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[docholligay]

I know there's a lot of particularly lady blorbo feelings in the realm of "she wouldn't like kids" as a response to the easy, sometimes lazy tie up of "blorbo has kids and is a great mother" but consider the other options of:

She likes kids! But doesn’t want kids, and so doesn't have them.

She doesn't like kids broadly, but she does like hers.

She's an awful fucking mother who never should have had kids who didn’t like or want them but had them anyway.

She desperately wanted to have children but it didn't work out.

She didn't have kids or particularly want them but she's a good stepmother.

So many options that vary in domesticity but aren't a black and white "loves/wants/has kids vs hates/doesn't want/doesn't have kids".

I know all of these women by the way! The feelings around this can be much more complex! This isn't even me arguing against your blorbo hating kids it's just 'noooooo don't buy into a false binary you're so sexy!"

[my0clonic-jerk]

[cardassiangoodreads]

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

[tjalexandernyc]

Laws like this indeed do a lot to stop fascist book censorship. They can also help legally protect librarians from getting fired or harassed for keeping books on the shelves! Some states like Rhode Island have already passed these laws. If you're in a blue state, look up whether you have laws like this on the books. MAYBE your state is trying to get one passed right now, like New York's Freedom to Read bill. call your state elected officials to voice support for it.

[readtilyoudie]

Often when discussing treaty rights with whites, Indians find themselves being told that “We gave you the land and you haven’t done anything with it.” Or some commentator, opposed to the welfare state remarks, “We gave the Indians a small piece of land and then put them on the dole and they are unable to take care of themselves.” 

The truth is that practically the only thing the white men ever gave the Indian was disease and poverty. To imply that Indians were given land is to completely reverse the facts of history.

-  Custer Died For Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr.

[tgirl-thucydides]

[cedricredwood]

get real

[official-pussy-posts-2]

Official Bush Post

[stephexmachina]

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

[stephexmachina]

AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️

[retquits]

artistic rendition of how my cat fell asleep this morning

[transbian-stoner]

"Terrible fake beard ruins emotional flashback in new Silent Hill film"

[manifeststephanie]

My name is James Sunderland, watch me Return to Silent Hill

[broadcasttransmissions]

"My full name? It's Mary Maria Angela Laura Cheryl Heather Mason Claudia Wolf Crane."

[weevil-mastermind]

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

[vintar]

[academicabyss]

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[gaylor-moon]

[grippy3000]

fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper

[grippy3000]

update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen

[pettyartist]

Here's a picture of her, by the way

And her super supportive wife

[nentuaby]

The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.

[vexwerewolf]

The innate biological advantage of being cool as fuck

[sailor-kaiju]

Netflix has a delightful documentary about unexpected competitions called “We are the Champions” with an episodes that mostly focuses on her.

[bacontoktok]

[cellarspider]

May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.

[wizardpepsi]

baseball players in the 20s were all named shit like Dipsy Doodle and Crunch Johnson

[sistertaxon]

[sistertaxon]

[humming-fly]

#they named them like cats in a shelter

[lavendersalve]

[sistertaxon]

[solarsyrup]

the unimaginable power of saying "huh, guess that's not for me" and moving on with your life

[soup-mother]

As someone who isn't a furry but has very much grown up around furry art I kinda forget that it's shocking to some people. It's kinda just what a bunch of queer art looks like. That anthro dragon girl might as well be my coworker, what's your fucking problem?

[ammnontet]