if anyone’s interested: the study my professor did was basically with children who were 2-3 years old. they laid out toys for them to play with that were commonly associated with one gender or the other (action figures vs. dolls, a pink and therefore “girly” bike vs. a non-pink and “masculine” bike or w/e). for a while they would observe them in the room and the children would be aware they were being watched by them. during this period pretty much every child played with the “appropriate” toys
what they did next was then have everyone leave the room, but be watching behind one-way glass, and observe which toys the children would choose when they didn’t think they were being watched. a lot of children would play with any toy, regardless of which gender it was “meant” for. they had no problem with it. but they were aware of the fact that adults and other people had a problem with it. they had already learned what they were “supposed” to do, despite the fact they didn’t seem to honestly care. just as long as they thought they weren’t being watched and wouldn’t get in trouble for not playing with the “right” toys… which in itself says something
basically it supported the idea that children internalize gender roles at a young age, are aware of them, and it isn’t innately something a certain gender prefers over the other (or someone with one type of genitals innately prefers, as most people correlate gender with genitals, especially regarding a child. so it seems logical to assume it’s unrelated)
they’re just kind of arbitrary associations that seem to do more harm than good
So, basically, children too young to communicate effectively are being criticized and possibly punished for playing with the “wrong” toys.
I suffer from the second kind mentioned here. I felt a need to make this because even people I’ve known for years and who knows about my condition still get angry at me when I can’t hear what they say in noisy areas.
Chris Farley was the original voice of
Shrek. He’d recorded nearly 90% of his
lines before he died, but instead of
having an impersonator record the
remaining lines, they hired Mike Myers
and completely re-wrote the film. You
can listen to Farley’s Shrek online and
hear how different his interpretation
of the character was. SourceSource 2Source 3
Yo tht woulda been a totally different shrek expierence
I had a very young kid with a hereditary heart condition come in today to be seen. My colleague excitedly told him that I play “that ‘dungeons and dragons’ game just like you do!”
The kid deadpans me with “I DM for 8 people who keep splitting the party, I think that’s why I’m really here.”
- Derek, when the hell are you coming back? They wrestled me to the floor! Isaac won’t shut up about Scott, Boyd is licking everything and Erica demands we play house!
- Listen, do you know how hard it is to find a dress that isn’t pink? I’ll be back soon!
twisting a request of Stiles and Derek being parents into deaging the pack
one of my favorite things about b99 is how jake is best friends with not one, but TWO women, and not only are his relationships with both of them fleshed out, unique, and 100% platonic, but it never even occurs to amy to worry about it. there’s no episode where amy thinks jake is cheating on her or secretly has a thing for gina and/or rosa. no one jokes that amy should watch out for them or keep an eye on jake. after jake starts dating amy, his friendships with rosa and gina are as tight as ever. because contrary to what 95% of tv would have you believe men and woman (gasp!) really can be just friends.
this shouldn’t be as remarkable as it is, but there you have it
seriously people, WTF? I like how the one tweet suggest that asexuality is the ONLY acceptable reason to remain a virgin. She’s not saying everyone should do it, it is her personal choice WITH HER OWN BODY!
Obviously the world sees black women as inherently sexual beings, and if we ain’t sluts/hoes, then we’re prudes. Our sexual choices aren’t ours to make since everyone seems to think they have the right to know or tell us what to do.
Tumblr, the final destination. These are the ramblings of the captain of the starship Avoidance. It's mission length is undetermined: to avoid spoilers at all costs, to turn my back on new theories and new gifs, to pointedly ignore all posts with new season content like no fankid has before.
No, really, please don't intentionally spoil things I'm up to date on. (there aren't many things, so it's not actually HARD to not spoil me).
Y'all are free to spoil stuff I'm super behind on. Or to "spoil" me on things I'm not actually a fan of IF YOU ASK FIRST. Unless your name is Brotato or Panda. Then you can spoil me on any globbin thing you like whenever you want.
I'm just an annoying fankid with too many interests on their hands and not enough hours in the day or a high enough post limit to deal with all of them.
Hateful Violence begets only Hateful Violence
If you wanna win JaxPoints send me HPficrecs (see my HP fic post for squicks and squees)
[okay, cos rando's keep asking.... Basically, I don't give a flying fig if you use Asparagus as my pronoun, as long as it's not a female pronoun we're ALL GOOD, m'kaaay?]
