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United Front: Breasts Without the Airbrush

The shocking thing about Laura Dodsworth’s pictures of 100 women’s breasts isn’t the flesh on show, or the many shapes and sizes, but the realisation that images of unairbrushed, non-uniform breasts seem to be so rare. “We see images of breasts everywhere,” says the 41-year-old photographer, “but they’re unreal. They create an unflattering comparison but also an unobtainable ideal. I wanted to rehumanise women through honest photography.”

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No, but seriously, anon, you need to look into what's going on in his classroom because he's probably being taught this trash method instead of phonics. He does not know how to slow down and sound things out because his school has never taught him that. When you tell him to do this, he has no context for what you're even talking about.

This has come up repeatedly here, and I don't have time to froth at the mouth today, but look up "whole language".

This podcast made waves a few years ago when all the lockdown parents discovered, to their horror, that their kiddos weren't being taught to read in the NORMAL FUCKING WAY WE'VE USED FOR LITERALLY CENTURIES and were instead being taught a fake-ass method backed by vibes and antivax-levels of pseudoscience.

But of course it feels intuitively sensible to her. She taught herself to read at age 2. That's the exact kind of experience that does make this method sound reasonable. But like you say, if it's going to happen, it happens very early and without the school curriculum.

As for me, I've said it before, but I assume anon wasn't around: I could not learn to read.

I was in second grade. (First grade? I can't remember. Around then.) Most of my classmates were reading at least a little. Me: nothing. I could not learn.

It was even a god damn private school, but I had to have a fucking tutor. I got dragged over to that lady's office a few days a week for... two months? Four months? It really wasn't that long, as far as I know. I was more than ready to learn. I just needed an actual fucking method that wasn't lying trash. Almost at once I jumped from nothing to reading well above grade level. For the rest of my childhood, I continued to diverge from my classmates in how many words I knew, how well I could read, the works. Every year of grade school makes that gap widen. I was on the desirable side of that gap. I was lucky.

It's obvious how verbal I am from reading my tl;dr on this blog.

But I could not learn to read.

I had almost the exact opposite experience that olderthannetfic did. I was homeschooled and my mom was trying to teach me to read the phonics way. I could read really simple, intuitive words, but hit a block when it came to progressing beyond the Dick and Jane level.

English phonetics are pretty inconsistent because it's actually four other languages in a trench coat, plus we had the great vowel shift. Not that anyone explained that to me at the time. English spelling grinds my gears a lot less now that I understand that history.

But at the time I would get so confused and frustrated over things like C sounding like K sometimes and S other times, the random silent K at the beginning of some words, etc. This issue never seems to get brought up in discussions about how phonics is clearly superior. Maybe I had more problems than average with inconsistencies due to autism, but I can't imagine that I'm the only kid who had issues with this.

School curricula need to be based on scientific study of outcomes. Balanced Literacy is based on fake science and has demonstrably worse outcomes.

What you almost certainly did was based on a combo of an innate proclivity for implicit learning + tolerance of ambiguity and not cueing.

Basically you know how people wildly differ on how they handle fantasy/sci-fi concepts being introduced to them? Some people see an invented fantasy word, have no idea what it is beyond a couple of context cues, and then read on until they can pick up on enough contextual info to figure it out? While others grind to a halt every time they encounter an unknown word and need it explained, so after 3 new words with zero infodumps they drop the book? So the same work can have one person feeling annoyed because the worldbuilding is being spoonfed to them and another person feeling overwhelmed by unknown terminology? It's the same principle.

Someone whose brain is good at picking up patterns and doesn't grind to a halt when there's ambiguity involved isn't someone who learned to read through the whole word method, it's someone who learned the usual number of sight words and then inferred the phonics from them. They aren't using cues to read, they aren't sight reading, they are in fact teaching the phonics rules to themselves.

The whole word method was invented for dyslexic children, who can't use the phonics method because they struggle to identify the letters fast enough for the phonics knowledge to develop or kick in.

If you teach the whole word method to kids who are neither above average at implicit learning under ambiguous conditions nor dyslexic, they are not going to teach the phonics to themselves, they will just use the whole word method forever because they didn't learn the skills they could have learned given the right kind of support. And they'll suck at reading.

1. social

2. narrative

and if none is provided to us we will make our own out of dirt and sticks

It's about the horrors of colonialism and war and genocide. It's a high school drama. It's a sexy mecha show. there’s titties everywhere the 2006 fan service is absolutely tasteless and egregious. But don't get distracted, this is a show about rebels fighting to overthrow an evil genocidal empire except for when it's about the world’s largest pizza, yes, the world's largest pizza. Sponsored by Pizza Hut. This Show Is Sponsored By Pizza Hut. Major characters will die in devastating ways that you will remember forever. Buy Pizza Hut. The fandom is mostly yaoi of the two male leads but they’re not canonically queer. There are some canonically queer side characters! but watch out! you’ll wish there weren’t! It takes place in the futuristic year of 2017, which is actually in the 1960s if you convert the shows alternate universe calendar into our own.

trying to get people to care about your art is an ultimately fruitless endeavor, you should focus on drawing what you care about. people will care naturally over time.

just once, wherever on your body you'll feel it the most

just once, wherever it's most fun for you to get hit

get somewhere safe, or even get someone to help

everytime you see it, even you if you see it again after reblogging it

well done, now reblog. reblog as many times as you like