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Category: Sociology

What is a Cis?

Or, I wrote a mini-essay in response to a random meme slogan and now I’m turning it into a blog post For context, the slogan was “Cis-passing is not privilege, cis-passing is a survival tactic”. As you might realise from this blog post existing, i have Thoughts about this one. A brief discussion of The Cis To not clickbait with that title, I should probably do a brief explanation for those in the back who might not be familiar with uhhh “cis” people.

Raygun did nothing wrong.

Or, People Don’t Know Shit About Shit If you read my about page, you’ll see that I mention sometimes getting vent-y. This is one of those posts. If you don’t want to read that, then don’t read this post :) The Context At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Breakdancing, also referred to as “breaking” was one of the new sports to be featured (I’ve seen some people refer to it as a “wildcard” sport?

Wading into the waters of pro and anti ship

Or, holy fuck people need to go outside (me included maybe) But yes. If you don’t know what pro/anti ship is, congratulations. You’re about to find out about some of the most stupid drama in fandom and as a bonus, you’ll know who to block because they’ll be super insufferable! Content warning, there’s mentions of CSA, SA, death and generally heavy stuff so as always, if you don’t want to even see those mentioned, don’t read!

Weaponised Incompetence (in tech)

Or, Why are men?? This is normally a topic reserved for household contexts (at least, that’s where I’ve encountered it)1 and centred around men’s shirking of responsibility to do household labour that then ends up pushed onto women. What if men don’t just do it with household work? What if it’s also part of other realms, like say, in a university group assignment.2 Let’s take it from the top; Weaponised Incompetence So as I briefly mentioned earlier, this concept is basically all about (typically) men shirking their responsibility to also take part in household labour (e.

What the fuck is gender

Content Warning(s): mentions of transphobia and ableism I wake up. It’s Saturday, which means bowl of cereal on the couch and watching the kid’s shows. There are copious amounts of ads because it’s 2008 and kids actually watch TV still – the iPad is years away. So this is where to sell your plastic crap, apps are just a glimmer in the marketing team’s eye for now. There’s the boy toys – cars and transformers and guns and fighting, and there’s the girl toys – pillow pets, Barbie (not the 2023 movie), and dress up.