#adaptive preferences

[womenwoman-mp3]

Wearing skirts isn't an adaptive preference! Or is it?...

For some reason when we mentioned "skirts" in one sentence with "adaptive preferences" it caused a looot of questions on youtube... So, let's put all the dots on the i, and I (Heaven) will tell you why I consider skirts to be an adaptive preference

1) Historical context.

Skirts used to be the only option. Trousers are much more difficult to sew than a tube with an elastic band, many simply tied a piece of cloth around their waists. Both men and women. Later, trousers became more common, they began to be produced more, and they became especially popular because of riding. Since riding a horse (and working) was considered a man's business, trousers were also assigned to men. And skirts gradually turned into a symbol of domesticity and at the same time into a female symbol. Notice how men switched to functional and comfortable clothes and then did not want to return to skirts and dresses.

2) Here we smoothly move on to the second point — inconvenience.

Short skirt (and I even include midi length here) is a constant risk of exposing the underwear and a mental load of monitoring the position of the skirt. A long skirt either has a narrow hem that hinders movement, or a semi-sun pattern that gets in the way of your legs. In winter, a skirt is a way to freeze EVERYTHING off, but in summer... Is it cooler in a skirt? No. That's not true. There are loose shorts made of thin fabric, which differ from skirts only by two additional seams, but with the help of these seams they increase comfort a hundred times and allow you to at least sit calmly. Plus, many women have chafing thighs in skirts. And if you're wearing shorts under a skirt, then there's literally no point in a skirt. Useless decoration that only adds pressure to the abdominal area. You can write an essay about how skirts are more comfortable, but I won't believe it until you can't run, jump, climb, and sit in this skirt without squeezing your legs or pressing the fabric to your knees. As long as you have to check if it hasn't lifted after going to the bathroom, or have to wrap it around your legs on the escalator — I won't believe it.

Also upskirting — an attempt to take an upskirt photo. Unfortunately, this is a common issue, but women can protect themselves from such an attack by simply wearing shorts. And I'm not saying that women wearing skirts are to blame if someone tries to look under their skirt!!! The opportunity to protect yourself ≠ responsibility for the assault. Ten disclaimers: I don't do victimblaming! And there's a difference between fighting for the really good things that men spoil (like going braless at the risk of harassment) and putting yourself at pointless risk for the sake of... beauty? I REPEAT: walking without a bra (if you don't need it specifically for physical breast support) is cool and I don't care about men's ideas about it, but walking in a skirt is uncomfortable, so why put yourself in a more vulnerable position for this?

Last disclaimer: women are NOT to blame for upskirting. Not a single drop. If it weren't for men, this problem would literally not exist.

3) Women are still sometimes openly forced to wear skirts.

Examples: girls can only wear dresses to a performance, or skirts are prescribed in the work dress code for women, or in some educational institutions girls still have to wear skirts. At the same time, boys and men calmly walk around in their pants.

Plus, although women can wear pants in everyday life, they are expected to appear in a skirt in a formal or festive setting. How many women wear pants to events like weddings, birthdays, or met gala? Little, very little. Moreover, the appearance in this form is called scandalous, revolutionary, or at least simply unusual.

That's why I refuse to wear skirts when I have a choice.

4) Gender separation — the skirt forms an obvious silhouette that allows you to distinguish a woman from a man in a split second. Even when they want to mark the difference with signs, they draw an ordinary person and a person in a skirt, implying that the second one is a woman.

Men wear practical clothes, while women wear decorative ones. Because women should please the eye, and men are allowed to watch and not pay anything for this performance, but that's not all. Women must be different, because difference is the basis of submission. It certainly sounds like a conspiracy theory to anyone who is not too familiar with the theory of feminism, but just think about it: unchanged women and men look about the same. If we wore the same hairstyles, the same clothes, and had the same habits in speech and gestures, it would be much harder to separate us. Add to this the same diet and physical activity, and the majority of the population will be indistinguishable. Of course, some women would still be easy to identify by their large breasts, but this is not such a large percentage, it would not divide humanity in half. With the help of beauty practices, women must independently create/emphasize the difference — to apply their mark of the oppressed class. And when women are so emphatically different, it creates the feeling that we are naturally different and, therefore, naturally occupy a different (at the same time subordinate) place in society.

Disclaimer number 47254002: I do not suggest that all women cut off their breasts and glue their beards so as not to differ from men! I'm not suggesting making men a model of a human, and I'm not trying to be like men!!!! It's just that in our ****** ** society, everything basic and universal is male, and female is modified. And I don't want to abuse my body for the sake of being more in line with the patriarchal view of a woman.

5) Skirts are a part of femininity.

Why can a woman wear men's clothes without public condemnation, but a man can't wear women's clothes? Maybe because men (who are human in patriarchy, unlike women) look ridiculous and humiliating in women's clothes? Come on, tell me it's just social prejudice, and actually a couple of Korean male idols were wearing skirts and crop tops. But why don't teenage boys walk the streets in the summer in tops that neatly frame their chests and low-cut shorts, which are only a couple of centimeters different from panties?

I wrote in more detail about femininity in one of the previous posts. I believe that it oppresses and dehumanizes women, so I refuse to participate in it. I gave up long hair, makeup, heels, painted nails, shy giggling at vile "compliments," and I gave up skirts.

Conclusion: I don't forbid anything to anyone. I literally don't have that kind of power. I share my thoughts and experiences and the things that have made my life better. I believe it's useful for women to reflect on adaptive preferences and refuse to follow them. If you agree with me, it's cool, let's do it together!) If you don't agree — this is your civil right, and my word (unfortunately) is not law. But I would be interested in hearing your opinion! That's it, thanks for reading this bunch of words, have a nice life! 🤍

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[davaikissotsuda]

Пользоваться адаптивками - это как украшать свой домашний экран эстетичными иконками. Говорить, что используешь их «для себя» - все равно что передвинуть эти иконки на последнюю страницу, потому что приложения теперь не загружаются. От них нет никакой пользы, но ты продолжаешь тратить время и усилия ради красивой картинки. Твоё тело гораздо лучше функционирует без них, и его «стандартная» прошивка идеально тебе подходит. Так чего ты добиваешься, пытаясь его изменить?  

[idolomantises]

Portraying Sera’s sadness was honestly the first time I had an issue with portraying her expressions. I didn’t just want sera to look sad, i also wanted her to look tired.

One look at her face and you can tell it’s been eating her up inside for centuries.

The sketch to lineart phase was a bit of a challenge, because she looked too clean in the line-art process. So instead I had her eyes sketched in, not full of life or intensity like her usual expressions. Just exhaustion.

[ofswordsandpens]

while I do like the added dialogue between Sally and Percy in the minotaur scene, namely Sally's speech to Percy telling him to hold fast, I really wish the scene had more of the urgency that it did in the book. Like Grover's heavily injured to the point of incoherency, Sally and Percy literally have to drag him up the hill, and that's when they're overtaken by the minotaur. In the show, having them all come to a grinding standstill and Grover being fully alert like "sorry I know we're being chased by certain death but your mom's human so she can't come :/" was kind of adflksadfjasdf

oh and in the book Percy doesn't immediately pass out. Instead, Percy doesn't let himself until he's hauled Grover over the boundary line and all the way to the big house because he needs help and it's only then does Percy finally collapse. and idk just the imagery of it all -- Percy crying for help, for his mother -- it always stuck with me and I wish they hadn't taken it out.

[chapollynh]

An excuse to draw my favorite characters? Of course I'll take it, thank you very much.

[psink]

Whilst overall I prefer the manga to the anime, there's one aspect that I think the anime does better - the very ending.

Compared to the manga's very compactly shown thoughts of the cast, the anime gives each of them a short scene.

But although that change already is great, what matters to me the most, is this added scene of Saiko.

Despite it being so short, it feels so fitting and important to Saiko's character, making its absence in the original seem wrong. (They also added Rifuta, though comparatively, her scene isn't so significant.)

[leeshabeth90]

Alithy Manips 2d animation edition (ft. Toto) with Walt Disney's Alice and Tom and Jerry's Dorothy Gale

I'll be pairing Disney Alice in Wonderland with Journey Back To Oz next

[jhoca]

I just finished watching The Rose of Versailles (1979-80), a historical drama + queer-coded anime about a female commander named Oscar who serves as Royal Guard to Marie Antoinette leading up to the French Revolution, and basically it's the closest thing to an anime of the French Revolution (that I know of). This article does a nice job discussing the nuance of the different female characters (with good screenshots)!

A lot of historical figures make an appearance, and I was hoping for Lafayette - and he does show up (in episode 35)! I couldn't stop laughing. He's only a year older than Robespierre, but for some reason Robespierre looks all smooth and sparkly, while Lafayette... it's hard to find screenshots, but this video shows the historical figures and their counterparts side by side here!

[jakeperalta]

(this isn't a question about the best p&p adaptation ever, it is simply which you prefer OUT OF THESE TWO OPTIONS since they are the two most commonly talked about and compared!!)

[margaretkart]

So i learned that the new Odyssey movie "the Return" won't feature the gods...

Hollywood make an accurate adaptation challenge failed again. No but seriously Hollywood is obsessed with Greek mythology and gods but the moment they want to make something out of Odyssey and Iliad, somehow the gods aren't there.

Why's that? Because it won't be taken seriously? A faithful adaptation of Homer's work?! The part that these epics happened in the first place because of the deities?

Especially Athena plays a MAJOR role on Odyssey's plot you can't just not have her.

[idanit]

assorted Jeeves and Wooster sketches of various quality from the past six months, part 1

[aetherograph]

I think there's a distinct difference between 'I'm only writing this as a novel because I lack the resources to tell my story in any other format right now but this story would really work best in a more visual medium' and 'I am writing this because this story works best in the written form and will not translate to a visual medium.' and that it's really important you know which one you are.

There are pros and cons to each, and neither is better than the other; but it is really important to know which one you are.

I have also noticed that there has been a distinct and growing tendency to assume ALL written work is ONLY written because it lacks resources to be a more visual medium like film; that writing something is somehow 'lesser' than a visual adaptation, that all writers do or should want their book adapted to a screenplay, that this is a universal measure of success, when that is not and should not be the case.

Writing is itself a format, with its own identity. It isn't some kind of low-budget compromise.

[picklepie888]

Never forget that Quincey P. Morris saved the world from a vampire infestation and died in order to save the people he loves, and the thanks he got for it is to be OMITTED FROM EVERY FREAKING DRACULA ADAPTATION!!!

[3416]

still thinking about how someone pointed out to me that 1634 are so special bc they want to play specifically with each other so badly, which is a bit diff from some other pairs in hockey.. like it's not just enough to play together sometimes... they're not content to just be on the same team and play the occasional powerplay shift or emergency situation, but like...... they pushed to play on a line together for years before they were allowed to regularly and only bc they got a new coach 😭......... and this year with auston penalty killing (at least pre-injury), they were trotting him out there with mitch during first pk shifts so it's LITERALLY an all situations thing.......... they just enjoy doing that together... all game. every game..... for years... 5v5, powerplay, penalty kill, 4v4, 3v3..... and still want it just as bad based on how often they get put back together/how quickly they do after slumps. it's so. insatiable.

and i feel like some people spin it to mean they're being selfish by not spreading the wealth or whatever, but that'd only really be applicable if mitch was a center and we just weren't playing his position/wasting him. the fact that they actually fit each other's style, a natural goal scorer and a natural playmaker, and already play to each other's strengths is so................... i'm thinking about the quote from odog during a panel last year where he talks about how helpful it is that mitch specifically is right handed and auston shoots left bc of how easy they can get it off their sticks to pass then shoot. and it's like how is handedness going to make me tear up right now.

[tizeline]

Does that mean you watched the new sonic movie?

If so, how did you like it?

Spoiler alert vvv

I have, and I did like it, but I dunno if I vibe with it as much as other people seem to do. TBF I've never loved the live action Sonic movies, they're decent enough but definitely not my favorite piece of Sonic media. That being said, this was probably my favorite out of the movies so far? They have improved a lot since the first one which is great to see.

One thing I think the movie did great was the action scenes, the coreography and animation was so fun and impactful and incredibly exciting to see! I also think the movie did a good job on selling us on Shadow's and Maria's friendship in a short period of time, that little montage of the two of them just doing a bunch of silly goofy shenanigans was really endearing. The wholesome innonsence of it all makes Maria's death hurt way more.

EXTRA spoiler, but arguably one of the things that made me the most excited in ghe movie was the post credit scene where Amy showed up LMAOOOO I've been waiting for her to show up. And I exepcted Metal Sonic to show up sooner or later in these movies, but I didn't expect a whole army of them haha but that seems like a fun idea.

[lvmimis]

your f/o is deep in your guts trying desperately not to nut, but you're so warm and wet and squishing against them just so and you sound so cute and perfect... anyway, what are they thinking of to stay focused?