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People who consider women liking M/F and/or M/M content more than F/F content a problem that needs to be solved are not people who are worth taking seriously about anything. Liking men isn't a problem that needs to be solved and women being attracted to men isn't a problem that needs to be solved.
If you are on a Windows 11 computer, pause everything you are doing for one minute and:
Open computer settings
Click on Accessibility on the left-hand menu
Scroll down the Accessibility menu and click on the Keyboard Option
Under the "related settings" tab, click "Typing" which should have a description of "spellcheck, autocorrect, text suggestions."
Turn off the AI "correct misspelled words"
and most importantly: turn off Typing Insights.
[ID: a screenshot of the above mentioned Windows 11 settings, showing that Typing Insights is now turned off, with the following description from Microsoft: "Windows is using artificial intelligence to help you type To help you save time and type efficiently, Windows can learn to suggest words, autocorrect spelling mistakes, and interpret swiped typing. Take a look at the insights below to see up-to-the-minute stats on how Windows has learned to improve typing for you. These stats are stored only on this device and Microsoft does not collect the typing insights data." End ID]
"But Mx. November, it says right there Microsoft doesn't collect the typing insights data!"
I mean, yeah, it says that..... for *now.*
It also only specifies that Microsoft themselves don't collect it, and they wouldn't have made this something that I was automatically, secretly opted in for without my knowledge if they didn't have something to be gained by me not knowing it exists!
I only found this because a cat walked on the keyboard and turned on Filter Keys and while trying to figure out why my keyboard was just making chirping noises instead of typing, I happened to click on "typing insights" by accident.
Generative AI, and especially AI that is used to "personalize" and track your activity across the web and on your computer are never going to be in your best interest, it is always going to serve these companies in whatever way will line their pockets the most, and all it takes is updating their terms of service once, and then all of that data they promised they weren't collecting suddenly all belongs to them.
it's on windows 10 too. you can just search "Typing Insights" in the settings searchbar to find it
A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here's preventing you lot from making it worse.
Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one's way out of consequences.
What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.
Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the "hero" or the one who cheers them up.
What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.
Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one's own narrative.
What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.
Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.
It is not: Your rubbish ex that cheated on you.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
-Xanthe
Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)
oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!
Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)
oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!
My boy Bicho 🐱
"I wanted it to be an epic story about a woman’s life, and for her to have all the attention, adventure, growth, and virtue that Odysseus and Achilles do."
Ok, I have some issues with this.
First of all, I need to say that discussing this doesn’t mean I don’t support women in writing, or women in front and center in books, or people taking inspiration from the Greek mythology. I don’t have a problem with any of that. In fact, I don’t have a problem with Madeline Miller as a person, either. However, there were some statements I feel I need to address, especially after reading Circe getting raped for no reason. Giving my critisism for this book doesn’t mean I “cancel” or condemn it. It means that I have some thoughts and I need to express them and I think I should, given my Greek heritage. This book has been optioned to be a TV series (source) and more people will learn about that soon. Let this opinion be out on the internet.
This article is gonna be long because I like writing and I am a fan of the Odyssey and my heritage. You have been warned.
Let’s start with the article. While I enjoy the writing of Miller and I don’t think she had ill intentions, some of her statements bothered me a little.
“I wanted to push back against Homer,” Madeline Miller said, matter-of-factly, on the phone last week. That’s a bold statement, considering Homer and his two 4,000-year-old epic poems have been a fixture in culture and canon over the millennia.” […] “ Miller’s not afraid to push back against Homer – and to reinvent his poems completely.“
“Pushing back“ is not a good term. And, generally, I don’t understand the need of people to target a myth, a defining epic, from Greek culture and “push back on it“, in essence, fix it. I would write a lot of things about foreigners (especially from the West) who exhibit a superior, entitled behavior, thinking that they need to fix and redifine our narrative, because they know better or they think they have better insight. It has happened many times and Greeks are familiar with that approach. I don’t think Miller had any malice in her heart and she didn’t think low of Greeks when she re-wrote that tale but she probably didn’t see the implications of her actions. I encourage people playing with Greek myths but not with the attitude of antagonizing the original storytellers and culture.
Imagine Americans taking a myth/tale from the US Indigenous people and saying “I wanted to push back on those anachronistic, patriarchical bigoted Indigenous myths”. There would be an outrage.
“The way it was pronounced in ancient Greek would’ve been “KIR-kee.” But one of the things that I feel strongly about is using the version of the name that is most recognizable to my audience, so I say “SUR-see.” I want people to feel like they can own these myths and not feel intimidated by the names and the pronunciation.”
That is a small one, and I just want to comment something. I know those heroes have names in English and since the main audience is English there is no problem keeping the names English. However let’s not pretend that Kir-kee is a difficult name or that someone needs a degree to learn or pronounce it. It’s the easiest name in the epic. And what is wrong with learning the original name of the character, after all? When being immersed in a foreign culture you can’t expect everything to be tailored to you.
On to the story. I had one big problem with that. Circe is raped as a reason for turning the men into pigs. For all of you who can, read the rape scene below. I leave those pictures here and after them I will write my comments.
The men are presented as brutes and the worst misogynists. Don’t get me wrong, the sailors were probably typical men of their era, hence not very pro women, but at the same time they were never presented as such brutes in the epic. They were stupid and reckless and sometimes disrespectful to the gods, sure, but they didn’t rape. It seems to me like Miller goes “look what brutes ancient Greeks were, the men were monsters and their crimes were just glossed over because the society was awful”. Want to rewrite the epic of Gilgamesh, the Shahnameh and the Mahabarata with emphasis to how brutal and misogynistic the men were? Or even make their heroes commit crimes they didn’t commit in canon? Or in this case you would judge it as disrespectful to the culture? And why isn’t it disrecpectful to Greek culture?
Again, I don’t say there aren’t or weren’t rapists in the world and I don’t diminish the struggle of the people who got raped. I am talking about the change in the heroes of a very defining epic of a certain culture in order to make them rapists.
Moreover, if a rape actually happened in the island, it wouldn’t have been glossed over. “Homer” or the Greek people never shied away from violence and rape in myths. But the sailors had to be changed to rapists and Circe to a rape victim because… that would empower her, I guess? Rape victims are very brave and there shouldn’t be ashamed. But this case is different because you put a character through rape, while she was never raped in canon.
The thing is, Circe wasn’t even IN NEED to be empowered. She is a goddess (already powerful) living in an island where she is the ruler of everything. Her powers come natural - as opposed to the book. When she turns the sailors into swine, the gods don’t even intervene. They don’t even punish her. She is never punished for having and using power. And, as far as I remember, there is no commentary about “she has magic but she is a woman, that’s a bad thing!” I know about the trope of powerful women being witches and I don’t like it. And I know that ancient Greece wasn’t the best place to be a woman. However, this time the character was already a goddess with powers, the typical enemy with magic that is another obstacle for our heroes. In the text she comes out as a misunderstood woman who wants to be left alone. Later she becomes sweet to the sailors and even helps Odysseus with the next stage of his journey.
I mean, I kinda get Miller’s point but at the same time I am left wondering “why?”. Circe already had agency and did whatever she wanted, no matter how questionable. She didn’t need a reason. She was the kind of character who asked with no shame of Odysseus (a father and husband) to make love to her. To give multiple rapes as a reason for all that doesn’t help her feel more empowered.
In addition to that, in the narrative, the blame isn’t on her but on the sailors. They did something stupid again – manage to let their guard down and be transformed into swine – and Odysseus has to save them once more. Plus, remember the logic of the ancient Greek myths. The gods are never at fault, the people are. And if the gods ever are at fault, the people have to deal with it. In the epic it’s truly the human nature of the sailors that it’s to blame for them never arriving at their destination. That’s their antagonist.
But even if you interpret Circe as a villain, she wasn’t even the biggest one. So many villainized figures were male but I guess there is no problem with that. I know that women don’t play big roles in Odyssey and I won’t pretend it’s not problematic by today’s standards. However, we have a lot of minor characters and therefore different women with different motives are presented. Defining characters in Odysseus’ journey are Calypso, a goddess with the opposite motives of Circe, and sweet Nausica. The women are not villainized in the epic. They act entitled when they should be, because they have the respective power.
Reasons for the sailor’s transformation into pigs (reasons that we can actually extract from the text and also commented by my professor):
1) Many say it was a metaphor. Instead of relying on their mind, as Odysseus does, his sailors are often called nepioi (νηπίοι) ‘with the mind of child’. Thus, they let their hunger, thirst, and other drives mislead them. They acted recklessly when they entered Circe’s house cautionlessly, so their bodies became what their minds had already been.
2) Others say Circe gave them datura stramonium and other powerful medicines that induce hallucinations. As in the Island of Lotus Eaters the properties of a fruit/herb become hyperbolic and magical for entertainment purposes. In the Island of Lotus Eaters the ordinary sweetness of the lotus became a divine power over them and they never wanted to leave the place. Their minds became that of pigs under the influence of the drugs.
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I repeat, criticizing the book doesn’t mean I condemn the author or the whole book or the whole character of Circe in the book. As I said, I understand the reason behind this story and I am not attacking the author or the readers who like it. Miller said “I wanted it to be an epic story about a woman’s life. And for her to have all the attention and all the adventures and the growth, the errors, the virtues, that heroes like Achilles and Odysseus have in their stories” and I want stories like that. In this case I believe there were some misteps and I would like to discuss them. That’s all.
I am also aware that the interview was taken by a Greek, but that doesn’t mean that another Greek can’t express opinion over this article.
If you have made it this far, thank you!
So the author went to “fix” the original story and added rape to strengthen a character, something that the “sexist” original author didn’t do. Great…
*Does a gay little dance that pisses you off*
Does a gay little dance that makes you go apeshit
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My bird Green Bean
They are shaped the same...like friends ready to hug
Ready to hug
hug achieved!!
Quagsire is a Ground-Type. Therefore they can hug Raichu without fear of being shocked.
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Friendly reminder that fan-made content (fanart, fanfic, fanvids, etc) are:
extremely time consuming. Remember someone actually took time out of their life to create that, time they could’ve used to, idk, sleep, for example
entertainment you’re consuming for free. I can’t stress this enough: you’re enjoying someone else’s craft for free. You paid exactly zero money to look at/read/watch it.
S H A R E D with you, not made for you. This is the most important point: someone created that, put it online and you found it. No one forced you to consume that fanwork, you C H O S E to do it.
Whenever you feel like leaving a mean comment, anonymous hate or make a ~clever post about how ‘lol look at all of these overused tropes every fic writer crams into their fics’ remember you’re being a dick to someone who shared their work with you. You’re not being funny, you’re not being edgy, you’re not being brave for calling something out - you’re being a dick.
Don’t like something someone made?
Then it wasn’t intended for you.
Go touch grass or keep scrolling.
