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Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself

that post where someone says lesbians are over represented in media and all the examples were kids cartoons. lol

I mean, cartoons are the only media that ever mattered to me… so yeah?

this is a really embarrassing addition to be making at 40 years old unfortunately

There's probably a conversation to be had about how the combination of factors that leads to Kids shows and YA novels feeling biased towards lesbians (doubtfully actually true), and how it might come from a bunch of factors ranging from industry sexism and how content for children is seen as lesser by publishers, so they're more likely to focus their adult content on white male authors and relegate women to the genres they see as not as serious or important, to simply oversaturation of medium, to biased selection of content on the user's end. If you only watch cartoons about women of course you're going to see more lesbians, if you only watch horror movies that are metaphors for aids you're going to see more gay men, and our own personal media preferences can create a false narrative about how common something actually is That is NOT the conversation happening in the notes though :\ some people are fighting for their lives trying to justify why they don't watch anything rated above tv-y7

that post where someone says lesbians are over represented in media and all the examples were kids cartoons. lol

I mean, cartoons are the only media that ever mattered to me… so yeah?

this is a really embarrassing addition to be making at 40 years old unfortunately

the "biblically accurate angel" trend is such a perfect encapsulation of a pet peeve i have which is everybody wants to criticize the bible but nobody wants to read the bible. like when people were drawing crazy amalgamations of eyes and wheels talking to mary and saying "be not afraid" and everybody was like omfggg OF COURSE she was scared. like no actually the angel looked like a guy can you read 3 lines of text... they were saying be not afraid because it's scary when a random man suddenly shows up in your house and starts talking to you

Just hi please don't make the mistake I did. If you feel like you can't tell your friends about a fight you had with a partner or another friend, tell them. I know you feel like they wont understand/dont want to make the other person look bad/dont want to worry them needlessly but please. Trust me. Tell them and ask for help.

Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.

*trying to come up with rules for my new society after successfully leading the revolution* why don’t we just repurpose 5e

you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for a nuanced reason

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato