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New Maintenance Phase is up podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

My “Do not ask about the Fucksaw Incident” shirt has failed to limit the number of questions I’m receiving about the Fucksaw Incident

The fun thing about littman is that it's a perfect example of how right wingers get favorable treatment. How the hell are students supposed to deal with a professor who uses such shoddy reaserch methods? It's how I feel about the law professors that have gone nuts protecting Trump.

But imagine how disserviced those students would be if in their entire academic career they never had a person with much more power then them, who was incredibly incompetent, and acted purely in pursuit of their political goals. Could such a student even be prepared for the real world?

It’s sad this makes any sense.

She got a shout out in the newest WPATH Standards of Care which is infuriating

I don't want to know, do I?

Fortunately it's dismissive and along the lines of "nobody's been able to replicate that research" but it shouldn't have even been mentioned TBH

People who don't know: Oh no. People who DO know: Oh fuck no.

Yuuuuup.

Michael I was in a supermarket. I can’t go back.

Rapid onset tourette's syndrome

Even with headphones in, when you’ve collapsed laughing in the bog roll aisle you just can’t show your face again

I was driving my 12 year old son to his dentist appointment.

Ummmm….

I turned it off too late. We will never make eye contact again.

Remembering I was watching the Witcher and my mom came in when the orgy was happening.

Me: the "that would be a good name for a band" game is tedious and overdone, and in any case it's not like you can improve on the Dead Kennedys Also me: on the other hand, Fucksaw Incident...

lol you just reminded me of a very long debate a friend and I had about what is “the best” band name—a great name that tells you everything you need to know about the band in a word or two—and it ended up in a tie between “Dead Kennedys” and “The Bangles”

Among all the other reasons to hate this ghoul is that he slept with one of the women he wrote about in his transphobic book, and of course didn't get her permission to include her. dailynorthwestern.com/2004/01/05/a...

Bailey accused of having sex with research subjectdailynorthwestern.com A sexual misconduct complaint against psychology Prof. J. Michael Bailey alleges he had sex with one of the transsexual woman featured in his most recent book, according to confidential records receiv...

Ah, after the rogd episode I wondered if this was coming. I took a class this guy taught back in undergrad a few decades ago. He was an engaging lecturer, but made some claims that seemed clearly off even to me, and this was before his fucksaw fame.

I hate to be a stickler, but the fucksaw, while constructed using a saw, is not a fucksaw. IT IS CLEARLY A DRILLDO!

Um actually, a drilldo spins about the major axis. A fucksaw, like any good lover, reciprocates.

I've always preferred the term "fucks-all" as it's more specific about the reciprocating nature

I hate knowing what this is

I regret looking it up.

It's bad!

Not to be the fucksaw pedant, but the professor was at Northwestern (Go U!), not Northeastern.

Literally the email I, a Northwestern grad, sent:

no please do be, I heard northeastern (go huskies) and was so confused how I would’ve never heard about this while on campus lol

Meanwhile, as a person with deep ties to Northwestern, I had a (sadly thwarted) moment of joy thinking maybe he’d changed institutions.

You mentioned J. Michael Bailey and I thought, oh, that guy, this will be good, and then you get to the part about scrolling down and it's normal until... and I was like, Fucksaw! Fucksaw! Please let it be Fucksaw! Ha!

I had to Google it and the results raised questions.

No, that's... basically accurate. Now just add in the context of a college lecture on human sexuality and a devotion to... hands-on pedagogy?

Sounds like an incident!

Dude - that story was *almost* the weirdest class I’ve ever heard about- except I went to Grad School at an Art School in the Bay Area in 1995 - so it doesn’t even break the top five.

This incident was somehow both more mundane and worse than I expected it to be.

This is excellent promo.

fucksaw incident not being a subset of homosexuality is disappointing

I watch Contrapoints, I know what the fucksaw incident is

Dammit Michael. I’m on a long road trip and enjoying listening to a steamy fantasy novel. Do NOT make me stop the steamy fantasy novel to find out what the FUCKSAW incident is all about.

The FUCKSAW INCIDENT was worth it.

The bit about trans youths not being medical professionals gets me because so many trans folks have to spoon-feed their providers info about basic trans care.

FYI, you say Northeastern on the podcast and it was at Northwestern. (Why I knew that off the top of my head is a totally different problem....)

I'm surprised you haven't heard the full story behind I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter, which is a legit SF story by a trans author. Maybe it became a right wing meme because of the story's initial reception en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexua...

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

the story was *in response* to the right-wing meme. and people assumed it was transphobic because of the title without reading it.

yup, attack helicopter has been a right wing meme for ages. Isabel Fall's story recontextualizes it as a way of imagining gender as it intersects with the military-industrial complex

Oh right. I missed this vital bit of context. Thank you.

It's also a really good story!

then there was an unexplained spike for the search terms "DIY Fucksaw"

Yeah, this was the first time I had to turn off your pod with my kids in the car. Once I dropped them off I resumed listening but there was a nervous "ummmm.... dad?" right after the words were uttered

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