#illiteracy

Full illiteracy in the year of our lord 2026 absolutely WILL negatively impact one's life in most of the world.

But I suppose hagiomoto completely forgot about job applications, forms, instructions, price tags, food and product labels, maps, and road signs and is assuming the the only drawback of full illiteracy is that you can't read for fun... Yeah, no. If anything, that's the least of your problems.

this may seem silly but im serious

I dont mean he's dyselxic, i dont mean he can't read.

Yes, he cant read, yes he could be dyslexic. But i see so many people talking about his dyslexia and his disability and like that's fine this disabled bitch loves some representation. But its also fine for wylan to just be illiterate.

He can be dyslexic and illiterate, he can just be illiterate, he can be something else and illiterate. whatever your combo is.

but illiterate has been seen as a negative for so long, steeped in racism, classism, the patriachary, and ableism. It doesn't do us any good to avoid these words. Wylan is illiterate. That is okay, that is fine.

So many of the attacks out of MAGA world reflect simple illiteracy. Like here, where we see an inability to distinguish transgenic from transgender. Or the hundreds of attacks on the word "binary" from people who don't understand that this is a term routinely used in mathematics, chemistry and other fields of pure science that has nothing whatsoever to do with sex and gender. It's exhausting. Michael Jaehnig: This is going to be the longest 4 years of my life. They are talking about "transgenic" animals. Not transgender.

Transgenic research is the backbone of scientific research. We use it for a bunch of things. For example SARS-COV-2 poorly binds to mouse ACE2 receptors. So scientists use transgenic mice that express human ACE2 receptors to study SARS-COV-2 infection.

You may have seen news articles talking about "humanized" mice. That sounds scary, but that's what they are talking about, transgenic mice. They are still very much mice, with mouse immune systems and all, and very much not transgender.

Better pay and working conditions for teachers as we saw how essential they are not just to education but to the ecosystem of the American workplace

Removing the stigma of being held back a grade and the end of social promotion being the default, since too many students missed too much learning to simply continue as if nothing happened

A tiny Federal tax on the businesses that made obscene profits during lockdown, which could have easily funded grants for summer programs to help kids catch up on what they missed