one of new jersey’s most famous confections, saltwater taffy, was invented because some asshole’s candy shop flooded and ruined all his taffy and he sold it to a child anyway and i think that pretty much says a lot about the overall cultural climate of new jersey
trans women who don’t shave are valid and beautiful. trans women who don’t wear dresses and skirts are valid and beautiful. trans women who aren’t skinny and petite are valid and beautiful. women come in all different forms, all of you are valid and beautiful even if you don’t meet typical feminine beauty standards.
I hope that with “don’t shave” you meant legs and armpits… And not beard…
why? are you saying trans women who have any facial hair are suddenly less valid for natural aspects of the body?
let me bring this to a personal level: I have shaved my face every day for the past four years. I can’t afford laser, so that’s what I have to do. Do you know what that does to the skin? It’s dried out. It hurts. A lot. Shaving, every day, for years, is bad for the skin’s health. sometimes I have to let facial hair grow for the sake of my skin’s health. and let me tell you something amazing, it takes only like a day and a half to have some pretty clear hair growth.
trans women who don’t shave are valid and beautiful. I don’t care about your shitty standards of gender. hair growth is a natural part of the human body, if a woman doesn’t shave it, due to not wanting to or not being able to, then who the fuck cares? it’s her fucking body, not yours.
to quote from another rant I made on this… why should my girlfriend spend literally MONTHS of her life shaving her face when she could be doing things that actually improve the quality of her life? Playing with our kids. Reading a book. Making me dessert (like she’s doing right now. ❤ ) ANYTHING that would actually make her happy, rather than struggling to conform to nonsensical and arbitrary beauty standards that daily shaving isn’t going to fully meet anyway? And yes, sometimes shaving is the thing that will make her happy, and so she does it. But other times it’s more trouble and angst than it’s worth, so she doesn’t. She doesn’t need to shave to be a woman. Anyone that wants her to shave before they’ll accept her as a woman isn’t really going to accept her as a woman anyway. She’s got better things to do with her time than beg for approval from that kind of person.
currently, the world’s largest single organism IS a mushroom. it’s a massive growth of honey mushrooms, growing under a forest in oregon. it takes up about 4 square miles, stretched out over 60 miles.
the caption is also true, although also completely unrelated to the (fake) picture. here are real pictures of them:
(lol)
the fossils found are called prototaxites, and there’s actually still some debate about what exactly they are- mostly because a lot of scientists simply can’t wrap their heads around the idea of giant mushrooms covering the earth. the alternate theories of what they were are lichen or rolled-up formations of moss, but giant mushrooms seems to be the leading theory.
conclusion: ANCIENT EARTH HAD GIANT DONGS GROWING OUT OF IT. ALL OVER THE PLACE.
thank you for your time.
I do love factual content matched with misleading images. It’s also great to see some love for the fascinating problematica that is Prototaxites.
Note that Prototaxites isn’t really strictly a mushroom, since the term “mushroom” applies only to the fruiting bodies of basidiomycotes, agaricomycetes, and asomycotes. The best we can do is to assign Prototaxites to an indeterminate fungus.
“Chevalier d’Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years’ War. D’Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic, good features for a spy. D’Éon appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years, although during that time d’Éon successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. For 33 years, from 1777, d’Éon dressed as a woman, claiming to have been female at birth. Doctors who examined d’Éon’s body after d’Éon’s death discovered that d’Éon would have actually been designated male at birth.”
Can we all talk about this bad ass genderfluid French soldier/spy from the 1700s? Please?
He presented as a woman for a specific reason. That doesn’t make him gender fluid.
They also lived the rest of their life until death as a woman. They retired from their work in the military and lived the last years of their life as a woman, collecting a military pension.
So I don’t know why you think you get to decide that their gender “really” was a cis man?
Chevaliere d’Eon blackmailed the French government into changing the records to say that she was born female. I’m having a hard time seeing that as anything other than an especially punk rock form of legal transition.
God damn. d’Eon did not fuck around.
Fun fact: she continued to compete in fencing tournaments up into her sixties. There’s some great art of her facing off against opponents.
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