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ch 5: ermine taught her forgiveness, awe, appreciation

ch 4: author found a 2 year old goliath bird eager tarantula whose abdomen was the size of a CLEMENTINE

ch 4 clara belle: a pink toe tarantula (docile, seldom bite) who taught the author about unlikely lives who loved their lives as much as we do. the world brims with much more life than suspected

ch3 christopher hogwood: a pig she(?) and her husband nursed back to health who gave her a family not from genes or blood but from love <3

lessons learned from author
terrier: showed author destiny to work with animals
emus: let author stroll on the path to their destiny, learned curiosity/skill/intellect/open mind and heart are needed to begin to understand the life of any animal
btw im terrified of emus. i looked up a photo to ensure i was still scared. and i am

ch2: emus

ch1: scottish terrier "molly"

the authors mom created outfits and furniture for their scottie, Molly :') thats so cute i can't omg

they swam with piranhas and electric eels to learn ab pink dolphins in the amazon. thats brave asf😭😭"when the student is ready, a teacher will appear" and i bet the teachers are the animals ope in the middle of typing this i found out i was right hehe

Afterword: man's first attempt at a calendar was allegedly on antler bones, showing 28 marks scratched into it. "'tell me, what man needs to know when 28 days have passed? i suspect that this is WOMAN's first attempt at a calendar'"

from Afterward: "Failing to collect data on women and their lives means that we continue to naturalize sex and gender discrimination...We don't see it BECAUSE we naturalize it...The irony of being a women...at once hyper visible when it comes to being treated as the subservient sex class and invisible when it counts, when it comes to being counted"

from Afterward: "female biology is not the reason women are raped. it is not the reason women are intimidated and violated as they navigate public spaces. this happens not because of sex, but bc of gender: the social meanings we have imposed on male and female bodies"

from the Afterward: "Routinely forgetting to accommodate the female body in design, whether medical, technological, or architectural, has led to a world that is...dangerous for women to navigate. it leads to us injuring us in jobs and cars that weren't designed for our bodies. it leads to us dying from drugs that don't work" :(

"recent quantitative data analysis has found compelling evidence that countries where women are kept out of positions power and treated as second-class citizens are less likely to be peaceful...Closing the gender data gap really is better for everyone"

p5 ch15: "we have to stop willfully closing our eyes to the positive discrimination that currently works in favor of men[, and]... acting [like] theoretical, legal equality of opportunity is the same as TRUE quality of opportunity...We have to implement an evidence-based electoral system that is designed to ensure that a diverse group of ppl is in the room when it comes to deciding on...laws that govern us all"

"some ppl are so poor all they have is money" wow

"ppl who are quick to point out the bitchiness of drag queens have probably never spent time with straight guys on a basketball court. straight guys can be SUPER bitchy" like literally what's w the animosity

"ultimately, [when you show effort is] about the love you give and the love you allow yourself to receive. everything else fades away"
the phrase 'please refrain from' should be forever replaced with 'bitch please.' catching a cold is your body's way of saying 'bitch you need to sit yo ass down'"
exactly

"avoid dumb people"

"never underestimate the power of a smoky eye"

"as an adult, i dress up every day, except on halloween" Ru is so funny boycotting halloween. he' doesn't like that it's only 1 designated day to dress up🤣

"happiness is wanting what you already have"
"i bow down to anyone who will wear a false eyelash between the hours of 9am and 5pm. i bow at their feet bc it's a true commitment to glamazon. and ofc extra points for lower lashes. glamazon DEFINED"
"you must be willing to see yourself from outside yourself" on nudging proportions for drag. this is so important to me and integral to drag and drag haters alike imo

Aristotle saw the female body as a "mutilated male body" 😇👍ovaries were "female testicles" and the uterus was the "female scrotum." right...

"VR causes motion sickness in women to a far larger degree than it does in men"
my bf told me he used it at school and i said that makes me feel sick and he was like oh it doesn't for me and what do u know! so now we just have a new technological platform that we just don't use as much

when siri was released in the iPhone, she could help u find a prostitute and viagra suppliers, but couldn't help u find an abortion clinic and didn't know what to do if u told siri "i was r@ped" :(

iPhone size was determined based on male hand sizes too what a shock

even the PIANO was created for men's hand size awesome👍

"working moderately long hours (41-50 hrs) was associated with less risk of contracting heart disease, chronic lung disease, or depression in men. by contrast, such hours for female workers led to consistent and alarming increases in life-threatening diseases including heart disease and cancer" bro im so

i love how we have to prove that GDP and the economy will improve if we stop harassing women and start creating more spaces for women. like why do we have to prove the financial value of a woman's mental and physical health? is it not a large enough issue that women are suffering or do u need to also financially benefit ?? 😀😐

ok now i'm j mad