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been a while since I've used this blog anyway let's talk updates people
I left my toxic ex last spring.
Cut him off completely! And it was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done.
been working a lot. been super busy. but.. also, happy.
I made that cowboy vincent at long last
Vincent belongs to @gatobob !!
How is this not a crime?
"Rotating it in my mind" started on Tumblr as a COGIATI joke and took off hard with everyteenager4free using it, which gave cis people this beautiful phrase that they don't know how to use
The COGIATI was an "are you trans or not" test that achieved enough clinical legitimacy to do overall good for the world, although basically every tran old enough to remember it has beef with it. It infamously had a section which asked you to rotate a series of cubes in your mind as a way of determining how male-brained you were, which is hilarious to begin with and is funnier because it's 100% sincere and actual cis psychiatrists had trans people do this test to validate themselves
Ok, assuming this is the same test, here's the question (from this site):
Visualize the following entirely in your head. Do not draw or write anything, just use your mind. Picture a pair of cubes. The two cubes are connected by a bar through their middle, like a dumbbell. Imagine that the dumbbell object is floating in front of you, one cube close to you, the other directly away from you. Now, imagine that the cube nearest you is red, and the cube furthest from you is blue. Picture the dumbbell built of two cube and a rod begins to rotate, the near, red cube, dropping down and away, and the blue, far cube, rotating up and nearer. The dumbbell continues so that it now stands vertical, in front of you, the red cube on the bottom, the blue cube on the top. Continue this direction of rotation, end over end, three times exactly, starting with that state where the red cube was on the bottom, and the blue cube was on the top. What is the position of either cube, red or blue?
What on EARTH does this have to do with gender, trans or otherwise
It relies on then-common speculation that spatial geometry was a faculty of the brain that "male brains" had a natural advantage in, which is actually still a pretty commonplace assertion or belief among people who have read like 1 psych textbook ever. In JDR's defense, I don't think she expected anyone to be talking about her silly little web 1.0 test 25 years later, was more interested in providing a vague scientific veneer to people wanting to transition than actually keeping current on sexed neuroscience, etc. It should go without saying that "men better at math than women" is a ridiculous stereotype that got grandfathered into the way people study brains without a lot of critical thinking, and that the author of the COGIATI (JDR) was far from alone in believing in that nonsense
Also fun fact, if you are a cis woman or man, imagine having a geometry test as a load-bearing part of how medical and government professionals gender you. I hope that helps explain why some trans people have wound up with beef with the COGIATI
hello. jew here
dont write jewish characters if u know next to nothing about us or our culture/religion pls. if u want to write a jewish character (or any character outside the scope of your personal knowledge, honestly), you MUST take the time to read about us and our beliefs, customs, etc. im not saying u have to be an expert on the torah or the tanakh or the talmud, but u need to do at least the bare minimum. and google isnt always reliable, if u have questions u should carefully analyze which websites u use. or have a jew beta your fic/writing!
im just tired of seeing âthis character is jewish :) u can tell because they celebrate hanukkahâ and that is it for the jewish characterization. like i get that u ppl know nothing abt judaism except for hanukkah but u HAVE to do better than that. because ur essentially tokenizing the character as ur Jewish Representation and it shows.
again, im not saying âdont write that hanukkah sceneâ, or âdont try writing jews at allâ.
what i AM saying is that u need to actually do ur part in understanding judaism a little bit more before u decide to write a jewish character. if ur not willing to do the research or ask the questions, dont bother writing us into ur stories.
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Getting absolutely fed up with "you can tell this character is Jewish because look a menorah tehee :)" today
Also asking someone Jewish because theyâre the only Jew you know to write a character for you is NOT OKAY. Do research. Go out. Meet people. Talk to rabbis. Donât expect us to be the ambassadors to our people. Weâre not a monolith.
"We'll be better".
uh huh
System has a new host, and he's over your shit.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE TELL MARKIPLIER
no fucking way
The Boys, unlike other species of men, have strong communal bonds and if you ever get one you NEED to get at least 2 or 3 others for them to socialize with. A single The Boys will suffer from depression and will naturally start screaming out his discord handle to attract other The Boys.
aren't gorillas gentle giants or something. i stay out of his way, he doesn't maul me, we have a nice time picking out clothes together in opposite sides of the mall
Male gorillas are super aggressive and territorial. Also they interpret nearly every human mannerism as a sign of aggression or a challenge. Smiling and eye contact are both things that zookeepers have to be taught to suppress when theyâre in the vicinity of gorillas.
Well unless the mall is his native territory I think I'm fine, I wasn't planning on smiling at him
This is all irrelevant because the obvious answer is five black mambas. I mean, thatâs not actually very many snakes, and malls are fucking huge. And unlike a gorilla you can definitely outrun a snake if it does show up. Find an open space in the mall where you can see any snake coming and just hangout out there. Fucking easy.
Misguided! I would much rather have a mallmate I can easily see and hear coming. I'm confident I can stay out of the gorilla's way, but if I step on a snake or one otherwise gets the jump on me, it's all over.
It's not just about the physical danger either, it's about my mental health. One gorilla, unless he's actively mad at me, I just keep a healthy distance between us and make sure I never get trapped. With the snakes, it requires a lot more constant vigilance
They should substitute "chimpanzee" for "gorilla" in this hypothetical.
if it was a chimp i'm taking the fucking snakes
Black mambas have a reputation build on being very venomous and very fast. I'm not sure why you would think you could outrun one (or five) in an enclosed space like a mall.
Malls usually have pretty slick floors, and escalators. Iâd choose the gorilla simply because I think that would make an more interesting story (and a better-selling autobiography, I Survived the Mall Gorilla) but I think Iâd stand a pretty good chance at avoiding the mamba. Theyâre fast and aggressive and will chase you but unless we started immediately beside each other I think my sneakers would have the terrain advantage over scutes.
this is too good to leave hidden in the replies
fucking enamored with the implication that this gorilla is fully intelligent but is trying to manufacture plausible deniability like the movie barnyard
this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????
Real, male bees donât go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself
googling âbee gendersâ as I dictate this post
The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that weâre applying the words male and female to them. Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen. The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs. Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage.
Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because theyâre all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species. Bees donât experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense.
diversity win, the freak sneaking into your garden and rubbing themselves all over your flowers does not fit into a human biological or sociopolitical framework of sex and gender!
Myth: Trans rights are not human rights
Status: BUSTED
This is a real tweet btw
Absolutely bonkers that I'm now one of those weirdos you hear about on Twitter
I committed to the bit so hard that I also committed misdemeanor impersonation of a government official
iâve mentioned this here before, but it will remain one of the most ideologically influential experiences of my life: when i was in fifth grade i did a report on post traumatic stress as manifested in veterans of the vietnam war, and my father did me the huge favor of connecting me w/ a vietnam vet friend of his who was diagnosed with PTSD, assuring him that while i was only ten i was bright and curious and he should be as honest with me about his experience as possible.Â
i remember entering his office with my tape recorder, sitting in a chair that was too big, and asking him questions about war, and his life after war, while swinging my legs over the edge of the chair. i remember being very, very quiet as he spoke of pulling the car over on the highway for fear of crashing when his hands would shake uncontrollably in response to song on the radio or a smell that he couldnât be sure was real or sense-memory. and of ruined relationships and anger and american hypocrisy.Â
and i also remember that was the day i learned what âvalorâ meant. he used âvalorâ in a sentence and i didnât know that word, and when i asked him to explain âvalorâ he became very quiet. and i canât remember precisely what he said, if he ever offered me the dictionary definition or not, but i do remember him looking very sad, and saying something about our countryâs idea of âvalorâ, and also something about a broken promise. and there was an edge to his words that i couldnât parse at the time that i would later come to understand was bitterness, that he sounded bitter.Â
to this day i canât hear or read the word âvalorâ without seeing sunlight coming through his office window at a slant, close-to-sunset light, and feeling the kind of quiet, confused, completely internalized panic a child feels when they sense that a grown up is trying very hard not to weep in their presence.Â
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