both sides of the political spectrum tend to react to the former more than the latter. I guess the internet just tends to really overblow things, like when some stupid shit a few dozen people do is suddenly "a trend" or whatever, but over here in reality nobody actually cares. I mean when was the last time someone mentioned this internet bullshit irl to you? In my experience whenever someone mentions it, it's to make fun of it.

You had me at the possibility of a good time

Saaaame! For years I thought plants sucked (because I had a bit of a "not like the other girls" phase due to my upbringing and since plants are/were considered a feminine thing, I just automatically hated them), but my mom got me into gardening a little bit and now I have chilli peppers, bell peppers, garlic, a bunch of herbs and also some succulents and carnivorous plants in my apartment. They make every room so much nicer, clean the air and I get to harvest them and have delicious veggies and fresh herbs every once in a while.

Yeah, literally the point of food is to taste good (and ideally not be *too* unhealthy). If it tastes good to you, congrats, it's fulfilled its function. You shouldn't be a dick and tell people that something is bad because you personally don't like it, right? For instance I personally dislike most mushrooms (which as a Czech is akin to a blasphemy as mushroom picking is almost a national sport lol), but I won't go around telling people not to eat them, like wtf. This Hawaiian pizza hate is so weird to me.
Also that topping sounds delicious. I've never thought of putting shrimp together with sour cream and spring onions but those are some of my favourite ingredients so I probably should've thought of it sooner. Thanks for the tip!

Right? My fav song was ##MONTH## ##WEATHER_TYPE##. It has a rocking ##STRING_INSTRUMENT## solo.

But that's the point, this isn't out of context, this whole conversation has been about SA so the issue is rather people interpreting it in context.
But again, splitting hairs. I'm not gonna push back on this too hard because I think we already established we both agree that physical arousal shouldn't be a factor in SA investigations.

True, nothing wrong about that fact. But I think people might have an issue with the framing and mentioning this fact within a conversation about sexual assault. Like they're expecting that sentence to be implying something.
I know you like to play devil's advocate so I won't accuse you of holding any beliefs you realistically don't. But you see how saying this irl would be pretty bad for optics, right?

That's... That's not really correct to what I wrote either lol. But I see what you're doing. Something something did you just assume my gender? (Idk I just woke up after a few hours long intense D&D session so my ability to make jokes and sassy comebacks is still rebooting right now :D)
@memesgobrrr Well it's banned by the UN and also a bunch of non-UN countries so no wonder you don't know it's a thing. But it still happens, especially in Africa.

Did I? Pretty sure I only said circumcision is the example that comes to mind, because in terms of men's bodily autonomy it's, to my knowledge at least, the most talked about issue. More than pregnancy anyway, lol.
Oh and yes bodily autonomy also applies to vaccines.

It applies to anyone, of course!
With men the example that first comes to mind is circumcision. Which is absolutely a violation of bodily autonomy and shouldn't be done.
One argument for circumcision I've heard are the supposed medical benefits, but turns out that in countries with fair access to water and therefore good hygienic standards, even the medical argument becomes utterly void. At the end of the day it's just a religious practice that crept up into the mainstream.
Or are there any other examples of interference with men's bodily autonomy you had in mind?

I guess flinching when you see a punch coming your way is more analogous, then? Just because you flinched, that doesn't mean you wanted to be punched, right?
And semantics aside, I'll be sure to keep my eye on anyone who tries to seriously, unironically make the case that someone "enjoyed" an assault because their body "prepared" for it.
And again, arousal can be preparation but it can also be a reaction to something that's already happening. Or it can be entirely random. I mean, aren't inappropriately timed boners a crucial part of the male teenage experience?

Weeell I don't know if the analogy is *that* incorrect. Arousal can happen when you look at someone you find attractive but also just as a reaction to physical stimulation. And the latter might be your body preparing "out of necessity" – especially for those of us who have a vagina, the body knows that it'd hurt like hell otherwise so it prepares, whether the encounter is consensual or not – rather than out of genuine arousal. I suppose the mechanics might be a bit different for you gents, but the principle remains. Especially when we take into account that the overwhelming majority of SA happens between people who know each other and there's usually a lot of coercion, manipulation, gaslighting and power dynamics involved.