Shitposter @price511 - Tumblr Blog

I hate cultural pressure restricting clothing. Imagine living in a world where absolutely nobody can give you shit about what you do or don't feel like wearing today. Like you could just go out in nothing but flip-flops and a thong one day because you didn't feel like wearing clothes, and the next day you're going out in full niqab because you woke up this morning and thought "hmm. no thank you. nobody gets to see even a glimpse of me today."

homunculus-argument

Me at 17: ohh my god why do people who are barely even 30 start going on about being sooo old when I say I was born in -94, like ugh you don't even look old, nobody would have noticed if you hadn't said anything.

Me at 31: [gets fucking blasted with 40 metric fucktons of psychic damage from scrolling tumblr and seeing a post by someone who was born in fucking 2005 and is married with two kids]

homunculus-argument

I'd rather hang out with someone who keeps accidentally calling me slurs but treats me like a person, than someone who actively polices every word anyone says and acts like belonging to a marginalised group is my only redeeming quality as a person.

originalitysquared

This is because you have watered down the concept of a slur. I would never accept a man calling me bitch or a white person calling me a spic or beaner. Your idea of a "slur" is not dehumanizing. Somehow a person can treat you like a person while still using this slur you have in mind and I can't think of a single sex, sexuality or race based slur that does as such.

homunculus-argument

[tour guide voice] and if you look above, you will see a post made by the second type of person, in their natural habitat, engaging in their natural behaviour: insisting that another person must be lying or wrong about what he would personally prefer, on the grounds of not comprehending that I am a different person than they are. It is entirely possible that people who are not you have thoughts and opinions that are not the same as yours.

originalitysquared

??? I don't think you're lying , I think you're white and straight, lmfao.

I don't know a single brown person that wants to be called a racial epithet, I don't know a single gay person that wants to be called a sexual epithet.

You can have your opinion, it's actually really funny that you can't fathom someone saying your experience is very privileged and you think I'm denying it.

No baby, you sound like you don't have real problems.

everythingwasnormalhere

i mean i wouldnt mind being called a faggot in 99% of the contexts - my friends call me that often, thats chill with me - and im gay, so honestly, maybe its bc in spain slurs are normalized asf but what you're saying sounds like a privileged USA problem, if someone treats me like a human being i dont care that to get my attention they say "faggot" "tranny" etc instead of my name

originalitysquared

I cannot state this clearly enough:

Your experience is not universal.

birdiesbabbles

Hey maybe neither the fuck is yours

homunculus-argument

I think their argument is that nobody else's experience is universal. Theirs is the only one that's truly universal.

homunculus-argument

Was on my way home from my Midsummer Festivities, walking from the train station to the bus station, when I got stopped by some deeply apologetic estonian woman asking for help. She explained that her phone and wallet had been stolen and she needed a bus ticket - her friends had already left for Estonia and left her stranded, and the bus would be leaving in less than 20 minutes. I told her that I'm on my way to the bus station myself, I could walk with her and get her a ticket together once we find the right bus.

She said she only needed like 15 euros and that she could just buy the ticket directly from the bus driver, which is something that buses no longer do here, there is no cash register in finnish buses anymore, you have to have an already purchased ticket beforehand before you step into the bus. Which is why I had offered to go with her, I could just buy her the ticker on my phone no problem as soon as we'd know which bus she'd need to take.

She said something about how the bus driver won't show up for another hour yet, and since I had places to be (my bus home, for one), I didn't stay to argue how exactly does that work, that her bus would be leaving 45 minutes before the driver shows up. I had heard enough to make sure that I was not leaving someone in actual danger and distress.

I can't even be mad at that kind of scam tbh. It has to take a fucking toll on your soul to make a living by lying to strangers to take advantage of people who just want you to be safe, for freaking peanuts.

homunculus-argument

Sometimes it feels like you've lived your whole life in a house that's always a little bit on fire. Like it's usually just in one room and you make sure to wet the walls around it so it doesn't spread and that usually works. You were expected to take more responsibility over fire containment when you were like seven because it's not like you can expect your parents to always be 100% on guard about making sure the whole house doesn't catch fire, and you figure that's just how things are like.

And sometimes as a kid you visit your friends' homes and some of then whisper to you - grimacing with embarrassment - about how they're not supposed to tell anyone this, but there's a whole room in their house that's currently on fire. And you're like yeah it's ok I'm not supposed to tell people about the way our house is a little bit on fire all the time, too. And then you visit some other friend's house and there's no trace of fire anywhere, and you think "wow, these people are really good at hiding their house fire."

And one day you show up to work like "hey sorry I'm late, I forgot to wet the walls before going to bed last night and my whole house burned down", and you're startled by the way people react, acting like that must be the worst thing that has ever happened to you. And you're just like "chill, it's been years since the last time this happened, and it wasn't even that bad this time", and that just makes people more shocked, acting like that's the weirdest and most concerning thing they've ever heard anyone say, which only confuses you more.

And then someone tries to explain to you that people aren't supposed to have an ongoing house fire. Most people actually never experience a house fire in their lives. Like not even once. Not even a little bit. The normal amount of having your house be currently on fire is zero.

homunculus-argument

You know what I've never really seen realistically depicted in fiction? The way that people in places that get a huge amount of snow deal with said snow. Specifically in the cities. I get that it's probably not exactly an intuitive thing to think about if you've never lived in a place that gets a lot of snow, and even if you do, you probably figure that they must have some really sophisticated infrastructure systems specifically for this purpose. It's not like they'll just scoop the snow off the streets and gather it into huge piles, and then just climb over the progressively larger and larger snow piles every single year for months while waiting for the piles to melt in the spring.

We do. There's no point in planning more sophisticated systems to get rid of something that'll eventually just go away on its own. So they just pile the snow into randomly designated spaces that cars or people aren't supposed to go through, and let it pile up. There's significantly less street parking available in the winter because some spots where you could otherwise park a car are currently the parking spot of a snow pile three times taller than a car.

You get used to it. And if you grow up around here, it never even occurs to you to think of it as something strange in the first place.

homunculus-argument

A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

kumuhina

On Gender, LGBTQ, Māhū, Leʻaleʻa, and Homophobia

By Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp, author of “Pūlama: Cherishing Our Hawaiian Heritage”

To understand culture, it is absolutely necessary to have a firm foundation in the Hawaiian language. The Hawaiian language is the door to a deeper understanding of Hawaiian culture. There is absolutely no way around that. If one ones to understand the world view of ancient Hawaiians, one must learn Hawaiian and leave aside preconceptions about Hawaiian culture, especially given that much of what we were taught in schools is not completely in agreement with what was being written about in Hawaiian language newspapers a century ago. This includes Kanaka Maoli or Hawaiians themselves who are learning their ancestral language.

It is also not only true of those learning the Hawaiian language, but of those learning any foreign language. When one learns language, one eventually learns aspects of the culture because one can not separate language from culture, social norms, class, gender and power structures. Culture, social structure, and history are all embedded in the grammar and terminology of any language.

In most Indo-European (i.e. Greek, English, Latin, French, etc) and Afro-Asiatic (i.e. Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopian) languages, the social concept of binary gender (male and female genders) is re-enforced through the grammar. English linguistic convention, for example, has historically treated men as default and prototypical of the human species and for “God.” “He” is often used in laws and constitutions (i.e. the Hawaiian Constitution of 1864, the US Constitution, etc) to mean “a person.”

Gender pronouns also help to re-enforce cultural gender-appropriateness of certain professions and socio-religious concepts.

In looking at Hawaiian grammar, one will notice that “he,” “she,” and “it” were all the gender neutral pronoun, “o ʻia.” This is not only true of Hawaiian, but in every single Austronesian language. In Marquesan, to'ia can mean he, she, or it. In Tahitian, ōna or ‘oia means he, she, or it. Siya in Tagalog can me he, she, or it. Dia or ia in Bahasa Indonesia can mean he, she, and it. This is largely a remnant of what some like to call our “deep culture” or “cultural subconscious” from millenniums ago by our first maritime ancestors and that survived through our modern languages and still rests within our linguistic conventions and grammar.

The construction of Hawaiian grammar specifically in relation to gender pronouns shows clearly that Hawaiian, just like other Austronesian languages, did not have a construction of a binary gender, social and class system unlike Europeans or those in the Middle-East. They did not see humanity as being divided simply into two genders nor were binary gender roles re-enforced institutionally.

The view of most Pacific Islanders as is evident in early accounts and in their language grammars in fact shows a more polygender outlook.

In most pre-Christian and pre-Islamic Pacific societies, there were not simply “male” and “female” gender identities but several. For example, among the Bugis, gender identity was divided into five. In most Philippine and Polynesian societies, gender identities were divided into three: male, female, and a third gender. Since multiple identities seem to have always existed in most (if not all) Pacific Island societies and nations prior to colonialism, it makes sense why no personal pronoun defining gender (he / she) would be needed. This would also explain why in most Polynesian languages, inoa or names were also gender neutral. The Hawaiian name “Mahealani” for example can be either the name of a male or a female.

Certainly in most Pacific Island societies, including Hawaiian society, there were gender roles, but as mentioned, there were more than two genders identities.

We also know that in old Hawaiian society, which was a polyamorous society, both females and males kept multiple partners either of the same ('aikane) and / or of a different gender identity.

We also know that both female and male akua had kanawai akua, kanawai kapu or sacred laws which again underlines that Hawaiians were not a patriarchal society and had a polygender understanding. If Hawaiians had a cultural binary view of gender identity similar to the West, they would have restricted “unions” or partners, names and would had gender-specific personal pronouns.

With the introduction of Islam and Christianity, however, gender roles needed to be defined within the context of their own religious traditions.

In some cases, there was also a need to suppress female priestesses and māhū (bissu/asog/bayoguin) identities as often females and māhū were a link to pre-Christian / pre-Islamic traditions and undermined the new gender roles that were being implemented. Normally this suppression occurred through the imposition of the colonial language, through church, and through sodomy laws.

In many areas of Indonesia and the Philippines, this suppression did not normally happen through Islamic institutions (as some considered it adat or customary law) but later through imposed colonial laws, the colonial education system and more recently through the influence of Saudi Arabia.

The imposition of a binary gender world view in the Pacific by colonial or outside powers is extremely important in understanding traditional mana'o (thoughts) concerning third gender, māhū, and other gender identities and the origins of ho'okae māhū (homophobia).

burnertracfone

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succubarbie-deactivated20190205

no offense but money would solve literally every single one of my problems. like all of them. i dont have a single problem that money wouldnt immediately solve

abouquetofdaylillies-deactivate

Pre-menstrual depression is always depicted as like "He He! I had a box of icecream bars and cried while watching the Titanic!" But in reality, it's more like, "I'm standing the edge of an abyss. There is nothing good inside of me, I'm filled with rage and desperation."

It's crazy that being told how to deal with that is never a part of anyone's menstrual sex education.

headspace-hotel

This has already been said in the notes, but if PMS causes extreme depression and even suicidal ideation, that is in fact something that most people do not experience and it can be treated

Like for the majority it really is "oh i'm hungrier and moodier than usual"

^this should be a part of sex education so the point still stands

animentality

czech-hunter-reject

I don't think the "she's the boss of not giving a fuck" tweet is correct, because she did very much give a fuck. Not about the press obsessing over this, but she absolutely did give a fuck about what it would have meant to her trans fans if she made a big deal about it. She gave a fuck, she chose to not buy into the press' absurd obsession with this. She made the choice that the wellfare of her trans fans mattered more to her than the world believing she had a dick. She gave a fuck, and that's why she fucking rules!