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dogs arent animals

They're fungi obviously.

Elitist fart huffers need to kick rocks and appreciate stories or get out of the way of people who do. I want to be a pocket librarian anyone can pull out when their media taste is shamed so I can screech wildly.

I'm biased by watching Long Way Down with my wife while we share running commentary on the homoeroticism, but somehow I need this to end with a Richard Siken/Hunter Biden motorcycle road trip.

Reading up on him, he was a pretty cool guy. He was one of the first people to stand up to John Money about his theories of gender development and position that intersex infants should receive surgery and never be told about it using his abuse of David Reimer as ‘proof’, asserting that Money didn’t have the evidence and standing his ground even when Money straight up started screaming at him. And then later he was proven right when he got into contact with David Reimer, not only discovering proof that Money was wrong but also how abusive and horrific Money had been. He then went on to write advocating for intersex and trans rights and to avoid unnecessary procedures on intersex people without full informed consent and that intersex people are part of natural human variation and that we deserve acceptance and not to be treated like a disorder.

A quote I really like from him: ‘Nature loves diversity, society hates it’

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group

I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.

^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety

Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"

[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext

I’m soooooo embarrassed. My lord told me “good night,” but I thought he was calling me a good knight, and, well, you could hear it clink against my codpiece.

Oh so when a dude does vigilante justice (unlicensed enforcer outside the system) by killing bad guys in a leather jacket it's cool as fuck but when I do vigilante justice (unlicensed aid outside the system) by taking care of my disabled sisters (also in a cool leather jacket) it's "not even being a real nurse" and pathologized as "self sacrificing"

Also for everyone reading this, staring at a screen is the same as stairing at the wall for the same amount of time. Your brain feels like your eyes are moving but they arent really. Take a minute every 20 minutes to streach your back and shoulders and eyes. Look at somthing far away for 20 seconds.

That’s my point, that iPads and screens don’t cause brain damage.

Saying "Well actually it's the parents' fault" presupposes that this so called "brain damage" actually exists. That is giving the concept far too much credit.

i wonder of theres another larger factor from 2007-2011 that could reduce birth rates....

That's funny, I distinctly remember that in 2007-2011, the New York Times was moral panicking about young parenthood and how nobody should have children before 40.