it’s always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like “how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!” because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there’s diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept
…we reject the stance of Lesbian separatism because it is not a viable political analysis or strategy for us. It leaves out far too much and far too many people, particularly Black men, women, and children. We have a great deal of criticism and loathing for what men have been socialized to be in this society: what they support, how they act, and how they oppress. But we do not have the misguided notion that it is their maleness, per se—i.e., their biological maleness—that makes them what they are. As BIack women we find any type of biological determinism a particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic.
(emphasis mine)
“To argue that transsexual women should not enter [women-exclusive spaces] because their experiences are different would have to assume that all other women’s experiences are the same, and this is a racist assumption. The argument that transsexual women have experienced some degree of male privilege should not bar them from our communities once we realize that not all women are equally privileged or oppressed.”
This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.
Is it just me or you don’t really realise how drunk you are until you are in a bathroom alone???
thanks to tumblr literally every time i go to the bathroom when i’m drunk i think about this post and sit there laughing to myself trying not to fall off the toilet
I’ve got hiccups which is incredibly annoying but it does mean that every 4 seconds or so I’m reminded to think about fish evolution which is pretty cool.
Please talk about fish evolution and how it relates to hiccups I am SO curious
Okay so the thing about hiccups is that you have them by default. There’s a special region in the brain that suppresses hiccups. “Yes hiccups” is the default. “No hiccups” was an ad-hoc addition.
Why?! Why would your body want to hiccup by default? what purpose does that serve? Well, none, for you. But it was very, very important for your ancestors.
Hiccups are a fish reflex. They’re a remnant of the convulsion that fish automatically perform to pull water over their gills. When this system was repurposed for lungs, we eventually evolved a workaround that tells the gill twitch not to fire any more. When this fails, boom. Hiccups.
It’s just your fish nervous system trying to be a fucking fish again.
Is… Is that why I’ve had people telling me I just need to say “I am not a fish” out loud to cure my hiccups??
Also. I am so curious as to what other evolutionary workarounds we have that just?? Break sometimes??
Your entire body is a mountain of code built my many generations of coders who do not in fact know how to code and you don’t want to know how much of it is random hacked-in gotos between functions that once did something very different, or how much is simply commented out entirely and just sitting there in your genome. Your ear bones used to be part of the support structure for gills. Your vocal cords are part of a valve that’s supposed to close off your lungs when you go into water and it’s just good enough to do that while also being shitty enough to relax and push air through because it turned out that being able to Breathe Noisy was also incredibly useful.
That’s why drinking water stop hiccups? :O
You can stop hiccups by temporarily dramatically changing your blood chemistry. This is why most cures involve something that gives you a surge of adrenaline or carbon dioxide or something.
Here’s the cure the med-surg resident told me about the night I was filling in for somebody in the ER.
