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i've managed to convince my girlfriend to hang out while i watch pokémon

“the ecology of pokémon is varied” — Gary Oak

nice to see the emphasis on RTL languages this WWDC

holy shit they finally added regex to swift?!

you can attribute anything to Zeus so long as he gets a kick out of it

when people you think of as older are not actually that much older than you

where is the pokémon fanfic about this

summarized by a reddit commenter for those curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonLegendsArceus/comments/sn7lpi/comment/hwonysf/

do you think this author is going to address the fact that Adult Link spent their entire teenage years in a coma

do you think this author is going to explain how Adult Link is present in this post-OoT timeline before they get to the smut or nah

they really did have a people who fuck pokémon sidequest in legends arceus

@Eden@weirder.earth @distel so what i’m saying is “The very subject of women is no longer understood in stable or abiding terms” is, on the one hand, an acknowledgment of all the great strides that feminists and academics have made in problematizing and complicating and deepening our understanding of gender and womanhood, but, on the other hand, can and should be read as a real moment of crisis, shall we say “gender trouble”, for womens studies departments everywhere, who now do not even really know what subject they are nominally studying

it's a lot of meaning in a very short phrase and the fact that it means both is kind of the point Butler is making

@Eden@weirder.earth @distel yes, the other thing to note is that womens studies programs are at this time only a few decades old. prior to that point, the people in academia who were writing about women were predominantly men articulating a model of femininity which was primarily not feminist or even grounded in actual women’s experiences. womens studies programmes were invented to combat this problem, and butler is acknowledging that they have been successful in contesting it, but in so doing they have also, in a way, been contesting themselves (how can you have womens studies when the very concept of woman is problematic?)

now many of those programmes have changed their names to things like “gender studies” which i think is attributable a great deal to Gender Trouble

@Eden@weirder.earth @distel (i should also respond here that butler is likely also obliquely referencing critiques from nonwhite women, in particular Black women, against second-wave feminism’s portrayal of womanhood as simply white womanhood. not only is “woman” no longer understood to be stable, it isn’t even singular; c.f. “womanism” (look it up on Wikipedia)

@Eden@weirder.earth @distel and Butler is doing this as a vital energy from a DFAB person who has felt alienated from contemporary feminism on the basis of gender things

@Eden@weirder.earth @distel having not actually read it, take this analysis with a grain of salt, but my understanding of Gender Trouble is that Butler is speaking to a feminism which is unsure to what extent it should give a shit about gender (over/alongside sex), and saying (1) you should absolutely give a shit about gender, and (2) sex is not the bastion you thought it was

@Eden@weirder.earth @distel as a note, when TERFs speak out “against gender” it is precisely because of this instability; they want to ground feminism in what they see as the material realities of sex rather than gender, which they see as nebulous, unreal, and ill-defined