my sister kinda cooked today. we were talking about how dumb it is that people consider (insert bigoted group here) mistaken little uwus (i call it “uwu culture” as a current response to cancel culture where people are uncritically assumed to be “misled” or uneducated or “victimized” as justification for the bigoted beliefs ) and she said:
“people keep trying to humanize villains when the villains are already human”
and i stood up and clapped for her and told her the women in my phone will greatly appreciate that statement
oppressors are already human. in general, the problem is that their humanity is validated while those of the oppressed are not. when we describe them by their inhumane treatment, that is not dehumanization. that is recognizing that the leopard is a carnivore.
nazism isn’t a cosmic accident. nazism does not exist outside of nazis. the ideology is realized in the ideologue. patriarchy is men. not something that happens to them. for them to be misogynists or nazis or racists or homophobes, they have already accepted that your humanity is forfeit to them.
Does anyone else remember when Elon was like "if anyone knows how to end world hunger for 6 billion USD, I'll fund it" and UNICEF was like "we're going to spend a month to make a plan to end world hunger for 6 billion USD and Elon is going to fund it" and Elon was like "actually, nah" and then bought Twitter instead?
I think that was one of the worst things I'll ever see in my life.
I still think that should be the thing for which he's the most famous. It should be brought up every time he's mentioned. In any news article, any interview, any history book. "Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down." Put it on his fucking gravestone.
Sooooo as someone going into fields that contain biology I think it's time we talk about how we see it from a fully male perspective. It's gotten to the point for me that I cannot listen to men talk biology, specifically reproduction. When we talk about male competition, we talk about it as "the right to mate". However this sees reproduction as a sentient, default specimen (male) doing to the secondary, inanimate vessel (female). In reality males fight for the CHANCE to win female attention. Females will forever be more selective sexually in the majority of animals. This is because females expend more energy in reproduction (the simple fact eggs are the larger gamete). Even in most fish, where care is commonly paternal, you will find heavy selection on the female side. Females are not fought over like an object to earn or "inseminate" the pure attention we give is what's fought over. Females almost always control their species. Look at tiger endlers. It may seem like the males harass females, but females actually CHOOSE exactly which sperm they concieve with and retain sperm for up to a year (trust me I have SEEN it myself). There's also this notion that males are all about genetics while female is about love or is about being a vessel. That's laughable. Females want their genetics to succeed just as much as males. They just dont have to fight as much because they have the limited gamete, its not a competition to be chosen when the other sex is unlimited. And the way we talk about paternal vs maternal. Paternal animals are all about "self preservation" but maternal animals are robots to their love. Dont get me started on how people act when I tell them my betta males do the incubating. We like to see it as a male competing to spread his genes and not a female choosing to complete her genes with the perfect individual. Every time someone tries to symbolize sex this shit comes into play. Male is the default that uses female as his tool. Be it describing it as penetration, fertilization, and much more. On the topic of "fertilization" did you know that the egg chooses the sperm? Did you know eggs are more complex than sperm? Did you know that eggs are not infertile without a sperm they just arent a embryo? We see female as defined by male, made valueable by male. A vessel filled by male. I think it's time for females to realize that nature is actually quite female centered. Hopefully as we get more women in this field, that will change. Because right now I'm starting to learn that a lot of science is worded in a way so males can cope with actually being quite lesser than females and at our disposal.
Edit: thanks for all the attention everyone! I've always wanted a space I could talk about this sort of thing. Glad to know I'm not alone on this. Trying to be in this field as a feminist can be insufferable
I just found the earliest email I ever sent from my email address, and it’s the funniest goddamn thing I can possibly imagine a fourth grader sending her teacher:
(Context - my fourth grade teacher was on maternity leave, and the state of the classroom fish tank was dire under the substitute teacher’s tyrannical rule. The class convened at recess, and decided to inform our (24yo, new mother) former teacher of the situation. I was selected as the duly appointed representative for this solemn communication.)
Can we be very honest about something: wikipedia is dominated by men because dominating wikipedia requires an astonishing amount of turbo autism that is just biologically more common in men. in addition, men are less prosocial so women on average are more likely to have aspects of our lives like friends and families and community engagement that prevent us from dedicating 20 hours a fucking day to being a reddit mod or a wikipedia admin or whatever
I had never heard of this character before, but it really was published over a hundred years ago. Here’s a comics blog talking about her, and a couple more gems:
It's hard to believe that this blog has been running over a dozen years now, and I am just now getting around to mak
here's some other fabulous ones, courtesy of Chronicling America (direct source to each newspaper below the cut, captions in the alt text)
Alternate caption for that final one: Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you just wanna go ape shitt?
Sources:
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.), 12 Nov. 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96076839/1920-11-12/ed-1/seq-4/>
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.), 11 Nov. 1921. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053241/1921-11-11/ed-1/seq-4/>
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.), 24 May 1921. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053241/1921-05-24/ed-1/seq-6/>
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.), 27 June 1921. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053241/1921-06-27/ed-1/seq-6/>
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.), 07 Dec. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063952/1922-12-07/ed-1/seq-7/>
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.), 17 Feb. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063952/1922-02-17/ed-1/seq-7/>
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.), 07 Oct. 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87096037/1920-10-07/ed-1/seq-9/>
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.), 24 June 1921. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023963/1921-06-24/ed-1/seq-1/>
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho), 20 May 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89055199/1920-05-20/ed-1/seq-4/>
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.), 29 March 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063952/1922-03-29/ed-1/seq-7/>
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.), 25 May 1921. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053241/1921-05-25/ed-1/seq-7/>
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.), 14 Oct. 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89066651/1920-10-14/ed-1/seq-11/>
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.), 14 Oct. 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89066651/1920-10-14/ed-1/seq-19/>
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.), 11 June 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85040245/1920-06-11/ed-1/seq-5/>
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times. (Grand Forks, N.D.), 14 May 1914. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89074404/1914-05-14/ed-1/seq-5/>
Literally everything women do or enjoy is mocked endlessly and turned into its own jig. When the VSCO girls enjoyed comfortable clothing, reusable water bottles, and stickers they were mocked. When the Christian Girl Autumn girls enjoyed modest clothing, scarves / fall attire, and balayage hair, they were mocked. When the E-Girls enjoyed heavy eyeliner, short hair, and stockings they were mocked.
Like it doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that whenever women form trends amongst ourselves, we get mocked and turned into jokes. Meanwhile men can have broad ranges of hobbies and interests and have that be respected and treated with dignity, even if these include degeneracy like porn or hentai.
