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“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

I love this post especially the rat part

I think a lot about Murph saying that Jet was like a daughter to Theobald, but the implied reverse is not ever hinted to be true. She and Ruby do not see him as a father or father figure. An uncle, maybe? More an annoying babysitter? They have a dad they love, they don't need Theo to be a dad.

Help Nader, I am out of a lot of work due to two injuries & intense PT and I wish I could help more but I also beg you guys to help him supplement even the little bit I was able to give.

reminding everyone to wear sunscreen because the sun is a deadly laser: 😁😊

Is this a joke? because 20 minutes is about the amount of sun exposure you should ideally be getting UNPROTECTED to make Vitamin D if you’re light-skinned. If you’re darker-skinned you need more, maybe even up to an hour. And that’s midday sun. There is absolutely no reason to “protect” yourself from the sun early in the morning or in the evening. Letting early morning light hit your bare skin and eyes prepares your body for more intense sun exposure later in the day.

Oh boy there is something very insidious about advocating for darker skinned people to spend more unprotected time in the Sun, especially when detecting skin cancer is already so biased towards light skinned people and leads to many poc going unchecked for skin cancer until it’s already too late.

also it is good to get some direct sunshine for vitamin d, but *sunscreen does not substantially affect vitamin d conversion*

please watch the round planet on netflix it’s exactly like that