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They mean cis men. Or, not even cis men, really, but the overwhelmingly privileged folks (both modern and historical) who have made the largest contributions to The Way Things Are. It isn't fair to generalize that to "men," even though a lot of "them" are/were men.

Came here to say, though, that transgender and GNC folks actually have some of the most fascinating/insightful experiences of all. They're treated dramatically differently based on their gender presentation (or what others assume their gender is). But they're the same person the whole time. So not only do they have diverse experiences, those experiences are nearly indisputable evidence of how gender roles impact... well, everything.

It would behoove us, then, to not only include but actually highlight trans experiences in our feminism. Just saying.

You know, it really is quite frustrating the amount of times I scroll by a post that says "if men experienced [thing that trans men experience], this wouldn't happen [except it does, to trans men, usually worse than to cis women]"

"If men could have periods, tampons would be free" >>> trans man gets beaten up for requesting sanitary products in bathrooms

"If men got uterine cancer, there would be a cure" >>> trans man killed via medical neglect due to being trans as his doctors wanted to punish him for being transgender and betraying womanhood

"If men were catcalled, it would be considered assault" >>> trans man gets catcalled and then sexually assaulted for ignoring their advances

"If men had to worry about being alone at night, there would be a streetlight every 5 feet" >>> trans man murdered while walking home alone from work

But then if I say anything about it, I'm told I'm a misogynist "erasing women's struggles".

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If it's your car, you may get multiple signals across a long distance -- if it's the environment, you will likely stop seeing the signals after you reach the hazard. If you see a hazard, it becomes your job to signal drivers coming the other direction!

This is both more common and more effective on poorly lit rural roads like the one pictured.

A note, because not everyone knows this: if you're driving and another driver flashes their brights at you, this is a signal to be on alert and slow down. There may be debris in the road, a cop out of sight, or an animal crossing ahead of you. (Or, alternatively, your brights are on and they're getting blinded.) Whatever the reason, it's a signal that you need to focus and reduce speed. And possibly turn your own brights off.

This PSA has been brought to you by the four fawns and does that ran out in front of me at various points on my drive home.

Let's court death with mama!

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I had a professor once who would do this in person. She taught theatre history, and she also knew all of the historical theatre drama (haha, drama drama), both rumored and confirmed.

You know you're in for a ride when, on day one of the lecture, your professor stops halfway into an anecdote to confirm you're all adults and consent to hearing an adult story.

She was also old enough and well-traveled enough to have been involved in some of the drama. We were talking about some playwright/director or other who stood up to the communist regime and she just casually mentions he took her out for bird's nest soup once.

love when ancient biographies randomly slip in the most insane shit in the middle of otherwise standard biographical information. i was reading suetonius talking about augustus's early life and all of a sudden he just casually comes in with "by the way the room said to be augustus's nursery is haunted by a foul and terrible spectre. anyway, heres all the names he was known by" like Excuse me can we go back to the part about the foul and terrible spectre

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Something that I find terribly unfair about being disabled is that I'm just supposed to be okay with people doing things "wrong" because they are helping.

Can I do the task unsupported? No. I still have an opinion on how I want it done, though, and I can do it supported. But it takes more effort to work with me than it does to just do the task for me, so that's what happens. The tasks simply get done, without any input or direction from me, and I am supposed to be grateful. And I am!

But also I am frustrated, because I want to do it myself, my way.

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Set all the groceries in the entryway, shoes off, then put groceries away.

Alternatively, one person brings the groceries from the car to the door, and hands them to the second person (not wearing shoes) who actually puts them away.

Question for team No Shoes In the House:

Generally I count myself among you but how do yall get your groceries inside? Do you shuffle your shoes off in between every bag grab? Sometimes it takes my partner and I a dozen or so trips to bring all the costco bags in for the month and I aint booting off and on every time I gotta go to the kitchen and back

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To be fair, that truck is far too large for most US parking, too.

The average parking space in the US is, apparently, 8.5-9 feet wide by 18 feet long. (I have no idea where these people are getting these numbers, but the first several Google results all agree, so I'mma go with it.)

The Ford F150 comes in lengths from 209.4 inches (~17.4 feet) to 228.1 inches (~19 feet.) All six 2025 models on Ford's website are 95.7 inches (~8 feet) wide with standard mirrors. So, the smallest model fits in a parking space on the wide end of average with six inches to spare at the back/front and on either side. (Six inches is just over 15 cm.) Inches or cm, that's not enough space to open the doors or the tailgate, unless the people parked next to you drive more reasonably sized cars. The mirrors do fold, giving you an additional 12" of space, but still.

the reason trump demanding the EU buys american cars is ridiculous. americans out there might be used to cars like the ford F150

in some EU countries this requires a licence higher than a car to even drive due to its size but could you imagine driving this mfer around these streets

you might say oh thats a backroad, be fair well alright

the fact of the matter is these cars aren't being bought in europe because they are just not practical to drive in most of europe. forget licencing and fuel cost aside (the cost of petrol is MUCH higher in europe than the US and they guzzle fuel)

they are just impractical for daily use

all of those above examples were for italy, which fair enough ok. let's have a look at a much more care dependant country, like the UK

this is a fairly average street in the UK. where the HELL would you park that beast and you would struggle to get it even down the road. the EU isn't not buying american made cars because they're suppressing the US market, there is just little to no demand for US style cars

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I've got some random resources that I want to share but never really had a place to put them, so I'm putting them all here! These are all things that I have come across/been sent and tested myself:

LGBTQ Reads: Disability and Neurodivergence Booklist: Sent to me by @qbdatabase (tagging so you can find their blog). I'm working on transferring it to my archive. This list is very extensive but definitely worth a look.

Black Disability Politics, Open Access: Follow this link to find the open access version of Sami Schalk's book "Black Disability Politics"

Trigger Warning Database: Big list of trigger warnings for different books. Incredibly useful. There's a search function, a masterlist, and a place to submit your own.

The Disabled People's Archive: An archive for disability history!

Book Trigger Warning: Like the Trigger Warning Database. A searchable wiki of book trigger warnings.

Viklangta and WeCapable: At first I thought this was just a site for disability journalism, but that's not all. It's run by Samyak Lalit, the founder of the Evara Foundation, which champions the "empowerment of persons with disabilities". The first link takes you to the Hindi site, and the second takes you to the English site.

Disability & Mental Health Resources for Gamers: Exactly as its title says. This is a masterpost that links to resources regarding disability, mental health and gaming!

Becoming An Adult Cheat Sheet!: Big masterpost (with links) to teach you about and help manage adult life.

In Case Anyone is Having a Bad Night: Massive list of links to help with self care and relaxation. Some of the links don't work, unfortunately, but my god is it wonderful.

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Lego Swimming Pool Layout

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There is a least one product that really is 99.99% effective against all pathogens (germs.) It's called an autoclave, and unfortunately it would definitely also kill a human.

Instead, we use multiple different methods to help prevent the spread of different kinds of germs. You may have heard this referred to as the "Swiss cheese model" - basically, what gets through a hole in the first slice of cheese, may not get through the second, or the third. Hand washing is one of those slices. Hand sanitizer is another.

Organizations like the CDC and the WHO (when they're truly independent and properly funded, anyway) put a lot of thought into balancing the inconvenience of these various layers with their effectiveness against what's currently going around, so if they say do it, it's probably worth doing.

I've noticed more and more in public bathrooms that people skip the handwash and just take a squirt of hand sanitizer from wall dispensers on the way out. hand sanitizer is NOT effective against most things that come out of your ass. i cannot stress this enough. i'm begging y'all. please. please please please please please use the soap.

i'm out here immunosupressed fighting for my life to not get naturally selected while people around me touch a public toilet handles and walk back to their tables to immediately eat a burger

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birds that look like fruit <3

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Emerald Moth (Geometra papilionaria)

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Apparently there’s a website called Public Square where conservatives register their businesses to identify themselves as “anti-woke” so other conservatives can find them. I just thought I would share in case anyone wanted to put their zip code in and learn which local businesses to avoid.

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I offer up for your consideration, "whole grain popcorn."

Like yes. Thank you friend. I never would have guessed that popcorn, corn for popping, corn chosen specifically to pop, is made with whole grain. (Popcorn is a grain, and it doesn't pop if it's not whole.)

obviously im of the belief that labelling food abd the ingredients it contains as clearly as possible is really good practice, and i highly approve of it

but the specific sense of comedy thats invoked in you when you look at a dish that is almost entirely a certain ingredient and theres a little sign next to it that reads “THIS ITEM CONTAINS [INGREDIENT]” is something that cannot be ignored

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It's pretty clear that a fetus does become a full person at some point. Everyone gets very caught up trying to decide when that happens. But take that totally out of the equation for a moment and consider this example, which was presented to me in an ethics course in college:

A full adult human, with full rights within our ethical framework, has a medical condition that will require them to share a blood supply with another human for nine months to survive. A second full adult human says they might be open to such an arrangement. That night, a medical team steals into the second person's home while they are sleeping and connects everything up.

Note that, in this scenario:

Person 1 will certainly die if they are disconnected.

Person 2 did NOT give full, informed consent.

The arrangement carries elevated risk and hardship for person 2, while person 1's risk is actually reduced.

BOTH parties in this scenario have EQUAL rights to bodily autonomy.

Given that, is the second person morally obligated to continue in this arrangement?

By nearly every accepted ethical framework, the answer is no, for the same reason that organ donation isn't a moral obligation. Person 2's right to autonomy outweighs any moral obligation they might have to person 1.

Full scenario and explanation

I personally believe the answer is still no even if person 2 had provided complete, enthusiastic and informed consent - consent can be revoked at any time and for any reason, remember. It would be a horrible outcome, to be sure, but not an unethical one.

For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.

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