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Every single woman should have hairy ass armpits and they should always wear tank tops and show it off at every convenience

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In the middle of the twentieth century, US industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss was also thinking about the ways in which bodies are situated in social contexts. His 1955 book Designing for People introduced a groundbreaking approach to industrial design that continues to shape and define the field of ergonomics and industrial design today. In his book, he uses two anthropometric models named Joe and Josephine—considered by some to be “the heroes of modern, functionalist design”—in order to emphasize “the human factor” of industrial design. We suggest that Joe and Josephine exemplify the socio-ethical problems of knowing too well what a body is.  For Dreyfuss and the legacy of design knowledge he left behind, archetypal human bodies are white-skinned, able-bodied, of mythically average height and weight. They also fall neatly into the (hetero)normative two-gender binary system. Dreyfuss designed objects and spaces not only to fit Joe and Josephine’s highly gendered bodies; Joe and Josephine gender the objects and spaces they inhabited. When chairs made for an airplane, an armored tank or a tractor are designed to correspond to Joe’s virtual and normative body dimensions, and when an ironing table, a telephone switchboard, or a vacuum cleaner are designed to correspond to Josephine’s body height and size, the abstract concepts of masculine and feminine bodies structure and define these objects, their uses, and the spaces they occupy. Although Dreyfuss’ standard bodies are easy to critique because of their explicit definition, most designers of the modern era operate with similar bodies in mind. Many still refer directly to Dreyfuss’ anthropometric data and models. This is the social and ethical function of design standardization: to assign and put bodies in their “proper” place. Standardized design creates violent relations between bodies and environments. The intensity of violence the standard body brings to bear on an individual’s body is measured in that body’s difference and distance from the standard. A chair that is too high, a beam too low, a corridor too narrow acts on the body forcefully and with a force that is unevenly distributed. Bodies that are farther from the standard body bear the weight of these forces more heavily than those that are closer to the arbitrary standard. But to resolve this design problem does not mean that we need a more-inclusive approach to design. The very idea of inclusion, of opening up and expanding the conceptual parameters of human bodies, depends for its logic and operation on the existence of parameters in the first place. In other words, a more inclusive approach to design remains fundamentally exclusive in its logic.

I've posted this link before, a long time ago, but memes flow through networks like the weather. Just because it’s out there doesn’t mean everyone here saw it the first time, or that we’d see it the same way now.

It felt important to think about for a bunch of reasons.

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feel like past tense of bake is boke? hmm

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if he was themed around eggs instead of clowns he would be the yolker

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@nohoperadio :-[

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hey kinda messed up that 1st degree burn is the mildest burn but 1st degree murder is the worst murder. they should have collaborated more on that one.

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if i was a dc comic villain my name would be acid pussy

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i want. a slice of spice cake. and a cappuccino.

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punk possum

prints to usa: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/guilhernunes/punk-possum/

t-shirts, prints and much more to usa, europe and oceania: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167752742

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Caught myself daydreaming about passenger rail again

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there arent words to describe how much i wish i was wearing shorts right now

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I think asexuality and lesbianism share a lot of intracommunity problems—like the tendency for people with repressed sexual shame to cling to sexual identities that they feel are less “dirty” and then get neurotic about upholding the Party Line when they notice feelings and desires that don’t match the term they use for themself.

Like on one hand I understand why the asexual community has so vociferously rejected the idea that asexuality is the result of trauma—they don’t want to be medicalized and delegitimatized. But. On the other hand. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is and it’s not obvious and it may take many years for the person to really understand their own internalized shame or cultural traumas or repressions or dysmorphias. I think it would generally be a lot better if the asexual community more broadly embraced this with compassion and acceptance instead of as an existential threat.

Similarly, I think the lesbian community needs to get less uptight about the division between lesbians and bisexuals. I don’t even mean in a “bi lesbian” way so much as frustration with the way lesbians will immediately blame other women for men behaving badly. A lesbian expresses any bisexual behavior at all and other lesbians are quick to rip into her for Giving Us A Bad Name and Making Men Think They Are Sexually Entitled To Lesbians.

Like…. it’s normal and value neutral to be wrong about yourself, or to change. Everyone does in some fashion.

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>Protect women and girls foundation

>Look up founder

>adolf hitler

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