chillyfeetsteak:

despazito:

It’s important to read to your kids but not too much lest they start saying words like “perchance” and “undoubtedly”

in sixth grade my teacher called my parents in to school because she thought i’d plagiarized a book report because i used the word “hence” and she didn’t think i was smart enough to know it

I feel this anecdote, because when I was about 13 I had a teacher who thought I’d made the word “behemoth” up when I used it in a story

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Reading School

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

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pinkcomputervoid:

seravph:

seravph:

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”

— Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

All of this - the baked-in biological determinism of trans exclusionary radical “feminism” really just makes my head hurt

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Yesterday I took the carpets up in anticipation of having some new ones laid, and I found some old newspapers pasted to the floorboards. As far as I can tell the oldest one was a Daily Mirror from the 14th of June 1969 (see the Andy Capp cartoon), whilst the most recent was a Yorkshire Evening Post from about 1987/1988, talking about some of those new-fangled “yuppies” moving into Leeds.

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