3liza:
I feel very strongly about the abolition of the carceral state and also about the transformative power of horizontal, retributive or defensive physical violence by victims towards their victimizers and I don’t actually think this is a contradictory position at all
genuinely I think the main point of abolishing power structures and inequalities is to make a level playing field for “talk shit get hit” to do its thing. the problem with the state monopoly on violence is the “monopoly” part, not the “violence” part.
headspace-hotel:
headspace-hotel:
I forget why, but I was on the Wikipedia page for polycystic ovarian syndrome, and I started researching hirsutism in women, and I learned the following things in this order:
- there’s a diagnostic criteria used to evaluate how hairy a woman is
- This is important because being too hairy is a diagnostic criteria of most disorders that cause hyperandrogenism
- Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism can be diagnosed by…measuring how hairy you are (this is the main and most important diagnostic criterion for PCOS)
- Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism are important because they are correlated with obesity, infertility, and…being too hairy?
- I think to myself, wait, what is a normal range for testosterone in women? I find this article…which set reference ranges for “normal” testosterone levels in women…EXCLUDING WOMEN WITH PCOS?
- Quote: “Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is another notable condition in genetic (XX) females, which is characterized by excessive ovarian production of androgens. This condition is included for comparison with DSD, as the affected females with PCOS are genetic and phenotypic females. The elevated levels of testosterone in these females can lead to hyperandrogenism, a clinical disorder characterized variably by hirsutism, acne, male-pattern balding, metabolic disturbances, impaired ovulation and infertility. PCOS is a common condition, affecting 7%-10% of premenopausal women.”
- So: the study claims to demonstrate a clear distinction between the normal range of hormone levels in “Healthy” men and “healthy” women…with “healthy” being defined in the study as…having hormones within the “normal” range…………………..
- So I researched what the clinically established “normal” range for testosterone in women is
- THERE ISN’T ONE????
- Quote from the above article: “Several different approaches have been used to define endocrine disorders. The statistical approach establishes the lower and the upper limits of hormone concentrations solely on the basis of the statistical distribution of hormone levels in a healthy reference population. As an illustration, hypo- and hypercalcemia have been defined on the basis of the statistical distribution of serum calcium concentrations. Using this approach, androgen deficiency could be defined as the occurrence of serum testosterone levels that are below the 97.5th percentile of testosterone levels in healthy population of young men. A second approach is to use a threshold hormone concentration below or above which there is high risk of developing adverse health outcomes. This approach has been used to define osteoporosis and hypercholesterolemia. However, we do not know with certainty the thresholds of testosterone levels which are associated with adverse health outcomes.”
- What the fuck?
- What the fuck?
- It’s batshit crazy to make a diagnostic criteria for medical disorders by placing arbitrary cutoffs within 2-5% of either end of a statistical distribution. What the actual fuck?
- “The results came back, you have Statistical Outlier Disease.” “What treatments are available?” “Well, first, we recommend dietary change. You should probably stop eating so many spiders.”
- Another article which attempted to do this
- Quote: “Subjects with signs of hirsutism or with a personal history of diabetes or hypertension, or a family history of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) were excluded.”
- “We’re going to figure out the typical range of testosterone levels that occur in women! First, we’re going to exclude all the women that are too hairy from the study. I am very good at science.”
Anyway I got off topic but there are apparently race-specific diagnostic tools for “hirsutism.” That’s kinda weird on its own but when I looked more into this in relation to race I found this article that straight-up uses the term “mongoloid”
(The last article linked also mentions that measurement systems for ‘hirsutism’ were originally developed for the purpose of defining race)
sapphling:
it’s too late for you, fair hero – you’ve already fallen irretrievably in love with my autistic affect and stupid small cock
hoverman0:
Wath does it mean when a woman is oscillating like is there a certain frequency i should be warried about
nateconnolly:
Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because – and this is a direct quote – he was concerned that otherwise he might “become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify”. I have thought about this every single time that I’ve worked out since.
kell-horreur:
Janelle Jaquays being an egg in 1979… Just normal D&D stuff, getting turned into a were-girl!
predstrogen:
i csnt express enough just how much trans girls deserve to be angry
pigswithwings:
pigswithwings:
pigswithwings:
pigswithwings:
pigswithwings:
pigswithwings:
the angel staying over at my house asked for a nightlight in their room and i told them buddy, don’t you produce your own light? what’re you gonna do with more? and they said they wanted to see why people like it so much. and also that the nightlight i own is blue and they’re been trying to understand color. anyways i think they’ve stared at it for an hour now
the angel staying over at my house said their eyes hurt from staring, so i took them to the store to get some eye drops. well midway through the medicine aisle i turned around to see them flashing in and out of colors like a combusting star, so i asked them what was up without looking directly at them. they told me that there were too many people at the store and they forgot how they looked. which. is understandable to be honest they’ve only been on earth for a little over 24 hours. my phone started to melt a little when i showed them pictures of themself, but my hand feels fine even though they held it while calming down. they’re currently resting and i am not sure what to do with 5 empty bottles of eye drops
the angel staying over at my house has been eating my food for the past few days and i don’t really know if they can taste it because the food sort of bursts into ash and fire before it reaches their mouth? but they seem to enjoy eating it or at least watching me cook. they tried to help me fry some onions earlier but the stove flame turned from blue to white and the onions started crackling instead of sizzling so they backed off. however they have the ability to chop garlic like a pro
the angel staying over at my house is taking daily walks with me around the neighborhood and i don’t think they know about animals yet. we were going past someone’s house and this labrador started barking at us. normal, right? but the angel staying over at my house asked me if that was music. and i had to stop and think about that one for a second. in the end i said it can be music to us, it’s just that the dog doesn’t know it (and may never know it, which is a real tragedy). then they asked me what’s a dog
the angel staying over at my house went to the library with me and they wanted to know if humans actually dream or if that was something people made up for television. guess what the staff told us that the full name of the angel staying over at my house couldn’t be printed on a library card so i just said well couldn’t we have one anyways? and now we do but it’s really like the first third of their name and not written correctly. oh well. i have to go help carry some huge books about neuroscience into the house
today the angel staying over at my house came up to me and started crying tears that melted through my carpet. told me they realised they wouldn’t be able to use their library card after they left earth and i. i honestly forgot that was going to happen. but i told them hey dude that’s just how humans feel too. can’t read all the books, but the fact that you got to read some is worth bragging about, right? they could tell all of their angel friends about the cool stuff they’ve done. and they said that they used to think that the world was so small and that humans were being petty about missing earth but now they live here and they feel small too. and they’re not sure what to tell their angel friends.
so i asked to hold their hand again. they didn’t burn me this time, either. and i asked them if this moment felt small to them. they said it didn’t.
anyways we made popcorn and watched it’s a wonderful life. they told me that angels don’t speak like that at all by the way
would you love yourself if you were a worm? can you love yourself even though you’re not a worm?
