I'd kill a man for WiFi

gofundme takes up to 7.9% of everything people donate you + $0.30 per donation

that means that if 10 people help you raise $1000, you’re losing $82 bucks

gofundme doesn’t allow fundraisers for abortions but let darren wilson open a fundraiser after he murdered mike brown

instead, try using http://www.youcaring.com/ which is not only free but also pro-choice and not fucking racist to my knowledge

they can stay free because they ask everyone who donates to a cause whether they’d like to donate $1 to the website to keep it running

My cats understand and will obey a number of verbal commands, one of which is “go away”. I don’t use it often, but if they’re bugging me and I’m trying to work or doing something that could be dangerous for cats, I can tell them to go away, and off they go - they’ll only keep pestering me if there’s a serious problem they need me to look at.

That said, their idea of a serious problem that requires my attention is somewhat eccentric. Previous instances have included:

There was an unfamiliar car parked across the street

Their water bowl was four inches to the left of its usual position

One of them had puked on the stairs and they didn’t want to walk past it

It was raining

They pulled the covers off my bed and now they want me to put the covers back

They put their ball on top of the ottoman but the ottoman won’t throw it for them

The cat is sleeping and won’t chase them

A flower fell off the potted plant

The cat is sitting in a box and they don’t like it

One of them lost their bandana

The cat won’t take the toy they’re trying to give her

In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.

This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.

Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.

The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.

This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.

Paul Dini, a writer/producer said this on a podcast: “ That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as boys, but right there.’”

Cartoon network and Warner brothers deliberately made the conscious decision to dumb down their female characters because they want to push female viewers away. In fact, Tower Prep was cancelled because it had too many female viewers because the writers made too many well written female characters.

So shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning just so the execs can make more money.

And it’s not just cartoon network. I mean, why do you think Nick fucked over Korra so badly? Remember them telling Bryke they didn’t want a female Avatar? Why do you think there are no Korra figurines or action figures?

Autism Women’s Network welcome packet (newly diagnosed? struggling to come to terms with your diagnosis? check this out!)

Hiding in Plain Site: Diagnostic Barriers for Women and Girls 

“ Boys are five times more likely to be diagnosed on the autism spectrum than girls. It’s easy to look at that statistic and assume that autism is more prevalent in males. But what if it’s simply diagnosed more often? The high frequency of late-diagnosed autism in adult women suggests that it’s more common in females than the childhood diagnosis rates imply.”

Women with Autism: do the really suffer less than men? 

“Are autistic women the ultimate masters of disguise? New research suggests women could face yet another gender-related disadvantage.”

Moving toward an adult female profile of autism 

“ The following list is an official detailed working screener document consisting of the unique characteristics and traits of adult women with Asperger Syndrome, or Aspienwomen. It is not a research-based formal assessment tool. It is a screening tool based on the many females I have worked with over the years.”

The Lost Girls 

“Misdiagnosed, misunderstood or missed altogether, many women with autism struggle to get the help they need.”

My Personality is not a Subtype

“ To my fellow autistic girls: never let anyone convince you that your interests should be toned down, hidden, or exchanged for something more “mainstream”. And to parents and professionals: let autistic girls be themselves!”

How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously

This article is not autism-specific, but doctors tend to undermine the pain of autistic patients, so the intersection of gender and disability makes the issue even more problematic. 

The Gaslighting of Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum

 “ The tendency of those within the psychological profession to constantly deny the validity of an Autistic woman’s understandings of herself by instead reinterpreting and reinventing her words as evidence that she is too self-aware to be on the Autism spectrum, is in itself, the ultimate form of Gas lighting.”

Autistic Women: Misdiagnosis and the Importance of Getting it Right

“ Are autistic people predisposed to certain psychiatric conditions or are our autistic traits commonly mistaken for symptoms of other conditions? “ 

Healthcare for Autistic Women

I’m not a scientist, but that seems like common sense unless there’s something I’m blatantly missing. I am aware of the fact that many caught fish are discarded and wasted for not being proper size, etc which probably accounts for a great deal of death- and I agree, that needs to stop. But it doesn’t change the fact that the planet likely can’t sustain us past 2048 anyway. Switch from fish to cows? Nope, methane dissolves the ozone layer. Switch to wild land animals? Extinction. If we all became vegan, animals would survive but forests would be mowed down to make space for farms.

My argument was mostly an “IIRC” with the understanding that half of the fish we eat are farmed anyways. Same problems that plague land farming industries with regards to treatment of the animals, but it’s farming nonetheless. As you said, “bred and maintained specifically for human consumption.” So I’m not sure about your second sentence.

Yes, I also knew that the ozone layer is healing. Quite slowly. According to the cited study the Guardian article used from Science magazine, the full recovery is likely to take 50 years.

Which, oops, coincidentally is several years after the earth is projected to run out of space for humans at our current growth rate (taking into account the progress we have made and are making). The original study comes from the World Wildlife Fund.

I’m not saying “Ah! Doomsday! We only have until 2050 and then we all die in hellfire!” My only argument, which I have now properly cited (it was a moment of laziness but I should have done more work initially), is that we can eat less fish-> it will help fishes for a while-> all species of planet, and planet by extension, are still in a great deal of trouble.

question: how do i make my photograph more tumblr relatable?

Simple:

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for extra points: add japanese text