I agree with the sentiment here, but aren't they conflating physical difference with biological difference?

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

character trying to figure out which of two identical people is their partner, except one of the pair keeps insisting they have to kill them both to be sure, and the other says the copy just wants them both killed so that "they" can send another copy once the original is dead

this may be the most american thing i've ever heard of

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

hmmm

Sometimes a question deserves a blunt answer.

I wish more ppl on political debates just did this

^

Also, basically every military has the concept of "break down the recruits so we can build them back up again". So do you want to maybe have to suffer humiliation or abuse, or definitely?

Oh good. It's just a house.

haunted house uquiz by streetlighthalo

i'm still waiting for my training arc and timeskip

sounds fake, but then again i'm not a bear cuddler

If a government does not care for its people, why does it exist?

The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

These are awesome!

My silly fakémons Pickerpie & Snagpie! I had sm fun trying to recreate fake gifs inspired by the anime recently, I can't wait to do more :3

I feel like it's kind of a (pun unintended) "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation for Helluva boss. If they call out the trans characters, it feels forced and it's queerbaiting for putting in a "oh, by the way, check out this trans character who is trans" moment. If they don't point it out, it's queerbaiting because "oh yeah, this character is trans, but we're never going to mention it." So I try to look at it through a lens of what else they've shown.

In the main cast, Moxxie and BlitzØ are confirmed to be bi, and Stolas is almost definitely gay. If we expand to include Hazbin Hotel, then Charlie is bi according to WoG, and shown on-screen in a lesbian relationship with Vaggie (who is strongly implied to dislike men), Angel is confirmed gay, and Alastor is confirmed Ace, most likely Aro/Ace. The only displays of anti-LGBT sentiment I can recall in both Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel come from characters who are presented as antagonists, and we're clearly not supposed to think are in the right. Any other depictions of queer or trans people are just background elements that nobody comments on. Taken in the larger context, though, I have to see that as environmental storytelling.

People don't comment on queerness or being trans in Hell, because the majority of people don't care. It's not seen as a big deal. In other words, Hell is a society where LGBT people are equal, at least as far as most people are concerned. Imps can walk around with a big obvious "non-passing" form of sexual dimorphism on display because they don't have to worry about being harassed over it. Maybe you could say I'm reading too much into this, but the way I see it, without ever directly talking about it, they're showing us that, in Hell, LGBT people won the battle for social acceptance.

(Also Sallie May looks damn hot, and I would have to remind myself that she is a serial killer.)

As a side note, there's actually a fair bit of official art and merch showing Sallie May with a bulge, which is both really cool, and I think backs up the idea that they aren't being shy about having the representation, just making a point of how in-universe it isn't seen as something that needs to be commented on.

ive been pissed for a while now that Helluva Boss seems to be employing a form of queerbaiting by repeatedly waving 'canon' trans characters in front of the camera and then not addressing it at all, but i regrettably have to give kudos in one department

i was unaware they gave Sallie May a legit dick bulge on her pin, that's sick as shit. Yes, haha, Futa joke, but i can literally only think of one example from western mainstream culture of a sexualized trans woman cock (That being Cyberpunk 2077), and its a genuinely nice turn after decades of 'woman pulls a cock out, man is disgusted' jokes. I like it.

...and they were teammates.

I have been seeing posts about how a certain frame in the TF2 comics should make heavy and medic hug so-

I can easily believe someone thought they liked America and it was actually just Massachusetts.

And honestly I want to show this post to people who say America has no culture. America has at least 50 different cultures, and you'd know that if you'd ever travelled there. It's not as separate as the EU nations, but the US states are still the size of a country each, and have their own individual identities, rivalries, and lifestyles. People will have different manners and even depending on where you visit.

One of my friends moved to the US for college and at first thought they loved the US but then they moved for grad school and discovered that they just like Massachusetts

This is what happens when programmers take shortcuts.