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is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

a health policy paper has been published saying the name is officially updated to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)

polyendocrine= multiple endocrine factors

metabolic = affecting/affected by metabolism

ovarian = from the ovaries

essentially, instead of using the symptomatic term (many people with PMOS do not develop cysts) the new term widens the diagnostic area and makes it easier to diagnose, treat, and do research on people with PMOS (even atypical types, such as no cysts).

it may seem like a waste of time to change a name instead of focusing on research, but for a lot of medical professionals a name can be associated with a hard set collection of symptoms, so the name needs to change to acknowledge that the disorder is not well understood and has a broader, subtler, and often missed set of symptoms. for example ADD is considered an antiquated/unused term, and now comes under the ADHD umbrella. in healthcare names and terminology changes all the time, and this is a positive change. your local healthcare professional may not know about this unless theyre really up on the news though!

in case you want to read about the name change process that was published in the Lancet (one of the most impactful and well respected medical journals):

Third Oliver interview.

I go back and forth about whether he knows or not, but if he doesn’t know, I have a hard time imagining what might actually make him realize things

yeah, that's the tricky thing, isn't it, lol.

like, part of the reason i'm so convinced that eddie doesn't know (besides it just being, to me, the only thing that makes sense in terms of what he actually says and does in the show - ryan's heart-eyes acting is through the roof, of course, but doesn't require much self-awareness on eddie's part) is that i think he just is not really examining his own feelings in any depth. partly, this is just his temperament; he's imo not a particularly introspective person by nature. a big part of it, though, is that he resists knowing himself because he's terrified of what he might find. it's not just the possibility of being queer and/or in love with buck that he's subconsciously afraid of - it's that he'll find some essential rot inside himself, something about him that means he's always doomed to ruin things.

(this is what's really at the root of his flat refusal to date in s9, imo - i just don't buy the read that it's a straightforward 'he doesn't want to date women because he's gay'. i think he's internalized the idea that pursuing a romantic relationship at all is going to end in catastrophe, and he's also not even that interested to start with, so why even try. his sexuality and feelings for buck might be a part of that, but imo not a conscious part)

buck could tell him, but buck is not going to come onto eddie as long as he thinks eddie is straight - and tbh, even if he has reason to suspect eddie isn't, he's not touching that unless eddie actually tells him he's not. the only way i could see him saying anything is in a 'clear the air' sense with no expectation of reciprocation, but even then, realistically, he knows that would make it weird between them and he doesn't want that.

New Tim interview.

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And there was an artist that had eight pieces, seven of which were decent photos and one of which was a photo with an ai background.

And i zeroed in on that ai piece so fast that I didnt even realize they were part of the same collection. Because not only was it ai, but compositon-wise it was much weaker than the others. Because of the AI background, I was aware of its other failures.

And then, because this one seemed so low-effort, I started questioning the legitimacy of his photos, which were perfectly fine and some of them i really liked. Like... not are these ai, but like... are they actually yours?

And then, because I spent so much time on this one guy's poorly composited AI piece, I forgot to enjoy the other artists on that wall.