• yesman@lemmy.world
    822·
    9 days ago

    After the advent of DNA testing, many anthropologists and archeologists were embarrassed because skeletal remains were missexed.

    Even my A&P textbook had this garbage in it. It claimed racial difference in the skull and sex difference in the Hip bones. But it’s bullshit. The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is with DNA.

    ‘The Mismeasure of Man’ by Gould is a fascinating history of bio-determinism and psudoscientific attempt to measure it.

    • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
      26·
      9 days ago

      Archaeologist here, maybe it’s just new wave training but widely taught that it’s not an easy task to sex skeletons on morphology alone.

      Sure some features appear more commonly amongst men and some more commonly amongst women, but there is considerable overlap.

      Pelvis are generally identifiable, but the bio-archaeologists I know prefer to say the skeleton displays female characteristics without providing a definitive biological sex. They have to have some great evidence before claiming for certain.

      Also fun fact, you can’t measure this morphology when there’s still skin and muscle fucking attached.

      • turmacar@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        The show Bones had a lot of weirdness, but I did appreciate that they consistently (at least the first few seasons when I was watching) stripped the bones down and even had a bug guy on staff to do it efficiently.

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is to be interested in what they’re interested in, and not say stuff like “ay, babey, you’d looked better with more meat on those bones!” Otherwise, just ride the vibe and see where the mood takes you.

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
      81·
      9 days ago

      What stops you from doing the same to them. This is the funniest shit. Why don’t we work. This is how deep they go and we’re like “I’m tired I’m so sweepy guys why can’t the other swide jus pway nice”

      pirate some photo shop. Drink a couple beers and fucking troll. What happened to the left being comedians and artists. Too busy selling feet pics?

      Let’s fucking go.

      • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 days ago

        People are tired because there’s literally no winning with tactics like that. The idiotic tactics on display in the OP aren’t about realistically “winning” the culture war. It’s just sowing so many nonsense weeds that any reasonable discussion is choked off of the vine. When you allow inanity like “male/female skull assignment” as a platform instead of “simply being correct”, the whole game goes down the toilet. It’s now just “who can shout the loudest and the longest and into the most ears directly”. That’s not a race with a finish line, it’s the cultural equivalent to a “last person shitting” contest and these motherfuckers are full of shit.

        If you have a mind to think, you can only turn it off so long. And when the reasonable person does switch theirs back on, they’ll eventually have to contend with the mess.

        • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 days ago

          People say they’re tired but that’s just defeatism. Tired before they begin. Too tired to try. That’s not fatigue; that’s losing.

          We keep hearing the same excuses:

          “Don’t wrassle with pigs.”
“We all lose if we engage”
“I think I broke his fist on my face”

          That is absurd. That’s just rationalizing inaction.

          There is no finish line in this fight. There’s only the work. You learn the game. Then you play the game. That’s it. No more nonsense. No more philosophical excuses for not doing the work.

          We’ve been shoved into corners of the internet because we act like spectators. We should be dominating those corners. We should be everywhere. Sharing content. Making content. Boosting our voices. Drowning out their hypocrisy with facts, with memes, with relentless presence. That is how the took over every algorithm. That’s why my grandmother knows every single one of their points and none of ours. Do we have any points beyond just calling them racists or fascist? What are we doing here…

          You don’t need to “win” arguments. You just need to amplify. Take their dumb takes, like Tim Pool calling online arguments “warfare”, and turn that into clips, memes, videos. Cut. Clip. Post. Share. Boom. It’s not hard. It’s barely work.

          And it isn’t being done. That’s on us. If content like this video isn’t going viral every day, that’s our fault. That’s a failure of effort and coordination.

          We need to wake up and get serious. Support each other. Boost names. Share posts. Make content. Don’t stop until your grandmother is quoting memes from Reddit, Lemmy, and X.

          Stop being passive. Start being present. Every single day.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwNNB1FgEzA

          • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            It’s true. I have been told by many women my head looks quite phallic. Every one that’s told me that has been too impressed to date me. I didn’t expect it to affect even my online interactions.

            Suffering from success…

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          We can, we can laugh the loudest and longest. We can do the same. There is winning here. You make idiots look like idiots and they all know it when it happens. Highly effective.

      • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 days ago

        There’s no winning against them fighting fire with fire. They’re masters of this stuff. Of double speak, hypocrisy, avoiding accountability, distraction, and so forth. I don’t want to fight just to fight. I want to fight to win.

        I agree with you that a fight must be fought. But, maximizing efficiency, what exactly is the fight?

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          This just ain’t true. I run circles around every conservofuck in my office. They can’t even see me coming. Its the inability to grasp nuance that let’s us trounce them. Let’s do this to every member of Donald’s cabinet and we’ll just make the “femskulls” fit. It’ll be hilarious. Use GIMP.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    21·
    9 days ago

    I love their little diagrams showing us just how fucking wrong they are.

    “That’s a female skull! (As long as you ignore 40% of the bone mass)”

  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
    181·
    9 days ago

    The hilarious thing about all these fascist trying to claim that the new Pope is woke is that he’s more conservative than Francis.

    Prevost opposes the ordination of women to the diaconate, arguing it “doesn’t necessarily solve a problem” and could create new issues.[106]

    Prevost opposes euthanasia, abortion, and the death penalty.

    Prevost opposed the inclusion of “gender ideology” in Peruvian school curricula, stating it promotes “genders that don’t exist”.[81][121] In 2012, he criticized popular culture’s sympathy for the “homosexual lifestyle” and same-sex families.[122] Prevost expressed reservations about “sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the gospel”

    Just because he doesn’t hate brown people and doesn’t like trump they’re doing trans phrenology on him lol.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    121·
    8 days ago

    Oh, just like they did in Nazi Germany back then, measuring skulls to find inferior people. They called it “Rassenhygiene” back then. It is amazing to see how many Nazi Germany ideas they unearth and recycle in the US nowadays.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 days ago

    I really don’t understand that they’re trying to say here. Dude actually has pretty strong zygomatic arches. We can’t all be Abe Lincoln.

  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 days ago

    The internet is bringing back 19th Century eugenics pseudo science. I wonder if they think he has dimples on the back of his skull because he has creole ancestry…