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I had a really interesting conversation with a friend of my dad's last week. We disagreed about almost everything but it was very respectful and motivated by mutual curiosity which is great and this one thing stuck out to me: At one point he said that he didn't think a woman could be Minister of Defence. I pushed back on this and we figured out that what he actually believes is that you can't do that job if you've never done real military service, including weapons training, because even if you've never been on active duty, he believes that you shouldn't manage the country's military you haven't properly experienced it. Which is a totally different statement! This guy is a couple years older than my dad and had to do mandatory military service as a young man, which only applied to men and got abolished when I was a teenager, and until the year 2000 women weren't allowed to "serve with weapons" if they enlisted voluntarily. By this guy's standards, way fewer women are qualified to be defence minister just based on access and statistics. The important part here is that this man has a strong opinion which I would argue is understandable, but his instinctual understanding of his own opinion was just "women can't do this job" and he had never questioned where that opinion really came from. He's a very sweet guy who is incidentally sexist not out of malice but because he genuinely believes men and women are Just Different, but now he's had to think about the structural reasons behind those differences at least in this one instance and realised gender isn't actually the defining factor, it's just the top layer. A lot of casual bigotry works this way. I hope he starts to think about more of his opinions like this.

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every time I remember about gender I want to scream. I grew up as a 'tomboy' in a relatively progressive area and the kind of shit I was put through is insane. I remember distinctly this one birthday party when I was six or seven when my parents specifically told the other parents that I hated dolls and would have a meltdown if any of them gave me dolls for my birthday. I received not one. not two. but three dolls. and it's like. this stuff is so minor when you look at it as a one-off incident. but also what the fuck is wrong with people that they would think cisgendering is more important than being responsive to an individual child

anyway I brought this story up several years back, when we were discussing gender in my year 11 sociology class. and my teacher shrugged and said "you can't blame any of the parents for that though". well why not. literally that post about how the average cis person will reinforce gender more violently every single day than a trans person who makes nonstop egg jokes. down with cis etc

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Not that there's anything wrong with having something wrong with you

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HIIIII FEEL BETTER MWAH LOVE YOU

GOOD MORNING ‼️ i was literally just thinking about how i miss florida and i miss alligators and random iguanas and insane humidity . i love a state that is trying to remind you that you don't belong. california is kinda cucked into submission a bit

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ACAB!!!!!!!!! daisy tonner the woman that you are

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I get real "I'm at soup" vibes from some media crit

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I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

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if jon got this captcha he'd cry himself to death

no captcha + bonus under cut!!

they're so stupid i love them

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I heard about this earlier but this is phenomenally good news because a lot of these manuscripts hold palestinian intellectual history dating back centuries and my friends who work in the Islamic book history field believed these all to be gone

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Sometimes I love the internet, actually. Incomprehensibly huge place but also so small. Saw a video on Instagram where Crayola was announcing they’re coming out with a box with some limited edition previously retired colors, including Dandelion. This video had hundreds of comments and almost all of them where “omg where’s the dandelion crayon girl she’s going to be so happy” and it was such an unimportant thing, but it was just cute

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Sorry your boyfriend died and came back and died and came back and died and came back and died and came back again. He was trying to find you.

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100% golden 0% retriever

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it sucks that even todo lists get affected by the adhd 'absorption of stationary objects into their environment thus leading to effective invisibility' thing

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It's kinda funny when you get a bunch of likes but no reblogs like I enjoyed your post but I'd prefer if no one else saw it

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Happy pipe murder day to all you tma fans! I only know bc my bestie is obsessed with tma and I’ve only listened to protocol so far, but happy pipe murder day anyway

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Anyone who has worked a real job knows the look of someone standing there looking at something that's gonna fuck up their afternoon