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Blue-crowned Ifrit (Ifrita kowaldi), male, family Ifritidae, order Passeriformes, Papua New Guinea
POISONOUS.
This bird has batrachotoxin in its skin and feathers. (Most likely obtained from consuming Choresine beetles.)
photographs by Jun Matsui
i think a lot of people have parsed the idea of a "male loneliness crisis" as being specifically about men struggling to find romantic companionship. i think that's often not what men mean when they say it. and i see people talk past each other because of it
i actually do believe that many men are lonely in a gendered way. i think they have accurately identified an issue. socially approved male behavior kind of requires men to be shitty friends
they have no use for women they don't want to fuck, and female "friends" they can't fuck get dropped pretty fast. so about 50% of the population is written off by default
and then they can't be too emotional or too intimate with their male friends, lest they be perceived as feminine or gay by male peers. so the friendships they do allow themselves to have are rather shallow
it's just that this is a self-inflicted problem. and moreover, it's a problem rooted in the idea that it's better for men to suffer in this way than to be perceived/treated as a woman or a gay man (i.e. inferiors)
the way to end the male loneliness crisis would be for men to choose to be good friends to the people around them. and if they don't want to do that, well.
this is not to say that women and other non-men don't suffer from loneliness – there are broader social factors driving loneliness in general – but i do actually think men are correct when they say that their gender plays a role in their loneliness
it's just that they hate us more than they want to be happy and loved
Picked some magnolia petals and discovered as they started to wilt at creases they turned a beautiful warm brown color. Then got the idea to use a silverpoint stylus to scratch a magnolia drawing into the petal~ smells divine
Blue Clipper (Parthenos sylvia), family Nymphalidae, Chiang Dao, Thailand
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i identify so much with this
I think people need to understand that everyone has to unlearn misogynistic behaviors and thinking patterns. Cis women and trans women and cis men and trans men and anyone who doesn’t fall under those categories are all completely capable of being misogynistic and actively hurtful to women. Trans men are included in this, obviously, but when you only call for trans men to unlearn this mindset, you are no longer being progressive and fair. You are singling out a minority.
it pisses me off to see cis women saying 'trans women are misogynistic because they were raised as men' and trans women replying 'no we aren't because no we weren't!' and i'm sitting there staring at the camera like it's the office. because like women are ALL raised to be just as misogynistic as men. it's a notable goddamn feature of the patriarchy.
like if you are marginalized it is in your own self-interest to interrogate and deconstruct the cultural narratives that position you as subnormal. this is what starts a lot of queer people on wanting to reform the world into something more compassionate and egalitarian.
but it's not the marginalization that makes you any more or less ethical than anyone else. it's the work. you gotta do the actual work.
I feel like part of the problem is a really popular misunderstanding of bigotry.
Misogyny is not just prejudice experienced by a woman. It is not simply something that happens TO a woman. It has nothing to do with the woman. It’s about the misogynist.
Bigotry is not determined or defined by the target of that bigotry. The bigotry is stored in the bigot.
Misogynists will be misogynistic towards any person they associate with femininity, including cisgender men.
When a misogynist cis man tears another man down for liking something he thinks is girly, he is still being misogynistic.
A cis male coach telling his cis male student he runs like a girl is being misogynistic.
A cis woman punishing her son for wanting a “girl” toy or policing her boyfriend’s hygiene habits and interests for anything she considers emasculating, is being misogynistic!
When a woman gets in a car accident and is injured more severely because the safety testing on that car was only done using crash test dummies and models based on men, she’s experiencing misogyny.
When the medication she takes for her injuries doesn’t work right or has unexpected side effects because it was only tested on men, she’s experiencing misogyny.
When the tools she uses at work that are the wrong shape for her hands, and the jumpsuit that’s part of her uniform which she has to take off completely to use the bathroom, and all the spaces she moves through and everything within them are designed with the assumption that an average male body is the only body that matters— she is experiencing misogyny.
Misogyny is the belief that women are inherently inferior, and the systems and institutions built around that belief. It can be experienced by anyone, and anyone is capable of having misogynistic beliefs and doing misogynistic things.
Bigotry is not about the target. It’s about the bigot, and what the bigot believes, and the way those bigoted beliefs have shaped our world.
I don’t care what race gender or sexuality you are, you were raised with racist, sexist, homophobic beliefs. Because it’s literally impossible not to be.
And the harder you try to cling to the idea that misogyny is something that happens TO women, rather than something coming FROM misogynists, the more blind you’ll be to your own misogynistic beliefs, and all the ways everything in our society is a product of or directly reinforces those beliefs.
And like, it's not something to get defensive over. We've all been picking up biases like malware our entire lives. They are running in the background, possibly unnoticed most of the time. Being made aware of our biases just allows us the opportunity to remove part of the problematic programing. Unfortunately, the process is life long. Every day, the world we live in tries to sneak more of them into our brain. Some can't be removed completely so we have to be conscious of them and actively counteract them when they rear their heads.
The thing is, everyone has to deal with this. It's not like the malware only targets bad people. It's indiscriminate, hoping to find a bad person who will embrace it and help it propagate. If you are made aware of it and make the conscious decision to let it stay, that is a reflection on your character, not someone pointing it out.
Being made aware of our biases shouldn't be any more insulting than someone pointing out you have something stuck between your teeth, or that the hem of your skirt is tucked into your underwear. Embarrassing maybe, but easily fixable. And like those things, the best way to prevent other people from having to call out our biases is to look in a mirror more regularly.
Comments like these are why we should never ever EVER stop talking about the allegations. Because people forget, and apologists and misogynists will use that to downplay the seriousness of the heinous shit this man did to women for decades. And, sooner or later, Gaiman himself will use that to try and make a comeback, which will once again allow him access to a lot of vulnerable people for him to take advantage of.
Don't let that happen. Make it clear to people whenever the topic comes up: Neil Gaiman is a serial rapist with allegations from multiple women dating back to the 1980s. We cannot let people forget what this man is.
Bare-shanked Screech-Owl (Megascops clarkii), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Costa Rica
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“En el contexto actual de crisis social rampante y renacimiento de una épica guerrera de pacotilla, el deporte-espectáculo ha experimentado un poderoso auge como “máquina de producir significado”. Nadie se exalta ni sufre tanto por la victoria o la derrota de sus héroes deportivos como aquellos cuyas condiciones de existencia, cada vez más desprovistas de todo significado, les predisponen a aprovechar toda ocasión de sumergirse en una identidad colectiva prefabricada e imaginaria y metamorfosear sus frustraciones en fantasías idealizadas y abstractas de poder y protagonismo.”
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evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting
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i think fat girls should walk around in crop tops booty shorts buzzcuts dyed hair piercings no bra killing and maiming all who stand in their way with weapons before sitting down for some yummy ice cream and so forth. it's the only way.
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