Tuesday, June 23, 2015

periods

6 Guys Get Quizzed On Periods — And Fail Miserably (article)



i asked rip and he gave himself a 2, which i thought was pretty fair rating, tho also probably a bit low since he has two sisters and i'm pretty open about talking about my period. i also asked him how often he thought women change their tampons and he, correctly, said that we probably change them at different intervals depending how far along we were on our period, and that we change them 3-4 times a day. actually, at first he said 2-3 times, so i clarified and said "so every 12-8 hours" and he said "oh, right, cause it's like 24 hours." hahaha, so he changed his answer to 3-4 times a day, which is a great guess!

i'd give myself an 8 on period knowledge. i know a lot but i certainly don't know everything!

i also think we should really talk more about periods. half of the people will get them at some point in their life. and i did some math before and figured that at any time, 1/10 of the population is menstruating.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

trans-racial?

rachel dolezal - white person who identifies as black (and head of the spokane chapter of naacp)
caitlyn jenner - biologically male who identifies as female

here's why people shouldn't compare dolezal to jenner: there are significant physical differences between male and female brains and there are none in brains of people with different ethnicities.

scientists can look human brains and be able to identify the sex of the person the brain belonfed to (maybe not like, just, on the surface, with after poking around the brain a bit). scientists can do this with good certainty and be correct a large majority of the time. they can't for brains of people of different color. not even "purebreds."

a lot of what we consider ethnicity, honestly, is culture. sure we have a lot of physical differences and some of those are not entirely superficial (like how hair, eye, skin colors are pretty much insignificant, whereas differences in muscle and tendon physiology makes for different kinds of athleticism which certainly influenced our history as developing cultures [which isn't so important now, but would certainly matter if zombies turn out to be real and we need to run from them {tho really, physical fitness will matter far more than types of muscle striation}]).

some people have come out to say they doubted dolezal's "blackness" based on things she would say. specifically, how she said it. read: accent and slang. but that's dumb. if a black person were raised in an amish community, in rural mongolia, or by the british royal family they wouldn't talk the way blacks do here. those are cultural differences. they are not innate. identifying as black implies that there are significant biological differences amongst races, which i think most people would deny (and not just so as to appear politically correct).


speaking of biological differences in the brain. i'd love for transgender people to donate their brains to science so we can see if there are differences. esp if the transgendered person wasn't on hormones.

Monday, June 8, 2015

dress codes

High School Crop-Top Dress Codes Send the Message That School Is for Boys

i've never understood why women need to protect the chastity of men (or vice versa). how difficult it is for a man to NOT rape a woman anyway? i would think that it should be quite easy, should he respect her as a human being who has rights to her body the same way he has rights to his own. and since you can't completely cover up every woman, covering up the majority of them really draws attention the ones who aren't dressed as modestly. furthermore, rape is a global problem. but it seems like the majority of violent rapes (or group rapes) are in counties where there are less individual liberties, and are especially high in countries with more gender inequality.

on a less broad topic though, should minors be allowed to wear whatever they want to school? i would argue no. not because girls who dress provocatively will distract boys, but because minors shouldn't dress sexily at all! there should be modesty codes at school because they are kids. just as a kid shouldn't swear in school, they shouldn't wear crop tops, sag so their whole ass is hanging out, or wear unsafe shoes. unsafe shoes? yeah, i  think kids shouldn't be allowed to wear stilettos or flip flips to school (well, kids under high school anyway). those shoes aren't good for your feet. arch supported flip flips i can get behind, but since it would be crazy for schools to allow some flip flips but not others, they should probably just ban them all. anyway...

the author does make a really good point about how schools do allow boys to go shirtless when playing sports, btw. i didn't realize how much more sexual a girl's belly is than a boy's whole fucking torso.

another girl took to her senior quote to speak out about dress codes.