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“She wanted me to do one of those expressions of mine that made her laugh. Expressions that she couldn’t quite imitate. She used to say that those were the signs of my soul. Can a photo capture the soul? Can I capture Martha’s soul?”
MARTHA IS DEAD (2022)
What pleases u in bed?
sleep
march tomorrow. i feel sick
“I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted.” @louisethebaker on Twitter
"No love, however brief, is wasted."
You know when a fast angry song comes on that you know every word to and you’re in just the right mood that your eyes light up with the fire and angst of a thousand punk rockers and you just feel so alive
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S E N S O R Y
What causes your anxiety ?
being alive
not to brag but i have been performing quite well in my video games lately
Fun things they don’t teach you in sex ed.
Talcum powder has asbestos in it. Has for years. Leave it be
This is all FAR more useful education than ‘Having unmarried sex while female makes you a dirty slut’ .
There are a lot of male folks who follow me but don’t know these things. It’s good to know all of this! Just as your partner should want to know about the intricacies of your plumbing, you should care about this.
Spreading this for general health tips.
for trans guys who haven’t transitioned yet and even then
Here’s a thing a lot of people don’t know:
You can be allergic to condoms and you can be allergic to semen.
There are polyurethane condoms if you’re allergic to latex or your partner is. Lots of people claim to have a latex allergy to avoid condoms, so it’s good to have polyurethane condoms on hand in case someone tries that.
If you find yourself getting really red and irritated after sex without a condom and you know it’s not an STD or yeast infection, have your partner orgasm somewhere else on your body and watch for a rash. It’s rare, but it can happen and many people resort to douching or unsafe cleaning instead of addressing the problem. This is fixed with condoms.
You can use corn starch or a version of it like Lady Anti-Monkey Butt (the “lady” version has calamine in it, which is a miracle on irritated skin) on your butt and chub rub but try not to it in your actual labia, any sugars in your self-lubricating bits can contribute to yeast infections.
Don’t use any powder if your skin is broken or bleeding, though. If you nicked yourself with a razor or whatever, wait until there’s an actual scab there.
for trans men:
going on HRT can change the amount and also scent of your discharge and lubrication. sometimes you will get more, like, a lot more! sometimes you won’t. it’s a mystery, but also nothing to really worry over unless things specifically smell bad, which indicates an infection.
also, your clit and vulva change shape, which combined with extra discharge can increase your risk of irritation and, again, yeast or bacterial infection. you should be prepared to try out new underwear until you find something that doesn’t chafe.
Aladdin (1992) dir. Ron Clements and John Musker
““Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to the people and things that stress you out.” - Unknown”
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This little crab casually clearing the sand from his eyes
It’s time to activate it…
Bites The Dust! now this entire post will be reversed!
Am I having a fucking stroke
look: our neanderthal ancestors took care of the sick and disabled so if ur post-apocalyptic scenario is an excuse for eugenics, u are a bad person and literally have less compassion than a caveman
Yes but they also when extinct which implies whatever they were doing at the time wasn’t fit for their environment.
So, it’s been awhile since I took a human evolution course, so some of this might be a little out of date, but
1) Whether or not Neanderthals went extinct is still kind of up for debate, and seems to hinge largely on whether you think that Neanderthals are a H. Sapiens subspecies or not, which often seems like a mildly pointless argument to me since it’s largely a fight about which definition of “species” to use
2) Even if we argue that Neanderthals are our direct ancestors and never went extinct, several Neanderthal *traits* (like their noses and their forheads) *have* left the population. Care for the disabled is not one of them.
Saying “Neanderthals cared for their sick and injured and are now extinct, therefore care for the disabled is maladaptive” is like saying “Dodos are extinct therefore beaks are a terrible idea”
Statements about “less compassion than a caveman” still stand.
–Peter
I teach human evolution to college students, so in addition to that, here’s what we know. There’s some citations (and footnotes) behind the cut, if you’re interested.
So Neanderthals aren’t our direct ancestor- more like a branch of the family tree that didn’t lead to us. Close cousins- close enough to breed- but they evolved outside of Africa about 400kya, while our species evolved in Africa about 200kya*. This is important because it means that altruism can’t possibly be a Neanderthal trait that left the population during the evolution into modern humans; we didn’t evolve from them, so it’s not like we can say “well, this was maladaptive in our ancestors.” This is a behavior you see in two temporally coexisting species (or subspecies), and I do mean two, because it wasn’t just Neanderthals practicing altruism. We did it too.
We have really good evidence that early Homo sapiens sapiens (i.e., us, just old) also took care of their injured, elderly, and disabled. At Cro-Magnon in France, a few individuals clearly suffered from traumatic injury and illness during their lives. Cro-Magnon 1 had a nasty infection in his face; his bones are pitted from it. Cro-Magnon 2, a female, had a partially healed skull fracture, and several of the others had fused neck vertebrae that had fused as a result of healed trauma; this kind of injury would make it impossible to hunt and uncomfortable to move. This kind of injury can be hard to survive today, even with modern medical care; the fact that the individuals at Cro-Magnon survived long enough for the bones to remodel and heal indicate that somebody was taking care of them. At Xujiayao, in northern China, there’s evidence of healed skull fractures (which would have had a rather long recovery time and needed care);
This evidence of altruism extends past injured adults, as well. One of the most compelling cases is at Qafzeh, which is in Israel. Here we see evidence of long-term care for a developmentally disabled child (as well as a child who had hydrocephaly and survived). Qafzeh 11, a 12-13 year old at time of death, suffered severe brain damage as a child. Endocasts (basically making a model of the inside of the skull, where the brain would be) show that the volume of the brain was much smaller than expected; likely the result of a growth delay due to traumatic brain injury. The patterns of development suggest that this injury occurred between the ages of 4 and 6. They very likely suffered from serious neurological problems; the areas of the brain that were injured are known to control psychomotricity. This means that the kid may have had a hard time controlling their eye movements, general body movement, keeping visual attention, performing specific tasks, and managing uncertainty; in addition, Broca’s area might also have been damaged, which likely would have affected the kid’s ability to speak. Long and short of it, without help, this kid wouldn’t have survived to age 12-13.
But they did. They lived, and they were loved. When they died, they were given a funeral- we know this based on body position and funeral offerings. Mortuary behavior was common among both Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens, and this burial was particularly interesting. The body was placed on its back, its legs extended and the arms crossed over the chest. Deer antlers were laid on the upper part of the chest; in the archaeological context, they were in close contact with the palmar side of the hand bones, meaning it’s likely that they were placed in the hands before burial. This points to Qafzeh 11 being valued by the community- why go to the effort for somebody you don’t care about? Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.
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“Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.”
Would you be alright with me borrowing your words when someone poses the above comments’ line of thought to me?
Of course! (And feel free to use anything else in my anthropology tag.)
Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.
