if more people can decondition themselves from seeing weight gain and fatness as immoral it will save me a lot of headaches
i also need people to decondition themselves from linking health to morality. if something is unhealthy it's obviously not ideal, but someone is not a bad person for smoking or drinking too much or drinking soda or whatever. i think the world would straight up be a better place if people could unlink health from morality and disgust.
Bookmarks are up in the shop!
The Onion is a more responsible news source than @NBCNews, @CNN, and @MSNBC.
We deserve this. We really do. When someone is in crisis, they deserve HELP, no jail or death.
We can have have this.
Quite aside from every other reason this is a good idea...
They like to talk about disabled people as a burden on society, and why should society pay for them? Well, for starters, because that's why we have a society. But also, many people who love them will live happier and healthier lives and be more productive if all the weight of taking care of their loved ones wasn't on them and they didn't have to fight the world every step of the way. So if you're talking to the kind of selfish asshole who won't accept the argument that protecting and caring for the disabled is the right thing to do and that's why society should do it, if they're going on and on about burdens to society... point out to them how much more productive the people who are currently caring for those people, by themselves, without help from society, could be with help.
(It is always helpful to have a variety of arguments in your toolbox. Many people express dismay that so many common arguments are "this is how you benefit from doing something good for others!", but honestly, Western civilization is so deeply inculcated with selfishness, we managed to take a religion about helping the needy and caring for others, and turn it into "bad things only happen to bad people". Knowing what argument might convince a selfish person is often crucial to making your point.)
For all my fellow Aussies remember, voting yes in the referendum quite literally means that Indigenous Australians will get a proper spot in parliament. If someone tells you to vote no they are racist, there is no reason why Indigenous Australians shouldn’t be allowed in parliament.
Vote Yes!
VOTE YES!!!!!!
also, "the referendum wont do anything" It's gonna do a hell of a lot more than what we've got now I'm telling you right fucking now
if your not Australian please reblog this, reblogging this will help show this to more Australians who will (hopefully!) vote yes. The people who are on the front lines for voting no are incredibly racist.
The referendum is going to be held on the 14th of October. If you are unable to make it that day remember to apply for early voting. This is something incredibly important, please even if you aren’t australian reblog this
First, the pervasiveness of this litter box thing is ridiculous. I think it has been debunked like a thousand times.
And the *actual* reason schools have cat litter has nothing to do with students identifying as cats.
"Columbine High School has been stocking classrooms with small amounts of cat litter since 2017, but as part of ‘go buckets’ that contain emergency supplies in case students are locked in a classroom during a shooting."
But I actually want to talk about the Tootsie Roll Pop gender thing.
They are trying to criticize a child psychologist, Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, who works at a gender clinic.
I'm sure a lot of their audience who see "gender minotaur" or "gender Tootsie Roll Pops" will completely write off this woman and claim she is a nutcase.
But conservatives and Fox News love to omit context and nuance.
Here is the document all of this stemmed from...
The implied Fox narrative is that Dr. Ehrensaft is creating silly genders and then labeling kids as minotaurs or smoothies.
In reality, she is describing all of the creative ways young kids and teens use to explain how they feel about their gender.
These kids probably don't have a lot of information or the vocabulary to express themselves in more traditional terms, so they've come up with analogies to help adults understand what they are feeling.
That doesn't seem ridiculous at all.
And I actually think these kids are quite clever.
So these conservatives are basically making fun of kids who are confused and seeking help to understand themselves.
Real classy.
And if these kids learn adults are making fun of them, they may feel embarrassed to use these communicative tools—making it that much harder for their therapists and doctors to help them.
The concept for this project got stuck in my head some time back as a prequel of sorts to my Solarpunk Witch Story. The idea was to focus a bit more on the "punk" side of Solarpunk and paint a picture of the effort and rebellion that went into how that world transitioned from Cyberpunk dystopia to Solarpunk... well, not utopia exactly, but something better than it was and striving toward that dream.
And because that sort of thing is bigger than any one person and I had multiple worldbuilding concepts I wanted to touch on, I landed on the idea of writing it in the form of a series of interviews with various characters who lived through that period of change.
I don't know how many of these I'll actually get around to writing, but for now, here's a tentative table of contents that at least hints at some general ideas/prompts for me to fill out later:
The Chronicler
The First Witch
The Reclaimer
The Gardener
The Fighter
The Jailor
The Liberator
The Architect
The Priestess
The Demon Hunter
The Coordinator
The Village Witch
The Novice
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Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Be very wary of those who insist on "debate" or "discussion" when it's someone's civil rights on the table. There's no debate to be had; trans women are women, trans men are men, anyone with a uterus gets to decide what grows in it or not, bodily autonomy is essential to freedom. 2:11 PM · Sep 28, 2023
