Yeah, the color is the color that it is There's a difference between my black hair and dyed black hair that can be determined by analyzing them in a lab They are both, nonetheless, by both the scientific and lay understanding of the term, black
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
And some TW 'pass'. Hair can be unconvincingly dyed, and some TW do not pass. It would also be rude to point this out in many contexts, but it remains true. In some contexts, the difference will matter.
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Replying to @unwitod @Shatterface and
Nobody who dyes their hair blue seriously intends anyone to believe the hair came out of the follicles blue thanks to the coding of their DNA It's still, as a matter of physical fact (not any kind of optical illusion), actually blue
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Where is the line, anyway? If you put red food colouring in a cake, is it not pink? Is dye not real? Are all my clothes really calico coloured?? WHAT IS THE TRUTH
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It's an actual philosophy thing to ask about what my "natural" hair color is if I "naturally" go completely bald I mean then I don't have a natural color anymore right Is the definition of "natural" now what the color would be if you *artificially* cured my baldness
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Replying to @arthur_affect @vashti and
I mean, yes, I think anti trans people are saying it matters more what your DNA says your hair color would be than what it actually is. Which is ridiculous, but that's transphobia for you (and that's the importance we as a society have placed on "biological sex")
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Replying to @sophienotemily @arthur_affect and
I know hair color and texture can change when people get treated for cancer. Speaking of which, cancer is 100% natural! Natural is not Good
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Replying to @sophienotemily @arthur_affect and
But I think this obsession with DNA is 100% philosophical - the idea that there's a blueprint somewhere for what you "should" be and that deviating from it is bad
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Replying to @sophienotemily @arthur_affect and
It's Plato's Ideal You, but with a veneer of science (that most of us aren't educated enough in to understand; I include myself in this, I only know the basics of how DNA works)
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Replying to @sophienotemily @vashti and
There's a lot to be said here about how the homunculus theory of human reproduction - the medieval belief that sperm actually contained tiny little miniature humans that just needed to be planted in a womb and grow - never really any away That's still the popular idea of DNA
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People really think that if you could flawlessly "read your DNA" it would be like a little photograph of you That the things we actually observe about human beings - what you look like, your personality, your IQ - are "written into your genes" in some objective way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
And it's at best an oversimplification and at worst an active and damaging lie The whole thing where pop culture "clones" are exact xerox duplicates When in real life identical twins often don't even really look the same
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
Like, it's not uncommon to meet twins where one of them is taller than the other, or heavier, or has different hair or skin, especially as they get older (and are no longer living in the same house with the same environment)
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