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@incarnate-clay
Why is pet play always dogs anyway
Youre a dirty little goldfish arent you. daddys gonna clean your tank out so good so you have to wait in the sink until im done.
wht my penis produces when i ceank it off to Mysterious Porn
Being hairy is so awesome #mammal
I would not survive if I were Archbishop Wozniak in Conclave. You're best friends with the Pope and probably the only man he trusts and he tells you that he just had one of the cardinals removed from his position for gross misconduct and then he dies that night and you're the one who finds his body AND you know the guy that just got fired will try to use his declining health as a reason to dismiss the firing so he can be Pope? Insane
no, mother... you should have read my supposed "school field trip" permission slip closer.... i foresaw your betrayal a mile away.... im afraid, mother, it is you who has been sold to one direction
"Scam" you mean people are fighting back against housing discrimination??? I don't think these people know what the word scam means
Scams are designed to trick someone into giving up money based on lies. This is just.. asking for information then legally enforcing the law??
Fuck landlords
"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)
A Horse power being only 735 watt is honestly so weird like that's not even enough to run a modern game on decent seatings
You wanna know what's fucked?
Your brain is a 25-watt computer.
Brain is 25% of your energy consumption, you burn about 100 watts of power (about 100 joules per second). You're a 25-watt computer.
I don't like that fact
No but for real. Your brain is one of the most advanced machines known to exist. It's a computer capable of running a sapient intelligence on - and I cannot stress this enough - 25 watts of broccoli and stew. What the fuck.
It's a cool fact it just makes me uncomfortable
so an average toaster runs at about 1200 watts, say it takes 5 min to toast bread thats 0.1Kwh. itd take 4 hours of brain power to toast it
Just connect multiple humans together matrix style
in the woods amongst my coven, 48 all in total, linking hands deep in concentration. our collective will united on our task of great importance for what feels like days but in reality scarce but a few minutes. in the centre of us lays a single slice of toast cooked to perfection
Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.
People always ask you "What's your intersex variation?" they never ask "How's your intersex variation?" :/
what is compulsory dyadism?
Compulsory dyadism was coined by Celeste Orr in the book Cripping Intersex. It's a term to describe a system of oppression that targets intersex people.
Specifically, compulsory dyadism is the idea that there are immense amounts of societal pressure to conform to a mythical sex binary, and that society builds different structures and mechanisms of violence to try to enforce this sex binary.
the myth of the sex binary is that everyone can be sorted into either a male or female sex, and that everyone who is "female" has to have XX chromosomes and a uterus and ovaries and is capable of becoming pregnant and a vulva and a vagina that's capable of having penetrative sex (it also becomes clear how gender roles + sexual norms get attached to sex traits) and the "right" amount of body hair and a predominantly estrogen based hormone system etc etc etc. and the idea that everyone who is "male" has to have XY chromosomes and a large penis and testes capable of producing sperm and a flat chest and the "right" amount of body hair and a predominantly testosterone based hormone system etc etc etc.
in truth, even among endosex (non-intersex) people, there are plenty of ways that not all these boxes are going to line up. there are plenty of endosex people with uteruses who are not able to get pregnant, there are plenty of endosex people with penises that are not considered sufficiently large compared to this mythical ideal. and this is where the compulsory part of compulsory dyadism comes in--in response, we see all kinds of societal pressure to conform to these "ideal" sex traits. for example, there are so many different kinds of hair removal products marketed to women. there is widespread acceptance of jokes where the punchline is around shaming dick size.
compulsory dyadism impacts everyone to a certain degree, but intersex people are the most impacted. our bodies inherently disprove the myth of the sex binary, and as such, become treated as a threat that needs to be eradicated. this can look like nonconsensual surgery, sterilization, and other examples of curative violence; structural discrimination that makes it impossible to be legally intersex (i can't get a passport in the US right now, for example); and all sorts of ideas, practices, social norms and policies that are violent towards intersex people.
i think compulsory dyadism is a useful framework for helping us think about how "biological sex" is a socially constructed phenomenon, and i think it can help us look at ways that ideas about sex traits change in different times and contexts. it can help us identity ideas + practices that contribute to the oppression of intersex people, even when those ideas or practices might seem unconnected and might not on the surface talk about intersex issues.
i also think compulsory dyadism is a useful way to look at how other systems of oppression work together, and how all these combined forces define what is considered "normal" and "abnormal." in my post before this I was talking a lot about how eugenics, white supremacy, and antiblack racism collide with compulsory dyadism to create different kinds of violence. I've also been thinking a lot about compulsory dyadism and transmisogyny and some specific transmisogynistic pressures around dyadic sex traits and the sex binary. (as always my blog is a space for transfeminist intersex community and I will block transmisogynists who try to engage with my intersex posts.)
lmk if you have any other questions!