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in the Egyptian wing of the museum and my boyfriend is like "what are all the time periods of ancient Egypt" and I'm like predynastic, early dynastic, old kingdom which is when the pyramids were built, first intermediate, middle kingdom, second intermediate, new kingdom which includes amarna period and yugioh, third intermediate, and then all the late period stuff and macedonian and roman eras. and he's like run that by me one more time
The whole “capitalism gave you the Internet” thing is especially funny if you actually work in network infrastructure, since one of the first things you’ll learn is that many software technologies that are absolutely critical to the day to day functioning of the Internet are being maintained on a volunteer basis by small, decentralised teams working in whatever free time their day jobs leave them, and that we’d have a crisis on our hands within thirty days if any one of those maintainers were to get hit by a bus and nobody stepped up to replace them. Like, the whole commercial edifice of the Internet rests on the continuous unpaid labour of a relative handful of people who are essentially just doing it for fun.
One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.
Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.
There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!
the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."
bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.
I ran into a truly wild cultural misunderstanding with my father some years ago, when I had to explain to him what “hookup culture” actually was, and that the thing he assumed it was was actually what we call “cruising culture”. His response was “how is that different from dating?” and when I explained how it was different, he said, and please note that this a direct quote: “That’s ridiculous! You can’t expect a woman to stop fooling around with other guys for anything less than a marriage proposal. I mean, she’s not a prostitute, you can’t buy her.” Now obviously there’s like… a lot to unpack there, but I think it’s pretty darn illustrative of a substantive cultural shift around the assumption of monogamy!
Also, following this, I asked my mom what her thoughts were on the matter, and she said that while she “wouldn’t put it in those terms” she broadly agreed, and thought that anyone expecting any sort of exclusivity when a marriage proposal wasn’t at least on the very immanent horizon was “nuts, honestly.” I hesitantly asked if she was including relationships with premarital sexual activity in that, and her response was “Of course. I mean, gosh, you know your Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week before she finally settled down.”
And this was when I learned, to my shock, that the oft-repeated story of how “Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week” didn’t just mean “Aunt Terri had a full dance card” but rather meant that Aunt Terri had a period of her life where she literally dated exactly seven guys at once, all of whom she was sleeping with (or, my mom was quick to disclaim, “well, fooling around with, I don’t know how far she actually went with any of them, but they were definitely all fooling around behind closed doors”), on a literal weekly rotation. Like, they had a schedule. A schedule that all seven of the guys knew.
America has gotten a lot more conservative about dating, actually.
what about a shapeshifter who’s bad at it. shapeshifter who can never quite get the nose right. shapeshifter who always makes flipped faces because they’re doing adjustments in the mirror. shapeshifter with same face syndrome. shapeshifter who always dips further into the uncanny valley than they want. shapeshifter who can mimic a single celebrity completely perfectly but struggles to recreate anyone else.
shapeshifter that can only do one person other than themselves and its a completely flawless tony hawk
I've complained about this before but ngl I hate how most gluten free food sold in stores is also vegan and low fat and low sugar and all that, bcs I think that people who are gluten free but not vegan or on a diet deserve food that's just gluten free, and vegans that don't have allergies deserve food that isn't gluten free, and people who can't have too much sugar or fat deserve non-vegan non-gluten free food.
Also as someone with POTs who needs a lot of salt so much gluten free food also being "health" food makes it less healthy for me. I need salt and sugar and fat!!
If there is any justice in this universe the diet industry will one day know my wrath.
As cheesy as shows like captain planet and advertisements like the burger king kids club are I miss the 90s and early 2000s diversity push of having kids in wheelchairs and black kids and girls and Asian kids and white kids and latino kids all on the same team. Remember shows like nihao kai lan and dora the explorer that celebrated Chinese and latin American culture. Arthur had a Jewish girl that celebrated hanukkah and a black boy that celebrated Kwanzaa. And they didn't make the Jewish girl celebrate Christmas.
super quick 30 minute mermay before i nap. happy mermay!!
super quick 30
minute mermay before i
nap. happy mermay!!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
[ID: A coloured pencil drawing of a happy and fat yellow mermaid. She is looking off to one side slightly, and has a hand up to her face as if embarassed, with hair over one eye.
She is caucasian with a golden yellow bottom half, and has a rainbow over her eye. Her hair is long and pink-white, floating in the water.
The artist's fingernails are slightly visible at the bottom of the frame.
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was thinking about how the concept of god is usually characterized as male (thanks patriarchy) and i came up with a question: in christian theology,
does "God" have a penis?
surely the catholic church made some sort of ruling on this
stop derailing with Jesus's foreskin, this post is about God's genitals ONLY
Hi, Catholic here—the only part of the holy trinity with a human body is the Son (Jesus) so yes, but also God the Father doesn’t have a human body so no, but the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all the same being as well so yes, but all humans including women are created in the image of God so hypothetically He has everything else too. Hope this helps.
thank you it did not!
Using he him pronouns doesn't necessarily indicate having a penis does it gaudy
see that's gender studies 101 but i wanna force the catholic church to ADMIT it
Also for what it's worth Catholic God doesn't use he/him. He uses He/Him which theologians insist is distinct from human pronouns.
so the catholic church wants you to respect their god's neopronouns
200 years is long enough to lose the neo right? The current version of she in use in Japan is younger.
friend asked me today “can you get cancelled on tumblr” and i realized that they really have never been on here
people just aren't stealing bones from graveyards or admiting to having child slaves in the family like they used to :/
[ID: A tweet by Ellie @uh_laine that says, “Very proud to announce that I am officially a lost cause! Thank you all for your continued support unfortunately it was all for nothing!” End ID]
ME: hold up. you see that? train's been through here FRIEND: how can you tell ME: tracks. they're not fresh, maybe 60, 80 years old FRIEND: no chance it'll come back, then ME: don't be so sure. That's well within their lifespan... and they're highly territorial
What aggravates me the most about people bringing back the R Slur is that there are those who genuinely think they can reclaim it just because they're intellectually disabled. I can't fathom why anyone would think that's a good step to take.
Curious on what you think of it.
For me, the main thing about it is that it's... still an insult. Like, compare it to the word 'queer', which is a widely reclaimed slur (and one that I myself use as an identifying word.) When I use the word 'queer', I'm not insulting myself. I'm not saying I'm inherently less than because I'm not cishet. If I say I like reading queer literature, I'm not saying I like reading bad books. When I say I love being part of the queer community, I'm calling people in, not out.
When someone uses the r slur, they're using it to explicitly mean 'something inferior'. People say 'wow, you look r-----' to someone if they get a bad haircut, or 'hahahahaha you're acting like a r-----' if someone is behaving in a way that's considered strange or socially inappropriate. Calling someone the r slur is always, inherently meant as an insult. Case in point, the person who's been bombarding my inbox all morning calling me a r----- isn't doing it because they think I'm super cool and they want to reclaim the slur to refer to that; they're doing that because they disagree with my perspective, so they're using the r slur in an attempt to insult me and my intelligence. In doing this, they're using the slur in its original context, which is to draw explicit parallels between 'bad' and 'disabled'. It's still explicitly a derogatory term which relies upon the accepted axiom that disabled = bad.
Additionally, there's also the fact that the r slur has historically been - and is still frequently - used against people who are least able to benefit from reclamation. People with more complex intellectual and developmental disabilities or with higher support needs, for example, are not benefitting on a social level from a 16 year old autistic person with few to no support needs calling their embarrassing sibling a r-----. It just furthers the stigma of a word already attached to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Most of the people who are professing to be 'reclaiming' the slur are failing to acknowledge that they're not actually the ones who can reclaim it. They're just... using a slur. That's not the same thing.
Like, I'm neurodivergent, and I've had the word hurled at me a fair few times as a socially awkward teenager who couldn't stop prattling on about Lord Byron, but that doesn't mean I get to throw it around at other people. The word still has weight. That weight isn't really mine to carry. The word originates in eugenics. It was literally used to codify structural oppression, marginalisation and social extermination against people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Using it just perpetuates all of that; it doesn't subvert it. To me, that's the definition of reclaiming something, and it's not possible with the r slur.
tl;dr to me the excuse of 'reclaiming the slur' doesn't work with the r slur, both because of its specific context and meaning, and because of who the slur is targeted at versus the people who are using it. I hope that literally any of this makes sense! I've only had one cup of tea this morning, so it's entirely possible that I just wasted my time writing paragraphs of absolute piffle.
reminder to visit museums, even if you feel out of place. you feel out of place because there is an established concept of inaccessibility of "high culture" to the masses, purposefully developed to distinguish between social classes.
take up space, read the plaques, get the audioguides. you are just as entitled and right in being there. visit museums, boycott museums, be expressive about your opinions about museums.
a lot of museums are free, or discounted for youth and students. take advantage of that. check your local art museum. check your local history museum. museums are there for you, they are there to educate the public, not to distinguish between class. it isn't a private collection, it's a public exhibit.
GO TO MUSEUMS!!!!!!!
'Take up space' OK but this is so important, because that's your museum, that's your gallery, and if you want to spend half an hour staring at one painting that makes your soul feel all tingly, then you can absolutely do that, and don't let anyone make you feel weird for doing anything other than spending 10 seconds looking at something and then dismissing it with a sardonic grin
i love fake plot holes
little inconsistencies that at first you assume "oh, the author must have fucked up", but then later on you realize that no, it was on purpose, they wanted you to think they fucked up but they hadnt
related: when you think "this has Implications the author didn't think about" and then it turns out the author was thinking about them the whole time
you get me
academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches
"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell
I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.
I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.
I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.
The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.
"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."
For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.
#every time I read this phrase the same thing happens#I read it as shittable and go wait that can't be right#oh right they were talking about public benches that makes more sense#but public bathrooms available without fees should also be a thing tho#cities should definitely be shittable#it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME
it must also be shittable
any queer webtoon recs?
Into the Smoke!!! You can find it here @intothesmoke it's really good
