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It's really simple. If you're born with a vagina and you naturally have elevated testosterone levels, you're a man. If you have a vagina and you take testosterone, you're a woman. But also if you have a vagina, you'll never be a man. But also if you have higher testosterone then you were never a woman. Woman never yes man a vagina testosterone no was an elevated. Vagina man.

great work everybody

My mom decided to weigh in on this, on the side of the Italian boxer, thinking I'd allow her to repeat bullshit talking points for some reason (never have allowed that shit, especially not from someone who raised me not to tolerate racism or anything that ends with someone being put down)...I made her stay on the line until she admitted she was wrong.

I want to clarify, Angela Carini did not quit because she thought her opponent was trans, nor was she "forced" to quit. She quit because the first punch made her nose bleed and she couldn't breathe. She quit due to fear for bodily safety. She did cry and refuse to shake her opponents hand, but it had nothing to do with her gender, she was just upset she was injured and couldn't continue. She later admitted that she had shown poor sportsmanship in refusing to shake her opponents hand, and apologized to her and to everyone, and clarified it had nothing to do with gender, and if the Olympics said she can compete she can compete. Angela Carini is being used by terfs as a scapegoat and is not at fault for anything more than poor sportsmanship.

Dead on. Thanks for adding this. Here's a thread from Threads with more background on Carini.

Reblogging for additional information - Imane Khelif and Angela Carini are both being used to push someone else's racist, transphobic agenda. And I'm not here for that.

Cannupa Hanska Luger, (No)stalgia, 2020, ceramic, steel, and fiber, 62 × 62 × 32 in (157.5 × 157.5 × 81.3 cm)

Tissue Series

These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree. Quilling was first practiced by Renaissance nuns and monks who are said to have made artistic use of the gilded edges of worn out bibles, and later by 18th century ladies who made artistic use of lots of free time.

- by Lisa Nilsson

A hydra appendix. With every appendectomy, two more regrows

Searching for the Crab, found the Hydra

As it turns out, a worm was just discovered that is actually like this, Ramisyllis multicaudata:

This is a good article to read more: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/05/this-worm-has-100-butts/

To quote said article:

“The team also found that the worms’ branching is well beyond skin deep. Incredibly, every time Ramisyllis forks itself, all the internal organs divide, too: The gut, the nerves, everything splits and runs the length of the branch. This also creates a unique, muscular band or “bridge” that threads between the organs every time the critter splits. These bridges can visually demarcate Ramisyllis’ main trunk, which is pretty useful when you’re observing an animal shaped like a tumbleweed.

The farther you get away from the head, the weirder the worm gets. Aguado and her colleagues were able to closely examine the tips of the branches, which are crucial for the species’ reproduction.

When Ramisyllis decides it’s time to procreate, its abundance of wandering derrières go through a transformation. The branch ends basically convert into genitals, filling with eggs or sperm. These reproductive units (or “stolons”) grow eyes and their own brains. When mature, the stolons detach and swim away, their freshly acquired “head” and eyes steering them to mate with stolons of the opposite sex. What started as a wriggling snarl of buttholes becomes a swarm of autonomous, sex-seeking torpedoes.”

Is it not enough to simply have a hundred anuses? Must you also use them?

Really worrying how many of u are like “Well I am anti-porn and think the nordic model is good and i think people should be harassed over how they have sex but I don’t hate trans women so I can’t be a radfem” like honestly ur trash

And you’ll always invariably find that “but I don’t hate trans women” has lil implied “as long as they behave”

fun fact: radfem ideology is deeply harmful whether or not it’s trans exclusionary. trans inclusionary radfem ideology is deeply harmful *to the trans people they’re including* because it’s ALL bundled up in the idea that sex is inherently degrading and there is no such thing as having the agency to decide on how you interact with sex. it’s puritanism with a fun “”“feminist”“” hat. radfem ideology is inherently sex worker exclusionary.

radfem ideology is just a new fun way of telling women how they have to behave to be a Good Woman tm - and i think it’s obvious how deeply harmful this is to everyone involved, but especially trans women and sex workers.

^to expand on this, the vast majority of sex workers are especially marginalised regardless of their work, this marginalisation often leads to sex work being their only viable career path, and as a result you will find many trans women who are sex workers. You cannot be trans inclusive while being anti sex work

friendly reminder especially to the young women following me – this shit is not correct. you are allowed to be critical of porn and sex work. you are allowed to listen to sex workers, including trans women, who talk about the trauma they have been through due to sex work. you are allowed to want to protect other women from these experiences. being critical of these things does not equal hate toward the people who find themselves in these occupations, it can mean wanting to ensure they have resources and other options. being critical of these things doesn’t mean you want to punish those women. you don’t have to tell yourself that sex work is empowering or good for women, including trans women, just because people on tumblr tell you it is.

See this? Perfect example of thos radfem bullshit. I’m here saying being ANTI porn and sex work is bad, because it harms sex workers, and here comes this idiot acting like I’m trying to discourage criticism, with the intent of turning people against anyone who supports sex workers by equating us with those who oppose any criticism of the associated industries. Also note how “sex worker” is being equated with “women”, which is another huge dogwhistle.

Sorry hun, but me batting for MY people and saying we should be allowed to survive ain’t the shit you are painting it as. How about you sit the fuck down and listen to sex workers.

“you are allowed to want to protect other women from these experiences”

This is another dogwhistle. Radfem ideology is inherently hostile to the idea that women can consent; women must always say no, to sex work/transitioning/men in general/et al, because they can’t meaningfully say yes. Radfems believe that sexism as a power dynamic is entirely inescapable to the point where consent is impossible, so that any woman (or person they insist is a woman) who chooses to do things they don’t approve of is a poor brainwashed child in need of saving who just doesn’t realize they were coerced.

Women who date men, trans men and transmascs, sex workers, trans allies, anyone who doesn’t believe sexism is the ultimate form of oppression – all are treated as poor wombyn who got it wrong (no matter the variables of their situation, but especially if they’re hurting in some way) and need to be steered back into proper sisterhood where they can learn to be (as stated above) a Good Woman™ and to hate whatever they used to be. Anyone radfems can’t “save” is reclassified to The Enemy and Part of Our Oppression Under Patriarchy.

Radfems will couch it in concern and the language of mutual aid to make it seem like a harmless, earnest, heroic effort to help others, but it stinks just like the rest of their ideology.

This is why “Save the family unit!” “Save our traditional values!” and “Save the children!” are viewed with suspicion. It’s not because anybody hates families or values or children; it’s because we’re used to these arguments as an excuse to hurt people.

What really pains me about how morally fucked up and bluntly racist the Wonder Woman movies are, is that they still go on to be successful and make a lot of money. Aside from a few Muslims on social media (and even fewer non-Muslim who would like our posts/tweets for brownie points, but still go to watch the movie afterwards) almost no one is really participating in the conversation about the pro-IDF propaganda and racist portrayal of Arabs in these movies, even though people have out-right boycotted movies in the past that weren’t as offensive as the WW movies, but for some reason that same energy isn’t present right now, even the most woke “SJW” are ignoring all the controversy around these movies and instead choose to drool over how hot this white actress with mediocre acting skills is and how female-empowering her movies are. 

I agree, I hate it because only a few people realize that what the movie is showing is racist, and some don’t even care. But Muslims and Arabs deserve respect like everyone else, that’s what some don’t understand. I, as a Muslim and Arab, would never make fun or be racist to other religions, never. Because we all deserve respect if you all like it or not.

Hi! Underducated white person here, I was wondering if you could go into the specifics about what was racist? Maybe some small things they did in the movie rather than the overall? I want to understand as much of this as possible, so please be detailed if you don’t mind. :) I watched the movie also, so you don’t need to explain context more than you should.

This might look long and all over the place, but please bear with me here, to sum up everything in one post, there are 3 main reasons for that.

First reason:

The movie stars Gal Gadot, a woman who served as a fitness-instructor in the IDF, an organization that was created for no other reason (and I say this without a shred of over-exaggeration) than to oppressing/murder/torture/displace Palestinians and steal their land as well as the land from surrounding countries, most of the time in the name of “self-defence” and maintaining “peace.”

Usually in every single post talking about this you would have people defend her by either saying “it’s mandatory for all Israelis to serve in the army, she had no choice” or “she was a non-combatant, she didn’t actually kill anyone” and while both statements are true, people are forgetting that A) you literally have a choice of going to jail for a couple of months instead of being a part of an illegal military occupation that breaks international laws (people choose to do it all the time) and B) she didn’t serve in the army during normal time, she served during the 2006 war with Lebanon, a war where 1,200 unarmed Lebanese civilians were killed as a result of Israel specifically targeting urban area without any warning or eviction notice, meaning even if she wasn’t a combatant herself, some of the soldiers she helped train might very well have killed some of those civilians and most importantly C) Gadot has praised and publicly supported the IDF multiple times over the years, most noticeably during the 2014 bombing campaign in Gaza where 2,104 Palestinian were killed, ¼ of whom being children, Gadot hasn’t apologized or even addressed people’s anger since.

That might sound long but this is just scratching the surface, now to get back to why is the movie racist, aside form Gadot’s playing a pacifist Superhero who claim “to hate guns” there’s many things to point out, but the first one is that there is a scene where Gadot (who is also a co-producer of the movie) used a missile to save Arab children from being killed while they were innocently playing football, that scene is considered very insensitive and just plain disrespectful when you consider that during the 2014′s bombing campaign (which Gadot was very supportive of) there was a famous tragedy where Israel shot missiles at 4 children while they were just playing football on the beach, those attack weren’t an accident as foreigner journalists in a nearby hotel (also literal photos that can be found online) have said that they saw the children crying and running from the first missile that missed, only to be killed 40 seconds later by another missile.

So having a scene like that in the movie, where we have to see a parallel between the same woman who was cheering for the IDF after the said accident above, actually save Arab children while they were playing football (while beating Arab soldiers) is just plain disgusting, not to mention that criticism toward Gadot’s support for the IDF have been around for years now, meaning this specific scene was there just to show people that “see? She doesn’t support Arab children dying :)” and to crime-wash the IDF’s image (also on a side note, one of the little kids she saved was wearing hijab to really emphasize that they are Muslim, even though in most Muslim countries, especially 80′s Egypt, little girls that young never really wear hijab)

Then we get to the 2nd reason:

The racist and historically inaccurate portrayal of 80′s Egypt, the movie portrayed Egypt as having a tyrant king (even though in real life Egypt literally didn’t have a king since 1952) who wanted to have all of his land back and to kick out all of the “heathens,” this is really creepy when you realize that for decades Israel had pushed this narrative that all the countries in the Middle East want nothing, but to destroy Israel and kill every Jewish person there (so therefor they need 4 billion dollars in military aid from the US every single year to “defend” themselves) so to have an Arab ruler saying on screen that he wants to have all of his land back and to kick out all of the “heathens” then it comes off as very Zionist-propaganda. Speaking of that, there was also a scene where there was a giant apartheid wall in Egypt, even though again, the only place in the entire Middle East that has an apartheid wall is Israel, with 144 countries in the UN voting against it’s existence, 12 abstaining and 4 voting for it.

Not to mention that through out-Egypt being on screen, they portrayed it’s capital Cairo as a dusty city that has just been through a sandstorm (with that ugly yellow-filter they have for every time a Middle Eastern country shows) in the middle of the desert, whose people looked like they were living in poverty, they had clearly Indian-looking people in Indian-looking clothes being extras and acting as Egyptian citizens that were eating Indian food while sitting on the ground. Even though in real-life, Cairo is actually built on the fertile land of the Nile river, where you can see trees almost everywhere and that while poverty exists in Egypt during the 80′s, the economy was going strong and you just wouldn’t find all the poverty imagery they used in the movie there (or Indian looking people in Indian-looking clothes).

Third reason:

They had a scene where everyone in the world was wishing for something and they had a Middle Eastern guy with a gun in a cabin in the middle of the dessert looking through a window as if he’s about to shoot someone saying “I wish we had nuclear weapons” this in itself is obviously gross and racist, but it becomes even more gross when you look at the climate we live in, how the US has claimed that Iraq had nuclear weapons and using that as an excuse to invade Iraq and kill 100,000+ Iraqis (most of whom are civilians) and how they are currently trying to do that to Iran or how Israel had assassinated multiple Nuclear scientists from Middle Eastern countries (with the support of the US) from 1962 to 2020 on the ground that them having Nuclear weapons would be too dangerous and would bring instability to the region, even though Israel itself has 90 Nuclear weapons, so having a Middle Eastern guy on-screen wishing for Nuclear weapons in the middle of fighting in a war, would support the narrative that the US/Israel has created that other than Israel, no one in the Middle East should be trusted with Nuclear weapons (but then again the United States Department of Defense has a long history of funding Hollywood movies, so….)

And all of these 3 reasons are things I found out by seeing screenshots and small clips on social media and talking to people who actually watched the movie, so you could only imagine what more things I would have noticed if I actually watched the movie myself (also I know the movie also had some racist stuff against Black and Maya people, as well as some sexist moments, but I didn’t read enough about that to talk about it)

Another reason why this movie makes me upset, is that both the director (Patty Jenkins) and lead actress (Gal Gadot) of Wonder Woman 1984 are going to be doing a Cleopatra movie in the near future, so if they managed to squeeze this much anti-Arab racism and Israeli imperial-propaganda in a movie where Egypt was only featured for a small part, you can only imagine what they would do in a movie where the entire story is set in Egypt.

here's a NPR article on this

that was updated this morning

this is happening right now, even if you can't tell from the screenshoted tweets. if we don't make a stand against this now, we're going to regret it later

article posted Jul 17, 1pm. most recent update Jul 18, 2am.

local politicians don’t want them there either. not to be dramatic but that’s an invasion.

The question I've been thinking about for the past day is whether the state brings in the National Guard to try to counter this and then....well.

On the whole I'm guessing it's better if the state DOES do this than if they don't.

pres. trump sent federal troops into portland to squash the protests and they shot someone in the head with an impact round last night and shattered his skull. his blood is still on the sidewalk outside the federal courthouse. they are not like local cops and they are NOT fucking around. they carry ARs with live ammo and they are merciless. i am very sincerely scared that federal forces are going to instigate a kent state type situation by killing protesters as an example sometime between now & november and i am very scared it’s going to be here

Video of the protester who was shot being carried away by medics while bleeding everywhere (obvious TW). He is alive but was in critical condition when he arrived at the hospital & needed extensive facial + skull reconstruction surgery. At the time they shot him he was standing on the sidewalk with both hands holding a boombox above his head Video of a federal officer kneeling on someone while he has a seizure; they did not allow medics to help him. There is word that this person may have died but afaik that is still unconfirmed Video of federal officers chasing & assaulting medics tending to an unresponsive protester Video of 15 feds forcibly arresting a disabled trans person and taking away their service dog for the crime of writing on the federally owned sidewalk in washable sidewalk chalk

Full live tweet thread of the night (7/11/20) with a lot more video footage, especially of the absolutely ludicrous amounts of tear gas they used

sorry for the long post—i am not sure how much national coverage this is getting and i really want people to know what’s going on here. they are behaving like an occupying army & treating citizens like enemy combatants