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Not today Justin
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@scenes-from-vaenia
“I was on a strict diet during Episode VIII, and she was like, ‘Kid, get into that fridge and take some chocolate bars. I have many there.’ And I did,” he recalls. “I failed my diet because Carrie Fisher told me to. And it [felt] great.”
-John Boyega on Carrie Fisher
This is the Carrie Fisher post of body positivity reblog for a chocolate bar from her fridge
LGBT culture is your parents knowing absolutely nothing about you
Why the fuck is everyone shitting on Nancy???? Y'all keep screaming #JusticeForBarb but Nancy worked her ass off for her!! She took on a demogorgon multiple times for her!! She ate dinner with Barb’s parents every week for a year!! She took on the fuckin government, risking her life, so that Barb’s family could get some closure!! You asked for justice and justice stormed in like a goddamn hurricane and HER NAME IS NANCY FUCKIN WHEELER
you’d think ‘sexualising children is wrong’ wouldn’t be a controversial statment but here we are in 2k17 and 13 year old girl just won a ‘sexiest woman’ contest
i will set alight any man who so much looks at millie bobby brown for too long
there will be a moment when you realize you are more grown up than your parents are. this is the loss of childhood, my love. it is when you’re standing in the kitchen and one of your parents is screaming about something and you recognize: you will let them win the fight not because you are wrong, but simply because you know that they will keep shouting unless you drop the subject. you expect them to have childish understandings of things. they will hold onto their concept of the world as if it was not a changing thing. they must be right, and they must be somehow more right than you, always, in everything. their idea of control is so necessary to who they are that you just let it go.
this is the moment. you are 11 or 17 or 21. and you realize that you’re more mature than they ever were.
and in some odd, sad way, this frees you. where they have stagnated, you continue.
how come conservative students think they’re smarter than professors with doctorates and shit
conservative students swear that every university professor is some radical leftist with an agenda when usually it’s a professor that just uses critical thinking skills, context, and has empathy
if you swear all the professors you encounter are wrong, it might actually be that your opinions are outdated, bigoted, and incorrect lmao
This is actually the reason behind the popular notion within conservative circles that universities have a “liberal bias.”
Consistently, conservative students will leave higher ed because they perceive critical thinking, self-critique, and open discussion as attacks on their selfhood, rather than as a process of refining ideas and arguments. All of their accusations about how the people who disagree with them are just “too sensitive” are nothing more than projection, because they very idea that they should question their own assumptions is something they believe would only make them weak.
It’s become increasingly obvious to me that conservative people are just those who have never developed critical thinking skills
My father, who teaches drafting, CAD, and technical math at the local college, told me once that the reason he was a liberal was because “When you start learning about the world with an open mind, when you start meeting and talking to people with an open mind, when you look at the world as a whole and think about it critically, you come to realize that reality has a liberal ‘bias’, and that it’s less a bias than just the logical conclusions of intelligent, compassionate, and emphatic people who want to leave the world better than they found it. To be a conservative Republican, you have to be able to shut down and not acknowledge any of that, and get mad at anyone who tries to point it out.”
And he’s still right.
(source)
Bonus:
some spoopy lab things
in honor of the month of halloween
p=0.06
no more reagent left the day of your experiment
liquid nitrogen tank running out liquid nitrogen
sudden loud noise coming from centrifuge
large error bars
any clear solution looking cloudy
n=2
reviewer comments
an audience question that’s more of a 5 min statement
writing grants
paywalls
spills
leaks
being off by one 0
HeLa cell or mycoplasma contamination
transferring a western blot the opposite way oops
titrations
the job market
I would like to add strange noises in the autoclave as well
Autoclaves are spoopy af
oh my GOD i hate autoclaves. i’m convinced every single one of them is haunted. don’t care if it’s brand new and was made today. still haunted.
I would like to add:
-nitrogen tank dewer depressurizing
-Aspergillus niger contamination….everywhere
-glass shattering
-putting round bottom flasks on a rotovap and hoping they don’t implode
T1 is a phage (bacteria-virus) that isn’t destroyed by drying and is fucking tenacious. If it gets in your lab, it will hang around in your dishes, equipment, walls, ventilation shafts, fume hood, etc. It’s not dangerous to humans, but it will ruin all of your E. coli plates for months or years. Most bacteriologists don’t want phage worked with in their labs, ever, because they’re scared of things like T1. (Practically no one works with it for this reason.) If it contaminates your lab, you have to clean out every surface with bleach, formaldehyde gas, etc. While cleaning out the decades-old freezers in the lab basement, we found a tiny eppendorf tube, entombed in parafilm, inside a sealed plastic bag, inside a falcon tube, which was sealed with parafilm. This falcon tube was labeled in block letters “T1: DO NOT OPEN.”
We threw it into the fires of the autoclave without messing with it. It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen.
I found sources.
The word “man” was gender neutral and referred to both sexes until the 13th century
The female specific pronoun “she” was invented in the 12th century.
The word “girl” was gender neutral and referred to children of both sexes until the 15th century
High heels were invented for men and were worn predominantly by men until the 16th century
From the mid 16th century to the 19th century boys would typically wear dresses until the age of 7
Until the early 1930s pink was considered the appropriate colour for baby boys and blue was the colour for baby girls
In 2017, a Christian couple pull their 6yo son out of a primary school because his classmate is transgender - citing their “traditional beliefs” IMPORTANT NOTE: Last source is transphobic and from a pro-life website that attempts to defend the dumb ass couple. Feel free to ignore it if you prefer, but it was included for the sake of accuracy.
Reblogging because verifiable sources make every information 70% better. Thanks for the addition!
At Target this lady told her son he couldn’t have a Wonder Woman doll because “that’s for girls” and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.
It’s October 3rd y'all
here’s an HD creditless samurai champloo opening just because it’s so aesthetically pleasing
uh hey fuck the idea that it’s somehow more radical + revolutionary for straight people to break conventional gender norms than it is for gay people to do so. it’s not.
when you say shit like “she’s masculine but she’s NOT GAY isn’t that amazing” or “he’s feminine but he’s just SECURE IN HIS SEXUALITY” what you’re really saying is “isn’t it amazing that these people aren’t afraid of possibly being assumed as gay” which is shitty enough as it is meanwhile gay people are putting themselves in real danger by defying gender norms and being shamed for it for “conforming to stereotypes” while straight people are praised for doing the same
i have a serious question about transphobia as it permits to my sexuality:
i’ve come to identify as a lesbian, right? ok. ok. am i problematic or transphobic if i’m penis repulsed, when it comes to transwomen who don’t want or cannot have bottom surgery? like, what i mean is i would never have a problem being with a trans woman, but when it comes to that part of things idk! i don’t know how to word this right. i hope that my point is getting across as inoffensively and genuinely curiously as possible, i just don’t know tbh! i’m always too afraid to ask but i dont know if i’m being scummy for feeling that way…
I think it’s important that folks recognize that this discussion about sexuality is a lot more nuanced than it’s often made out to be. This is likely going to be very long, because it’s really not a question with a simple answer.
Like, as a disclaimer (and it’s odd that I often have to do this), no one is telling anyone that they have to have sex with certain bodies or they’re transphobic, or terrible. In the same vein, being penis repulsed does not = being transphobic.
Back to the point, you say that you’d have no trouble being with a trans woman, but sex is something you feel you wouldn’t be able to handle if that woman had a penis, due to your repulsion.
I think that’s a fair enough question, and it’s really evidence on how certain narratives and assumptions are so often made in regards to sex and sexuality in a cisnormative society.
People grow up being told that certain bodies are male, certain bodies are female, and they often find out that both types of officially sanctioned bodies being attracted to each other is heterosexual/straight, and folks who are attracted to their own type are gay. Simple, straight forward, easy to navigate through logically, and to build expectations around.
Combine that with how media (and sometimes education) teach us about sex in ways that don’t or rarely discuss physical boundaries, and that helps build certain assumptions of entitlement, access, and expectations of how we will experience our partners’ bodies, and how they will experience ours.
Trans folks (and intersex folks certainly have this potential as well) tend to throw a wrench into a lot of those assumptions, because suddenly, there’s no dichotomy of bodies. There’s no easy sorting, there’s parts that…all our lives…we’ve understood to be coded as one group’s parts showing up on another’s. and as much as it’s easy to say on the surface “Okay…so penises aren’t just things men have”, it can be difficult to really root out the impact such coding has had on our beliefs, thoughts, gut feelings and instincts. Kind of like how when i was a teen, I’d claim I wasn’t the least bit racist, and later realized that I was absolutely harboring racist sentiments in some of my reactions, instinctual thoughts, in beliefs on cultures, etc.
So it’s important to really ask folks to think about their take on how cissexism and cisnormativity might have shaped views on sexuality, and personal politics of desire, in the same way that racial preferences have been interrogated, and whatnot.
Because there absolutely are assumptions made about trans women, particularly trans women with penises, and how we have sex.
Now, I’ll say that if a person’s attraction (not just sexual, the whole range) to a trans women dies an immediate death upon learning she has a penis, that’s transphobia, because attraction doesn’t vanish like that unless there’s major disgust involved.
Like, beyond the universally messed up assumption that we’re fully entitled to the bodies of our partners (which crops up when folks assume what would/must happen during sex across any context, whether it’s a cis dude assuming he’d have to give oral to a cis woman, or a cis guy assuming his cis dude partner would stick a dick in his ass, or a cis woman assuming a trans man would need to be penetrated, assumptions about access are a brazen display of entitlement), there’s a lot of discussion about trans women’s penises.
I’ll say right now that I’m not penis repulsed, but I know that penis repulsion manifests in plenty of different ways, to different degrees, and I wouldn’t want anyone to engage sexually in a way that would harm them. That’s very important.
But that said, there’s been a lot of assumptions made by folks who are penis repulsed who assume that trans women with penises would penetrate them with it, who assume that they would have to touch a penis, that the penis would get erect, that the penis could ejaculate, that it’d share the same texture/smell (which, tbh, is something I don’t get, since I’m pretty sure that veries for everyone, but anyways) as a cis man’s, or that they would have to see a penis at all. And the way a lot of these assumptions are made tends to frame the hypothetical trans woman as an aggressor, which I can understand a penis-repulsed person doing (because they don’t want to interact with one, such framing makes sense as a reaction), but that’s still tied to the widely held social view of trans women as sexual predators. So while such responses and use of language are still valid and understandable, it’s important that folks recognize that trans women aren’t sexual predators, that they’re at an incredibly low risk of actually being sexually predatory compared to other demographics. A response that groups trans women with cis men in a cisnormative society is expected, but it’s still a cissexist response that needs to be recognized as such (unless, in the extremely rare case, a person has been assaulted by a trans women with a penis, in which case there’s some merit, but such cases, by nature, would be immensely rare in comparison to those whose repulsion is drawn from cis men’s actions).
And honestly, those assumptions are pretty baseless. A huge amount of trans women with penises do not want their partners to interact with it at all. Paired with that is an enormous amount of trans people, particularly trans women, have experienced sexual assault or rape by intimate partners since transitioning, so even those who could entertain using their penis in some way during sex will likely be vigilant on discussing boundaries and potentially avoiding anything that could have lingering trauma bubbling up, for either partner. I know I wouldn’t want to have dysphoria flare up while I’m trying to be intimate with a partner, or have a trauma-related response, and equally as much I wouldn’t want my partner to have any trauma-related responses, or to be made uncomfortable or hurt by my actions.
I know plenty of trans women who are (or were) sexually active while pre/non-op and whose partners never saw or engaged with their penis during sex. I have a friend who has been with her boyfriend for over 3 years and I’m pretty sure he’s actually never seen her penis. Maybe on accident, but she keeps hers lucked away like fort knox, has major bottom dysphoria, and she manages to have sex regularly. She and hey boyfriend don’t shower together, and they don’t sleep in the nude together, but there’s honestly not much else she couldn’t do with her boyfriend that other hetero couples do.
So I guess what I’m trying to get at is that there’s a lot of assumptions being made about what being involved with a penis-bearing trans woman would be like, and a whole lot of them are wrong and fueled by transmisogyny.
And there’s a lot of things people aren’t thinking deeply enough about their sexuality. And that, in a cissexist society, likely means there’s some transmisogyny rooting around in some gut reactions, notions of attractiveness, etc.
So are you transphobic because of your sexuality or what you’re able to involve yourself with? I’m not sure that answer is more important than getting people to interrogate themselves on this sort of stuff. There are people who want to have sex with trans women who have penises, and there are people who claim it’s a dealbreaker. I don’t want either group to get sexually involved with trans women until they’ve thought long and hard about this stuff, because those who haven’t are far more likely to wield transmisogyny against us when they’re with us in whatever way.
But if I had to answer in a simple, generalized way:
-A person should never experience a total loss of attraction to another person after learning their genital status. That’s a clear, and inarguable sign of transphobia at play. Simply knowing a person’s genital status is no excuse for such a monumental loss of attraction to a person.
-Being solely attracted to genitals is transphobic. Requiring engagement with specific kinds of genitals is fetishistic.
-Assuming the sexual form, function, and needs of a trans woman with a penis is transmisogyny, and (even if just passively) assuming full entitlement of a partner’s body on a sexual level is also problematic as hell.
Do any of the above three fit you? if so, you’re probably dealing with transmisogyny/transphobia. Is it a massive deal that will have transfolk foaming at the mouth? Nope. In a world where even those who love and support us the most do or think transphobic and cissexist things, this is just one more rock added to the pile.
Which is why the important thing is getting people thinking, not whether or not they’re transphobic. Everyone’s transphobic, so it’s far more important to take a potential issue and investigate it until you’ve got some answers. To let things stew for a while and really contemplate how cissexism and transphobia might have helped influence/frame thoughts on the matter.
Because no matter what, folks are going to walk away and do their thing, even if they DO realize they’re transphobic in some way from their behaviour/thoughts. Some won’t care, and will be dismissive, for whatever reason. Some will find themselves upset by their biases, but won’t be able to feel attracted to such trans women…and that doesn’t make a person morally inferior or bad, just means they’ve been deeply impacted and it’s not the right time, if that time comes at all. There are plenty of ways folks can come away from self-investigation, and cis people checking the “will fuck a penis owning trans woman” box isn’t a real high priority. What matters is that people have a better grasp on this, so that maybe one day, they’ll understand transphobia better and will be more active in combating it, in whichever way they manage. Maybe that means having healthy, valuable relationships with us. Maybe it won’t.
This isn’t about policing sexuality (not that you said it is, though it’s often an accusation I hear), it’s about getting people to think from an angle that they’ve been explicitly taught doesn’t exist, or isn’t worth considering. Folks do that, and come away with a better understanding of how transphobia affects their life? That’s great! That’s what we want! We don’t want people saying sexuality is excused from critical thought, like many do try to push, which is why so many trans folk harp on about this, and why it’s so important to get people realizing that nothing is unaffected by transphobia. Everything can and should be interrogated for it. Everything.
So yeah, I’ve gone on long enough. Basically, you think hard on this, you let some of these thoughts stew, maybe come back to them here or there going forward, then that’s great. In the meantime, you do you. Learn more about transphobia, listen to trans voices. That’s much, much more important than whether you can have sex with us. Our abusers love to have sex with us, it’s not really anything special, or that’s terribly concerning to the community. The important thing is HOW people understand us, and our bodies, within the sphere of sexuality and desire, and how transphobia, cissexism, etc. shape those understandings.
Kindness is often mistaken for softness and let me tell you, friends….that is a mistake you don’t want to make. {x}
Well fuck, who’s gonna tell them that Super Man is an illegal immigrant?
The DC trinity is a Jewish anti-gun activist, a illegal immigrant whose arch-nemesis is a billionaire industrialist, and a bisexual feminist pacifist.
can we print this on shirts please
