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Anatomical Venus I

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I’d be happy to! So there’s been an interesting connection between pornography and anatomical diagrams for a very long time. My research was specifically on the Enlightenment in Europe, but you can find examples dating back to the Renaissance and the Middle Ages. There are a number of “pinups” that were made blending the erotic and the medical, with the subject wearing a coy, coquettish expression while literally baring everything to the viewer. When I say everything, it’s very similar to what you’ve done here: they hold up flaps of skin and show off their internal organs, bone structure, etc. There were even “political cartoons” lampooning this trend.

I’ll link the project here, because I’m afraid if I post some of the images the n*fw filter may bury my response.

!!!! This is so cool, thank you so much for sharing! Super interesting to read. And very fun to see images from the past that are literally….the same concept, amazing

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I don’t see the need to explain anything about innate gender differences and how they apply to gaming. The disparity is obviously cultural, unless you also think Koreans have a StarCraft gene.

You might call it a pipeline problem, but it’s not like STEM. Getting more girls into competitive game genres like RTS, or fighting game should obviously not be a political priority.

I suspect that, if you crunch the numbers, trying to “go pro” as a gamer has a massive cost and doesn’t really get you anywhere in life, on average. I would assume that most “pro gamers” are paying a massive opportunity cost and lead a shitty life, and they don’t get anything to show for. Maybe at some point you could be the NA champion at Star Craft without training 8 hours a day so you could go to uni, but I think a guy who does a half-hearted attempt at e-sports has a better life and better lifetime earnings compared to the guy who gets into it full time. The guy who’s worst off would probably he who trains 8 hours a day for years without being picked up by a team. I’d suspect it’s easier to be a variety streamer than a pro gamer.

The skill ceiling of the most competitive games is so high, and the sponsor money is so low compared to the effort, there is a big gap between competitive hobbyists and a profitable esports career that it doesn’t make sense to go pro even if you are good enough. If you play CS:GO at a level below the very highest, it’s basically an expensive hobby, and the higher you get, the worse and more expensive it becomes.

Shit, I am just independently re-discovering the “Women in STEM academia” by Phil Greenspun, except being a professor is horse racing, being a gamer is cock fighting, and doing STEM as an industry professional is clam fishing.

This pattern repeats across almost any field where the basic system is “wreck your fuckin’ life in exchange for a lottery ticket” and everyone’s going “why are the lottery winners so heavily male!? Someone must be excluding women!”

Yes, those people are called women, and they’re excluding themselves because they don’t have such a fucked-up set of incentives to make “wreck your life in exchange for a lottery ticket” seem like a good idea.

Interestingly, speedrunning (more queer) is less of a lottery ticket than multiplayer esports (more cis men).

I’ve used speedrunning before as the ultimate example of “quick mastery”, in the context of why video games are fun because they fake getting really good at a thing. If you practice Celeste speedrunning for an hour or two a day for a few months you’ll probably be among the best Celeste speedrunners on earth, if you practice violin an hour or two a day for a few months you’ll be a beginner violin player.

It’s distressing how many professions we have that rely on a huge pool of talent wasting a ton of time and dropping out to go live other lives burdened always with immense expenditure of time, effort, and health in their youth! See: earlier posts on Ballet and Football.

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Detail from the cover of ‘Dynamic Science Fiction,’ June 1953, Volume 1 No 3, illustrated by Milton Luros

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Chaos Samurai - Konton series by Hua Lu

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having fun with the laboratory danger sign generator

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Porcelain Garden 💙✨

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Mermay - Palace Guardian

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Vancouver series inspired by the weather, steam clock, and hiking trails 🇨🇦🌧️