How Maps Subconciously Reinforce Orientalism

youarenotyou:

rubyvroom:

queernonymoose:

So I am going to be spitting some knowledge that has kept me from falling back asleep last night.

Now, to discuss maps I gotta refresh some of y’alls memory because geography is probably the farthest thing in the world for you right now. In fact I doubt they are teaching any of it in schools anymore since I’ve left elementary and middle school.

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I never even thought of that. Wow.

It’s bizarre just how weird that second map looks to me. Even though it’s objectively correct. My brain actually skips over it, like whoa that’s wrong. Stupid indoctrination.

Here’s the map thing that bugs me : the standard maps that USians see are based on a design that exaggerates the size of the Northern Hemisphere, like so:

which has the weird effect of making Africa and Greenland approximately the same size. That’s not even close to true. 

A more reality-based version of this map, using the actual measured land size of all the continents, looks like this:

Hey look! Suddenly Africa’s a whole lot bigger! So is Brazil, and India, and much of the Middle East. Meanwhile, Europe and North America got smaller. Did anybody get this second map in their schools? I sure didn’t.

also this blew my mind

I’m so used to seeing the spatially correct map that seeing it the other way totally blows my mind. I think all the maps I encountered in Japan were set up that way. Also, upside down map…mind blowing!

inquisitorpsyduck answered your question: Questions of why and bottoming

Is there ever a “wrong” way for something so personal between people?

I dunno. It was a concern over more ‘am I doing this for the wrong reasons?’ rather than anything else.

Questions of why and bottoming

I like to bottom. I like being told what to do. I like to figure out ways to complete challenges given to me by my top. I like being tied up. I like getting bruises. I like knowing that if I don’t do something in the right way, or fast enough, or if I totally fail a challenge, then I will be punished for it and I can see the result. I like knowing that my punishment is in direct relation to my failing to do something, and not just a cruel twist of fate. I like giving control to someone else because I’m always in control for everyone else.

Is that wrong? Is there a wrong way to feel about bottoming? It’s just such a comfort. To not have to think for five people. To not have to please anyone but my top (and sometimes myself.) To watch earned bruises heal, knowing that it’s okay to hurt and to see that hurt manifested. To not be in control but still be in control. To be rewarded for good behaviour. To feel good enough. To feel safe. To be denied privileges and have to earn them. To just vocalize my immediate pain. To let out a mighty yawp as the implement of pain comes down to hurt me. To travel somewhere else outside my thoughts and worries. To come back down and feel safe. To be permitted to do things that I would otherwise deny myself in everyday life. To let go.

That’s what I think about when I think about bottoming. Is that wrong? Am I using this in the wrong way?

Is it still a walk of shame if you look fabulous?

youarenotyou:

mcgoats:

sylviaandherfigtree:

we call that the STRIDE OF PRIDE around these parts

“yeah, that’s right, i just got fucked. get it.”

never has a walk of shame been shameful for me. it’s always “uh huh yes i did that and it was great”

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All of this. My rule of life is if you’re going to regret it, don’t do it…and sex should never ever be something you regret.

(Source: fingersandteeth)