Important to note that ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (a direct quote from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.
Not trying to deflect from the blatant and virulent transmisogyny present here. Just giving a bit more info.
Erin Reed did a good breakdown of the ruling here:
The fact that chess competitions are gender-divided in the first place proves they think one [presumed binary] sex needs to be protected from the other.
And yet, with many competitions, for all the claim is that women need protecting from men, it's not until the men are threatened by the women that they actually enforce that divide.
It's still misogyny, which still leads to transphobia as well.
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this is a common misconception that gets brought up with a lot of gender divides - chess is not separated into men and women, but rather open and women - women can and do participate in open tournaments and some (notably: Judit Polgar, who was rank 6 in the world at her peak) actually refused to participate in women's tournaments
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this kind of nonsense just muddies the waters about the actual things that hold women back in games like chess, namely lack of a pipeline and lack of institutional support
What I like about this comic is that it doesn’t “trivialize” mental health problems in and of themselves. It’s clear that the koala IS genuinely traumatized by what’s happened. But it does emphasize that the mental health problems are a symptom of some real tangible problem that needs to be dealt with immediately.
Y'all don't know what rural love looks like. Y'all don't know. We got 6'2" burly fellas rolling in from the logging camps like "yeah I'm looking for a packer for my boyfriend". We got welders coming in after work and you gotta ask em to scrape off their boots at the door and their hands are black with gunk so we gotta help em sift through the strap ons. Three ladies come in wearing floral dresses with their hair in rings like they just got out of church and you ain't sure if they're together or just friends but when they leave they're all holding hands and one gives another a kiss. Old fella with a walker comes in for some lacy lingerie. 85 year old widow is going on a first date since her husband passed. People are people all over the place, it's not different when you can't see it
Nah, because one time I, a girl from Texas (the great green yeehaw) listened to a girl I can only describe as Western Gothic describe to me in detail how she pegged her boyfriend. Who is on the baseball team, has a mullet and a country accent, and is about 6 inches taller than she is. And then he picked her up after school, happy as could be in his Ford pickup! Literally, she brightened. And so did he. It was adorable.
Rural love is amazing in its eclectic nature.
i love how every cookie clicker mod gives off openly hostile energy
👍 big supporter of players using mods to lower their games' difficulty until they can make it through
man come on what is this
why do the porn bots disappear for a while before coming back in huge waves its like plants vs zombies tumblr style
Ousmane Sembene was a Senegalese author, actor, screenwriter, director, producer, historian, poet, communist organizer and philosopher. He was the first person to ever make a film in an indigenous african language (he often wrote in Senegalese and Lebu Wolof), and he spent much of his life working to dismantle French imperialism, capitalist resource hoarding, and patriarchal violence against women. He’s one of those historical figures whose biography reads as too cool to be true but he truly was that kind of guy.
Unfortunately, most of his films, especially his later work, are hard to access or purchase in western/anglophone markets- I think the criterion collection carries a few of his older films? That being said, a lot of his books were translated into English and are particularly good- God’s Bits of Wood and Xala are definitely the most beginner friendly works from his collection and are pretty easy to find second hand. If you enjoy Western authors and artists like Albert Camus, Emile Zola, or Zora Neale Hurston you’ll definitely appreciate his writing. His work is also influenced by socialist realism, the Harlem renaissance, and Senegalese oral tradition. Compared to other famous west african writers (like Chinua Achebe, or Ngugi wa Thiong’o) Sembene works a lot of satire, irony, and humor into his writings, and his work really strives towards describing African joy, hardship, and community.
He’s such a cool artist and deserves to be more commonly known in the West, especially in Anglophone and Francophone cultures :)
cleaning through some old boxes and found my old sketch of @pangur-and-grim !!! would've been done sometime in 2019. don't pay attention to the stuff around her they're not important trust me
no sorry i dontreally consume any media outside of letting this purple fungus grow in my lunggs
Anonymous asked:
is "stoner" like a slur? sorry im new to lgbt
yeah i can reclaim tho
you don't know shit from fuck
The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane.
The Spiral
tumblr glitch that hath rended my dash asunder:
free shitpost generator??? why isn’t this an official browsing mode. anyway here are my fav screen grabs, all hits no misses:
pure poetry. it’s like trying to tune into a specific radio station but you have giant lobster claws instead of hands
wow my blog is officially cursed, we love to see it
I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
Time to drop some links again.
– https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.
– https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.
– https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)
– https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.
– https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search alternative to Google’s. Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)
That Google and Meta can get away with this during an era of intense misinformation and disinformation signals that we cannot rely on large tech companies to provide reliable access to information and news:
Hi! I’d like to clarify something about the accreditation of this comic.
It’s by Matthew Inman, and you can find the original comic at his blog, “The Oatmeal”, and I’m posting it below as well.
Reblog if you want to flatten Christian values with the gayroller 2000
guy in 4000bc about to invent wine: i love trampling these stupid purple fruit into smithereens and selling the juice that's been all over my feet to unsuspecting suckers. i bet if i waited for several months first it'd be even easier
Xuan Lu & Wang Zhuocheng | Divine Destiny By the Wuding River, you had accompanied me for thousands of years. How can I just sit by and watch? How can I let you suffer disasters alone? Since we were banished to the mortal world, I had accompanied and protected you for 99 lifetimes. And in this life, I've been looking for you. I finally found you.
