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[hollowboobtheory]

I support the "fiction isn't real so nothing matters" mindset but tbf at a certain point it can tip over into "the curtains are just blue" territory

[hollowboobtheory]

like yes actually there is a conversation to be had about how a characters actions are framed and how they thematically fit with the rest of the story and it can in fact reflect the author's beliefs. some authors are even trying to make a point

[hollowboobtheory]

not all depiction is glorification but sometimes it is and you need to be able to tell the difference. not because your immortal soul will be tainted by reading The Bad One, but because you need to have reading comprehension skills

[hollowboobtheory]

peer reviewed

[hollowboobtheory]

[ch0co-c0rn3t-lov3]

DO NOT DOWNLOAD TUMBLR it will install a virus on your device called tumblr

[hh-the-roots-of-evil]

Hazbin Hotel: “The Roots of Evil”

"A Gift for Grandpa"🐤🍎

I swear Maggie was the ray of light that brought Lucifer out of his depression.

[ratty-writer]

english major brain: words can evolve and develop as a society goes on. the way a word is used is its definition. it's pointless to hold onto the idea of right vs wrong words human brain: THAT IS NOT WHAT LARP MEANS!!!!!

[galacticsabc]

Another horrible merch idea straight from my brain. I woke up in the middle of the night to draw this.

[gracerockyyes]

I would unironically love this

[transmen4tmapeople]

“The authors find that, following transition, a statistically significant earnings decrease is experienced by MTFs (-11%) while there are no significant changes to the earnings of FTMs.”

Geijtenbeek and Plug (2018)

“They found that there was a statistically significant decrease of -12% in earnings following MTFs transitioning from male-to-female and an insignificant increase of +7.5% for FTMs following their transition from female-to-male.”

Schilt and Wiswall (2008)

“these papers provide evidence consistent with a traditional cisgender pay gap, with ‘maleness’ enjoying an earnings premium over ‘femaleness’ in the workplace. These findings also jibe with qualitative research on FTMs experiences of transitioning while in the workplace, where they report feeling more respected and their human capital more highly valued following transition to male”

Connel (2010), Dozier (2005), Schilt (2006).

“The wider social science literature has documented greater negative feelings and prejudice against MTFs compared with FTMs, particularly by cisgender men.”

“The incomes of MTFs who begin living full-time as female at a younger age are lower than those who wait, while the incomes of FTMs who begin living full-time as male at a younger age are higher. These findings are consistent with the wider research on the differences in labour market returns experienced by cisgender men and women.”

Matthew Shannon (2022)

[razortouched]

These are all important studies! They also all have their flaws, and some are being misrepresented within the context of this post.

For example, the Schilt and Wiswal 2008 study only consists of 18 MtF workers and 25 FtM workers. This is an incredibly small sample size that cannot be used as representative of larger trends.

In the Geijtenbeek and Plug 2018 study, they find that "FTM workers earn significantly less than other men and MTF workers earn significantly more than other women." This contradicts other wage pay studies that show trans people of all genders earn less than cis people.

Also, important to note that this study only observes, "those transsexual individuals who go through hormone replacement therapy, sex reassignment surgery, and the legal process of changing one’s administrative gender." This is absolutely not representative of trans people in general. Particuarly in a country such as The Netherlands - where this study takes place - and where medical and legal transition is more accessible than in many other countries.

Your third paragraph is a quote of a paraphrase, making it hard to determine where exactly it came from.

The Matthew Shannon 2022 study I feel is the most misrepresented within the context of this post. The quote you gave is accurate, but the same paper says, "those who were assigned female at birth have significantly lower incomes and are more likely to work part-time than those assigned male at birth." So even with the advantages gained by transitioning young for FTMs, the overall trend is still that they earn less than those assigned male at birth.

These studies do show some interesting patterns! It's undeniable that being legally male and being percieved as male in the workplace has its benefits, and that includes for some FTM workers. But the context with which you presented these studies was dishonest, making it appear as is this is a trend that applies to trans people more broadly, when in reality is applies to much more particular groups. It also leaves out the fact that trans men are still disadvantaged in comparison to cis men.

[intersexcat-tboy]

I recognized the Matthew Shannon one and remembered I had a screenshot showcasing some of the data

The weighted average yearly income of trans women in this study was $53,550 and $38,130 for trans men

Researchers found that their first hypothesis in "Cultural and Personally Endorsed Stereotypes of Transgender Men and Transgender Women: Notable Correspondence or Disjunction?" (Link)— that "the cultural stereotype of transgender women was expected to be significantly more negative than that of transgender men based on previous research[…] was not supported." Instead, they note that "transgender men were found to be subject to a more strongly negative cultural stereotype than were trans women." It also notes that there are studies that found trans women face more prejudice, while another had found no difference. The second hypothesis, the theory that participants personal endorsement of stereotypes against trans women would be stronger, was also not supported by the data. However, there is an overrepresentation of cis women in the sample (75%)

[therapatical]

oh hey this mirrors some similar results found in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey

crunching the numbers (with a few variations; obviously since we don't have the raw data we can't 100% rely on these estimates, but there are still certain conclusions that are mathematically impossible. I just took the low and high ends of each category. the distribution might look totally different, but based on one of the tables towards the beginning that shows the full income breakdowns, it seems like every category skewed to the lower ends in a fairly even way, so I don't think this kind of estimating is going to be dramatically inaccurate. just don't take these numbers as gospel. which you shouldn't be doing anyways)

some other notable income-related parts:

[konoko]

[cognitohazardous]

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ANT #5362 HOLD THE FUCKING LINE

[hotvampireadjacent]

35 million dollars only to lose lol

[milf-king]

They actually spent closer to $65 million for her to lose.

$35 million just from Israeli lobbies.

[kropotkindersurprise]

[xmaruu11]

HELLO! The animal shelter I volunteer now is going to lose one of their biggest incomes by the end of the year, (70% of their stable income is going to be gone by the end of the year) So I decided to help by putting my ACGGOODS store into good use! All the stickers and future products on the animal shelter category will go to help the shelter!

I'll try to get more information and ways to support soon!!

Feel free to reblog with whatever animal (pet or not) do you want a sticker like this! I'll be adding more with your suggestions

[dailyalastor]

Meet my new beloved: Crosses above Alastor's head instead of a halo

BONUS:

[dailyalastor]

okay i just wanted to immortalize this number of notes in this particular post, thank you everyone

[segamascott]

[otteroflore]

alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes

Per wikipedia:

The Titanic was made of steel, presumably to resist corrosion (i mean. thats why boats are made of steel i assume) but even when iron/steel rusts people did not expect to find like. decomposition. bacteria are EATING the titanic.

and there's wood furniture from the titanic that isn't decaying. hell, there are wood ships at the bottom of the ocean that archaeologists study. so the expectation people have for the titanic is not that the steel would decompose at the bottom of the ocean. Even in 100 years, since there are much more ancient preserved wooden ships iirc.

(im not particularly knowledgeable about ships, i just had heard about the science going on around the titanic so i wanted to clarify that on this post for people)

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[sailor-arashi]

The Titanic is an exceptionally weird whalefall basically.

[claraschaos]

Not a marine biologist but biologist enough to weigh in on this. The reason we have iron eating bacteria but not wood eating bacteria at the bottom of the ocean is simple. Hydrothermal vents release a cocktail of different mineral ores into the ocean. And bacteria and other organisms evolved alongside those so they evolved to digest these, like iron or other metal ores

Wood however does not exist at the bottom of the ocean since it basically never sinks down, even when logs are flushed out into the ocean they basically never end up at the ocean floor. So there's no bacteria that evolved to decompose lignin, which is already complex enough to decompose on the surface. And that's why wooden ships or the furniture on the Titanic stay intact for hundreds of years or longer.

[lobo-cansado-de-ojos-rojos]

Okay, but I remember reading a magazine stating that the titanic would basically be gone by now because of the rust eating the ship.

The sister ship HMHS Britannic is still perfectly preserved because of the way it sank, and partly in due to the coral that has grown around it keeping the structure in tact I believe was the reason.

[theminingdwarf]

Coral acting like a living fossil specifically for sunken ships is the coolest thing I've ever heard

[kyraneko]

So lemme get this straight, the Titanic is a whalefall, the Britannic is a biological mummy, and all the wood ships that sink into the deep ocean are preserved incorrupt because nothing can eat them.

Zombie, mummy, lich, respectively.

[nurseleonedeactivated-deactivat]

i think ppl would be a lot happier and better-adjusted on here if they realized that being online on a website is like being in any other casual public space full of people. if u walk into walmart u dont immediately think to yourself “i have to be friends with everyone in this walmart and if not everyone likes me i’m a failure” and u really shouldn’t feel that way online either. likewise if there’s a guy in the walmart parking lot shouting obscenities u probably wouldn’t answer him and that’s literally an exact equivalent to some of the weird stuff that people on here seem to feel they’re obligated to respond to.

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

if i could give one piece of advice to newly transitioning trans men, it's that it's 100% possible to find a community of people (including women!) who don't treat you as a threat, and the people trying to convince you otherwise are not your friends

[transvarmint]

"Name an issue that transmascs faced not faced by other trans people".

That's the thing though... I don't believe there are any issues faced by one group of trans people that are never faced by another group trans people (or even some non-trans ppl!)

There are issues that are more commonly faced by certain groups. I.e. transmascs are more likely to deal with transphobic discrimination during pregnancy. But that's not exclusive to us, some nonbinary people and intersex transfems who can get pregnant may face the same issues.

Transfems are more commonly treated as predatory and dangerous, but that's not exclusive to them either. Other trans people are demonized and get treated as dangerous simply for existing as well.

This is why we talk about the ways these oppressions overlap. People are constantly asking us to prove our oppression is completely unique in some way, but our point is that it's not! Neither is yours, I'm sorry to say. Other people face similar issues that you do. Which sucks that we're all going through it, but it's wonderful that we can be here together as a community to support each other.

There's a lot of separatist fear mongering that tells certain groups of trans people "the other group can't possibly understand your oppression, so you can't trust them, they are unsafe" which is incredibly dangerous rhetoric. When we acknowledge the way our oppression overlap, we realize we can find solidarity and safety nets together. Telling someone that other trans people will never understand their struggles is not only demonstrably false, but keeps them isolated.

We can talk about how these forms of oppression manifest without talking over each other, by inviting others to share how their experiences overlap. That is literally all I want. I love when I talk about transandrophobia and a transfem talks about how her experiences with transmisogyny overlap, or a nonbonary person talks about exorsexism or an intersex person talks about intersexism.

We can learn so much together by recognizing how these oppressions intertwine and fighting against them together.

[velvetvexations]

So much of the backlash against transandrophobia theory is a lot of people who are horrifically self-centered and selfish assuming everyone else is. It's like, no, it doesn't work like TMA/TME. That is the point.

[useless-irelandfacts]

[headspace-hotel]

I learned in my political science class that all major famines in the 20th century and onward have been caused by oppressive groups or political situations restricting access to food, NOT natural causes like crop failure

[dragons-and-pandas]

This is literally the point that Indian economist Amartya Sen made that won him the Nobel prize in economics. As a child, he survived one of the several Bengal famines that were organised by the British colonisers in India. He developed his theory on famines, which is that they were more about distribution of food rather than production or availability of it

[whyenn-reader]

part of being an adult is figuring out what eveyone else's definition of "going crazy" is. to you it is not sleeping for 60 hours, writing 80k words in one sitting and expiriencing enough anxiety to kill a horse. to beth from accounting its buying a ticket to Columbus, Ohio. and to your friend its consuming so much ketamine you lose all of your posessions and wake up with five broken bones in a ditch somewhere and then proceeding to do it again the next day. to your other friend its writing a letter to their favourite actress about how much they appreciate her work. to your neighbour its laughing loudly in a grocery store whilst in pajamas. maya from uni hears the voice of her dead father making jokes with no punchlines and she considers that to be quite normal - to her going crazy would be hearing her husband instead. your downstairs neighbour will take night walks naked sometimes and claim there is nothing weird about him. there are literally no rules to life and all meaning is in the eye of the beholder.

[sweetsweetemo]

im going to be honest i dont want to see that shit

[eden-evercrisp]

But what if we-

[sweetsweetemo]

okay fine you win with your whimsy

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: gg t t t at t tat t t at - a t

Closest match: Luria lurida genome assembly, chromosome: 7

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