He’s too young to be a bear.) The furriness and the beards and the age and the bellies ARE THE POINT. (I said “most” because the guy in the sunhat is technically a cub. These dudes (well, most of these dudes)? They’re bears. that's the point when i make these kinds of posts. please accept masc enbies, butches, bears, and masculine trans men with the same kindness, love, and passion that you do neutral and feminine people. just know that when i make positivity posts it is to remind us all that masculinity/manhood and queerness are not opposites and that you do not have to be a feminine man or masc person to be viewed/seen/heard as queer.Ĭhasing men, masculine people, and masculinity out of queer spaces isn't helping anyone currently and won't help anyone down the line. you're made to feel like you need to walk a tight rope feeling like you're inherently out of place, as if you existing and being masculine or a man in queer spaces makes others uncomfortable inherently. It is very difficult to exist in queer spaces as a hyper masculine person & a man. The point of my masculinity and male positivity posts are to underline that masculinity and manhood are seen as a threat or in direct opposition to queerness, and that often times in order to be seen as queer you have to be partially or wholly feminine or gender neutral, or express your manhood in a feminine or gender neutral way in order to no longer be threatening, invasive, or a problem. The sky is full, fucking FULL, of stars, and you’ve never seen them. Your ancestors looked at the night sky and said “surely, that is where the gods must live.” And you might be lucky if you can see hardly more than a handful of stars. It is not the sky that inspired constellations. The sky the vast vast majority of us grew up with is not the sky that inspired us to look up. Seeing a perfectly dark night, no clouds, not a hint of light pollution? That’s a fucking religious experience. So, so few people have see the sky in all its glory and it’s not sad. People talk about how you can’t see stars in the city and yeah, that’s true, but their concept of “seeing stars” is being able to make out orion’s belt. It is so hard to explain to people that what they think is a proper night sky is fucking pathetic. Explore our digital archive back to 1845, including articles by more than 150 Nobel Prize winners.I’ve been in the middle of the ocean at night and now live in texas and it is so hard to explain to people that no, they have not ever seen the night sky. She lives in Ohio with her boyfriend and two cats.ĭiscover world-changing science. Her broader interests include weird human and animal physiology, obesity and enteric physiology, endocrinology, sexual and reproductive health, personal genomics, anthropology (physical and cultural), sociology, and science education and communication. She now works as a technical editor for The American Chemical Society. Her thesis research was on the ecophysiology of epidermal lipids and water homeostasis in house sparrows. in organismal biology from The Ohio State University. in zoology (with a minor in American culture studies) and a M.Sc. This blog is about the crude matter that keeps us alive. Are we luminous beings? Perhaps, but that's neither here nor there. Life as we know it is possible because of the countless impolite things we do every day. We are filled with gas and feces and blood and guts and mucus and any number of rude things. Like many other animals, we secrete, excrete, expectorate, defecate, flatulate, regurgitate, urinate, circulate, masticate, menstruate, ejaculate, and ventilate. This quote is striking because of the apt juxtaposition of the wonder of life with its often disgusting vessel. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter," Yoda explains in The Empire Strikes Back, gesturing to Luke's physical body.
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