it’s a small thing but the fact the british media involved all use DEI as opposed to EDI tells you how much of all of this is downstream of downloading or playing to the american culture war template vs having actual direct experience in how UK universities are run
@butchbaiter I don’t have a dog in this fight but I really wonder at the sheer number of women who are willing to degrade other womens’ appearances just because they happen to be masculine/butch/studs
like you realize you’re not punching up? they aren’t men
one of the twists in real world AI is that, in scifi, it was assumed that the danger would be that we'd raise the machine to the level of a human soul. but to be honest, it seems we're most in danger of debasing the human soul to the level of machine.
we're going to see unprecedented levels of teens playing on the street this summer, followed by unprecedented levels of curtain-twitchers posting photographs of teens on facebook going "WHOS KIDS R THESE. WHY ARE THEY OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. I HAVE NOTIFIED THE POLICE"
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
I wish there was a hinge-type app where you could look at curated pictures of strangers and read little bios about them. Swipe left and right to tell the algorithm what type of people you like to see. Not for sexual purposes just for people watching
Sometimes I find it sinister that in our culture, often things considered visually pretty/appealing to men/peak girlhood (long nails, high heels, long hair, make-up, skirts, being very skinny) are things that restrict your mobility
a lot of you seem to think that not feeling queer enough is a real struggle on the same level as being considered too queer for anyone to want to hire you and that’s why i don’t trust you
I do not know how to elaborate but I feel like we're living in a specific era of feminism that is actually extremely anti-feminist in its ideology but maintains an aesthetic illusion of feminism externally