Goths Against Gender

Her book was already the subject of controversy because of promoting “witchcraft” and her publishers were worried the book wouldn’t get off the ground because she was a women. It would be amazing if she had have written in gay characters, but it also likely would have killed the entire Harry Potter franchise.

➡️ IF a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman, and

➡️ IF there is no way to tell if someone is a woman until they tell you how they identify, and

➡️ IF attraction is based on gender not sex, and

➡️ IF men have been oppressing women based on gender not sex this whole time,

➡️ THEN that means womanhood as a gender is somehow immediately identifiable enough in every culture for men to know whom to oppress, but also not discernable until reveal

➡️ AND that means misogyny doesn't effect anyone until they identify as a woman (so female infanticide is a fluke I guess)

➡️ AND that means straight, gay, or lesbian attraction can't start until someone's gender is revealed

➡️ AND that means attraction stops the second someone's gender changes

➡️ AND that means no laws are misogynistic, because it would a) be impossible to enforce laws that effect an unidentifiable group of mysteriously distinct people, and b) any laws about sex-based things (abortion, birth control, maternal leave, title ix) aren't women's issues, they just arbitrarily effect a randomly assorted 51% of the population with nothing in common but some silly chromosomes

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

FUCK YES. THIS IS THE TYPE OF REPRESENTATION I’VE BEEN HERE FOR!!