I don’t understand why people think that technology is making us antisocial. I will ignore you just as easily with a book as I will with my cell phone.
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This was in my psychology book. I thought it might be useful to those who can’t think if gender-neutral terms.
Finally I see something going against the implied language that suggests the male gender is the default gender, illustrated by “man-made, mankind” etc,
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i dont think anyone is more serious about urban legends than theatre kids i mean once a kid had to go home from rehearsal bc he said the name of the scottish play onstage and someone punched him in the face
of course i didnt what kind of fool do you take me for
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alltheurlsaretakenexceptthisone:
WHAT?!
I need this on my blog.
On my blog? I need this IN MY LIFE.
Nom nom.
First I was like “holy fuck that’s a shitload of bread though”. BUT WHEN IT’S SLICED IT IS JUST PERFECT
Why can’t my girlfriend do this
Because you’re a grown ass motherfucker capable of doing this and it’s not your girlfriends job.
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She showed up.
“Peggy, I’m gonna need a rain check on that dance.”
“All right. A week next Saturday, at the Stork Club.”
“I got it.”
“Eight o’clock on the dot, don’t you dare be late. Understood?”
#i think she went that night#and she stayed#for hours#telling all who approached her that she waiting for someone#watching the other couples dance#smiling softly as she reassured the bartender that her date was just a little late#that when the bar was closing and the bartender gave her her last drink#and told her how sorry he was that her friend hadn’t arrived#she’d just laughed softly#and said that’s she’d be waiting for him for the rest of her life#and as peggy carter walked out of the stork club and wiped the tears off of her cheeks#she promised herself that this would be the last night she ever lied to herself#that tomorrow she’d let herself grieve#but tonight she was content with telling herself that steve had just been a little too late#and that he had all the time in the world to make it up to her (via castielwillavengesherlock)
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A most excellent lesson in self-defense à la Agent Gracie Hart.
Friendly reminder that Miss Congeniality featured a practical self-defense lesson in the middle of a Hollywood movie while also dealing with with issues of sexual assault and victim blaming, dismantling the myth that all feminists need to look and act a certain way, featuring women of color in the pageant without it being any kind of issue, and bringing in an awesome female villain because women can be any kind of character thank you very much.
Rock on, Gracie Lou.
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8 selfies 2k14
(im a girl, she/they pronouns please)
Having long hair doesn’t change your Y to an X. You are male.
literally WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with you. who raised you to be such a fucking asshole? get the fuck out of here please stop following me.
Oh no. I actually said fact. I brought up science and biology. How dare I.
No, no, Science side of tumblr. Now is not the time to be an asshole.
Okay so some one who has studied science jumping in here:
The idea of x and y chromosomes equaling male and female is as much a social construct as a scientific one. Science needed a way to categorize animals that could mate with one another and produce offspring, noticed a trend that most sperm producing animals had an xy and most egg producing animals had an xx, and thus these label. However, their is a saying I learned in my first college bio class and that is, sex is biological, gender is social. We had that hammered into us class after class. Why? Because prescribing western/America/human understandings of gender to the sex of animals is not good science. These labels are not always applicable, especially since many animals posses multiple sex organs, can change their sex organs, or even reproduce asexually. Like many rules in science, the x/y binary is not absolute and the male/female binary is not all that applicable once you get outside of mammals.
Like most social animals we have our own ways of interacting with each other, like lions, hyenas, or bison, etc. That’s where gender comes in. Babies are assigned male or female at birth based on the look of their genitalia, not genetic testing. In essence, children are assigned their gender before they are old enough to understand it. Not every human being fits comfortably into this equation. Scientist believe that about 1 in every 500 people born is intersex. You are also under the assumption that “females” cannot/do not grow body or facial hair which actual has little basis in scientific fact, it is a social concept, and one that is constantly evolving.
Equating x and y chromosomes to female and male genders is also very eurocentric. Many cultures all over the world have multiple gender categories that do not fit the xy model. That does not make these genders any less valid because the very concept of gender is a social one and it changes across cultures as well as across time periods. There is also significant psychological proof that imposing binary gender roles on young children is damaging for children who do not fit comfortably into these. And this is all without even taking chromosomes into the equation. Why? Because It is impossible to look at another human being and instantly know what their dna says about them. It also completely ignores the psychological, sociological, and historical context of gender and equates it to a simple principle we used to understand how animals breed.
So what you’re doing is not “saying fact”. It’s using over simplified, watered down scientific principles to belittle someone else. Gender is not a scientific concept, it’s a social one. Using the chromosome argument to belittle this girl and any other trans/nb person because they don’t fit into your frame work of acceptability is not science or fact, it’s bigotry. Science is not an excuse to be an asshole.
^^^^ THIS. thank you science side of tumblr
She looks awesome.
She does! Such hair envy. And what a face. Wow.
I’m not even on the science side, but I will say that chromosomes are a particularily poor choice of hill to die on for a gender essentialist, in any case.
She has the best hair I’ve seen in, like, fucking forever. Damn. AND MY GOD, A+ SMACKDOWN OF HORRIFYINGLY NARROW-MINDED BIGOTRY, I AM PROUD TO BE A HUMAN ON THIS DAY.
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middle schoolers complaining about how stressful school is
Excuse you middle school may have been simpler in your time but these days it can be so brutal. Had you read three Steinbeck books by the time you were thirteen? Probably not.
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