this is a message for everyone who is 22. if you’re 22 please stop worrying. take a deep breath eat a bagel maybe. everything that feels impossible is going to work itself out. have a great day
This is fucking huge. I’m not even french and I’m in tears reading this - french is such a binary-gendered language, and that one of their major dictionaries supports its evolution in this way is so profound.
the hotel I’m staying in is having a chihuahua conference??? some lady told me there were over 300 chihuahuas in the building and if I wanted to, I could go watch the puppy competition in the morning. I’m in Heaven
i think chris fleming is important enby representation because they’re just. so far away from what people read as nonbinary like. People expect nonbinary to look like an afab Woman Lite ™ who spends too much time in LGBT space, but he’s just a feral massachussets cryptid who is very intimate with straight culture and can spit 800 words a minute and have each one of them hit you like a truck
I had to look them up, just to be sure about pronouns and such, and…
“When I ask Fleming at the start of the interview for his pronouns, he replies, ’Anything works for me.’ Frequent commenters have asked Fleming about his gender, to which he replies in his stand-up set available on YouTube, ‘Dad, I’m not a man, I’m not a woman, I’m a showpig.’”
Oh god this resonates so much. I don’t know how to communicate the emotions I felt being one of like 3 women in a class while all 20-30 guys around me made rape jokes and laughed and told me to lighten up when I complained, or talked about “what type of Asian is your favourite” like we were breeds of dog or cuts of meat, or hear the guy beside me say “who cares?” when the prof announced that the first woman had just won the fields medal, or even just the blatant staring when I walked into class like I was some kind of foreign object.
[ID: A tweet by dyke to watch out for, @dyke3watchout5, which reads: “It’s always "how do we get more women into math” and never “how do we get more misogynists out of math”. /end ID]
I once spent a summer working on research project in a chemistry lab at Harvard, and you know the biggest thing that stood out to me? The building I was working in had exactly 1/3 as many bathrooms for women as for men. It had clearly been built with no bathrooms for women at all, and had only reluctantly converted some of the men’s bathrooms to be for women after the fact. There was a seminar about “advancing women in STEM” on campus basically every week, and I fucking guarantee that not a single one of them did as much to advance women in STEM as my group’s PI, who declared about two days into the program that all women in the building should “feel free to use the men’s restrooms if they’re closer or less occupied, and men who are uncomfortable about that should consider how their female colleagues feel just existing in a building like this one”. Women aren’t mysterious creatures who need to be lured into the sciences with treats and special programs; they’re human beings, and the main things keeping them out of STEM fields are those fields utterly refusing to treat them as such.
the second the new remakes dropped people mass uploaded their mods for the game that they totally didn’t make before it dropped officially and the absolute best one is the one that scales the pokemon to be canon with their pokedex entries