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sex and gender are different in that gender is an elaborate series of superstitions that arises around the reproductive process in the context of class society, while sex is a form of pop science that arose to legitimise those superstitions

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Scans of the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains (National Geographic)

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> looking at a new popular collectible

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

> its gambling

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obsessed with john waters parents, they were funnier than him!

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tom wambsgans line deliveries that are always rotating in my head

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lelujänis (handmade bunny plush toy) 1920-1940

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A lot of fascist talking points appeal to emotion first & foremost- baseline, simple, primitive concepts- think of the women and the children- you have to explain to people, over and over, that people don't deserve to die even if they are bad people; you have to appeal to their egos- "what if it was you?" To make them see injustice; You have a lot of "leftists" posting "it's not sharia law, look at Zohran and his wife, dressed just like Us (westerners)" and "look at these photos of Iranians partying and playing boardgames"- people ignore the implications that these people don't deserve the right to life if they weren't "like us". This too, is orientalism.

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I feel so bad for the annoying women at work. Like I actually feel sick when we’re interacting and I feel the annoyance occurring in my brain like she really doesn’t mean to be this way and she just doesn’t want to feel alone or rejected. you can tell she’s experienced being an outsider everywhere she goes it’s only a matter of time. And it’s not cool chic or edgy but in the ugliest most desperate and dehumanizing way. They always start hopeful. they want to connect and they go searching for someone receptive to her so she can find her people but everyone turns away from her slowly and u hear it in her voice. It’s happening again. she starts hesitating to speak and when she does you hear a shaky child ending every sentence like it’s a question. Testing the waters to know if she’s wrong for even trying. And then I realize I took her smile for granted now that it’s gone.. I have to make it up to her I can’t let something like this continue. Life is so hard for people everywhere, so building a tolerance for being irritated is nothing in comparison especially if the reward is less pain and loneliness in the world I will always be the bestie you have my word

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a local man experiences consequences for the first time in his life

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as a pink lover. The ""universal""" hatred of the color pink by young girls is due to the heavy expectation of femininity forced on them. It is an expression of frustration at gender roles. It is not internalized misogyny. No you will not inevitably start liking pink as an adult and if you do that is not healing your inner divine feminine or whatever we're saying now. Its a color. 😁👍

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an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI

this is about the trampoline bunnies

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thinking about how all of the flashbacks in mdzs set up the idea that wwx can 'do the impossible' and jc can't, how jc, a pragmatist, doesn't believe he can 'do the impossible' and the expectation to do so is an immense burden on his shoulders so he works hard to overcome his misfortune and shortcomings, and in doing so succeeds in revitalizing his sect.

while wwx heroically does his best to 'do the impossible' but ultimately the wen remnants all die and he is killed by the backlash of his own creation.

at the very beginning of the novel, wwx admits to lqr that he hasn't figured out how one could utilize resentful energy without losing control and hurting people. and he never does. he tried to invent a new method of cultivation but he failed, and it killed him.

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in this fantasy world, theres no homophobia or sexism! but the governments are still patriarchal monarchies and everyone still adheres to the standard nuclear family, two things that have absolutely no relation to homophobia and sexism whatsoever

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I think at some point in time we need to sit down and start explaining to artist who want to make a career out of art that there are FAR more options than just "living off of commissions" and "posting my art online and praying I get paid for it".

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Here is an angel of summer to bless your timeline! 🌼 Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.