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Men in women's lives are like flies in a teacup, if society told you that no teacup was worthwhile without a fly in it, and drinking flies should be an essential part of your diet.

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What.

*Googles*

What.

she's the man is such a bad movie it circled back around being great

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Links:

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J. Gauld

Schregal (2020) ‘The Intelligent and the Rest’: British Mensa and the Contested Status of High Intelligence

Setlur (2014) Searching for South Asian Intelligence: Psychometry in British India, 1919--1940

The Measure of Merit; Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750--1940 by John Carson

Tilley (2005) Ambiguities of Racial Science in Colonial Africa: The African Research Survey and the Fields of Eugenics, Social Anthropology, and Biomedicine, 1920--1940

Staum (2007) Ribot, Binet, and the Emergence from the Anthropological Shadow

Farland (2006) W. E. B. DuBois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift

Mismeasure of Minds by Michael E. Staub

Sowerwinea (2005) Woman's Brain, Man's Brain: Feminism and Anthropology in Late Nineteenth-Century France

hello !! do u have any recommendations for books that demystify intelligence ? and/or historical analyses that pertain to its scientific construction ? I'm actually not picky at all, an extended reading list if you already have one available would be perfectly fine. I hope I'm being clear in my request bc English isn't my 1st language... if not, sorry

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for sure -- there's lots of writing about the historical context of IQ in particular, as well as other measures of 'intelligence' (binet-simon, galton, etc); there's also a lot of writing that's on specific national and regional contexts. so i'm not pulling anything close to an exhaustive list here lol but these are some i found at least somewhat helpful. im presuming you're a french speaker but if not just disregard the ones in french lol

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould -- this is probably the no. 1 recommendation you will receive in english on this topic. it's not necessarily crucial if you've read other historical literature critiquing psychometry, but if not, it's a very solid text and is intended to be an easy entry point into the topic, so it can be a convenient place to start if you just need a leading-off point

‘The Intelligent and the Rest’: British Mensa and the Contested Status of High Intelligence (2020). Schregel, Susanne. History of the Human Sciences 33.5, 12-36. DOI: 10.1177/0952695120970029

Child prodigies in Paris in the belle époque: Between child stars and psychological subjects (2021). Graus, Andrea. History of Psychology 24.3, 255-274. DOI: 10.1037/hop0000192

Searching for South Asian Intelligence: Psychometry in British India, 1919--1940 (2014). Setlur, Shivrang. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 50.4, 359-375. DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.21692

La mesure de l'intelligence: Jeux des forces vitales et réductionnisme cérébral selon les anthropologues français (1860-1880) (1994). Blanckaert, Claude. Ludus Vitalis: Revista de Filosofía de las Ciencias de la Vida 2.3, 35-68

The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750--1940 (2007). Carson, John S. Princeton University Press, ISBN: 0691017158

Ambiguities of Racial Science in Colonial Africa: The African Research Survey and the Fields of Eugenics, Social Anthropology, and Biomedicine, 1920--1940 (2005). Tilley, Helen. In Science across the European Empires, 1800--1950 (ed. Stuchtey, Benedikt. Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0199276292), pp. 245–287

Ribot, Binet, and the Emergence from the Anthropological Shadow (2007). Staum, Martin S. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 43, 1-18

La mesure en psychologie de Binet à Thurstone (1997). Martin, Olivier. Revue de Synthèse 118, 457-493

W. E. B. DuBois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift (2006). Farland, Maria. American Quarterly 58, 1017-1044

The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve (2018). Staub, Michael E. University of North Carolina Press, ISBN: 9781469643595

After Binet: French intelligence testing, 1900-1950 (1992). Schneider, William H. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 28, 111-132

Woman's Brain, Man's Brain: Feminism and Anthropology in Late Nineteenth-Century France (2003). Sowerwinea, Charles. Women's History Review 12, 289-308

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thinking about how for 15 months we watch people collect fragments of their loved ones in plastic bags because of israeli bombing shredding and vaporizing human beings, and only because one of those fragments ended up being an israeli hostage is all of israel up in arms and threatening more genocide. they never faced the ugliness of their own actions, the reality of carpet bombing indiscriminately, until it was one of their own returned in fragments mixed with other people, although she was given the dignity of a coffin instead of plastic bags divided into 70kg of viscera to define a person.

i agree that collecting people in fragments is enraging. i thank israel for reminding me precisely how angry i ought to be. every human life is equal so i will make sure to remain ten orders of magnitude angrier.

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please consider helping ghada's family (@ghadah-almadhoun). ghada has been trying to raise funds for her and her family for many months now but their campaign has been progressing very slowly. they are receiving roughly one donation every couple of days- this isn't nearly enough for them to be able to sustain themselves on. ghada has already lost her husband because of the violence and suffering that israel has inflicted upon palestine, and she and her children need our help to continue to survive. the currency for this campaign is in AUD, so please keep in mind that if you're in the U.S your money will go particularly far. $10 USD= $16 AUD.

ghada's campaign has been vetted and shared here (no. 330) gofundme link here

let's help this wonderful family as much as we can!

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idk why white ppl are always looking for a ‘safe haven’ on the internet like youre the ones making it unbearable

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Its not whataboutism to notice when you don't mind that palestinian children are killed in the most horrendous ways imaginable and their bodies disrespected but go into philosophics about how israeli childrens' bodies are "disrespected" because they were put into coffins (????) You literally do not care that we have been seeing nightmarish images of Palestinian children being killed for more than a year and it's not even subtle you genuinely do not mind seeing those images because otherwise it would have changed your entire world view.

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i was looking for writing prompts and came across what is now the funniest thing ive ever seen

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Please explain to me the thought process that made you believe that was written by a white USAmerican.

Indians and Chinese also populate the West and actively help oppress the Global South where the majority of their people live. This is why the terms "people of the imperial core" and "people of the periphery" are important terms to use. Otherwise you reinforce the bigotry that relegates immigrants as "non-Western", paints the many and varied Asian folk as "Chinese, Indians and Arabs" including the minorities suffering under their colonialism and imperialism. This reinforces their regional ethnic, cultural and geo-political dominance in those regions.

We who live here do not define ourselves solely in relation to the white colonizer because the Global North/Global South divide coloniality that informs our existence involves many forms of racial and ethnic oppression, including the erasing of our own voices by the Western diaspora. Assuming that any critique of your framings comes from white USAmericans is an example of this. Please use the proper terms for these posts and interrogate how your own attitudes and conceptualisations are formed by that of the imperial core you live in, and your own role in the reinforcement of this hierarchy as a citizen of it.

Indians and Chinese people make up such a huge chunk of the planet and yet people in the west think it’s a radical idea to conceptualize them as human

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My daughter Judy's condition is getting worse due to the lack of essential nutrients needed for her body to grow. This is because of high prices and my inability to afford them due to the lack of work in Gaza. Donate—your help can save Judy’s life before it’s too late.

Judy is now waiting for the simple donation that will save her life from death.♡

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I just don't feel like pretending that it isn't fucked up when children die or when corpses are used as negotiation pieces (a practice invented by the Zionist entity).

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He must inspect

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So called leftists in the so called West will post about the vitality of community while personally disabling & killing their communities with their refusal to mask

Every year their calls for community increase as they kill & disable mostly poor, disabled POC

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I really am beyond angry that there wasn't thousands of thousands of articles written for the Palestinian babies who have been killed because the people with all the power don't care about our children. They just don't. They never will and they accept our deaths as a natural order of things because if this is how they treat babies who were killed then why haven't they been making as big of a deal this entire time? The world should have stopped a year ago and sometimes I feel like it did but only for me and my people.

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It is true that the war in Gaza has stopped, but many battles have begun. Citizens, especially children, the sick, women and the elderly, whose homes were destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces They now find themselves sleeping in the open, under the harsh cold and rain, in extremely difficult humanitarian conditions, lacking the most basic necessities of life. Destroyed hospitals can no longer accommodate patients, contaminated water threatens the lives of those who remain, while the world merely watches, leaving Gaza to bleed silently under the weight of an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.

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"I am thy father's spirit! REVENGE HIS FOWL AND MOST UNNATURAL MURDER!"