edit because i didn’t expect this to blow up: rich/middle class people stop fucking reblogging this to be like “haha this is so me” you’re not funny you’re ugly
tiddies: *have a tattoo between them*
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Blind people gesture (and why that’s kind of a big deal)
People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on how we learn and use gestures. Until now I’ve mostly cited a 1998 paper from Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow that analysed the gestures and speech of young blind people. Not only do blind people gesture, but the frequency and types of gestures they use does not appear to differ greatly from how sighted people gesture. If people learn gesture without ever seeing a gesture (and, most likely, never being shown), then there must be something about learning a language that means you get gestures as a bonus.
Blind people will even gesture when talking to other blind people, and sighted people will gesture when speaking on the phone - so we know that people don’t only gesture when they speak to someone who can see their gestures.
Earlier this year a new paper came out that adds to this story. Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow looked at the gestures of blind speakers of Turkish and English, to see if the *way* they gestured was different to sighted speakers of those languages. Some of the sighted speakers were blindfolded and others left able to see their conversation partner.
Turkish and English were chosen, because it has already been established that speakers of those languages consistently gesture differently when talking about videos of items moving. English speakers will be more likely to show the manner (e.g. ‘rolling’ or bouncing’) and trajectory (e.g. ‘left to right’, ‘downwards’) together in one gesture, and Turkish speakers will show these features as two separate gestures. This reflects the fact that English ‘roll down’ is one verbal clause, while in Turkish the equivalent would be yuvarlanarak iniyor, which translates as two verbs ‘rolling descending’.
Since we know that blind people do gesture, Özçalışkan’s team wanted to figure out if they gestured like other speakers of their language. Did the blind Turkish speakers separate the manner and trajectory of their gestures like their verbs? Did English speakers combine them? Of course, the standard methodology of showing videos wouldn’t work with blind participants, so the researchers built three dimensional models of events for people to feel before they discussed them.
The results showed that blind Turkish speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts, and the same for English speakers. All Turkish speakers gestured significantly differently from all English speakers, regardless of sightedness. This means that these particular gestural patterns are something that’s deeply linked to the grammatical properties of a language, and not something that we learn from looking at other speakers.
References
Jana M. Iverson & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1998. Why people gesture when they speak. Nature, 396(6708), 228-228.
Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2016. Is Seeing Gesture Necessary to Gesture Like a Native Speaker? Psychological Science 27(5) 737–747.
Asli Ozyurek & Sotaro Kita. 1999. Expressing manner and path in English and Turkish:
Differences in speech, gesture, and conceptualization. In Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 507-512). Erlbaum.
So I started learning sign language last year, and it’s been a big deal for sign to be recognized as it’s own language in the past. This is cool.
The stories of women in my family who were forced into lives they didn’t want and didn’t utilize their passions breaks my heart. My grandma wanted to be a journalist and write about the injustices she saw inflicted on disabled ppl while she was volunteering at a state run institution as a teen. Her father decided that she was “too fat and stupid” for college and forced her to get married at 17 or else he’d make her homeless. As a kid she told me that she wished people believed that she had meaningful opinions on events around her. One of my great grandmothers wanted to be an artist but was pressured into marrying a man who beat her. She stayed up late each night when her children were in bed writing poetry and pasting it over elaborate collages she mad herself. We still have stacks of these notebooks she created but was never allowed to do anything with. My mother wanted to be an operatic singer and was considered a musical prodigy in her town because she taught herself three seperate instruments by 13. When she was 18 she met my then 30 year old father who emotionally manipulated her into giving up her dreams to start a family with him. As a kid I would hear her up at night playing the violin or doing vocal exercises until she became too depressed to practice anymore. Like idk y’all there’s a quiet type of violence in the way women’s talents are devalued and brushed aside in favor of bullying them into “traditional” roles that ultimately don’t fulfill what they wanted for their lives. We’ve lost so much art, music, writing, science, and happiness to misogyny.
Pretty much, lol.
Why are they like this. Just accept that you’re attracted to males and get on with your life. wtf do they want the lesbian label so bad for??
To shame, belittle, and harass actual lesbians. That’s why she needs the lesbian “label.” To further her trans propaganda. “SEE, I am a lesbian and I like dick- you can too!” It’s homophobic, manipulative garbage. Anyone who claims to care about bisexual erasure should be pissed with these types of idiot, lying bis.
i got into this whole fight on twitter about a straight woman whose husband decided one day that he identifies as a woman…..and now she’s a lesbian….and she won’t stop talking about what a gay homosexual lesbian she is by continuing to be in a relationship with the male who impregnated her with her children, meanwhile actual real lesbians are getting tossed off buildings and institutionalized
And literally fighting the courts and system to even ADOPT a child.
This woman…ugh.
Guys the reason all of us gay women are so stupid is like. We literally have no cultural touchstones. Like we have a meagre amount of books and movies and most of them aren’t realistic…all of our brick and mortar spaces-women’s bookstores, music festivals, bars specifically FOR women- are disappearing. Like we learn either by being taught (impossible because a ton of people don’t even know other wuh luh wuh where they live) or by imitating behaviour modelled by people around us (impossible because we have next to no spaces or media where that behaviour can be openly displayed). On top of that in the rare instance we DO get a gay romance it’s usually between thin conventionally attractive able bodied white women which like…describes the lived experiences of next to no one in the community and thus isn’t applicable to most people’s lives.
The best part about not having a gender is that every sort of attraction I feel is gay
after all, ‘gay’ is just a fashionable aesthetic, it doesn’t really mean anything :)
@abominaidan LMAO BECKY STOP you unironically call yourself Aiden
if you’re not a lesbian you can’t tell us how to feel about men in any capacity that’s that
positivity post for boys! ❤️
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largest percentage of rapists? boys got it down pat 😘
most prolific murder rates? the greatest 😍😍🌼
best at being abusive? boys are NUMBER 1!!!💐
best at being greedy and corrupt politicians? THE BEST 🌺
being politicians in general? YOU BET! 🌺🌸
who else out here holding the most wealth while letting everyone else starve to death? 😏❤️❤️❤️BOYS❤️❤️❤️
raping and molesting women and children? UNBEATABLE! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
being currupt, violent, abusive police officers? Who else!! BOYS!!🌈🌈
keeping the sex trafficking industry alive? boys holding it down ❤️🌺🌺😫😫💕💕