if two men have sex with each other, is that feminist because no women are being sexualized, or anti-feminist because it doesn’t pass the bechdel test
“If two men have sex with each other, is that feminist because no women are being sexualized, or anti-feminist because it doesn’t pass the bechdel test?”
REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] - Anti-feminist because no women are getting laid.
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Anti-feminist. It’s only feminist if a woman is present and not being sexualized. Otherwise it’s just another male-driven narraative.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Easy: Success] - Feminist. Women love yaoi.
EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - It’s deeply misogynistic because they’re speaking over women.
INLAND EMPIRE [Formidable: Success] - Actually it’s fine because two fully clothed women are standing in the OR operating view room, commenting like Statler and Waldorf.
SAVOIR FAIRE [Medium: Success] - It’s only feminist if it was written by a straight woman.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Impossible : Success] - Depends on whether the men are lesbians. Hope this helps.
DRAMA [Easy: Success] - Whatever makes straight people who have to listen to this argument most uncomfortable.
LOGIC [Legendary: Success] - Two men are only allowed to have sex with each other if they’re in the same room as at least two women, and those women need to introduce themselves and have a conversation that’s not about the men having sex in the room.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Easy: Success] - That’s a lot of work to be putting on women.
SUGGESTION [Heroic: Success] - In a way, it could be yuri. That’s sex two women could be having… but they aren’t. Why? That’s the yuri itself… the longing.
i miss when you could make political art without placing personal identity (and the self) at the center of everything
this piece (“artist bio” by anna daliza) sort of perfectly sums it up. the emphasis on identity politics and tokenization in art/music/performance spaces feels reductive and exploitative- like it offers a sort of racial tourism for the wealthy white patrons. none of what im saying are original thoughts btw go see White by james ijames
[ID:A photo of a brick wall with a big cinematic light up box with with text that reads: “The writer (she/her) is a trans woman and lebanese-canadian who also identifies as queer. Her work is about” /End ID]
So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn’t. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it’s not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it’s meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don’t have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don’t have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can’t wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren’t just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there’s room, but where there isn’t room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn’t a replacement for trees. It’s replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it’s needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can’t sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there’s actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I’d take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I’d be delighted.
There’s a lot going on in that little critter’s head right now.
1. Power move.
2. Why do people whisked away to magical worlds just automatically believe the first creature that tells them what side the person needs to help? Where’s my isekai where the MC slowly finds out they got in with like the deranged zealots and are part of the evil faction, and not the plucky rebels?
I think about this comic once per week. It’s funnier then anything I can conceive of. Mastery.
Wait, did people think I was just saying it as a meme and not literally pointing out “this is just that specific thing from Buddhism everyone thinks is equivalent to Christian sainthood”??????
My favourite stupid world-ending SCP object is the one that’s literally just a hallway where time is stopped, except time isn’t really stopped, it’s just slowed way, way down, and the Foundation’s Science Math™ indicates that when the effect collapses, everything that’s in the hallway will return to normal spacetime preserving relative velocity – meaning this random guy who happened to be walking down the hallway when time stopped is going to come shooting out of it at half the speed of light and promptly explode.
