When your mother was pregnant with you, she was losing her bone mass to build your skeleton. Your bone is literally your mother’s bone. Alhamdullilah.
The physiology of this works in the following way: calcium resorption increases in pregnant women so that calcium ions from the mother’s solid bones are put into the blood, passed through the placenta, and given to the fetus. Those calcium ions then get deposited into the developing skeleton of the fetus. Thus, you are literally built from your mother’s bones.
Good i didn’t ask for her ass to have me that’s why i stole her bones bitch
I told my mom this and with a blank face she said “give them back”
a sperm really just gives you DNA. that means your mom gave you EVERYTHING else that constitutes a living cell (like mitochondria and cytoplasm) and dad stuff
libfems defend their ideology by claiming “gender is a feeling” and then go on to say that homosexuality should be defined based on gender and not sex – how the fuck am i supposed to be attracted to someone else’s feelings???kdjfjfkfor
This actually makes sense though because it’s male supremacy in drag and women’s sexuality has long been assumed to be reactive, rather than active. Women have been socialized to be chosen. Males are socialized to believe they have the right to choose and it is up to whomever they choose to comply. The only caveat is when a woman belongs to another.
TLDR: women have always been expected to be attracted to whomever was attracted to them, ie experience attraction based upon someone else’s feelings.
they also say shit like “gender is invisible! your gender can be anything!” then expect you to be attracted to their invisible gender ghost and like…
I’m not sure what’s the best part of this video: the fact that she’s in heels, the fact that she does the whole thing looking like she don’t give a fuck, that chick in the back just exercising and enjoying the show, or the fact that both men and women are observing this and the girls are laughing and the guys look concerned/pensive as fuck as they watch all their tactics get shut down like nothing is even happening.
… msties is it just me or is this familiar?
Some of these are moves I haven’t seen before.
Some of this looks similar to the self defense I learned in a course three or four years ago. It’s definitely got some judo in it (arm bars, throws, fighting to and from the ground).
I love this lady. She is rad. I feel like she, much like the rad lady I had as my self defense teacher, would also warn the women that if they don’t think they can gouge out someone’s eyes, don’t start trying because you’ll attack better with something you can follow through on.
crimelords I’m sorry I couldn’t not reblog this for you
The cheerful music makes it even better
this definitely has some judo and maybe aikido in it
“I like that she is in heels”
Ah yes, her feeling the need to continue to preform femininity while demonstrating moves that could defend her life from males (who also enforce her femininity) is so empowering and awesome 😩🙌
Okay I get your point but also consider heels were pushed on women more in that time period so this woman is demonstrating the moves can be carried out even in restrictive footwear. And as most martial arts people know, doing these moves in heels is kind of impressive because there’s stance and weight distribution adjustments that have to be made and it’s amazing that the teacher worked these out in a normally male-centric activity
I saw this post on my dash which contains this image:
And my brain initially accepted it because Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep are the first recorded gay couple in history. No issues there. I continued scrolling past.
Then my brain went “hang on a minute, go back a second” and so I scrolled back up and looked at the text more closely. In particular, the ‘translation’ of the names of Niankhamun and Khnumhotep. At this point I know it’s my Egyptological training showing, but in my head I translate Egyptian names as I read them and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that those names do not translate the way this post says they do.
For starters, the parents of both of them would have had to have the absolute amazing foresight of the parents of the main character in an anime to give them a name that would manifest in their gay destiny.
Both names also contain the name of a god: the creator god, god of the source of the Nile; Khnum.
Khnumhotep is easy to translate. We already have Khnum, so what does the other part mean? Htp (pronounced ‘hotep’) means ‘peace’ ‘satisfaction’ or ’offering’ so Khnumhotep means ‘Khnum is satisfied’
If you’re wondering about the glyphs here’s Khnumhotep:
Niankhkhnum is a little tricker, but we have ‘Khnum’ so what about the other parts? The ‘ni’ is an anglicisation of the preposition ‘n’ meaning ‘of’ ‘for’ or ‘belonging to’ and ankh in this context means ‘life’. So, Niankhkhnum means ‘Life belonging to Khnum’.
Here are the hieroglyphs:
(And just in case you’re wondering: the pot in the names stands for Xnm (khnum) and is a representation of the god. It looks weird, but in Egyptian mythology Khnum was said to create mankind on his potters wheel from the fertile Nile silt…of which he was also god of. So he’s represented by a piece of pottery.)
So, no, the names do not mean ‘joined in life and death’. However their titles include m-r jr ant pr aA
‘Overseer of Those Who Do Fingernails’ (which is the literal translation but we idiomise as Manicurists), which I love to bits. They’re also both
Hrj sStA “guardian of secrets” for the King Nisurre Ini, and have the title
mHnk nswt “confidant of the king” and wab nswt “one who purifies the king.” (a personal priest to the king).
In short, these two gay men loved each other so much they were buried with one another, and also were personal attendants to the king, meaning they were extremely close to him personally too. Nisurre must have thought well of them too because they were allowed to write all about the good deeds they performed for him in their tomb. In the Old Kingdom you needed the King’s favour and permission to build a tomb like they have, and also to write what they did. These two were extremely well respected in their time, and that’s very important.
I’d recommend this link to learn more about them (but you’ll have to ignore the stuff where the author insists they’re brothers because that’s very out of date now. The ‘but they can’t be gay, they have wives and children!’ doesn’t really hold much weight these days, and I’d like to see how you explain away the ‘kissing noses’ and the fact that ‘brother’ doesn’t always mean brother in Egypt (they’ve got like 6 words for family – not even a word for uncle))
In short, Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep are thought to be the first recorded gay couple in history, but their names don’t mean what is said in the image, and I feel it is a disservice to them to romanticise and misrepresent them by saying that they have this fanciful meaning.
An excellent read on the topic that was brought up in the (unfortunately transphobic) article I shared the other day. Lesbian spaces are disappearing, and it’s not okay
“Then there is the other side of the coin: some cis women might have an issue or feel uncertain about hooking up with a woman who has different genitalia than her own. First of all, you should never feel pressured to do anything you don’t want to do or that you’re even unsure about. If you aren’t comfortable or you just aren’t into it, say no.
That having been said, if genitalia is the one and only reason for not being into someone, I do think it is worth thinking through that. Responding to one of the claims that some have made, I would emphatically state that nobody’s physical body is a representation of patriarchy. Such a statement is not only somewhat cruel to inflict on someone who herself is oppressed by patriarchy, it is also pretty defeatist from a feminist perspective (if we were really to buy into the idea that penises are the source of patriarchy, rather than socially constructed male privilege, aren’t we pretty much saying that patriarchy is a permanent fixture of human society? Eek).”
“I have written previously about some of the alienation I have experienced as a trans woman dating in the queer women’s community. Now, I want to emphasize here again that no one is obligated to touch a woman’s penis if they aren’t into that. However it’s also important to emphasize:
1) Not every trans woman has a penis.
2) No general means exist to distinguish trans women from cis women.
The implications of these two points together are that statements such as “I am attracted to cis women but not trans women” simply do not make sense and are rooted in social prejudice.”
SCREAMING
HOW DO LIBERAL FEMINISTS NOT SEE HOW DISGUSTING, LESBOPHOBIC, AND RAPEY SOME OF THIS SOUNDS????
Also, “No general means exist to distinguish trans women from cis women” ??? THEN WHY DO WE HAVE THE DISTINCTION???? WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES YOU TRANS IF NOT FOR BEING MALE????
This article makes my blood boil and it’s what originally made me hit peak trans, but I couldn’t remember what it was that stuck out as “creepy and gross” to me so I did some googling to find it again and it’s so much worse than I remembered. I was just a baby lez, fully into libfem stuff (although back then I didn’t even know there were different kinds of feminism), and I was super excited to see a website for lesbians. I started binge-reading stuff and came across this, which was also the first time I heard the term “cotton ceiling”. I looked into the topic more, determined to see if it was really creepy or if I was being “transphobic”… one thing led to another and here we are.
I hate hate hate this is the kind of content aimed at young lesbians on a lesbian site.
I just really really want to hug younger me and tell her her exclusive same sex attraction isn’t a bad thing, isn’t wrong or “transphobic”. I hope one day the rest of the LGB community sees the lesbophobia that’s poisoning us and take steps to help us out. Until then I will keep fighting, as a lesbian, a female homosexual. I will keep making lesbian-only spaces, and I will keep calling this shit out.
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