"Amatonormativity can show up in many ways. We may assume that two people who seem physically and/or verbally close to each other, especially if they are perceived as a boy/man and a girl/woman, are in a romantic relationship, or if they aren’t, that they will be, sooner or later.
It’s also in the words we use when discussing romance, dating, and marriage (which, again, popular culture often suggests is a romantic goal and ideal), like saying someone is “still single,” “doesn’t have a partner yet,” “unmarried,” or that they are “more than just friends” with another person. These terms imply that everyone’s interpersonal life follows a linear narrative: single, dating, engagement, and marriage that ideally lasts for the rest of your life. Other forms of amatonormativity we may be familiar with are:
Encouraging guests to take a “plus-one,” usually defined as a romantic partner, to a wedding or other formal event
Assuming every attraction someone feels towards another person is romantic
Assuming that cisgender, heterosexual people can’t be “just” friends with each other
Thinking that having a romantic partner is the only solution to loneliness, sadness, boredom, financial crisis, or a lack of self-esteem"
T. Aquila, Unveiling Amatonormativity: Notes From the Books and the Field
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people love to mock the youth liberation movement with "ha ha you think bedtimes are oppressive" and mainly I think the response of "we weren't actually talking about that, dumbass" is the right way to go, but also...it is genuinely fucking weird that we don't let children listen to their bodies about when it's time to go to sleep and when it's time to wake up. and the main reason you hear is that it's "preparing them for the real world", i.e. for the fact that as adults they will also not be able to listen to their bodies about when it's time to go to sleep and when it's time to wake up. because if they can't force their circadian rhythm to match up with the arbitrary demands of a job they'll end up with no home or food or medical care, which like. yeah. is oppressive.
As a rule of thumb, every time you hear some variation of “real world” (ex. “I’m just preparing you for the real world!”, “welcome to the real world, buddy 🙄”) told to a kid, it’s almost always dehumanizing and anti-empathetic bullshit.
That entire argument is nothing but a self-report that these joyless adults got hurt at some point in their lives and decided that if they can’t be happy, nobody else can, and that the kids are just a convenient, vulnerable target for them to enforce their apathy on. It’s genuinely disgusting to me how these people are almost gleeful thinking about hypothetical kids being distressed and hurt when the cruelness of the “real world” collapses in on them.
The reason we give kids bed times is to AID their circadian rhythm, not to interfere with it. A regular sleep schedule is up there with a nutritious diet and basic hygiene on the list of things that your body and mind need to not collapse. The circadian rhythm is not some inherent timer that can't be changed. It needs upkeep and we provide that upkeep by going to bed at about the same time every night. That is why we give kids bed times. Because they don't yet know how to maintain a regular sleep schedule without the help of an adult, just like they can't eat a nutritious diet or maintain their basic hygiene without the help of an adult. Anyone who has been around kids will tell you that visibly exhausted kids will scream and cry and refuse to sleep because they don't want the fun to end and don't understand the importance of maintaining their circadian rhythm. Sometimes, they refuse to go to sleep because they haven't even yet learned to identify their bodies' exhaustion signals and don't even realize that they're tired. Kids need a regular sleep schedule, and younger children need help to maintain a regular sleep schedule. Not providing that help is, imo, neglect. Just like it is neglect to allow a young child's hair to become matted and their faces to be encrusted with dried food and flecks of feces because the child didn't want to take a bath. Just like it is neglect to allow a child to subsist off mini donuts because the child didn't like one particular fruit.
As for the argument of preparing them for the real world... I agree that it's ridiculous to "prepare a child for the real world" because, well, the world they're in is already real. But that's just it, isn't it? We're not preparing them for a world in which they'll have to get up at a certain time and if they don't go to bed at a certain time before that, they'll be tired. They already live in that world. Most kids go to school or daycare and have to be up at a certain time. If they don't go to bed at a certain time, they'll be tired and poorly prepared for a day of (hopefully) learning and play.
And these times are not "arbitrary." Or, well, I suppose the point at which we set these times usually has an element of arbitrariness. Why do office jobs start at 9 and not 8? Or 10? Or 3 in the afternoon? That is arbitrary. But it's not an arbitrary rule to show up at the same time every day for work or school. How would shifts at places like hospitals work if nurses didn't know what time their relief was coming? How would teachers be able to plan a lesson if each child came in at a different time every day?
Adults who do not maintain a regular sleep schedule that would allow them to work are - for the most part - not "listening to their bodies" and they are not "unable to force their circadian rhythm to match up." They are - for the most part - suffering from depression or some other form of illness that causes them to neglect their basic needs. They are not "listening to their bodies" by staying up too late or sleeping for too long, just like they're not "listening to their bodies" when they eat Doritos at 4 in the morning and nothing else for the rest of the day. They are NEGLECTING their bodies because they are ILL. Quite probably too ill to work. (Yes, the fact that these people are often left without resources is oppressive. That is just about the only thing OP got right.)
Children don’t know HOW to listen to their bodies and you would know that if you’d ever actually spent time with real children instead of lecturing parents on the Internet about what you assume kids are like. Children will fight tooth and nail against going to sleep while literally unable to keep their eyes open or their heads up because they haven’t yet developed the ability to read and understand the signals their bodies are sending them or the willpower to stop doing something they consider fun to do something they consider boring simply because it is the right thing for their bodies. They don’t know how to do long term cost benefit analysis, their brains simply aren’t that developed yet. Part of parenting and establishing routines for children is teaching them how to recognize those biological signals and the appropriate response to them! It’s also acknowledging that I as a 39 year old have a more sophisticated and complex understanding of the world, biology, and the demands of my child’s social and academic life than my 4 year old does, and I will for many years to come!
This is like when teenagers insist that having access to their phones in school and all night long is somehow them teaching themselves responsibility when it's emphatically the opposite: it's indulgence stemming from emotional immaturity.
Also reminds me of an episode of Judge John Hodgman from long ago when a teenager was making the case that they should be able to use a motorcycle for their personal vehicle (and that the parents should buy and insure it) and their reasoning was "It's cheaper so I'm saving you money over the other options" and the parents' reasoning was "We don't want you to die and we are basing that concern on the wealth of data that shows this is a dangerous option for a teenage boy."
Children and teenagers can't even see what the actual problems are because they haven't reached that point in their development yet.
imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care
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i (type 1 diabetic) was explaining autoimmune diseases to someone and she was like ohh right so yours is the good kind of diabetes where you didn't do it to yourself. to which i objected that's not how type 2 works either. and she said well that's the fat old people disease. and i was like you can't say that, a) not how it works and b) extremely rude. and her defense was her grandparents have type 2 and "did it to themselves" and since they're fat old people she reserves the right to hate on them. i understand hating shitty grandparents but YOU are the shitty one here to hate on them for their medical conditions and weight rather than literally anything else. hello?!
anyway type 2 diabetics i'm sorry about the world. everyone* be kind to type 2s or else
*note to type 1 diabetics especially we need to be better at solidarity and not cling to being the "good ones" at type 2s' expense. what the fuck is a good kind of diabetes anyway
also worth saying diabetes is a complex reaction to a not-yet-fully-understood set of factors and environmental pressures and genetics and it's reductive and fatphobic to say fat=diabetes BUT EVEN SO no matter if someone did incontrovertibly "give themself diabetes" that's not a free pass for dehumanization. shut upppp
The other day I was trying to find info on remission, cause I'm kinda sick of this shit, and all I could find was "lose weight." I know that can't be right, it's gotta be more complex than that.
So I look for what they do with folks who actually can't lose weight, and the answer I found was pretty much a shrug emoji. Oh we don't know how people who aren't overweight go into remission!
I just...what?!
Have you considered, mayhaps, that your focus on fatness is hurting EVERYONE with type 2?
For millions of people managing type 2 diabetes, mornings begin the same way — a needle, a dose, and a quiet mental note to do it all again
For millions of people managing type 2 diabetes, mornings begin the same way — a needle, a dose, and a quiet mental note to do it all again tomorrow.
That routine just changed.
On March 26, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Awiqli (insulin icodec-abae), developed by Novo Nordisk, as the first and only once-weekly basal insulin ever approved for adults with type 2 diabetes in the United States.
This is not a minor update to an existing drug.
It is the first entirely new class of basal insulin to reach U.S. patients in more than two decades.
Instead of injecting insulin every single day, people with type 2 diabetes using Awiqli will only need one shot per week, on the same day, every week.
That means reducing from 365 injections a year down to just 52.
For anyone who has ever felt the weight of that daily ritual — the anxiety of forgetting, the physical discomfort, the constant reminder that their body needs help — this approval represents something much bigger than a dosing schedule.
It represents relief.
How the Drug Actually Works
Understanding why this injection lasts a full week requires a quick look inside the body.
Most traditional basal insulins are absorbed into the bloodstream and begin breaking down within 24 hours, which is why patients need a fresh dose every day to maintain stable blood sugar levels.
Awiqli works differently.
Its active ingredient, insulin icodec-abae, is engineered to loosely attach to a blood protein called albumin, which is found naturally and abundantly in the bloodstream.
This attachment creates a slow-release reservoir.
Instead of flooding the system and fading fast, the insulin releases gradually and consistently over an entire seven-day period, keeping blood sugar in a healthy range around the clock...
What Comes Next
Awiqli is not standing alone in this space for long.
Eli Lilly is developing its own once-weekly basal insulin, called efsitora alfa, which is currently in late-stage clinical trials.
If that drug also earns FDA approval, it would give patients and doctors two once-weekly options to choose from, allowing for personalized decisions based on a patient’s health profile, insurance coverage, and individual response.
The broader direction of travel in diabetes care is unmistakable.
Fewer injections, smarter formulations, and better integration with digital tools like continuous glucose monitors and insulin-tracking apps are all converging toward a future where managing diabetes requires less daily mental effort without becoming any less medically precise...
A Small Shot With Large Implications
It is easy to look at a once-weekly injection and see only a scheduling change.
But the science behind Awiqli, the scale of the ONWARDS trials, and the consistent satisfaction reported by patients all point toward something that matters far more than convenience.
Diabetes management has always asked a lot of people.
It asks for daily vigilance, daily discipline, and a daily willingness to confront one’s own condition, sometimes in uncomfortable or inconvenient circumstances.
Anything that reduces that load, without reducing the quality of care, is worth taking seriously.
For the more than 37 million Americans living with diabetes, and the hundreds of millions more around the world, a simpler weekly routine could mean the difference between a treatment plan that works on paper and one that actually works in a person’s life.
That is the real significance of what the FDA approved on March 26, 2026.
Not just a new drug.
A new way of keeping people healthy, one week at a time.
autism tests are so funny. I'm extremely literal most of the time, but people don't tell me that generally, so I'm inclined to answer disagree. because I'm taking the statement too literally
Proposal: She takes her car to a mechanic and it's beat for beat like the original movie scene at the dress shop, where the mechanic *tries* to rip her off and she nods along and then eviscerates her with precise technical details.
The rest of Elle's class now shun that mechanics' shop and tell everyone else to as well, so that place ends up going out of businesss, which allows someone else in the class to open up a sparkling pink and perfectly trustworthy shop of his own.
You guys joke, but don't realize how useful something like a nail file, nail scissors, oil, nail polish, or hand lotion, which are all seen as girly objects carried in your purse, can be extremely useful in places like construction.
Concrete will fuck up your hands, skin, and hair; nail files can clean up imperfections on wood; nail scissors can fix up carpet, curtains, and splinters, and nail polish is a great, quick sealant that makes a good glossy top coat.
And most importantly these things can be carried in your purse/pockets!!
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What they aren't telling these kids that's really dangerous is that if you do make it all the way to the heart of a Scientology building, the autosave will lock you into entering the Tom Cruise boss fight chamber, and you won't be able to leave until you defeat him in combat.
The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.
Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence
One immediate step you can take if you're tech literate is try to personally back up as much DIY information from the internet as possible. We need to confront the fact that the internet is American dominated and primarily American-owned and in a larger sense owned and operated by capital primarily. For the informational resources of the internet to benefit human beings we have to deliberately make choices to structure it that way, and in the age of Palantir that largely means thinking about parallel informational infrastructure, setting up another internet or at least other communication systems.
If we want to preserve life saving information, information that aligns with reality over fascism information that is useful, beautiful and true to human beings and ugly and inconvenient to capital, first we have to make backups
It is imperative that the customer remain unaware that employees drink water, it frightens and scares them to think of an employee as having human needs
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"This child cannot get this treatment because their parent said no" why is this normal to you!!! "This child, who is begging for treatment, cannot be given lifesaving medical care because their parent said no" is a wild statement!!!
Children should not need parental permission for medical care!! This doesn't just apply to life or death care*! A pregnant teen should be able to get an abortion without parental permission! Let teens go on birth control without parental permission! A kid should be able to see a doctor about a mental condition that is harming them and get it treated, even if their parent "doesn't believe it's real".
KIDS SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE MEDICAL AUTONOMY!!!!!
*it should be noted that the reasons I list after this can also be considered life or death, as a lack of access to them can be deadly.
Not to mention the fact that parents can opt their kids out of sex education for whatever reason, usually religion. Learning about things like human anatomy, sexuality, gender, healthy relationships, and shit like that is IMPORTANT AS ALL HELL. Like genuinely. What are you going to do when your kid has their first period and they think they're dying? When they have horny ass dreams? When they get into relationships with terrible ppl but dont know it?
Kids being able to make their own choices is important. Fuck, i'll give another example. Why not.
One of my friends was having a mental breakdown about (SOMETHING I WILL NOT MENTION FOR THEIR PRIVACY BUT IT'S RELATED TO THEIR MOM) at school. Me and two other friends were there, missing our entire last period, to help them through it. The teachers said they would call their mom so she could talk about it with them and the teachers. I offer to stay with her to be the mediator, as adults usually tend to view themselves as more powerful and important than children, and might make the situation worse. Parents also have more control which was the whole cause of this.
Guess what they said?
"No, your teacher wants you to go back to class."
PRETTY FUCKIN IRONIC ISNT IT?
AND GUESS WHAT? THERE WAS ONLY LIKE TEN MINUTES LEFT UNTIL SCHOOL ENDED. WHAT WAS THE POINT, HUH, MS. [redacted]? TO PROVE **MY** POINT?
But yeah. Just let minors have autonomy in general. It's especially important with health, but can be good for their own sanity too to be able to make decisions without their parents.
i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole
