I think part of why people don’t like to call PCOS and gynecomastica intersex is because it challenges the image of intersex people being super rare. We’re more common than you think.
These make me really happy to see. Like genuinely having an impact on people from me speaking out is amazing.
One woman of thirty-six sat demurely looking at the ocean in a figured white silk gown. I postponed interviewing her, for she looked such a typical housewife that I thought her the wife of some official or engineer. When I asked her what she did, I got a shock.
“I am a gold miner,” she said, “working three hundred feet under-ground. I am a skilled worker; I operate a drill.”
“Isn’t that heavy work?” I asked.
She smiled a bit apologetically and replied that it was. “But not as heavy as the work I used to do. Under the Japanese I loaded ore and pushed the cars, working thirteen hours or more a day. Now, as pneu-matic drill operator, I work only seven hours and get very good pay.”
Lee Mai Hwa was her name. She had worked many years in the mines. But she had only been a driller for one year; under the Japanese rule women were not allowed to learn the higher skills. She was proud of her job.
“How did you get this work?” I asked. “Did you replace a man?”
“I got my job because we are expanding production and because I studied the work. Under the Japanese we had only 1,000 workers in our mine, but now we have 2,500.” Among the 2,500 workers, Lee said, there were 206 women but only two of these werdrillers. Lee Mai Hwa was the first.
Lee was proud of her wages. They are twice what her husband gets. He works for the same mine but on the surface. He sharpens drills. He makes at most 2,000 yen a month. “But I made 4,000 last month,” bragged Lee. “For women now get equal pay for equal work and my work is very skilled… I also set many records. Formerly a driller drilled one car of ore a day, but once, for a record, I drilled twenty cars in one day! It takes four and even six load-ers to load all the ore I drill.”
“You must be the head of your family,” I commented.
“That’s what my husband says,” replied the complacent Lee.
“Is he jealous?” “No, he’s proud,” she assured me.
I inquired into her standard of living. Just what can she buy with the 6,000 yen that she and her husband make?
Under the Japanese, said Lee, the food was very bad. “Now I get rationed food, 750 grams of rice a day for my ration and the same amount for my husband. We are both first category workers.” This rationed rice costs only five yen a kilo. So the basic rice food costs only 230 yen a month from the family wage of 6,000 yen.
“We have a good house now,” Lee added. “It formerly belonged to a Japanese official. It has a warmed floor.” (This is the Korean way of heating good houses.) “We have two big rooms and four closet-rooms and a little hall.”
“Did you ever have a nice silk dress like that under the Japanese?” I asked.
“Oh, never,” smiled Lee with a touch of amusement, stroking her white, silk gown.
creating a new OC. He’s a doctor who treats weird kink furries. his bit is that every patient who comes into his office he has to figure out how to complete the checkup while working around some weird toon-logic contrivance. He’s like the doctor house of kink because he’s the only one in his field capable of getting results. He’s massively overworked and he’s been IP banned from the e621 forums.
His name is Doctor RJ Yiphman and he’s one wrong move away from getting fired.
taylor swift definitely shouldn’t be using a private plane so often she can produce 8,300 tons of CO2 every year.
however, i think she’s a nice distraction for megacorps because she is a real human person with a name and face, unlike a megacorp with dozens of different subsidiaries so no one realizes they own the entire market
in 2021, Berkshire Hathaway produced 72 million tons of CO2 pollution.
exxon mobil produced 44 million tons of CO2 pollution.
blackstone produced 12 million tons of CO2 pollution.
the US government produced 44 million tons of CO2 pollution.
for reference, at her current rate, it would take taylor swift 120 years to produce 1 million tons of CO2 pollution.
taylor swift definitely shouldn’t be using a private plane so often she can produce 8,300 tons of CO2 every year.
however, i think she’s a nice distraction for megacorps because she is a real human person with a name and face, unlike a megacorp with dozens of different subsidiaries so no one realizes they own the entire market
in 2021, Berkshire Hathaway produced 72 million tons of CO2 pollution.
exxon mobil produced 44 million tons of CO2 pollution.
blackstone produced 12 million tons of CO2 pollution.
the US government produced 44 million tons of CO2 pollution.
for reference, at her current rate, it would take taylor swift 120 years to produce 1 million tons of CO2 pollution.
if you’ve ever kept any kind of bug as a pet (i used to raise madagascar hissing cockroaches, myself), then it is pretty obvious that they have feelings and are capable of great individuality and even personality among members of their own species. there is a tendency to not be willing to admit this, which i think comes from a place of convenience moreso than of ignorance. it’s not that people don’t know bugs are little animals, it’s that thinking of them that way makes life a bit more complicated. still, it’s not like i’m going to give up fly paper…
the final sentence from that article that’s going around right now pretty much sums it up
theyre gonna extract the iron out of my blood to make a sword but its gonna be so little iron it will barely be a dagger and everyone will laugh at the small dagger they made out of my body
Lessee theres about 3-4 grams of iron in the average human being and one gram of iron is about
Yea big so were looking at a sword about 6 cm or 2 inches long, so just big enough for a mouse.
“Not to worry, Pomni! I’ll certainly hit it THIS time for sure!”
Happy (late) anniversary to this wonderful show lmao I literally stayed up to make sure to post it as soon as possible, y'all have no idea what hell I went through lol
i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.
we as a fandom need to talk about the sandvich saga more like what do you mean the cast got bored and created this whole series where medic hallucinates that he is dying in the desert and they throw bread crusts at each other and spy has a crisis because he wishes he was a ballet dancer
sometimes im like “wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking” and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says “youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine” and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me
it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010
preach!
Gilgamesh fandom grab your ancient sumerian tablets
i’m not joking when i say that not a day goes by when i don’t think about this video
Transcript:
guy sitting: (casual tone) hey Casey can you hand me a napkin?
(long tense silence as he balls up, wets, and throws napkin)
Casey: (in a deep booming voice) WHY WOULD I GIVE YOU A NAPKIN IF YOU ARE NOT MY KIN
guy sitting: (in an english accent) we are half brothers Dremont!.. Dremont the Curious. as mother would call you.. stupid bloke
Casey: (same booming voice) THE ONLY THING I’M CURIOUS ABOUT IS BOYS
(tense silence)
guy sitting: (still in english accent) a name which quartered has but three parts clever and one part coward.. cunt. stupid cunt (starting to laugh) look at you with your cunty little face
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