#incredible women and girls

[chlorinatedpopsicle]

A video of "human calculator" Shakuntala Devi solving complex mathematical equations within seconds.

In 1982, she was awarded the Guinness World Record for fastest human computation. She was assigned a multiplication problem with two random numbers of 13 digits each (7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779) and gave the correct answer (18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730) in 28 seconds.

She travelled to several countries for the purpose of having her talents studied. In 1988, her abilities were tested by Arthur Jenson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Problems given to her included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 and the seventh root of 170,859,375. Jensen reported that Devi came up with the solutions (395 and 15) before he could write them down in his notebook.

Before all that, in 1977, at Southern Methodist University, she gave the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds. Her answer (546,372,891) was confirmed by calculations done by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation. The computer took longer to solve the problem than Devi did.

Oh, also, in 1979, she wrote the earliest book about homosexuality in India.

(info stolen from Wikipedia)

#women and girls in STEM #incredible women and girls #women in history #herstory #neat stuff #LGB history #feminist history

[inkskinned]

you're grabbing lunch with a nice man and he gives you that strange grimace-smile that's popular right now; an almost sardonic "twist" of his mouth while he looks literally down on you. it looks like he practiced the move as he leans back, arms folded. he just finished reciting the details of NFTs to you and explaining Oppenheimer even though he only watched a youtube about it and hasn't actually seen it. you are at the bottom of your wine glass.

you ask the man across from you if he has siblings, desperately looking for a topic. literally anything else.

he says i don't like small talk. and then he smiles again, watching you.

a few years ago, you probably would have said you're above celebrity gossip, but honestly, you've been kind of enjoying the dumb shit of it these days. with the rest of the earth burning, there's something familiar and banal about dragging ariana grande through the mud. you think about jeanette mccurdy, who has often times gently warned the world she's not as nice as she appears. you liked i'm glad my mom died but it made you cry a lot.

he doesn't like small talk, figure out something to say.

you want to talk about responsibility, and how ariana grande is only like 6 days older than you are - which means she just turned 30 and still dresses and acts like a 13 year old, but like sexy. there's something in there about the whole thing - about insecurity, and never growing up, and being sexualized from a young age.

people have been saying that gay people are groomers. like, that's something that's come back into the public. you have even said yourself that it's just ... easier to date men sometimes. you would identify as whatever the opposite of "heteroflexible" is, but here you are again, across from a man. you like every woman, and 3 people on tv. and not this guy. but you're trying. your mother is worried about you. she thinks it's not okay you're single. and honestly this guy was better before you met, back when you were just texting.

wait, shit. are you doing the same thing as ariana grande? are you looking for male validation in order to appease some internalized promise of heteronormativity? do you conform to the idea that your happiness must result in heterosexuality? do you believe that you can resolve your internal loneliness by being accepted into the patriarchy? is there a reason dating men is easier? why are you so scared of fucking it up with women? why don't you reach out to more of them? you have a good sense of humor and a big ol' brain, you could have done a better job at online dating.

also. jesus christ. why can't you just get a drink with somebody without your internal feminism meter pinging. although - in your favor (and judgement aside) in the case of your ariana grande deposition: you have been in enough therapy you probably wouldn't date anyone who had just broken up with their wife of many years (and who has a young child). you'd be like - maybe take some personal time before you begin this journey. like, grande has been on broadway, you'd think she would have heard of the plot of hamlet.

he leans forward and taps two fingers to the table. "i'm not, like an andrew tate guy," he's saying, "but i do think partnership is about two people knowing their place. i like order."

you knew it was going to be hard. being non-straight in any particular way is like, always hard. these days you kind of like answering the question what's your sexuality? with a shrug and a smile - it's fine - is your most common response. like they asked you how your life is going and not to reveal your identity. you like not being straight. you like kissing girls. some days you know you're into men, and sometimes you're sitting across from a man, and you're thinking about the power of compulsory heterosexuality. are you into men, or are you just into the safety that comes from being seen with them? after all, everyone knows you're failing in life unless you have a husband. it almost feels like a gradebook - people see "straight married" as being "all A's", and anything else even vaguely noncompliant as being ... like you dropped out of the school system. you cannot just ignore years of that kind of conditioning, of course you like attention from men.

"so let's talk boundaries." he orders more wine for you, gesturing with one hand like he's rousing an orchestra. sir, this is a fucking chain restaurant. "I am not gonna date someone who still has male friends. also, i don't care about your little friends, i care about me. whatever stupid girls night things - those are lower priority. if i want you there, you're there."

he wasn't like this over text, right? you wouldn't have been even in the building if he was like this. you squint at him. in another version of yourself, you'd be running. you'd just get up and go. that's what happens on the internet - people get annoyed, and they just leave. you are locked in place, almost frozen. you need to go to the bathroom and text someone to call you so you have an excuse, like it's rude to just-leave. like he already kind of owns you. rudeness implies a power paradigm, though. see, even your social anxiety allows the patriarchy to get to you.

you take a sip of the new glass of wine. maybe this will be a funny story. maybe you can write about it on your blog. maybe you can meet ariana grande and ask her if she just maybe needs to take some time to sit and think about her happiness and how she measures her own success.

is this settling down? is this all that's left in your dating pool? just accepting that someone will eventually love you, and you have to stop being picky about who "makes" you a wife?

you look down to your hand, clutching the knife.

#writeblr #this is a mashup of like 3 dates i accidentally went on lol #by that i mean that i was out with a woman on a date in 2 of these situations #and a man just. joined us. and we were too awkward to say anything while he tried to ''date'' me #& one was a longterm friend that i was like. you what???? #like he's nice he's a doctor and my mom was SO happy she was like raquel think about it #''it's a perfect love story you grew up together and reconnected as adults and like the same things and he's friends with ur brother #and his sister is one of ur close friends!!!'' #yes but alas. he is a boy . she only likes girls. can i make it any more obvious #anyway im tryna write about like the force of male attention being actually incredibly ingrained to women like we are SUPPOSED to like it #it's seen as the only important thing #even if ur gay #and it's a nuanced thing idk #and while rn i i.d. as lesbian #like .... it wouldn't be UNTRUE to say i am probably like ''cusp bisexual'' bc i CAN experience attraction to men bc like . #sexuality is fluid... #don't tell straight ppl tho bc they do not understand the concept that ppl don't necessarily need a solid everlasting label #they're like GET in the BOX #if ur gay & in boston i'm 30 and pretty please come kiss me. #(i usually only date older ppl sorry in advance tho)

[wis-art]

Women, so pretty, so shaped, i am so lesbian,,,

#im also incredibly dysphoric tonight #but i was told by my coworker im incredibly feminine by her earlier #and i mean yeah #..... #i am a tall weird internet woman who likes to draw #so funny how i thought i was bi #I'm just really into women... #my ex is a trans guy and he told me he thinks im lesbian and i had a “holy fuck this explains so much moment” #we broke up but we still have a weird queer relationship outside of social heteronormative norms that is hard to explain and only we #can really understand #im not into men because you know #im a lesbian #had a weird period in my life when i was dating a guy and said im a lesbian and i felt sooooo scared #turns out when youre on meds and your brain is working right you just stop caring about such things #i went on a parade wearing big lesbian flag and girls loved it :) #i dont really know if i ever want to date anyone again #but i think if you look at my art you can really tell my sexuality quite easily lolol #funny how love can be so complicated sometimes #i mean it was kind of inevitable we break up cause we're kind of incompatible but tbh #it was better for us #hehe

[a-very-zilly-gooze]

guys

guys i just saw the mean girls movie

and even tho i’m a boy

all i can say is that i’m incredibly gay.

#SPECIFICALLY FOR JANIS #gooze’z zhitpoztz #i LOVE women guys #renee rapp #is also incredibly hot #lgbtqia #queer #lesbian #bisexual #wlw #sapphic #mean girls #mean girls 2024 #janis sarkisian #I DONT CARE WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THE MOVIE SLAPS

[shesnake]

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) dir. Maria Maggenti

#lgbtcinema #filmtag #the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love #maria maggenti #film #fm #* #q #subtitles #w #dsg #lgbt directors #women directors #walt whitman

[evilkitten3]

one of the most frustrating things about reading naruto meta is that every now and then you'll run into a post that's absolutely brilliantly thought out, has stupendous points, and pulls out all the stops on almost every level....

and you just have to stop and wonder how someone can simultaneously be so good at media analysis and so fucking bad at accepting that sometimes authors just cannot and/or will not write female characters on any level

#naruto #naruto shippuden #fandom crit #like how do you manage to process so much multi-layered political ninja stuff #and yet fail to comprehend that sometimes media has misogyny in it #sometimes male authors are simply sexist #bc there are people in this world who can understand the intricacies of the political minefield #but not the concept of women being human beings with the same levels of complexity as men #how do you write so much genuinely incredible and well-thought out meta #and yet still manage to come to the conclusion that a fictional 12yo girl is responsible for how a real life adult man wrote her #like. ????????? #''why didn't [insert girl here] just do [insert thing here]'' bc the author fundamentally does not view women as people next question #like out of all the things in the world of media that are hard to understand #how is ''sexism exists and you see it sometimes'' so high on that list #like ok it's been a while since high school but i thought ''the author's views color their work'' was media literacy 101

[magpiesbones]

ALSO. I KNOW IM GOING HAM ABOUT AMATONORMATIVITY RIGHT NOW. BUT THE AGENCY OF WOMEN IS ALSO SUCH A BIG THING THAT I AM ALSO THINKING ABOUT.

like!! The thing that gets all of them out is Jeha’s refusal to see chaerin as a romantic object. The insistence that chaerin and huisu are NOT in fact interchangeable even if they’re in the same body/running the same story because. Fundamentally. They are different people. And ALSO because. You cannot love an object like a person. And a fictional character can never be anything but an object.

but also! The way it acknowledges that not only is it fucked up to be put in a romance story and then forced to play along for a happy ending (I can and am making allegorical comparisons to real life here) it’s also. Fucked up to have the person you were in love with replaced with someone who is not the same amount of real person as you and ALSO completely dependent on you for their happiness.

hm the! Interconnectedness of misogyny and amatonormativity and the insistence that women can be and are social currency (if you have read Ace by Angela Chen: chapter five and the deconstruction of performative sexuality wrt male gender roles and incel culture DOES apply here!) as well as the idea that you can ‘win’ life by achieving a heterosexual marriage (your romantic life is also social currency) and the way that that concept is so carefully thematically decimated.

#THIS IS A ANTI TERF POST TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN TRANS MEN ARE MEN. #Surviving romance #Im not korean and im also not particuarly up on Korean cultural movements BUT I have heard that they’re having incel/antifeminist movements #recently. And the cultural context of a work is important #Anyways the way it acknowledges that it’s also like. Not a fun and appealing situation for Jeha to be in either! #yeah FUCKED UP that your childhood best friend/girl you are in love with got replaced and you didn’t notice #Fucked up that you’re chained to the romantic narrative anyways. INCREDIBLE AND COOL that you use the fucked upness of that to get out #Like!! Yeah

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

@\hecatesbroom (not tagging so I don't annoy you lmao) has been teaching me how to make gifs, and I'm happy to report I've been using this power for the greater good (to make gifs of beautiful women)

Bonus under the cut:

Three little Elizabeths because I couldn't resist her charm 💙

#these are not very well made lmao but i dont really care all that much. im having a great time #actually ngl im having the time of my life #nothing better than staring at beautiful women for hours <3 #im noticing now i've only picked gifs in which Dorothy is not smiling. criminal on my part #but in my defence i've been captivated by her hands #that gif where she crosses her arms... i would like her to... #no... i shan't say... #rose is *so pretty*. so pretty!! good heavens!! #(as is elizabeth lmao betty white really was that girl) #literally incredible how she manages to make confusion look so beautiful she's magnificent #and blanche. oh god. where do i even start. #her smile is. agh. how do i even tell you all i am literally in love with her #look at her in the top left and tell me you're not DESTROYED like #she makes an inappropriate joke. waits to see rose's reaction. and then brightens up in the cutest laugh in the world #i would literally unironically do anything for her #(to say nothing of bottom center. ooohhh that nightgown. the poise. i am but a wee lesbian and she's everything) #ok im done rambling in the tags. thank you alys for giving me this power i shall not misuse it #the golden girls

[capfalcon]

im gonna be so fr: tiktok girls that got popular bc they're pretty who are like "i cant do anything, im just a girl" they're just untalented and boring as hell.

most women i know are incredible and amazing and don't let tiktok or whatever brainwash you about the whole "trad wife coquette cutesy stay at home listen to whatever men say and not knowing anything" thing.

like these are young women and actual children who aren't working, whose income comes from a phone app. they're not really the people i think should be speaking about the "feminine experience" as if its a monolith. most of them don't even go outside. most of them have probably never really travelled, or have friends from different ages, different life experiences.

anyway. just saying. I'm tired of trends around feminity and quotes about feminity coming from random women most of us have very little in common with.

#this isnt me attacking these women im sure their experiences are valid and fun etc but #this IS me saying that i hate the concept that these women get to define womanhood #or femininity. gorgeous gorgeous girls etc #im tired of people recreating rigid gender roles under the guise of internet memes #like the 'im just a girl' thing is fuckin #stupid #esp when its applied to things like cars or sports or literally anything #women can do things. when did we go from women can do anything to 'hehe im so silly and im just a girl i cant do anything omggggg help meee' #girl. #and i say theyre boring because i believe that #not in the personality sense. but in the sense that #like women have been explorers and adventurers and scientists and doctors and lawyers and so many amazing things #like annie fuckin oakley????? like cleopatra???? like empress wu etc #hedy lamarr was an incredible actress and she also helped invent wifi??? like #im over this shit. lets stop minimizing women just bc u dont leave ur bedroom

[chlorinatedpopsicle]

#women #incredible women and girls #neat stuff #mine

[dollypopup]

I think it's real obvious that if you actually like Colin you don't belong in the Polin fandom. y'all are all so ableist about him and think the absolute worst of him and a huge number of the posts and fics are romanticizing Penelope straight up abusing him

we should make a new tag because this one is NOT it

#polin #bridgerton #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #there's a fun new trend in fics where instead of 'just' emotionally and mentally abusing him Penelope is now hitting him too #and the narrative justifies it and colin thinks it's his fault she hits him and everyone cheers in the comments isn't that great? #oh did i say great? i meant fucking awful #you can tell this fandom is painfully tradwife levels straight because they think women who do this shit is cute or harmless #us queer women who have been abused by other women know damn well fanon penelope is the kind of girl you run away from with a swiftness #but colin's just a big stupid dummy for 1 (one) comment and not assuming her feelings for him so he needs to be slapped around i guess #i hate it here #burn the whole fandom to the ground and start from scratch #and we're SURPRISED there's an anti-polin blog? WE'RE anti-polin ffs #everyone and their mother knows 'Polin' actively hates half their ship #and are incredibly hostile to anyone who doesn't slobber all over penelope's shoes as she mistreats her supposed love interest and friends #and yeah i'm bitter about it #also i'll say it: the way we talk about Luke Newton is fucking unacceptable too #he's a neurodivergent man and some of the shit y'all say is DISGUSTING #this fandom is actively antagonistic to nd peeps

[blacksapphicguide]

The Incredibly True Adventures of 2 Girls in Love (Movie)

1995 movie Drama, romance

Plot points:

Teenage, highschool love.

Inappropriate age-gap.

Homophobia (verbal).

Interracial lesbian couple (main).

Black sapphic characters:

Evelyn "Evie" Roy Jr. [lesbian] Nicole Ari Parker

Connections:

Evie x Randy (interracial lesbian: black x white)

Sex & Nudity - Moderate

Sex scene.

Violence & Gore - None

Profanity - Very Mild

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Mild

Wine drinking.

Use of a joint.

Frightening & Intense Scenes - Mild

Taunting of character about her queerness.

#the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love #black sapphic #black women #interracialsapphics #interracial sapphic couple #interracial sapphics #evie x randy #laurel holloman #nicole ari parker #ilc #interracial couple #interracial lesbian couple

[ffverr]

X-women by Swayart save me, x-women by Swayart save me please

https://twitter.com/JSwayArt/status/1780772290726113397?t=n0xUTplzlW71EZMRgyxmzA&s=19

#betsy's design??? to DIE FOR #the damn finger armor is incredible #dazzler my girl #dazzler #allison blaire #polaris #lorna dane #psylocke #betsy braddock #jean grey #rogue #xmen #fanart #xmen comics #X-Women are the best X-Men

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

Really glad to see so many of my mutuals hating on the word girlhood. Welcome ..... ive been here the whole time

#clicking on the tags subjects u to My Rant btw #1. i automatically dislike it when a specific phrase or wording is used to turn an incredible diversity of experiences into a monolith and #with that particular word the monolith is 'ouughhh all we do is suffer we have no joy *jennifers body foundation gif*' like ok?? shut up #2. if youre unable to talk about feminist issues without using some post format like 'girlhood is ___' than i dont trust u fr!!!! #3. the particular phrase 'girlhood is ____' fills in the blank w hyperspecific experiences bc thats what the format is. and genuinely 80% o #the time the mentioned experience is one that only applies to a specific subset of women. and that subset is always white thin non-disabled #middle class cisgender and probably conventionally attractive. which by NO means covers all womens experiences so it just feels exclusionar #and bioessentialist most the time. like if something fucked up happened to u and youre able to talk abt it with the format then maybe just #talk about it instead of publicly defining your experiences as the essential rites of passage to being a girl or woman. come ON #sorry for ranting lol im just so tired of people only being able to talk about oppression with a fucking meme format #hollyws

[shesnake]

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) dir. Maria Maggenti

#lgbtcinema #filmtag #the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love #maria maggenti #film #fm #* #q #w #dsg #lgbt directors #women directors

[shopcat]

turns anon off. i think one aspect of the reason there are intolerably endless amounts of gay and even bi transmascs who claim to not be able to like character who is a woman and use every reason under the sun to justify this, from "i just can't relate to them" to "the writers themselves don't like them so why should i, they're written badly and don't deserve the effort", and additionally, the implication that in order to Enjoy a Character you must be capable of being attracted to them And also be plain attracted to them (which only ever applies to women for some reason, I Wonder Why, and also is a weird mindset to have regardless about anything in the world forever) is because they, AS transmascs with a flawed mindset, particularly with baby transes, are so used to rejecting femininity and some sort of nebulous concept of womanhood that it comes to the point where women are now entirely unrelatable, entirely useless to you as they serve no purpose, entirely unable to be empathised with or liked and entirely unable to exist as people, reduced to nothing and left behind with the "girl clothes" you threw away or whatever.

they're operating under the notion that to be transmasc is to reject being a girl or a woman, and in one foul swoop reject everything about them and everything that may encapsulate that, and fail to see how this is not only obviously some very surface level unsubtextual misogyny, but also absolutely ridiculous and childish and Wrong as a mindset (and somehow fail to see how negative of one it is in the first place... being trans is about embracing what makes you happier and more comfortable, not soullessly rejecting something else). they don't WANT to engage with female characters, they don't fucking care!!!

and to be clear i hold absolutely no sympathy for people who hide behind their own dysphorias and misgivings and identities in order to absolve themselves of having to actually care about women in any substantial way, esp the ones who cling onto the gay/bi identity before anything else bc it provides them some sort of euphoria and then clouds their judgement entirely and leads to situations where people genuinely say "i think the reason i can't relate to women is because im gay (and don't want to fuck them)", and i refuse to sympathise with little boys who refuse to grow the fuck up.

i also think this is particularly important just to note, bc like yeah i'm talking about fictional women here, but it's no surprise to me when these men and boys turn out to be raging misogynists irl, recreate meninism and harbour unquestionable transmisogyny, all bc they've normalised this way of thinking whilst victimising and infantilising themselves at the same time so that they can't be criticised. i would be deeply ashamed if i had the lived experience of a woman in any way, shared everything in common with them that we do and actively chose to turn my back on them. you don't grow misogyny the second you try out he/him pronouns but these idiots sure act like it. if you as a transmasc cannot at all find it in yourself to want to relate to or share experiences with or even just plain like and love and respect women you need to seriously examine why, doubly so for anyone who IS attracted to them in some way for some very obvious reasons.

#🐾 #sorry it's just like incredibly frustrating and a particular and specific issue with transmascs SPECIFICALLY #like obviously the idea of ppl hiding behind their identity isn't new but it's so insidious and cruel in this case #and of course tbis isn't always the case but to be honest i think it's very common #and to be even clearer to not so baselessly reject everything at all to do with the very concept of femininity will make you LESS dysphoric #not more. transmeds have truly rotted peoples brains out of their skulls #not even touching on how half of these people DO embrace it and talk about how they were Girls and all that but then are still. just #literallg misogynists. like i know it's systemic but damn ..! #the idea that some of these guys are also dating women at the same time is super fucking worrying too #i love girls i love mt girlfriends i love women i love female characters my life would not be complete without them i would rather CLAW #my own body apart than be deprived of them. the idea is literally unthinkable. i'm not kidding 😭 #i hate men ... #and the ones who can't go two seconds w/out their yaoi fix then go but it's actually um brave and awesome because you see Homophobia exists #like okay....