That Would Be An Interesting Concept, Especially Since A Lot Of College Age Kids Engage In Sexual Activity

That would be an interesting concept, especially since a lot of college age kids engage in sexual activity with each other. Maybe if they made some kind of law that said college age kids can only consent to sex with people X years older than them with a new "legal adult" age of like... 22ish. I don't know exactly what the details would be. It's kind of weird that here in America we have a mentality like:

You want easy access to alcohol? Let's wait until your brain is more fully matured at the age of 21 in the hope that you will make smarter health decisions.

And as of 2019, you want easy access to cigarettes, tobacco products, and vaping products? Let's wait until your brain is more fully matured at the age of 21 in the hope that you will make smarter health decisions.

You want to sleep with any adult regardless of the age gap or potential for physical and emotional manipulation from seasoned predators as well as the risk for physical health side effects like STDs and pregnancy? Well, you're 18, I'm sure you know what you're doing.

i remember feeling so sad when i turned 18 because i felt like i wasn't protected from men anymore. like, if a crusty older guy hit on me as a teenager, i knew he was a disgusting creep preying on teenage girls and i knew i could tell someone about that. being hit on by the same guy as an 18+ would just be..legal and even normal. i felt like i became free real estate when i became legally an adult. i really wish they'd increase the age of consent.

Hi, here is a list of feminist texts I’ve found online. There are many important and notable readings not on this list that I’ve been unable to find working links for, and I haven’t read all of these yet. I have downloaded them all, though, so if a link breaks please let me know.

The complete works of Andrea Dworkin

“Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence and Women’s Lives” by Dee L.R. Graham, Edna I Rawlings, and Roberta K. Rigsby

“Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts and You Don’t Know Why” by Susan Forward and Joan Torres

“Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men” by Lundy Bancroft

“Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape” by Susan Brownmiller

“Gyn/Ecology” by Mary Daly

“Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde

“Only Words” by Catharine A. MacKinnon

“Sexual Politics” by Kate Millet

“The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan 

“Feminism is for Everybody” by bell hooks

“The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution” by Shulamith Firestone

“Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State” by Friedrich Engels

“The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir

“Women, Race & Class” by Angela Davis

“Women as a Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities” by Mary Beard

“The Subjection of Women” by Harriet Taylor, published under the name of a friend, John Stuart Mill

“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” by Mary Wollstonecraft

“S.C.U.M. Manifesto” by Valerie Solanas 

En Español

“Women and their Bodies” by Boston Women’s Health Collective

“Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice” by John Stoltenberg

“Liberalism and the Death of Feminism” by Catharine A. MacKinnon

“Sexology and Antifeminism” by Sheila Jeffreys

“Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution” by Evelina Giobbe

“Abortion and Pornography: The Sexual Liberals’ “Gotcha” Against Women’s Equality” by Twiss Butler

“Sexual Liberalism and Survivors of Sexual Abuse” by Valerie Heller

“The Many Faces of Backlash” by Florence Rush

“The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism“ Edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond

“Liberals, Libertarianism, and the Liberal Arts Establishment” by Susanne Kappeler

“Women and Civil Liberties” by Kathleen A. Lahey

“The New Reproductive Technologies” by Gena Corea

If you have a Duolingo account, please consider upvoting this request to add Coptic to their language courses.

Coptic is the final stage of the Egyptian language. It is currently endangered, with less than 300 Egyptians speaking it as their native tongue.

It would mean a great deal to indigenous Egyptians in the Coptic community to have our language preserved, and this would be a huge step forward.

If you don’t have a Duolingo account, consider sharing this with those who might. Thank you! <3

RELEASE THE LESBIAN BEETLES POST

Oh man, buckle up cause this one is crazy. Male-killing bacteria, mom-eating daughters, deadbeat sons (that also eat their moms), genital destruction, kids that refuse to grow up until you roast them (literally), multi-cloning, and of course, lesbianism. All in one nearly-microscopic beetle.

Micromalthus debilis is possibly one of the strangest beetles out there (which is saying a lot). It probably started out as a normal-ish beetle millions of years ago, until it got infected with Wolbachia, a bacteria that lives in insects and gets passed down from mother to offspring. Wolbachia figured out that more daughters is a good thing, since female insects can pass on the bacteria whereas males are a dead end. So it alters the physiology of its host to produce more females, or it just straight up kills any males it ends up in. In a few insect species (such as Micromalthus), it went a bit really overboard. Imagine 200 females for every ONE male.

      The male-exclusionary bacteria burrowed inside an insect cell

When you have to compete with 200 other females for a chance to mate, it pays to be a bit... assertive. Multiple females beetles will aggressively try to mate with a single male, often resulting in the male getting his dick chopped off or destroyed. Needless to say, this reproductive strategy sucks. Evolution swooped in with a scorched-earth solution and said “you know what? Fuck mating. Lets just clone ourselves. Also fuck being an adult”. Fast forward to the present, and we have ourselves a really a bizarre life cycle. 

For those that don’t know, beetles have a life cycle a bit like a butterfly, with a larval stage (a beetle grub) that then pupates and becomes an adult (beetle). Micromalthus is entirely larval. There are NO ADULTS. The grubs live their whole lives as grubs, then clone themselves to make more grubs. Well, really its only the females that clone themselves. They either make multiple female copies of themselves, which eat the mother alive, or they make a single precious baby male. Which also eats the mother alive, but this time from the inside out. And for all intents and purposes the male is a total deadbeat, since he can’t make any clones and he can’t mate. 

                     Yeah, the moms really do have it that rough (x)

But researchers discovered that you can induce development of the larvae to adults by roasting them. Literally, they heat them up to 55° Celsius (which is 131° degrees in Freedom units). The vast majority of them die in the process, but for the ones that survive it seems that the vestigial genes used for metamorphosis into adults get re-activated. These “ghost adults” are totally sterile yet still mate with each other. It’s through this process that we discovered their mating strategy mentioned above. 

And it’s how we discovered the oldest case of lesbianism (sort of). Some of the ghost-adult females will eschew the free-for-all violent hetero mating and instead mate with each other (but without any genital destruction). Now here is the interesting part- Micomalthus has gone tens of millions, possibly over a hundred million years without mating. And since they stay in their larval form, that means that “sexual orientation” has been vestigial for millions of years. Any genes responsible for sexual behavior have lied dormant for far longer than anything resembling humans has been around. Those genes have been frozen in a dormant state, essentially fossilized. So when we observe the sexual antics of this tiny little beetle, we are looking at behavior that was possibly last expressed when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. And that includes lesbianism. 

Happy pride month, everyone! (and if you liked this post, check out the male homosexual blood parasites)

Okay, so I have a sleep disorder (hence the sloth in the name) and I follow this sleep advocacy group/non profit on Instagram which of course, this month, felt the need to "highlight voices from the LGBTQ+ community" who struggle with sleep disorders. So today they posted about this one girl and she writes "I identify as queer and bisexual, and as disabled."

I'm sorry what? Are any of those things something you can "identify" as? Que*r is a slur, and even if it wasn't, what would it even mean? Like why is it a separate thing from your sexual orientation? Which by the way, that's what bisexuality is: a sexual orientation. Not an identity. And disabled, how tf do you identify as disabled? You either have a disability, or you don't. And then underneath that she writes "I have narcolepsy".

Are you sure? Maybe you just identify as narcoleptic. But that would sound ridiculous. 🙄

Today, I wore loose blue pants and a striped tank top.

Yesterday, I wore a cotton dress.

The day before that, I wore comfy shorts and old t-shirt.

Am I a demigirl now too? Or could it be, perhaps, that women just wear whatever they feel like wearing each day. Perhaps, having a little variety in life has nothing to do with our fucking identity.

Demigirl culture is wearing a dress one day and wearing baggy pants and a old button up over a t-shirt the next day confusing everyone you live with [jk they're used to this by now lmao]

Demigirl Culture