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Plushie thief!!

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im kind of obsessed with this graphic.

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i was born with the compulsive need to do my own thang

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I dislike australia for innumerable reasons but I do want to visit there one day to photograph the animals. They have a lot more creatures than we (nz) do

Probably I'd just want to go to Tasmania rather than the mainland.... though also theres a big zoo I could visit . Idk

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Kedi. Dir. Ceyda Torun. 2016.

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HR will need to hear about this

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:)

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I was listening to the podcast Overheard this morning about women going to space. And it made me realize a language trick used to belittle women even when it seems like they’re praising women. Here it is:

In the episode, they’re talking about how women do on the physical tests that were used to screen the first class of male astronauts (these exams were done at the same time period). And it gets to one specific test: sensory depravation. In a sensory depravation scenario, males lasted 3 hours but there were women going to 10.5 hours - more than 3 times the length. And the podcast says: “This shows women were just as suitable as men” or “equal in suitability”. Something. But they were saying that, after showing that women were much better at this one text and passed the others, that they were equal to men. Equal? When you’re three times better?

Women’s achievements, no matter how significant, are used to say we’re /just/ as suitable as men /just/ as equal. No, we’re demonstrably better in this and so many other situations. Better! Language in this way shows that no matter how fucking Amazon a woman or women as a group are, we are stuck at achieving the consideration of equal to any given man or group of men and can never be considered better - even when we are.

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Ivory spiked woodlice, Laureola sp., Armadillidae

Photos by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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Hey can anyone tell me what the FUCK this behavior means

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does anyone remember when feminism was about female liberation from oppression? or when feminism used to deplore the public and private sexual degradation of women?? hello is this thing on?