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Working at Harvard in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as a “Computer”, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.

This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.

Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldn’t be bested until the 1990’s with automated digital sky surveys.

Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (O–B–A–F–G–K–M), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.

It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.

is he really more intelligent or is he just a man?

is he really more intelligent or does he just have an ego and the confidence of the most mediocre man?

is he really more intelligent or does he just spout his opinions with authority?

is he really more intelligent or has the male-dominated workplace just allowed him substantially more opportunity and promotions?

is he really more intelligent because once upon a time he got better grades than you (though women now outperform men in academia), or does he actually possess the emotional and social intelligence, and the empathy, of a rock?

is he really more intelligent or has patriarchy told women that her main value lies in her looks and her subservience, and not her voice and intellect?

i’m so tired.

I haven't posted anything clothes related in a hot minute so... here you go.

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some definitions according to GLAAD. hmm. read through all of these and think about what you notice. every single one describes sexual/physical attraction. there are words defining people who are sexually attracted to the opposite sex, to both sexes, to no one, to anyone. but the word for describing same-sex-attraction has been deemed too derogatory and offensive to even define. personally I like and identify with the term homosexual, as many gays and lesbians do, but I mean it has been used by homophobes in hurtful and harmful ways, so I can see what they mean. they probably just refrained from defining all derogatory and offensive words. oh wait...... what's that?

someone who called The L Word a show about queer women. I'm sorry is it called The L Word or The Q Word? The entire point of that title is a play on the word "love" and "lesbian" and how both are words that people will avoid saying and hesitate to say, and because it's a show about lesbian's love lives. and now, people are very wokely and progressively declining to use the word lesbian, and saying that lesbian love is weird and different from the norm. You're right, lesbian love HAS been seen as something that is differing from the norm, and that's BAD! Lesbian love is normal and natural, not weird! You aren't woke by using "queer" to mean weird and peculiar, that's exactly how homophobes use it. And it's funny how we can all identify as whatever gender we want no matter how bizarre or contradictory, but if lesbians don't think that lesbians should be called weird and peculiar, they're like "umm okay I guess but that's literally what you are?? like you are queer women whether you like it or not?" oh wow very progressive!

remember that thing from diva magazine I posted where they went on and on about the show The L Word, and didn't say lesbian ONCE? and claimed that it was a queer show, that had an impact on the whole LGBTQIA+ community? I feel like I'm going crazy about the fucking L Word. It was about LESBIANS!!!!! yes there were a few characters of other sexes and sexual orientations, but it was called The L Word, and advertised as a show about a LESBIAN friend group. no one claims that Girlfriends isn't a show about black women, with a primarily black woman audience because there were a few white characters, and male characters, or that Queer As Folk was an LGBTQIA++ show, they know it was about gay men. It's ridiculous. It's a lesbian show about lesbians which was watched by lesbians. lesbian love is not queer or weird.

I love The L Word even for all it's faults and I will not have people calling it a queer show!! lesbian lesbian lesbian lesbian it is about lesbians

"When you're having an argument with a boy about feminism and realize nothing you say will ever get through to them bc they don't feel empathy for something they've never experienced"