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There’s a little-known sexually transmitted disease (STD) that’s on the rise – and could soon become a very big problem.
Sexual health experts warn that Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) has the potential to become a drug-resistant superbug within a matter of years.
Research by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) found that over 70 percent of sexual health experts said that if current practices do not change, MG will become resistant to first and second line antibiotics within a decade. Left unchecked, they say this could result in thousands of women each year at increased risk of infertility from pelvic inflammatory disease caused by MG.
As a result of these daunting statistics, BASHH have just released draft guidelines to help the public and health services deal with this impending crisis.
“MG is rapidly becoming the new superbug: it’s increasingly resistant to most of the antibiotics we use to treat chlamydia and changes its pattern of resistance during treatment so it's like trying to hit a moving target,” Dr Peter Greenhouse, sexual health consultant from the UK, said in a statement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:21PM (3 children)
Now c'mon, I think it is fair to make fun of a list like https://ageofshitlords.com/list-of-all-tumblr-genders-so-far [ageofshitlords.com] where you can find "hippy" being changed to some kind of gender?
and the proper rejoinder would be to point out that the first search result was a website called "age of shitlords".
So are some gender titles ridiculous and just descriptors of personality types? Yes.
Are assholes that have nothing better to do than make fun of people exploring themselves Shit Lords? Fuck no. They are just shit, lords of nothing :)
Don't get too serious with these dumbasses and enjoy the joke. Is the joker an asshole shitbird? I didn't see The Maniacal Bastard log in, so there is a chance it was just a good opportunity to make a joke out of a hot topic. There are many gender descriptions I will accept, but Earthgender simply describes a hippy and/or fetish like getting turned on by doing it in a forest and I simply can't take that seriously as a human gender.
I can get behind all of these https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/07/explained-the-33-gender-identities-recognised-by-the-2016-australian-sex-survey/ [lifehacker.com.au] although I find quite a few of them redundant (transgender man, trans man, female to male) so I'd say it should get reduced to 10-20 or whatever removes the identical genders with different labels.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:53PM (2 children)
Not going to lie, I'm cisgender and *really* don't get this stuff on a personal level. The simple gender binary may be wrong, but a spectrum still has two ends, and what we seem to see here is "nature "intends" people to be one or the other, but nature fucks up, so we get people who don't match or people somewhere in between sometimes."
NOT "by the way your environmentalist or political views are gender identity now." That's a total non-sequitur.
Does this make me cis-dyke scum? Maybe. Do I care? Newp.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)
Well then how could you not find the joke somewhat amusing? Just cause it played on a sensitive topic? If a stand up comedian had said it would you have laughed? Are you just too used to the assholes around here?
Not my joke but I did find it funny because it wasn't overly antagonistic like the attack helicopter people.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:40AM
Yes, definitely too used to the assholes on here. There's not even 10 of them but they make this place such a complete fucking cesspool.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...