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[pangur-and-grim]

my favourite part of the Evolutionary Biology courses I took at the University of Toronto was learning that several bird species have 3+ sexes? the ruff bird is a great example - each male variant has a different (and successful!) reproductive strategy, and a different chromosomal sequence.

unlike the ruff bird, human sex falls into a bimodal distribution - this means there are two strong peaks (”typical” male and female morphs), with a whole lot in between.

evolution is nice way of saying “statistics played out longterm among living organisms”, and evolutionarily successful traits….aren’t something to hold up as natural or moral, or representative of an advanced state. it’s literally just fuck tactics that make your group size increase.

(though fucking isn’t always the best route, as asexual reproduction is massively advantageous as a short-term strategy, and certain species dominate the landscape by switching between sexual/asexual depending on environmental conditions)

besides all that, the strength of humankind has always been our ability to work together communally, and that’s straight science. so even if you went down the extremely problematic path of valuing fellow humans based on their potential evolutionary contribution (coughs, eugenics, coughs), there would still be zero scientific basis behind discriminating against trans, non-binary and intersex people. 

tl;dr here’s a challenge to all the bigots out there: please stop using “science” as a defence when the actual science is (overwhelmingly) against you.

[liberal-memes]

[princessnijireiki]

This is Adam Erickson, pastor at the Clackamas United Church of Christ in Milwaukee, Oregon!

[saxgoddess25]

Oh finally. A real Christian.

[dailytwitterposts]

[iheartmoonlight-deactivated2020]

I like that one line in mitski’s song “Nobody” that goes like Venus, planet of love was destroyed by global warming because its like a smart metaphor for how people destroy love by asking for too much or smth like that and you are like yes she is the queen of lyrics but the thing is that is literally what happened to Venus the planet got too much CO2 in the atmosphere and it became hellfire so not only is mitski the queen of lyrics but also the queen of modern astrophysics

[trulyvincent]

Murmuration of Starlings that looks like one huge bird

[case-y-point]

Love having to out my own trauma to keep my family from triggering me and having to go into more detail than I wanted because they were making wrong generalization in addition to having to justify not telling my mom about it until two years ago and her feeling guilty bc of that

[thebootydiaries]

supersmashthestatebros:

no glasses who dis

[leyorio-deactivated20170725]

[profeminist]

“UN Building, NYC. Artist: Joseph Michael. 9/20/19.”

John Weir· September 20 ·

[the-memedaddy]

me_irl

[everythingstarstuff]

[veliseraptor]

when you can sense a Mood incoming and feel like a farmer standing in a field looking out at the horizon as the storm approaches like “looks like it’s gonna be a bad one, boys”

[the-memedaddy]

[hoppip]

[pussysoupforthesoul-deactivated]

me: “ugh having to put my credit card information in each time is so annoying. the website should’ve just saved it the first time”

website: “would you like to save ur credit card information?”

me:

[mackreedea]

“he or she, his or hers”