my professor spent our entire seminar whining about how there’s too many girls in our group and not enough boys. he was like “i’m not saying women can’t be good surgeons but we need more men” no, we don’t. men suck. deal with it.
CRY ALL YOU FUCKING WANT YOUR TEARS DON’T MEAN SHIT TO ME. YOUR TEARS MEAN DICK TO ME JUST SO YOU KNOW
Okay so not to be that person who adds on to a post with their own story but my mom is a doctor and when I was eleven she took me to these all-female seminar led by a woman who was the head of a hospital because my mom is an empowered and independent woman who wanted her daughter to be the same way and so there’s like thirty females surgeons in the room, all sitting around his huge circlular confrenece table and talking about their experiences in becoming surgeons
most of them were like “everyone told me I should become a nurse or a pediatrician” and “people assume that I don’t know what I’m doing” you know, your average sexist bs
one of the women’s last name was starboard (yeah I know great name) and she was talking about how even though now she was one of the most accomplished surgeons at the hospital, the male scrub techs (read: guys who didn’t go to fucking medical school) and some of the male doctors call her starbitch in the OR because they (scrub techs mostly, strangely enough) try to suggest different ways to care for the patient and she always tells them no you didn’t go to med school and I did and so they would go out of their way to get the male doctors to treat the patient differently and then she would have to argue with him to prove what she was doing es right but sometimes the male doctor would come and take over the case anyway and this went on for a while
but then the hospital statistics changed bc this woman was literally being prevented from treating her patients bc the men were interfering and so the administrative head heard about this (she was female) and she was like y’all better stop or y’all better start looking for new jobs and then starboard was allowed to work on her patients and got the scrub techs replaced and all of the sudden, the patients were suddenly doing much better during and after surgery.
when she told this story she was like “people still call me a bitch, and maybe I am because I won’t let them walk all over me, but when you’ve got something to do, when you’ve got a life to save, you have to ignore their bullshit so that you can save someone’s fuckin life. Sexism should never stop you from accomplishing that”
and little eleven-year-old me still remembers that bc I was insecure and awkward and here was this woman who just did what she had to do and ignored all the people trying to stop here and she really was better than all the male doctors (like her patient stats were better) and I thought I should share with you this inspiring woman with the cool last name
This is something I’ve actually thought a lot about. I see so many posts and people mentioning how difficult it is to get through the day as a genderfluid person, when your gender identity shifts during activity or specific situations.
I’ve seen some people come up with cute solutions to this, such as a bracelet that has pink on one side, blue on the other, and people can flip it, or even certain codes or gestures. That’s when I started to think about this pin.
Then I thought of another one.
I got so excited about the idea of pins I thought about also making little pins of maybe food with flags on them.
However, I ran into a slight problem….
I have no idea how to make them.
and I currently don’t have money to spend learning how to make them, or to get the tools required to. But I do really like these ideas, and wanted to see if anyone else liked them too.
Not to be 2015 on main but undertale deserved so much better and I’m still pissed. The soundtrack was incredible and the storyline was captivating and all the art was charming as hell, it had ACTUALLY GOOD humor and top notch character design and the message of the whole game was !!!!! So great!!!! Not to mention it had not one, not two, but SEVEN LGBT CHARACTERS that weren’t taken as jokes and were like explicitly that way!!! Why did undertale get the fate it got!!!!!! I’m so mad!!!!!!!
“it was the fandom! the fandom ruined it” cried the masses, such empty claims, if not outright stupid.
I’ve been on the internet for a long time, seen many fandoms come and go, and believe me when I say the undertale fandom hardly scratches the surface of “bad fandoms”. I say from experience that the fandoms percieved to be the “worst” are dominated by young audiences, especially young girls. bullies need an easy target to make fun of, it’s nothing new. And I’m not saying they are idle targets, because children will happily eat each other to appear “cool”. Many former undertale fans are now part of the naysayers
group, as being mean is a domino effect. That’s how bullies are made.
I realize people always bring up a certain, isolated incident of fan entitlement/harassment in the undertale fandom, and that’s a fair argument. But, if we are using harassment as a metric, any other mainstream online game is a ripe contender, so singling out undertale would be ignorant at best and hypocritical at worst.
You need to realize indie games are affected by bullying/cringe culture in particular, because they don’t have the mainstream marketing imprint effect that would have shielded them, giving them a more positive perception. (shoutout for @girakacheezer for making this analysis) so like uh, maybe do not do that.
• Mic detests the media, and he absolutely loathes the tabloids and gossip magazines • It’s so pronounced that most media sources leave him alone because their equipment goes haywire or stops working around him • Mic uses infrasound to mess with the cameras and it makes being around him hellish/nauseating for the reporters • It’s so pronounced around him that they suspect that he’s doing something but can’t figure out what because they can’t see him doing anything so they can’t retaliate • It works so well in fact that Nedzu typically asks Mic to deal with school publicity when it gets out of hand because everyone knows that the fastest way to clear out news outlets is for Present Mic to show up • Aizawa finds it hilarious • Reporters see Mic coming nearly a mile away and trip over themselves in their haste to get away because their equipment is worth thousands of dollars and whatever they’re doing is not worth the certain death that is coming • Reporters talk about him like a bad omen so often that anyone working in the media industry knows when they see people hastily packing up they need to go and go fast • Insurance companies specifically have the “Mic policies” for camera and audio crews. • Kayama thinks the smile that Mic makes at news reporters is creepy as hell • It’s pure chaotic evil • Tensei has a video of Mic casually strolling up behind unaware media outlets harassing Kayama after a scandal and you can see them start to look around, confused as hell and can pinpoint the exact moment they spot Mic because they just scatter • The video gets shaky because Tensei is laughing so hard and just zooms on Mic’s shit-eating grin
