Is that the reason there was suddenly a gigantic push to start attacking and shaming anyone who liked anime girls? Instead of telling real girls to improve their personalities, they attacked and shamed guys for liking anime girls.
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Yes, such bullshit that boys telomeres have been shown to shorten by up to 15% when they don’t have a father.
Come back to me when you can make that legible
Intentionally or otherwise, you just did a massive goalpost shift. You guys were arguing about whether moms were replaceable, and your counterpoint was that dads weren't. No one argued that they were; I think everyone here agrees that fathers are very important.
Also, boys needs fathers, yes. But if we're doing hypothetical scenarios like your artificial womb scenario, you could technically argue for an "artificial father" scenario too. The telomere gap is, I'd imagine, due to physical activity. Boys with more male influence are likely to exercise more, or have more testosterone which will likely result in more exercise as well. So if that's the argument for needing a father (which again, I agree is very important, and I'm just arguing the technical aspects here, not making an actual proposal), more male teachers, or more focus on PE, or state-mandated camping or eventually military service...all kinds of things would have the same or greater effect on telomeres specifically as a father, I'd wager. Again, not arguing for those things, just pointing out that you can make all kinds of hypotheticals.
Thinking about it, though, I bet more male teachers would actually solve some serious issues, like the lowered average testosterone levels we're seeing. A whole lot of things need to be re-normalized, including both fatherhood and male teachers.
That’s not why genetic aging occurs. The telomeres degradation has nothing to do with exercise and everything to do with an actual biological need for a father. Your hypothetical is grossly incorrect, and well just hilariously stupid if you took 5 seconds to think about it.
You're saying a lot of things, and saying it with confidence, but without anything to back it up.
Telomeres do react (significantly) to exercise. My theory is just as good, if not better, than your magic father idea.
And, again, I'm not denying the importance of fathers; they're incredibly important. I just think your argument as to why is a little silly.
If you’re older and your telomeres are shortening naturally, exercising regularly can delay aging, not the same as harmful shrinkage. The only thing that can age telomeres like the loss of a father in a CHILD is either disease or mutation. From what we’ve seen it’s because men are hardwired to learn from men. Also if you took the five seconds to think about it like I said, what’s a certain ethnic group in the US that is repeatedly shown to have this and also has higher exercise rates as children/ adolescents?
But when they don't have a mother there's no negative effect at all? That's obviously bullshit. It occurred to me, though, that you don't even have studies that conclude that.
Staying out of trouble and having a career is the bare minimum to be a functioning part of society. It doesn't preclude other negative effects, some of them very significant.
"The Jews are successful and have low crime" is the most basic talking point to deflect criticism of their group.
Yes they do, the reason it’s notable is it’s THE ONLY COMBINATION that has that effect. Daughters aren’t impacted by a loss of either parent in their telomeres, sons aren’t impacted by the loss of a mother. Studies have control groups…
And when the bare minimum is a statistical achievement compared to your peers?
I'm talking about a much broader scope than telomeres.
Then congratulations, you may have a chance at saving the country.
Broader how? Children of single fathers are less likely to experience mental illness, poverty, commit a crime, are more likely to be married and start married, more likely to increase their income level versus their parent, less likely to do drugs, less likely to get an STD. What measurement makes women special?