today I learned that a Chinese woman named Chien-Shiung Wu proved quantum entanglement before anyone else. have I ever read about her in the pop physics books I read? no. this makes me so mad but also that's fucking awesome
One of the best things about going to a single sex girls school was that they gave us a series of classes on female specific self defence incase we were attacked by a male.
I remembered some tips I thought would be useful for women to know
I don’t remember everything but here are some tips I do remember
- often times male perpetrators will cover their groins so don’t focus on the crotch, instead focus on places like the eyes and knees.
- if you’re really in a dire situation where a man is straddling you then try and snap his legs apart very quickly with yours, because this can disable them very quickly.
- you can also impact on the under side of the nose to kill a man if you really need to. Useful to know.
- they’ll try and disable your hands, and if this happens use your feet or your head. Women have biologically less upper body strength so these are also effective at making impact.
- avoid men doing a stupid walk with baggy trousers on. A lot of the time this means they have a knife, and if it doesn’t then they’re stupid and you should avoid them anyway.
-if you’re stabbed avoid taking the knife out, because it acts as a plug to stop you from bleeding out.
- In terms of prevention, it’s helpful to basically always keep friends around you, but also to go to establishments you know will care if you’re being hurt. I personally have been spiked before in a club that didn’t care at all, and it was horrible - do your research before you go out.
These are obviously limited tips but I enjoy this channel as a means of learning self defence - https://youtube.com/@empowered8083?si=lU2YEI89phKXgEJi
Stay safe <3
So a lot has gone on in the last little bit. NASA recently was ordered to scrub their site of women's contributions to astronomy and astrophysics, even took down their page celebrating women's history month and all the contributions they've made to NASA. So I did a thing and crawled through the wayback machine to find some articles, and decided to put this right here because fuck the government, fuck the orange in charge who told them to scrub their site, and fuck NASA for throwing their people under the bus and bowing to this authoritarian nonsense. This version of the site still has articles on some important figures like Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle, and ISS chief scientist Jennifer Buchli and chief deputy scientist Meghan Everett, who, in their words, "-provide the science strategy and make science recommendations for the International Space Station program, and help make sure all of the science on the International Space Station goes smoothly, from preparing for launch to conducting research on the space station with the scientists and astronauts and returning the science to Earth."
Réponse de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe (Short) | Agnes Varda | 1975
First of all, prostitution is not the oldest profession- it's the oldest form of slavery. The oldest profession is midwifery. So jot that down.
Free Palestinian women. Free Kurdish women. Free Afghan women. Free Syrian women. Free Sudanese women. Free Congolese women. Free Somali women. Free Yemeni women. Free Indigenous women. Free Rohingya women. Free Uyghur women. Free Haitian women.
None of us are free until all of us are.
Remember that “I think everyone should have the freedom and autonomy to make decisions regarding their own personal life” will never mean “all decisions and outcomes are equally good”.
Conversely, the statement “some decisions are better than others” does not imply the statement “decisions should be compelled.”
Freedom of choice liberalism has turned into a lazy ambivalence about how the choices we make either positively negatively impact ourselves and the people around us.
A critique of someone’s choices has been too often mistaken as an attack on their right to make that choice. For example, if I say that the glorification of tradwifery on TikTok will lead to bad outcomes for young girls, the statement “tradwives should not be allowed to post on TikTok” is nowhere near implied. If I say that wearing makeup encourages compliance by other women and perpetuates a patriarchal erasure of the image of women, I am not saying that I have any desire to make makeup illegal.
Those are certainly statements that feminists could make, but only assume that’s what someone means if they actually say it.
Opposing choice feminism does not an authoritarian make.
(of course this doesn’t apply to choices which directly aid or perpetrate sexual or physical violence)
on the 7th of june a twitter user by the name of logan smith tweeted that the queen would die on the 8th of september and on september 7th whilst the sans vs reigen tumblr sexyman poll was undergoing the queen voted for reigen and upon sans’ 0.1% vote lead she was obliterated the following day whilst simultaneously across the globe trisha paytas goes into labour giving birth to a baby girl which is actually the reincarnated soul of queen elizabeth II thus continuing the circle of life
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