*staring at you*, "are you gonna eat that"

What on earth is happening on twitter

decay choker, atelier pierrot, 2021

can i have this?

edit: holy fuck this choker is *literally* over FIVE THOUSAND dollars??? like i have a sewing machine. get the fuck out of here. im mad now

This choker is worth 30 times more than the United States

i thought this post was lost forever but i finally found a screenshot on discord

really tired of seeing the idea that women & girls are less likely to be diagnosed with autism because it "presents differently" so widely accepted even in progressive spaces

it is also widely accepted that women get raises less often because they don't ask as much as men. this is objectively not true.

it is also widely accepted that women are more talkative than men. this is objectively not true.

it is also widely accepted that women are taken less seriously when speaking because their speech patterns are associated with a "lack of confidence". this is objectively not true. [1][2][3]

every time we talk about gender discrimination, people look for an explanation that starts with women's behavior.

and every fucking time, actual research shows that across the board, women actually don't behave that differently from men.

women aren't diagnosed less often with autism due to "presenting differently". it's gendered medical neglect, and weaponized diagnoses disproportionately applied to women (e.g. BPD, HPD, bipolar, etc.)

Autism presents differently in some women because those women were brought up by misogynists to present themselves differently. This gets broadly applied to be interpreted as "women are less likely to be autistic and women with autism don't look autistic", when in fact autistic women both exist and often do not present differently. Those women who present differently are not presenting differently because it is a fundamental trait, but because those specific women were victims of misogynistic abuse that they would also have been victims of if they had not been autistic.

Women get raises less because misogynists think women are less valuable. Those women who do not ask for raises are also victims of misogynistic abuse that belittles, patronises, or dismisses them out of being able to ask for anything, raises or otherwise. Most women ask for raises and do not receive them, but those women who do not ask for them do not do so because they are beaten down until they stop asking for anything, ever.

Women do not typically talk any more or less than men, but some women are forced to use many, many words in order to defuse the irrational ire of misogynists around them. Defusing and deescalating require, generally, more words; proving your value to other women in a misogynistic system requires more words; avoiding irrational blame requires more words. Most women do not talk more or less than men, and those few women who do are typically doing it because a misogynistic system forces them to do so.

Most women's speech patterns, absent misogyny, are pretty much like most men's. Misogyny bullies some women out of being allowed to voice opinions because misogynists do not tolerate women with opinions. It abuses women into situations where they are not permitted to make statements, only to ask permission to have a view and to accept it if they are denied that basic right. Most women do not speak differently to most men, but misogynistic men talk with unearned authority and abused women talk with undeserved self-effacement.

Basically... some studies do show women behave differently. This is because those studies are examining women who were in an abusive relationship with all of society, which is generally misogynistic and abusive towards women. Many women are privileged or lucky or protected enough to nevertheless push through that, especially in the modern day, but older studies or studies of more misogynistic settings or studies of industries or places where women are more marginalised do still find these things. This is not because that is an inherent trait of women: if men were marginalised, it would be found in studies of men. But... it's women.

Basically, I do agree with the thrust of the point as given, but women absolutely sometimes do do those things and it's never an inherent trait of women or some bioessentialist truther bullshit. It's just more misogyny and abuse.

The same thing happens to racialised people. Black women are more commonly regarded as talkative than white women, because many Black women are in settings where talkativeness is a critical survival trait. It is a learnt behaviour that is adapted without a choice, by force, because their oppressors force them to do so.

PUPPY LAMB BY ME WITH MY PC MOUSE. CLICK FOR HIGH RES

The difference between "There used to be hot summers too,” and a climate crisis.

Look, we all know this is true. But there isn't a SOURCE for this, and the graph itself is basically illegible beyond "ooh colors". If we want to be good stewards of our informational resources, we need to cite our sources.

From a reverse image search, I found the website Show Your Stripes, run by the University of Reading in the UK, which is likely where the above graph originated. It provides temperature data for various regions of the world from approximately 1900-2025. For example, here are graphs for Canada, India, and Papua New Guinea:

All clearly show a sharp rise in temperature beginning around approximately the 1980s, which corresponds with the graph in OP's post. But now we know where this data came from, and we can verify its validity accordingly.

Why is it referred to as coming out of the closet? 

It could be coming out of anything. What wasted potential.

Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just guys

#if you want the pedantic answer bc I’ve actually researched this for my thesis#there doesn’t seem to be a for sure agreed upon origin of the phrase BUUUUUT#it seems to be a combo of two earlier phrases ‘coming out’ and ‘skeletons in the closet’#coming out started to be used by gay men in 1920s new york bc a “coming out” was the 1st time a debutante would debut into the dating scene#so gay men would have their “coming out” when they first went onto the gay dating scene#a skeleton in your closet is a shameful/dirty secret that would often only be revealed once a person died#for a lot of queer people their queerness was something they literally took to the grave#so being ‘in the closet’ meant you were the skeleton in your closet#I couldn’t find an exact confirmation of when the phrases began to be combined but it seems to be around early 1970s gay liberation movemen#at the time a popular protest chant was ‘out of the closet and into the streets’#which I think also helped to popularize the term#I’m putting all this in the tags bc I realize this is a silly post that is meant as a joke and I didn’t wanna ruin the punchline#but I also wanted to provide an answer for those who were curious

How to Set Fence Posts That Won’t Rot.

have a bunny kiss them for luck. got it

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my resident and registrar went out to grab coffee and as we were walking back we all compared names

"Tony" was now "Tuna" and "Beatrice" was now "Bearatritic", I am deadass not making either of these up.

reposting my Hitch and Hitomi domestic doodles.

(she/her for Hitomi the grey cat)

(he/him for Hitch the brown mouse)

gentle domestic life 💜🐭🐱

things in phm that really tickled me as a marine biologist:

So from 1914 to 1925 the Soviet Union had a prohibition on alcohol

And from 1917 to 1933 homosexuality was legal in the Soviet Union

So there was a brief window from 1925 to 1933 that someone could have feasibly been to a Soviet gay club

Do you think Stalin ever went to the hypothetical Soviet gay clubs?

Take note that this window also includes the period between the removal of trotsky from the politburo in '26 and his exile from the Soviet union in '29

A random Friday in 1920s Moscow's Gay Scene

reblogs appreciated

The ESO twitter and I have the exact same sense of humor

I take it back, I’m gonna scream

Aav = to join forces / unity

Zii = spirit / soul

Smoliin = passion / fervor

Reblog for the Date Dragon shout

I will not hide this