trans peoples anatomy is still anatomy just like the (gasp) cis have and if you cant draw trans people without grossly exaggerating anatomy or characteristics to signify that they are a bona fide trans you are uuhhh a dookie head
everybody is different and theres no Right way to be trans but uuuh
trans ppl….r still ppl and vary in shape and body and features like idk? ppl? if you Only draw trans people a certain way that is radically different than how u draw cis ppl ur doing something wrong. so tldr stop boiling trans people down to sex traits its dehumanizing
you. can say rcdart
@ohjadewhatshername i could have but this also applies to the cis girls who insist on drawing dozens of oversexualized trans men as well and people still insist on every post about trans women whether its art or not commenting shit like “yass crush me” etc and its overall a message people need to hear because r*ry has like 30k followers on insta lmao
“Fat acceptance” blogs urging overweight people to shed negative feelings about their body image can lead to healthier diet and exercise choices, a study has found.
The fat acceptance movement, which seeks to foster a support network among overweight people, has inspired a plethora of blogs and web forums such as Corpulent, Fat Heffalump and The Rotund — an online community that’s become known as the “fatosphere”.
In a study published in the journal Qualitative Health Research, researchers from Monash University, the University of New England and the University of Canberra interviewed 44 fatosphere bloggers from Australia, the US and the UK about how their involvement in the movement had changed them.
“There’s been a lot of criticism of the movement that it promotes obesity and encourages people to give up on weight loss and makes their health worse,” said one of the researchers, Dr Samantha Thomas, a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University’s Department of Marketing.
“We saw there was a lot of opinion about the movement but very few people had actually studied it.”
Interviews with the respondents revealed many had experienced feelings of worthlessness, shame, crash diets, cycles of starvation and binge eating and laxative abuse before discovering the fatosphere.
“Having that support and feeling empowered, people slowly found that their health behaviours began to change dramatically. For example, many people suddenly felt confident to do swimming, something they would not have done before,” she said.
“People shifted their focus away from weight loss and more toward health. A lot of people started to take part in physical activity not as a way to lose weight but because they enjoyed it. Instead of pounding it out on the treadmill they start playing with their kids. It’s actually a massive shift in the way they looked at things.”
Shifting the focus away from restricting food and toward listening to the body’s needs could also lead to better food choices, said Dr Thomas.
“There are actually a lot of lessons for public health here,” she said.
“The term fat acceptance is really confronting for people. That’s why we have seen a lot of blame and criticism. Society tells us it’s not OK to be fat for a whole bunch of moral and medical reasons,” she said.
“This study shows that far from promoting obesity and promoting negative health behaviours, the movement is really positive for some people’s health.”
So basically, if fat-bashers actually cared about people’s health (as they so often claim to as an excuse for their intolerance and hatred) then they’d actually support fat acceptance instead of trying to tear body-positive folks down?
Surprise! When you’re not made to feel miserable about yourself, you become more motivated to take care of the self that you have. Who knew?
Went to a beach after the recent storms in hopes of finding some neat stuff washed up. Turns out the 80ft tall blue clay cliffs don’t hold up well in 25mph winds and weeks of heavy rain.
We sat around and watched them essentially crumble. Its hard to tell but those muddy boulders are massive. As we walked along the stretch we could occasionally hear cracking and rumbling and would turn around and see huge sections of the cliffs collapse.
I didnt want to get close to the cliffs for obvious reasons, but stupid me did eventually approach the rubble and OH BOY am I glad I did!!
The cliffs are full of fossils!! Got a lot of these digging through the rubble.
Echioceras Ammonites and
Cylindroteuthis
belemnite I THINK. Which puts them around the Jurassic to late Cretaceous?? So thats like 50 to 150 million years old.
And I’ve never heard of this before but these ones are made of pyrite!!!! They are heavy like metal and shiny. Pictures just dont do them justice. They are like polished metal. They also smell really bad which is weird.
The one in the middle is about 2 inches long for scale.
I knew fossils could be made of material other than rock but I didnt think it was common???
We also pulled a “dino egg” out of the mud and cracked it open. Didnt expect whatever this is.
Some orange/brown crystals? I didn’t take the geode because it was bigger than my head.
You’ll want to look up how to care for pyritized fossils, they’ll eventually break down into piles of dust if not. Something about how pyrite exposed to moisture gradually degrades into sulfuric acid, I think? It isn’t harmful to you, but it’ll ruin your fossils eventually.
1) they DON’T hunt whitecoats. it’s only adult seals
2) the process is as quick and painless as possible. there’s a special technique in clubbing for an instantaneous death. hunters are very well trained and don’t hunt with the intention of harming the animal any more than it needs to be
3) not only is it government regulated but hunters only reach maybe 15 percent of their annual quota
4) seals consume an obscene amount of fish. to the point where it’s actually detrimental to the environment to have the population of seals get too high
5) seal meat is incredibly nutritious and an important resource for communities up north
6) these animals live in the wild their full lives until the need to be hunted
7) the cost of typical southern food up north is often 10 times as high and it’s very expensive to live off a diet without using the lands provided resources
seal meal is a very nutritious important resource that’s ethically sourced and important for indigenous people not only culturally but for survival through economic means and resources. equating indigenous practices to the mass consumption that the colonist meat industry enforced is a false equivalence. specifically targeting communities limited recourses and attacking indigenous people is an act of racism. try decolonizing your perception of how the world operates. we aren’t like you.
It’s so nasty that one of the greatest loss of seals is from commercial farming, by way of by fishing. (Sea creatures getting caught while they’re fishing for other sea creatures) and yet, indigenous populations who are deliberately being starved out by the colonizer government where they live are who are condemned for sealing? For survival hunting, where the animal’s suffering is as minimal as possible? While living where the most basic groceries are priced as luxury goods?
It’s an age old trick. Keep people blaming the oppressed group, keep people stomping on those below them, so they don’t look up at those who are stomping on them.
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