Hello 911 Feminists Are Being Mean

hello 911 feminists are being mean

Well, Loft is my favorite store but I'm officially boycotting for at least the rest of pride month. Way to hop on the bandwagon with all the other gender affirmers in capitalist America.

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)

Malala Yousafzai for British Vogue (2021)

“I know the power a young girl carries in her heart” l a Pakistani activist for girls' education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, Malala began campaigning for girls’ rights in Pakistan at the age of 11. Almost 13 years later, a woman's right to education is still at the forefront of her cause, expanding beyond her home country to nations all over the world.

The 23 year-old Oxford graduate has become a beacon of hope, committed to ensuring girls across the world get the education they deserve. And now she stands at a crossroad in her own life. / all © British Vogue

“If one girl with an education can change the world, just imagine what 130 million can do.” (British Vogue 2018)

Do you think trans women who pass as cis (thinking of someone like Patti Harrison) experience misogyny? I look at her and I’m like, she must experience the same things I do societally as a woman. I didn’t know she was trans until I read it somewhere. What are your thoughts?

Hm. I think that they experience a surface level misogyny - like a cat call (or other male harassment/objectification). But a lot of the misogyny we face as female people is systemic.

It's all healthcare/medicine that's available to us being only tested on males, prioritized for male bodies, and constructed so our role as birther > our humanity. And no matter how well a trans woman passes, healthcare is still made for their male body. And I still am being given medicine that was only tested on male rats and male humans because "females have complicated hormonal cycles that are difficult to control for". I am still being treated by a physician who was taught the male symptoms for all ailments, the female ones not considered.

Its being raised in a society that celebrates and rewards male excellence, and discourages and doesn't teach examples of women in math and science and medicine. It's being raised to be clean, be helpers, risky play discouraged. No matter how well a trans woman passes, they were encouraged to adventure, be explorers, pursue math and science. Their questions were celebrated, not quieted.

It's my upbringing being fundamentally affected by every male who ever interacted with me and how their thoughts and opinions of my femaleness influenced their treatment of me.

Its a society that demands female sacrifice, beauty, smoothness, chastity, thinness, litheness, grace, feminity, starvation, sensuality, motherhood, and conformity. Its being a woman punished for not adhering. And a trans woman, passing however well, selecting optionally to opt in to whatever degree of that they like, or worse yet, agree with.

Its being in a world in which over 95% of lawmakers and politicians are male. Which means absolutely all laws, rules, governing structures, and systems within that world are given male bias. Benefit male people. Its being a female in that system. And however well a trans woman passes, they still are male bodied and benefit from the entire structure and ongoing state of the nation and world that benefits male people.

Its having every top religion of the world written by men to include a male Father-God.

Its being regarded as "the second sex".

Its having all sports that exemplify male biological advantages being highly paid and in the spotlight, and all sports that exemplify female biological advantages taking second fiddle.

Its having female bodily autonomy constantly up for grabs, and male bodily autonomy never on the chopping block. Female reproductive freedom always restricted, male reproductive freedom never questioned.

Its having femicide, rape, abuse as a constant threat. It's seeing that treatment of females constantly glorified for entertainment value in all medias.

Its seeing female bodies broken and abused in pornography, with worse treatment every year. Its seeing male bodies doing the treatment.

And it goes on and on and on.

Its systemic. Its all-encompassing. And it is biology specific.