do u ever send smth in a chat thats not even risqué like “i luv salsa” but no one responds so u start overthinking it like…. maybe one of their parents died making salsa…… maybe they were all just talking abt how they hate salsa……. maybe salsa isnt evn real and they have no idea what im talking abt
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.
a woman being feminine is right-wing coded which is masculine coded. a woman being masculine is left-wing coded which is feminine coded. this disproves the existence of women
uhg god my old art was SO- *remembers there’s no point in being dismissive of my old art bc i was still learning and it’s not fair to disregard the efforts of a young artist, even if it’s my own work* *through gritted teeth* foundational to the development of my current style and skill level
you know what I love that the one consistent moral lesson of the horror film genre is “you didn’t listen to your kids when they fucking told you what was happening and for that you are going to die”
I really hate that so many people can’t tell a difference between “lost media” and “commercially unavailable media”.
Like there’s a TV tropes article that calls the SNES Lion King game “lost media”.
No? We have ROMs and there’s carts on ebay?
But it’s no available in the Nintendo Switch store, so it’s “lost media”.
Like, don’t get me wrong, the fact that there’s so many games (especially Nintendo console games!) that you cannot legally purchase right now is definitely a problem, but it’s a mostly separate problem from lost media, which is where there’s no archived versions anywhere, and it’s potentially completely lost.
outdoor cat defenders really are simply some of the most Delusional people on the planet, like you can list fact after fact all with verified sources about how bad it is to let cats outside for both them & the environment around them and people will cover their ears and be like “umm not my frumpkins he knows not to play in traffic & he has magical resistance to coyotes and disease”
thinking back to the time that a random girl told me how her cat would always find injured wildlife and bring them to her to try and heal them.
YALL THE ONION BOUGHT INFO WARS IN THE BANKRUPTCY AUCTION
THIS IS THE FUNNIEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Global Tetrahedron is a real company actually! I mean sure it’s not actually run by Bryce P. Tetraeder but it is a real company that recently acquired The Onion!
When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly “Borg Cube”, but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.
So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said “Death Star”.
So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.
just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet
like the reason this exists is because none of the words sound like each other, which means that even with a terrible signal both parties should be able to clearly understand the words being spelled
i am dead serious that i believe this should be taught in school
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