#phalangies

[ricowtta]

the deerling you drew is adorable!! could i use it for my tumblr icon? i'll credit you, of course :)

yes absolutely!! im flattered you want to use it!

[bemusedlybespectacled]

hello! this is a bit odd, but i remember reading one of your posts on my dash recently where you said your thesis had something to do with the eugenics movement. i'm currently in a genetics and ethics class and writing a paper on genetic screening so i'm curious as to what you think about present-day eugenics? do you think we're on the verge of another large country-wide eugenics movement? have we come far enough since the 20th century to prevent a repeat of those horrors?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA okay no this is actually the best question thank you so much oh my gosh

okay, fun experiment: go to the comments section of any story about someone doing something stupid

and I can guarantee you that AT LEAST ONE comment is going to be something like “let’s hope this person doesn’t breed”

if it’s about poverty, I can guarantee you that someone will make AT LEAST ONE comment about how poor people are always popping out more kids than they can afford and they should just stop breeding

as recently as 2010 California was sterilizing female inmates

it’s not “have we come far enough,” it’s “not even the fucking Nazis could get people to let go of their shitty, shitty ideas about how genes work AND WE STILL HAVEN’T”

like, the thing about the eugenics movement is that is basically shitty opinions + shitty science = shitty laws

THEY KNEW their science was flawed. like as early as 1911 they were throwing out all their research that tracked pauperism in families and musical talent in children and whatnot because it was all useless, because there was no way of isolating those traits in a lab

like, if you want to see if something is genetic, you need to have a control test subject. so if you grow a black rat in a lab, you know that black hair in rats is genetic. but there’s no such thing as a poor rat, or a musically-talented rat, and you can’t use human test subjects from birth for ethics reasons (incidentally this is my issue with a lot of evo pysch, they make claims that things are genetic when there's little to no evidence for it)

but they kept doing it as a movement, and justified it with their shitty science, because it was never about science

it was about confirming the biases they already had

and if you are inclined to think that poor people somehow deserve what they get and disabled people are burdens on society and that the country is being overrun with people of color and criminality is something you’re born with, then if someone gives you even the slightest shred of “proof” that you’re right, you’ll latch onto it even if it’s wrong

and the thing is, society still has those biases

now, will we have the exact same outcome, like laws preventing certain races from marrying or forcibly sterilizing people? not necessarily

could we have other things, like a license to have children that conveniently excludes people with mental illnesses or disabilities? it’s definitely possible

tl;dr: the seeds are there, they never went away, though if it does become a movement it might look different than the old eugenics movement

[fandom-out-boy]

After a long afternoon with nothing to do, I decided to learn about some human anatomy. ;) Yes, I now know all the bones of the hand and wrist.

[didfatemistakeus]

Praying for a snowday!

[theloudestsongs]

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congrats! and btw, you should get a confirmation email from case in about 24 hours. (:

thx! (: and oh okay cool; i had that glitch where you get an error message after you submit your app so i was worrying a bit, but i'll give it 24 hours before i freak out

[everysongaday]

Hello! I love your blog- it makes liking k-indie so much easier when good songs just pop up on my dashboard every day. So thank you for sharing your lovely taste in music! :)

uwwwwaaaaah thank you!!! I’m happy to bombard your dashes with all the music I love!

Sorry for my recent inconsistent mood-swing blogging style!

[didfatemistakeus]

Shout out to my homie Phalangies for making the best vanilla ice cream ever.