Adam Davis

If it makes you feel better I do this regularly, including the part where I use the light on my phone to look for my phone, and once texting my spouse to ask if they could use the Find My iPhone app to make my phone make an alert sound so I could find it.

Safe - Gator Days Characters Daryl - Bear - A big fellow who looks intimidating but is pretty friendly. Has a dry sense of humor. Seth's husband and Hannah's papa. Seth - Otter - The assistant principal at his daughter's school. Used to taking charge but is capable of being silly. Daryl's husband and Hannah's dad. Transcript Panel 1 Daryl and Seth are sleeping when Daryl starts to make noises. Daryl: Mmmm... I... Mmmph... Panel 2 Daryl continues talking in his sleep. Daryl: Wha- Hel- Daryl lets out a loud gasp which wakes Seth. He can tell that Daryl has woken from a bad dream. Panel 3 Daryl has covered his eyes and is still talking. Seth places a hand on Daryl and tries to comfort him. Daryl: I'll- I'll be quiet. I- I- Seth: Daryl, sweetie. It was a dream. You're safe. Panel 4 Daryl reaches up and takes hold of Seth's hand. He's starting to feel more grounded in reality. Daryl: I'm sorry. It was the usual. Seth is relieved that Daryl is feeling better and smiles. Seth: It's okay. You're home and safe. Daryl still feels the tension from his dreams but feels better being next to his husband. Daryl: I love you. Seth: I love you too.

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About to take off for 11 days of field study in the Galápagos Islands with my biology students! It’s my fifth time retracing Darwin’s journey and the first for all of them, but it never gets any less exciting, and I learn something new every time. Here’s to a safe and wondrous voyage of discovery!

Vance has a brain and the will to enact Project 2025 faster if Trump keels over. Trump only cares about grift and petty vengeance at this point. Both are catastrophic for the US and I’m not sure which is worse. Let’s at least get a blue congress in 2026 so Vance is hamstrung if Trump doesn’t make it

Student journalists, while showing incredible courage under fire, need to be prioritizing their safety here. They should not be the lifeline by which essential information is gathered and disseminated, and Brown should not be relying on or encouraging them to be the ones doing this at personal risk

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To answer your previous question, I suppose my theoretical perspective is closer to Fuentes than anyone else although it’s in informed by some other thinkers, although I’m admittedly about to Dr. and not in a position to give a bibliography

No, because not all social roles are gender roles. Or one or several types of social roles, and it overlaps many other ones. Gender is an overarching one. That can encompass and other types of rolls as well. And I feel like if you take the sort of classes, you’re describing you should know that?

And it’s not a stable or universal concept. Gender is individually constructed by different cultures and can be understood by the individual in the context of their own culture to deviate from the norms of their culture in a multicultural society

I do not have a separate opinion on gender, divorced from the scientific perspective of what gender is. I’m a scientist. That is how I inform my view of it. Opinion does not figure into that. Gender is a social construction for how an individual understands their identity and position in a culture.

Gender is a set of social roles. It’s a social construction for framing ones expectations, behavior, and role in society, and it’s a psychological framework as well as a behavioral one. That’s the definition I’m using. That’s my operational framework. I don’t know what else you expect here

I am using the framework that is employed within the disciplines of cultural antrhhopogy, psychology, and medicine. That’s not just a dictionary definition, it’s a framework for understanding. You’re asking me to summarize about three or four academic courses in 200 letter posts.

No, not stereotypes. Stereotypes are different than frameworks for understanding behavior. You’re profoundly oversimplifying. It’s socially constructed and that’s much broader than a stereotype. Yes, people have a gender. It’s a social construct. An identity and a set of roles and behaviors they use

They are telling you what specific so pal construction of gender they fit within. Gender is a social construct. They are explaining how their construction of gender works.

I answered what gender is really really thoroughly. I don’t know what else you want. I don’t have a personal definition of gender that differs from the scientific definition of it because the meaning of gender *is not a matter of opinion.* I don’t know what else you want from me.

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I figured it was bait. I figured it was bad faith. But…I give everyone one chance to listen and be a good human and learn. I won’t waste more time if they refuse it. And hopefully what I wrote will help someone else learning to recognize bad faith actors, or exploring sex vs. gender in good faith.

I tried my best. I made a good faith effort. It’s all I can do. But I won’t be lured into ideological traps.

I’m an educator. I’ll always give people a chance to learn, listen, and ideally grow from there. Whether they do anything with that is up to them. But if they continue with the plan they had the whole time…I can’t help them if they’re entrenched and never planned to listen to an alternative view.

I offered a chance to engage honestly. I figured it wasn’t going to go well, but I gave it a shot. I now see where this is going, and I won’t be dragged down with it into someone’s ideological pit. I’m too busy for that.

I just answered this in extensive detail. You’re sealioning.

So while gender is a social construction, it has an impact on biology in ways we are only just starting to understand. And the people trying to deny all of this when they make public policy are flat out ignoring biological and medical reality.

Considerable data suggests that some aspects of gender ARE partially biological; that our brains literally wire our neuropathways around our self-identified gender identities from a young age. Transgender folks literally exhibit brain scans that look more like those of their identified gender.

Western society, looking at gender constructions globally, is unusual in thinking in terms of two strictly fixed genders mapped to two strictly fixed sexes with no possibility of change and no neutral option. And sex is definitely more complex than a strict m/f binary. Gametes aren’t the whole story

Some cultures consider gender to fall into fixed categories; some consider it to be a flexible or variable trait that one may change from one gender to another during their lifetime. Many cultures embrace the idea that one may lack a gender or have multiple genders. Most accept more than two. /2

Gender is a set of social roles, behavioral expectations, identities, and often rules of conduct and expression, socially constructed within a given culture and particular to that culture. It may or may not be linked to biological sex in the views of that culture and may or may not be changeable. /1

As an evolutionary biologist I get that a LOT. I have gotten into very, very few good faith arguments about evolution. And honestly, the few that I got into came away convinced of its validity.

But if a good faith argument is not what you’re interested in, and being informed about the facts is a concern because you’re threatened with possibly finding out things you don’t want to know that my threaten your preestablished ideology or worldview…Then don’t do the homework. And don’t ask me to.

Of course… All of this applies only if you are interested in any good faith argument, and not in doubting a pre-determined ideology. I decided my position after doing the work. Being informed about the science behind sex and gender left me firmly on the side of rights for trans folks. /17