Misogyny even exists in animal testing
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The jist of the article, labs are being told to start using female mice in animal testing because male mice are used 5.5 times more often than female mice are.
Not that they are wrong, I just find it amusing in these days of overly PC and feminist arguments.
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You act as though that is some sort of recent revelation.
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So, now feminists are going to put themselves at odds with PETA.
Wow... list keeps growing.
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So, now feminists are going to put themselves at odds with PETA.
And here we have someone who was an idiot and didn't read TFA.
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So, now feminists are going to put themselves at odds with PETA.
How is a person at odds with themselves?
Don't answer that if your reply will cause another Guacamole thread.
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Just FYI, female bodies are slightly different than male ones. Things that are completely harmless to men can be harmful to women.
It's a good idea to tell researchers to stop preferring male test subjects.
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How is a person at odds with themselves?
Peta is nothing like feminism.
Hell, they objectify women to further their cause.
EDIT: I fail at reading, but I still love insulting Peta.
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Oh no. I agree with the article.
But if you think about it. It's basically women saying they want more animal testing....
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It's a good idea to tell researchers to stop preferring male test subjects.
Though it's questionable how much this matters when we're talking mice vs humans, where there are already so many things that are different. Seems like something worth testing, though.
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Hell, they objectify women to further their cause.
Even worse: They convince women to objectify themselves!
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mice vs humans
Mice are actually pretty close in test results.
I would be more concerned if we were testing with an animal that has opposite scales between genders in their dimorphic traits.
EG species where the female is larger.
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Peta is nothing like feminism.
Perhaps not, but I would imagine that there is a fair amount of overlap in that Venn diagram.
Hell, they objectify women to further their cause.
The Idiot Fox would say that it is OK, as long as it is for a good cause.
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Mice are actually pretty close in test results.
Sort of. Still so many things that don't translate, though.
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@aliceif said:
It's a good idea to tell researchers to stop preferring male test subjects.
Though it's questionable how much this matters when we're talking mice vs humans, where there are already so many things that are different. Seems like something worth testing, though.
Then there's also the little matter that race also plays a role - a drug may have a different effect depending on whether a person of African or Caucasian descent is treated with it.
Talk about a PC-Bombshell...
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Just FYI, female bodies are slightly different than male ones. Things that are completely harmless to men can be harmful to women.
It's a good idea to tell researchers to stop preferring male test subjects.
I agree with you, I just thought it was an amusing article. It is especially so in light of the takeover of the forums by the PC police.
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But in all seriousness... a doctor's office is not the place to insist that your mental preferred gender matters more.
Functionally equivalent isn't going to matter when you overdose.
not joking. This is me actually giving a shit
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The neverending SJW-baiting with idiotic trans-related jokes is getting on my fucking nerves.
It's more the fault of people like you or boomzilla or lorne_kates than fox that threads keep getting derailed.
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The neverending SJW-baiting with idiotic trans-related jokes is getting on my fucking nerves.
It's more the fault of people like you or boomzilla or lorne_kates than fox that threads keep getting derailed.
This. It's getting re-god-damned-diculous. One is biting too easily, but there sure is plenty of bait around.
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Relatively common, at least in parts of the US.
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Is "que?" commonly used by english speakers or you're just mocking us?
Yes.
In all seriousness, it is relatively common in the US. Mostly among those who spend or have spent a lot of time around Spanish speaking folk. As a construction superintendent in a past life, I have spent a lot of time around those who speak Spanish.
Also, is everyone going to assume that everything is offensive from now on? This place has become very unfun with the arrival of the Idiot Fox.
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Also, is everyone going to assume that everything is offensive from now on? This place has become very unfun with the arrival of the Idiot Fox.
Uh, the constant baiting is kinda offensive to some who don't blow up at you as well. The constant blowing up just means that it gets used more till others tell you to knock it down a notch.
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Can we just nuke this forum?
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I think labs should also start using diseased or deformed mice too, just to make sure there's a bigger sample.
Also, it's a good idea to use mice previously used (they do allow the mice to roam free after testing, right?).
Filed under: Please assume the Party Escort Position
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Also, is everyone going to assume that everything is offensive from now on?
I wouldn't be offended if you were mocking us. I was confused and not getting the joke.
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Just FYI, female bodies are slightly different than male ones. Things that are completely harmless to men can be harmful to women.
I would think the difference between a mouse and a human would dwarf the difference between a male human and female human. But what do I know.
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Concur.
It's not even funny anymore. And in this case, Fox isn't even biting. (Maybe he's grown a few brain cells.)
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I wouldn't be offended if you were mocking us. I was confused and not getting the joke.
English is a bastard language. We tend to adopt and commandeer anything we find amusing. That and the US has a very large Spanish speaking population, so bits of Spanish drift in to the vernacular.
Plus, previous career working with lots of Hispanic people. I assure you, I would never mock them. They are some of the hardest working people I have ever had the good fortune to work with and a great work ethic.
If anything, I would be prejudiced toward Hispanic people. They show up early, work as late as you need without bitching and once the work is done for the day they usually have a cooler of beer in the back of their truck. What's not to love?
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I think they should use some pregnant female mice. Because all medication is scary during pregnancy for the total lack of testing. Of course it isn't in the labs interests to find any extra problems with the medications they are testing.
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And in this case, Fox isn't even biting.
Maybe he's at lunch or something--he's been going gangbusters all day in the Lounge.
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Fox isn't even biting. (Maybe he's grown a few brain cells.)
No-one mentioned him which is how he's normally baited.
I wasn't even trying to bait him, I was just making a joke.
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Maybe he's at lunch or something--he's been going gangbusters all day in the Lounge.
He's baaaaaack
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Not you too
Hey, I was complaining about political correctness on this forum before it was cool!
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Maybe he's at lunch
I thought Fox was accalia (?)...or whoever it is here that keeps mentioning foxes...racepro?
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Is "que?" commonly used by english speakers or you're just mocking us?
Hell?
Well fuck other languages then. Wouldn't want to speak them and accidentally offend someone.
Wait.... you aren't Chinese, why are you speaking Chinese. I know it's not so you can communicate...
You're not short enough to speak our language, please stop.
For godsakes don't bother the Japanese. I enjoy their gratuitous use of English.
It's charming that someone appreciates your culture enough to imitate it.
I mean, that's the emotional response of normal people. To be charmed when found out that someone else is imitating you.
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Of course it isn't in the labs interests to find any extra problems with the medications they are testing.
Why? Honestly, why? I thought lawsuits turned out not to be that fun.
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I thought Fox was accalia (?)...or whoever it is here that keeps mentioning foxes...racepro?
Accalia is the nice Fox that can't type for shit. @Fox is the idiot SJW fox.
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Of course it isn't in the labs interests to find any extra problems with the medications they are testing.
Yeah, they're just assholes... what with all the investing in research to create life-saving medicine.
I mean, if you do anything really important to people, you should offer it for free....
Like phones and roads.... damn those tolls.
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Who wants to just go ahead and @-mention the Idiot Fox and get it over with?
Why, do you think he would appreciate the humor?
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It's more the fault of people like you or boomzilla or lorne_kates than fox that threads keep getting derailed
I don't think any of my throw away jokes have seriously derailed anything, have they?
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Why, do you think he would appreciate the humor?
I can't imagine xirit would. I mean, to appreciate humor, you have to accept that it's at something's expense.
I suppose virsis may enjoy comedy that laughs at a rich-white-male-cis-gendered-something-something.
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