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.
Pope Joan
Submitted 10 months ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Transphobic sex-purists think the perfect male/female bodies are built like Disney characters
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 10 months ago
but what about the Green M&M?
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
misread this as “German M&M”
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
JustJack23@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
That’s their research material
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Does this imply women have bigger brains?
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Those two skull outlines just look like they were photographed with a different focal length or something. There is no way skull morphology is this strongly affected by sex.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah… Like there’d be a bit more credence if the guy was going after the pelvis but… You’d have to either xray or extract the pelvis for that.
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m not catholic, but I’m pretty sure they would object to extracting the popes pelvis.
absentbird@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Even then there’s so much overlap in human dimorphism that it’s not an exact science, there’s still like a 5-10% error rate in sexing perfectly preserved pelvic bones. Accurate enough for anthropology, but that’s a big error rate to apply to individuals.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
At school we had a thing where if your ring finger was longer than your index finger then it meant you were a bummer. Never mind the fact that you can change that with slight angling of the hand.
This is what those kids are doing now.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 10 months ago
We need a cultural revolution because who the fuck in their American minds decided this?
khannie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 months 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)”
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Guess what… The media is not even covering this!!!
13igTyme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So according to this person’s little diagrams, women have a larger area for the brain.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
“I am not just a racist. I am an educated racist.” - Measurehead
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 months ago
THE UNPROMISING RACE PUPIL RETURNS
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
"The influence of the “ham sandwich” race is waning "
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I misread foresight as foreskin lmao 😂
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
it’s real, you can confirm it by denting their skull in the area associated with “reasoning, causality, planning” and observe them fall insensate to the ground
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
There’s only person in the world that I want to admire my skull and that’s Raoul Duke.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Wow. True Nazi science. And all in a day like May 9th 2025.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are we now doing phrenology, Father?
Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
That’s right! The skull goes in the square hole
Rin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What stops you from doing the same to them. This is the funniest shit. Why don’t we work
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There’s no consistency to their beliefs. You cannot “gotcha” them by pointing out hypocrisy, it in fact makes them happier.
qarbone@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
some_dude@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The next revolution will be memeified
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
If you come down to their level, they beat you with experience/
evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Wait, so his skull layout is in the shape of a crucifix? Maybe it just means he’s extra holy.
FrChazzz@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ironically, that shape is known as a transverse cross (one of the many shapes of crucis that Romans used for crucifixion).
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Transvestigators are the crazies I find most fascinating.
yesman@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
qarbone@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
arrow74@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months 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 to do it efficiently.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 months ago
The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is with DNA.
What about sexing a pope?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dig up their corpse. Put it on trial.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Most anthropologists and archaeologists are too old for that.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Take them to dinner first and see if y’all click
slingstone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, I guess you’d check under his skirt or whatever you call it.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Complete tangent- I’m not up on the new lingo, is sex your presentation to the world, whether you’re xx or xy, or something else? Because I’ve been seeing quite a bit of conflation between sex and gender lately and it’s left me confused.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Typically, “sex” is used in reference to biological characteristics, and “gender” to sociological ones.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Phrenology is so hot rn
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 10 months ago
They watched Conclave too !
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 10 months ago
These are all the exact same views that Francis held, almost to the word. The truth is that the Overton Window of the Roman Catholic Church is incredibly narrow. When we talk about a Cardinal being “liberal” or “conservative” that is within this context. In terms of the secular world, the Roman Catholic Church is extremely conservative, even among the most “liberal” cardinals and Popes. Catholics all believe in Catholic dogma, even if they are lenient in how it is applied.
Female deacons- catholicnewsagency.com/…/pope-francis-on-female-d…
Euthanasia and abortion- catholicnewsagency.com/…/you-don-t-play-with-life…
Death penalty (not sure why this is listed as if it’s a conservative/bad thing to be against)- americamagazine.org/…/pope-francis-closes-door-de…
"Gender ideology "- vaticannews.va/…/pope-francis-gender-ideology-is-…
Homosexuality- usccb.org/…/pope-clarifies-remarks-about-homosexu…
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 months ago
They’re saying “I’m a very stupid person, make fun of me”
StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And make fun of them I shall.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 10 months 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…
ceenote@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah, yes, the bastion of radical progressivism and LGBTQ+ rights, the… Catholic Church?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
When every single pope looks like a left-wing extremist to you, you may have strayed too far to the right.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Aside from the obvious, one of the problems with Transvestigators is that they think all kinds of ridiculous people are trans. Frank Zappa, The Rock, Scarlett Johansson, the guy who plays Mac from It’s Always Sunny, JK Rowling, Shaq. Shaq, for god’s sake!
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Transvestigators: “Trans X will never be real X!”
Also transvestigators: “Trans X are apparently so functionally indistinguishable from biological X that you can’t tell from thousands of hours of footage (including their voice) from public appearances and paparazzi voyeurism taken at almost every possible angle over dozens of years, including childhood pictures. Instead you need to resort to convoluted, pseudoscientific, unreproducibly arbitrary, per-person diagrams. This applies to dozens of celebrities. But they’ll never be a real X tho!”
Transvestigators are scum, but I feel if I were trans that these “investigations” of obviously and openly cis people would make me feel more affirmed than basically any other form of external validation.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
JK Rowling? 😂 why. Is her hatred for trans people just the same as closeted gays being anti gay?
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 months ago
Funnily enough, she has does have some quotes out there about how she was envious of boys getting to be boys. She’s obviously not a trans woman but I don’t think you can rule out overcompensating repression.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shaq, for god’s sake!
You don’t get that big without an unnatural amount of hormones.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At least they’re trying to stop someone from being seen as male for once?
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So I suppose it is settled, the new freedom pope has a feminine penis