there’s nothing wrong with drawing naked women but it’s a little odd that so many people and by people i mean men draw naked women and only naked women and spend years of their life experimenting with new art forms and finding thousands of new ways to create images of naked women
and by naked women i mean young, beautiful naked women. usually white, usually skinny.
like it’s cool that you spent years compiling this 3D crayon sculpture with only your feet but surely you could give her a dress or something. maybe you could have made an image of a man instead. or a child. or a nice tree.
man i want this to hit the tens of thousands so badly because it’s barely 1k and there’s already people missing the point and swearing at me in the notes imagine how much worse it’ll get it’ll be hilarious
Tangential but the men drawing naked women thing always reminds me of that John Berger quote, “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
let me fucking tell you a thing about self-diagnosis.
I have kidney stones, that if not medically removed, would kill me, and this has happened several times.
I’ve had them since I was 16, I’d go to doctors, they’d say, oh it’s your period, I’d go to another doctor, they’d say, oh it’s a UTI
it was not until I googled and searched up my particular symptoms, that I figured, hey, it might be kidney stones.
So I told a doctor, I’m like, hey I might have kidney stones, and so they’re like, lets do an ultrasound, nothing showed up. And so the doctor was like, I guess not.
And I’m like fuck, I wonder what it could be then, until I googled it, and found out that sometimes kidney stones don’t show up in ultrasounds.
If I didn’t google that particular information I would have died, because they wouldn’t have taken a cat scan and found MY GIANT FUCKING STONES blowing my kidney the fuck up.
Self-diagnosis SAVES LIVES, it saved my life, and it saves millions of others.
If people know there is something wrong with their bodies, and doctors continuously blow them off, if those people don’t look into it, or have someone help them look into it, they can very easily end up dead.
Doctors are NOTORIOUS for blowing people off.
yup. I have multiple chronic illnesses and when I was trying to figure out what was wrong, and why I was eating more than usual but losing weight really fast, and why I had crippling chest pain and fatigue, my doctor told me it was “stress”.
And that’s before my other doctor, the one I go to at college, gave me handouts on Anorexia and suggested counseling.
And that’s before a fucking specialist told me that while I fit literally every diagnostic box for one of my illnesses “it’s inconclusive”. My parents had to yell at him before he agreed to even diagnose me.
By that point I had lost about 15% of my body weight and could barely make it to my classes. My current specialist seriously thought about hospitalizing me.
Fuck doctors.
This kinda shit isn’t even uncommon is the whole thing. If you aren’t actively researching your symptoms, or have someone helping you actively research your symptoms, you can quite literally die.
my lung had collapsed a few years ago and when i went to the er to let a doctor know he said that it probably wasnt collapsed since i had no reason for it to collapse (other than it running in my fucking family which is why i was able to catch it) and he did all the regular tests and kept saying i was probably just having allergies and i kept telling him it wasnt allergies because it didnt feel like allergies. it wasnt until we demanded an xray and the doctor saw that it was indeed collapsed that they finally listened. if we didnt demand the xray then i probably would be dead because the doctor was ready to send me home with a collapsed lung.
I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.
looking through my “me” tag and this is apparently what I was thinking 3 years ago
If you’re still curious we did not start working glass for its transparency. It was most likely started as a sanitary concern. Glass is easy to clean with soap and water, once it’s cleaned out you can use it again for anything and no germs or flavor from the previous meal or drink will remain.
Other materials at the time, namely clay, would absorb flavors and germs meaning that if you ate beef off a clay plate your next meal with that plate could have beef flavor and microbes common on cow meat on it. That would leak out seemingly at random no less. Heck imagine a sick person coughing into their soup bowl and then months later their germs hiding in the clay would pop out to infect whole new people.
Also the earliest human use of glass we know of is for its sharpness. Pre-historic people would use volcanic glass as sharp knives for food preparation. Also beads. Pretty much any new substance humans get their hands on for most of our history we immediately try to make into beads.
The fact that it could become see through was a side benefit.
this is amazing and I’m really glad I reblogged that old bullshit post because I got to learn this
