Sir Frogsworth

@sirfrogsworth / sirfrogsworth.tumblr.com

Warning: This blog may contain verbose ramblings intermingled with corgi pictures. I try to make my walls of text as compelling as possible, but if you have a short attention span (no judgement), this blog may not be for you. Donate Here

It spins.

I saw a viral post about how stripper poles spin.

I know, right?

It is such a fun feeling when you give your brain BRAND NEW INFORMATION.

But I am never content with a simple BRAND NEW INFORMATION high. I am too curious. My brain needs more. It has more questions. So I seek out ALL OF THE INFORMATION POSSIBLE.

So I started researching stripper poles.

Surprisingly, it involved very little nudity.

I learned how they function. How they are installed. What is the *best* stripper pole? How much is a stripper pole? How long does it take to learn how to do cool spinny tricks?

And now I'm basically a stripper pole expert. That is all stuck in my brain. And I don't really know what I'm going to do with my vast stripper pole knowledge, but I'm sure it will make for a fun conversation at some point.

Here are some more fun facts about stripper poles.

They don't all spin. It's a choice! You can do static pole routines or spinny pole routines. But if you are really fancy you can get a combination static/spinny pole. Some even allow the dancer to switch between modes during their routine. Though I can't help imagining someone accidentally going from spinny to static and hurling naked off the stage.

Most stripper pole manufacturers market them as "fitness poles." Which... sure. The Hitachi Magic Wand is a personal massager that you can use to soothe your muscles after a good workout on your fitness pole. Maybe we can compromise and just call them dance poles.

X-Pole is probably the top-of-the-line manufacturer along with Lupit. A good pole could run about $500. But they have some as high as a thousand. Some are permanent installations but they have a portable version with a heavy base for all of your nomadic pole dancing needs.

They also have a pole that doesn't attach at the bottom. I get motion sick just watching the video, but it does look like fun.

It's actually a beautiful art form. It would be a cool Olympic sport if it didn't have the stigma. I enjoy watching people spin fully clothed. I think you appreciate it more with less boob floppage.

This also got me thinking about other things strippers could use during performances.

What about a jungle gym?

A mini ninja warrior course?

Hula hoops?

Perhaps some kind of exotic shake weight dance routine.

OH.. I know!

Reblogged

I wish the world wasn't on fire so I could properly enjoy people arguing about fraudulent dire wolves.

I can't say this hasn't gotten me wondering what genes they could flip on for a corgi.

I wish the world wasn't on fire so I could properly enjoy people arguing about fraudulent dire wolves.

Reblogged

These idiots have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of West Point and other similar military academies.

They all think it is to create badass wartime generals and Green Berets.

In reality, West Point is primarily interested in creating nerds and bureaucratic leadership (a.k.a. middle management).

Mostly the nerds though.

The first thing you need to know is 80% of the US Army is made up of non-combat positions. (Which is why it is very silly to exclude trans people from the entire military.) This weird right wing obsession needing everyone in the military to be a roided-out Rambo is extremely outdated. The Army needs everything from cooks to musicians to janitors. But they also have engineers and physicists and biologists and doctors.

West Point pays for tuition in exchange for 5 years of service. They spend a lot of money on the graduates. The last thing they want is to create cannon fodder. They already have poor people of color to fill that role.

They want officers who have the logistical, strategic, and coordinative skills to tell the cannon fodder where to go and what to do. And they want nerds to manage the needs of high tech modern warfare. They don't care if these people can shoot things super good. They don't care if they can hike up a mountain with 50 pounds of gear. They don't care if they are women, POC, or trans. Only dipshit political leaders like Trump and Hegseth are that discerning. The people in the Army tasked with actually getting shit done only care about logistics, competent leadership, and technological superiority.

West Point offers a degree in statistics.

Do you think they are going to send a statistician into fucking battle?

No. They need that nerd to calculate how many civilian deaths are acceptable in a "proportionate" response scenario.

There is an actual formula for that. Created by a nerd. They weight the "value" of the target against potential civilian casualties and they may even factor in the proximity to a mosque or hospital. If the value of the target is very high, the concern for civilians decreases.

Find me a jarhead who can figure out that morbid calculus.

For the most part, West Point is just a university. You have to role-play as a soldier while you are there, but you can still take a philosophy class and study French literature if you'd like. It has to be a functional degree because the graduates want to get good jobs once they finish their 5 years. They want a proper education out of the deal.

Sometimes West Point farts out a top general. But they are much more interested in training engineers and computer dorks.

Manly meatheads need not apply.

Modern combat effectiveness compared...

"Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."

"Arrested for domestic violence while being pulled over for a DUI in a Dodge Charger."

These idiots have a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of West Point and other similar military academies.

They all think it is to create badass wartime generals and Green Berets.

In reality, West Point is primarily interested in creating nerds and bureaucratic leadership (a.k.a. middle management).

Mostly the nerds though.

The first thing you need to know is 80% of the US Army is made up of non-combat positions. (Which is why it is very silly to exclude trans people from the entire military.) This weird right wing obsession needing everyone in the military to be a roided-out Rambo is extremely outdated. The Army needs everything from cooks to musicians to janitors. But they also have engineers and physicists and biologists and doctors.

West Point pays for tuition in exchange for 5 years of service. They spend a lot of money on the graduates. The last thing they want is to create cannon fodder. They already have poor people of color to fill that role.

They want officers who have the logistical, strategic, and coordinative skills to tell the cannon fodder where to go and what to do. And they want nerds to manage the needs of high tech modern warfare. They don't care if these people can shoot things super good. They don't care if they can hike up a mountain with 50 pounds of gear. They don't care if they are women, POC, or trans. Only dipshit political leaders like Trump and Hegseth are that discerning. The people in the Army tasked with actually getting shit done only care about logistics, competent leadership, and technological superiority.

West Point offers a degree in statistics.

Do you think they are going to send a statistician into fucking battle?

No. They need that nerd to calculate how many civilian deaths are acceptable in a "proportionate" response scenario.

There is an actual formula for that. Created by a nerd. They weight the "value" of the target against potential civilian casualties and they may even factor in the proximity to a mosque or hospital. If the value of the target is very high, the concern for civilians decreases.

Find me a jarhead who can figure out that morbid calculus.

For the most part, West Point is just a university. You have to role-play as a soldier while you are there, but you can still take a philosophy class and study French literature if you'd like. It has to be a functional degree because the graduates want to get good jobs once they finish their 5 years. They want a proper education out of the deal.

Sometimes West Point farts out a top general. But they are much more interested in training engineers and computer dorks.

Manly meatheads need not apply.

I don't really like this discussion from either perspective.

Mostly because there isn't a single "correct" version of Superman.

This is a character that has been reinvented over and over since 1939. His politics shift not only due to the era, but also due to the current writer's sensibilities and beliefs.

If you want to refer to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's original intentions, Superman was an opposite reflection of the Nazi Aryan ideal. They were Jewish and wanted to use that ideal against the principles of nazism. Superman looked the part—tall and muscular with chiseled features. But he saved the weak and helpless. He was compassionate and just.

He was anti-fascist.

"Truth, justice, and the American way" was a phrase created for the first television show. In that era, "the American way" was understood as wartime patriotism and American ideals of freedom and family—but all in the context of that opposite reflection of nazism.

"The American way" was basically understood as "Hey, at least we're not fucking Nazis."

I don't think modern labels of conservative or liberal would fit that version of Superman. But if you were to shoehorn it, there is only one group currently harboring nazis and fascists, and it isn't on the Left.

There is one version of Superman that was coded more conservative.

Frank Miller, famous libertarian and misguided curmudgeon, had a version of Superman in The Dark Knight Returns who was basically a pawn of the US Government. A supercop for Ronald Reagan. He was depicted as more of a nationalist than a patriot. His "American way" was based on "might makes right." America is the good guy in every possible scenario.

I'm pretty sure Frank was mocking the Superman archetype. Satirizing how America would *actually* use a superpowered being. Basically, the only conservative version of Superman was coded as a villain or nemesis for the anti-authoritarian Batman.

If you read The Dark Knight Returns and feel Superman is depicted as a positive conservative figure, you probably also think Homelander is the heroic protagonist of The Boys.

Superman's politics cannot be easily condensed into a single ideology. You'd have to analyze each writer and their intentions individually. But the persistent characteristics of Superman over the years would definitely lean him toward progressive ideals.

He was a fantasy created by two marginalized Jews who were watching their people get slaughtered by fascism. A figure that could use his immense power to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

If that version of Superman existed in real life today, I suspect he'd be visiting a prison in El Salvador to facilitate a prisoner release with laser eyes on standby.

Denying a 25 year old bodily autonomy is not the argument they think it is.

And are you *sure* that is the reason doctors don't perform surgeries on 25 year olds?

ARE YOU SURE?

Is it possible this is less about possible regret and more about doctors valuing women more as incubators than people?

If people in severe chronic pain cannot get this operation then the reasons seem a little more complicated than just "you may regret this later."

Also...

Transgender genital surgeries before the age of 18 are so rare you can count them on your fingers and toes. Probably just fingers. The ones I found were special cases that involved a court battle.

This notion that these surgeries are common and spontaneous is ridiculous.

As far as my research has shown, there are no doctors currently doing these surgeries in the US before 18. There are very few that will even do mastectomies that young. Some will do them at 17 before the person goes to college so they can be mostly healed by the time they start in a new environment. Even then, there are maybe 300-500 mastectomies performed on minors each year—the vast majority aged 17.

That is compared to thousands of implants and reductions for cis minors. And whether or not you think that is wrong too, there are no bills in Congress to ban these procedures. The president isn't mentioning them in speeches. No one cares about this except as a response to trans issues. "Well, that's awful too!" is pretty much the extent anti-trans people have ever thought about cosmetic surgeries on cis minors. It quickly leaves the brain and gets filled back in with keeping trans kids from using pronouns in school or peeing in the wrong spot.

It should also be noted that gender affirming surgeries have one of the lowest regret rates of any surgery. Lower than back surgery, knee surgery, prostate removal, breast reconstruction.

Current estimate is a 1% regret rate.

Reblogged

I just heard a British person say "respiratory" and I'm afraid I have to cancel the English accent. It had a good run. But this bullshit cannot be allowed to continue.

I got on board with aluminium. It seemed like a lot of extra effort, but I eventually found it charming.

Schedule was silly, but there is an H in there so I let it pass.

Privacy? You know you are fucking around because you don't say private as prih-vat.

Vitamins... okay, that is more fun to say. No objection.

And you are right about herb for the H reasons previously discussed. I will give you that.

But this... straight to word jail. No bail. No parole.

As community service, you all have to use your best New Zealand accent for a year because it makes everything sound 20% funnier.

Okay, what the shit?

Now I'm starting to wonder if there was a British pulmonologist who was trying to prank some med students and it got really out of hand.

Double jail.

Two years Kiwi accent.

This post is getting to the point where I have to add a disclaimer that I'm being a silly billy.

I thought I was being ridiculous enough to demonstrate this isn't serious and I know that even the next town over can affect how something is pronounced.

These are the UK pronunciations as listed in the Cambridge Dictionary. I thought they sounded funny. I probably say many words that British people think sound funny. I'm not actually going to send anyone to jail or make them talk like Flight of the Conchords.

Reblogged

SheWon.org in a nutshell...

900!

900 what?

900 is a lot of something!

What is the something?

All sportsball events everywhere all at once since the beginning of time.

How many total events is that?

No clue.

Best guess?

Probably millions.

900 out of millions is not a lot of something.

BUT I HAVE A GRAPH!

This is their current tally. They accept data from any women's competitive event (whether a sport or not) and have entries going back as far as 2001.

In 44 "sports" over 24 years they have only been able to find 2,182 instances of a trans person winning first, second, or third place. Also, there are more than 44 sanctioned competitive events with a women's division. They don't restrict any data. There could be hundreds of competitions they would include but haven't because there isn't a record of a trans person winning.

How many women's events in high school, college, and pro athletics have happened in 44 sports over 24 years? Then you need to multiply that by 3 because they are including first, second, and third place in all of their data.

The total pool of athletes and competitions and placements would be impossible to quantify without crazy research. But it has to be millions. Probably tens of millions.

2182 wins out of tens of millions.

That wouldn't even measure in the margin of error.

It's always a manipulation. Every single time. They present a context that when you think deeply about, becomes so absurd you can't believe they had the gall to go through with it.

But it is working. They are convincing people. And that sucks.

Pure cope.

John Oliver went easy on shewon.

They recognized that site was a huge joke and were just making fun of it. If they had done a full audit of the data, they could have ripped it to shreds.

The spreadsheet has several "unknown" entries and includes "non-competitions" in their data.

Yes, they included a hot dog eating contest.

What a fucking joke.

Someone asked about the entry for Jeopardy.

They listed Mattea Roach as the Top Female Earnings Winner.

Mattea Roach is not a trans woman.

They identify as a queer lesbian with they/them pronouns, but they were assigned female at birth.

In SheWon.org's own sources, they link to a Jeopardy page... which does not distinguish top earners by gender. It is not an official title.

In another source they provide, you will find the actual trans woman they meant to list.

And in an article written by NBC News, the author mentions Amy is the "top female earnings winner."

The author just invented this title on their own.

Jeopardy don't care about gender.

SheWon made big claims about their volunteers vetting all of the data and checking primary and secondary sources.

But in their review process, they listed the wrong name and invented a title that doesn't exist. And (by their standards) the person they listed was a woman. Their own sources show their blatant mistake. They just linked straight to their incompetency.

This is the quality of the data they are collecting.

It's also notable that anyone who dissents on that other post I reblogged suddenly vanishes from the notes.

Transphobia is rooted in grift.

Every single "fact" is wildly out of context or false. And their attempt to do "data analysis" is laughably incompetent.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to eat 40 hot dogs really fast. BECAUSE I'M AN ATHLETE.

It was pointed out to me that shewon only lists the person they believe should have won the medal. So I was mistaken about them listing the wrong person.

I think that is a ridiculous way to present the data and is probably done to make the spreadsheet seem larger and to make it look like these are a bunch of different events, but I was still wrong about them listing the wrong person.

I think they make it confusing on purpose. Why are all the sports lumped together? Why don't they have separate categories for high school, college, and pro sports? Why do they have hot dog eating contests?

They just want to make the list look as long as possible and they don't actually care about patterns in the data. They only care about making the number bigger. Even though in the larger context, the number could be quadrupled and it would still be very very small.

I can't think of anything more gender-affirming than calling yourself John fucking Wayne. I guess Dick Manly was taken.

There is a petition to get this teacher rehired.

Reblogged

SheWon.org in a nutshell...

900!

900 what?

900 is a lot of something!

What is the something?

All sportsball events everywhere all at once since the beginning of time.

How many total events is that?

No clue.

Best guess?

Probably millions.

900 out of millions is not a lot of something.

BUT I HAVE A GRAPH!

This is their current tally. They accept data from any women's competitive event (whether a sport or not) and have entries going back as far as 2001.

In 44 "sports" over 24 years they have only been able to find 2,182 instances of a trans person winning first, second, or third place. Also, there are more than 44 sanctioned competitive events with a women's division. They don't restrict any data. There could be hundreds of competitions they would include but haven't because there isn't a record of a trans person winning.

How many women's events in high school, college, and pro athletics have happened in 44 sports over 24 years? Then you need to multiply that by 3 because they are including first, second, and third place in all of their data.

The total pool of athletes and competitions and placements would be impossible to quantify without crazy research. But it has to be millions. Probably tens of millions.

2182 wins out of tens of millions.

That wouldn't even measure in the margin of error.

It's always a manipulation. Every single time. They present a context that when you think deeply about, becomes so absurd you can't believe they had the gall to go through with it.

But it is working. They are convincing people. And that sucks.

Pure cope.

John Oliver went easy on shewon.

They recognized that site was a huge joke and were just making fun of it. If they had done a full audit of the data, they could have ripped it to shreds.

The spreadsheet has several "unknown" entries and includes "non-competitions" in their data.

Yes, they included a hot dog eating contest.

What a fucking joke.

Someone asked about the entry for Jeopardy.

They listed Mattea Roach as the Top Female Earnings Winner.

Mattea Roach is not a trans woman.

They identify as a queer lesbian with they/them pronouns, but they were assigned female at birth.

In SheWon.org's own sources, they link to a Jeopardy page... which does not distinguish top earners by gender. It is not an official title.

In another source they provide, you will find the actual trans woman they meant to list.

And in an article written by NBC News, the author mentions Amy is the "top female earnings winner."

The author just invented this title on their own.

Jeopardy don't care about gender.

SheWon made big claims about their volunteers vetting all of the data and checking primary and secondary sources.

But in their review process, they listed the wrong name and invented a title that doesn't exist. And (by their standards) the person they listed was a woman. Their own sources show their blatant mistake. They just linked straight to their incompetency.

This is the quality of the data they are collecting.

It's also notable that anyone who dissents on that other post I reblogged suddenly vanishes from the notes.

Transphobia is rooted in grift.

Every single "fact" is wildly out of context or false. And their attempt to do "data analysis" is laughably incompetent.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to eat 40 hot dogs really fast. BECAUSE I'M AN ATHLETE.

Reblogged

I heard a trans woman ate a 72 oz steak and got the steak for free.

I better submit that to shewon.org.

Reblogged

I heard a trans woman ate a 72 oz steak and got the steak for free.

I better submit that to shewon.org.

I heard a trans woman ate a 72 oz steak and got the steak for free.

I better submit that to shewon.org.

I often say that Otis and pictures of Otis belong to the internet. I am happy when people share him and I don't even care about credit.

I just ask two things...

Don't pretend Otis is your dog.

Don't profit off his memory.

This sucks.

Reblogged

SheWon.org in a nutshell...

900!

900 what?

900 is a lot of something!

What is the something?

All sportsball events everywhere all at once since the beginning of time.

How many total events is that?

No clue.

Best guess?

Probably millions.

900 out of millions is not a lot of something.

BUT I HAVE A GRAPH!

This is their current tally. They accept data from any women's competitive event (whether a sport or not) and have entries going back as far as 2001.

In 44 "sports" over 24 years they have only been able to find 2,182 instances of a trans person winning first, second, or third place. Also, there are more than 44 sanctioned competitive events with a women's division. They don't restrict any data. There could be hundreds of competitions they would include but haven't because there isn't a record of a trans person winning.

How many women's events in high school, college, and pro athletics have happened in 44 sports over 24 years? Then you need to multiply that by 3 because they are including first, second, and third place in all of their data.

The total pool of athletes and competitions and placements would be impossible to quantify without crazy research. But it has to be millions. Probably tens of millions.

2182 wins out of tens of millions.

That wouldn't even measure in the margin of error.

It's always a manipulation. Every single time. They present a context that when you think deeply about, becomes so absurd you can't believe they had the gall to go through with it.

But it is working. They are convincing people. And that sucks.

Pure cope.

John Oliver went easy on shewon.

They recognized that site was a huge joke and were just making fun of it. If they had done a full audit of the data, they could have ripped it to shreds.

The spreadsheet has several "unknown" entries and includes "non-competitions" in their data.

Yes, they included a hot dog eating contest.

What a fucking joke.

Reblogged

SheWon.org in a nutshell...

900!

900 what?

900 is a lot of something!

What is the something?

All sportsball events everywhere all at once since the beginning of time.

How many total events is that?

No clue.

Best guess?

Probably millions.

900 out of millions is not a lot of something.

BUT I HAVE A GRAPH!

This is their current tally. They accept data from any women's competitive event (whether a sport or not) and have entries going back as far as 2001.

In 44 "sports" over 24 years they have only been able to find 2,182 instances of a trans person winning first, second, or third place. Also, there are more than 44 sanctioned competitive events with a women's division. They don't restrict any data. There could be hundreds of competitions they would include but haven't because there isn't a record of a trans person winning.

How many women's events in high school, college, and pro athletics have happened in 44 sports over 24 years? Then you need to multiply that by 3 because they are including first, second, and third place in all of their data.

The total pool of athletes and competitions and placements would be impossible to quantify without crazy research. But it has to be millions. Probably tens of millions.

2182 wins out of tens of millions.

That wouldn't even measure in the margin of error.

It's always a manipulation. Every single time. They present a context that when you think deeply about, becomes so absurd you can't believe they had the gall to go through with it.

But it is working. They are convincing people. And that sucks.

You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.