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i think a more interesting question than “when did you ‘join’ the internet” is “what was the first username you ever used”
my very first ever username (that i remember) was HunterKiller75 cause i thought starcraft was the coolest shit in elementary school & hydralisks were my fav unit, and 75 was my fav number
Have you considered that those scientists might be bias and pushing an agenda. Gender is a biological absolute.
Gender is highly contextualized by time and place. Like, if you want to talk about scientists being biased and pushing an agenda, look at modern western science for pushing a flawed binary narrative.
Non-binary genders are not a modern invention. The idea of third genders/non-binary genders is as old as human civilization, because gender is socially constructed and subjective, and people’s ideas about gender have changed over time and between cultures.
In Mesopotamian mythology, among the earliest written records of humanity, there are references to types of people who are not men and not women. In a Sumerian creation myth found on a stone tablet from the second millennium BC, the goddess Ninmah fashions a being “with no male organ and no female organ”, for whom Enki finds a position in society: “to stand before the king”.
In Babylonia, Sumer and Assyria, certain types of individuals who performed religious duties in the service of Inanna/Ishtar have been described as a third gender.
Inscribed pottery shards from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2000–1800 BCE), found near ancient Thebes (now Luxor, Egypt), list three human genders: tai (male), sḫt (“sekhet”) and hmt (female).
The Vedas (c. 1500 BC–500 BC) describe individuals as belonging to one of three categories, according to one’s nature or prakrti. These are also spelled out in the Kama Sutra (c. 4th century AD) and elsewhere as pums-prakrti (male-nature), stri-prakrti (female-nature), and tritiya-prakrti (third-nature).
Many have interpreted the “eunuchs” of the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean world as a third gender that inhabited a liminal space between women and men, understood in their societies as somehow neither or both. In the Historia Augusta, the eunuch body is described as a tertium genus hominum (a third human gender),
The ancient Maya civilization may have recognised a third gender, according to historian Matthew Looper. Looper notes the androgynous Maize Deity and masculine Moon goddess of Maya mythology, and iconography and inscriptions where rulers embody or impersonate these deities. He suggests that the third gender could also include two-spirit individuals with special roles such as healers or diviners
Anthropologist Rosemary Joyce agrees, writing that “gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as “male” and “female.” At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male through female, by wearing blended costumes and playing male and female roles in state ceremonies.“
Andean Studies scholar Michael Horswell writes that third-gendered ritual attendants to chuqui chinchay, a jaguar deity in Incan mythology, were “vital actors in Andean ceremonies” prior to Spanish colonisation.
Two-spirit individuals are viewed in some Native American cultures as having two identities occupying one body. Their dress is usually a mixture of traditionally male and traditionally female articles, or they may dress as a man one day, and a woman on another.
In Pakistan, the hijras are officially recognized as third gender by the government,
it’s amazing how quickly “science says there are only two genders” becomes “have you considered that science is fake and is pushing an agenda?”
I’m a biologist and I can assure you the 2 gender binary doesn’t exist. All around we see animals that don’t fall into either categories. Gender is a spectrum is the realest line there is when it comes to biology and gender.
a tiny bird flew in through my window today but i was too tired to shoo it out or anything so i just lied on my bed and the tiny bird just carried on with its tiny bird things
i really miss the tiny bird now. where are you tiny bird
-TV news airs story about a triple balcony collapse at one of U. Berkeley’s campus apartment properties. Collapse was due to too many people on the top balcony during a party, combined with ancient, rotting wood and a lack of inspection/attention by the owner/college for an undetermined amount of time. No one died, but many people were injured.-
Dad: Well if there were too many people on the damn balcony of course it fell.
Me: Dad that’s not the point. No one’s inspected it for years. The damage was done with or without the people out there. Those things could have come down next week with no human interference.
Dad: But it’s common sense to not go out when it’s crowded.
Me: But if someone had been tending it in the first place, the problem never would have occurred.
Dad: -grunts-
A lot of basic old white republican complaints- too many people mooching on food stamps, we’re losing our jobs overseas, immigration- could easily have been solved if policies defending and raising minimum wage, taxing and controlling corporations, and moving organically to change our immigration laws were kept in place.
But they weren’t.
My father- and many like him- will stick their fingers in the dam.
Many people like myself (but not all) will point out that if we’d been allowed to fix the dam in the first place, none of this would have happened.
his argument is fallacious anyway. it’s not “common sense” to not go out on an already-crowded balcony. Nobody builds balconies with posted weight limits. A reasonable expectation for a balcony is that it will not collapse even if people are packed onto it like sardines. anything less is an UNSAFE BALCONY THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIXED.
old republicans will blame you when the system that helped them fails you, and call it common sense.
The hierarchy of controls–the system by which OSHA and the like advise the mitigation of exposure to occupational hazards–goes as follows, ranging from most effective to least at preventing injury:
Elimination: remove the hazard.
Substitution: replace the hazard with something less dangerous.
Engineering Controls: isolate people from the hazard.
Administrative Controls: change the way people work.
Personal Protective Equipment: blunt the harm of contact.
Inspecting the balcony and keeping it in good repair is part “remove the hazard” and part “replace the hazard;” it only falls short of removing the balcony entirely, which is not ideal because people enjoy having balconies and the risk of a (well-maintained) balcony falling is negligible compared to the enjoyment people get out of them.
Changing how people work, meanwhile, is way down near the bottom, and this is much harder to do in a social situation than a workplace one, where you can generally tell people what to do and expect that they do it. Admonishing everyone to stay off crowded balconies, to calculate the risk that this amount of people will cause it to collapse when they have no information about the structural limits of the balcony or its state of repair, is not going to be well received by the community of drunken revelers that form the crowd on the balcony.
It makes much more sense to protect people by shaping the situation as best one can without destroying its benefits (elimination of the hazard, while at the top of the list, is the solution most often discarded as impractical or unworkable–a workplace might need spinning blades, or dangerous chemicals, or contact with potentially-violent individuals, to perform its function, and risk is both an unavoidable part of many pleasant activities and a necessity in learning to recognize and evaluate danger).
Declining to work at replacing hazards (replace minimum wage with living wage, for example, or replace rotted timbers in a balcony with sound ones) and expecting people to just change their behavior with a warning or three, is not good risk management.
For those fake 20s assholes leave as tips that actually are just Evangelical bullshit.
You know, these fucking things.
People who claim to worship a god who said ‘give all your wealth to the poor’ will tip waiters with this instead of giving them real money and the servers aren’t allowed to punch them, for some reason.
Anyway, the use is not a bonfire.
Trump Campaign is apparently sending out self-addressed pre-paid envelopes to collect donations.
It’s almost like they -want- me to shove dozens of these fake twenties telling people to repent of their sins into an envelope and mail them to a narcissistic cartoon supervillain’s political campaign.
