Risk Your Life

I love you for this

erasing gender essentialism is MEGA IMPORTANT!

“I am the art teacher so they think I am the authority on colors”

I love it

“Call the cops like I give a fuck”

i LOVE the cryptid energy this gives off

Gordon Ramsay should do a show where he goes to schools and tastes school lunches then helps the lunch staff imrpove their food.

Michelle Obama should be a guest on every episode so he can yell at her and tell her how much the food is shit, since she was the one that made school lunches so awful.

Now THAT is something I’ll pay tax dollars for.

I’m so tired of hearing this. No. No she didn’t. Your school districts did.

Michelle Obama’s provisions did things such as limit the amount of sodium lunches could contain and set minimum fruit and vegetable portions. These things on their own did not make school lunches worse. It was districts fighting back against having to give a shit about what their students ate, especially low-income and food insecure students who depended on these lunches for their daily food intake.

I think its important that her program was very helpful to low income and people of color, and helped get them healthy lunches.

Gordon Ramsey and Michelle Obama should co-host a show where they just go absolutely ape shit on school districts for their lunches

The thing is that like “edgy humour” really is a GIANT red flag among young white men……you hear white boys making racist jokes all the time but people tend to brush it off and assume they’ll grow out of it or that they’re just going through a harmless edgy humour phase and like…..some of them might grow out of it but that’s not the POINT! They’re racist NOW! They’re spreading islamophobic ideas NOW and we brush it off because we assume they’ll grow out of it in the future but whether they do or not is irrelevant; they need to grow out of it Right. Now. Or more lives will be lost.

As someone who has worked with teenage boys, most of whom actually liked and/or respected me, the best tool I had for shutting down edgelord bullshit was a flat stare and “you’re better than that”. Simultaneously conveying “I am disappointed”, “I have expectations of you”, “you have otherwise met them”, “that sort of behavior is unacceptable”, and “you are better than the people who engage in that sort of behavior, but only so long as you don’t join them.” is an incredibly powerful tool with kids who care about what you think. The worst I ever had to escalate to was ‘disappointed headshake and “I thought you were better than that”.’ I’ve never had to repeat the sentiments or escalate after deploying that one. Actually made one of them cry once with just that. He felt that bad about letting me down, and we had a solid talk after. With guys my age, “I guess you’re not the kind of man I thought you were.” has proven effective.

This is even WORSE.

To elaborate why this is worse: Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did. The entire library and everything within is gone here. Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen. So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,

the dean from community could wash half these met gala bitches on an off day