perfectlycriminal:

pajamajamas:

dickensianwerewolf:

If you have a child and they are creeped out by a nephew or older brother touching them or looking at them a certain way, you need to have a serious talk with that person and keep them the hell away from your child. Don’t minimize it or tell your kid to hug them anyway, that kid is picking up danger signals they don’t even understand yet. But so many families will tell that kid they are being a brat.

thankyou

A quick note- this applies to female relatives as well. One of my aunts ignores my little brother’s requests not to hug or kiss him (he has aspergers and doesn’t like physical contact with people he is not very close with). I have repeatedly placed myself between the two of them and had to tell her to back off and stop trying to “desensitize” him. Whether or not there are “danger signals,” it is not okay for adults to invalidate a child or teen’s request for boundaries. We need to teach children now, when they are young, that they can say no to these things and that other people can too.

cyandlne:

when your characterization in the first major part of the game is to abhor men acting skeevy and pervy and actually respect women as your peers but Atlus doesn’t know what they’re doing so you immediately go against everything you had established by becoming the “pervy friend” and objectify women constantly because Atlus assumes that’s a necessary trait of a comic relief and sexual harassment is not a big deal unless it’s acted upon

when your big character development is about fighting objectification and not letting men sexualize you without consent but Atlus once again doesn’t know what they’re doing so you are sexualized in every instance possible from your battle stance to your outfits and your behavior and you essentially become eye candy right after fighting the idea of women being only eye candy

anudibranchaday:

Aplysia californica (the Californian Sea Hare) is a sea hare (not nudibranch) that has gotten plenty of attention because of a recent neurology study using them as test subjects. While sea slugs have long been used for memory-based studies because of their simple nervous systems, scientist Eric Kandel just managed to prove that by injecting RNA from one sea slug to another he successfully transferred the memory of the first slug.

The experiment was this- scientists poked the tails of multiple Aplysias many times to extend the period of time in which they hold their tails inside of their bodies. After two days of prodding, the sea hares held their tails in for 60 seconds longer than they did at the start. Then, some of the RNA from their nervous system was taken and injected into another group of Aplysia californica who did not get any tail pokes. Even though that group didn’t experience the constant tail prods, they still held their tails in for 40 seconds longer than usual, strongly suggesting the transferred RNA had changed something, memory or not, that made their tail reflex much longer!

Want to know more about this study?

Here’s a Guardian article about it

Here’s a SciShow episode abut it

Source: anudibranchaday

221cbakerstreet:

phle-botomy:

one of the houses on the end of my street is home to the members of a local irish folk band so some mornings i’ll be walking out to my bus stop to a rollicking accordion and mandolin like i’m finally setting out to seek my fortune on the high seas or some days i’ll come home to a weary aching lament that is so sweet and so yearning that i’ll miss the drowned lover i never had 

I’ve literally never been more jealous