you know, the weird thing about the ‘i didn’t care about feminism until i had a daughter’ crowd is that the vast majority of these men have wives.they formed close,intimate relationships with actual human woman over the course of several years and yet that wasn’t enough to make them give half a shit about women’s issues. but the very moment that wife, that living breathing human female with rights and needs that these men could have been caring about this whole time,pops out a baby that they feel is their possession, then women’s issues are important. very bizarre.
Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized.
Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isn’t how it works. That isn’t how it’s supposed to work.
ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking the ‘survival of the fittest’ bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)
shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals)
going off of widespread ideas of “”primitive”” (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldn’t contribute anything, he would have been a “”burden to society””, right?
except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)
this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without his ‘contributing’ anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar III’s) was huge because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared.
tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be ‘’useful’’ or ‘’’productive’’’ in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamed
So I’ve seen scams about this floating around Facebook but this is the first one I’ve seen on Tumblr. I love the fidget cube and it is amazing - but the only real one that isn’t a bad reproduced knockoff or a straight up scam is from Antsy Labs. Antsy Labs is the company that originally kickstarted this project.
DON’T BELIEVE ANY OF THE OTHER ADS FLOATING AROUND THEY ARE LITERALLY USING ANTSY LABS IMAGES.
Basically you’re either going to get a really crappy version of one, IF you get one at all. There are some that are just taking people’s money and running.
When I first saw this website I checked it out and they didn’t even have a contact us section and their “return policy” looks sketchy as hell.
Don’t lose your money on this! If you want a real one go check out @antsylabs!
SIGNAL BOOST! I just got my real one in the mail, and having played with a real one and a knock-off, there is no contest… get the real deal! Support antsy labs and the work they put into inventing and perfecting this thing.
many many many indigenous cultures have historically included more than two genders and to say that those genders do not exist is to say that those cultural traditions are invalid, and that only the imperialist gender binary is correct. which is racism.
sorcerer! antagonist! not villain. antagonist. keeping the cloth patternings and arrangements consistent when i draw him is going to be Hell but we’ll get there when we get there. also the design of the staff-wand-whatever isn’t quite final yet i think.
i feel like i should prioritize digital-drawing alecca and vaughn (aka eyepatch elf & reaper guy, if you didn’t pay attention to the tags on my earlier art) earlier because they’re basically my two central characters in the story i’m trying to pull together but i’m doing dumb stuff like this instead. although i absolutely will draw alecca and vaughn next i swear
the upside of digital-tracing pencil drawings is i can resize the original drawings to make sure i’ve got the characters’ relative heights right before i start which is nice
This week I’ve been playing around with Blender and put together this N64-esque model of @kirafrog‘s avatar character
You should also check out “Hitting the Town” by Crep!! The music I threw in here is from the album and it’d be super rad if ya’ll went and helped support his music!
* They side with and / or sympathize with the people who murder autistic people instead of the autistic person whose life was ripped away.
* They say autism is a prison and imply there’s a ‘normal’ child under the autism symptoms.
* They try to sell that bleach shit as a cure.
* They ignore autistic voices.
* They close their comments sections everywhere when autistic people call them out on their bullshit.
* Autistic people are staging protests against the organization.
A few hours after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a photograph circulated of Melania Trump sitting next to husband at a luncheon, eyes down and face unsmiling. The photograph went viral, often accompanied on social media with the expression, “I feel sorry for Melania Trump.”
“If the past is any indication, Melania is no passive victim. Recently a 2011 interview with Melania on the Joy Behar Show went viral on Twitter. In the interview, Melania defends her husband’s adamant commitment to the birther conspiracy born of the Tea Party—his belief that President Obama is not an American citizen, that he was born in Kenya and that his Hawaii-issued birth certificate was, in fact, a forgery.
‘Do you want to see President Obama’s birth certificate or not?’ Melania asks Behar.
‘I’ve seen it,’ Behar responds.
‘It’s not a birth certificate,’ Melania says as she shakes her head. Here, Melania recites her husband’s conspiratorial and fictitious claims, ones Donald Trump repeated for five years until, in September 2016, he ‘conceded’ that they were untrue. Melania has never indicated whether or not she agrees with that concession.
But Melania has always been willing to defend her husband and to employ tactics that typify the Trump approach to the world. After journalist Julia Ioffe published a profile of Melania in GQ, Melania denounced the piece, calling it ‘yet another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting.’ When Ioffe received a barrage of anti-Semitic messages and threats, Melania said, that Ioffe “provoked them.” Later, Melania almost trollishly announced that, as First Lady, she would launch a campaign to prevent bullying on the internet, denouncing social media’s “mean and rough” culture.
Social media aside, she’s proven that she’s a willing scribe of the Trump hagiography. In October, Melania sat down with CNN to defend her husband after a leaked tape caught her husband bragging about sexually assaulting women. She called his language ‘boy talk’ and blamed the tape’s release on the conspiratorial ‘left-wing media.’ When asked about the sizable number of women who have accused her husband of sexual assault, she demonstrated that she was no listless vessel, but in full possession of autonomy: ‘I know he respects women but he is defending himself because they are all lies,’ she told CNN.
Like Ivanka Trump, whose brand and subsequent media narratives have worked to distance her from her father’s repugnant ideologies from racist birtherism to sexual assault, Melania is no innocent. She’s willing to vocally defend her husband—not only to stand next to him for the sake of political spectacle or personal gain, but to do the obligatory media tours and, like her step-daughter, insist that he respects women.
Melania Trump is hardly a stand-in for American women, she is neither a victim nor is she lacking agency. Rather she’s an active participant working to construct Donald Trump’s narrative, readily available to put a gauzy domestic veil on his racism and misogyny. Melania Trump doesn’t deserve your sympathy.”
Like, am I huffing fumes here, or is it possible that she’s both a victim of abuse, control, and gaslighting *and* has agency? At what point in the Melania narrative did we ditch the idea that it’s possible to be abused *and* be a nightmare of a person at the same time, and that neither of those things is okay?
It’s a known, open fact that trump raped and physically abused his ex wife so why do people dismiss the possibility of her being controlled just because she’s a garbage human?
Okay, but I’m being 1,000% serious now. Survivors and victims don’t give a fuck if their abuser changed. They really don’t care. It does not change what the abuser did. No matter what you think, survivors and victims are still allowed to hate their abusers, whether or not the abuser has “changed”. Even if the abuser has mental illnesses.
To add : One of the signs an abuser has actually changed is the acceptance that the people they abused owe them nothing. That the person they abused has the right to hate and shun them forever.
If an abuser is trying to get you to contact someone they wronged/abused so they can get forgiveness, that’s a sign they haven’t actually changed. Don’t help without the victim’s express permission.
