[phoenix-before-the-flame]

Natsu day tried to sneak up on me but i came prepared (locked in on a diabolical level)

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

[dissociatingdumbass]

[bi-polarbear]

[hahaalaine]

men answer a simple direct question challenge level impossible

[depsidase]

[youngadultread]

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

(via iamayoungfeminist)

[withswords]

there's an anime everyone's into right now and it must be really confusing because everyone in the tags keeps going "wha?" it's okay gang you'll figure it out.

[probuccalfat]

i’m starting a new stereotype that people with loving fathers are actually annoying as hell

[hahaalaine]

me, traumatized: here's everything i did in depth before remotely thinking about reaching out for help my coworkers:

[mollybeenoel]

[finnglas]

There’s an episode of Sesame Street (on Netflix! you can watch it easily!) where Elmo attends a toy-swap, where you offer up old toys you don’t play with anymore and receive someone else’s toys that are new to you. Cute!

But Elmo, after cheerfully surrendering his old toys, sees that the children who swapped toys with him are playing with his toys “wrong”! They’re imagining entirely different make believe scenarios! They’re pretending the football is a dinosaur egg instead of a rocket ship! Aaahhhhh!!!! And this is so distressing to poor Elmo that he does the unthinkable: He does swapsies-backsies and takes all his toys back!

This being Sesame Street, he learns that you can’t control how other people play pretend, but you can join in if you want to! And if you don’t want to, that’s ok, you can just play pretend your own way by yourself or with someone else who wants to play that way too. You can still be friends with people who play pretend differently than you (and aren’t being mean/harmful/etc, do not bad-faith-read this 🤨).

Anyway this is a post about fandom.

[hahaalaine]

working the holiday since all of my clients are also working the holiday and one of them is having a very specific technical problem that no one else has had. i wish i could just send them this video because its a skeleton crew for emergencies and the people who can help them are looong gone

[nemfrog]

[osidius-el-enfatico]

play station announced they will stop making physical games in 2028. it is imperative that we pirate everything in the world starting right this second.

[sapphling]

"drug seeking" as a patient one of the most dogshit stupid concepts of all time. fuuuck everybody look out this guy came in here expecting medical treatment. better watch out in case he goes to a restaurant and starts food seeking

[hahaalaine]

the fact that adam can "airdrop" images into ronan's mind, like when he had to show ronan the make & model of greenmantle's cell phone, is so cool. like if that were me and my spouse we would be having telepathic conversations nonstop and it would be pissing everyone off.

[hahaalaine]

i saw a siamese cat on the street today and of course the old disney song "we are siamese" started playing so i listened to it trying to remember where it came from. of course its incredibly racist and this is what i get for not thinking about it for 20+ years.

[disgustinggf]

Many thanks