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whether or not men benefit from feminism has no bearing on whether feminism is worthwhile
put another way. i dont care about how men are impacted by feminism
already have people mad about this. okay here's another take. men should be feminists for no benefit.
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Maybe it's the neurodivergence, but one thing I cannot and have not ever been able to understand is why being offended at something is considered such a cardinal sin.
For example, some of you may remember an advertisement campaign from Dr Pepper from the early 2010's that "Dr Pepper is not for women!". A friend of mine wrote a very lengthy, yet calmly and rather academically written essay on why this wasn't harmless fun, and actually quite damaging and misogynistic. She posted it on her blog and shared the link over social media, and everywhere people tore her to shreds for committing the cardinal sin of being offended by something.
That was it. They had no other argument on why her essay or points were wrong or bad other than "she's offended aha!!" and then acted like they totally just owned her and put her in her place by pointing this out. Am I missing something? Why is it worse to be offended than to be offensive?
If you step on my toes, and I yell "ouch!" would you take your foot off of mine and apologize, or would you mock me for being hurt by you stepping on my toes? In what bizarro world would we consider the person who yelled "ouch!" to be weak, or worthy of being mocked, or committing some cardinal offense for yelling "ouch!" instead of just being chill with someone standing on their toes?
I've gotten a few notes insinuating this is a U.S. specific issue, and I want to clarify that not only is this definitely a problem in many places across Europe, but also "Americans are overly sensitive snowflakes who get offended at everything" is a common talking point I've heard from people from various places across Europe, and I'm not even talking about what would be a legitimate criticism like a USAmerican tourist getting offended by a nude statue in Italy, I'm talking about how common it is to hear things like "I can't believe Americans are so sensitive and fragile that I can't even use racial and ableist slurs around them without them getting upset and offended! What a bunch of whiny sensitive snowflakes!"
For example when I was taking a media class here at the University of Iceland, I had a few French classmates in that class, and one time for class we had to watch something were there were ableist jokes about a man with cerebral palsy, and one of my French classmates said "I'm not American and don't want to sound like a whiny American who gets offended at everything, but I thought it was insensitive how they made fun of and beat up that man with cerebral palsy and we were supposed to find that funny, sorry to sound like an American!"
When I lived and worked in Finland for about half a year I heard from multiple Finnish colleagues how ridiculous it was that Americans are so sensitive and uptight they actually get upset when you use the r-slur around them, what a bunch of uptight whiny babies!
When I worked retail at a souvenir shop in central ReykjavĆk one of my Australian co-workers asked some of our other co-workers from many various countries across Europe to stop saying racist things about customers of color, to which more than one responded something along the lines of "Oh come on you're not American, are you? Oh don't act like a sensitive American who has to cry racism at every little thing!"
When I worked an office job in the tourism sector, several of our tour groups coming from the U.S. in 2023 still had mask mandates while on the tour bus, especially when most of the people in those tour groups were elderly and/or disabled. Or many tour groups coming from the U.S. required the group to start wearing masks if someone in the group tested positive for COVID while in tour. And again, most of the people in these tour groups were elderly and/or disabled. None of our tour groups from other parts of Europe had policies like this.
My (all Icelandic) co-workers laughed and made jokes about this non-stop, things like "I can't believe Americans are so crazy and uptight that they're still afraid of a little germ in 2023! Come on it's Iceland, we're not still doing ridiculous things like that here because we're not still scared of a little germ in 2023!". One of my co-workers would specifically say things like "Well I'm a viking so I'm not scared of a little germ! Come on, they should come and cough and breath on me because we're vikings here, and vikings aren't scared of a little germ!", and generally endlessly talking about how still requiring (elderly & disabled) people to wear a mask in 2023 is proof of how ridiculous and uptight USAmericans are.
This isn't me trying to defend the U.S., this is me being sick of how much this wretched western Eurasian peninsula that due to racism we all like to pretend is its own continent uses the U.S. as this sort of scapegoat. By that I mean people love to pretend that problems that very much do exist in Europe don't actually exist here, and only exist over in the U.S.. The more we get away with this, the harder it gets to address these problems that do very much exist here when they're often dismissed as "well that's only a problem in the U.S., we don't have problems like that here in Europe!" but actually very much do. And I am very sick of it honestly.
common in the uk too
we've noticed that people call you "offended" because they're trying to make it a "you" problem and evade responsibility for the consequences of their actions
we've been round this a few times with people, explaining: no we're not offended, this harmed us, it caused us pain, it affected our mental health - and that sometimes makes us angry, but you can't tone-police away responsibility for causing the hurt and accompanying anger
we even went through this with our erstwhile buddhist community, who hid their systemic transphobia and gender essentialism behind their requirement that we "discuss it calmly" - and of course "discussing it calmly" meant we talk and they don't listen and nothing changes, so it's the usual rhetorical trap
"focaccia, serves 4" yes all 4 me
"tiramisu, serves 2" yes all 2 myself
Last timeloop I gave you my heart....
but the very next day... I gave you my heart....
This year... Is the same year... I'm stuck in an endless timeloop
Who said that
don't say "2010's music" and then play something from 2017-2019. that's not 2010's music to me. they're sonically so different from 2010-2016 to me
like. these are light years apart sonically.
[Image descriptions in order: two screenshots of Wikipedia pages showing the first five on Billboard's year-end top songs list in 2012 and 2018. In 2012, the songs are "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra, "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen, "We Are Young" by Fun featuring Janelle MonƔe, by "Payphone" Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa, and "Lights" by Ellie Goulding.]
[in 2018, the top five songs are "God's Plan" by Drake, "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran, "Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line, "Havana" by Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug, and "Rockstar" by Post Malone featuring 21 Savage.]
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I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!
As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world
Rough draft version of Tick Advice:
Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.
Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.
Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.
The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.
Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc
IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.
Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab
While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.
Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick
If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear
important to know too is that lyme disease has to physically move from the stomach of the tick to the salivary glands, that's actually how it infects its next host, since ticks tend to latch on for days this process doesn't have to be instantaneous, and it usually takes at least 24 hours to actually migrate to where you can even be exposed to it, that's why it's so important to identify if one is on you in the first 24 hours, if you do that there's almost no chance of you catching any pathogens from a bite
What is your closest family member to have their own wikipedia page? (yes, married in and step-relatives count)
direct family (parents, siblings, kids, etc)
one layer removed (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc)
two layers (great grandparents, great aunts/uncles, cousins once removed, etc)
three or more layers removed but still close-ish to me
only distantly related
no family members that I know of have their own wikipedia pages
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also the choice to make bren's first on screen magic transmutation immediately pinged an interesting one, given that we knew he had an evocation specialisation first, and deliberately switched to transmutation because prior to dunamancy transmutation was the school most concerned with time, and he wanted to go back and fix his mistakes
but seeing the rest of the episode makes it pretty obvious what symbolism they're leaning on there, and it's a very fun one!
caleb, in the campaign as well, has always had this kind of push and pull between evocation and transmutation. at their base level they represent damage and healing
evocation mechanically is about pure destruction, big but precise. your class features let you increase your damage, let you choose exactly who you want an aoe to hit, and eventually let you start drawing the energy from your own body, injuring yourself for the benefit of supercharging your spells. transmutation is about change, yes, but change for the better, it's the most support based wizard subclass, giving you a lot of buffs to cast on people and at higher levels even letting you heal (something wizards otherwise cannot do)
wizards specialise at level 2, but they can still cast spells before then. and i think what we're seeing of bren pre-soltryce is him as a level 1 wizard trying stuff out. and we already know how he feels about the two schools! they gave us two examples of spells bren cast - the magic to fix the fence (a transmutation spell), and the magic that destroyed part of the hearth (an evocation spell). he was trying to help in both instances, but the transmutation is a spell he felt good about, the evocation was a mistake he's ashamed of
but a transmutation based volstrucker isn't nearly as useful to trent as an evocation based one. so everything he said to bren in his home was to draw him into an evocation specialisation. he points out the power he could access, and the precision that training in the school of evocation could offer him. no more mistakes. he makes bren cast a fire spell as a first test, making that connection of fire is how you are useful to us, this is how you prove yourself. and of course sacrificing your own health and comfort to do insane amounts of damage is what trent's already experimenting on with implanting residuum. the transmutation, the desire to fix and to heal, trent's only interested in that as far as he can twist it
contrasting the first two spells bren cast also mirrors what he's going to do. he fucked up with the fire, he's decided to be useful with transmutation, he's using it to mend a fence. and the goal he's working towards by switching to transmutation is to fix everything! to undo the effects of his mistake
now not to say he's only used transmutation for good. his entire plan to go back in time was questionable from the start, and as people have mentioned already, we saw bren combine both when killing his parents (obviously evocation for the fire, but transmutation when sealing the doors and windows). but the intent was still pretty obviously to fix, with the time travel, and so was the murder. bren didn't do that because he hated his parents, but because he'd been taught to do anything in the service of fixing his nation, and he believed they were harming it. conversely, a lot of his invented spells are evocation, and while destructive, they're not inherently evil
but that push and pull, to destroy and to mend, what happens when you try to do one and end up doing the other, what happens when it's both, when it's neither, we see that constantly throughout caleb's character, and it definitely defines him. i don't feel like i can truly end this meta by saying he chose one over the other
choosing to switch to transmutation though, back when he first escaped vergessen, was making a commitment to something. and i think by the end of the campaign he's found how he can fix things in ways that truly matter, and how to focus on fixing things that aren't just his mistakes
(and i very much look forward to seeing more of his spellcasting visually)
It's finally here.
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