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"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and 'OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

Shirt you can only wear at 3pm on a Tuesday

And insanely tall people come in two categories: If they're merely tall, and not large, they're just skittish fragile giraffes. The most dangerous thing they can do to you is stand up too fast, faint because their blood pressure dropped, and hit you on the way down like a felled tree.

Also, I can see why it would be pertinent to replace a name which is a reference to some kind of racist or colonial idea, etc, since that carries some pretty heavy moral and ethical connotations; I just don't see a point in it if it's a relatively neutral name. Even if it arose from a mistranslation of the language's name, as long as it's not offensive, what's the point? If it's recognized by the people who speak it and it doesn't bother them, and if it's recognizeable on the world scale, what reasoning is there for changing it?

Obviously, if a group of people says 'hey we don't like being called this or our language being called that', then it's our obligation as people to listen to them. Furthermore, I think it falls to people outside of minority groups to be aware of the damaging history of certain terms and work to amend that even without being told, and this includes languages. Still, I do wonder about the actual relevance of changing the name of a language in another language when A) the name itself is inoffensive, B) the name hasn't been condemned* by the group in question, and C) the language name in question is already broadly known and recognized, thus causing confusion if there were to be a switch. *Note: Here I use 'condemn' very lightly to mean 'stated as not preferred', because I couldn't come up with a better synonym.

And obviously I have thoughts about the transcription of a language's native name to another language being difficult, so I won't bring that up. I also think anyone who doesn't have a phonetic map of the IPA screenshotted on their phone is a coward, anyway (/j). I have also seen the pronunciation being mentioned in other reblogs, but I'll contribute something anyway: the languages you learn to speak first affect the default position of your tongue in your mouth, as well as the shape of your mouth as a whole. The differences are very minor, but they can make it difficult or impossible for people who didn't acquire a particular language early enough to produce the correct sounds. Personally, if I was a native speaker of a language whose sounds were difficult for other-language speakers to accurately replicate, I would be more annoyed by someone repeatedly butchering my language's name than I would be by them calling it something that is inoffensive and easier for them.

Wrong!!!

I think that Asylum seekers and Migrant workers and The Undocumented and Everyone Else should get free healthcare too

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[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]