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TheCatt wrote: ↑Sun Oct 05, 2025 2:32 pm It's not super well-defined.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Mon Oct 06, 2025 9:45 am Basically... It's up to the court

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/public_figure

Leisher wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 4:16 pm So, what's the cut off for when someone isn't a child? Is Belichick's relationship with a 20-something that dominates him ok? How about if a 90 yo dates a 70 yo? Maybe stop trying to stretch societal morals to make yourself feel better?

If females are better able to use fat for sustained energy and keep their muscles in better condition during exercise, then they should be able to run greater distances with less fatigue relative to males. In fact, an analysis of marathons carried out by Robert Deaner of Grand Valley State University demonstrated that females tend to slow down less as a race progresses compared with males.

If you follow long-distance races, you might be thinking, wait—males are outperforming females in endurance events! But this is only sometimes the case. Females are more regularly dominating ultraendurance events such as the more than 260-mile Montane Spine foot race through England and Scotland, the 21-mile swim across the English Channel and the 4,300-mile Trans Am cycling race across the U.S. Sometimes female athletes compete in these races while attending to the needs of their children. In 2018 English runner Sophie Power ran the 105-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc race in the Alps while still breastfeeding her three-month-old at rest stations.

Inequity between male and female athletes is a result not of inherent biological differences between the sexes but of biases in how they are treated in sports. As an example, some endurance-running events allow the use of professional runners called pacesetters to help competitors perform their best. Men are not permitted to act as pacesetters in many women's events because of the belief that they will make the women "artificially faster," as though women were not actually doing the running themselves.

The modern physiological evidence, along with historical examples, exposes deep flaws in the idea that physical inferiority prevented females from partaking in hunting during our evolutionary past. The evidence from prehistory further undermines this notion.

Consider the skeletal remains of ancient people. Differences in body size between females and males of a species, a phenomenon called sexual size dimorphism, correlate with social structure. In species with pronounced size dimorphism, larger males compete with one another for access to females, and among the great apes larger males socially dominate females. Low sexual size dimorphism is characteristic of egalitarian and monogamous species. Modern humans have low sexual size dimorphism compared with the other great apes. The same goes for human ancestors spanning the past two million years, suggesting that the social structure of humans changed from that of our chimpanzeelike ancestors.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 12:19 am Speaking of science of the genders, I saw something while at my middle kid's cheer banquet (I wasn't paying attention for the middle school kids) about a guy getting jail time somewhere in Europe for saying sex can be determined by just studying skeletal remains. I really hope it's bullshit, but didn't have time to check.

“If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum,” he wrote on Facebook.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 5:31 pm Social media's undeniable negative impact. Begrudgingly, I'll admit video games play a role too.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 5:31 pm "I understand and won't say you're wrong. However, Sydney is easily a 6 and when you add on her personality and intelligence, she's at least an 8." Am I wrong? Is he?

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 6:42 pm Some people just love big tits. I'm not really one of them.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 9:51 am Not to spoil anything, but there will be boobs later.