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Love your work, Abi, you introduced me to philosophy. Just wanted to know why your new era videos are, and forgive me, fetish-y? Is it commentary on how women are forced to be overly sexualised in order to be successful? I know each video has a theme, so does it all tie in to one PhilosphyTube Extended Universe? Loved your work and can't wait for more!

They aren't, people just see them that way because I'm a woman now and people sexualise women a lot more readily, especially queer women. Before transition my videos had a lot more nudity, bondage equipment, and explicit sexual references in them than they do now - in fact I've gone out of my way to make them a lot more family friendly to make up for the fact that I'm likely to be sexualised more for being femme.

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ngl it's driving me a little bit fucking insane that the whole conversation about image scraping for AI has settled on copyright and legality as a primary concern, and not consent. my shit should not be used without my consent. I will give it away for free, but I want to be asked.

I don't want to be included in studies without my knowledge or consent. I don't want my face captured for the training of facial recognition models without my knowledge or consent. I don't want my voice captured for the training of speech recognition models without my consent. I don't want my demographic or interest profile captured without my consent. I don't want my art harvested for visual model training without my consent. It's not about 'theft' (fake idea) or 'ownership' (fake idea) or 'inherent value' (fake idea). It's about my ability to opt out from being used as a data point. I object to being a commodity by default.

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"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

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Steven Universe got blatantly and unapologetically cancelled by the network because the creators pushed for a lesbian wedding, and instead of going, "oh, fuck, that's incredibly homophobic, we should give Cartoon Network hell for that for the rest of forever, holy shit," everyone collectively decided to blame the crew for "rushing the ending" as if it wasn't completely out of their hands. Fuck's sake.

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Never forget, if someone asks you an invasive question, you can always reply by asking them "do you think that's a normal thing to ask people?"

Do it in a super casual and cheery tone, like you were asking about their favourite food.

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source

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I am currently in your tumblr feed

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How to protect yourself during stampede

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tumblr won’t let me post any more audio right now so have this

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

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May I reply with some slight bandalism found on a plaque on the side of Deià's church, Mallorca, trying to glorify "him"

graffitti i just found while on google street view in salamanca 🥰

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You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

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Translation time:

//the title shows with big white letters on a red background//

THE OLD SHIT DIED

//happy music introduces the reporter//

The old son of a bitch is finished once for all! A huge aplause to Satan for taking her! She's no more! The oldie died! The English cover it! She's dead and stiff like a log thrown in a room! Old shit! It's done!

I promissed you guys that we would cheer and we'll cheer eating sandwiches.

This brittish trash, this lucifer's filth, this amazon rubbish, has exited planet Earth and it's good news for everyone! Finally dies someone correct //he means: someone that deserves it// in this life! Right? Look look look look

// Champagne bottle pops open, more cheerings follow //

Let's all cheer a bit, eh? For the death of the trash that was the queen of England. Foam for all! //champagne foam // The son of a bitch of his husband died already and now she dies and we are fully celebrating it. For the death of every filthy fucking shitty English that belongs to that crown: filthy, pirate, robber, genocidal, murderer, that's been a torment.

This nazi son of a bitch, that admired Hitler and did the Nazi salute when she was young, has finally found an end.

And the best reaction goes to

*drum rolls*

THIS ARGENTINIAN TV HOST

I swear I know 0 Spanish but I understood it all in my soul and this is still the funniest thing I've seen today

(I've heard he might be a fascist but honestly I've got no idea, I don't even know who he is)

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On the public radio of Spain (RNE), payed with tax money.

I would like to know what do they think is so funny.

For those who don't understand Spanish, they're making fun of Catalan language use in TV. Transcription and translation:

SP: Van a hacer remakes también como Stranger Things será "Coses Estranyes" [risas], El Juego del Calamar será "El Joc del Calamar" [risas]

ENG: They'll remake it like Stranger Things will be "Coses Estranyes" [laughter], Squid Game will be "El Joc del Calamar" [laughter]

But this is already the case in Spanish. If you have Netflix Spain, Squid Game is called "El Juego del Calamar" (which simply means "Squid Game" in Spanish), that's just how translation works. Why is "El Juego del Calamar" (Spanish) normal but "El Joc del Calamar" (Catalan) so unthinkable that it causes so much laughter?

Besides, the woman who is speaking (who obviously doesn't speak Catalan), didn't even learn to pronounce those words right (estrinyis? really?) and is using an exaggerated mocking accent to ridicule Catalan.

Catalanophobia is so normalized in Spain and so integrated into the minds of so many people (as a result of, precisely, listening to this kind of sh*t all the time on radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, irl conversations, politicians, etc) that the mere thought of the Catalan language being used in public in something like Netflix become absolutely risible and unthinkable.

And this affects us too, because Catalan is so mocked that people want to distance themselves for it, so the use of Catalan language is quickly declining among young people because they think it's "uncool", "ridiculous" and not fit to talk to their friends or in public (thought they'll often speak it to their parents and grandparents), while Spanish has been made to be "cool", "respectable", "the normal thing", "the international language that everybody understands".

The Catalan language and culture have been persecuted for centuries, illegalized for half of the 20th century. Now we are legally allowed to speak it in some ambits (not all, we still cannot have a full life in Catalan) but at the cost of being ridiculed, not taken seriously, and facing consequences (for example, in Catalonia only 7.4% of trials are conducted in Catalan -the rest in Spanish- because many people fear they'll get harsher punishments for having defended themselves in Catalan).

I don't want my tax money to go to mocking my existance, nor the existance of other national minorities. But this is how Spain keeps us in line, police violence and this. This is how you make a culture so ashamed of itself that it gives up.