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[faceworthy]

Ahem. I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land I am living on and the custodians of that land the Ngunnawal People. I would also like to pay my respects to all Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to any First Nation people of the world who may be visiting my blog.

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9 Feb. '23: look, sorry about the MCYT Sexyman Poll stuff but also I'm not sorry.

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[saphushia]

continuation/aftermath of danny pulling nightwing out of a dumpster

don't let danny fool you with his innocent geek act. that's a working ectogun that he made to look like a phaser. he's absolutely a geek but he's not innocent

[spamtoing-moved]

Strangest thing was i dont remember asking

[infestedguest]

Broke Mister Green out of jail because I thought he might be the chef I was supposed to find in Sinners Road. He wasn’t (they turned out to be that one bug from the trailers who attacks you by throwing it back) and I just know I just accidentally opted into an optional boss fight later on by doing that didn’t I. His design is too polished for him not to be, plus he kind of looks like the Clockwork Dancers if they were normal not metal bugs.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

saw this video of a production of the nutcracker that has tony hawk skateboarding in it today. btw.

likely place for tony hawk to be

[cookinguptales]

“Sometimes you just have to say yes to things way outside your comfort zone, especially when your daughter thinks it’s funny,” Hawk wrote on Instagram.

[shima-draws]

Everybody stop what you’re doing RIGHT NOW and celebrate the last Out of Touch Thursday of 2020

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

OUTTA TOUCH THURSDAY!

[analog-machine]

The last Out of Touch Thursday of 2021

[mrtylers]

The last Out of Touch Thursday of 2022!

[transgendercyborg-deactivated20]

The Final Out Of Touch Thursday 2023!

[nick-nonya]

The Final Out Of Touch Thursday 2024!

[zzoupz]

The Final Out Of Touch Thursday 2025! (Merry Christmas!!)

[rylandsgrace]

#Merry crisis

[miseria-fortes-viros]

your weird obsession with moral purity is degrading your critical thinking skills and poisoning your ability to empathize with other people btw

[miseria-fortes-viros]

your weird obsession with moral purity is degrading your critical thinking skills and poisoning your ability to empathize with other people btw

[only-tiktoks]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[splashyf]

that one songclave wish

[brucebocchi]

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

put nap o n bank sleep next to stream nothing could go wrong have a sle ep in yorkshire dales

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

I Have Been Minced

[guerrillatech]

[yossyislandd]

[butchfagminotaur]

“how long have you been on tumblr?” i remember the term “nightblogging”

[jupitereyed]

*takes a drag from an imaginary cigarette* I remember you knew you stayed up refreshing your dash too late when the Australians started posting

[pharahsgf]

taylor swift's new album includes the lyric "did you girlboss too close to the sun" and rolling stone gave it a 5/5. post your bad art

[anghraine]

As far as I’m concerned, the single most radical change from journal fandom is the idea that fandom is primarily a space for kids.

*shakes cane* in MY day, teen fans pretended to be adults while we walked uphill both ways!

[darksilveraster]

#tumblr: i GUESS we’ll tolerate these gross old women LIKE OVER 25 UGH as long as they understand that fandom isn’t /for/ them

#lj: HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW ADULTS

[dream-about-dancing]

#on LJ it was very clear that when you were underage#YOU were the one sneaking into the adult club#now everyone’s acting like the adults are invading prom night

[whereserpentswalk]

This post dates back to 2017. They saw it before anyone else did.

[our-queer-experience]

helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

[the-gummy-worms-have-me]

I think I found the article!

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence

Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.

[mikkeneko]

Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.

The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.

[aethersea]

Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.

I also thought this part was cool :)

[genderqueerdykes]

PLEASE read this article, this information is incredible for everyone looking to unlearn bioessentialism

[anti-terf-posts]

official anti terf post

[vonclosen]

i also cannot stress enough that the conception of “woman the gatherer” has been challenged since the 1970s. this is nothing new as a concept, which means she has even less of an excuse for being a misogynistic shithead.

anthropologist sally slocum wrote about male bias, misogyny, and the lack of evidence for women only being gatherers and nurturers in her 1975 essay “woman the gatherer: male bias in anthropology.” i highly recommend reading it.

[iamnmbr3]

TERFs aren't just transphobes. They are regressive antifeminist gender essentialists. They aren't "protecting" women.