Current
rates of ocean acidification are silencing oceans, which spells trouble
for marine animals during their larval stage. Fish larvae, for
instance, will not be able to find their way back home, because they use
sound cues to orient themselves, say researchers from the University of
Adelaide.
“More
than 95 percent of marine animals have a dispersive larval stage, where
larvae drift with the currents for anywhere from a few days to a year,
before returning to settle in their adult habitat near where they were
spawned,” study co-author Sir Ivan Nagelkerken said in a statement.
“Along with chemical and other cues, because of sound’s ability to
travel long distances underwater, it is used as a navigational beacon by
marine animals, particularly larvae.”
The findings were recently published in the journal Biology Letters.
Baby fish rely on auditory cue to find their way back home after large
waves have carried them out to sea. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons )
6 years later and avatar (the james cameron movie) is still completely incomprehensible to me. like you’ve got the highest grossing film in recent history and no one actually enjoyed it beyond “eh. it was okay”
Avatar is such a weird anomaly. It’s the highest grossing film EVER (not adjusting for inflation) by a huge margin and yet it left virtually no footprint on popular culture. It had its 15 minutes of fame to the tune of $2.7 billion dollars worldwide, and within a few years it’s like no one remembers it even existed. You only ever really see it mentioned these days in the context of its record-breaking box office.
PREFACE: I AM A TRANS WOMAN, THIS IS ADVICE FOR PEOPLE WHO WOULD CONSIDER THEMSELVES TRANS ALLIES
i was talking about this to my girlfriend just a few minutes ago and she said that it would be good to share this on tumblr, so i will. i will also do my best to make this post as legible and accessible as possible
the situation we were talking about is a personal example, when i was dating a trans man. i would talk about him a lot to my grandma, and she didn’t like the way he was treating me and would often misgender him just to make a point.
now, i tried reacting to that by explaining to her that just because someone has done bad things, that’s no excuse to misgender them. my grandmother reacted defensively, which is a common issue when correcting someone who has misgendered another person.
later on, i decided to try a more subtle approach. instead of correcting her every time she misgendered him, i would just unwaveringly refer to him by his appropriate pronouns and eventually out of context she would cease to misgender him to keep things from becoming confusing.
a bigger example than that is at my job. many of my coworkers do not misgender me, at least enough such that i could work an entire shift a few days a week with only the people who will not misgender me. i was told back in 2013 that i was not allowed to correct customers on my pronouns, by the way.
so this put me in a predicament. my coworkers who had supported me from the jump all would insist upon referring to me by my appropriate pronouns, such as,
CUSTOMER: "excuse me sir i wanted to get a passport photo" ASSOCIATE: “oh sure just step right over there and isel, she’ll help you” CUSTOMER: (now done with order) Oh yeah he was a great help. ASSOCIATE: “yes, she’s very good at passport photos”
at that juncture, the misgendering usually stops, because most people are either too afraid, too busy, or too apathetic to cause a scene when they are one against many others.
here, here’s another example
NEW PERSON AT FRIEND PARTY: Oh yeah, hey dude what’s your name? TRANS WOMAN: (feeling very awkward) Uh, (gives name) NEW PERSON: (turns to trans woman’s friends) He’s pretty cool! FRIEND: (turns to trans woman) Yes, I love (name), SHE’S my best friend OTHER FRIEND: Yeah we hang out with HER all the time.
so as a corollary to the whole, “just because trans people don’t correct someone on their pronouns doesn’t mean they werent misgendered” notion, if you see that happening, as an ally, step in and do your part following the examples i gave in a way that wont make the trans person feel like a spectacle.
like i said, subtlety. treat it as entirely normal; do not get angry, do not change your tone of voice. i italicized and capitalized corrections in here just for a visual aid, but do not change your tone that much.
tl;dr if you’re an ally and your trans friend is being misgendered, most people will react defensively if you stop conversation to correct them, so if you feel that that is likely to happen, choose subtlety and just construct sentences in which you can use the person’s correct pronouns demonstratively.
NOTE: this is by no means a catch-all statement. there are many exceptions, but i beg of you please have the good sense to know when to and when not to use this approach. it can do more harm than good in a situation where the person doing the misgendering can become more violent beyond that, and subtlety in such a case would not be appropriate.
this is really good advice!! people I work who are good trans allies tend to emphasize pronouns when they’re introducing me and do this kind of thing when I get misgendered its really nice :3
I died and came back to life every time Rey used the force.
The cutest man with the cutest droid.
All people named Finn are adorable and impressive.
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