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The fact that a viewer can see this image

and not percieve it as anything other than pure, inhuman malevolance - but rather as a stand-in for some random guy, perhaps just like them - is a testament to just how we’re totally used to pornography completely and utterly saying the quiet part out loud.

"fem" is when you slouch your cardigan off your shoulder and bring it up a bit to show your butt, and "masc" is beanie and chain 💀

(also seems like she's trying to embody flirtiness in her "fem" pose, and confidence & nonchalance in her "masc" pose...? how does no one see how insanely regressive this shit is??)

and continuing, detailing the strange circumstances around the non-prosecution agreement that dershowitz helped negotiate

Alan Dershowitz doesn't like radical feminists because they criticized him for defending pornography.

He debated Dworkin on pornography in 1981. She published part of her arguments in Letters From War Zone as Pornography and Male Supremacy. Dershowitz apparently denied permission for distribution of the debate's recording so that speech and some minor reporting are all I found on it.

if the female body is just meat and not "us," then pregnancy is simply something that happens to your body. the right believes it is our god-given duty to allow that process to happen, like the virgin mary quietly accepted her fate and allowed her body to be used. the progressive left argues that we don't have to allow that process to happen, because our body is not owned by god, it is owned by us. but from both perspectives, the framing of pregnancy is passive. our body is property, whether it belongs to god or to us.

"GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access. The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike."

When somebody tells you in that much detail what they're going to do if you let them... believe them.

But like, I do think that when we talk about some of these medications, there are people who are incredibly well-informed about these issues - who make it a point to be well-educated - who don't realize, hey, wait a minute... outlawing this has a lot more impact than I thought it would... maybe it's time to make people aware.

I picked up a prescription for misoprostol today. For myself. Now, I had my fallopian tubes put 4 years ago. I can't become pregnant unless my eggs learn to teleport or IVF gets involved, so why would I need this medication?

Well, without getting too far into the weeds, because I've been living with an incredible amount of abdominal pain for months, and while we have found fibroids that might be causing it, with my family history of endometriosis, the surgeon wants to make sure that she's doing the right surgery when I get my hysterectomy. So before I go under the knife, she needs to do an endometrial biopsy.

That means she needs to dilate my cervix enough for that biopsy.

That means misoprostol: a safe, effective means of dilating my cervix so I can have this very necessary procedure done so we know what kind of surgery I need.

I cannot stress enough that I've been loud about abortion rights for decades, and I'm the kind of nerd who wants to know how things work. I'm exactly the kind of person who should know that this is another use of this medication, and I didn't know. So if I didn't know that, I'm willing to bet the vast majority of other people don't know it, either.

This has implications for everybody who can become pregnant, yes, the plans that these asshats have, but those implications go far beyond even that massive impact.

When politicians play doctor over their current wedge issue, people suffer. We're seeing that writ large in the Katie Cox case, but now let me repeat: even if you can't get pregnant, even if you're not trans, as politicians continue doing their Fascism Conga Line through people's rights, you are not safe. The medication you need might be a multi-use medication that could also be used for a Forbidden Purpose, and then you'd be SOL.

You're going to see a lot of posts on here in the next year about how "both sides are the same" and "you might as well not vote" or "oh anybody with a conscience should vote Green" or whatever.

It always happens, like clockwork. It's depressing how many people can't spot this shit a mile away.

We have been hurtling towards this tipping point basically since Bush v. Gore, and headed towards it for longer. The Dominionists - literal Christofascists who truly believe that Jesus will arrive on earth if they can get all the Jews into Israel, among other things - have been playing an extremely long game with stacking courts and state-level jobs, and they've got enough people in enough places to push us way back.

The Presidential race is extremely important, yes, unspeakably so, but this next round of elections is important at every level. We've seen what school boards can do - or undo - and we've seen what elections for state Supreme Courts can do.

A video of "human calculator" Shakuntala Devi solving complex mathematical equations within seconds.

In 1982, she was awarded the Guinness World Record for fastest human computation. She was assigned a multiplication problem with two random numbers of 13 digits each (7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779) and gave the correct answer (18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730) in 28 seconds.

She travelled to several countries for the purpose of having her talents studied. In 1988, her abilities were tested by Arthur Jenson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Problems given to her included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 and the seventh root of 170,859,375. Jensen reported that Devi came up with the solutions (395 and 15) before he could write them down in his notebook.

Before all that, in 1977, at Southern Methodist University, she gave the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds. Her answer (546,372,891) was confirmed by calculations done by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation. The computer took longer to solve the problem than Devi did.

Oh, also, in 1979, she wrote the earliest book about homosexuality in India.