[Image: a Tweet by sami (@ezekielfiguero): “you’re so quiet” actually i never shut the fuck up around people i am comfortable with but you are not one of those people]
The Blue Hole exhibit features the goliath grouper, but there are some gorgeous little fish in there, too. Look for this anthias along with spiny lobsters, hermit crabs, and cleaner shrimp!
When it comes to fighting oppression, you’re either here for everyone or you’re here for no one. Or rather, you’re only really here for yourself.
While there’s certainly nothing wrong with prioritizing the oppression you personally face in your own mind, telling other people that they deserve help less than you or that they ought to wait their turn shows that you’re the sort of person who shouldn’t ever get to wield any real power because you wouldn’t make anything better for anyone but you and yours. You’d propagate oppression just as much as those currently in power, and to be honest you already do propagate oppression plenty.
If you’re not here for all of us, then we’re not here for you.
could you even imagine the first time males mansplained creation to women… “actually, we are NOT here because of an endless chain of mothers like you giving birth going back eons in time. uhhhhh no … not at all. it really started when my bro this all powerful dude who lives in the sky made the first man and then a dumb woman who was TOTALLY inferior to him. yeah it’s surprising but legit. the wind told me when i was jerking off down by the river. i can’t prove any of this but if you don’t believe me i’ll kill you”
This post is cool because, according to my biology textbook, until very late in the development of science, men actually thought babies didn’t even share their mother’s bloodline, only their father’s. I mean, how much do you have to twist your percepction to come up with this
What the fuck, it’s in the mom’s tummy
They basically thought that the sperm contained a full human being and the womb was just the place where it grew.
Men have always overestimated their own importance.
“Men have always overestimated their own importance.”!!!!!!!!
can we talk about how Western-centric this concept is, too?
Like. If you start to do wide-scale anthropology re: gender (especially peeking back through history), the concept that “a place to grow” was lesser isn’t the most common concept out there. Yes, in some places women were treated as lesser and “a place to grow” was devalued, and in some places women had very little rights, but even in places society loves to paint as “women hating patriarchies”, pulling back the curtain reveals the power women held.
Then colonization happened, Europeans would only trade with men, and equality or female power became a foreign concept.
Onfim was a child who lived in Novgorod, Russia, in the 13th century. He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark (beresta) which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod. Onfim, who archaeologists believe was six or seven at the time, wrote in Old Novgorodian; besides letters and syllables, he
drew battle scenes and drawings of himself, his family, and his teacher.
i’ve seen similar ones from roman children living in what is now england, too. People have ALWAYS been people.
i love this so much, history with real people in it
see also -archeologists at hadrians wall dig up a letter from a roman soldier to his family tanking them for sending him a new pair of underwear in the mail -norse runes scattered around constantanople and several cathedrals turn out to be viking graffiti, including “this is very high” over two stories up -the oldest known joke (egyptian) and the oldest known english joke are both lowbrow sex jokes -roman gladiators had equivalents to sponsorship deals, some murals found were basically ‘gladiator brad pitt rubs himself with capelli brand olive oil, try some today’ and action figures were also found of prominent fighters for chidlren to play with -flat stone fragments left at egyptian construction sites were used as post it notes by workers, some included variations of ‘the foreman is a jerkface’ and a crude drawing of the pharoh with a comically large donger -we have an embarrassing wealth of 4,000 year old receipts referring to one specific merchant being an ass. WE KNOW HIM BY NAME, he wasnt even a king or anything,
Ea-nasir will be known through history for being a dick about refunds
I love how children, even in the 13th century, can never remember how many fingers someone has.
With that one post about medical discrimination that I’m pretty sure I’d reblogged before, I was also reminded of one simple observation from a Gyasi Ross piece I ran across again recently. A good enough summary that it stuck in my mind:
I don’t think it’s possible to see a stranger as a human being and talk to them like that. They didn’t see me as a human. I was something less. I’m not overly sensitive – sometimes people are just rude. No racism, no sexism, no anything other than everyday mundane rude behavior.
This was different.
That came up in a different context, but I think it applies just as well to what the OP there was getting at. (Among so many other situations.)
It’s usually not that hard to tell when you are just not getting treated like a person. I get so tired of the amount of invalidation and gaslighting some people will engage in because that makes them so uncomfortable to even acknowledge.
Though it can give you an unfortunately good idea of how much credit they are also affording you as a human being who is worth something. That denial behavior is disrespectful enough on its own.
And that’s before we even get to the Just Worlding BS that too often gets trotted out to justify treatment that they will even admit was wrong at all, and why that must have been understandable if you were not just imagining there was a problem. I don’t even have the energy to go into that very much.
But, again, that type of victim blaming/respectability politics response is not so compatible with viewing the other person as a Real Person, who deserves respectful treatment as much as anyone else. No matter how they try to turn that around.
That’s a little too good an indication of their priorities, and they are demonstrating that your not getting treated like shit is somewhere way down on that list.
If someone is not inclined to see you as a Real Person, there is no way to make them. That is an impossible expectation, which should never be laid on you to begin with. That is just not something that is within your control, and anyone who suggests otherwise is not acting in your interest. At all.
(All of which of course leads to any number of huge problems on a practical level. I wish I knew how to address basically any of them in useful ways.)
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