Interesting Links for 04-08-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Millennial Dads Spend Massively More Time With Their Kids

(tags:fatherhood parenting men viaSwampers )

2. Girls as young as nine sent £300 bill to play for Leicester City Footbal Academy - where boys train for free

(tags:football patriarchy uk )

3. Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments

(tags:wikipedia law )

4. Major chemical database investigates hundreds of suspicious crystal structures for academic fraud

(tags:fraud chemistry viaPatrickHadfield )

5. The language of law is inadequate to address emotive speech.

(tags:law language emotion lies politics )

6. I definitely need a chocolate safe to keep my millionaire's shortbread in!

(tags:chocolate cake video impressive )

7. Less than half of adults can correctly label the vagina - how about you?

(tags:genitals vagina Education women )

8. Why Batgirl was cancelled (tax avoidance!)

(tags:comics tax movies OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[nancylebov]

#4-- I hope we get a follow-up about those possibly fraudulent papers about crystals.

[cmcmck]

7. I can, but then I have reason to know a lot about them! :o)

[ninetydegrees]

7. I can but I also used to confuse vulva and vagina because I didn't have sex ed/anatomy ed at school or at home, and I kept hearing people/media making the same mistake I did. Viva el internet ! It let me get educated on so many things.

[channelpenguin]

"I didn't have sex ed/anatomy ed at school or at home"

Wow. I forget that that is possible.

Though I think most people would struggle with the correct Latin terms for most anatomy. I don't think it necessarily means they don't know what the bits are for / do (esp external), it's just that they use more casual names for them.

I mean correct medical Latin probably isn't dreadfully sexy to most people (specific fetishes aside). This has actually been my personal communications problem in my own sex life. Because I learned the medical terms at about 8 and that's what I naturally use... or rather, usually didn't, and didn't say anything.

[andrewducker]

I think that "outer labia" and "inner labia" would be perfectly acceptable accurate terms too. Casual names are fine - it's when people get it wrong, or have no idea there's even anything there.

I've been over diagrams with Sophia many times, because she's fascinated by the whole thing. And you think they've got it, and then she refers to her vulva as "her bum bum", and I assume that that's nursery using that to refer to the whol area.

[ninetydegrees]

I could name all internal reproduction organs (Fallopian tubes, uterus,...) because that part we studied in high school. This is sadly still true today even though there is some kind of sex ed in middle school nowadays because it's still focused on binary genders and reproduction/birth control.

I don't think the correct terms are difficult or unsexy. I think we make them so when we're reluctant to use them regularly, and to teach them to young children, so people are able to choose when to use them and when to use more colloquial terms (like you would do for many other words).

[andrewducker]

I'm guilty of that one myself. Mostly because, culturally, vagina tends to be used as the catch-all term, rather than vulva.

[channelpenguin]

7. ? Of course I can name every part. But as a child I wanted to be a doctor...

I'd be curious as to how people might perform on the equivalent test on a detailed diagram of male genitalia.

1. Yay for dads. Still some way to go.

[lilysea]

Off the top of my head I could label:

clitoris
urethra
outer labia
inner labia
vulva
vagina
cervix
uterus
fallopian tubes
ovaries
anus
rectum

I'd have to look up Bartholin's glands to see where they are tho - I know they exist, but not, off the top of my head, exactly where they are

[andrewducker]

Thank you, I learned a thing!

[lilysea]

You may also be interested in the pouch of Douglas, which I only know about because comedian Hannah Gadsby did some material about it in her comedy show Douglas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectouterine_pouch

"The rectouterine pouch, pouch of Douglas, or rectovaginal pouch is the extension of the peritoneum between the rectum and the posterior wall of the uterus in the human female. Its anterior boundary is formed by the posterior fornix of the vagina"

it's a potential space, that can expand

[andrewducker]

I watched that section of the show, and it was great!

[zz]

7. Less than half of adults can correctly label the vagina - how about you?

Dunno. Whenever I approach women with my Dymo label maker, they get all shouty.

[andrewducker]

Women: always getting in the way of sensible ideas!

[movingfinger]

Was 8 written by a computer? It sure reads like it...

Why Batgirl was cancelled (tax avoidance!)

[anef]

Ahem - not tax avoidance!

It may have been cancelled for tax reasons, but that isn't avoidance - avoidance is (more or less) artificially structuring a transaction to get a tax benefit that you wouldn't otherwise have got. This looks to me as though they have decided that it is not economically worth promoting and distributing the film, and the tax reliefs are part of that calculation, which is not the same thing.

I know nothing about the US tax system, but it may well be that closing down the film now means that they can claim all the expenses as a deduction immediately, rather than having to carry them forward and use them against any future profits. While unfortunate for the people who worked on the film and those who wanted to watch it, it isn't tax avoidance. It's just business.

Re: Why Batgirl was cancelled (tax avoidance!)

[andrewducker]

It looks like they've decided that they get more back from the tax write-off than they would make by releasing it.

So they're doing it because they can reduce their tax bill, and that's a better use of it than anything else they can think of.

How is "Doing X to pay less tax" not tax avoidance?

Re: Why Batgirl was cancelled (tax avoidance!)

[anef]

There's no obligation on a business to carry on a loss-making project (or indeed a profit-making project). Shutting down loss-making projects is a thing that businesses do all the time. They take into account any tax reliefs that they may get when calculating whether a project will ultimately make them a loss or a profit. This is not tax avoidance, it is tax planning.

The rubric to the report here gives a brief description of avoidance: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7948/

Re: Why Batgirl was cancelled (tax avoidance!)

[andrewducker]

If you mean "By contrast tax avoidance is compliant with the law, though aggressive or abusive avoidance, as opposed to simple tax planning, will seek to comply with the letter of the law, but to subvert its purpose." Then that makes it clear that "simple tax planning" is a subset of tax avoidance - just the non abusive/aggressive kind. One wonders what complex tax planning would count as ;-)