#Decorated method

[zeeshanamjad]

Decorator method in python

After discussing the higher level object in react, I decided to explore decorator method in Python. We just saw an example of using decorator when writing web services using flask https://zamjad.wordpress.com/2023/09/01/writing-webservice-with-python/ Decorator is a method in python, which takes another method as an input, usually to enhance the functionality of the method. It makes our code more…

[hitwiththefandomz]

Master Leonardo has some tricks to show Casey for his first Christmas

[silverskye13]

Hello everyone today I am nitpicking a book.

Recently I joined a local book club [very excited to be going to an in-person one!] and their monthly reading was Red Rising by Pierce Brown, a book published back in 2014. This is a book that's been recommended to me a thousand times now by the various reading apps I've collected, but I have shied away from committing to it because it's marketed as a Hunger Games style Dystopia, except in space. And, as someone who wasn't a big fan of The Hunger Games when I read them, I didn't feel like opening the can of worms.

Now, Red Rising surprised me by how much I ended up liking it -- though I did spend 90% of the book screaming I'm sorry these kids are all 16?! They do not act like 16 year olds, but by the end of the book the world building for their actions made sense, so I've since disregarded that [though every time someone does murder like a hardened soldier I do still clutch my pearls a little. Like yeah I'm sure child serial killers exist but not everyone here is a serial killer, goodness.]

Anyway! That's not what I'm critiquing. I'm critiquing the use of "girl" and "woman-ish" as an insult in this dystopian world.

Context for my critique, and spoilers for the plot of Red Rising:

Darrow is a Red, in a world where your birth color influences your caste in a heavily stratified society. The Society keeps Reds enslaved under the surface of Mars, toiling away for H3, the valuable resource needed to terraform worlds [and also, it is later revealed, to power space ships for war]. They are a very Appalachian / Irish style mining community, with a patriarchal culture. Women do not work in the mines because men are stronger and needed for the brutal work. In the first book it's implied it's very rare for a woman to want to work in mining, in the second book it's revealed to be flat-out illegal. The women in the deep Red mines are often victims of assault and violence because the families are so poor, they have to sell their bodies and services for food and medicine. It's a great shame to their husbands, and many a blood feud has been started over this.

Darrow's wife, Io, by contrast to this patriarchal society, is strong willed and powerful. Darrow describes her as having a "spark for life", the desire to have more than what they're given. Unfortunately, this leads to her death, jump-starting Darrow's rage and revenge arc against those who killed her -- the Golds.

The Golds are the ruling class. Genetically modified to be the perfect incarnations of humanity, when you first meet a Gold, they are described by Darrow as looking like gods on earth. They fly with hover boots, regard the castes below them as animals akin to dogs and horses, and generally sip from the cup of prosperity. Through plot convention, Darrow is given the chance to become a Gold to try and take down The Society from inside, and so spends the rest of the story in a Lord of the Flies style school for war-like Golds, trying to prove he's the best of them, so he can get command of a fleet and come back to raze Mars.

The Gold Society is not patriarchal. They value strength, and might makes right. Their leader, Peerless Scarred Octavia, is a woman, and she is greatly feared and admired. The school Darrow is taken to is filled with just as many ruthless women as men. Both are expected to hunt and kill and survive in equal measure. One of the leaders of one of the other war bands is a woman who goes by Mustang, and she out-wits and out-fights Darrow several times before the plot eventually allows them to be friends/lovers. One of Darrow's biggest rivals in his own war band is Antonia, a cut-throat woman who betrays him twice, and eventually kills someone trying to blackmail him into giving himself up -- something heavily frowned upon in the weird little Lord of the Flies war school. And equal number of the Peerless Scarred proctors for this school are women as they are men. Women are featured almost calculatedly 50/50 in battle scenes as proficient fighters -- namely when theyre coming from other warbands, not Darrow's, but that seems like authoral preference for writing male characters so I'll let that slide. The point here is: The Golds don't care about gender. Women are allowed to be and are encouraged to be just as ruthless as men, and the most terrifying leader of them all is a woman.

The most popular insult in this book is "woman-ish". It happens a lot. And Darrow is far from the only character that does it, and that's the problem I have with this book.

It makes sense for Darrow to insult other men by calling them girls, or girlish. He was raised in a patriarchal society, where women have expected and enforced roles. They get married, they have children, they try not to shame their husbands. They are strong in the way a homemaker is strong, sacrificing virtuously for their male children and husbands so someone can work the mines and bring them food. Io, Darrow's wife, is an outlier to this caste of stereotypical home makers, but she still performs her wifely duties of loving her husband wholeheartedly well. It is only her desire for more that dooms her, and the fact that, when the story begins, her resolve and conviction makes her a stronger character than Darrow. It's something he openly admits many times. But it's reiterated again and again that she is an outlier. Normal women aren't like this.

However, the Golds live in a world where women are equal to men. The greatest goal is strength and might, the largest sin weakness. To be weak is to be damned. You're not worth following as a leader, if you're weak. Worse than that, you deserve misfortunes if you're perceived as weak. Darrow's "weakness" as a character is hammered out of him by cruel people with zero concern for the wreckage they leave in their paths. A common insult is to be called a "Pixie", that is, a gold who is resting on their family lineage to move up in the world instead of actually getting their hands dirty. Insults about weakness, and softness, are the ones that matter.

But the author chooses to freight those insults with references to women. There are so many times when a character is called out for "being a girl." That they need to "be a man, you soft little baby." "What are you, a woman?" Characters are proved to be flawed because "He was a giant warrior of a man, who had a girlish laugh". "He was tall and thin, with womanish hair and eyelashes." "He had a soft, womanish voice." And some of this is definitely Darrow, yes. It makes sense for Darrow to attribute some female traits to softness and weakness. But there are Golds, raised from day 1 in The Society who do this too! Who talk about being scornful because a man was too girly. Who view women as inherently weak. There's an entire arc early on where a male Gold assaults a bunch of women, and the raining consensus is not "How could you rape someone you monster!" But instead "How could you rape a woman, you monster!" A statement which implies women are weaker and can't be expected to defend themselves, and this character is worse for taking advantage of the inherently weak.

It makes absolutely no sense to me! And I'm sure it's author bias, right? The book was published in 2014, and popular media even then was still waffling over how to portray female equality without taking on artifacts of the 80s and 90s. But, I don't know man. There is so much good world building in this book? How the society works. How something as small as the slang you use can identify you as a traitor. How the genetic grafts and enhancements work -- how the labor is decided and why. There is a lot of intentional word choice to do with the Romans, because the Golds are very obviously ripping off Roman war culture. And you're telling me you were intentional about all of that, and still couldn't figure out how to insult someone without calling them a girl?

Author?? Help??

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

Lucanis embroidery hanging up with the others in one of my DA art corners :) but! i feel like now the unbalance in the lineup is more evident, so I need to do another quick small icon style one to even things out since it’ll be probably another 6-12 months before i can do a new big one. but WHAT!! below are the other ones pulled from inquisition...

the broken heart one would be funny (and fit the theme of my lavellan playthrough with the rest lol) but it'll hang next to the one that's already got a lot of blue and purple in it. so wouldn't look as nice. Kind of tempted to do the crossed swords one since i do love violence and the red would make the lineup nicely symmetrical... or the arcane symbol would be a nice pair with the mage icon too. but also, definitely the most annoying shape to stitch lol. hmmm!!

i need something easy and thoughtless that i dont have to design myself. since the Davrin & Lavellan patterns are both gonna be a pretty involved process before I can get either of them ready to stitch.

[windydrawallday]

"Windy, did you need to write a doc to resume your investigations on a character and then another to do a resume of a resume of that same investigation because you suck at resuming without making a bible of it?"

Yes

AND I'M STILL HALF THERE

F FOR MEEEEEE

[lemagelegant]

[springcatalyst]

I FUCKING L

OVE GEOLOGY

[bevanne46]

Memorial Quilt #8 of 8 is now complete! These tops were made from the clothing of a woman who passed away in 2021. The backings were made with Flannel that wraps around to form the edge binding. This one was made with the Quilt-as-you-Go Method and measures approx. 60”W x 72”L. I will be delivering #7 & 8 tomorrow (she already has the first 6). I also made matching pillowcase for these.

[simulation-machine]

So I have been watching a *lot* of simmer build videos (namely: Lilsimsie, Deligracy, and Plumbella, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RECOMMEND OTHERS) while doing other stuff in the game, and whilst bored with gameplay, decided to start building myself a house. Mainly just to see if I've absorbed anything.

I... kinda like it? It looks a bit boring but I kinda like the li'l bump-outs! Makes it look like an older house that got added onto over the years.

Obvs got a lot more to do, I also want to get better at landscaping, and I've been using this pretty rad website as a sort of inspiration for builds. Mostly I'm doing this for my Another Door save, I want to predominantly use stuff I make on my own so that things more or less look how I want them too.

Got a ways to go, but this is honestly one of the best builds I've ever done on my own. More of CAS head and interior decorator tbh.

[madtomedgar]

Paul Hollywood turn on your location I just wanna talk

[queenerdloser]

so i've spent the weekend putting furniture together between work shifts bc i FINALLY got drawers for my kallax (which has been acting as my makeshift dresser for like three years). but initially i was worried bc the amount of space for clothes was a lot smaller and even tho i planned to get rid of some of my clothes it didn't seem like they'd fit. until!!! i remembered marie kondo folding methods and hunted them down and lo and behold the vertical method has worked amazingly well so far and everything looks so neat and tidy.

basically this is me saying yet again that marie kondo has never done anything wrong in her life ever and i'm still mad about the way people treated her methods. and like. also you should try vertical folding if you haven't already, it looks wonderful and it saves a ton of space.

[philodendronplants]

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[soggypotatoes]

they always say that writing down comprehensive notes of the lecture slides nd what the lecturer is saying is bad practise and not effective study

well to that I say *blocks ears* lalalalala you can prise my collection of meticulously detailed and coded notebooks that I never look at again after the semester out of my cold dead hands

[prlssprfctn]

I physically need Jason Todd to have several popular accounts as a reviewer of, honestly, anything.

New article in Gotham Gazette? A famous five-star reviewer already wrote a comment on what unethical methods the writer had used, along with debunking the rest of the article. And guess what? It has more likes than the original post.

New restaurant opened? Another famous critique just finished polishing a very detailed post regarding everything inside it — the decor, the cooking techniques, the service (he almost never picks up on waiters, though). It is so on the spot that, honestly, the owners can't even argue with the review.

New movie? Uh-uh, be sure you write your characters properly. New vigilante? Get detailed information on your methods of work and fighting style — and, hey, it might be even useful. New book? Be careful, someone is about to kick your ass on the Internet, unless written worthy.

The funniest part? No one assumes that it is the same person.

And the batfamily? Well, they have no time for this. Expect for... Tim.

Tim, sending a link to Vale's article: Hood. Drag her ass.

Jason: lol

Jason: give me, like, an hour–

Tim: Had I told you you are my favourite?

Jason: i might have an idea, yeah

Tim: Hood. The new restaurant is so ass. They are also homophobic and stared at me and Kon the whole evening like we killed someone. Do something.

Jason: sec

(The restaurant gets closed in, like, two days after that)

Tim: Jason. Bruce pisses me off this week.

Jason: LOL

Jason: wake up, birdie, the new article shitting on Batman's technics just dropped

Tim: YAY

[justposting1]

12 Inexpensive Items That Can Dramatically Improve Your Life

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[sassypotatoe1]

Me: "I want brass plumbing and hardware in my home one day it's so pretty and antimicrobial" sees the cost of brass plumbing "NEVERMIND STAINLESS STEEL IT IS"