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anti-fatness is not just body shaming.

anti-fatness is discrimination. anti-fatness is having next to no legal protections for being discriminated against. anti-fatness is being denied housing, jobs, receiving less pay and promotions (legally) because of your size. anti-fatness is being denied access to clothing, seating, transportation, and other human rights because infrastructure has been designed to exclude you. anti-fatness is less likelihood of receiving a fair trial. anti-fatness is dehumanization. anti-fatness is being denied necessary surgeries, but not surgery that amputates the digestive tract with the intent to starve and shrink you (it doesn’t work either). anti-fatness is mutilation. anti-fatness is being subject to torture devices that bolt your mouth shut. anti-fatness is being told by close friends, family, and professionals that you are better off living with an eating disorder or other life-threatening illness. anti-fatness sells you starvation as a guaranteed opt-out of oppression, but doesn’t tell you that bodies will always regain weight to survive. anti-fatness blames and punishes you for failing at an achievement that is quite literally impossible. anti-fatness is a $90 billion dollar industry. anti-fatness is being denied gender-affirming care. anti-fatness is being barred from in vitro fertilization and reproductive healthcare. anti-fatness is being barred from adopting children. anti-fatness is being removed from your loving parents because they couldn’t make you thin. anti-fatness is intentionally starving your own baby so they won’t get fat. anti-fatness is disproportionately high suicide rates. anti-fatness is being killed at the hands of medical neglect and mistreatment. anti-fatness is the world preferring a dead body over a fat one.

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don't make me tap the sign again.

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I absolutely agree!! and I love my hobbity hobbies. I don’t agree with some posts I’ve been seeing that are more “tradwife style” content saying stop caring and be a hobbit, it’s definitely feeding into this narrative of going back to tradition

“I don’t want to learn about politics, I don’t watch the news, I just want to be a hobbit and bake my sweet treats and tend my garden” NO that’s the exact opposite of what you should do. The hobbits did that, they hid away and did all that, then were defenceless and clueless when Sauron burned the shire and enslaved them all, how do you miss the point that hard.

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“I don’t want to learn about politics, I don’t watch the news, I just want to be a hobbit and bake my sweet treats and tend my garden” NO that’s the exact opposite of what you should do. The hobbits did that, they hid away and did all that, then were defenceless and clueless when Sauron burned the shire and enslaved them all, how do you miss the point that hard.

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it's so crazy that ppl think professionals being into kink is info that needs to be made public. ur too old to still think teachers live in the school yk?

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i have a folder dedicated to "bad math memes" i made on mspaint in 2022. a friend of mine said tumblr would eat them up? but you know... i'll post one just to test the waters

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Something terrifying about the way censorship is just straight up happening right now and they're barely trying to pretend that isn't what it is. The UK rolling out the Online Safety Act which forces anyone accessing 'adult' content (including discord, LGBT+ forums, various resources for drug addicts etc.) to share their face and ID with American third party companies, and refusing to debate a repeal in parliament despite 300,000 signatures on their own website to do so. Something fishy going on with Google docs suddenly deleting/restricting content. Itchio and Steam suddenly deleting 18+ games including both porn games and horror games at the behest of Mastercard.

Like. Truly in the past month the censorship is hitting like a truck and we're all just supposed to be fine with it. Like. It's genuinely making me feel sick.

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Everytime one of these "protect women and girls" orgs go viral for doing something evil I like to take a look through their "wins" and see if they've ever helped protect even one single living woman or girl.

Collective Shout has:

Gotten a hotel to cancel a legal-aged porn star's reservation

Gotten a venue to cancel a Playboy Bunny themed party - again, attended by only adults

Pressured the Breast Cancer Foundation to pull ads that they found too sexy

got ads for a sex doll company removed because they felt the dolls resembled children

Got a beer coozy that had pinups of adult women printed on them discontinued.

Got an H&M ad pulled for back to school clothes for saying "Turn Heads"

Got Tyler the Creator banned from performing in New Zealand

I'm still scrolling and I have yet to see a single instance of a real, living woman or girl being protected by any one of their actions. They have on multiple occasions punished real, adult women for the audacity to be naked in some capacity they find distasteful.

Adding to this that they have lobbied to get a real pedophile released AND supported Cuties, which objectified and exploited real living children.

My main point is not that you have to love any of the things above, you can even hate them and wish they didn't exist. but they were able to dismantle the entire games industry and set a dark precedent regarding banks deciding who is morally good enough to spend money - and they aren't even helping any real women or girls in the process.

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•🌜Women in stem🌛•

✨ Ancient history ✨

Hypatia

Hatshepsut

Tapputi-Belatekallim

Theano

Aglaonice

Fang

Mary the Jewess

Pandrosion

Cleopatra the alchemist

✨The Middle Ages✨

Al- ‘Ijliyyah

Dobrodeia of Kiev

Trota of Salerno

Adelle of the Saracens

Hildegard of Bingen

Herrad of Landsberg

Zulema L'Astròloga

Adelmota of Carrara

Keng Hsien-Seng

✨16th Century✨

Isabella Cortese

Loredana Marcello

Sophia Brahe

Caterina Vitale

✨17th Century✨

Louise Boursier

Martine Bertereau

Maria Cunitz

Marie Meurdrac

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Marguerite de la Sablière

Jeanne Dumée

Elisabeth Hevelius

Maria Clara Eimmart

Maria Sibylla Merian

✨18th Century✨

Eleanor Glanville

Maria Margaretha Kirch

Catherine Jérémie

Laura Bassi

Emilie du Châtelet

Eva Ekeblad

Cristina Roccati

Jane Colden

Anna Morandi Manzolini

Wang Zhenyi

Caroline Herschel

Nicole-Reine Lepaute

Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville

Elizabeth Fulhame

✨Early 19th Century✨

Sophie Germain

Anna Sundström

Sabina Baldoncelli

Lady Hester Stanhope

Mary Anning

Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti

Marie-Anne Libert

Jeanne Villepreux-Power

Orra White Hitchcock

✨Late 19th Century✨

Henrietta Vansittart

✨Early 20th Century✨

Hertha Ayrton

Katherine Parsons

Emmy Noether

Lise Meitner

Marjorie Lee Browne

Dorothy Vaughan

✨Late 20th Century✨

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Katherine Johnson

Mae Jemison

Valentina Tereshkova

Valerie Thomas

Sally Ride

Lynn Conway

✨21st Century✨

Maryam Mirzakhani

Carolyn Bertozzi

Andrea M. Ghez

Jennifer Doudna

Shirley Ann Jackson

Donna Strickland

Frances Arnold

Karen Uhlenbeck

Jennifer Doudna

Marcia McNutt

Maureen Raymo

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•🌜Women in Mathematics🌛•

-Classical age-

Theano (6th century BCE)

Pandrosion of Alexandria ( pre 350 CE)

Hypatia of Alexandria ( 350–370 CE – 415 CE)

-18th Century-

Maria Agnesi (1718 - 1799)

Émilie du Châtelet ( 1706 - 1749)

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Émilie du Châtelet

Émilie du Châtelet (17 December 1706 10 September 1749) was raised in an intellectual and vibrant aristocratic household. Her father, cultivated a rich environment where celebrated scientists and mathematicians frequented their salon, something which nurtured Émilie’s early fascination with knowledge. By age twelve, she was fluent in six languages and pursued study in science and mathematics, defying the expectations placed on women of the time 

Restricted from formal academic institutions due to her gender, du Châtelet transformed her home into a hub of scientific inquiry. At her Château de Cirey, she established a laboratory and conducted experiments. Her insights weren’t just mere replications, she refined Newton’s mathematics, famously demonstrating that kinetic energy scales with the square of velocity, rather than linearly, a critical clarification in the early understanding of energy conservation. 

In 1740, du Châtelet published Institutions de Physique (later revised as Institutions physiques, 1742), a piece that blended philosophy, metaphysics, and Newtonian physics. It addressed fundamental themes, from hypotheses to gravity, and engaged deeply with Cartesian, Leibnizian, and Newtonian ideas. The work sparked widespread debate, was translated into German and Italian, and cemented her intellectual stature across Europe. Du Châtelet’s crowning scholarly achievement was her French translation of Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, accompanied by comprehensive commentary. Published after her death, her translation remains the authoritative French version to this day Her intellectual pursuits extended beyond natural philosophy. Du Châtelet wrote critically on religion, including a line-by-line analysis of the Bible, as well as works on happiness (Discours sur le bonheur) and linguistic theory (Grammaire raisonnée). She boldly advocated for women’s education, arguing that denying women robust intellectual training stifled their potential in the arts and sciences. 

Though du Châtelet’s legacy was long overshadowed, scholars and historians today are reclaiming her rightful place in intellectual history. Andrew Janiak’s biography, The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy, highlights both the appreciation she enjoyed in her time and the neglect she suffered thereafter. Émilie du Châtelet was not only a pioneering physicist and mathematician but also a philosopher who bridged metaphysical thought and empirical inquiry. Her works remain pillars of Enlightenment science. Beyond her academic brilliance, du Châtelet embodied resilience, intellectual courage, and a timeless conviction, that a woman's mind should never be restrained by societal norms.

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hi -redacted-, i`m dad!

Father?!?

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Selected witch of Agnesi curves (green), and the circles they are constructed from (blue), with radius parameters a=1, a=2, a=4 and a=8

Maria Agnesi

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (16 May 1718 - 9 January 1799) was the eldest of 21 children in a wealthy, educated household. From a very young age, she demonstrated extraordinary linguistic abilities mastering Italian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and German by her early teens, earning her nicknames like the "Walking Polyglot" and "Seven-Tongued Orator"

At age nine she authored and delivered a Latin discourse championing women's education before Milan's aristocracy. Her father fostered a salon of scholars, and Maria regularly debated complex philosophical and matematical theses before eminent thinkers.

In 1738, aged twenty, she published Propositiones Philosophicae (Philosophical Propositions) essays on natural philosophy influenced by the intellectual gatherings in her home. Then in 1748 published Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana (Analytical Institutions for the Use of Italian Youth), a two-volume calculus textbook covering algebra, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus. The first volume addressed finite quantities and the second tackled infinitesimals and calculus. Praised across Europe, it was called the best introduction to Euler's work available. This work included a thorough discussion of the cubic curve now called the "Witch of Agnesi", originally named versiera.

Pope Benedict XIV, impressed by her scholarship, appointed her in 1750 as honorary professor of matematics and natural philosophy at the University of Bologna, making her one of the first women in Western Europe to receive such recognition. Despite the honour, she never taught, taking instead a path of service and religious devotion Following her father's death in 1752, Agnesi renounced most of her family estate, withdrew from scholarly life, and committed herself to theology, charity, and caring for her siblings and the poor. She opened her home to the needy and, in 1771, became director of the women's section at Pio Albergo Trivulzio, a hospice in Milan. She lived among those she served, hosted as many as 450 residents, and continued until her death. She died on January 9, 1799 and was buried in an unmarked grave, leaving a legacy rooted in humility, faith, and service.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi's journey from prodigious polymath to devout humanitarian had a life of intellectual brilliance and selfless compassion. Her contributions to mathematics opened doors for future generations, while her unwavering dedication to others marked a legacy that resonated beyond academia.

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Maria Agnesi

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (16 May 1718 - 9 January 1799) was the eldest of 21 children in a wealthy, educated household. From a very young age, she demonstrated extraordinary linguistic abilities mastering Italian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and German by her early teens, earning her nicknames like the "Walking Polyglot" and "Seven-Tongued Orator"

At age nine she authored and delivered a Latin discourse championing women's education before Milan's aristocracy. Her father fostered a salon of scholars, and Maria regularly debated complex philosophical and matematical theses before eminent thinkers.

In 1738, aged twenty, she published Propositiones Philosophicae (Philosophical Propositions) essays on natural philosophy influenced by the intellectual gatherings in her home. Then in 1748 published Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana (Analytical Institutions for the Use of Italian Youth), a two-volume calculus textbook covering algebra, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus. The first volume addressed finite quantities and the second tackled infinitesimals and calculus. Praised across Europe, it was called the best introduction to Euler's work available. This work included a thorough discussion of the cubic curve now called the "Witch of Agnesi", originally named versiera.

Pope Benedict XIV, impressed by her scholarship, appointed her in 1750 as honorary professor of matematics and natural philosophy at the University of Bologna, making her one of the first women in Western Europe to receive such recognition. Despite the honour, she never taught, taking instead a path of service and religious devotion Following her father's death in 1752, Agnesi renounced most of her family estate, withdrew from scholarly life, and committed herself to theology, charity, and caring for her siblings and the poor. She opened her home to the needy and, in 1771, became director of the women's section at Pio Albergo Trivulzio, a hospice in Milan. She lived among those she served, hosted as many as 450 residents, and continued until her death. She died on January 9, 1799 and was buried in an unmarked grave, leaving a legacy rooted in humility, faith, and service.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi's journey from prodigious polymath to devout humanitarian had a life of intellectual brilliance and selfless compassion. Her contributions to mathematics opened doors for future generations, while her unwavering dedication to others marked a legacy that resonated beyond academia.