Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
There are only fake geek boys.
Science fiction was invented by a woman.

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

Isaac Asimov.

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

Got that?

Originally posted by newyorkbellco

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

we gotta bring back this energy to tumblr 💓♀️

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Italy // Erin Johnson

Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

made a lil game but it's in spanish only for now
hice un jueguito en español ʕ •ᴥ• ʔ

TIL about female urinary incontinence in China

I was so shocked the number (30%) was so high for women. Then I looked at the UK statistics and saw it went up to 40% of women.

Men will never understand how important bathrooms are for women. They literally piss in public and piss in bottles the moment they feel like it. Women will regularly go for HOURS until they get Utis or wet themselves, and we STILL have to fight to keep the few bathrooms we have left away from men.

I went to a club a couple weeks ago that had 'gender neutral' toilets. One bathroom was full of urinals and cubicles, the other had a couple of cubicle loos. Men used the one with urinals, and without malicious intent or any realisation, also crammed into the toilet that had 2 cubicles...the only bathroom that women were comfortable and able to use. It's like this everywhere all the time and it is literally making us sick.

Female toilets matter so much. Without them we will remain in poverty. How can you not wake the fuck up and peak ?

Gender neutral can't exist in a world where male is the default. Invisible women

Looked up these numbers before reposting, and yeah, it’s true. Mayo Clinic also says that as many as 75% of women over 65 have these issues. So most of all elderly women, and an unexpectedly large percent of all women. Check mens stats and it’s about 10% overall, and acknowledged across the board as not at all close to the numbers women have this problem.

It makes sense… our anatomy first of all… just by nature of having a smaller urinary tract, then we’ve got pregnancies which Damage pelvic floors and cause alllllll sorts of pelvic problems that can cause the probs, then our high risks and instance of UTI That can damage you all the way up your urethra, the bladder, the kidneys.. soooo many reasons

Then we get 5 stalls and they get a row of ten urinals and the same stalls… what the hell this just sucks for us health wise.

The bathroom problem is obviously a huge issue when you don’t have the capacity for women, especially in places like stadiums or bars where you have to pee often, or just anywhere and we don’t really have an option to pee discreetly or in a bottle or something… the women at Amazon who couldn’t pee in bottles when that controversial worker issue was going on, obviously had lower work stats than males (who shouldn’t have to pee in bottles, but could) so that probably effected their pay and hiring and numbers stuff…

But even more than that, why isn’t the medical industry talking about this more? Or trying to fix it more? If men had this problem, no doubt it would be addressed

some other good points made in the notes i’d like to share:

the fact that men are given more options and units with which to relieve themselves with when our restrooms force us to form lines like we’re at the fucking dmv really is ridiculous when you lay it all out like that

Yup these numbers are worsened by disability. My entire day is planned around bathrooms.

IM GONNA CRY

btw this frog is ok, theres a very small cricket under his face he’s trying to get and he’s failing and angry about it

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