ppl in the age of cell phones: fucking up their necks
ppl in the age of books: fucking up their necks
ppl in the age of textile art: fucking up their necks
ppl in the age of picking lice: fucking up their necks
ppl in the age of cooking: fucking up their necks
in the age of keyboards: carpel tunnel
in the age of writing by hand: carpel tunnel
in the age of squeezing water out of wet clothes after cleaning them by hand: carpel tunnel
in the age of using hand-sized stone tools: carpel tunnel
#besties i am starting to think the human skeletal system might just be trash (via @cicerfics)
you are not wrong bestie
And the thing is! It’s not even about “being boring”! It is so not about that! With a humanities degree, the only thing you really learn is how to process information, and generally, these degrees are designed to give it to you via various different perspectives and frameworks: you receive it, contextualize it, and then you’re encouraged to make an argument about it. That’s literally it, for years.
...And when people are no longer in uni (no matter their degree), a lot of them enter the work force and are too tired to do any outside learning--like, say, consuming nonfiction about politics, the environment, social sciences or racism, or fiction that heavily features those themes (or, featured enough that the person spends a not significant amount of time thinking/talking them through). This makes sense: we live in a late-capitalist hellscape and everyone is tired. Sitting down to read Audre Lord at the end of my workday is a tough call when Good Omens is literally right there. It’s not that I don’t want to do it, it’s that I have to force myself, because I spent the whole day not having fun, and I have 5 hours before I have to go to bed and not have fun again tomorrow.
So most people don’t make this effort in their own time--which, again, fair. Ideally, then, you’d want to at least train yourself to think this way while in school, right? My ability to incorporate multiple perspectives into my critiques of even stupid shit, like reality TV, far outstrips my STEM, MBA and CompSci friends who don’t do a lot of self-directed learning--not because I’m smarter by any means, but because I was literally trained to question every piece of information I was given and then told to make an argument about it, and I was given a lot of texts with themes of facism, racism, classicism, sexism, religion, colonization, het- and amatonormativity, etc etc the list goes on. When you consume enough of this shit, it becomes easier to spot--and if you don’t practice, you get rusty as fuck.
This whole “university is a business and teaches employable skills” thing is pretty recent; people used to go to trade schools for that. If you were at university, you were there to learn how to think. And theoretically, humanities degrees are poised to make humans who are much harder to fool with things like propaganda and mob mentality. Question anyone who is celebrating the decline of this kind of learning, degrading it, or making fun of it. Why? What are their motivations, and what do they gain from a generation of young people unprepared to do the kind of thinking a humanities degree offers?
Pretty sure it’s nothing good.
I’ve been having a lot of feelings about the downfall of quality lately.
I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery material–I can’t actually call it fabric in good faith–and fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, they’re not made of asbestos. They’re only separated by time.
There’s no wood used in interior design unless it’s a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every “apartment hack” I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.
I’ve been harping on this for years, but everything is shit, nothing is designed to work, and “growth” and “profit” are just euphemisms for cutting corners until things are unworkable.
everything is more expensive, and everything is getting shittier.
just wait when next tumblr update they implement the good old algorithm where likes determine how popular a post gets, and the transformation to boring mainstream social media platform is complete :)
this might be a hot take but i think we should still be required to wear masks on airplanes
we need to start hounding people into wearing masks again. why aren’t you wearing a mask on public transit? why aren’t you wearing a mask in the crowded grocery store? why aren’t you wearing a mask in the literal hospital? if you’re half as progressive as you claim to be you’d require masks at your busy events. you’re not a progressive if you’re leaving out the immunocompromised. plus covid can still fuck you up even if you’re perfectly healthy and had your vaccines. wouldn’t you rather be unnecessarily cautious than risk getting yourself or someone else sick? put your mask back on in the crowded mall. coward
i know we all hate all those new UI changes and i DO appreciate that theres a fix via add on so quickly, but i also worry that when theres an add on fixing it so quickly and everyone starts using it right away noone uses the feedback thing to actually let tumblr KNOW we dont like it bc its virtually gone
not wanting to guilt trip or shame people mind you, but i do wonder how many people just install the addon and forget the change was ever made so theres no incentive to give staff any feedback, we gotta spam them with feeback through their feedback form lads, not spam their replies they probably dont read and then install an addon and move on qnq
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I am absolutely FURIOUS that for the past few decades, we've finally made some amount of positive change in the arena of gender equality, recognizing that men and women aren't so different from each other, only for some harpies to pull a complete 180 the MOMENT they realized trans women were a thing.
"OH NOOO ok actually women are so infirior to men, they are just so weak and pathetic and can't do anything against them, so men should never compete against women because they are just so much stronger and smarter and better in every way!"
HOW DOES THIS PASS AS FEMINISM THESE DAYS?????
[Replies from black-canary that reads; "Men and women are built different, men are stronger because they have more muscle, it's not sexist to state facts. What's sexist is saying women are inferior to men because we don't want to be put in harms way.
'Queer' user try not to piss and shit on women challenge" END ID]
I am creating a reblog for this because I know I have shit to say in response to this. How exactly am I the one who is shitting on women for saying we are strong and capable, exactly? Wasn't that like, the entire point of feminism in the fucking first place??
You know why gender segregation in sports is even a thing? Women used to just join men's leagues because female sports wasn't even a thing yet (because old folks like the Victorians veiwed women like children who need to be coddled, claiming that they were "too fragile and delicate" to participate in sports and worried it could effect their ability to have and bear children) and some of those men were so fucking pissed off that women kept beating them they refused to compete with them anymore. It's literally a timeless cliche in some places that men piss and shit themselves just over the THOUGHT of losing to a girl, and we rightfully viewed that belief as sexist garbage, and now here you are, plodding over into my replies to "educate me" on why women are apparently so weak and helpless that competing with men will utterly destroy us, and you claim I'M the one being sexist???
But let's ignore that for a minute. What you said was that men have more muscle than women, which isn't even fucking true, I know for a FACT some women are built like tanks and some men are bean poles, but even if you want to take the classical view that testosterone encourages muscle growth, which is at least true from a biological perspective, it still means fucking nothing because trans women lose ALL those advantages when they go on testosterone blockers and estrogen. In other words; Their performance becomes similar to cis women who produce estrogen naturally, because they have the same hormone levels. It shouldn't fucking bother you that trans women are in sports, because people won't even let them compete with other women until they've been on T-blockers and E for at least 2 YEARS. They would have no biological advantage at that point.
But let's ignore that for a minute too. Cis women who have PCOS actually have much higher testosterone levels in their bodies than trans women after transition, in fact they are sometimes comparable to a man's natural T levels. Does that mean 10% of cis women can no longer compete because they have a biological advantage? More to my point; Should they be forced to compete with men instead, or are they in the no-man's-land of sports? A purgatory where they can only possibly compete with other women who have PCOS? Should we create a new league for every discrepency like this?
What about Canada's hockey league, who discovered that all the top players have a January birthday because they chose their players young and being literally older than other children is a biological advantage? Do we start segregating sports based on birth month, or do we acknowledge that EVERYONE has some biological advantages over other people and trying to make things as fair as possible is literally a losing game?
Sports are already sorted by height and weight class, so women will always compete against men in their own class anyway. Sure, men will probably trend towards the top more often, but that's not a guarentee, and it doesn't mean men are all just hopeless animals who are going to mindlessly pummel everyone in their path, including the poor defenseless women who just can't do anything to defend themselves against them.
Everyone has a biological advantage over everyone else. If we want sports to be more fair, maybe we should focus on height and weight class, not on the genitals of the people who compete.
Seriously, why do people care so much about other people's genitals??? It's really creepy!!!
Also, funny you should insult me for being queer, considering cis lesbians wouldn't have rights without queer people. Gays have the right to marry because of what black trans women did at the stonewall riots. Denying that is denying history.
Now stop using sexism to justify your transphobia. Or at least get the fuck off my post.
