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internet ransom note where instead of magazine letters it’s just jpgs of letters found on google
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i like hating as well as the next girl but sometimes i follow people on here who make me feel like this
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We joke and all but some of you really forget that people hate women.
Seeing people wonder “how can people say stuff like this” and “why does [x misogynistic thing] keep happening” is a bit disorienting because when you take a five second pause to think about it you can realize quite immediately that it’s because people hate women. Like guys… people HATE women.
follow up: a lot of you guys forgot that YOU hate women
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With apologies for helping to eliminate an answer:
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Beware his panaka blast, okay?
Many thanks to @cottoncandylesbo , @cryptotheism , @radiofreederry and of course @jame7t for donating their time to and participating in the 2024 American Heart Association charity drive, everyone who donated financially during it, and Jame again for captioning this video!
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it is weird that celiac stuff has become part of the 'culture war'. because it's literally just a medical thing.... I get super anemic unless I cut a certain protein out of my diet, because it bulldozes the villi in my intestines. but if I post about it, right-wingers send me gore images. I guess you can't expect shitty people to be logical, but I've even heard lefty people make fun of gluten stuff, and it's like why are you mad about this??? why are you pissed off that I'm eating bread that doesn't taste as good so that I can have blood in my body? it's so morally neutral.
I'm sorry, I know you weren't actually looking for an explanation but I always have a rant about this locked and loaded.
As far as I can tell the reasons that this happens are:
- The interpretation of disability accommodation as wokeness - a lot of the same people who are shitty about food limitations are also shitty about sign language interpreters and ramp requirements (also building regulations relating to the latter) because they view any accommodation as capitulation to a group they think should "suck it up and deal with it" (quietly exist without named or obvious accommodations). The conversations around peanut-free or milk-free classrooms to accommodate children with allergies are similarly unhinged and possibly more horrifying.
- Conflating specialty diets as a result of proximity in the popular consciousness - you're a lot more likely to see something described as "vegan + gluten free" or to see vegan/vegetarian/g-free options grouped on menus than you are to see keto/vegan/gfree options so the "lefty" animal-free diets get grouped with gluten-free (it's also interesting that there are right-wing diets, and I wonder how many of these people remember when you used to be able to find "atkins-friendly" symbols on casual dining restaurant menus)
- Gluten free diets became a fad fifteen years ago; tons of people read "Wheat Belly" and stopped eating wheat as a weight loss hack and when they went back to eating wheat because it's actually pretty difficult to get around a major staple grain they didn't experience any negative consequences; people saw this and basically think that it's a trend, that people are faking medically necessary diets as part of a fad. When questioned about this they always go "but, I mean, it's okay if you REALLY need to skip the wheat because you have a condition but most people are doing it because it's popular" when g-free diets haven't been a major trend for quite a while now. TO BE QUITE FAIR, I think that things like "Gluten Aware" cookies and beer and such, which contain a little gluten but not NO gluten contribute to this perception (these have annoyed me forever for two reasons: 1. They make people without celiac think that a little gluten is fine for people with celiac, which it is not; 2. fucking commit, companies. *I* want the cookies and beer and it's deeply annoying that these business will go to the lengths to create products with minimal gluten but won't actually make g-free foods - this is often because of the risk of cross contamination, they won't claim to make g-free things because they won't work with a dedicated g-free facility)
Anyway, in conclusion: it sucks, I'm sorry.
The fun flipside of this is that I've seen people who are more right wing become aggressively pro regulation and pro accommodation when they or their family members have to suddenly take on the individual burden of making up for a society that doesn't include them by default.
US specific:
Is your ham made with vinegar? Does your ham have the generic word "spices" on the ingredient list? Does your ham include "smoke flavoring"? Does your ham include caramel coloring?
Because malt vinegar has gluten in it. "Spices" may include wheat products in a mix. Smoke flavoring may be made with barley flour. Caramel coloring may be made with wheat or barley syrup.
If the label says "gluten free" that means that the "spices," caramel coloring, vinegar, and smoke flavor are certified to contain 20ppm or less of gluten.
If the ham is cured in any way, it may include gluten. If the ham was marinated, it probably includes gluten. If the ham was prepared in a facility that processes wheat in any way, it might be cross contaminated with gluten.
There's a company out there called "Gluten Free Water" that makes water in plastic bottles, poking fun at the idea that too many things have a gluten free label. I fucking hate that company. Because that company is functionally saying "lol, people are so sensitive and over the top about this, let's be a little silly and laugh about how crazy people can be with their 'gluten free' nonsense."
Did you know that there are sustainable food containers and straws that contain wheat? And that you don't have to label them? There are definitely people with celiac who have been sickened by biodegradable plastic straws in their "obviously water is gluten free there's no risk here" water.
"It's over-labeled so it looks trendy" just means you don't know how foods are made or what foods contain gluten. Gluten is ridiculously common in foods in general, and also in packaged meats.
Your ham has to say gluten free because it distinguishes it from the hams that do contain gluten, which is a fucking lot of them. And you're annoyed that your ham has to say gluten free and I'm annoyed that I'm standing in the grocery store calling a ham company to figure out where they source their caramel coloring so I can figure out if the damned ham is safe to eat.
"lol, oats don't have wheat in them, are people so stupid that they have to be told what is and isn't wheat? why does this oatmeal have a gluten free label?" Cross contamination; gluten free oats are not grown near wheat and are not processed in facilities that process wheat.
"lol, rice doesn't have wheat in it, why is this rice labeled gluten free, all rice is gluten free" Cross contamination; the rice isn't processed on equipment that processes wheat.
"lol why does this turkey breast say gluten free, it's just fucking turkey" read the ingredients on your "just" turkey, lots of packaged meat is packed in broth, some of which contains modified food starch, which may contain wheat.
"lol why are these strawberries labeled gluten free? they're fucking strawberries" WAX, BUDDY. SOME FRUITS ARE COATED IN PRESERVATIVE WAX FILMS BY THE MANUFACTURER AND SOME OF THOSE FUCKING FILMS CONTAIN GLUTEN.
I think that part of the reason that people are so irritated by g-free labels is because it exposes them to just how vast and alienating their food systems are.
"Ham should just be meat from a pig, maybe with sugar and salt; what on earth is happening that there might be wheat in that process? Nothing in that process should involve wheat." And then you might have to think about it for a second, might have to wonder what "sugar" and "salt" mean when someone is producing a million hams to be delivered thousands of miles away. It's not just sugar and salt; it's preservatives and nitrates and batch cooking and getting corn syrup instead of sugar and getting smoke flavoring instead of smoking the ham and turning your "whole food" into all the ingredients that make up the ingredients that make up the ingredients.
A "gluten free" label says "you can eat this" to somebody with celiac disease, who has already pounded their skull against the shittiness of the medical system and the food system.
But to someone who doesn't have to worry that their food is going to disable them, a "gluten free" sticker on ham takes a known quantity and turns their sandwich into a hyperobject that contains animal agriculture and industrial additive production and shipping pollution and the ongoing assault on regulation.
If it doesn't have the label, you can just eat your lunch. If it does have the label, you are haunted by the specter of RFK junior imploding the FDA.
Turns out that everyone in the US with celiac is already constantly haunted by the possible implosion of the FDA because food regulation is an up-close and personal part of our daily lives that most people would rather not think about.
Weirdly, I like British women’s fiction. I don’t know if you’ve seen them - books with titles like The Littlest Cupcake Shop On the Corner. Christmas At The Bookshop Bus Cafe. Wedding Cakes of Hopes and Dreams. The Littlest Coffee Shop In the World For Orcs and Fairies. Breakfast At The Dragon Tea Shop. Christmas Breakfast At the Dragon Tea Shop. Baby Breakfast at the Baby Dragon Tea Shop and Independent Women’s Soft Play Centre. Long Overdue Mental Breakdown at the -
They are largely produced by British author Jenny Colgan, with packs of ceaseless imitators snapping weakly at her heels, and occasionally people like Trisha Ashley, who used to be funny. In Australia you have Kerry Greenwood’s weird right-wing-Zionist, left-wing-everything else baker. They all have the same covers.
At any rate, they’re all books about liberated women doing pink-collar jobs that are Truly Meaningful, like owning their own bakery, combined with fantasies of property ownership and independence. Trisha Ashley used to attempt being vaguely witty, Kerry Greenwood used to attempt being vaguely feminist with it, and in an attempt to be #heartwarming Jenny Colgan will throw in some large-eyed refugees or campy trans gay people or other side characters. All pretty dire!!! but I still read a lot of them!! And in 2012 I started writing this essay, saved it as a draft and forgot. But they’re still at it. Anyway here it is:
A fascinating thing about all of those writers I’m picking on specifically is that they’ve all written a Baking Woman character - or multiple ones! - who specially goes out of her way to tell us things like :
- - doesn’t believe her annoying idiot friend has a real problem with gluten.
- hates baking gluten free.
- her gluten-free bread, which she makes for health freaks, sucks
- charges a huge markup on gluten-free products - and finds that gullible idiots pay willingly
- lies about whether things are gluten free.
- Points out that if you take the gluten out of baked goods it doesn’t taste as good.
- Explains that she doesn’t feel a need to cater to other diets because her bread/cupcakes/fairy dragon wedding cakes are perfect and she doesn’t modify her recipes
- One briefly considers accommodating gluten-free in her tea shop, and is advised by a narratively-smarter mature woman not to, because nobody actually needs it
These characterisation choices are all deliberate and are intended to paint a no-nonsense, down to earth, relatable woman. She’s the salt of the earth! She isn’t needy, and she doesn’t put up with people who are! She’s relatable!!
At the same time, their motivation for being “bakers” instead of any other useful profession is because the authors don’t have to think too much about it they can just copy and paste the same plots / it’s unthreateningly pink collar / lots of people dream of running a baby kitten wedding dress bakery chocolate shop because they make cakes for work sometimes these women truly love feeding people 🥹 they are Nourishing… for the Soul….. these women do it because they love to brighten the days of the grey-faced rat-race office women with a little pink and sugar and sparkle and sunshine… wouldn’t it be nice if the whole world just went out of their way to spread a bit more kindness?
As a result, without meaning to, Jenny Colgan and her pack of imitators have created these self-deluding, deliciously toxic, hateful-hearted, nasty little protagonists!
Every baker-character lauding herself for her magical-realism, cures-the-world, spoonful-of-kindness, supernaturally-delightful baking powers is a lazy fraud, but worse, actively deceiving the audience, because she just admitted that she can’t bake GF well. Stupid wench lol. that just means you’re a shitty baker who doesn’t even try.
Like, every single one of those bullet points reveals an unpleasant character with a rotten element. An unkind, deceitful person who “wants to feed the world” - but not if her own friends bring their own needs to the table! An unaccomplished, mediocre baker who can’t do anything challenging. In fact, a baker so bad at her job that she can’t bake without a single common protein. A person who’s openly excited to be a bully, if she can bully without consequences.
And because of the “culture war” thing, every single author has been able to blithely sail along in her belief that her little angel protagonists are justified in… being mean about medical needs? . And because the depressed, anxious, fearful, unhappy straight cis white women who buy these books ceaselessly are not the type to notice - because usually they’re also the first people in line to bully - nobody in the audience notices either! So these books are secretly about these truly hateful and evil women, who trick various straight men into bonking them, and keep the mask on with everyone, but people like you and I, who are like: “Girl WHAT? You poisoned your friend on PURPOSE? Girl???!” And getting a WHOLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THESE CUPCAKES OF HOPES AND DREAMS LMAO.
Anyway these authors make bank! Other authors need the electric bill paid by KoFi but chicklit writers make a wage on this kind of secret, sour politics. Even ChatGPT would hesitate before doing this!!! It’s delicious
Meanwhile I understand it as the synthesis of three different pop culture quotes.
1. Professor Charles Xavier. X-Men. Marvel. "People fear what they don't understand."
2. Yoda. Star Wars. "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
3. The one viral video from several years ago. "Ain't nobody got time for that."
You see it with all the non visible disabilities. Celiac, fibromyalgia, ADHD, various ones that weaken but don't paralyze the legs, etc. The idea that a person can LOOK perfectly healthy and yet inside things are wrong that can kill them if not addressed appropriately is terrifying. Medical science is complicated to an uninitiated lay person. Few want to voluntarily study it if they're not already involved in the medical field. So if someone LOOKS okay, then they must be, right? Right? See, they're doing stuff just like perfectly healthy me does? It must not be a big deal, they're faking part of it, or both!
People like simple narratives like that. They don't want life to be difficult and complicated. Yet it is. So the fear turns to anger, which turns to hate, which inevitably brings suffering. As an amateur historian, the pattern is pretty clear. Not that there isn't intentional manipulation to get it there, mind you, but still.
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It has just occurred to me that of all the characters in Winnie the Pooh, the only ones that lack both fingerless stuffing hands and faint seam lines (the indications that someone is a stuffed animal) are Rabbit and Owl. Which carries the possible implication that Rabbit and Owl are just a normal rabbit and owl living with a bunch of sentient stuffed animals.
And somehow this makes Rabbit’s constant consternation with all of his neighbors even funnier to me.
Theyre also the only ones with bushy eyebrows and chest and chin floof, and I dont know if thats relevant but it FEELS relevant! Also someone mentioned Gopher too and OF COURSE, there is absolutely no argument that this whistling little man isn’t just an average (talking) gopher.
The more I examine this the more it feels just so OBVIOUS
You are exactly right! Most of the characters in the stories are based on the real Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed toys except for Rabbit and Owl who were added for the books and Gopher who is exclusive to the Disney adaptations.
Here are the real Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga, and Eeyore. They currently live at the New York Public Library.
It’s fairly clear in the book illustrations too:
‘Owl,’ said Rabbit shortly, ‘you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest – and when I say thinking I mean thinking – you and I must do it.’
Milne, A. A.; E. H. Shepard. The House at Pooh Corner (pp. 78-79). Egmont UK Ltd. Kindle Edition.
This post has been getting a surge of attention and let me tell you that 1) I am really pleased at how kind most of the people who KNEW all this have been in explaining it, and 2) I feel a lot better seeing just how many other people didn’t have any more clue of this than I did XD It’s kinda nice being part of a post thats spreading some fun knowledge in a nice way!
Also thank you to the gracious @roofermadness in the tags for complimenting my astuteness on figuring this out from the animation character designs, you are so nice to say so and I appreciate you 🥰
Rabbit and Owl are also the only animals you might realistically expect to find in Ashdown Forest, where the Hundred Acre Wood is!
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googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much
I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"
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