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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Name

Pyro

Pronouns

he/him

Age

18

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Shamrocks for Palestine
Ireland marches once again in solidarity with Palestine.
As Irish politicians from the largest political parties travel to the White House to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Joe Biden, protesters from across Northern Ireland gathered to march to the US Consulate in Belfast, calling for a White House boycott and an immediate ceasefire.
When a Councillor from Sinn Féin took the stage she was subjected to intense booing from the crowd throughout her speech for the party's decision to go to the White House with the right wing political parties.

cottagecore-raccoon
anne with an e the autistic experience
kniesguy
fecundism

ive been reading a book that basically explains how so-called “brain differences” between the genders is the result of gendered socialization and not the cause of it. i honestly expected the book to be very cis-centric but its actually the opposite, the author stresses that testimony from trans ppl is actually indispensable because we’ve, in a sense, “lived both experiences”

more cis feminists should have this mindset

fecundism

one of the first examples that she uses to introduce her point about how perception by others can shape a person’s performance actually uses a trans woman. it explains that as a certain trans woman became to be seen as a woman more and more frequently, the ppl arond her eventually started viewing her as being ill equipped for tasks that they did not bother her about pre-transition. eventually she even found herself underperforming in these tasks herself.

prissygrrrl

whats the name of the book

fecundism

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine

moon-boob

Here’s a pdf, babes <3

insufficient-earth-skills

I knew it was this book before I’d finished reading the first two lines. Honestly this book is indispensible if you want to debunk any gender determinism people claim is science. I can’t recommend it enough.

dodgylogic

She’s written a new one! It won the Royal Society prize for science book of the year, and it’s called Testosterone Rex, and it is excellent.

(Bonus: it’s making old white men really really mad.)

(Bonus bonus: I am myself a neuroscientist, and the old white men mentioned above – who are not – could not have missed the point harder if they’d actively tried. Which. Maybe?)

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Thanks to moon-boob for providing a PDF, but please, buy the book if you have the disposable income. SUPPORT THIS AUTHOR!!

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kniesguy
lipshits-continuous

"Letters weren't supposed to be used in maths. Maths would be easier if it didn't have letters." Actually it would be harder.

I appreciate abstraction isn't easy for everyone but mathematics is better off for it.

riemmetric

The whole point of math is to use letters and symbols instead of numbers, actually. Math is abstraction. Math is the generalization, the blueprint. All the other sciences can take the skeletons provided by math and specialize them for their needs (i.e. add suitable numbers and units of measurements). In my humble opinion, as a person who also has a degree in engineering, "math but with numbers" is computer science.

forgotten-hiacinthe

I tutor kids in maths (mostly from grades 7 to 9), and most of them struggle greatly with understanding why the fuck they suddenly need to use letters. They tell me that this way they aren’t doing anything concrete, so it feels even more useless and confusing than arithmetics did. I always give them the same explanation: I tell them that mathematicians are just very, very lazy people. Their whole goal is to make every calculation needed for practical reasons take shorter, for every proof to be written as consisely as possible. And doesn’t that sound half bad, does it? So because mathematicians are soooo lazy, they don’t want to repeat the same calculations if they can help it. That’s why they use formulas and letters! If they solve one arithmetic problem, like "how long of a ribbon do you need to wrap a cubic box if the length of its edge is 15cm and you need another 10cm to make the bow at the top" then that only answers that one question, but if they replace the numbers with letters, then that formula they create answers every arithmetic question stated like that, but with different numbers.

When teaching kids, "mathematicians are just very lazy people, that’s why they (…)" has been my go-to explanation for many things. It truly works wonders in terms of convincing the child that maths isn’t some Evil Devilish Subject That Is Never Useful

miscellaneous seeing this as someone doing an education degree is really helpful