Of course that's the worst and the best part about truth. We do all have our rose tinted glasses but trying to find the truth regardless of that handicap is a noble pursuit. The hardest part in my opinion is not swapping one shade of glasses for another. It's always best to go smaller rather than larger when attempting to find the truth. Physicist have it way easier in that regard because there is an absolute limit and the smaller we go the better we can understand reality. Sociologists on the other hand are constantly hampered by "culture" and the fact that while you can go down in scope the big picture can be just as important. As for your example, right now biological sex isn't in question. Your chromosomes dictate that and anything else is merely cosmetic or ideological. We may get to the point were we can change that but for now it's just not possible. But that is biological it's rather cut and dry. Sociological it's a mess and I try to avoid the sociological whenever possible.

I know you're just commenting and don't hopefully mean that literally but I'm still obliged to say, the truth is a fact and completely independent of people or their perception/wants of the truth. Truth is by definition objective and not subjective. Which is what this ^ is getting at; along with it gets easier to deny facts the longer you deny them. Nothing removes all respectability from a person faster than saying "my truth". This is both dishonest and idiotic. Dishonest because what they really mean, and they know it, is it's their opinion. Idiotic because we all know it's not the truth and when someone starts by saying "well my truth" the next words out of their mouth should be completely disregarded as nothing more than fiction or an outright lie.

In this case you're both right even if you guys generally disagree. That's pretty rare here on FS so I'll take that as a win. As for posting links all you have to do is edit your comment and you can put in the links.

This is some important self realizations right here. All kinds of mental illness stem from the assumed thoughts of others about yourself when in reality it's seldomly done. Most people only make surface impressions of the strangers around them. Generally they fall into two categories, sexual attraction and danger. But these are, like I said, just surface impressions that rarely get a second thought. This is also the exact reason things like acting like you belong, are on an important errand, or are angry, work so well when you want to avoid attention or be left alone. Are brains just go, nope, and move on.

Washing your hair with nothing but cold clean water is recommended but if you have to use soap or shampoo most people don't need to use more than a dime size dab; longer hair can use up to a nickel sized dab. Most people use way too much soap and this can have negative effects on your hair.

Then there is the whole legal difference between a platform and a publisher. Media platforms are not supposed to regulate what gets published. They get held in a different tax bracket/have to pay less taxes than a publisher. A platform that regulates the media content is then by definition not a platform. This does not include explicit content or content that is illegal by it's very nature. This is why platforms like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc.... have been called into congressional hearings. Of course proving they are intentionally removing content based on (fill in the political blank) is difficult since the companies are not required to keep that information and they "self" regulate.

No, they don't. That's not to say introverts don't experience social anxiety but many of us don't have anxiety more just a general desire to not be around people as much as possible. Then of course you have the conundrum that introverts are less likely to tell you that so extroverts tend to assume and they will say their assumptions. After a while everyone starts to assume what they're hearing is the truth since they hear it so often. Which brings us to this^. Instead of introverts this is really just describing someone with social anxiety which could be anyone.

You mean the definition: You have to allow or agree with everything I believe but I don't have to agree with or allow anything you believe. Also if you disagree with anything I believe you are not tolerant and need to be removed.
Yeah we see that alot right now.

Dude that whole series is whacked. I read through most of it and it if Dune or Children of Dune is out there the rest of it just gets worse. It's really about unshackling the human race from the path they've stagnated into and giving them the freedom to expand and better themselves but yeah there is alot of death, misogyny, and the devaluation of human life. The series is literally the epitome of it's going to get worse before it gets better.