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🧿Sunshine In An Empty Place🧿

@toytowns / toytowns.tumblr.com

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for those who are (rightfully!) concerned about animal welfare in tik toks: Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary is a true sanctuary and this animal is safe and happy!

Wildcat Ridge is not only an accredited sanctuary, they have a policy of not displaying their residents to the public. It is a retirement home for cats that should never have been pets or attractions. There is no pressure on the animals to be in front of people, they interact as they choose with the sanctuary staff and vets and that’s it.

Absolutely not a new observation but i love that the toki pona word for animal, "soweli," is written like this

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fuck man that sure is

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i showed this post to my boyfriend last time i saw it (because hes a linguistics nerd in general and a toki pona nerd in specific) and i am delighted to inform everyone that all the words for various types of animals are little fuckin dudes

i may be terminally online but at least i have fun and curate my experience to cater to my interests and don't intentionally seek out things that will make me feel worse and don't take out my personal issues on strangers on the internet

it’s so funny to me when terfs and other transphobes talk about “biological pronouns”

you realise there is nothing about a vulva that means you have to call someone who has one “she”, right? and nothing about a penis that means you have to call someone who has one “he”? like that is literally a socially constructed idea based on the perceived gender of a person with a certain set of genitals.

you cannot be actually critical of gender if you are not critical of the ideas about it that society has created, you fucking clowns 💀

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Honestly. If pronouns were biological then why are they different in every single language?

^^^^^^^

My second language is German, where “she” and “they” are literally the same word.

And I swear there are languages where there is literally no gendered pronouns at all.

Just shows how UK and US centric TERFs are that they say this shit 💀

iirc there’s an african language that has no gendered pronouns, which is why people who speak it as a first language will sometimes use gendered pronouns interchangeably when speaking english bc to them they all mean the same thing. i think there’s a scandinavian language that does this too.

i had to pull this out of the tags bc this is so interesting! this makes me wonder how a language not having gendered pronouns affects the way gender is seen sociologically.

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Sumerian didn’t have he or she! Instead they had a difference between animate and inanimate. No distinct pronouns goes way back