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It's sexism to define who is a woman by anything other than biology.

#radfem #me

Sports news these days is just:

It's extremely hot at the World Cup (but some stadiums have AC)!

It's extremely hot at the Tour de France!

There are barely any places left that can host the Winter Olympics!

etc

asmrgaret

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

asmrgaret

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

radiofreederry

Dutch people are like “we don’t need to wear a helmet when we ride our bikes, because unlike in the barbarous United States, we have simply outlawed traumatic brain injury”

20int0wis

solid asphalt only hurts to fall on if the road it makes up was designed primarily for cars

rnjsus

Have you thought of just. Not falling.

radiofreederry

dotshaft

supreme-leader-stoat

So, 10,005 dutch people in the notes talking about how the Netherlands have really high rates of brain injury.

aeternatv

The funny thing is helmets are actually a bit more effective if you have good, safe bike lanes. If you're riding a bike on an unsafe road designed only for cars, then the head protection from a helmet can be nullified by the psyche of car drivers who are less careful around cyclists who wear helmets than those who don't. A helmet is very unlikely to help you at all in a car crash, and if the road is bad enough stacking it on your bike might be more likely than not to be followed by being hit by a vehicle.

Helmets do protect you very effectively from stacking it on your bike and hitting your head when you're on a nice quiet bike path where your chances of being hit by a car are near zero.

supreme-leader-stoat

Cannot stress enough that I got plowed into by a speeding car and a helmet was what made the difference between life and death, because otherwise I would've cracked my head on the asphalt like an egg when I finished getting catapulted by the force of said speeding car plowing into me.

There are situations where a helmet cannot save you, but a properly fitted helmet will always offer you a better chance of surviving a bike injury than not wearing a helmet will. Wear 'em.

Watched The Sheep Detectives

- could have done with a little less of the sheep stuff

- Cousin Greg was very good

- cannot believe the guy with the glasses did it. End anti glasses propaganda

#the sheep detectives #spoilers

berrytart

okay yeah i do think your filler is off putting and your botox makes you rigid and strange to look at

tomatoinyourgarden

I know you think it’s “feminist” to hate on women who already have self esteem and image issues (through no fault of their own, as a direct result of patriarchy) for doing something to help them cope with their fleeting youth - which may or may not have been stripped from them against their will due to years of depression, abuse, oppression, or whatever else - but the truth is that the freedom to get Botox is actually a right feminists have fought for - whether intentionally or unintentionally. Women used to get thrown away when we outlived our youth and beauty - now we have the option to prolong it and change the way we are perceived and treated by society as a whole. We ALL had to grow up too fast. We ALL have to cope with a childhood that ended too soon. I’m no less a feminist than you are simply because I choose to hold onto my youth and beauty because it helps me feel better about my own loss of innocence. This is all just another excuse to hate on women and tear us down. You’re literally letting the patriarchy win by judging women for their personal choices which harm absolutely no one. Please grow up. Not everyone is conventionally attractive or ages gracefully. Some women can cope with that and some can’t. Both deserve love and respect. Have some decency. You’re not edgy for this. You’re hating just like a man would.

berrytart

Feminists … have fought… for the right … to use Botox…..

#has there ever been a reply that brought the op's point home without meaning to more than this one does?#like sure I feel empathy with those women #but also I feel like I'm in a horror movie looking at all those Botox faces

rivertigo

#I see you working at the mall #at forever 21 #etc

Putting the final touches on my paper while listening to Tubular Bells on a loop, thus getting closer and closer to insanity

#been listening to the whole album on repeat for a couple of days now and it's not that bad to write to etc #but my head's spinning a little lol

thebelfry

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

peniswizard69

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

Oh I love this news!!!!

pulmonary-poultry

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

thejonymyster

postilionstruckbylightning

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

derinthescarletpescatarian

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!