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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.

#equality

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these are the best cards on the planet and no one can tell me otherwise

(etsy)

#cute

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vampires always like “i could kill you if I wanted” like? yeah? so could another human being. so could a dog. so could a dedicated duck. you arent special

#sensible chuckle

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https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/71640

#sensible chuckle #Fallout: New Vegas #modding #Fallout

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good! there are many valid uses of AI in medicine, provided sufficient oversight (for which a department probably sets up the structure)

Hello! I come with some good news! In the EU, a law has been passed restricting generative AIs (particularly ones that pose a high risk). I hope other areas in the world follow suit, but this is huge! It'll take a while to be applied as well, though this is still a major win for everyone.

#equality

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orowyrm encounter

#Warframe

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#sensible chuckle #I pirated it

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#language #sensible chuckle #more like lmao #because I can never remember which country the Dutch belong to

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Theodore Herlz, father of Political Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial

Ber Borochov, father of Labour Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, father of Revisionist Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial

David Ben Gurion, founding father of the Settler state: Yeah, it's colonial

Small bean fandom Zionist: Umm, lol, it's literally not colonial???

#Palestine

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aaa...my little Mold Spore

#Warframe

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I will be saying :3 ^_^ :D while masc I don't give a fuck

#GPOM

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#cute #sensible chuckle

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‘Why do you make sex jokes if you’re asexual? Doenst that mean you want sex’

Bestie I can make jokes about being impaled on a spike medieval torture style, doesn’t mean I want to

#accuracy and truth

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#thanks nature

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You make me so mad I will shift left to right about it

#guinea pig #cute

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why are you taking my bottle away to put water in it, that is. All that I have. My only possession. Please return it yes thank you

#guinea pig #cute

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my bottle is empty, why are you taking it? Oh no. I am waterless forever now

#guinea pig #cute