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“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

mel-155-a

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

kingcatnine

we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs

icantspellthings

I don't have time for sex, I'm too busy running a blog that only 11 or 12 people care about

ibenology

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

fourohfourlifenotfound

pickled-cactus

thankyou to my everyone who has ever relogged my ragad posts

splend-42

If I were a murderer, and I'd meticulously planned a murder, and then I turned up at the place to do the murder and found that world-famous-murder-solver Hercule Poirot was also there, I would simply not do the murder.

commiefaggoth

so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for

stonegoddex

what if we admitted to each other that it's not always really romance that we want. What if we admitted that what we're really craving is intimacy and society taught us romance is the only way to get it.

sartorialadventure

Viking dresses by Savelyeva Ekaterina

toyota-supra

hey. good luck with everything, okay? [cutting the rope connecting your boat to the dock] just good luck. [starts pushing your boat further towards the stream] just have a good luck out there

#Hamlet to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

plumebeat

ANYWAY

its almost summer!

princessnymphae

my circus my monkeys. im also a one man circus. you're right. im the monkey.

theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt

Apparently my stepdad and I are fucking psychically linked because ?? every single time he makes chili for dinner I get a migraine. Without fail. And it became like a ha ha running joke because it happened so many times but now I’m living 3 hours away from my parents and I just texted my mom and

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME

theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt

Happy disability pride month

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via @ninjahijabimuse

this is so much better i love it

snapdraqons

you've heard of "he would not fucking say that" now get ready for "he would not be that comfortable with his own sexuality"

#this is catnip to me

gothiccharmschool

Something something people not knowing the history something ...

abigailnussbaum

I am increasingly of the view that the besetting flaw of modern, internet-based, leftist-progressive culture is the tendency to take concepts that were intended as consciousness-raising, "have you noticed"/"makes you think" moments and treat them as all-encompassing rules for life. The Bechdel test is not a yardstick for feminism and/or artistic worthiness. It's not a test you were ever meant to apply to any single work. It's a thought experiment intended to illustrate how the entertainment industry as a whole discounts the interiority, desires, and relationships of women except as they relate to men. But again and again you'll see people - and perhaps especially people who define themselves as feminists - who treat it as the one and only meaningful measure of a work's value. In reality, there are feminist works that don't pass the Bechdel test, and works that pass the Bechdel test that are not feminist, and works with tremendous political value that do not foreground feminism because they're about something else.

And if the Bechdel test is a relatively old example, this is a phenomenon that keeps cropping up. "Some artifacts in museums were stolen or looted, with colonialism and racism providing a cover for acts that in other circumstances we'd easily recognize as criminal" has become "all museums are piles of loot and stealing from them is righteous even it it's to melt the artwork down and funnel the profits to organized crime." "Zoos sometimes abuse their animals and the goal should be to reintroduce specimens to the wild" has become "open all the cages and let the animals out (to spaces where they will almost certainly die/be killed to stop them killing people)". "Ethnic foods are sometimes treated as more palatable, and sold for more money, when they're marketed by white people" has become "people should only prepare and eat food from their own ethnicity". Again and again, it feels like these ideas that were meant to make us think, to pause a moment and notice the unspoken assumptions and elisions that exist in our world, have been turned into catchphrases that shut down thought. I think the reason that happens is that people enjoy the feeling of righteousness that comes from calling out institutions like museums or the film industry, but along the way you can become just as dogmatic and tunnel-visioned as the bodies you were calling out.

chocolatepot

Every time this post comes along I feel the need to remind people that yes, the actual novel Frankenstein does pass the Bechdel test. There are multiple female characters in the novel that the adaptation entirely leaves out.

I'm not saying this to tear down the adaptation, or the broader point that the above post is making, but I do think there's a secondary point to take away about how willing we often are to see people talking about gender/race/sexuality-based issues in fiction as ignorant. Even when we basically agree with the notion that sometimes fiction contains offensive stereotypes or tropes! It's still so tempting to let a rando's incorrect "that's factually wrong" win out because we buy into that narrative. "Newsflash. dipshit" sounds great, but witchofbonnechere isn't a dipshit, at least about this.

fernwah-funzone

wait you understand that kinks are ok because they're fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don't need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed a tragic accident on the pool toy assembly line right?

fernwah-funzone

like "some people work through their personal issues with kink" was a good first step for some of the class that were struggling but i think now we're ready for "things that don't hurt anyone and make people happy are okay even if you personally think it's icky"