call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.
@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.
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Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.
Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant.
The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.
It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.
Projection is a hell of a drug.
this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman.
and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.
also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.
the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.
The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.
another weird thing about beer is that it has weird masculinity connections to it. “ya i’ll get a beer, i don’t want none of them girly drinks” Jimothy, you’re drinking wheat juice with a 5% alcohol content and my mixed, fruity, “girly” drink is 40% alcohol and tastes great
O.KAY *CRACKS KNUCKLES* I AM ABOUT TO GIVE YOU AN EDUCATION
BEER IS TRADITIONALLY A WOMAN’S DRINK, IT IS THE MOST FEMALE OF ALL OF THE DRINKS. FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BEER WAS MADE AT HOME BY WOMEN, TO BE CONSUMED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN–IT WAS ACTUALLY A SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR MANY HOUSEHOLDS. WOMEN CREATED THE CRAFT OF BEER, AND FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY THAT IS WHO YOU’D BUY IT FROM: MANY WOMEN MADE ADDITIONAL INCOME BY BREWING AND SELLING BEER FROM HOME. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION THAT BEER BEGAN TO BE BREWED IN FACTORIES. AND ONCE BEER WAS BEING BREWED ON A LARGE SCALE, IT MADE TO START MARKETING IT TO ALL THE MALE FACTORY WORKERS WHO SUDDENLY HAD EXTRA INCOME. HENCE AN AGGRESSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO RE-BRAND BEER, A DRINK INTRINSICALLY TIED WITH WOMEN’S HISTORY, AS A ‘MASCULINE’ BEVERAGE.
EVEN BETTER, FEMALE BREWSTERS WERE THE ORIGINAL WICKED OLD WITCH. THE TROPES WE COMMONLY ASSOCIATE WITH STEREOTYPICAL WITCHES ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON THE TRADITIONAL BREWSTER. CAULDRONS & HOT STEAMING POTIONS = BEER BREWING. THE WITCH’S HAT: BELIEVE IT OR NOT POINTY HATS WERE ACTUALLY WORN BY BREWSTERS WHEN SELLING THEIR PRODUCT AT MARKETS: THE ENORMOUS HEADGEAR HELPED THEM STAND OUT, AND CLEARLY TOLD EVERYONE ‘YO MOTHERFUCKA GET YOUR BEER HERE’.
CATS AS FAMILIARS: CATS WERE COMMONLY USED TO PREVENT RODENTS FROM GETTING INTO THE WHEAT. EVEN THE BROOMSTICK IS RELATED TO BEER: A BUNDLE OF TWIGS RESEMBLING A BROOM WAS USED AS AD FOR ALEHOUSES
so basically, beer is the ultimate woman’s and witch’s drink
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fuck u guys, i didn’t spend 20 min fact checking for 3 notes
ok right links fine
i was probably drunk when i wrote this. best i can remember:
all these whiny bastards complaining about my taste in caps lock. I rewrote it for you:
*Sighs heavily and re-cracks knuckles*
Beer is traditionally a woman’s drink, it is the most female of all of The Drinks. For thousands of years, beer was made at home by women, to be consumed by women and children—it was actually a source of nutrients for many households. Women created the craft of beer, and for most of human history that is who you’d buy it from: many women made additional income by brewing and selling beer from home. It wasn’t until the era of industrialization that beer began to be brewed in factories. And once beer was being brewed on a large scale, it made sense to start marketing it to all the male factory workers who suddenly had extra income. Hence an aggressive marketing campaign to re-brand beer, a drink intrinsically tied with women’s history, as a ‘masculine’ beverage.
final bit:
Even better, female brewters were the original wicked old witch. The tropes we commonly associate with stereotypical witches are actually based on the traditional brewster. Cauldrons & hot steaming potions = beer brewing. The witch’s hat: believe it or not pointy hats were actually worn by brewsters when selling their product at markets: the enormous headgear helped them stand out, and clearly told everyone ‘yo motherfucka get your beer here’.
Cats as familiars: cats were commonly used to prevent rodents from getting into the wheat. Even the broomstick is related to beer: a bundle of twigs resembling a broom was used as advertising for alehouses.
so yeah, beer = witch’s brew. other things to check out:
Fermented low-alcohol beverages being the prime source of safe drinking water, for the whole family, for much of human history.
Beer, women, and the invention of the drinking straw (trivia, the oldest known straw is Sumerian, 5000 years old, made of gold and lapis lazuli. )
Monks horning in on the female-dominated brewing economy, the medieval church persecuting female brewsters
Monks adding hops (and making beer gross) in order to lower their libido (and to avoid the temptation of gay sex)
Dionysus, god of winemaking, and his raving, drunken madwomen followers, the Maenads.
Or any of a long list of goddesses associated w/ beer. Tenenet, the ancient egyptian goddess of childbearing & beer brewing. The earliest beer recipe, found in a 3900 year old poem honoring Ninkasi, patron goddess of brewing
And that’s all for now folks. Happy drinking’
no one ever reblogs this version and i wish they would
Hi. Are you happy I reblogged this version gaud? Also my mind is chaos incarnate.
Honestly throw back to this This was the peak of tumblr
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Is this real
Can I get a tumblr history lesson
Tumblr history lesson coming up
alright so its May 30th 2015, and this blog appears out of the blue. It’s a self-proclaimed REAL SJW blog, only they made a point of hating ‘special snowflakes’ aka any gender or sexuality that were not one of the well-known ones.
They all take the persona of a Sonic character, and at the time of the blog’s creation there were 6: Mods Sonic, Shadow, Amy, Tikal, Tails….and Silver. The blog hadn’t been active for 24 hours before Mod Silver allegedly closed the ask box. As you can see from the rules page at the time, this was a clear violation of the rules:
The other mods were displeased, in particular Mod Amy who ignored his stated reasons for doing so and furiously demanded that he contact her on skype.
Mod Silver was promptly removed from the blog for his first offence, however not before the blog’s followers took note of another rule on the list: Be kind to Mod Silver.
The tumblr masses became angry at Mod Amy’s hypocrisy and called for her to be removed from the blog, starting the trends #IStandWithModSilver and #DownWithModAmy. She responded by saying she had done nothing wrong by disobeying the Mod Silver rule as the rules had been updated after his removal:
This only made Mod Silver sympathizers angrier, increasing the pressure on Mod Amy. The whole thing upset Mods Tails and Tikal greatly, with Mod Tails trying to stand up for Mod Silver and Mod Tikal refusing to pick a side.
At the end of the day, the blog had 10,000 followers, and both Mod Amy and Mod Sonic confirmed that Mod Silver was gone for good.
BUT WE AREN’T DONE.
The very next day, Mod Tails resigned after alleged harassment by Mod Amy. Mod Sonic then revealed that he and Mod Amy had been dating in secret. Mod Knuckles was recruited, hoping to be a peacemaker of sorts, and became the only Mod with the authority to change the rules. Later the same day, Mod Tikal was banned from the blog after labeling herself a demigirl, which violated the ‘special snowflake’ rule:
On June 1st, Mod Sally joined the blog, but it simply made things worse as Mod Amy immediately suspected that Mod Sonic might have feelings for them. This caused an argument between the three, with Mod Shadow helping to stir up dust by making posts about Mod Sonic’s supposed crush. Knowing he was likely going to be banned, Mod Shadow then made his final post:
Mod Sonic replied the next day confirming Mod Shadow’s removal. He then changed his name to Mod Super Sonic, and removed Mod Knuckles from the Mod List without warning for a violation of the rules (debated below):
After which Mod Sally resigned, unwilling to put up with all the drama. Mod Amy was then unexpectedly banned by Mod Sonic, who had once again changed his name:
Mod Sonic was now the only Mod left, and nobody knew what he would do next. The answer turned out to be… nothing, as 6 days of inactivity was a violation of the rules, and he left the blog. The story get less interesting from here.
Mods Silver and Shadow returned to the blog alongside new Mods Blaze, Classic Sonic, and Classic Amy (both of which claimed not to be the originals). After a kerfuffle involving Mod Shadow claiming that Mod Silver encouraged hate of Mod Amy (which he then took back), Mods Classic Sonic and Classic Amy were removed for inactivity.
FAST FORWARD TO AUGUST 2016, Mod Shadow became angry when a new Mod refused to pick a Sonic character for the blog, instead choosing Nagito Komaeda from Dangan Ronpa 2. They began arguing immediately:
Since then, the blog has changed its theme to include Dangan Ronpa characters rather than Sonic ones, thought their URL remains the same. PLEASE look up screenshots, there are way more than the ones I included, but this post is long enough already. So ends the tale of Sonic For Real Justice, as I remember it
This post feels like you’re reading hieroglyphics in an Egyptian tomb
If the ocean ever disappears DONT GO LOOKING FOR IT… go in the other direction
i know this sounds like a shitpost but isn’t this like, real advice regarding tsunamis
Yes this was about hurricane Irma it is not a shitpost
This is actually really good advice so let me elaborate a bit: if you notice the tide is retreating very quickly at a very odd time of day, get as far away from water and as high up as you can. I live along the ocean and a long time ago we had a small tsunami and a relative of mine tells me how her father saw the tides retreating so he just picked her up and just ran, which probably saved their lives.
So yeah DONT LOOK FOR THE MISSING OCEAN just run away
ocean not lost, ocean is actually winding up to kick you very hard in the nuts.
Hello, I hope you’ll doing fine ^^ This is some kind of crazy-quickly-not-so-quickly-actually-not-quickly-at-all tutorial for you who like to write. I hope to help you (with something, I swear)
So, I was talking to a friend recently and she asked me to help her with her ideas and it came up to me that, perhaps, there’s a lot of people around the world with the very same issues. I’m not a writer goddess or anything else, but I have my own way to organize my stories and maybe (just maybe) it could be useful for someone in the future, so I decided to make a tutorial of how I work with my own ideas for you.
I just want to make it clear that every person is different and have a different “creativity channel” in their brain, also they work in different ways to achieve their objectives. If this tutorial don’t work for you, maybe it’s because you have a different way to organize your own ideas, and that’s perfectly fine, it’s ok. I’ll be glad if I can help with one or another querry and I’ll be glad if this little tutorial reach the people who’s facing their worst creative blocks.
Let’s do this, ok? And let me know if it helps ^^
Step 1 – THE IDEA
Sounds stupid to say, but that’s the ulterius truth, first of all: have an idea. It doesn’t need to be awesome, or complete, or genius, it just need to make you think that it worth your effort and your time to work on it. It can be just a scene, or a dialogue, or even just a sentence, but there’s one thing that’s important in this step: your idea HAVE TO BE stuck on your brain as long as you can possible afford. Do you know that feeling when you just can’t take something off of your mind because it gives you chills? That’s the thing we’re looking for here. That’s what we need in this step.
Now that you have your idea, work on it. Write every single detail that came up to you, write and write and write. Don’t organize nothing, just write. We don’t want to lose anything, right? So write in somewhere you can find after, in somewhere safe. I use and suggest Google Docs or your email box because I think it’s pretty safe and I can have access in literally anywhere, but if you have your own preference, then use your site/editor as you like ^^
If you’re feeling satisfied with whatever you wrote, then it’s time to start the dirty job: Planning your story.
Step 2 – THE PLAN
Now you have your idea, but you don’t have a sketch yet, it’s just a messy conglomerate of story material, we need to dilapidated that stuff. I prefer to work with handwriting in this stage, but you don’t have to, you can use your favorite site/editor as well. I’ll show you what I do in my notebook with a ugly paint image just to illustrate (sorry, don’t hate me ❤ )
The word here is organization. Don’t worry with details, think in the universe. I like to make an analogy with a house being built it. Write is just like build a new house, you can’t start from the roof, first you’ll need to start from the foundation, to make sure it’ll won’t fall apart after the end of your building process. Work in a few sentences, just to clarify what happens next and what consequences every event will have in your story.
When you finish this stage, it means you have a sketch to look up when you get lost. You’ll use this sketch a lot during your write process, so keep it close and safe.
Step 3 – THE CHARACTERS
As I said before, I’m gonna show you what works for me, it doesn’t mean that it’ll work for everyone. Some people prefer to start from the location (or universe), but for me it’s easier to create my characters first and I’ll tell you why.
Everytime I create a story, I spend some time thinking “what kind of person would do that? Would want that? Would hate that? Do they believe in that or this kind of thing? Where they live? What they do?”, as soon as I have my answers, I start to think of them and their features. It’s never the places that gives me my characters, on the contrary, it’s ALWAYS my characters who gives me the places.
I work with two kind of tools for that: Google Docs and a site.
It have a lot of sites around there, but I personally like notebook.ai. It’s simple and complete for the things I need, you can create characters, universes, locations, itens and even custom pages. Let’s create a character together, right?
01. That’s the page you’ll look for. You just need to find the CHARACTERS in the left sided menu. You’ll can switch along the features of your character at the right sided menu and, at the end of your process (or along with it, like I prefer), saving your progress.
02. So you’ll start to create your character. You’ll notice that every category has a short text to help and guide you if you get lost. All you need to do is to answer the question with the most detailed words that you find. Keep in mind that you need to know exactly who this person is, what do they like, what do they hate, what do they want, what do they fear, what do they believe… At the end, you’ll notice that you know your character as if your character is one of your best friends (or even your family).
03. Everytime you click in the save button, you’ll need to click in the editing button to continue to create your character. That’s how your screen will look like when you finish.
As soon as you finish all your characters, you’ll have the history of their lives. You’ll know them better than no one else, so let’s start to think about your scenarios.
Step 4 – THE SCENARIOS
I don’t know how it work for you, but for me, as soon as I know all of my characters, I know what place they belong too. I still don’t know how do I do that, I just – somehow – know. If you aren’t like that, you’ll need to choose what kind of ambient your story will take place to. If that’s your first story, or if you’re not feeling comfortable to explore new places, choose one that you know. I suggest that you start with your own town ^^ Knowing your scenario makes everything simple.
But if you like to explore the unknown (like myself hehe), I have a tip for you. It’s something new, nobody knows yet. It’s something incredible, almost like magic, and it calls…
Google.
Yep, you read it. Google. As simple as it can be. Take the “keep it simple” and use as your motto when your work in a new project, that’s always my advice. Choose some place and Google it, but you’ll have to make THE search, do you understand?
Use every resource: Maps, images, news, travel tips, best locations, watch videos of people who actually live there, read about their culture, their beliefs, read about their history, listen their musics, walk through their streets with Google view, choose places where your characters like, want to go, go often, go not so often, google this places to know how it works… Search for everything.
The most important thing you’ll need to keep in mind is: You need to know this place as like you’re living there for a long time. You’re not a visitor, you’re a dweller.
Step 5 – THE WRITING
Well, now we know what kind of story we want to tell, what events happen along the story line, what kind of people we’re dealing with and what kind of place their using as a home place. All we need to do right now is writing.
At this point you’ll find out that you know this people, and you know this place, and you know what kind of thing they’re willing to do (or not willing to do). At this point you’ll find out that your story will not sound like some fictional story you came up with in a creativity moment of your life, no, your story will sound like some history one of your friends told you and you thought it was so good you need to share to the world. So all you have to do is write.
Write, write, write and write.
And if you feel lost at some point, just ask one of your characters, think what do they would do. You already know them, you’ll find out one way or another. If you’re starving for another tip, well, I have a good one that I found at Pinterest:
If you’re lost, think about what do your character wants the most, then do the complete opposite.
That’s no more time to simplify things, you’ll need to make it hard for them, you’ll need to make your character think, work hard, fight against the world – alone at some points. I know that you must love your character, and that’s exactly why you should make it difficult for them. You need to make them grow and learn by commit some mistakes. And if you’re lost again, I have the last tip that works for me.
Whenever I get lost, I look at my sketch of key sentences and create one for the chapter I’m work, then I make myself the questions:
1. What do I want to happen?
2. What do I need to happen to reach this point? (while I’m looking at the universal sketch)
3. What do my character want?
4. What should they do that?
5. What kind of reaction are come with that?
6. Why they need to do that?
But, well, you can also make it simple by ask yourself “if I write this right now, will I be able to reach the final of my story without going insane?”
If the answer is “no”, then write it.
Just kidding ;D
I do hope that this akward guide help you to reach whatever you want to reach with your story and I would be happy to read yours ❤
Jesus Christ. Or, well, “Allah!” in his case, I suppose. (Hey, it’s all the same God…)
You had to shake hands with a man you know murdered your beloved father in the worst and most painful way possible.
Just so you and your and your family can perhaps get out of the country safely. And you know your dad would want you to do this, so you all don’t meet his fate.
Anxiety-prone-human 