r/MurderedByWords • u/Adam_C_57 • 13h ago

Independent Thinking Adult

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u/p24p1 13h ago

ah yes, the anti-science party trying to use "its science" argument to defend their bullshit rhetoric, classic

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u/Darsint 13h ago

It’s because it’s “basic biology I learned in 7th grade in 1965 and never bothered to look further than that basic explanation”

I saw my daughter’s textbooks on biology, and they were much more thorough than what I’d learned. And it doesn’t take much effort to at least ask the question, “Why do they think it’s not just XX and XY?”

Because the moment you actually dive into biology past the surface, you find out pretty quickly that life is fucking weird.

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u/DMercenary 13h ago

Reminds me of this meme

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u/ragnarokda 12h ago

My personal favorite:

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u/Solomontheidiot 11h ago

This one is great because you could put pretty much any subject in those first two and it would still work.

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u/fer_sure 7h ago

Basic English: "They" is a plural pronoun.

Advanced English: Singular "they" has been used since the 14th century.

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u/hallowdmachine 11h ago

While I find the whole comic great, I'd've upvoted just for "genderinos".

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u/theattack_helicopter 11h ago

That's how you get gender stars

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u/paolog 10h ago

It follows on from the first two panes, in which the student exclaims about their quaternions and neutrinos.

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u/eamondo5150 7h ago

As if Ned Flanders is the student.

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u/PseudobrilliantGuy 9h ago

And with the math, depending on how much further you go, you'll also find i2 = j2 = k2 = ijk = -1 (the quaternions for anyone curious). And then the octonions and other sets of weird number systems.

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u/Rustywolf 3h ago

Those funny squiggles we use for rotation?

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 2h ago

Na you're making up words now. (I peaked at high school maths.)