Just once, I want the hero to go “your wife/sister/mother/whatever would not have wanted this!”, and the villain to go, “actually, we talked about this a lot. She was really into vigilante justice and eye for an eye stuff. She always said, if something like this happens, avenge me.”
(zari: *looks down at list* *sighs* “look, she specified I need to push you off this cliff in the rain, and the forecast is for it to clear up before noon, can you please wrap this up because otherwise I’m going to have to orchestrate you watching everything you love fall apart all over again.”)
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #death tw
A few years ago I was listening to Science for the People (as I used to do), and they had an interview with Jesse Bering about his then-recent book Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. He was going on about how men’s sexualities are narrow and stable while women’s sexualities are broad and fluid, a spectrum with exclusive paraphiles at one end and @sinesalvatoremat the other.
And this felt really familiar, and at first I wasn’t sure why. And then I realised:
This was not the first time that I had been accused of having an extreme male brain.
I should start compiling a list of times I’m used as an example of an extreme version of a feminine mental trait, since it’s strangely frequent and cool.
I thought you might appreciate that. :)
Didn’t know it was strangely frequent, though.
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#and it’s interesting in a different way when *I* make a good example of a *masculine* trait #I used to know some people who would often point out #that any test of Real Womanhood *intended* to exclude trans women inevitably ends up excluding some cis women too #there are no places where you can draw a neat line #off the top of my head I can think of four Real Womanhood tests that I fail #(I’m autistic and paraphilic and non-dysmenorrheic and I never get catcalled) #((that last one especially feels like tempting fate to say it out loud)) #((but if I start getting catcalled tonight my past selves will still have been women)) #((so the point would remain)) #tag rambles #reply via reblog #gender
A few years ago I was listening to Science for the People (as I used to do), and they had an interview with Jesse Bering about his then-recent book Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. He was going on about how men’s sexualities are narrow and stable while women’s sexualities are broad and fluid, a spectrum with exclusive paraphiles at one end and @sinesalvatoremat the other.
And this felt really familiar, and at first I wasn’t sure why. And then I realised:
This was not the first time that I had been accused of having an extreme male brain.
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#the ”paraphilia is quintessentially masculine” people and the ”autism is quintessentially masculine” people #should get together and study whether the two things are correlated #or they might have already I don’t know #now I’m curious #oh look an original post #sexuality and lack thereof #gender #autism
Unmentionables on Tumblr: When you enter the @ symbol and a username on Tumblr, you can mention a blog, sending that blog account a notification. Unless you can’t. Here are some cases where Tumblr usernames won’t show up in results when you try to “@mention” them, or the mention notification won’t go through.
The setting for “Allow this blog to appear in search results” is turned off for the blog. User mention relies on a Tumblr user search, and disallowing all searches for the blog includes opting out of the user mention search.
The blog is identified as adult-oriented/not safe for work in its blog settings (and you are not following the NSFW blog).
The blog is a secondary blog that is password protected.
The blog account doing the mentioning is so new that Tumblr won’t send mention notifications as an anti-spam measure.
The blog account doing the mentioning was blocked. So if you block a blog, that shunned blog cannot “@mention” your blog on Tumblr.
The mystery about the tagging. Now you know.
@jaiwithani any of this describe you and your ability-to-be-tagged problems?
I can see mentions like this just fine, but my attempts to follow things that get tagged #jaiwithani have been met with sadness and despair.
#Amenta #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(some of which was meta-amusement that I saw this punchline coming) #high context jokes
Faced with the concept that autism is an extreme male brain and simultaneously told that they just think they are boys due to their autistic traits, AFAB autistic persons would find themselves with no allowable gender identities.
#our home and cherished land #(my 10th anniversary of moving to Canada is not until September) #(but this is the 10th *Canada Day*) #I’m either going to a museum or an open-air festival or both depending on the rain patterns #I’m going to go put my citizenship pin on now #oh look an original post #anniversaries #\o/
I find this line from Si Dwn absolutely hilarious:
Nobody nevah seh yuh a sell yuh body! – And if yuh did, bebeh, dat a yuh prerogative.
Which is literally just “One of the compliments I’d pay you is that no one would ever call you a whore! Except, like, if you were a sexworker, that would be cool with me too, because feminism yo.”
Honestly, I love everything about this. The cognitive dissonance. The sudden switch into a more formal register. The way he tries to rhyme “body” with “prerogative”. The “how do you do, fellow liberals?” tone. The fact that he’s trying so hard. The fact that this is in the middle of a song about how much he loves fucking because basically everything he writes is.
Kartel is my precious baby and I want him to be happy.
my god this song to me is like mwah mwah mwah mwah PREROGATIVE mwah mwah mwah
of all the legible words I would expect to hear in a song that is not one.
Oh, right, I keep forgetting Jamaican patois has low mutual intelligibility with the stuff you guys speak. That’s so weird to me, given that this song is perfectly intelligible to me – it just feels like an odd accent rather than a different language.
Admittedly, some phrases definitely stand out to me as more clear than others. On the other hand, it might just be that they stand out thanks to sounding funny, like “coming soon to a pussy near you” in New Jordans:
”it just feels like an odd accent rather than a different language.”
An odd accent is often enough to render speech unintelligible, though, especially when sung.
(Mind you, I seem to be unusually bad at this. I knew somebody once from Venezuela. After a year of hanging out in groups including her ~3 hours/week, I was still getting maybe three or four words in five. And I was alone in this: often, everyone else would laugh at something she’d said, and I didn’t laugh because I hadn’t understood enough of it to know that it was funny.)
Meanwhile, on the other end of the language spectrum from Hard Mode singing, we have Easy Mode reading (your mileage may vary). The written-out lyrics at the beginning of this thread mostly made sense (and I did laugh at the joke), and completely made sense once I noticed I’d misread “seh” as another “sell”.
(I wonder if ability to parse odd accents is positively correlated with ability to parse individual voices at crowded parties. You’ve mentioned being fairly good at that.)
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#language #nsfw text #reply via reblog #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
I have some medication bottles with timers built into the lids that automatically tell you how long it’s been since you last took a dose (opened the lid), and these things are so convenient I’m actually kind of stunned they’re not more common.
You don’t have to go through the whole rigamarole of “wait, did I just take my meds five minutes ago, or did I just think about doing it? … great, should I maybe miss a dose or maybe take a double dose?” every other time you take them. You don’t have to try to remember what time it was when you woke up in the middle of the night and groped around for the bottle and took the next dose and fell back asleep. If you’re taking more than one medication, you don’t have to keep track of which you took when. And of course doing all that when you’re sedated or have a fever or are just in pain is extra fun.
Plus: pediatric medicines. When I or any of my siblings got sick as babies, my parents used to write up a chart on the whiteboard, every time, with medications and dosages and times. Because they’d be switching off taking care of us, and it would just be way too easy for Mom to give the baby something that Dad had just given them ten minutes before but not thought to mention (and with a baby, that can be pretty dangerous). With timer-caps, you’ve got perfect information-sharing: you don’t just know what’s the last time you gave the baby the medication, you know what’s the last time the medication was used.
So it really seems like this should be more of a thing! I mean, ordering them online cost me a couple of bucks each; so if the manufacturers were just building in timers by default, what should that actually add to the price, maybe a quarter for each bottle? A dollar at the outside? That’s definitely within the store brand – name brand variation for even cheap over-the-counter medications. I’d happily pay fifty cents extra to buy a bottle of advil off the shelf at the grocery store that had a timer built into the lid to count out four-to-six-hours for me.
At the very least, I’m kind of surprised that this isn’t a default feature on, like, prescription painkillers. My parents did the whiteboard thing again for me after I had jaw surgery, because I was on the good drugs and in no condition to keep track of whether I’d had a dose recently or not. I strongly suspect that having a timer that set itself automatically – so that even someone pretty drugged up could look at it and see if it had reached 6:00:00 and turned green – would make a nontrivial difference in the rate of accidental overdoses. And given how much those drugs cost, adding a dollar timer to the lid is completely insignificant.
So I’d really expect consumers to be demanding these for the convenience, federal regulations to be pushing them for safety, and drug manufacturers to be happily showing them off as a “check out the cool fancy bonus gadget our brand has, because we care.” And yet as far as I know this happens literally zero – you can buy the timer lids online, if you know they exist, but no medication I’ve ever seen is just sold in bottles that have timer lids by default.
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#… #interesting idea #the more you know #remind me to get some of these #(right now I’m only on iron pills) #(where it doesn’t really matter if you skip a day or two) #(so when I’m not sure if I’ve taken any today I just don’t take it and it’s not a big deal) #(but I expect at *some* point in my life I’ll be on important-timing meds for *some* length of time) #(I was going to use one of those pillboxes with separate divisions for each day of the week) #(but that gets rapidly less helpful with anything more complicated than once-a-day)
