wendinoakland, pretend hero

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Drinking tea 🫖 taking photos. Definitely a dog person. Former graphic designer, now a volunteer making old things beautiful. I like buildings and chairs. Oakland, CA, previously NYC & London.🖖🏼 She/her/ma’am. Pro-abortion. In the Fediverse since Nov 22. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 #BLM #NAFO #Simpsons #nobridge #guillotinis🍸
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the #usa died so #canada could fly

@comradevlast Mexico, too.

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I made a few pieces of lighted clothing for Boop! The Musical, now showing on Broadway. This robe and jacket (with nearly 4000 RGB LED pixels!) are used to illustrate a magical transition from Betty Boop's black and white cartoon world to the full color real world.
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@harld It would only be better if it had been posited as "Behold! A woman!" and the guy was a Greek geezer in a filthy tunic.

@harld

That picture also represents "American millionaire."

@harld Plus, although that response is funnier, cis women with Turner Syndrome have only one X chromosome instead of two. They often have "streak ovaries," ovary remnants that lack viable eggs, and they are therefore often infertile.

So, some cis women have no egg cells. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This explains further in lay language for anyone interested.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/streak-ovaries

Streak ovaries: Definition, associated conditions, and more

Streak ovaries are the result of a chromosomal irregularity in a female fetus. They can cause various symptoms throughout the body. Learn more.

@harld
So every egg carton is female!?

@harld Born with the "intention" of holding eggs?

Nature has "intentions"?

Good grief.

@harld While the joke is excellent, it also begs the question - so post-menopausal women are not female?
@Remittancegirl @harld To be fair, they included "born" in their response

@BafDyce @harld

True. And I guess born intending to use those eggs. From birth!

@Remittancegirl
Well, they do say "born with". But what about women with Turner syndrome, for instance?
@harld
@Eetschrijver @Remittancegirl @harld fun fact I have had many “birthdays” but was not born. (A key plot point in Shakespeare)

@harld what jumps out at me, other than the fine joke, is the word intention.

This betrays a fundamentally theological world view, where everything in biology is invested with an intent, and women's "intent" is reproduction. Phrasing it as "to hold eggs" is an awkward obfuscation of that, to try to stop the casual listener realising that's what they're saying.

Evolution, of course, does not have any intent. It is a cumulation of successive accidents, which self-perpetuate.

@harld I second the other commenters, that "intention" there is doing some weird work.
@harld that's like some james fridman shit, using non-specific wording to their advantage. i love it