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Everybody Loves A Misanthrope

@the-cimmerians / the-cimmerians.tumblr.com

Mixed-race non-binary queer, social justice hooligan, fannish elder and nerdy butch. Here there be intersectionality, fannish shenanigans, queerness, silliness, politics, and scribbling when I can manage it.
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asneakyfox

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

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audliminal

Me meeting a genie: Okay, so my first wish is for 1000 dollars a day, deposited to my bank account without any way of tracing it to anything illegal. I want this money to come from the ten richest people in America (100 dollars each), withdrawn under the guise of nebulous, random purchases and surcharges. It would probably be best to split the money into a myriad of smaller fees, though, to reduce the likelihood of anyone noticing. Got all that?

Genie: um

Me, continuing on without a care: For my SECOND wish, I want you to give me the ability to learn any given phoneme, so that I can learn to pronounce new languages perfectly. If you're willing, it'd be nice if it were a little easier to memorize new languages too, but if that's not cool, I'm perfectly fine doing all the legwork myself I mostly just want to be capable of pronouncing things correctly.

Genie, now staring at me like I'm insane: ......okaaayyy?....

Me: For my third wish. I want to always have great ideas for gifts for people. Every birthday, every holiday, I want to be able to come up with something they'd really like, with enough time to actually get it for them.

Genie, just staring at me

Me: I can provide you with a written document if that would help.

people like op are the ones that get memorialized in folk tales for outwitting the devil

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kyanve

This handsome boy is a male broadbilled hummingbird, a species that spends their winters in central and South America and their summers….

In northern Mexico and some parts of the southwestern US. They rarely go much further north than Tucson, although in recent years with climate change some ranges are shifting. (We also once had a migrating broadbill we’d banded get blown off course over the Gulf of Mexico and get documented in *Louisiana*. Buddy was SUPER lost.)

He’s also been mashing his face into flowers, as shown by the pollen all over. He’s a regular at our site, and we’ve been seeing him at least once most sessions for the last year or so during their season.

Hummingbirds are VERY “site loyal”; they have an excellent memory of where they’ve found food in the past, and as long there’s still food there, they’ll return year after year. It’s dramatic enough that our site will see the same birds returning with our bands, but won’t see birds with bands from the nearby San Pedro river site, while they have the same trend - their already banded recaptures are birds recorded at their site, but they don’t see our birds.

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never again will I see a Look as iconic as edward teach with his hair up, eyeliner and a dangly earring, PLUS the bad bitch cropped leather jacket and fingerless gloves. I hope the creators know just how much psychological damage this shit has been causing ever since ofmd s2 dropped.

like I don’t think they meant to create the epitome of the queer gaze but here we are

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