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A space for conversations worth having and questions worth asking. This is long form dialogue focused on the ideas shaping our time. Thought Explorers.

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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
Title You do not engage reality. You just relabel it. Steelman – @SpicyNo23563912 The strongest version I can fairly give your view is this: women bear the physical burden of pregnancy while men do not, so you treat calls for women to carry every pregnancy as an unequal demand. On that view abortion gets framed as healthcare because pregnancy is a medical condition affecting the woman’s body and future. From there you treat male responsibility as weak because men can help cause pregnancy without carrying its physical burden, so demands on women feel heavier than demands on men. That is the best version I can responsibly give without putting extra words in your mouth. Here let me help with the book too. These are starters for your chapters. No thank you needed since you will not be accountable for your own book, I will be accountable for you. @SpicyNo23563912’s book: Chapter 1: Men did it It was a dark and lonely night. A problem appeared. Men did it. Chapter 2: Get sterilized Women can choose anything they want and call it accountability. Men only count if they get cut up first. Chapter 3: Rename the child If the conclusion sounds ugly, change the label until it sounds easier to defend. Chapter 4: Killing is healthcare now If killing a human sounds bad, just rename it care and hope nobody notices the body. Chapter 5: Accountability only runs one way Women get choices. Men get blame. That is the whole moral framework. Chapter 6: Men are guilty in the abstract No need to prove what any specific man did. Just blame the category and call it justice. Chapter 7: Define words to fit the conclusion Human does not mean human. Accountability does not mean accountability. Problem solved. Chapter 8: The burden is always male No matter who acted, who chose, or who decided, the moral debt somehow lands on men as a class. Chapter 9: If the answer sounds bad, rebrand it Do not defend the act. Rename the act. Chapter 10: Call disagreement ignorance Once the argument runs out, posture as educated and hope nobody asks you to define your terms. Chapter 11: When the point collapses, hit block No need to answer the argument. Just disappear, block, and pretend silence counts as winning. That book writes itself! It is not analysis just grievance feminist fan fiction where every road somehow leads back to men being guilty and the unborn being verbally erased. My Rebuttal: A fetus is a human fetus. That is not religion. That is not poetry. That is not my opinion. Human tells you the species. Fetus tells you the stage of development. So when you say a fetus is not human, you are not making some advanced point. You are just denying what kind of organism it is. NCI defines a fetus as an unborn offspring that develops and grows inside the uterus. In humans, the fetal period begins at 9 weeks after fertilization and ends at birth. That is where your whole position starts falling apart. Because once the unborn is admitted to be human, your slogan game gets much harder. Abortion stops sounding like some clean little act of care and starts looking like what it is: the intentional killing of a human being in the womb. You can try to justify that if you want. But you do not get to wash it clean by calling it healthcare. That is just poor laundering. That is still the question you keep trying not to answer. Do you think killing a human is healthcare or not. Even if you call it healthcare for the woman, that does not erase that it is lethal to the child. If you say yes, then at least own it plainly. If you say no, then stop hiding abortion under a word that does not fit it. Your accountability argument is rigged too. Women taking birth control counts. Women getting abortions counts. Women carrying pregnancy counts. But for men apparently nothing counts unless it is permanent sterilization. That is not a fair standard. That is a loaded one. Condoms count. Abstinence counts. Refusing reckless sex counts. Marriage counts. Child support counts. Fatherhood counts. Provision counts. Protection counts. Men do take responsibility. You just erase all of it so you can keep pretending men do nothing. Census reported that about 61.6% of men age 15 and over are fathers, and of men with biological children under 18, four out of five live with at least some of those minor children. That does not fit the claim that men as a class do nothing. Men are fathers at scale, and most fathers of minor biological children live with at least some of those children. Your standard is fake. Women can choose temporary prevention and be called responsible. Men can use condoms, abstain, provide, and father children and you still say it does not count unless they get sterilized. That is not accountability. That is ideology. CDC reported that in 2022 to 2023 the most common contraceptive methods included female sterilization at 11.5%, the pill at 11.4%, and the male condom at 7.1%. Male-side prevention plainly exists, but your framework only seems to count the permanent male option as morally serious. That is the pattern with this whole worldview. Redefine the act. Redefine accountability. Redefine healthcare. Then act like everyone else is ignorant for not playing along. But the second the definitions stop helping you, they get swapped again. That is not clarity. That is camouflage. If the answer to difficulty is death, then responsibility is abandoned. Sources are provided for the factual claims and definitions in this post. They are not offered as a substitute for argument, but as support for the factual portions. Sources: National Cancer Institute, Dictionary of Cancer Terms, fetus cancer.gov/publications/d… U.S. Census Bureau, Men's Fertility & Fatherhood: 2014 census.gov/library/public… CDC, Current Contraceptive Status Among Females Ages 15–49: United States, 2022–2023 cdc.gov/nchs/products/… Right of reply: @SpicyNo23563912 Similar framing: @Rosiee_nosiee @sydniejo2 @brightfalcon256 @bkashanitz
Spicy Noodles@SpicyNo23563912

@DivideUncovered If you as men had taken the precautions of condoms or male birth control you wouldn’t be left with your final option of vasectomy. That’s your fault solely. Women already do their part in solving the issue. Time for men to hold their accountability in this.

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Dr. Abby Johnson@AbbyJohnson·
I have an idea… Instead of aborting babies, we should love them, cherish them, and protect their right to life since they’re human beings just like us.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@FashionableRes1 @Dumfukdetector Yes. Which is why your shifting scope matters. The post started with "declining birthrates" broadly. Then moved to white nationalist panic. Then to teen pregnancy and access disparities. Which problem are you actually claiming?
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Dumfukdetector 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈
Just a reminder that the rich men whining about the declining birthrate are doing NOTHING to ensure this country is safe and healthy for children: 🚫Universal healthcare 🚫Free childcare ⬇️ SNAP benefits 🚫Gun regulations 🚫Maternity support 🖕Environment 💩Education
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@FashionableRes1 @Dumfukdetector Then your argument is about teen pregnancy and access disparities, not ‘declining birthrates’ in general and not white nationalist motives. Why did you frame it the other way first?
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
The stereotype is your blanket claim that people talking about falling birthrates are mostly white nationalist Great Replacement obsessives. Great Replacement rhetoric is one motive for some people, not all. Others care because of aging populations, weaker family formation, economic strain, and the social fallout of fewer stable households. Smearing all of that as white nationalism is lazy.
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Ignorance Isn’t An Excuse. Same at 🦋
@DivideUncovered @Dumfukdetector Not at all. I mentioned it was mostly white children not having babies because white nationalists are the ones mostly pushing the declining birth rate panic. They also hate that non-whites are having more babies, thus the anti-immigrant frenzy. What stereotype?
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@FashionableRes1 @Dumfukdetector Lazy dodge. I addressed your words. You answered with a stereotype about other people because your own wording will not survive scrutiny. That is guilt by association. So do you stand by calling the decline ‘good’ once you frame it by race or not?
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@FashionableRes1 @Dumfukdetector You are the one making race the dividing line here. The moment falling births become ‘good’ because they are mostly white births you are not talking about children in general anymore.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@FashionableRes1 @Dumfukdetector So the mask is off. You call falling births ‘good’ when the children are white then accuse everyone else of bad motives. That is not a rebuttal. That is racial spite pretending to be concern.
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Ignorance Isn’t An Excuse. Same at 🦋
@DivideUncovered @Dumfukdetector To be clear, the “declining birth rates” panic in the US is largely due to a significant 75% drop since ‘91 in WHITE CHILDREN/TEENS having children. This is a GOOD thing. Hispanics/Blacks having kids is not something you want to talk about except to complain about feeding them.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@FashionableRes1 @Dumfukdetector Then name the causes. Name the solutions. And explain why disagreement with your preferred fixes makes concern ‘performative’ rather than simply a dispute over diagnosis and remedy.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
Title: “Doing NOTHING” Is Not an Argument Steelman – @Dumfukdetector You said: “Rich men whining about declining birthrates are doing NOTHING to make this country safe and healthy for children.” You then pointed to “universal healthcare, free childcare, SNAP benefits, gun regulations, maternity support, environment, and education” as the kinds of things that would actually make life better for children. The strongest version of your point is that if someone claims to care about declining birthrates and children, yet opposes measures that would make family life safer, cheaper, and more stable, then their concern looks hollow or inconsistent. My Rebuttal That is the strongest version of your case, and it still fails. By the law of identity, concern about declining birthrates is concern about declining birthrates. It does not become support for “universal healthcare, free childcare, SNAP benefits, gun regulations, maternity support, environment, and education” just because you assert that connection. By the law of non contradiction, rejecting your preferred list does not equal “doing NOTHING to make this country safe and healthy for children.” That only works if every other possible way of helping children is treated as non-help by definition, which is exactly what your wording tries to smuggle in. By the law of excluded middle, your post falsely narrows the field to two options: endorse your package or do nothing. That erases other possibilities entirely, such as marriage formation, family stability, cultural reform, private support, church support, local support, economic growth, deregulation, wage policy, or pro-child policies outside your list. So the defect is simple. You replaced the broad question “what helps children and stabilizes family formation” with the much narrower claim that your policy package is the measure of whether someone cares at all. That is not a serious argument. It is a false dilemma backed by a non sequitur. And the follower count stunt was weak too. Having more followers does not make an argument more credible. That is just an appeal to popularity. If anything, a large audience only shows a lot of people saw the post, not that the logic in it was sound. Plenty of nonsense gets attention. Right of reply: @Dumfukdetector
Dumfukdetector 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈@Dumfukdetector

@DivideUncovered Oh jfc, you have 9 followers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Time to mute you, kiddo. Sorry you're bad at things, hopefully you improve as you get older

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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@Dumfukdetector For someone called Detector, you folded into follower count and a mute threat without ever defending your own wording. Concession accepted.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@Dumfukdetector It looks like you struggle to even make a point, let alone defend one. Try starting with a good point next time.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@Dumfukdetector @FashionableRes1 You said they are “doing NOTHING” for children. Own it. Did you mean literally nothing unless they support your list, or are you admitting you exaggerated?
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@Dumfukdetector For someone called Detector, you are unbelievably bad at locating the actual point. Nobody asked you why birthrates are declining. The point was that your post says these men are doing NOTHING for children unless they support your whole wishlist. That’s why you keep dodging.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@Dumfukdetector @FashionableRes1 “Sorry there was confusion” is a funny way to say you still haven’t rebutted the point. Your post ties concern about declining birthrates to your whole policy cart. That’s what got called out. Crying misread doesn’t change what you wrote.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@Dumfukdetector If I were failing, you’d explain where. Instead it’s just emojis and another empty assertion. Your post still treats concern about declining birthrates as meaningless unless it comes bundled with your whole package. That was the point then and it’s still the point now.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@Dumfukdetector @FashionableRes1 So we agree then. 🤩 The post treats concern about declining birthrates as meaningless unless it comes bundled with your policy package. That was the point from the start. Glad you finally caught up.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
You still missed the point. Their post treats concern about declining birthrates as meaningless unless it comes bundled with universal healthcare, free childcare, SNAP benefits, gun regulations, maternity support, environment, and education. That is what was being called out. If you had an argument, you’d refute the point instead of hiding behind phrasing.
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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@pawncie @1amRosario @prinkasusa No, it’s rooted in boundary pressure. The definition of woman gets attacked more because men are trying to enter the female category not because everyone secretly hates women. “Misogyny” is the label you use when you can’t justify why female boundaries must disappear.
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“women are people with periods.” not really many women dont menstruate. “well, women are people with uterus!” you can literally remove your uterus. “women are people born with uterus!” you can be born without one. “women are ppl with two X chromosomes” you can be AFAB and have a Y chromosome. “well women are people who are female at conception.” everyone is female at conception. there is no way to define womanhood that excludes trans women but includes all cis women.
@cessonmute

what opinion about women do you have that makes people feel like this???

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DivideUncovered@DivideUncovered·
@Dumfukdetector Critical thinking is exactly what separates “birthrates are falling” from “therefore support my whole wishlist.” You skipped that part and went straight to insults. Detector still can’t detect a non sequitur.
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