[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

[mckitterick]

the notes on this are toxic - to help clear up any misunderstanding, here’s the actual science paper:

Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three dec

in short: brains are brains

[guilhernunes]

everything is anteater

[auxphono]

Needed a clean graphic for a project, and figured while I was vectoring I would put sex and magic back in.

Happy Pride Month

[auxphono]

Reblogging this yearly for anyone who needs a very clean version <3 Happy Pride.

[drosophilamania]

Reblog to put the sex and magic back into pride

[omtai]

Does anyone care if the boulder is happy does anyone imagine the boulder to be happy? Or is everything about that other guy

[its-gita-time]

Some union basics:

1. Striking is the LAST RESORT. If a union is at the place where a strike is being proposed it is because they have been bargaining for a long time and exhausted all their other options.

2. Before a strike happens, all the members vote. Everyone is very aware of the status of negotiations long before they’re made public. But if a strike is occurring it’s because an overwhelming majority voted to strike—you want almost everyone in the union to agree before you take such a huge step.

3. Strikes are difficult but necessary demonstrations of workers’ collective power. The hope is that your labor is so essential that the bosses lost profits will make them come back to the bargaining table. The bosses are hoping that the workers will starve to death.

4. Working during a strike is called scabbing. Coming in from an outside industry to do work during a strike is sometimes called crossing the picket line. Both send you straight to hell.

[eldritchbauble]

Apart from the broad stigmatization and hostility toward people w NPD, can I voice something that really bothers me about r/raisedbynarcissists and other "narc abuse" spaces? The way that if someone brings up concerns about symptoms of NPD in themselves, everyone goes "nooo you're not a narc, you're a GOOD person who picked up some of their evil behavior because of your trauma you have fleas" and it's like I hate to break it to you, but cluster b disorders run in families for a reason. Also where do you think the disprder comes from...? Trauma.

[eldritchbauble]

So many people who hate people w NPD have NPD.

[eldritchbauble]

Also this isn't unique to NPD. It's not even unique to cluster b disorders or any/all personality disorders. Get traumatized by abuse and I promise you have adopted some toxic and dysfunctional behaviors, whether or not it meets the criteria of a disorder. If you brush it off as "fleas," you're not really being honest with yourself or other trauma victims.

[eldritchbauble]

To me it's an obvious continuation of the same lack of self-awareness and accountability that they say they hate people w NPD for displaying. And I'm gonna be blunt here but the need to feel like YOUR trauma was unique, special, different from the abuse other people have suffered is like. In fact. Narcissism (not necessarily as a disorder but as a trait at least).

[eldritchbauble]

Ask me how I know (I used to be Like That before realizing it was a garbage way to talk about / treat other mentally ill folks and I have ASPD lol).

Anyway antisocial 🤝 narcissist solidarity forever, I care about you and recognize the effort you put into breaking the cycle. A disorder doesn't negate that.

[scissorsaint]

nice wound. Could use some salt though

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[gondorrevealparty]

baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them

[jadeharleyinc]

all my alters become walters when i pitch the baseball of success

[punkitt-is-here]

[scouts-cosplays]

i’m not allo or aro i’m a secret third thing

[sparklingbog]

You need to respect the intellectually disabled and delayed I'm not fucking asking

[aruviwrote]

People, my wonderful transfem friend is taking students for her class. Do your thing and help her find students. The relative value of a dollar and a rupee means that just ten international students can help her make rent.

[taliabhattwrites]

Hey folks, Swarnim's an old friend and a talented engineer. As Aruvi said, a dollar goes a longer way in India, and India's current regime is exceedingly unkind to trans women trying to find gainful employment, or even just live their lives. Please help a trans woman from the third world support herself!

[voidthing]

happy month, fellow slurs.

[boringkate]

You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.

[self-loving-vampire]

Curious about what percentage of all those pedestrian deaths from cars are actually intentional murders assumed to be accidental. We know some drivers are completely bloodthirsty towards pedestrians and cyclists beyond mere recklessness.

I notice that in general car deaths are simultaneously massive and invisible. Even in my famously hyper-violent country of birth cars used to be about as lethal as organized crime in death statistics.

But while gangs were at times the defining national problem that everyone was sick of, deaths from cars were seemingly not worth discussing.

[self-loving-vampire]

More than one person I know has had people trying to hit them with their car as an attempted hate crime, and looking online this doesn't seem uncommon. The cops are useless about it as usual too.

[basic-bamboo]

If you are someone who uses like a power chair or a motor scooter and live somewhere without a sidewalk you have to be in the road and it is extremely common for drivers to just...try to run you off the road. One of my friends messages me every time it happens to her, often the only thing that dissuades drivers is her service dog. They want to hit her, a power chair user, they do not want to hit a dog.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[dullahandyke]

[ID: a drawing of a guy saying "Let's not argue about who has it easier." He is wearing a t-shirt that says 'The guy who has it easier.']

[unionisedmanc]

Are you all going to come online and play perverts or what