ozymandias271:

theunitofcaring:

ozymandias271:

You can tell that fatphobes are full of shit because I have never not once been criticized for my unhealthy weight even though my weight probably poses a lot more of a health risk than the average overweight person’s 

This hasn’t been my experience, for what it’s worth. Every time I go home a significant fraction of the people I interact with confront me because they’re concerned about my unhealthy weight, and a larger fraction ask my parents if they are doing anything about my unhealthy weight. Strangers at parties will frequently insist I eat more food because I am unhealthily thin in their opinion. I can expect a concerned comment about my unhealthy weight with near certainty if I go to a dinner party with strangers.

And of course if I lose more weight it will be legal to forcefeed me to return me to an appropriate weight, and as far as I can tell there is nothing I can do, short of ‘don’t lose that much weight’, that will stop this from happening. 

Obviously the solution to this is “stop accosting anyone with concerns that their weight is unhealthy; mind your own business; never talk about anyone’s weight ever.” But it’s not true at all that people are currently that respectful if you’re underweight. They aren’t.

You are significantly smaller than I am, and people who are forcefed are even smaller.

It seems plausible to me both that invasive douchebags feel entitled to offer their opinions on the health of very thin people and that invasive douchebags have an inaccurate idea, influenced by cultural fatphobia, of what level of skinniness is correlated with health problems. 

More evidence for the inaccurate idea hypothesis: I stopped hearing comments about my weight the instant people began to misgender me as female instead of male, and I hear this isn’t exactly uncommon. To my knowledge, one’s clothing and hairstyle don’t influence the health outcomes correlated with one’s weight, while they do influence the invasive douchebaggery outcomes correlated with cultural full-of-shit-ness.

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3 months ago · tagged #ed tw #fatphobia · 62 notes · source: ozymandias271 · .permalink

ilzolende:

Oklahoma Puts Limits on Oil and Gas Wells to Fight Quakes

Okay, I take back what I said earlier. Trying to find a political solution to earthquakes sometimes works.

If only earthquakes were as affected-by-human-decisions everywhere.

(I’m curious: If people wanted to use the tax-on-externalities solution for injecting oil extraction wastes into the earth’s effect on earthquakes, how would that be implemented? Earthquakes have a nonzero base rate and vary a lot per year naturally, AFAIK.)

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Calculate the expected yearly earthquake damages on the base rate and sum it over time; injectors pay for all damage exceeding the accumulated base rate sum.

For example, if the base rate was estimated to be $1M a year, four years without earthquakes followed to two quakes of $3M each would mean that the first one goes in the base rate and injectors owe $2M to the earthquake damage compensation fund after the second one.

3 months ago · 5 notes · source: ilzolende · .permalink

ozymandias271:

my transness doesn’t feel like “I am nonbinary.” I don’t really know what that would mean.

It feels like “I want to be nonbinary”. It feels like reading about intersex conditions as a teenager, desperately searching for one it was possible that I had. Like reading genderswap fanfics because the thing I wanted most in the world was to wake up in a boy’s body and be okay with it and have everyone acknowledge me as both. Like staring at myself in the mirror and pressing down on my breasts so they would go away. Like every time I hear myself called ‘they’ it feels like I’m getting away with something. Like when someone said “you know, you’re going to have a pretty narrow friends group if you’re only friends with people who don’t mispronoun you” thinking “if that’s all I have to pay to get to be nonbinary I am lucky.”

I want to be nonbinary so hard that I bootstrapped myself into actually being nonbinary. 

So much this.

In fact, I literally cannot separate my transness from transhumanism because “I want to take control of my body and my social context and customize them to better match what I want instead of what I was given” doesn’t contain any joints to carve reality by. Why would one set of chemicals and modifications that improves my brain, senses, and body, be categorically different from another set of chemicals and modifications?

(The fact that in finnish the words for “trans person” and “transhuman” are one and the same is kind of interesting and convenient although there is no deep etymological meaning to it; “person” and “human” just usually translate into the same word.)

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multiheaded1793:

raggedjackscarlet:

Ever since I saw the film The Warriors, I haven’t been able to shake the idea that gang culture– even real world gang culture, Casa Nostra and the Yakuza and all that shit– is essentially a LARP with insanely high stakes.

I was amused to read that the Mafia revived an old custom of hand-kissing because they all liked The Godfather so much. No, really.

“Fake it ‘til you make it” taken to its logical conclusion.

Also, I’m pretty sure an awful lot of people are essentially LARPing their way through life, usually just with lower stakes and less interesting aesthetics. Parents who feel it’s more important to keep up the appearance of caring than to actually do the substance; environmental activists who are willing to sacrifice everything for their cause as long as “sacrifice everything” doesn’t mean cutting their hair and putting on a suit; politicians who sacrifice the interests of group X by doing stuff that’s only seemingly pro-X; feminists who do feminism-associated things without regard for the consequences; ineffective altruists; the entire Motherfucking Theresa business/scam; a lot of cis people’s genders; etc. Even in surprisingly high places one will find people who got there by simply playing the role.

Then there’s those of us who play on the meta level and consciously seek the role of the munchkin…

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Reblog if you think Feminism has not gone FAR ENOUGH

comparativelysuperlative:

socialjusticemunchkin:

multiheaded1793:

tooth-and-nails:

argumate:

last time this only got 8 notes!

This is actually my biggest criticism of feminism and paradoxically it gets me labeled as an anti feminist.

I’m… a radical feminist deep down (if frequently more in the breach…) but people seem to think that “radical” just means “loud”.

I’m not a radical person, I just support radical ideas.

I should write the specifics into a post of their own, but basically most of the issues with feminism are issues with inconsistently and insufficiently applied feminism; so yes, it needs to go a lot further, including but not limited to, going further recursively.

I agree with this. In particular, I would like to see feminism go very far away.

Say, Mars by 2035, Galilean moons by 2050, maybe we can throw in a Venus flyby somewhere in there….

Non-feminists take the Earth, feminists get to keep the rest of the Solar System? Sounds like a damn good deal to me.

3 months ago · tagged #inverting the pay gap with asteroid minerals #all the different factions can go their separate ways #this idea is just made of win · 51 notes · source: argumate · .permalink

shlevy:

Misread of the night: competing access nerds

Misheard misread of the night: competing excess nerds

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3 months ago · 26 notes · source: shlevy · .permalink

ilzolende:

nathanielbuildsatesseract:

ilzolende:

nathanielbuildsatesseract:

One of the things I mean when I say that I’m an environmentalist is that I have an innate preference for the world as we were born into it, for the flora and fauna that are here now. Respecting that means not trying to change it in major ways. Likewise, I believe that human beings are not in need of radical overhaul, improvement, or augmentation. As we are now constituted, we are plenty good enough.

Uh…you sure about that?

Maybe he is for his purposes, but some of us have a desire to live more than a century, as well as severe acne, a chance of being a carrier of colorblindness, nearsightedness, and a family history of being short and overweight.

There’s also the little issue of the human reproductive system being a total piece of shit

Yes, yes it is. Screw Azathoth.

Things promethea literally doesn’t understand: this kind of people. Sometimes I wonder if they have actually ever inhabited a real physical human body and brain. Other times I’m really frightened that all evidence points to “yes” and that means we have cishumanists walking among us, and most significantly voting on whether we are allowed to do things they disapprove of (usually: “no way in hell, but we’ll throw you in there just for daring to attempt it”).

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Reblog if you think Feminism has not gone FAR ENOUGH

multiheaded1793:

tooth-and-nails:

argumate:

last time this only got 8 notes!

This is actually my biggest criticism of feminism and paradoxically it gets me labeled as an anti feminist.

I’m… a radical feminist deep down (if frequently more in the breach…) but people seem to think that “radical” just means “loud”.

I’m not a radical person, I just support radical ideas.

I should write the specifics into a post of their own, but basically most of the issues with feminism are issues with inconsistently and insufficiently applied feminism; so yes, it needs to go a lot further, including but not limited to, going further recursively.

3 months ago · tagged #steel feminism · 51 notes · source: argumate · .permalink