with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
Guys look at what I found while I was looking for accessories for my graduation
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
Are you familiar with Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (Michfest) /WWTLC /Big Mouth Girl /'The Land' ?
Women who are familiar but haven't been how can we get you there?
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
Not sure what this person was wanting to say but it comes across as “I don’t want women to be smart or in charge, I want women to be sex workers or not women at all”
I love the false dichotomy of lockheed scientist and sex workers. as if the only way to work as a scientist to create war machines and not, like, a biologist fighting climate change. okay!!
Why are there so many people who are abnormal about little girls....
people leave little girls and women alone please challenge
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
Don't usually share work stuff but I do work in climate policy and nearly every memo I write includes some variation of "government funding for this obscure but necessary area of climate mitigation research has been multiplied (sometimes by like, 1000x) under the Biden Administration" and while I know the oil permitting stuff is much splashier news there's a whole world of work that needs to be done under the surface that Biden is doing. And if he doesn't win in 2024 all that progress goes away and the climate is absolutely fucked
Like I get that it’s not eye-catching but Biden spending $6 billion on demonstration projects to decarbonize heavy industry is probably on its own the most climate-friendly thing a president has ever done
Reposting mainly because in the UK the Prime Minister has openly entered the war on climate change on the side of climate change and I need the reminder that less stupid things are happening eleswhere.
Also, the Biden administration just "paused" some LNG (liquified natural gas, aka super-cold methane) infrastructure development, which is HUGE. I cannot stress this enough. The reason global warming has accelerated so fast, suddenly, unprecedentedly? Very likely because of natural gas AKA methane production. Mostly in the US.
It is HUGE that they're working against this trend.
I worked with some DoE climate scientists during trump's presidency. there was LITERALLY a list of words they weren't allowed to say. climate change, obviously, but also things like "assessment," for reasons passing understanding. it was worse at the EPA. the USDA tried to move whole departments from the DC area to Kansas City on 3 months notice.
that wasn't the shit that made the news either, but it fucked up a lot of important work and a lot of people's lives. this shit is not abstract. it's not theoretical. it matters.
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
I don’t know what radfems are taking about with the “butches are women in the natural state” thing. My body hair is natural but is getting a fade natural? Picking cologne over perfume? They say we’re just wearing “comfortable clothes” but I’d pick uncomfortable pants over a comfortable maxi skirt. I’d even pick pants from the men’s section that fit awkwardly over pants from the women’s section that might fit perfectly.
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
I often do think it is important to call myself a woman. In past I've had kids ask me "are you a man or a girl" and in hindsight I think these kids were quite perceptive of the world. Especially when you're in your 20s it's men and girls, I've seen students write pieces describing themselves as men, but their female peers of the same age they call girls, but I have also heard bisexual women say they like both men and girls. In past I've fallen into that myself and said that yeah I'm a lesbian I like girls, but do I? No I am in my twenties and I am actually only attracted to my fellow adults - women. It does feel more serious, less trivial, both to be and be attracted to women as opposed to girls, and that can be a bit uncomfortable to be faced with. It is also important to me as a butch. I am no longer a tomboy I am a butch I am no longer a girl I am a woman. I am a woman and women can be like me. I don't feel like I've succeeded enough at adulting to call myself a woman, but that doesn't matter. I am 25, and if the word bears other connotations so be it, that's not my problem.
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
All the gold digging accusations directed to woman distracts from the fact that many men are literally financial predators and use reproductive abuse to carry it out. They wanna come into your life and control all of your financial assets and burden you with their debts.
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
thorndykes-deactivated20161204
please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry
rottenlesbian
For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust
tomibunny
Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain
snakegay
meta-hemeralism
okay, I’m Jewish and I appreciate this sentiment. and if someone wants to cut out Sylvia Plath, go for it, I get it.
But. by this logic we’d also need to stop reblogging TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Shakespeare quotes. Virginia Woolf wrote anti-semetic things in her private journals, too. If you only want to read classic poets who liked Jews and black people, that’s fine, but like. good luck? Sylvia Plath isn’t an exception.
idk. Tumblr’s attitude of “consume nothing problematic” just doesn’t work if you’re part of a group that most culture-creators over the last few centuries have hated by default. For people actually in those groups, it’s not like the only two choices are 1) worship authors who hate you or 2) completely cut the majority of literature out of your life. You learn to read critically and acknowledge flaws where you find them.
anyway, as a Jewish woman, I would much rather see a version of this post that said “please read Sylvia Plath poetry critically because she’s anti black and antisemetic” than just “stop reblogging Sylvia Plath poetry.”
IMO, reblog Sylvia Plath all you want, just not unthinkingly.
I’m reblogging this now because I’m seeing anti-Virginia Woolf discourse lately due to the antisemitism in her journals and like… as a Jewish person who loves Virginia Woolf’s writing and an English teacher who knows that pretty much every writer of the classics is Problematic just…chill pls
anhasia
The point isn’t to never consume media that isn’t ideologically pure. That’s never the point. Were that the goal, we would NEVER be able to consume any media. Nothing is ever ideologically pure, especially as time goes on and our social consciousness expands.
We should be telling people instead, “Be critical as you read this person’s work. They held bigoted views. Understand how that is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it. Be critical, be thoughtful”
Compelling others to not engage with something at ALL on ideological grounds is in the same vein as burning books. We should be compelling others to be critical and mindful, not narrow and willfully ignorant.
smallest-feeblest-boggart
“Understand how it is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it.”
while dickens wrote some sympathetic london jews here and there, he full throttle unapologetically loathed the irish. absolutely hated them and wanted them all dead.
like. if you’re an american and you want to Cancel some great english writers, first you need to come to terms with the fact that you can’t even *recognize* half the contemporary expressions of their prejudices if you’re only looking for modern american forms of bigotry. and then you need to recognize that shutting yourself away from the work of men and women long dead is only going to leave you rootless and self-satisfied with a very brief and narrow concept of history and human worth.
also if you cared about women and minorities you would encourage people to read works from women and minorities in the past instead of canceling every single dead writer that’s not as progressive as you are
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
ovulating over here all by yourself, queen?
Nah, menstruating
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
what the fuck
Really really skeevy the dad would yell at his daughter for not wanting to enter a sexual situation with him
I think we should take him and his dad's computers away (or lives, idc)
Me and OOP have the same father. It's absolutely skeevy. Abusive fathers love to sexually control their children.
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
Picture this.
An all-powerful entity comes up to you. You know for certain this is real and what they say is true. They give you two scenarios to choose between. You are not allowed any other option. No one will know you are the person who chose. Here are the two.
Scenario 1. Heaven and hell are both real. Heaven is a place of peace and happiness. Hell is a place of eternal torture. You and everyone you love, including pets, are guaranteed heaven, no matter what you do. But there is a hell, and you have no guarantee what type of behavior could get someone there, or if there are people you’d consider innocent who’d go there. Scenario 2. There is no heaven or hell. After you die, you reach eternal sleep. You never see your loved ones ever again. But there is no hell to torment anyone, either.
If you could please reblog this to get it out of just my tumblr orbit!
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
guys i need you to realize that smoking ANYTHING will cause damage to your lungs. inhaling smoke is just inherently bad for you im sorry.
coming from a chronic weed smoker: YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO LUNG DAMAGE JUST BECAUSE IT ISNT NICOTINE!!!!!
btw the message of this post is not "dont ever do anything harmful for your body" its "know the risks of whatever vices you participate in"
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
its ok to be scared , it will pass
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
Have y’all heard of this Megan the Mime performer? I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve never seen a female mime before. I love her. I love seeing women be silly in a charming, clever way.
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
still thinking about how Jaha Dukureh, an FGM and child marriage survivor who was one of the principal activists getting FGM banned in the Gambia said this:
“One thing I want to make clear is, in my view, FGM isn't so different from the procedure labiaplasty, which you can find in the US and other places. Women are choosing labiaplasty because that's what they're seeing in porn and they perceive it as the ideal of what the female anatomy should look like. Fundamentally, it's about telling women and human beings that they're not good enough unless they do something for us. It's still cultural“.
and she’s right
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.
"You're too young to remember this, but there used to be so many insects outside that you would have to clean them off the windshield after a long car ride" is the kind of sentence that would have been in a cheesy scifi short story earlier in my life, perhaps submitted to a literary magazine and accepted to show support for its environmentalist message - now it's something I've said in earnest.
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
Funniest genre of incel whining is men that date cartoon stereotypes of gold diggers/“feisty” women then they get mad that they got exactly what they asked for. These 20 year old girls from other countries will tell them STRAIGHT UP!!! “you r old and ugly. Send me money. Thank you for the money sweetie. Can you buy my son an xbox. You need to show you care about me send money or i block you”.
then when she gets her green card and dips he is stunned and cannot believe it.
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
with-a-side-of-rad reblogged
hotdogeteria-deactivated2023092
some of yall need to get it drilled into your heads that being a lesbian has nothing to do with how you act or dress or what you like to eat or watch on tv you just have to be a female homosexual and if you realize that youll feel a lot better and also come off as way less annoying
agreed, and also