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The story behind The Laundress.
This is so good. -Emily
Room for One More.
Tapastic. Twitter.
So that’s why girls wore these…
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Gather round, children. Auntie Jules has a degree in psychology with a specialization in social psychology, and she doesn’t get to use it much these days, so she’s going to spread some knowledge.
We love saying representation matters. And we love pointing to people who belong to social minorities being encouraged by positive representation as the reason why it matters. And I’m here to tell you that they are only a part of why it matters.
The bigger part is schema.
Now a schema is just a fancy term for your brain’s autocomplete function. Basically, you’ve seen a certain pattern enough times that your brain completes the equation even when you have incomplete information.
One of the ways we learned about this was professional chess players vs. people who had no experience with chess.
If you take a chess board and you set it up according to a pattern that is common in chess playing (I’m one of those people who knows jack shit about chess), and you show it to both groups of people, and then you knock all the pieces off the board, the pro chess players will be able to return it to its prior state almost perfectly with no trouble, because they looked at it and they said, “Oh, this is the fifth move of XYZ Strategy, so these pieces would be here.”
The people who don’t know about chess are like, “Uh, I think one of the horses was over here, and maybe there was a castle over there?”
BUT, if you just put the pieces randomly on the board before you showed it to them, then the amateurs were more likely to have a higher rate of accuracy in returning the pieces to the board, because the pros are SO entrenched in their knowledge of strategy patterns that it impairs their ability to see what is actually there if it doesn’t match a pattern they already know.
Now some of y’all are smart enough to see where this is going already but hang on because I’m never gonna get to be a college professor so let me get my lecture on for a second.
Let’s say for a second that every movie and TV show on television ever shows black men who dress in loose white T-shirts and baggy pants as carrying guns 90% of the time, and when they get mad, they pull that gun out and wave it in some poor white woman’s face. I mean, sounds fake, right? But go with it.
Now let’s say that you’re out walking around in real life, and you see a black man wearing a white T-shirt and loose-fitting jeans.
And let’s say he reaches for something in his pocket.
And let’s say you can’t see what he’s reaching for. Maybe it’s his wallet. Maybe it’s his cell phone or car keys. Maybe it’s a bag of Skittles.
But on TV and movies, every single time a black man in comfortable, casual clothes reaches for something you can’t see, it turns out to be a gun.
So you see this.
And your brain screams “GUN!!!” before he even comes up with anything. And chances are even if you SEE the cell phone, your brain will still think “GUN!!!” until he does something like put it up to his ear. (Unless you see the pattern of non-threatening black men more often than you see the narrative of them as a threat, in which case, the pattern you see more often will more likely take precedence in this situation.)
Do you see what I’m saying?
I’m saying that your brain is Google’s autocomplete for forms, and that if you type something into it enough, that is going to be what the function suggests to you as soon as you even click anywhere near a box in a form.
And our brains functioning this way has been a GREAT advantage for us as a species, because it means we learn. It means that we don’t have to think about things all the way through all the time. It saves us time in deciding how to react to something because the cues are already coded into our subconscious and we don’t have to process them consciously before we decide how to act.
But it also gets us into trouble. Did you know that people are more likely to take someone seriously if they’re wearing a white coat, like the kind medical doctors wear, or if they’re carrying a clipboard? Seriously, just those two visual cues, and someone is already on their way to believing what you tell them unless you break the script entirely and tell them something that goes against an even more deeply ingrained schema.
So what I’m saying is, representation is important, visibility is important, because it will eventually change the dominant schemas. It takes consistency, and it takes time, but eventually, the dominant narrative will change the dominant schema in people’s minds.
It’s why when everyone was complaining that same-sex marriage being legal wouldn’t really change anything for LGB people who weren’t in relationships, some people kept yelling that it was going to make a huge difference, over time, because it would contribute to the visibility of a narrative in which our relationships were normalized, not stigmatized. It would contribute to changing people’s schemas, and that would go a long way toward changing what they see as acceptable, as normal, and as a foregone conclusion.
So in conclusion: Representation is hugely important, because it’s probably one of the single biggest ways to change people’s behavior, by changing their subconscious perception.
(It is also why a 24-hour news cycle with emphasis on deconstructing every. single. moment. of violent crimes is SUCH A TERRIBLE SOCIETAL INFLUENCE, but that is a rant for another post.)
I love a good lecture.
This.
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Where are those woke white people at!?
I’ll say it again: Scientists have created a synthetic stingray that’s propelled by living muscle cells and controlled by light.
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But the ultimate goal isn’t a cyborg sea monster - it’s a human heart.
“I want to build an artificial heart, but you’re not going to go from zero to a whole heart overnight,” says Kit Parker, a bioengineer and physicist at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute. “This is a training exercise.”
Full, fascinating story here.
Science is so cool: Synthietic stingrays ➡️ artificial human hearts. -Emily
OMG.
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Your body is constantly refreshing itself, bit by bit. But every cell type turns over at a different rate.
Is there anything that stays constant for your entire life? Find out in our latest video:
You’re weekend watch. -Emily
Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.”
Open Letter to Tumblr Staff
Dear Tumblr Staff, I am writing in regard to your recent decision to block links to the site “ManyVids.”
I’m not sure if Staff understands the full extent of negative impact that this decision may ultimately have for the Tumblr community, the artists and performers affected, and the bottom line of Yahoo shareholders.
What fuels the Tumblr community are the creative minds who produce free content for you–photographers, writers, design geeks, “cam girls,” or anyone else. These individuals effectively work for you for free. They are your greatest resource, and they are what sets you apart from your competition.
The primary incentive for many of these individuals to produce free content is the chance to simultaneously market paid content available through sites such as Etsy, ManyVids, Patreon, etc.
Blocking links to ManyVids removes that incentive for a sizable chunk of the Tumblr Community. It increases the extent to which you must rely on individuals willing to produce content for truly nothing, and on content which is–frankly–simply stolen from other websites.
For the artists and performers affected, this decision is potentially devastating. The independently-operating sex workers who rely on sites like ManyVids for their livelihood are typically a far cry from wealthy Hollywood “porn stars.” These are often highly vulnerable individuals struggling to make ends meet, and for many of them, the decision to block ManyVids will take a bite from their already sparse wallets.
From a shareholder perspective, this decision has the potential to destroy a great deal of the competitive advantage that your website currently enjoys. If sex workers can’t make it economically viable to produce content for you, then you’ve just made Tumblr notably less interesting. You’ve also created a mile-wide market opening for a competitor to welcome them (and their numerous fans) with open arms.
If the goal is to remake Tumblr with a more “family friendly” image, then it will be significantly more difficult to set your site apart from competitors such as Instagram and Facebook. If that’s the long-game here, then to say the least, I’m glad that I don’t have your job.
And from a personal perspective, this decision effectively amounts to biting the hand which has fed you. Some of these artists and performers have spent months or years building up a following on your website in order to finally enjoy a baseline of economic security. For some of them, this decision takes that away in one fell swoop.
For clarification, I do not personally rely on ManyVids for income. I’m a photographer and kink-educator who sells adult-oriented products via Etsy. None the less, as someone who relies on social media marketing for my livelihood, this decision has particular resonance for me. And as a businessman whose target customer deomgraphic is the same as the sex workers who have been alienated by this decision, the blocking of ManyVids forces me to ask tough questions about this website and my future role as a content-producer for you.
As such, I strongly encourage you to consider revoking the ban on links to ManyVids. I hope you do the right thing.
-TheRopeGeek
@staff
@staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff Where is the petition against this? Anyone?
@staff 📢ARE YOU LISTENING?!
Pretty sure they don’t give a shit. About this or tons of similar issues. Really deeply disappointing. @staff
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