not really, it’s kind of hard to explain but the way i understand it is that it’s reclaiming femininity as a lesbian? i’m not femme so i’m not really good at explaining it bxhbbdbdb
Femme is gender norm SUBVERTING, butch is gender norm REJECTING.
Butches reclaim their identity by rejecting the norms placed on womanhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must be soft, fragile, and gentle, butches are hard, strong, and assertive.
Femmes reclaim their identity by SUBVERTING the norms placed on womenhood by the patriarchy. If men say women must dress ‘girly’ and have long flowing hair and wear makeup and heels in order to be attractive to men, femmes say “I’ll be soft and beautiful and feminine, but it’s not for you, it’s for other women.”
That’s why butch and femme are lesbian only identities. Not only did lesbians make them, but they are inherently tied up with rejecting men and decentering men in our lives. They’re identities that both revolve around being women-aligned and only attracted to other women-aligned people at the specific and aggressive exclusion of men.
Adding to this, in all seriousness duct tape can work wonders.
When I worked at Walmart, a guy came in really late one night looking for the best duct tape we had. As I directed him to the selection, he told me that his daughter had been in a car wreck and had glass embedded in her feet. Apparently the ER folks said that the small pieces of glass had to kinda work their own way out and that they should use duct tape to help pull them out.
So if you’ve got small, stubborn pieces of glass stuck somewhere (including flesh,) consider duct tape. This can also help with cleaning up the tiny, tiny specks of it that can be missed with sweeping and vacuuming. My dogs broke a mirror in my room like 6+ months ago and I’m STILL finding pieces of glass every now and then. I have the entire area gated off now so the pets don’t get into anything and I’m ok with just cleaning up the glass as I find it since we’re replacing the carpeting soon anyhow, but if you need to clean it up in a hurry cause of kids and animals, try duct tape after sweeping/vacuuming. Even a hair-remover roller thing might help.
And if you’re still not sure, put some rugs over the area. Go to Walmart and get some of the cheap ones, heck even some of their cheap towels in a pinch, just something to place an extra barrier in between glass specks and whatever vulnerable life forms live with you.
Listen. I’m gonna level with you. I’m gonna be straight with you. I’m gonna be up front about this.
I already don’t know what Overwatch is. There’s a gorilla and some lesbians and guns but yall never play the gorilla I don’t know. And then sometimes if that wasn’t bad enough sometimes you go and just invent new Overwatches. Like just when I’m getting a handle on what “Junkrat kin discourse” is yall show up with “This is my new OC her name is Grandma Sniper” and then SHE’S part of the Overwatchers. “This is Swedish Beefcake” could yall? not?? I still don’t know what a Hanzo is. I know it’s an insult but I don’t know what it means.
“This is my new doctor OC she hangs out with Angela Mercy her name is Moriarty” yall are just making things up now. no one’s explained the gorilla yet. put the doctor away yall already have like a fucking half angel or something. stop just adding characters to the cast i still dont know what the plot is. whats the plot?? no one ever talks about the plot i just know Soldier 69 and his best friend Anakin Skywalker had a fight about something. is there a plot??? i dont think there is!
I’m pretty sure yall are just playing Super Smash Bros and you’re like “yeah uh huh theres a plot theres lore see Grandma Sniper used to be part of Overwatch the Prequel” but then yall just play 10,000 hours of SSB with 18 Grandma Snipers on the field and two Junkrats going “yeah deep lore”
Whos. Whos even the Turgbjorn guy? What did he do??
I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
– Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
– Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
– According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
– Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
– Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
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