any statistician or sociologist worth their salt in Texas right now should be fucking fuming.
the first part was predictable, but the second part is one of the clearest examples of preventive epistemicide i can imagine, destroying even the POTENTIAL for knowledge.
![wikipedia page:
“Emotional and psychological violence
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Bisexual women face higher rates of coercive control (i.e., threats, withholding funds, and isolation) from an intimate partner (69.7%) when compared to lesbians (60.6%) and heterosexuals (45.1%).[14] 44% of bisexual women faced expressive aggression, defined as insults and humiliation, while 36.3% lesbians and 28.8% of heterosexuals did.[14] Bisexual women reported higher rates of stalking than lesbians or heterosexuals.[14] 54.2% of bisexual women reported being stalked at some point in their lives, with 35.0% of lesbian women and 30.2% heterosexual women reporting the same.[14] Overall, the majority of bisexual women reported having majority male stalkers (80%), with few reporting both male and female perpetrators (13.5%).[14]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gonlbfzxyvmc2owbkavbbbqe/bafkreibx2nyj6ntss2lauiloblrq2u47amur4z6ebjmwcunipjck6f5zbm)
