It’s All About Complexity

I fucking LOVE the National Geographic one

You can also combine them

Their journey began in 2015. After years of working in the background as cooks and porters for male climbers, a group of these women decided it was time to scale the summits themselves, starting with Bolivia's Huayna Potosí. By trading the sidelines for the peaks, the Cholitas Escaladoras are shattering stereotypes, reclaiming their Indigenous culture, and proving to the world that strength and capability come in many forms.

Photos by David Jacome, text by Mira Gupta

Columbug…Buglumbo…idk anyway he’s a moth

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).