True. I’d propose WEB DuBois, but he’d probably be insulted. Nat Turner would be the most based option, you could include a line like “the struggle for freedom is the birthright of all mankind” next to his face. Though that would work with Tubman as well. Tubman is the obvious choice of course and I do hope she wins, but it’s good to also think of others who deserve to be considered.
Actually the perfect never going to happen would be Lucy Parsons
FDR would be a great choice for it, Teddy Roosevelt would be a generally agreeable one though.
Also let’s get a $3 bill with Harvey Milk or Brenda Howard on it, just for the fun of it.
The non dilbert books spoke to me as an edgy teen who was smarter than most people and dumber than she thought. As an adult though I look back and think about the sheer lack of wisdom and introspection it must take to write such things as a grown adult. He died as he lived, as wise as a 16 year old and angry that everyone else didn’t see the light of his brilliance that he so vividly hallucinated. And I think that is how he fell down the right wing rabbit hole, he lacked the self awareness to see through his biases and was deeply drawn to a certain type of men who are overconfident assholes.
But yeah I liked dilbert as a kid too
Absolutely! A lot of trans and intersex people negatively react to the concept, because these oversimplifications are pretty heavily used against us, but we also have a tendency to forget the average sincere understanding of the topic, and sometimes this can come off as making a bold and controversial statement, not including nuance, and walking away. Very similar to someone saying “the earth isn’t a sphere” and not following it up with how it’s an oblate spheroid, or saying dinosaurs still are still alive and not bothering to clarify that those dinosaurs are all birds.
And yeah, if it wasn’t obvious I think it’s valuable to talk about this sort of thing in a non-judgemental and accessible manner, in part because it can help reduce the sense of shame and awkwardness associated with the natural variety of this intimate aspect of our biology.
I feel a normal number of years old same as I always have. 23 was once too old, then it was normal, but these days I understand it’s quite young.
Thrift shopping!
Nah that’s when you get off on 5 tons of iron ore that you only symbolically own
Well then do i have an opportunity to preach the good word of syndicalism to you.
It exists, but like, in the same way species exists. The variety and frequency of intersex conditions indicates that it’s two clusters of traits that most species that show this characteristic fall into one or the other of and certain components are remarkably mutable.
That understanding is just fundamentally different from the traditional understanding of two entirely distinct bins that anyone who doesn’t fall into one or the other is a strong outlier and the only alterations are castration or divine intervention (at least in euro-christian tradition).
The two bin model is going to work ok on most humans, it’s not like it’s an obviously wrong one. But as society and science have advanced we’ve found more intersex people that either didn’t know (my cousin would have just been understood as barren, and nobody would’ve noticed my ex’s mom having XY sex chromosomes) or didn’t understand that it wasn’t just some weird quirk that you either hide in shame or just don’t feel is worth mentioning. And anywhere you try to draw a firm line or any trait you try to point to try to ignore the gray is going to leave you with an awkward grouping in some way
Yeah that’s tasteless, but the sort of think you can look past, especially 8 years later, but it definitely doesn’t look good in combination with this.
Wait, they have a history of bigoted jokes?
They claim it includes New Mexico, but I don’t see why we’d have a new Mexico when the old one is still perfectly good. Sounds fake to me
Croatia is just out there accepting blame nobody else is giving them
Just plant some American chestnut. Ignore why such a wide ranged tree is endangered
Matches my personal experience
Also, idk, I think that what an ape thinks looks good has little bearing on what avians find attractive. For all we know male ducks think that bright plumage is unattractive.
Like for real, would parrots looking at us understand what we see in permanent large breasts? Or would they look at our other comically oversized sex characteristic (large, exposed penises without a baculum) as the primary showy mating display. Or would they see us as a species where sexual selection has resulted in both parties having a display to show off? Would they think that from their perspective it’s obvious which looks better?
I mean it’s not like any of these men have ever listened to women, much less read any feminist theory with an open mind. And gods forbid they notice that unshaved women who don’t wear makeup can be gorgeous.
As a lesbian I’ve definitely seen plenty of gay interactions that are so gendered that I feel most people of the other gender wouldn’t be comfortable participating, especially conservative straight people. It’s really funny to me how this stereotype of gay people as less gender conforming (while it absolutely carries a lot of truth to it) results in people not even considering that sometimes gay sex is just two really masculine men going at it in a manly way or two women being extremely feminine together.
And to generalize it more, pests and diseases are rarely truly eradicated, that’s part of why smallpox is so notable, the virus only exists in laboratory settings anymore (and that’s partly because it’s a predominantly human disease). Usually eradication means in an area or in people in an area. Because of that it’s usually an active effort to keep it out. Measles was eliminated in the developed world, but it was still around, it was just kept at bay by mass vaccination. As vaccination rates fell it was able to come back through interactions with places it hadn’t been eliminated.
I already knew I was the reason my parents refused to divorce despite hating each other