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robsroom ~ One Day He Combusted
I am no longer explaining my chronic illnesses. I'm only ominously referencing them like I'm a fantasy realm NPC dropping plot hooks:
I am besieged by the affliction
The ritual was successful, but it has drained me. I need time to recuperate.
I can't do that, because of The Curse
Dark forces are conspiring within me. I must conserve my strength to battle them.
Unseen foes assault me. I cannot strike back with blows, but I can lessen their influence by consuming certain alchemical rites.
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)
"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.
White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.
Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.
Take veterinary school for example:
In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.
By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.
By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%
A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.
But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”
Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.
For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.
One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)
Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.
Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!
It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.
Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:
“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”
Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.
As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.
Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.
A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)
When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.
Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)
School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.
But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."
very good tags from @downwarddnaspiral
literally saw this tweet this morning
behold, the privileging of ignorance.
It's also interesting to look at the way the gender-shift in roles changes how the roles are perceived.
Secretaries are a perfect example. Back in the day, secretary was a prestigious position, usually the right hand of a figure of authority. The term comes from the 1400s, or thereabout, and the fact that high political offices are still referred to as Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State show how important the position was.
There were, of course, women doing the secretarial tasks - for example Marie Maitland transcribed the family folio in the 16th century though skeptical Victorians insisted a woman couldn't have so fair a hand and Dido Belle wrote her uncle's correspondence in the 18th century, which was noted to be unusual for a woman to do such a task - but secretarial duties primarily fell to men.
However, outside governmental roles, as more and more women entered the workforce, especially during and after the World Wars, and were very good at secretarial work, the gender dynamic shifted.
The number of male secretaries diminished rapidly and with it, the respect due. Misogyny coloured how secretaries were treated, no matter how skilled or professional the women in question were, and even now, there are still the stereotypes of the sexy bimbo secretary.
If we get enough women all over the workforce and then push workers' rights far enough that raising a family on a single income becomes viable again, maybe we can create a world where the manliest thing to be is a tradwife.
that yakuza boyfriend comic is the future liberals want (unironically)
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Shot in the dark but here goes. Tengo dos entradas para sasha colby en el Chango Club en Madrid para mañana por que me han cancelado en el ultimo momento y yo sola a las cosas no voy. Vendo una o las dos. 20 eurillos. 0 ganas de timar a nadie, solo librarme de unas entradas que no voy a usar. tumblr, do your thing
hi i think every white theater kid and anyone who has ever seen a movie should watch this
Holy shit
I know you wanted me away But I am called to be the first Pope from the USA I heard that there's a special place where God talks directly to me every time I pray
I'm having holy dreams, of ruling the Holy See Hear Santa Monica, her son is calling me Won't make the bishops proud, the USCCB Will see their bro in Christ, I know they're gonna scream
"God, what will you do? You once were our boy, then you went to Peru," oh Fathers I'm on the balcony In my vestments, they elected me as the
I'm pontificating as the
I'll be treading closer to the
✨ OLD STATUS QUO ✨
But bigots will keep calling me the
I rise, as Leo, 10 and 4 Saying that the Church should help the migrants and the poor They ask, my feelings on baseball And wonder if I like the gays "a bit" or "not at all"
I live my holy dreams, in Vatican City 'Bye Santa Monica degli Agostin'ani I preach the basic core of Christianity It makes hypocrites mad, I know they're gonna scream
"God, what have you done? He's left of center, an' he's your new Number One," oh brothers The Father and Son Told me they think that you, are stupid and dumb. You call me
Go ahead keep tweeting I'm a
Maybe I'll slide down a righteous
✨Slippery Slope✨
And someday maybe there will be a
[instrumental solo. ideally the organ.]
Some things, I'd rather leave behind but twitter, SNAP and NBC remind me I hid crime still I, will use this as my chance to ask God for peace on earth, and dunk on JD Vance saying
"Bob, where will you go? I want a Ratzinger, not a Bergoglio." Oh my son The Popemobile is mine I preach the Church doctrine, you sit there and whine that I'm a
Servus Servorum Dei's short for
Do as Jesus bids you, or it's Hell
🔥🐐🔥 like the goats 🔥🐐🔥
'Cause baby, there's no such thing as a
did the dinosaurs look at the meteor and thought "how pretty"?
Generative AI has destroyed academia.
In the next few decades we’re going to have thousands of people who don’t really know anything, and can’t do any critical thinking.
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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"Later, I asked Wendy if she recognized the irony in using AI to write not just a paper on critical pedagogy but one that argues learning is what “makes us truly human.” She wasn’t sure what to make of the question. “I use AI a lot. Like, every day,” she said. “And I do believe it could take away that critical-thinking part. But it’s just — now that we rely on it, we can’t really imagine living without it.” "
Aaaahhhhhhh🫠
“But now, whenever they encounter a little bit of difficulty, instead of fighting their way through that and growing from it, they retreat to something that makes it a lot easier for them.”
i think this quote sums up the entire core issue of not just cheating in uni but also a huge trend i've noticed in online spaces where people don't bother to do literally anything anymore
i'm on a few film photography subreddits and yesterday i saw someone post a photo of a camera with an extremely large front plate containing the camera's make and model and the OP was asking "hey can anyone tell me what this camera is?" like... they couldn't even read those words and type them into google to see what comes up (which would have led them directly to a wiki page on the camera) they literally went straight to reddit and wanted everyone else to do it for them
this is a further extension of the same issue, which is that the younger generation is being taught by these things to have literally zero ability to think critically and problem solve
There’s also been a massive increase in ‘Petahexplainsthejoke’ posts reaching the front page of Reddit, and it’s almost always incredibly basic context-based humour.
And for what it’s worth, I feel it’s different from the ‘Explain Like I’m Five’ subreddit. It’s a total lack of interest in wanting to sit with something and think for more than a couple of seconds.
get to know me - favourite female characters [3/?] -> donna noble [doctor who]
theyer old enough that they used to connect
They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.
They used to be as tall as the Himalayas.
Okay but are they older or younger than sharks?
THEYRE OLDER THAN SHARKS BY LIKE THIRTY MILLION YEARS
@nyarevar pookie your mountain range is cool
older than blood, bones, sharks, AND the rings of saturn!
well look who it is. my old friend. the conses of my quences.
do not 10k me stop that
*clicks reblog* your old friend, the conses of your quences, sends their regards
"... bought... copper... from... this... shady fucker... bad quality... zero stars... "