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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 10:50:22 JST 
Alexandre Oliva
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 10:13:30 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I can't really argue with a piece of propaganda that probably doesn't even realize the biases in the cited statistics, but I can talk to you about it.
it would be informative to contrast with statistics about sexual assault in other spaces in which nudity is present, also without a sexual connotation, and potential victims are not prevented from asking for help, such as nudist communities, and other human societies that don't make clothing mandatory, or that don't segregate naked people into hiding their bodies. it would also be interesting to contrast with statistics about sexual assaults in male-only spaces, where victims could be cis men, trans women, or trans men, depending on regulations.
I suppose you'd then conclude that what makes potential victims vulnerable in such spaces is the walls that enable aggressors to hide and make it more difficult for victims to ask for help. it's the mandated separation of the potential victims from others who could help protect them, separation by rules that won't stop someone who's out to break rules. it's the culture of body shaming, of misassigning sexual connotations to nudity, that drives people away from e.g. changing in public spaces where they could be actually safer, and forces them to enter and use the unsafe traps that attract aggressors and offers them safe hiding space. it's almost as if aggressors designed this social structure to benefit themselves, if you really think about it. safety arises from numbers, from transparency, from solidarity, not from shaming and segregation and walls.
also allow me to point out the category error in your statistics. while violence is often associated with individuals with higher levels of testosterone, a large number of such individuals don't really fit your description: at least some 10% are attracted to other men, some 20% are too young to be a threat, some aren't heavier or stronger, most are far more likely to defend a potential victim from an aggressor than to be an aggressor, and some 5% you'd mistake for women and force them to share the female-only spaces. you're basically bundling up the wrong category, segregating some threats and allies alike, while forcing some threats into the safe spaces and forcing some potential victims to share space with potential aggressors.
should trans women and small, weak and young men not be deserving of the safety from the risks of locker room violence due to the presence of strong, violent men just as much as cis women? even more so, because they're on average more vulnerable minorities?
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 02:35:26 JST
Alexandre Oliva
you seem to be conflating spectra and continua. height is a continuum. a spectrum would involve various different qualities. think different frequencies of light appearing each in different intensities. (it doesn't help that the frequencies of light are themselves another continuum, which I believe contributes to this frequent conflation)
you're right that not everything in nature is a spectrum, but most macroscopic things are a continuum. digitizing features takes significant effort for no advantage, so it's rare. you might contend that gender is such a feature, or that sex is such a feature, but even there you'd be mistaken because nature finds a way, and so taking a binary for granted is an oversimplification. there are species not too different from ours that transition naturally when nature calls for it, and others in which sexual bodily features depend not on a chromosome but on e.g. temperature at a certain stage of fetal development. it's unlikely that these complex phenomena have evolved exclusively in those branches of the tree of line, so odds are that our own genetic programming carries traces of that, and they might even be expressed in ways that we haven't quite figured out.
how about you enjoy (or not) your subjective experience but allow others to enjoy (or not) their own, acknowledging that they may be different and that that's ok?
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 02:16:23 JST
Alexandre Oliva
part of the problem is the very existence of such exclusive spaces that force an artificial categorization. most people are not harassers, even among so-called men. I'd like to believe that most people would stand for the most vulnerable. I pose that their presence in spaces where the most vulnerable exist makes the most vulnerable safer, not at higher risk. whereas the artificial attempt to force a separation makes it so that attempts to bypass it are more likely to be carried out by abusers for ill intent.
I still recall a scene from Asimov's Robots of Dawn in which the earthling protagonist is surprised upon finding out that on Aurora (another planet long-before colonized by humans) restrooms were unisex. that stayed with me. years later, I was surprised myself in public restrooms in another country, that were separated, but a cleaning lady often got into men's restrooms to do her work. in Brazil, either a cleaning gentleman is hired to do that job, or the restroom is closed for the cleaning. so this is all up to culture, and it varies across different cultures, so there's little reason to take any such cultural artifacts for granted or for "that's how it has to be". a lot of our current problems follow from past mistakes.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 01:54:36 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I can't speak for others as to how they'd define "moral violence", but if I were to try to define it, I'd probably include harassment, humiliation, and verbal abuse -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 01:45:47 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I was going by what taylan highlighted from the article. I probably wouldn't have come to such definitions myself, because I don't even reason about it in such binary terms. in neurodivergence we talk about spectrum, in which various distinct features may be present, each in a continuum of different intensities. that fits in with my personal notions of gender expressions as well, in that it's more aligned with the virtually infinite diversity in nature and, more specifically, in human experience. I don't feel this need to force-fit people into categories that aren't even well defined; accepting it as a spectrum of continua is not only less demanding and more relaxing to me, but more in line with my more general perception of macroscopic reality
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 09:06:13 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I guess you just couldn't read the reports in which cis women got physically assaulted for being misidentified as trans by self-entitled and violent bigots? I posted those, in Portuguese, because I know such violence has been an ongoing problem in Brazil, but I'd be surprised if it weren't so elsewhere.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 09:01:53 JST
Alexandre Oliva
what I find most interesting in these overlaps you highlighted, and the dispersal, is that they remove any credibility from the notion that gender is a binary thing. I find it beautiful that there are probably plenty of women whose brains are more masculine than mine and that there probably many men whose brains are more feminine than mine. it makes it absurd to deny the subjective experience some people report of not feeling like their assigned sex. there's so much overlap that about half of the people (rough estimate) could be a decent fit in either gender, it's really up to them to decide where they feel better, and who's to say they aren't meant to feel that way when they're "in range", probably more so than others whose gender expression some bigoted people wouldn't even think of challenging.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 02:23:44 JST
Alexandre Oliva
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524112351.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0666-3
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 02:07:56 JST
Alexandre Oliva
https://revistamarieclaire.globo.com/violencia-de-genero/noticia/2026/01/qualquer-uma-pode-passar-por-isso-ataques-transfobicos-se-repetem-e-atravessam-a-vida-das-mulheres-cis.ghtml
https://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/vida-urbana/2025/05/3894368-confundida-com-trans-mulher-cis-e-agredida-em-academia-de-boa-viagem.html
https://www.cartacapital.com.br/sociedade/mulher-e-agredida-apos-usar-banheiro-feminino-e-ser-confundida-com-trans-em-restaurante/
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 14:06:40 JST
Alexandre Oliva
you seem to take that as a pastime, but it's dead serious
both cis and trans women are suffering physical violence because people misguidedly believe to be able to tell cis from trans by looks, and feel entitled to hurt women they identify or misidentify as trans in women's restrooms. that's not acceptable, and it follows from two layers of ignorance and intolerance.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 13:18:01 JST
Alexandre Oliva
all of these are actual people; nearly all of them were multiple times on TV. you said it was easy, so I figured pictures wouldn't make it mission: impossible and cause you to chicken out. I'm afraid I can't arrange face-to-face meetings, there are famous people, not people I've met personally, or that I could get ahold of.
I'm honest enough to admit I'd probably have got some of them wrong. I don't delude myself with a belief that it's easy for me, not that I care much about that. but maybe I just suck at it, and you, caring so much about it, have learned about features that I'm not even aware of. here's your chance to show off, and reaffirm your belief. or not. are you having doubts already? 🙂
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 12:16:59 JST
Alexandre Oliva
IIRC I had the link handy last time we talked about this. or maybe I'd only just read it. it didn't seem to make a difference to you then, so it's not like it would now
as for the ability to infer a person's assigned sex by the looks, I challenge you to a game
do you want to play it?
I'll show you five pictures of brazilian models, all female
you're to tell me your guess as to their assigned sex and genotype, along with your rationale, without looking them up
https://busca.pcdomanual.com/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F1%2F18%2FLet%25C3%25ADcia_Colin_2026.jpg%2F330px-Let%25C3%25ADcia_Colin_2026.jpg&h=477658bef4ac47a51b6f6b5e89977803ae1021ff27481b15a7a64b560ee15b43
https://busca.pcdomanual.com/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F6%2F66%2FArezzo_Fim_de_Ano_2018_com_Gisele_B%25C3%25BCndchen_05.jpg%2F330px-Arezzo_Fim_de_Ano_2018_com_Gisele_B%25C3%25BCndchen_05.jpg&h=1166f352a0a981213126e57acd13db4bbf004c7358a8be28bb647a1c32f37f69
I hope the links work, standalone, because I'd rather not risk downloading and posting them without clarity as to their copyrights
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 11:59:12 JST
Alexandre Oliva
e a seguir, no canal animal, a vida sexual dos louva-a-deus 😉
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 10:41:00 JST
Alexandre Oliva
nope, the differences in brain development associated with gender are present even when it's misaligned with assigned sex and with genetic profile. believing that one can guess someone else's gender by just looking at the person is about as silly as believing that one can guess someone's sexual orientation by just looking at the person. or guessing the person's underwear color, for that matter. some of these are somewhat correlated, but nature is more diverse than our narrow minds can guess. we need better measurement instruments and willingness to use them to be able to perceive more detailed realities.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 10:18:26 JST
Alexandre Oliva
interesting thought that "gender isn't real". it seems to contradict scientific evidence about gendered brain development that suggests that it's as real as it gets. now, the opposite to acknowledging its measurable, objective reality would be taking it as an arbitrary choice, at which point ISTM you're the one trying to impose your unscientific, oversimplified, and self-inconsistent views onto others, no matter whom it hurts. you could do better
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 09:51:26 JST
Alexandre Oliva
minha #caminhada diária agora também tem torcida presencial 🙂
os frentistas do posto na esquina de casa têm me animado quando saio de calção mesmo no frio.
o dono (?) de um empório no caminho outro dia me parou pra elogiar que eu passava ali todo dia.
outro frequentador diário do parque hoje passou por mim duas vezes, nas duas eu estava correndinho, ele também falou algo positivo.
muito legal isso. eu imaginava que pessoas pudessem zoar, brincar, mas nunca imaginei receber tanto reforço positivo pra uma atividade que sempre me pareceu tão incompatível comigo -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 03:02:29 JST
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quando tem aquelas placas "proibida a entrada de estranhos" eu sempre sinto que é comigo 🙂
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Jonah Platt (jonahplatt@bird.makeup)'s status on Monday, 25-May-2026 07:21:20 JST 
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Antizionist Jews pretending a connection to Israel isn’t a core pillar of Judaism is like taking the meat out of a hamburger and insisting your handheld bread pile is in fact the genuine burger. Eat whatever you want, but you don’t get to redefine a classic for everyone else.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 11:21:53 JST
Alexandre Oliva
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next to the bottom-right picture, the words "I'm a microwave button physicist". the picture shows a hand pushing a microwave oven button.
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