Calculus and I have a Complicated Relationship

dustywave:

imperial radch gender thoughts:

i have now seen several people refer to the radch as a “matriarchy” and it confuses me. how can a society without gender roles be considered matriarchal? the radchaii do not even have the concept of “woman.” this interpretation seems entirely based on the universal “she” pronoun - but in “the left hand of darkness,” the genderless gethenians are referred to with “he” pronouns, and no one calls gethen a patriarchy! what makes the radch different from gethen? is it the fact that the radchaii do have sexual dimorphism, unlike the gethenians - as evidenced by seivarden being read as “male” by non-radchaii people? if so then this is simply a case of people conflating “biological sex” with gender. even then, it actually seems like another point against describing the radch as matriarchy, because being “biologically male” clearly holds no great significance in radchaii society. but i think the real story is that people are much more primed to interpret “he” pronouns as gender neutral, whereas people referred to with “she” pronouns are always necessarily women in some sense. men are considered the default, and women are innately “more gendered” than men, and i think this is precisely what ann leckie meant to underline by using universal “she” pronouns in a story about a genderless society. if you came away from it thinking of the radch as a society dominated by women, then i think you missed the point by a long shot

doubleca5t:

doubleca5t:

I take immense schadenfreude in Elon Musk spending $25 million to try to influence an election in Wisconsin only for the candidate he was backing to lose by a larger margin than was predicted before Musk got into the race. Like how tf do you dump that much money into a state supreme court election and get not only nothing out of it but LESS than nothing. That’s a truly impressive level of failure. I’m watching Elon become the most hated man in America like the Sickos yes hahaha yes comic

The latest news out of DC is that everyone in the federal government, up to and including all the MAGA ghouls cannot fucking stand Elon Musk

lol. lmao, even

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depsidase:

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prototypesteve:

mysteryteacup:

alska:

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

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teaboot:

Passing on an important conversation I had with a family member the other day

Them: Gay people make me uncomfortable.

Me: (Queer, bluescreening) Uhhhhhhh

Them: I ean, I don’t mind gay people, I just don’t like the ones that are all in your face about it.

Me: What do you mean

Them: : I mean, like. It’s fine if you’re gay, you can be gay, that’s not something you can change- there’s just a time and a place, you know? You shouldn’t be making it everyone else’s business

Me: I don’t know what you mean. Can you give me an example?

Them: Uhhhhh.

Them: Okay, so I was at a bar with my buddy a while back, right? And this gay person comes up to me, right, and they start flirting

Them: And I tell them, you know, I’m straight, and I’m married, right?

Me: Right

Them: And like. They kinda laugh it off, but they keep doing it. Making these comments, being all flamboyant, saying I have a nice ass, trying to give me their number in case I wanna “switch teams”.

Them: And I’m sitting there like… hey, no problem with your whole lifestyle and all, but I told you I’m not interested. I’m married.

Them: That kinda thing. The whole “out and proud, cant shut me down” thing

Them: Like, leave that shit at home

Me:

Me: So it’s like when a pretty lady is at a bar, and some guy comes over and won’t leave her alone?

Them: Yeah

Me:

Me: So that’s not a gay people thing, that’s just flat-out sexual harassment

Them: what

Me: Your problem isn’t gay people, it’s assholes

Them:

Them: Well that sure would have sounded better, huh

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yuttikkele:

self-made-purgatories:

yuttikkele:

hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock

watching the realization publicly dawn in real time in the comments is fucking amazing

op’s tags:

comments:

I DIDN’T KNOWWWW

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sparrow-va:

sparrow-va:

WHY DOES POOB HAVE ME BLOCKED LMAO

poob DOESN’T have it for me. they’ve had ENOUGH of me

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deedis:

deedis:

norp

nop i dont tink so

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be-a-dandelion:

rainydayscore:

I think the historical treatment of left handed people is objectively the funniest form of bigotry mankind has ever displayed

Bitches will create a binary and use it to oppress the other side for ANYTHING

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cipheramnesia:

snootchie-mcsnootchface:

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You can probably start chipping your way down past rock bottom too.

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raevenlywrites:

georgedontdothat:

im tired of him

some coffee might help with that ☕️

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feluka:

cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you’re still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don’t understand when you’re trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i’ll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,

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dewitty1:

lalulutres:

I love this picture so much! Post it whenever I come across it.

Inner Mongolian Child

The little girl’s name is Butedmaa and she was just 5 when this picture was taken in 2003 by Han Chengli.

(I used to have a printout of this at my desk at work because I just loved looking at it so much.)

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negativepeanuthoarder:

negativepeanuthoarder:

As an aroace person I actually never had that feeling of being broken. I thought everyone was the same way and some people were just dramatic 😭

THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY THATS EXACTLY HOW I FELT WATCHING ATTACK OF THE CLONES FOR THE FIRST TIME LMAOOOOO 😭😭😭😭

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