Re:Microplastics found in live human lung tissue
by 2143 on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:49AM
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Yep.
You know, in ancient Indian legends there are characters who one can now perceive as LGBTQ people.
Granted, the accuracy of the stories as a whole is questionable — but the very fact that such people are mentioned means the idea existed even back then.
Maybe if somebody looks deep enough they can find something similar in ancient Greek/Egyptian/Chinese literatures as well.
Just a thought. My hypothesis could totally be wrong.
Re:Microplastics found in live human lung tissue
by Bjartr on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:27PM
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> Maybe if somebody looks deep enough they can find something similar in ancient Greek/Egyptian/Chinese literatures as well.
The ancient greek culture is well known to have a decent prevalence of homosexuality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greec...
Uh, transgender people were scientifically known since at least the late 19th century [1]. The problem is that the Nazis eradicated all the knowledge during their reign [2], and that the Catholic Church was actively fighting against LGBT people for a very long time, even before that era (and modern-day Evangelicals in the US have taken on their mission).
What has changed in "gender and queer issues" is that this negative influence has disappeared as the public importance of the Catholic Church has waned over the last decades and that protections for LGBT people got affirmed by courts, constitutions and laws.
As for ADHD/autism: these were also known to science at least in the mid 19th century [3]. However, for a very long time the issues were not as apparent or problematic in society as they are today, mostly because most of society was working in the agricultural sector with lot less work load than modern-day turbo-capitalism requires [4].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific-Humanitarian_Commit...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissen...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter
[4] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...