lady_scarecrow (she/her)

Trans woman and amateur writer.
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My free novel: https://archive.org/details/book_20240528

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  • I don’t think there were any bad intentions on OP’s end, but the highlighted claim that a person is female and therefore has this or that genitalia is indeed transphobic.

    Someone’s probably going to show up and say “but it says ‘female’, not ‘woman’!” Well, “female” as an adjective referring to people already means woman. A female doctor is a doctor who is a woman. And “female” as a noun (e.g., “the females”) is a terrible way to refer to people, to begin with.










  • Except neither study is talking about the most the most common form of suicide. They’re both reporting higher rates of suicide among gun owners.

    Me owning a gun doesn’t increase my likelihood to die

    That’s literally what both studies are saying. From the first one:

    Men who owned handguns were eight times more likely than men who didn’t to die of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Women who owned handguns were more than 35 times more likely than women who didn’t to kill themselves with a gun.

    From the second one:

    in Wyoming, where 63 percent of households reported owning guns—rates of suicide were higher. The inverse was also true: where gun ownership was less common, suicide rates were also lower.

    Also from the second source,

    Studies show that most attempters act on impulse, in moments of panic or despair. Once the acute feelings ease, 90 percent do not go on to die by suicide.