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That shine a darker hue when puddled, wet,

I see the dripping twigs, their budding bones

Dip under weight of chickadees, well-met.

I notice sidewalk cracks, distinguishing

Their grayness from the worms who slowly twist,

Cloud sponges soak in dishwater, then wring

Upon the world a melancholy mist.

Today I notice springtime in the smells

Of air and rain and every budding tree,

The sidewalk is a storybook that tells

The nature of all nature wordlessly.

Today I notice color, smooth and curled,

see this is a perfect example of what not to do with a hate ask.

poorly matched to hate target: the suicide bait is a classic of anon hate, but it's a rookie mistake to deploy it against just anybody. any careful look at my blog would see that i am incredibly egotistic--using a hate tactic better suited to a blogger with low self esteem is just sloppy.

too generic to sting: this ask mentions no specific details about any problematic behaviour, annoying personality traits, or my personal life. since it feels like it could have been sent by anyone to anyone, it's difficult to take it personally.

cultural mismatch: 'cunt' probably comes across a lot harsher in your cultural context. however, i live in the UK, so i get called and call other people a cunt every day. as such, you're left with a lackluster ending for a very weak ask overall.

The STEM vs. Humanities discourse is ~interesting~ to me, bc it’s such a hypothetical conflict. At least in terms of what university students are actually majoring in.  At less-selective institutions* (which make up the vast, vast majority of colleges and universities in the United States), students are primarily majoring in career-focused majors like business and health services. They’re not majoring in STEM or in the humanities. 

At the most selective institutions, yes, STEM has won the battle over the humanities. But even then, business and social sciences make up a huge portion of the majors (compared to the humanities). 

Our idea of what higher ed looks like is driven so much by what education looks like in the Ivy Leagues and in small liberal arts colleges. But SLACs and ivies are not where vast majority of US students get an education.  tl; dr: If you’re interested in how higher education functions in the United States, stop looking at STEM or at the humanities. Look at business majors. 

Jérôme Lejeune did his research because he loved children with Down's Syndrome! He wanted to help them! Discovering the genetic cause was a huge breakthrough, and helping to develop the prenatal test was intended to give parents a chance to prepare for caring for a child with Down's Syndrome.

And then his test was used to kill children with Down's Syndrome.

The medical community is finally realizing the uterus is more than a ‘baby house’

Uterus plays a role in brain function, animal study shows

There’s been a massive fall in FGM rates across the African continent for girls under 14.

The figures are all taken roughly 20 years apart, in the mid 90s and then in the late 2010s. The rate in Western African has gone from 74% to 25%, in Northern Africa it’s gone from 60% to 14%.

Across the continent the overall rate has gone from 71% to 8%. 

This is just huge. I’m finding it difficult to wrap my head around the scale of it, the number of children those percentages represent. It feels like such a huge shift. It’s millions of girls growing up safer and healthier. 

"I just don’t see myself as a woman solely. I feel all of my energy. I feel like God is so much bigger than the ‘he’ or the ‘she,’ she said. “And if I am from God, I am everything. But I will always, always stand with women. I will always stand with Black women. But I just see everything that I am, beyond the binary.”

The misogyny present....."I will stand with women but I'm just more complex and beyond other women." #NotLikeOtherGirls

like how are you so drastically different from all other women??