throwback to the time my classics professor asked “does anyone know who sappho is?” and i immediately replied “she’s the OG lesbian” and my professor yelled “EXACTLY” and wrote the OG lesbian on the whiteboard
the amount of people in the notes going “SHE WAS BISEXUAL THOUGH” is annoyingly high
bisexual erasure is pretty fuckin’ annoying too mate
We’re talking about a woman who died around 570 BC with few information left about her life and the proof that she’s supposedly bi is this
AND the account that she had a husband, which comes from a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia The Suda (which is also inconsistent in the name of Sappho’s father) that claims that her husband was called Penis (Kerkylas) from the island of man (Andros) which is theorized to be most likely a joke, especially since there are no other accounts of that being used as a Greek name.
There’s a difference between erasing the sexuality of someone who was openly bi and this.
The department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” The agency’s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by The Times. Any dispute about one’s sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.
‘… a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.’
Gender is an amalgamation of several elements: chromosomes (those X’s and Y’s), anatomy (internal sex organs and external genitals), hormones (relative levels of testosterone and estrogen), psychology (self-defined gender identity), and culture (socially defined gender behaviors). And sometimes people who are born with the chromosomes and genitals of one sex realize that they are transgender, meaning they have an internal gender identity that aligns with the opposite sex—or even, occasionally, with neither gender or with no gender at all.
So a clear, objective, definition grounded in science would also be pro-trans.
Look. I know that when we’re in high school we learn about x and y chromosomes and it all seems very cut and dried. But most of the things that we learn in high school are simplified to help us understand the concept. Progressive science explores the parts that are not black and white as a means to understand our world.
As Adam Savage puts it:
Science-based legislation is meant to progress with study. It is not supposed to control what scientists say.
I’m going to establish myself as a writer who never writes straight relationships. Then, one fateful day, I’m going to introduce a straight couple. I will make them the healthiest straight relationship ever without ever saying they are a couple. I’ll keep it subtext most of the time. Still, they will be as well developed as my plethora of gay-ass characters. Then, just after subtext becomes maintext and they’ve finally admitted their feelings for one another and given in to those feelings
If you are 18+ and LGBT, GET OUT AND VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6TH. TRANSGENDER RIGHTS ARE IN DANGER.
The Trump Administration is planning to change the legal definition of sex to- “male or female, unchangeable, Unless by genetic testing.” Aka, trans people would be completely erased. They would have no rights towards discrimination, changing their gender, or even presenting as trans in general. If you aren’t planning to vote or you’re on the fence, PLEASE, for the love of god, get out and vote. We have to protect our community.
I was searching the Latin/Greek section of a used bookstore for some ~aesthetic~ antique Latin books, and I came across this beautiful 1889 tome:
This is going to look great on my “look at me I’m a pretentious twat” bookshelf.
But then… the first few sentences read:
“In 1875 delegates of the Oxford University Press proposed to me that I should undertake the compilation of a new Latin-English Lexicon, of something the same compass as the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. I acceded to the proposal in the expectation, for which I had at the time what appeared to be good grounds, that I should obtain adequate assistance in the work. My hopes were, however, disappointed.”
Ouch.
He goes on to detail how he spent 12 years working on A all by himself. Then the university asked him to publish what he had, so he threw together the rest of the book, clearly caring less and less the further he got in the alphabet – the entire Q section has four entries – and published… this.
Obviously this is going straight onto my pretentious twat shelf as a goofy conversation starter, but it is interesting and potentially useful if obscure Latin words are your thing. (Did you know “ramen” is a hapax legomenon meaning “a small chip or shaving”?)
So if you ever come across a really obscure Latin word or name that you can’t find anywhere, hmu… but only if it starts with A.
hey guys!! after realizing that no comprehensive godly parent quizzes exist, i decided to make my own!! now, this won’t necessarily give you a result you’re used to, but it should give you a more accurate result based on your personality :)) enjoy!!!
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