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ive been working on several rather big pieces or projects and its a good problem to have but it does mean that my little pea brain is not feeling progress even when i put multiple hours a day in

so here's a quick little win for me, a study to warm up for the week

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So do nonbinary people. Not everyone is a man or a woman.

While you're at it do you wanna buy a gun and move to a castle doctrine state, and start taking potshots at anyone who tries to make a u-turn in your driveway, so you can later start telling the jury about just how Determined you were to Protect Your Family?

do you wanna start lobbying for increases to police budgets so your fucking suburb can finally be Tough On Crime?

1. If this becomes the law, children will be even less likely to come forward. It’s one level of bravery to come forward about SA when you know it will shatter your family and irrevocably change your life. It’s another to cone forward when doing so will make you responsible for killing your abuser, who most likely is someone who your loved ones love and very likely is someone you love. “Killing pedophiles” as a policy will make fewer children come forward. This is a fact.

2. Pedophilia is not synonymous with child molester, nor is is a prerequisite. Sexual abuse is often committed against children by people who do not have this paraphilia and many people with this paraphilia never harm anyone. The idea of hunting down people for thought crime is horrific and dystopian and leads into point three.

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Yeah I should’ve clarified (pun intended). They had glass in the ancient world especially in Rome and Egypt but it was basically super heated sand and color additives put in a mold and often looked opaque and kinda lumpy. Even if it was blown like it was in some regions it wouldn’t have looked like modern glass.

Clear blown glass like you’d see a modern scented candle contained in wasn’t invented until the late Middle Ages and certainly wasn’t mass produced until the 1500s and even then places like Venice that had knowledge of these techniques literally forbid their glassmakers from leaving their city or region so other people couldn’t make it, forcing artificial scarcity and making it a very expensive material.

like you try to bring it up with a conservative white man and he'll say, "my life wasn't easy. I grew up in a trailer park, raised by a single mom who was also a drug addict, and I have never had things handed to me. I struggled." and it's just. yes! you were subject to classism! your mother also faced misogyny, and institutional medical obstacles regarding addiction/drug treatment. you were disadvantaged compared to people who didn't have to endure any those things, and what happened to you was devastating and real.

all that "white privilege" means is that you were also not dealing with racism on top of that. that's it. that's what it means.

but if you push on this point, the reaction then pivots to: "but i'm not racist. i haven't used that privilege to hurt black people. i don't 'wield' my privilege against them."

great! interpersonal conflict is very much not how privilege largely manifests, it's exercised by systems and institutions that are beyond the reach of you and your friends. you may not have done anything to your black friend, but if you both applied for a loan at the same bank, all other things being equal, there is a historical precedence for you, a white man, being given better terms and resources. that is white privilege. neither of you are the banker, the banker is exercising power over both of you in making this decision.

and so ostensibly progressive people on here, who experience marginalization along one axis, will still reject any assertion that they have certain privileges - "I can't experience white privilege fully because I'm autistic" - there's a word for what you experience alongside white privilege, and it's called ableism. these two things very much coexist, because you are not also experiencing racism's intersection WITH the ableism you face. "I haven't used my male privilege against anyone, I don't oppress the women around me" - I never said you did, now if you and a woman both worked the same job, who is your employer (who wields the power in this situation) likely to pay more?