thatslothguy asked:
L0031936 Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Intersex Society of North America
www.isna.org PO Box 3070 MI 48106-3070
‘Phall-O-meter’ (Showing in actual scale current
medical standards employed to determine nature of
genital plastic surgery for children born with
mixed sex anatomy)
In copyright ?
Collection: Wellcome Imagesplease reblog the fuck out of this
What in the actual fuck.
WHAT THE FUCK
… what the— is this legit!?
Yeah it is. The phrase “three standard deviations below the mean” is the common reason for removing a male fallus and assigning the baby a female gender.
If you think about it, this actually sums up, pretty well, our society.
It physically hurt my stomach to see this.
Same >_< I’ve reblogged this before but it needs more publicity so I’m doing it again.
Unfortunately, this is nothing new and is still used today. ~Mod A
can someone explain this to me in Lehman’s terms pleSe? im confused and don’t know why everyone’s losing their shit because i don’t really understand the diagram
Okay, so there’s a wide variety of genitals out there. Here is a very simplistic chart of a spectrum genitals can fall on:
Basically the clitoris and the penis are the exact same thing, very similar anatomy. Doctors will define it as a clitoris or penis depending on 1. if it has a urethra going through it and 2. it’s size. The diagram is the one they use to decide if they want to call the baby a girl or boy or intersex. Many babies are put through genital surgeries (sometimes without the parent’s knowledge or permission) to make them look more like a penis or more like a vulva which can cause many health problems as it is a surgery, or other problems related to being assigned a gender. Any kind of surgery that isn’t necessary for health should not be performed on babies because they cannot consent.
AND THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY SEX IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT!
in the US, medical doctors would argue that an enlarged clitoris needs to be cut down to size b/c of fears of what it may mean to have a large clitoris (oh the horrors of pleasure from a clitoris!). here’s an article i wrote 4 years ago about a doctor in the US who had done this (and may continue to do this, I don’t know I wasn’t ‘allowed’ to publish my 2nd part) as longitudinal research. um…
yeah, i’ve been in this field for a long long while.
shoutout to people working weekends and overnights and overtime, people working in hospitality and retail and food service, who are sacrificing time with their loved ones, so fuckers with weekday desk jobs get to live comfortably with the amenities we provide while simultaneously shitting all over us for not getting “real jobs”
This literally does not happen
You literally have no concept of the grown-up world.
There is a real actual Spiderman comic where he pretends this is his power and the bad guys drop their weapons and give up. XD And it makes me happy.
Here it is:
No one can ever say spiderman is not the best superhero of all time.
No one.
if i fail to reblog this, assume i am dead.
laughing my ass off at people saying sasusaku needs a lot more than other pairings to become canon.
you all seem to forget that out of all big ships, sasusaku has the only bond that was romantic right from the start.
Sasuke has to let her in, that’s it. this is what it takes…
What a cutie~
Go ahead and dragI’m still amazed how this keeps getting notes, like, right when I think it dies out, boom! It pops up again. I dunno, just some random thoughts I thought I’d say. Carry on.
Powerful photos capture the student protests in Mexico barely anyone is talking about
The unfolding protests gripping Mexico began in the small town of Iguala, in the southwest region of Guerrero state, where the disappearance of 43 student teachers on the night of Sept. 26 has sparked outrage amid allegations of collaboration between local police and organized crime.
Does she have faults? Sure. But she is literally the best thing the Earth Kingdom has now. I know that tumblr is an idealistic place so naturally the thought of supporting a military tyrant gets an impulsive no but let’s face it. What other options are there? Su was the one…
feeling sad? please watch this kitten being brushed
when I watched this I was litterally like “NO. NOOOOO. OH MY GOD”
oh my god.
I love the music
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I did not, but I am grinning quite widely right now!