“If A Society Puts Half Its Children Into Short Skirts And Warns Them Not To Move In Ways That Reveal

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

Rick in earlier seasons vs Rick in season 7

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hairfillofsecrets

9 months ago

Listen, I hate that stupid ‘The Proposal’ movie. But I do like the concept of a Dabihawks Proposal Inspired AU… Where half American, half Japanese Keigo is the manager (or something) of Touya’s department.

Now Touya and his co-workers/friends despise Keigo. Not because he is a tough or mean leader or anything. But Keigo is so… fake. And is a goody-two shoes. And is such a huge ass-kisser when it comes to dealing with the head of the company. Touya especially hates Keigo and wants nothing more than the man to be demoted. Or fired.

But then, Keigo gets a call that his father passed away and that he needs to verify the body. An already stressful situation made worse when Keigo learns his father passed away in America. The country Keigo was born in. Which fucking sucks for Keigo because he’s on a work visa in Japan. And no, Keigo’s mother will not go verify the body instead because she is “Hoping it’s not him.”

So Keigo goes, verifies the body, and returns to start packing up his life. He had a good run in Japan but unfortunately for him, all good things must end.

Touya’s friends and Touya celebrate this… until they find out who Keigo’s replacement is going to be. None other than Kai Chisaki, a former acquaintance of theirs that used to bully members of their group, ‘The League’. Worse, everyone knows that Kai isn’t afraid to get physical if he doesn’t get his way.

So, in a desperate attempt to prevent Kai from taking over the office, Touya offers Keigo a deal: Both have things they still need to accomplish in the company. Touya needs Keigo so his friends can stay safe while Keigo needs to stay in Japan. So, Touya offers a temporary marriage with Keigo. Nothing long term, just until they accomplish their goals.

It’s a crazy, insane plan but Keigo’s got no better options. So he agrees. However, they’re not in the clear because Kai, suspicious of this very convenient union, begins hiring private investigators to poke around and see if the engaged couple are truly engaged or not.

And what is Keigo and Touya’s plan to get Kai off their backs? Why, going to Keigo’s father memorial in Hokkaido. The island where Keigo’s mom was born, where she met his dad, and where all of Keigo’s awful family members will be in “mourning”.

What follows then are lots of shenanigans, a bunch of greedy family members asking Keigo for money, a suddenly protective Touya, and a mom who won’t even look her son in the eyes. And what’s revealed to Touya are the reasons why Keigo is such a fake-ass, goody-two shoes, butt-kisser.

Oh… and somehow, throughout all this, Keigo and Touya begin to fall for each other. Actually.

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hairfillofsecrets

10 months ago

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hairfillofsecrets

1 year ago

fleabag's fourth wall breaks being a metaphor for dissociation, and her doing them every scene EXCEPT when she has sex with the priest where she physically shoves away the camera. it being the first time in the entire show where she's fully present in the moment... poetic cinema.

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1 year ago

Catastrophiccosmic On Tiktok // Pinterest // In Praise Of Defeat By Abdellatif Laâbi // Pinterest //

catastrophiccosmic on tiktok // pinterest // in praise of defeat by abdellatif laâbi // pinterest // writing prompts for the broken hearted by eden robinson // fleabag // romeo and juliet by richard brautigan // vincent van gogh

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hairfillofsecrets

1 year ago

rams my head through a cement wall.

accompanying mix // flats under cut // if any c137c3st or freak shippers touch this ill be in your walls immediately

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hairfillofsecrets

1 year ago

In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

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10 months ago