Daphne Eftychia Arthur, guitarist+. Recent.
"I used to think I could control ducks with my mind but it turns out ducks & I just have very similar ideas about what stuff ducks should do" -- Jacy Catlin (ieatanddrink), 2016-03-15
[Wishing a fine vernal equinox to everyone who marks that in one way or another ... and to everyone who doesn't care, too. Astronomical spring starts at 09:37 UT / 05:37 EDT -- or about ten minutes after this entry should be posted if all works normally.]
"People with burnout will lie to you. Not because they intend to, they're lying to themselves too.
"If someone tells you they're feeling 'a little bit burned out', you should take it very seriously, because by the time they're ready to admit that to themselves, shit's already bad"
-- Macbook Miller (jevakallio), 2021-03-10
"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary." -- Stephen Hawking
"You can help make trans kids happy and healthy, or you can help make trans kids miserable and isolated.
"You cannot make trans kids cis."
-- Make me a Samwitch (Samwitch11), 2021-03-15
Vagina Museum (vagina_museum), 2021-03-12 (starts with the note: "Content warning: this thread mentions genital mutilation, anti-intersex discrimination and body shaming.") [bold emphasis added]
Good afternoon, let us take you on a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport.
[...]
By the 1950s, it was decided that women competing in sport should submit to sex verification. In the 50s, this took the form of what was known colloquially as "nude parades". It did what it said on the tin. Women stood before someone who inspected their naked bodies.
[...]
In 1968, the method of testing changed to something less invasive but still problematic: chromosome testing. All athletes were tested for the presence of a Y chromosome.
This practice of mandatory chromosome testing continued until the late 1990s, with one single, solitary woman exempted: Princess Anne.
[...]
The consequences for "failing" a sex verification test have been dire. Women were banned from competing, shamed and humiliated and subjected to endless speculation about their bodies.
Intimate medical details of women were leaked to the media, and for some athletes, even long after their careers were completed, details of their genitals would be published, taken from autopsy reports.
This is, presumably, why it was decided it would be very inappropriate to subject a princess to such treatment.
[...]
In the 1960s, suspicions about women and leaking of private information focused disproportionately on women from Eastern Europe. In the present day, there's still a discrepancy, but focus has shifted to scrutiny and speculation on women from the Global South.
[...]
In the entire history of formalised sex verification in women's sport from the 50s to the present day, do you know how many instances of men disguising themselves in order to sneak into women's sport they've found? Zero.
"The Lord measures out perfection neither by the multitude nor the magnitude of our deeds, but by the manner in which we perform them." -- St. John of the Cross
[As of today, we are in the overlap of Western (Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, etc.) Lent, and Eastern Orthodox Great Lent. This year, Western Easter will be 4 April and Orthodox Easter will be 2 May.]
"People with burnout will lie to you. Not because they intend to, they're lying to themselves too.
"If someone tells you they're feeling 'a little bit burned out', you should take it very seriously, because by the time they're ready to admit that to themselves, shit's already bad" -- Macbook Miller (jevakallio), 2021-03-10
AutisticSciencePerson (AutSciPerson), 2021-03-10 (link goes to start of thread):
As a side note - Can you imagine someone saying "Well, it's old" for any other reason?
"Why don't you have a door attached to this entrance?"
"Well, it's old."
"Why don't you have lights in here?"
"Well, it's old."
Only for accessibility can you get away w/ saying "it's old"
paradoxa (paradoxa_p), replying to AutisticSciencePerson:
Try getting away with "it's old" for fire regulations and they will rip you a new one. Should be the same for accessibility, but that it isn't speaks volumes
"In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level -- I mean the wages of decent living." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (b. 1882-01-30, d. 1945-04-12; President of the United States 1933-03-04 to 1945-04-12), Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, 1933-06-06
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"history is actually a deeply fascinating subject and it only seems boring because we were taught a heavily propagandized, whitewashed, selective version of history that isn't relatable because it isn't true
"in the USA, history class be like 'and then the native americans simply moved somewhere else so that the colonists could build new settlements :)'"
-- Vivian (suchnerve), 2021-02-22
"In the conduct of life, habits count for more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct. To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits." -- Henri Frédéric Amiel (b. 1821-09-27, d. 181-05-11), 1851-04-06
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eftychia at 07:52am on 2021-03-06
Alex Anderson (AlexAndersonMD), 2021-03-01:
6 year old: "Mom can you have another baby?"
Me: "Why sweetie?"
6: "Because I like meeting new people!"
PANDEMIC MUST END, STAT. I CANNOT BE TASKED WITH LITERALLY MAKING FRIENDS.
"What we're living through is a trans panic akin to the satanic panic of the '80s and '90s, when parents and police were convinced there were devil-worshipping cults infiltrating every facet of society. It is not logical. Going over, yet again, how hormone levels, chromosomes, skeletal features, and more vary in many complex ways is not going to make a lick of difference to people who see me and others like me as an abomination, a threat to the nuclear family, or somehow capable of ruining their day because I need to use the women's room." -- Riley Black, 2021-03-03
[But they're saying wrong things and need to be corrected! And there's some pretty interesting real science to talk about! And ... dammit, it's a trap and an intentional distraction and I need to remember that faster, ... and it really would be nice to go a week without a Debate On Whether I Can/Should/Do Exist. (That shit gets tiring.)]
"The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience." -- W.E.B. Du Bois (b. 1898-02-23, d. 1963-08-27), "Reconstruction and Its Benefits", read at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York, December, 1909; printed in The American Historical Review, July, 1910 [Thanks to extraarcha for quoting this earlier.]
"I believe everyone should feel free to express themselves & live their lives as the choose. All gender stereotypes are outdated & harmful the individual & society. I would love so see a social experiment where kids aren't "assigned" a gender until THEY choose it themselves." -- Brenda TS, 2017-11-29