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goodnight 🫡

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

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reading murmurs of earth the book abt the voyager golden record rn i could read about it 1 million times and i will never get over it ever. especially this

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“First Spring” 2007

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actually me

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im too good at essays to have gone down the stem route its fine. but then i was too good at maths to go down the essay route. kind of messed up how u can only choose one and u basically have to choose when ur 16 😭 who built this system

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kind of wish i had gone the stem route at a levels and done physics at uni. but thats the devil speaking i cant think about that it is 4 years too late to change that

#when i was a kid iw anted to be an astronomer maybe i should have stuck to that dream. but oh well #the boy i like does astrophysics i need to marry him and live my space dreams vicariously its not fairrrrr

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pls can we stop climate change asap i cant do another summer of increasing humidity

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Ronnie, Nedra and Estelle - The Ronettes

📷 by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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Keith Haring

felt pen on leaf

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when i was in secondary school when adults asked about my career goals i wld alwyas say i want to write novels or work in movies. and they'd always say 'so you want to be a screenwriter!' NO!!! if i wanted to be a screenwriter i wld say that. i want to write novels or work in movies >:(

#used to annoy me soo much. the writing and movies are separate why else would i word it like that

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Twin Peaks (1990-2017)

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There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees

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my favourite thing to read w my mother when i was a kid was always oscar wildes stories we cld never get to the end of one without both of us crying

#the selfish giant..... omg

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I dont think its real

#my parents read to me for so long even when i was like 8 or 9 they would read with me for a while and then i'd read a different book by #myself for an hour after. it was like book club with my parents lol they would both read me different things & we'd talk abt them #read narnia with my mother stig of the dump with my father etc..

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i fr have reverse seasonal depression but i hate telling people about it bc it sounds like i am trying so hard to be unique and edgy but im nottt its real 😭 ive tried looking stuff up about it but other people who get depressed in the summer usually talk about how they hate being overly hot and sweaty in the peak of summer but for me its nothing like that its just as soon as the days start to get longer and it gets to a pleasant seasonable temperature where u dont have to wear ur winter coat anymore im suddenly so morbidly sad. i like the weather and the daylight but it still makes me so sad. and i have never been able to figure out why :S

#its been this way since i was a kid i just get so so so down in spring/summer and im fine in the winter #i kind of get used to it by the end of summer but the beginning of spring transition is always so harddd