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can i be kind of mean

i don’t think “secondhand dysphoria” is real or “valid” i think it’s a weak attempt at pathologizing a disgust response to another person’s body. by pathologizing your desire to police the body of another, you take accountability or any need for self reflection off of yourself. “it’s not that i think they look ugly or bad, seeing them just makes me dysphoric, it’s not my fault, it’s dysphoria, i’m not a bigot! i cant be!” like idk at a certain point we need to stop giving ground to shit like that. if that is a GENUINE dysphoria trigger then it’s on you to manage yourself and not make your dysphoria the problem of someone who is simply just existing in their body. even if it is a real thing it’s indicative of a very individualist and inconsiderate mindset. other people’s bodies don’t exist for you to react to and your reactions to them will never matter. get over yourself.

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

my friend's puppy has baffling levels of attitude for someone who's only been around for a handful of months. he understands concepts like deceit and civil disobedience and other things i didn't fully grasp until well into my 20s. this guy doesn't even know the seasons loop yet. he's probably like okay spring. what's next. some other new bullshit i bet

the Dutch localization decided to just not do gender neutral pronouns so guess my miis stay speaking Japanese.

I love that all the age groups agree

listen up "bro", if that even is your real name,

[Image ID: Tumblr reply from bird-cannibalism: yeah im sure someone with your url would care about finding out someones real name /End ID]

okay, but. At that age, pretending to read a book by memorizing what words are on what page can be part of the 'learn to read' process.

(And if indeed rhetoric or oratory remains a commonly-demonstrated skill among especially pre-literate children, the interesting thing is that once upon a time that was the skill to be identified and trained, and now we treat it as a cheat, as something that is not literacy, as something which may even be interfering with the development of literacy. We could be developing both!)

Every time some fash posts about Real Art vs Duchamp's Fountain it's like lol that urinal has been kicking your ass for a hundred years

Marcel Duchamp kicked the bucket 55 slutty, slutty years ago and you can't get him out of your head. You're half as old as he is dead and you are worshiping at his altar, you are drinking his piss. He won.

the Dutch localization decided to just not do gender neutral pronouns so guess my miis stay speaking Japanese.

character concept: two people who have been reincarnated for thousands of years and have always found eachother but instead of being in love they just fucking hate eachother

I am so glad to see this back on my dash with my addition

gotta be a term that isn't the dunning Krueger effect but is a kind of similar idea where the more deep scientists get into their topic and the more exhausted they get, the more likely they are to find stupid ways to describe things

this post brought to you by a bunch of coral specialists at the end of a workshop voting to define coral, a complex animal, as "a rock with problems"

guys i’m so sorry to say this but exercising and indulging in hobbies rather than scrolling on your phone for 200 hours actually does improve your mood and overall mental health, this has deeply upset me more than anyone

If Ratatouille mechanics were real, there would be a whole market of businesses offering the services of operating rats to people who want them, and it'd be like how bees produce honey. People in the rat business would be so exhausted of having to explain over and over again that no, the rats aren't being exploited. If the rats didn't like how they're being treated, they would simply not return. There's no goddamn way to force a rat to be so passionate about playing the saxophone that they'll figure out how to puppeteer a human to do it for them. All that the business does is finding a way to put that specific rat in the hair of someone who's about to go on stage.