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thinking about gendered athletics in like. track and field specifically in school aged kids. and how everyone rattles on about 'biological advantage' when like. in an average school of average people i'd say that while puberty does create certain bell curves of physical traits, one thing that no one seems to talk about is socialisation advantage. how yeah, sometimes times i'd clock that'd get me in the top 5 for the girls' category wouldn't even get me in the top 20 if I ran with the boys--but also. when you're telling half of the kids that they need to sit still and be pretty and not get dirty and sweaty and the other half that they need to run around, they need to work hard to perform better and they won't be socially acceptable unless they do

it's no wonder that my school had a MASSIVE gender gap when it came to participation in sports. no wonder when we grew up this only increased: women bearing responsibility for more household chores, more child rearing, but work too, if they're good at a sport they wouldn't even have any time to train in it would they? not unless they're very privileged or turn down many of the things that other people say are important for women. and i see this gender gap everywhere. statistics show it. the activities my female vs male friends would invite me to do while we were hanging out show it. the way I was the only girl in my grade who wanted a soccer team while the guys had to whittle down enough people for 3 teams into one. of course the boys' team ended up performing better than me and the handful of girls we pulled up from the grade below!! because they simply had more talent to pick from. the way i'd often end up as the only girl kicking around a ball with the boys. and then we grew up and. none of my female friends got athletic scholarships or pursued it professionally, they all got regular jobs, the one girl I was friendly with who was good at all sports became a teacher. now she barely has time to go to the gym. while most of my male friends still play a sport. had time to train to become good at it.

and i wonder how many elite afab athletes there would be who would do better if we simply removed the barriers around putting time and effort into it. because i'm not that old, but when I was in high school even and i'd tell my female friends i went for runs in my free time they would find that weird. they were all too burnt out already to see themselves as being good at something active to be confident enough to pursue it. whereas nearly every amab person i knew then (whether they became men or women) might have been like that for a while, but sometime in the last 10 years they all started working out and all got good at some kind of physical activity and absolutely ate the words of their younger selves.

#tell me how this is about biology i guess #and like. it does have a role!! also like. most of my family are runners #regardless of gender so there's obv something genetic there #but i know i could be better at it if my brain and my schedule were better. and so much of that is down to sexism ableism capitalism #so. if we want fairness in athletics!! and i absolutely do!! #we can't just make it about those who are already elite. we have to make it about giving everyone the chance #then of the elite? maybe there will be categories to help with this sometimes but. we want to help people get there #gender #athletes #athletics #sport #feminism #women in sport #trans women in sport #trans men in sport

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#every time i go past luna park i'm gonna see this pic of her #anyway slay queen

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Remember that the calls for the national guard to intervene are calls to use state violence against Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Muslim and other pro-Palestine students. They’re calling for deadly violence against Jews in the name of “anti-antisemitism.”

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anyway here's all the clean/alternative lyrics compared to the original lyrics on ttpd:

the tortured poets department explicit: who's gonna hold you like me? / nobody / no-fucking-body clean: who's gonna hold you like me? / nobody / no-o-body

down bad explicit: everything comes out, teenage petulance / fuck it if i can't have him clean: everything comes out, teenage petulance / [gasp] what if i can't have him? explicit: 'cause fuck it i was in love clean: 'cause what if i was in love?

but daddy i love him explicit: i'd rather burn my whole life down / than listen to one more second of all this bitchin' and moanin' clean: i'd rather burn my whole life down / than listen to one more second of all this gripin' and moanin' explicit: all the wine moms are still holdin' out, but fuck 'em, it's over clean: all the wine moms are still holdin' out, but... it's over

florida!!! explicit: so you pack your life away just to wait out / the shitstorm back in Texas clean: so you pack your life away just to wait out / the firestorm back in Texas explicit: at least the dolls are beautiful, fuck me up, Florida clean: at least the dolls are beautiful, f-- me up, Florida explicit: can I use you up? / Florida / is one hell of a drug / Florida / go on, fuck me up clean: can I use you up? / Florida / is one hell of a drug / Florida / can i use you up?

loml explicit: you shit-talked me under the table / talkin' rings and talkin' cradles clean: you talked me under the table / talkin' rings and talkin' cradles

i can do it with a broken heart explicit: 'cause i'm a real tough kid / i can handle my shit clean: 'cause i'm a real tough kid / i can handle it explicit: lights, camera, bitch, smile clean: lights, camera, and smile

the smallest man who ever lived explicit: in your Jehovah's Witness suit / who the fuck was that guy? clean: in your Jehovah's Witness suit / who the hell was that guy?

the black dog explicit: and i hope it's shitty in the black dog clean: and i hope you miss me in the black dog

thanK you aIMee explicit: screamed, "fuck you, Aimee" to the night sky as the blood was gushing clean: screamed, "f--k you, Aimee" to the night sky as the blood was gushing

cassandra explicit: when it's "burn the bitch," they're shrieking clean: when it's "burn the witch," they're shrieking

the bolter explicit: ended with the slam of a door / then he'll call her a whore clean: ended with the slam of a door / then she'll call him a bore explicit: all her fuckin' lives / flashed before her eyes clean: all her many lives / flashed before her eyes

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i feel like the thing about trans people in sports is like. it's only this Big Deal To Discuss if your prime focus is on elite sport and people who make records etc. whereas if we focus on sport as something that we all should have access to, weird notions of 'advantage' shouldn't matter and are actually kinda ableist considering they imply the inverse, 'disadvantage' being relevant to community sport. when in fact we should all get a chance to play whatever sport we choose with people who are at a similar level to us in it. and that's literally all that's relevant for all but the highest achieving 0.00001% of athletes

#like don't get me wrong their achievements are cool #but doing sport is for the everyday person and we should focus on that more than just. the so-called elite #because everything being discussed is really only relevant if you're like. top 3 in the world for something #a very visible minority. not that it's not important to treat them fairly #but for the most part it's about enjoying ourselves and doing our best and i hope that we don't ever lose that #sport #gender #aka two things that are weirdly linked for me

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guys look who is BACK!

#tlh fanfic #the last hours #the last hours fanfic

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i love these points!! but i also want to add. THERE ARE CIS WOMEN WHO ARE VERY BURLY AND MUSCULAR

Trans men are doing this thing now where it's like "lol how can you say I'm a girl, I'm burly and strong" and like cool ... But there are trans women that present more masculine, so this "omg how can you think that's a woman, they're too buff and strong and muscular" is uhhhh

#it's the athlete spaces doing it ik #somehow i managed to go to school with at least 2 female bodybuilders #plus!! tall broad shouldered cis women!! many of them i know dress very specifically feminine to present more feminine! #and like. so many cis female athletes have smaller hips too! and flatter chests that could pass for just being pecs #and it's like. many of them get so insecure about that. and trans women too. maybe it's time we say it's compatible with femininity?

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Mega clean water

#snorkelling in Vanuatu looks like this you’re making me miss it!

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The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

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Imagine if you ran a towing service and someone called you like "hey I drove into a ditch and I hate it here, shouldn't have done that, this shit sucks", and goes on to lament about how they should've gotten different tyres, describing in vivid detail exactly how it happened and how they should have done all these things differently so they wouldn't have ended up in this ditch because being in this ditch sucks so bad and they hate being in it.

And when you're like "okay alright, let me know where you're at so I can tell you roughly how long it's going to take for me to get there with the truck", they go "ooh no no no no don't send anyone, I don't want anyone to pull me out or anything. I just wanted to let someone know that I hate it here."

And that's roughly how it feels like to be a solution-person when someone just wants to vent.

#this is so me thank you for making this post #i genuinely get overloaded when people vent and i just start. inventing things to fix to feel better #emotional blender or whatever

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#don't just gloss over the rest. process emotions and stretch too #and if you're gonna have bad posture just turn it into a yoga pose #and then learn the opposite yoga pose to balance out your muscles #unhinged neurodivergent health hacks with silver

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At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

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irl tumblr meetup with the mutual circle but no one says what their url is so u have to guess who is who

#pretty sure you guys would guess me right away #but maybe i'm wrong?? sometimes people are surprised when they see me irl #but i talk the exact same irl so you'd all know i think #probably just swear a little less? so not much really

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y’know it’s the small things that really remind me that they are 20 year old men.

#they do know that they can just store those in the pantry right and only put a few in the fridge before they drink them so they're cold? #sorry this just makes me go. damn did no one teach you how to conserve electricity as a kid?

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A woman went viral for being turned down for a next interview for a role, she asks the recruiter what she did wrong, the recruiter tells her they were “concerned about her lack of effort in her appearance.”

She explains she wore a freshly ironed blazer with a collared top. Her nails were painted a professional beige. She got a blowout for her hair, so a professional style. She had on subdued gold earrings.

The only thing she wasn’t wearing was makeup; she states she really doesn’t wear makeup, and only had chapstick on, as her skin is sensitive. Her lawyer mother has already explained she has no legal case against the company for any type of gender-based discrimination.

Just in case anyone wants to ask why feminists still refer to the “pink tax” or rail against more and more elaborate makeup trends being pushed on girls and women.

Women being punished socially for not wearing makeup is still a feminist issue.

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Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

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i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"