April 2012
75 posts
Anyone who thinks sex education is unnecessary...
greenchestnuts:
tentacledicks:
greenchestnuts:
shiyiya:
moarhelenplz:
lord-kitschener:
ihaveabsolutelynoidea:
itsanawkwardlifeoutthere:
toothpaste.
candlewax.
grape jelly.
i’m done.
toothpaste?
TOOTHPASTE?
TOOTHPASTE?
Sample-sized bottle of hotel room shampoo.
For anal.
O_O Some of that isn’t even sex education. It’s just basic biology. OH GOD CAN YOU IMAGINE THE...
greenchestnuts:
Can we come to some agreement about an upper age limit past which it’s just ridiculous to tell people they’re too young to know they’re asexual*?
Telling 14-year-olds that is one thing, though I disagree with it, only partly because you’re apparently never too young to know you’re straight. Telling 18-year-olds, well, now you’re getting more patronizing. Telling seniors in...
greenchestnuts:
goldenheartedrose:
outlawroad:
avenpt:
New Study: Intergroup bias toward “Group X”: Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against asexuals
Abstract:
Although biases against homosexuals (and bisexuals) are well established, potential biases against a largely unrecognized sexual minority group, asexuals, has remained uninvestigated. In two...
New Study: Intergroup bias toward “Group X”:... →
nextstepcake:
avenpt:
Abstract:
Although biases against homosexuals (and bisexuals) are well established, potential biases against a largely unrecognized sexual minority group, asexuals, has remained uninvestigated. In two studies (university student and community samples) we examined the extent to which those not desiring sexual activity are viewed negatively by heterosexuals. We provide...
chibiwaja:
writingfromfactorx:
chibiwaja:
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YES PLEASE I AM ALL FOR THIS IDEA.
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You do realize I will be decked out in a handknit hat designed to look like Captain America’s shield, right? I AM JUST SAYING, MIDNIGHT PREMIERES ARE THE PERFECT PLACE FOR RIDICULOUS OUTFITS.
facingthenorthwind asked: re: delusions of gender book. I've not read it but does it mention the whole "boys are better than multiple choice than girls~!1!!" thing that my teachers keep saying? 'Cause they say we second-guess ourselves too much and the cynic in me says perhaps that's because we're taught our opinions are worth less and that we're probably wrong because we don't have...
hawkelf:
greenchestnuts:
tentacledicks:
whisperingtoghosts:
can i just ask why there’s bug sex in the asexuality tag
it
it isnt what i was expecting to be honest
from the asexuality tag
and im in the type of mood where everything is hilarious
so
is it just
did the dinosaur sex evolve
did you use a leaf stone
if so
wheres exeggutor
or like
victreebel
the best reaction I’ve...
Oh, btw, I finished my eusociality paper today.
If anyone has pressing interests in how you evolve eusociality—AKA, that thing some social animals do with a queen that does all the reproducing and a bunch of other animals that don’t—send me an ask with an email in it and I’ll share. (I… would not expect there to be takers on this but people seem strangely interested in my geekery. Also, I’m ridiculously proud...
hawkelf asked: Thank you for all the awesome bug/insect information on the fail!spam. I got so excited that I texted my roomie about it. (Sadly, he doesn't seem to share my interest. Adamantly doesn't share my interest, in fact. Oh well.)
emeraldincandescent asked: I'm loving your bug/insect sex geekery. It's turning a minor annoyance (bug porn in the ace tags) into something hilarious. So thank you!
I wonder if bringingsensyback realizes how...
Because dude, insect reproduction! It is awesome! I mean, I study this shit for a living. I think it’s ridiculously cool. I once won a book called The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems at a conference and did a little dance of sheer glee when my name got called in the raffle, okay.
What I’m trying to say is—if you really think you’re going to upset aces with bug sex,...
goldenheartedrose:
tal9000:
freedominwickedness:
Celibate Gay Men Are Significantly More at Risk of Suicide
galesofnovember:
Unlike, I gather, a lot of queer resource tumblrs, I follow a bunch of religious tumblrs too, and a bunch of blogs that focus on the intersection of the two topics. Which means following people who have to engage with ex-gay ministries or the rhetoric of hating...
Planned Parenthood Funding - with a twist →
shiyiya:
telegantmess:
wheretheweedstakeroot:
A month ago, the story The Right Not to Know appeared in the Texas Observer: one woman’s experience with a second-trimester abortion after discovering her desperately-wanted baby had a genetic defect that meant abortion was by far the more humane choice. This was just after Texas’s new sonogram law went into effect, meaning that she had to...
//TODO: Provide Title.: Options, options... →
redbeardace:
greenchestnuts:
Looks good. I would have recommended going with the long version, but you know what you’re doing.
I would seriously recommend getting an asexual woman and a trans* asexual to, if not author, at least coauthor those respective sections.
I wouldn’t go so far to say that I know what I’m doing… I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, but I think it’s more fun...
sherlockcat replied to your post: So I’ve had about four people so far concur with me that a post on why “BUT OVER-POPULATION!!!” is shitty science would be fantastic and amazing. Just saying. If that post still be kicking around, well, you should share. c:
I love when you get wordy < 3 (I think that might look like sarcasm, but it totally isn’t!)
This is good to know, because...
minato-rise-up asked: Ohmigosh, I'm glad someone else asked you for that quick, I mean, long and involved write up on evolution, because I really wanted to read something like that but was a little afraid to ask.
moarhelenplz replied to your post: So I’ve had about four people so far concur with me that a post on why “BUT OVER-POPULATION!!!” is shitty science would be fantastic and amazing. Just saying. If that post still be kicking around, well, you should share. c:
YAAAAY but um, you’re kind of busy aren’t you? *ducks head*
Yeaaaah, I was going to say—I will be working on this, but after the...
captainjerkway asked: So I've had about four people so far concur with me that a post on why "BUT OVER-POPULATION!!!" is shitty science would be fantastic and amazing. Just saying. If that post still be kicking around, well, you should share. c:
... "asexuality is the evolutionary response to...
greenchestnuts:
writingfromfactorx:
moarhelenplz:
No. No. Stop right there. Stop it. Just stop. No. No. Put that hammer down, and go sit in the corner.
*violent twitching* Oh my god, this drives me up the wall. Evolution does not work that way. At ALL. Selection does not work that way. Aaaaaaaghhhhh. WRONG FOR SO MANY REASONS.
^^^
Once I planned out a detailed evolutionary and...
... "asexuality is the evolutionary response to...
moarhelenplz:
No. No. Stop right there. Stop it. Just stop. No. No. Put that hammer down, and go sit in the corner.
*violent twitching* Oh my god, this drives me up the wall. Evolution does not work that way. At ALL. Selection does not work that way. Aaaaaaaghhhhh. WRONG FOR SO MANY REASONS.
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Watching Lilo adopt Stitch, and thinking about my sister’s dog Daisy.
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My baby sister got a chance to adopt a dog when she was seven because, like Lilo, she was having some trouble in school and my mother thought the promise of a puppy would help. When my mother took her to a rescue to pick out a puppy, she totally chose a slightly defective and extremely weird spotted puppy. At...
I'm watching Lilo and Stitch again.
LET THE FEELINGS COMMENCE.
Problems I have with the aphobichomosexuals meme:
emerald-ace:
greenchestnuts:
metapianycist:
The use of*phobiaterminology
The use of “homosexual” as a noun
The assumption that a gay allosexual/consexual person’s anti-asexual prejudice is any more wrong than a straight allosexual/consexual person’s anti-asexual prejudice—both are equally egregious.
Oh
wow.
I’m not sure I can be coherent about that except really? Really?
Whoever’s...
thelastpapertiger asked: I saw what you had to say in the asexuality tag, and I've also seen you around the LJ comm for aces and always found what you had to say quite interesting and worthwhile. :)Stay awesome!
What is This, I Don't Even-!: What I Want to Give →
redbeardace:
thecoolmoniker:
So the recent backlash over the inclusion of aces in the Trevor Project just reminded me of… this list of things I want to give the ace community, or alternatively things I wish we had. Like EXCLUSIVELY ace things, so there is NO QUESTION whether or not it’s safe for an ace to contact.
Foremost…
Okay, so http://forums.asexualityarchive.com/ is up and running...
Casting questions into the deep: What I Want to... →
charlesrobertdarwin:
writingfromfactorx:
Apositive bites. I’ll say that right now, but part of that’s the moderation and part of it’s just that it’s small, which combines to leave it with a huge concentration of off-putting jackasses.
Knights of the Shaded Triangle could have been good, but died mostly due to lack of interest. I can’t speak to the couple of forums I know founded over the EGD...
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greenchestnuts:
writingfromfactorx:
And you know, it really makes me feel exhausted, because I believe so firmly that there should be spaces for questioning people and people coming to terms with their sexuality to come to and work through their feelings with support and people who understand. I believe in trusting people to figure…
Two thoughts jump and meet as one— we could compile a list...
Casting questions into the deep: What I Want to... →
thecoolmoniker:
greenchestnuts:
thecoolmoniker:
greenchestnuts:
thecoolmoniker:
So the recent backlash over the inclusion of aces in the Trevor Project just reminded me of… this list of things I want to give the ace community, or alternatively things I wish we had. Like EXCLUSIVELY ace things, so there is NO QUESTION whether or not it’s safe for an ace…
Like AVEN, then, but without the...
What I Want to Give
thecoolmoniker:
So the recent backlash over the inclusion of aces in the Trevor Project just reminded me of… this list of things I want to give the ace community, or alternatively things I wish we had. Like EXCLUSIVELY ace things, so there is NO QUESTION whether or not it’s safe for an ace to contact.
Foremost among them, obviously, would be a for-sure ace-safe suicide hotline. For all manner...
greenchestnuts replied to your post: I’m also reading The Science of Discworld II right now.
The— The Science of Discworld? … I. I need some words. I need some BOOKS!
Right here, then! :) They are seriously awesome, and actually that reminds me, I had some thoughts on his concept of “lies-to-children” that I need to expand upon in the context of paneling and education and...
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I'm also reading The Science of Discworld II right...
And railing at the injustice that I can’t buy an ebook version of The Science of Discworld III anywhere in the US, since apparently it’s only available in the UK. I really want to read it, it has Darwin in the title! And the first one managed to make me care about physics and astronomy, I didn’t think that was possible, so imagine how awesome a book with more evolutionary biology...
quarterclever:
writingfromfactorx:
And you know, it really makes me feel exhausted, because I believe so firmly that there should be spaces for questioning people and people coming to terms with their sexuality to come to and work through their feelings with support and people who understand. I believe in trusting people to figure out what they are for themselves, and I believe in affirming...
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greenchestnuts:
writingfromfactorx:
And you know, it really makes me feel exhausted, because I believe so firmly that there should be spaces for questioning people and people coming to terms with their sexuality to come to and work through their feelings with support and people who understand. I believe in trusting people to figure…
Isn’t this one reason that group_x was launched last time,...
But there is a positive side ...
moarhelenplz:
writingfromfactorx:
Well, yeah. I mean, at this point it’s not even worth mocking them. It’s like having Fred Phelps camped out on your yard 24/7—you can yell back all you want, but at the end of it you’ll just have sore lungs and you’ll still have to listen to the distilled hatred. I’ve reached the point where with some exceptions—and apparently, for me, people trying to take...
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And you know, it really makes me feel exhausted, because I believe so firmly that there should be spaces for questioning people and people coming to terms with their sexuality to come to and work through their feelings with support and people who understand. I believe in trusting people to figure out what they are for themselves, and I believe in affirming what they have to say about what they...
moarhelenplz:
writingfromfactorx:
lizziegoneastray:
I haven’t commented on the reactions to the Trevor Project’s inclusion of asexuality, not because it didn’t make me sad (it did) or I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it (there is), but because when I look at that whole discussion — the claims that we’re anti-gay, comparisons to ex-gays, claims that we’re taking resources away from...
lizziegoneastray:
I haven’t commented on the reactions to the Trevor Project’s inclusion of asexuality, not because it didn’t make me sad (it did) or I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it (there is), but because when I look at that whole discussion — the claims that we’re anti-gay, comparisons to ex-gays, claims that we’re taking resources away from LGBT people — all I can see is the...
...that awkward moment when you find your new...
I’m simultaneously startled and highly amused.
TW suicide, ace-hate
greenchestnuts:
No, really. If my last post made you happy, just ignore this one.
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Oh my—oh my god. How the fuck do people think this is okay? I—how do people think “Oh, these suicidal people, they don’t deserve support, it is offensive to support them?” I—I can handle it when they’re going after the rest of us, I guess, maybe I could kind...
qichi:
okay so here’s my hogwarts housing thoughts
house selection isn’t really based on your outward personality so much as your internal priorities? it’s about what you value, what you’d visualize as your ideal version of yourself—if you could be guaranteed anything, what would it be?
really generally here’s what each house would say
hufflepuff: camaraderie, belonging, support
gryffindor:...
Incidentally, I’m now writing a paper on the evolution of eusociality for one of my classes.
Which means I totally had a legitimate reason to be squeeing about Synalpheus all those months ago and reading up on papers about them. Because I am totally going to be citing some of that in my final paper. Yes.
wheeee, this is going to be a fun paper to research!
Attempted Danger: "Doing Without: A Therapist's... →
greenchestnuts:
writingfromfactorx:
outlawroad:
This video and the transcript of it was included in a thread on AVEN back in November, and I want to post here for anyone who hasn’t seen it because it’s fascinating and includes a lot of great information. Cormier-Otaño gave this presentation on October 24, 2011 at the University of Warwick.
To…
I mentioned this video in the panel,...
