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Well that's funny, because your blog's favourites list (NSFW) contains mainly pictures of Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan. Often shirtless. And not as their characters. And at least once, gay porn because the two guys in it look kind of like them (they really don't, but whatever). Also, occasionally lesbian porn.

So, uh, yeah. You do objectify people. A lot, actually. And you definitely feel all of these others things about men - you clearly feel you're smarter and better than basically every man (except Chris Evans, who I am sure is secretly absolutely a radfem just like you) and mock them, so you can sure as Hell do that to women too. If you can't do that to women too, then it implies you see them as fundamentally elevated above men - in which case you're every bit as shitty as the (actually quite rare) kinds of people you criticise.

Fucking hypocritical moron.

And it led directly to our supremacy in, and sometimes fanatical devotion to, college football.

Wait, what?

Yes. Note the middle paragraphs of this excellent essay by Rick Bragg, regarding the University of Alabama's fateful trip to the 1926 Rose Bowl.

> Wayne Flynt, professor emeritus of history at Auburn, says the South's devotion to college football probably reaches that far, to a time before there even was any football, to defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, "to a whole lot of times when we just got the hell beat out of us, as a culture."

> Reconstruction starved us. Then, the Ku Klux Klan swept candidates into pretty much every elected office in the state of Alabama and burned crosses on the skyline across the South. The rest of the nation, not that it was without sin, looked down in disdain. Then, just after Christmas 1925, the Alabama football team boarded a train for California, for the 1926 Rose Bowl, and fought back against that derision, even if the players did not know they were doing so at the time. Those young men drew, Flynt explains, "on a long history of not being afraid," of the hottest days or endless rows of cotton or a million bales of hay. "It's not like you're unprepared for a little physical suffering," he says, and next to the pain of just living down here, football was, well, like playing games.

> Not knowing any of this, the rest of the nation gave Alabama no chance against its Rose Bowl opponent, the vaunted University of Washington, but Southerners knew there was too much at stake to lose. "Even the president of Auburn sent a telegram," says Flynt, "telling them, You are defending the honor of the South, and God's not gonna let you lose this game." Halfback Johnny Mack Brown ran, as one writer described, like a "slippery eel," and the South won something of great value, at last.

Finally trudged through it a bit, and I think it's not the study from the npr. A couple quotes from the article show that men and women were both basically aware of the ratios of genders in each major.

"Participants were aware that men outnumbered women in male-majority departments (M = 52.79, SD = 24.63) and vice versa in female-majority departments "

"Overall, these results indicate that students were aware of how proportions of female students varied across majors. There was, however, no evidence that students accorded female-majority majors lower status than male-majority departments, that priming the proportions of women students in a major affected its rated status, or that ratings of the proportion of women and status were associated."

None of that supports the notion that 17% could be viewed as 50%, or that any more would be perceived as a majority.

edit: Did some more research, and I can basically only find references to that interview on NPR. A Quora answer for what Geena Davis was referring to doesn't support her point at all, and doesn't even reference the 17% number. A Jezebel article, an In These Times article, Gradient Lair, Paste Magazine, all point me back to the NPR interview. If I didn't know better, I'd say she just pulled it out of her ass.

Yeah, either it's thick or I am.

Pretty sure this isn't the right study, though. I found this: "Participants were aware that men outnumbered women in male-majority departments (M = 52.79, SD = 24.63) and vice versa in female-majority departments "

Which cannot lead to a situation where a 17% group is perceived as 50-50.

Also this agrees with that: "Overall, these results indicate that students were aware of how proportions of female students varied across majors. There was, however, no evidence that students accorded female-majority majors lower status than male-majority departments, that priming the proportions of women students in a major affected its rated status, or that ratings of the proportion of women and status were associated."

edit: Did some more research, and I can basically only find references to that interview on NPR. A Quora answer for what Geena Davis was referring to doesn't support her point at all, and doesn't even reference the 17% number. A Jezebel article, an In These Times article, Gradient Lair, Paste Magazine, all point me back to the NPR interview. If I didn't know better, I'd say she just pulled it out of her ass.

To be fair, the tumblr staff is the drizzling shits. There is basically zero consistency in how they apply the rules or who they apply them too.

To give an example, off the top of my head: The entire #pro-ana tag is in violation of the third article in "What tumblr is not for:" in the community guidelines. And yet, the tag continues to exist, people continue to use it.

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