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phemmebian-deactivated20180318

THERE IS A PROBLEM HERE AND PEOPLE AREN’T TALKING ABOUT IT! This is so scary! Black Lesbians you are so beautiful! We are so beautiful and no asshole can take the love we have for each other away from us! Say Their Names. I don’t know why the lgbt community is not loud about this but also I know why!

boarboy-old-blog

Videogames: you can choose from twenty different eyelashes!!!! oh but you can’t be fat

onsomekingggshit

Yeah, whine about how you can’t have a fat character that can scale walls, or sprint. Please whine more.

boarboy-old-blog

you’re so right kiddo….. games are very realistic……. like the parts where you die and then come back again? classic realism.

prokopetz

warlock-enthusiast

but we can’t have fat people in videogames because fat people are the real fantasy creatures and not like… the dragons. and of course, every thin person can scale a wall. sure sure.

m0nsterbrains

Y’know what, here’s something that’s been pissing me off for a while.

Fat? Easy to gain. So so easy. Our bodies want to keep fat around, because we’re designed not to starve.

Dropping fat? NOT so easy. When people talk about “losing fat,” what they’re saying is “I need to override millions of years of genetics to convince my body I’m not dying and it doesn’t need this carefully-stored fuel.” Dieting? Your body thinks it’s starving. Work out like crazy? Your body thinks it’s in a situation where it needs to bring the hammer down on the regular, and that means you need more fuel – speaking just for myself, I want to eat the world after I lift. That shit doesn’t melt away, even if you’ve been training like a motherfucking monster for months and eating right, because the body wants to keep it.

So yeah, the “eat less move more” doctrine can fuck itself right in the face.

There are very, very active fat people, fat people who are experts at every sport and physical activity you can imagine. But because fat rests on top of the muscle, you don’t know when we’re jacked. Oh, sure, sometimes you can get a idea, if a person is WILDLY active, like for a fucking living. Here’s Samoa Joe, the NXT pro wrestling champion who was literally dethroned last night:

Yeah, you can see there’s a lot of power there.

But a lot of times you can’t. Here’s Vince Wilfork, two-time Superbowl tackling champion:

And here’s Holley Mangold, 2012 superheavyweight division Olympian:

These are people who fight (and flip, and do all kinds of crazy shit in Joe’s case), and run, and lift for a living.

And they’re not unusual, as much as you’d like to think so. The world is full of fat powerhouses, of fat runners, of fat Crossfitters, and they’re just as good at doing the thing as their smaller counterparts.

So realism? Fuck off. The only reason we don’t have fat game characters is because society is fatphobic as fuck.

Also? Saints Row lets you be fat, *and hot,* so don’t even come at me with “nobody wants that.”

thequantumqueer

“fat people can’t climb though”

(Exhibit A: Fezzik carrying 3 people up a cliff)

“yeah but that’s fictional!”

and video games aren’t?

kyraneko

Apparently weight weighs differently if it’s fat instead of, like, eight different machine guns and a rocket launcher?

Video games let you carry all sorts of shit, they can let you carry your own body.

fatphobiabusters

(This got better) -V

f1rstperson

I love whenever people are like “ugh, fat people can’t climb a wall”.

Cool story, quick question: can you?

Because plenty of people aren’t into climbing. Being skinny isn’t what allows people to climb. Training is.

aly-semi-archived-deactivated20

Pics of white women in pussy hats posing with cops tells you fucking everything you need to know about white liberal feminism tbh.

failfemme

look: our neanderthal ancestors took care of the sick and disabled so if ur post-apocalyptic scenario is an excuse for eugenics, u are a bad person and literally have less compassion than a caveman

quetikal-deactivated20181219

Yes but they also when extinct which implies whatever they were doing at the time wasn’t fit for their environment.

anthrocentric

So, it’s been awhile since I took a human evolution course, so some of this might be a little out of date, but

1) Whether or not Neanderthals went extinct is still kind of up for debate, and seems to hinge largely on whether you think that Neanderthals are a H. Sapiens subspecies or not, which often seems like a mildly pointless argument to me since it’s largely a fight about which definition of “species” to use

2) Even if we argue that Neanderthals are our direct ancestors and never went extinct, several Neanderthal *traits* (like their noses and their forheads) *have* left the population. Care for the disabled is not one of them.

Saying “Neanderthals cared for their sick and injured and are now extinct, therefore care for the disabled is maladaptive” is like saying “Dodos are extinct therefore beaks are a terrible idea”

Statements about “less compassion than a caveman” still stand.

–Peter

kaijutegu

I teach human evolution to college students, so in addition to that, here’s what we know. There’s some citations (and footnotes) behind the cut, if you’re interested.

So Neanderthals aren’t our direct ancestor- more like a branch of the family tree that didn’t lead to us. Close cousins- close enough to breed- but they evolved outside of Africa about 400kya, while our species evolved in Africa about 200kya*. This is important because it means that altruism can’t possibly be a Neanderthal trait that left the population during the evolution into modern humans; we didn’t evolve from them, so it’s not like we can say “well, this was maladaptive in our ancestors.” This is a behavior you see in two temporally coexisting species (or subspecies), and I do mean two, because it wasn’t just Neanderthals practicing altruism. We did it too.

We have really good evidence that early Homo sapiens sapiens (i.e., us, just old) also took care of their injured, elderly, and disabled. At Cro-Magnon in France, a few individuals clearly suffered from traumatic injury and illness during their lives. Cro-Magnon 1 had a nasty infection in his face; his bones are pitted from it. Cro-Magnon 2, a female, had a partially healed skull fracture, and several of the others had fused neck vertebrae that had fused as a result of healed trauma; this kind of injury would make it impossible to hunt and uncomfortable to move. This kind of injury can be hard to survive today, even with modern medical care; the fact that the individuals at Cro-Magnon survived long enough for the bones to remodel and heal indicate that somebody was taking care of them. At Xujiayao, in northern China, there’s evidence of healed skull fractures (which would have had a rather long recovery time and needed care);

This evidence of altruism extends past injured adults, as well. One of the most compelling cases is at Qafzeh, which is in Israel. Here we see evidence of long-term care for a developmentally disabled child (as well as a child who had hydrocephaly and survived). Qafzeh 11, a 12-13 year old at time of death, suffered severe brain damage as a child. Endocasts (basically making a model of the inside of the skull, where the brain would be) show that the volume of the brain was much smaller than expected; likely the result of a growth delay due to traumatic brain injury. The patterns of development suggest that this injury occurred between the ages of 4 and 6. They very likely suffered from serious neurological problems; the areas of the brain that were injured are known to control psychomotricity. This means that the kid may have had a hard time controlling their eye movements, general body movement, keeping visual attention, performing specific tasks, and managing uncertainty; in addition, Broca’s area might also have been damaged, which likely would have affected the kid’s ability to speak. Long and short of it, without help, this kid wouldn’t have survived to age 12-13.

But they did. They lived, and they were loved. When they died, they were given a funeral- we know this based on body position and funeral offerings. Mortuary behavior was common among both Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens, and this burial was particularly interesting. The body was placed on its back, its legs extended and the arms crossed over the chest. Deer antlers were laid on the upper part of the chest; in the archaeological context, they were in close contact with the palmar side of the hand bones, meaning it’s likely that they were placed in the hands before burial. This points to Qafzeh 11 being valued by the community- why go to the effort for somebody you don’t care about? Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.

Keep reading

dumbrogan-deactivated20170831

“Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.”

Would you be alright with me borrowing your words when someone poses the above comments’ line of thought to me?

kaijutegu

Of course! (And feel free to use anything else in my anthropology tag.)

solarpunkcast

Compassion is a very human trait, and to call it maladaptive is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of human experience.

brittbaebabi-deactivated2018021

Mornings for a dummie:

Take a bong hit, hurt your udders, make a coffee!

How this silly pair of tits wakes up

anarchyandacupofcoffee

In April 2016, a 13-year-old boy was shot by officers of the Baltimore Police Department. The boy ran when faced with the police, so they gave chase. During the chase, the police spotted the boy holding a gun, and when he turned, they shot the teenager. The youngster wasn’t critically injured, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case of a justifiable use of force.

zahnegott

nice

gaybuttfuckzone

la-laborista-republiko

saintserine

CALL TO ACTION; @ NONBLACK ALLIES

Read this, digest it, share it in your circles. Share it in all your leftie meme groups, share it with your white friends who need a reason to shrug off some white guilt, & your nonblack friends who think they’re close enough to blackness to use our culture.

I’ve mentioned wanting to start a collective in my city and doing some action in marginalized communities, but instead of doing that i’ve decided to start bigger. Me & other activists have banded together to start a reparations initiative after one we all benefited from was shut down.

Reparations and the importance of reparations are a hot topic in just about every political circle there is. Regardless of ideology it’s often difficult to get people to understand just how important reparations are, not only to the Black community, but to our current racial climate and the social repair that is absolutely necessary for change to happen. A change which is integral to stopping white supremacy + capitalism.

Black activists and leftists have been telling the world for years that the black community is owed reparations in the form of money as well as opportunities like job programs, higher education, and better neighborhoods. This sub-project’s goal is to eventually branch out into an initiative that’ll guarantee all that for the communities that absolutely need it most. The black + houseless, the black + uninsured, the black + otherwise hopeless.

For this subproject to be successful we need people like you to bring attention to it. No one cares about social change unless it’s got a hashtag or pink pussy hat attached to it, so it’s important that people like you get your friends talking about it! Bringing up the concept of reparations can be difficult, but the labor is paramount over all, and any true ally knows the importance of laboring for marginalized communities.

>>>>> Rightful Reparations For Black People <<<<<<< So tell your friends about this group & to join alongside you, about this project, and about how important reparations are.

If you’d like to do your part but can’t commit to something long term and monthly, you can contribute to our paypal pool here: Paypal

saintserine

HEY FOLKS, THIS POST SHOULDNT BE DYING!

We still need COUNTLESS more nonblack allies or pool contributors as our member requests have just about halted since this post has died down. Reparations and bringing attention to it are not just a once in a lifetime reblog and forget about it kinda thing. Queue this post up if you must, but please keep reblogging!!

exposingantisemitism

If you think antisemitism doesn’t matter because of how small the total world population of Jews is, consider that antisemitism is the reason that the modern Jewish population is so small in the first place.

returnofthejudai

I read a statistic once that suggested that if you got rid of the Roman and Babylonian diasporas, the pogroms, the ghettoization, the expulsions, the executions and the genocides, there would be 350 million Jews in the world today. Instead there are about 14 million. Think about that.

mindblowingscience

These politically motivated data deletions come at a time when the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average

As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven’t been updated since the second world war. Navigating uncharted waters can prove difficult, but it comes with the territory of working in such a remote part of the world.

Over the past two months though, I’ve been navigating a different type of uncharted territory: the deleting of what little data we have by the Trump administration.

At first, the distress flare of lost data came as a surge of defunct links on 21 January. The US National Strategy for the Arctic, the Implementation Plan for the Strategy, and the report on our progress all gone within a matter of minutes. As I watched more and more links turned red, I frantically combed the internet for archived versions of our country’s most important polar policies.

I had no idea then that this disappearing act had just begun.

Since January, the surge has transformed into a slow, incessant march of deleting datasets, webpages and policies about the Arctic. I now come to expect a weekly email request to replace invalid citations, hoping that someone had the foresight to download statistics about Arctic permafrost thaw or renewable energy in advance of the purge.

mamapluto

You know how people always lament the burning of the library of Alexandria? All that lost knowledge? How much greater civilization could’ve been if such knowledge hadn’t been destroyed?

We gonna keep letting that happen? 👀👀👀

raimagnolia

Signal Boost

brainstatic

Kylo Ren really is a great example for how sci fi/fantasy writers should tailor their worlds to fit the times, so it could resonate with the actual audience reading them. There would be no point in making a Hitler villain anymore, because we’re not afraid of Hitler, we’re afraid of the 25-year-old malcontented white boy who fondles Hitler memorabilia while sulking in his room.

plain-flavoured-english

Somebody pointed out to me that the First Order aren’t coded as Nazis, they’re coded as neo-Nazis, which is worse, because these are people who looked at horrific historical atrocities with the benefit of hindsight and went, ‘Yes, that’s exactly what we should do again, but this time more’

People complaining that Starkiller Base is a rip-off of the Death Star and that Kylo Ren is a whiny emo fanboy don’t realize that this is exactly the point

forevertranced-blog

I like the reading but a big part of me thinks that these weren’t intended. The Force Awakens came out in 2015, which means it was probably written in 2014, and frankly I don’t think Disney execs (and probably the writers) were aware of the growing threat until 2017.

attackfish

The script writers for The Force Awakens are Jewish, and wrote the script in a way that really reflected Jewish views of the Nazis as opposed to normative Gentile American views, and which drew heavily on the Jewish collective memories of the Holocaust, something I discuss at length here: [Link]. The Jewish community has in fact been very aware of the rising tide of explicit white supremacy on the Right for a long time, and like many other minority communities, we were (and are) afraid and not exactly quiet about it. The only people who were really taken unawares were white gentiles, something the writers were not. I think it’s almost insulting to suggest that Jewish people writing topical Nazi and neo-Nazi coded villains is somehow unintentional.

la-laborista-republiko

jasper-rolls

yo btw if you were wondering how the alt right is doing, the current conspiracy theory they’re rallying around is that soy sauce is why trans women exist

jasper-rolls

adding clarification to this since i did it in separate posts earlier

i think what basically happened is that some dude was looking at what goes into soy and noticed it contains estrogen and subsequently came to the conclusion that soy and soy based products are Feminizing Men and its taken off with the infowars crowd. anyway the new hot alt right insult is soy boy, so get ready to be called that some time in the near future

obscoorereference

recent update to this: according to /pol/ “multiple studies” (none of which they have provided, helpfully) have proven that onions increase your testosterone levels so now there’s whole threads of dipshits just drinking raw onion juice and arguing over which onion is the least degenerate, *and* whole other threads of dipshits arguing that the onion thing is a false flag by feminists to get people to look like idiots by drinking raw onion juice

the alt-right have honed the art of self-owning into a goddamn science