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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

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Ruth Hubbard, “

The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’

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Yes.

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This always floors me, she is an orator already

This young girl uses “los,” “las” and the gender-neutral “les” — watch her explain why. —from REMEZCLA on twitter.

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The second largest country in the world just decriminalized homosexuality. The Supreme Court of india struck away a colonial era ban on gay sex. “History owes an apology to LGBT persons for ostracisation and discrimination; It is difficult to right a wrong by history. But we can set the course for the future.” This is such a victory for the lgbtq+ community within India and all over the world. ���️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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ppl who dont even like shakespeare: WOW how DARE you alter the original text these are CLASSICS have you no RESPECT, going around DESECRATING these sacred texts in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!

people who love shakespeare: im going to stage a production of hamlet where all the actors are dogs

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Jesus

Angela Bassett celebrating her 60th birthday

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Reblog to save a story

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YEET

Black ace follow train

Heyyy ya’ll, my best fran @mysstique2cus would really like to meet other black asexual folks. And eventually have a meet up of some sort.

I’m kicking this off so yall can find each other and talk.

So if you are black and ace say hi in the thread.

Everyone else reblog and boost please

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First of all this is fake and don’t feel like this has any effect on your life and how your fortunes will unfold. You’re safe and have the ability to contribute greatly to the way your life runs.

Secondly, please dragonballs, give me the job I want and need so badly

you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

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First of all very good thanks very much

date a selkie, but don’t hide her cloak. let her go home and visit her family now and then, knowing that she’ll come back and hang her seal cloak in the closet like she always does. trust is important.

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I need this new job

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Janitors are magic and you should be nice to them:

- they have ALL THE KEYS - they are in the building when no one else is, a liminal space - they clean everything and cleaning is important - they know about all the little broom closets - also janitors are people and you should at least say hello

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it is so easy to be gay except for when it is so easy to be gay

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thearidee

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Small correction: when asked if she knows that site, Rosa Actually says “Yeah”, which is ten hundred times funnier

i love this

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