Vicente Palmaroli (Spanish, 1834-1896)

The Martyrdom of Saint Christina, 1895

"How did we not see this?" "How did we not know that what Ariana Grande/Jamie Lynn/Amanda Bynes were doing was a sexual reference?"

Because that is part of the appeal, guys. The fact that you're part of an unwilling, not-understanding audience exposed to metaphors of sexual acts performed by unwilling, not-understanding actors.

You were not supposed to get what "Taynt" was supposed to mean, or what milking potatoes was a nod to, or what a pickle being passed through a hole in a bathroom door was meant to be.

It's all part of the fantasy, pushing children so, so close to the edge without "ruining" them, without giving them access to enough information that they turn into adults.

Wonder why Ariana Grande, in those internet skits, kept repeating "Can a teenage girl do this?" and "Can a teenage girl do that?" This is why. She's supposed to perform sexual adjacent acts, but constantly remind her audience that she's just too young to know what she's doing.

Brooks Anderson (American, b. 1957, Santa Monica, CA, USA, based Santa Rosa, CA, USA) - Veritas No. 2, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

Gorje, Slovenia by Bor R

🖌 Kenn Backhaus ~

Higger Tor, England by Dave Steventon

Thinking about Maria MacLachlan's (PeakTrans) latest video and how she excellently described the process of a feminist left-wing women (like JK Rowling) becoming critical of the trans movement.

At first, you are basically in what she called a 'blissful ignorance'. Your opinion of the trans movement is "live and let others live". Then you start to notice little things that are just plain wrong, like men stealing trophies from women and lesbians being told they are not allowed to tell on a dating app that they are into females only.

So you decide to voice your opinion. You say something like, "I have nothing against trans people who just want to live their lives, but i find this [particular thing] harmful and unfair". You are assuming and fully expecting in your blissful ignorance, nothing more from it. Maybe a bit of debate, but mostly understanding since all these points you made are good points after all, and this is the self-proclaimed feminist LGB+ "be kind" brigade so the rights of women and gay people should matter, right?

Instead, you receive abuse. Not just any abuse, but misogynistic abuse, threats, doxxing, lies, twisting your words, and attempts to make you lose your lifelihood.

First, you are shocked, but then you start to feel angry. Angry and betrayed. You start to wonder how many others like you have been shut out and silenced by trans activists. You may start by looking up "that one woman" who you think was not entirely treated fairly, but you had earlier decided to accept the trans activists' version that she is just "a bigot".

You find out that despite trans activists vehemently claiming some things never happen, they do happen. They just willfully ignore them. You find out people criticising trans movement are feminists, LGB people, concerned parents, medical experts, and even trans people themselves. Trans activists just lie when they claim they are far-righters and conservatives. You find out they do not want trans people dead. It is the trans activists who send them death threats and show up to their events to "punch terfs".

And you become angrier, so you decide you will not be silenced. You decide to talk more and raise more awareness. The more you criticise and the more you share, the more abuse trans activists send to you. And the angrier you become.

Then the useful idiots see your anger and are convinced you are just a hater that should not be listened to. Why else would you be so angry?

Chasing the fog somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

Chasing the moss somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

Another reason for anger was that, since the traces of these women philosophers had been effectively removed from the histories of philosophy, women philosophers of my generation, i.e., those who studied philosophy in the 1950s and 1960s, had been, as feminist historian Gerda Lerner puts it, “denied the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of our foremothers.” If you think no woman has traveled this road before you, and it is a road, as Lerner also points out, that runs contrary to thousands of years of negative gender indoctrination around the question of women’s rational and philosophical capabilities, it is very hard to persevere in thinking of yourself as philosophical material, so to speak. So the anger was not just at the injustice done to these women by erasing them from history; it was also at the injustice done to us in depriving us of knowledge of possible models and foremothers.

-- Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers, edited by Linda Lopez McAlister

Chasing the fog somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

Old Yasuda Garden, Tokyo, Japan by Mic Sashimi

magic mist at home

by Samuel Millan Jimenez

another day of watching people on the internet call a tricolor cat "he"... honestly not sure how much longer i can take this for.