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“Burn the witch! Burn the witch!” shouted the crowd, drowning out the distressed warnings of one person. “No, you fools! She can control the flames!”
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like 99% of "men and women are soooo different!!!" comedy is literally just describing the experience of not understanding other people. like it's not that women never say what they mean talking to other people is just like that. it can be hard to understand what other people are thinking. bioessentialism really rots the brain
"women will say I'm fine and then not mean it" yeah that's something literally everybody does. is this your first time interacting with another human being my guy
Often it’s specifically “people are weird in ways I only notice when I’m trying to date and/or sleep with them”
speaking as an autistic trans man, there's more to it than that. social skills are taught in sexist ways. someone raised as a man and someone raised as a woman are likely to learn very different social skills.
depending on who raised you and when, you might actually have an entirely different set of culture norms from your opposite-ASAB peers. like, let's take the "women will say they're FINE and not actually MEAN IT" example:
a lot of men don't get taught to check in on their friends'/loved ones' emotional states unless there is Actually A Big Problem. they're taught that other people's emotions are None Of Their Business and that it's rude to constantly worry about people.
meanwhile, a lot of women get taught that managing everyone's emotions is Their Responsibility, that they HAVE to constantly make sure that the people around them are Okay, and that they HAVE to constantly project Being Okay so they don't worry other people.
if a person raised AMAB asks a person raised AFAB "hey, are you okay?", they are treating it as an expression of deep and genuine concern. but a person raised AFAB will not see it as deep concern; they'll see it as a casual social interaction with a Correct Canned Answer that they must give to not be Rude.
the second person says "I'm fine", as that is the correct canned answer. but the first person is not looking for a canned answer; they're attempting to make a deep connection. They see the canned answer is a rejection of that connection and as a lie. So they are (needlessly!) hurt and confused. and the second person is also likely to wind up hurt and confused, because they were Being Polite and now they're being treated like a lying liar who lies.
and this is where all the battle of the sexes bullshit comes from; everyone is acting in accordance with their culture, but no one is really equipped to understand that someone who is nominally from the same culture has an entirely different set of cultural norms. so you get this MEN/WOMEN ARE STRANGE AND UNKNOWABLE in the same way you get, idk, NOT-AMERICANS ARE STRANGE AND UNKNOWABLE from Americans. except tbh there's added vitriol, because everyone expects people from a different culture to be strange (hell, they get mad if you aren't sometimes!), but they expect people from their culture to be ~normal~.
there is a mismatch of expectations here beyond "yes, everyone says they're fine and doesn't mean it sometimes, women aren't uniquely mysterious creatures" . it's a culture clash.
I admit I'm guilty of sometimes saying I'm fine when I don't actually mean it, but I don't think it's a woman thing. I think it's a "someone who's previously been emotionally abused" thing. Growing up, whenever my parents would ask me what's wrong, if I told them, they would get mad at me or do something to make me feel worse so I developed the habit of not telling people what's wrong when they ask, and my friends have gotten annoyed at me for it
“There’s a cure?!” asked the girl that kills everything she touches. “Hey shut up we’re perf” replied the girl that makes clouds.
For real though. Storm has stopped an entire tsunami before. “Makes clouds my ass” she can conjure lightning and tornadoes and is revered as a god in her tribe. She literally changes atmospheric pressure and that’s how she flies. So fuck you. Storm is flawless.
I think you missed the part where the GIRL WHO KILLS EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES wants to NOT KILL EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES and everyone dismisses her incredible misfortune just because the lady who is the AVATAR OF THE STORM won the fucking SUPERPOWER LOTTERY
“Finally, a cure for my chainsaw hands!” decreed Chainsaw-Hands Joe.
“There is no cure,” said Johnny Five-Dicks. “There’s nothing wrong with us.”
The last comment literally always cracks me up
The X-Men are an extremely good metaphor for oppressed minorities until they are suddenly an extremely terrible metaphor for oppressed minorities.
The scale on which the first reply misses the point literally never ceases to awe me.
I gotta say, though, this is a place where the X-men are being a good metaphor for oppressed minorities. Specifically, in this case, the disabled community.
“Yay, there’s a cure!” says the girl with depression. “Cure for what, motherfucker, I’m not sick,” says the person with autism.
“Yay, there’s a cure!” I say, with my fibromyalgia and random bad pain days. “Yes, because it’s easier to talk about eliminating us than talk about teaching sign language in school,” says the Deaf person. “‘Cure’ is violent rhetoric.”
The problem is, of course, that a vast number of things have been aggregated under the label of “disability,” and many of them don’t even resemble each other. Depression sucks in an objective fashion, whereas autism is just a way of being (which, like many ways of being, may suck at some times, and generally sucks worse when not accommodated). Similar deal with chronic pain versus the Deaf community. These things really should not be grouped together, but they are. And since they are grouped so haphazardly, they will often be at cross-purposes.
It is ridiculous, in the X-men universe, to classify all “mutants” as one group. You have ridiculously powerful people with little downside, you have powerful people with a major downside, you have people with very limited powers but few drawbacks, you have people with limited powers and massive drawbacks, and that’s not even getting into other divisions, like whether you look like a baseline human all the time, part of the time, or none of the time. “Realistically,” if you can apply that word to a fantasy universe, Storm and Rogue belong to completely different minorities which should require completely different approaches. But society has grouped them under one umbrella, or forced them to group themselves for self-protection, and thus you have conversations like the one above.
So it’s actually not a bad take. Mind you, the X-men have had bad takes, and will do so again, and I’m skeptical about whether “powers” of any kind even work for a metaphor about minority representation—but this particular vignette has something useful to say.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is exactly what bothers me about purely social analyses of disability.
And even if you look at the mutants as being all one group, it’s still a useful metaphor.
Put another way:
“They can cure us?” asks the autistic person who struggles to think clearly, can’t form full sentences, is overstimulated at the drop of a hat and misses out on a lot of things they’d otherwise like to do because for them, autism is literally crippling.
“No, because there’s nothing wrong with us,” I say, as a person with autism who has a job, car, excellent communication and coping skills and a relatively normal life, because for me, autism is a thing I’ve adapted to and worked around.
(And yes, autistic people in the first category do exist. I’ve encountered a few right here on Tumblr and seen more than one say “don’t forget us in your autism activism because we aren’t ‘just a little different,’ this is a genuine problem for us.”)
Or perhaps:
“They can cure us?” asks the amputee who has never fully adapted to the loss of her arm below the shoulder, and gets by okay most days but very much misses being non-disabled.
“No, because there’s nothing wrong with us,” says the person who was born with only one arm and has never considered it any kind of deficit because it’s just how things are.
Different people will experience the same disability in different ways. It may have to do with how they were diagnosed, or how they came to be disabled; it may have to do with complications related to the disability (not to use the same metaphor twice, but someone whose arm was crushed and experiences terrible phantom pains daily probably feels a lot more negatively about their lack of an arm than someone who was born without it and has no phantom limb to feel sensation in). It may even be because of how other people around them treat the disability! A blind person treated with dignity and appropriate accommodation is probably going to feel very differently about their disability than someone with the same kind of blindness, but also a bunch of condescending pricks who want to make it into a terrible tragedy.
The metaphor still works even within any given subgroup of disabled people, and I think we need to remember that in our activism, too.
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Hey all. I’m posting this again because my last one lost traction at $80. I’m a Black college student with a number of health issues, & my FAFSA money is running low. I’ve been using it to help with rent until I can start working again (I have yet to hear back from the jobs I’ve applied to, but I’m hopeful). March rent is up in the air with medications, doctor co-pays, and groceries. Anything helps, I genuinely appreciate all the support. ❤️ - Kayla
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This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.
Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22[Filter]
^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.
NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT
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This deserves every reblog.
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In the face of institutions being silenced, this is doubly huge.
I love seeing that, for once, there are more reblogs than likes
Keep passing on this info, guys. Good job
I finished my packing suspiciously early and effortlessly so now I'm just sus that I might be forgetting like 10 things.
why the fuck aren’t there decorative dispensers for maxi pads.
they could look like those fancy tissue box covers but function like a tea bag dispenser
I don’t use tampons but a dispenser for those could be like the ones for straws
I have to do everything myself I guess
I still have to sand and finish it but I’m pretty happy with how it came out
I added a finish! I didn’t stain it or paint it because I like how it matches my room.
Also some of yall are telling me to patent this, but why would I do that when I can just as easily post a diagram for free on the internet so anyone could make one if they wanted to :)
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*remembers I get to use my box the next few days* :)
This is GENIUS. I love the idea of having cute boxes like this with supplies for guests. Like “no need to furtively dig through my cabinets, there’s no shame here and also you get more time to snoop through my cabinets this way.”
Hmm. I don’t have woodworking tools or skills but I wonder if something could be 3D printed (once the library reopens, that is).
Look, as soon as the library reopens their tech lab I’m printing this.
This is lovely! And it’s a simple enough design that it should be possible to make out of several different materials depending on what you have available.
Why hasn’t this been done before?
You know why.
Second year medic, Malone Mukwende, has been working with staff members as part of a student-staff partnership project looking at clinical t
Cause racial health disparities…
I hope this gets published
It is available for download as a pdf from their website. www.blackandbrownskin.co.uk/mindthegap
there is also an IG that shows crowdsourced photos of what skin conditions can look like on melanated skin.
https://www.instagram.com/brownskinmatters/
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it gets funnier the longer you look
Holy shit that's so cool
Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience
How nice.
I’d like to draw your attention to the birds who fly through without any discrepancies.
Birds are time travelers.
@NintendoAmerica: As of late March 2023, it will no longer be possible to make Nintendo eShop purchases for the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
Hack your 3DS. Hack your Wii U. It's easy and fun, and you will gain access to so much shit, you will not lose access to one of the largest generational game libraries, you can access even older games.
It is always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games. Fuck them.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
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the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
So you know.
This might be the real one, y’all.
My life is pretty good but definitely sharing this out for all my folks who might need it!
maybe my life will finally change for the better
reblogging so my landlord finally fixes my fucking toilet
not to be dramatic but the uk is literally slipping into a legit fascist state rn, our rights to free speech are slowly being revoked and literally nobody is talking about it lmao I hate it here
Internet anonymity possibly being revoked
rights to peaceful protest no longer a thing, AND what really gets me is the fact that police can arrest you if they THINK you're going to a protest or being disruptive. you're disabled and you walk by a protest about disability rights? police can arrest you on suspicion of partaking in a protest. couple of teens hanging out on a street corner? police can arrest you if theyre having a bad day and can say you are suspected of protest.
stop and search warrants. this goes back to the protest thing. you've just been to a DIY store and have bought some DIY equipment. police can now stop and search you with no reason and say you were using that equipment to incite a protest.
gag orders on the press
most UK press being in parliaments back pocket and therefore we get no real truth unless its leaked
maybe im going to the worst case scenario but I'd rather do that than be complacent. are you terrified yet?
okay, really bad stuff
what can we do about it? /g
honestly...talk about it. speak up about it and spread the word. minorities are suffering because of these laws and we can't even protest it right now. make people aware of it and share it. Parliament is trying to slip this through quietly while we're all distracted so let's make it harder for them to do it quietly
Home secretary delivers legal wishlist in new year video message which opposition calls ‘slogans not solutions’
The government’s back-door amendments to the policing bill are tyrannical. We should be on the streets in our millions, says Guardian column
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How to draw: Not white characters
How to draw a Black person
How to colour Black people skin tones
How to draw dreadlocks
How to draw African hair
How to draw curly hair
How to draw braids
How to draw braids part 2
How to draw cornrows
How to draw Bantu knots
How to draw two strand twists
How to draw an Asian person
How to colour darker skin tones with alcohol markers
How to draw hijabs/traditional Muslim hair coverings
How to draw a hijabi girl
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Before you go “mY aRt sTyLe iS dIfFrEnT tHoUgH” you can moderate it and play around with your style to get it to fit.
also some tumblr/instagram posts, if it’s okay to add:
drawing black people (instagram--the rest are tumblr posts)- color, naturally kinky/curly hair, protective hairstyles
more tips on drawing black hair
drawing mixed people
drawing asian people (goes over east, southeast, south asians--LOTS of good resources and tips in the notes from my knowledge)
drawing east asian people
drawing north american indigenous people (no images, just a textpost, but by an inupiaq person)