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Guys it’s only been 3-4 hours wtf
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THE GOLDEN GIRLS 2.05 — Isn't It Romantic? — 08.11.86 Betty White as Rose Nylund Lois Nettleton as Jean
1986!!
Golden Girls was so incredibly progressive for its time and not even slightly afraid to be loud about it. They talked about queer people, about race, about ableism, and they made it central and overt. They talked about things that mattered, and they never punched down, and they were allies off the stage too.
Reblogging this again to add some context for anyone who may not know. In the 80's, being outed as gay could get you blacklisted in Hollywood. It ruined people's careers.
Bea Arthur and Betty White both suffered damage to their careers for standing up against racism and homophobia. Back in the 50s Betty White hosted a variety show that was canceled because she featured a black dancer and doubled down when they told her to stop.
when the subject of "why do people believe things that are seriously wrong and harmful" comes up it feels like you kinda hear one of two perspectives:
"oh, that's easy! it's because they're fundamentally Bad people who want to hurt others and choose their beliefs to justify that! :) hope this helps"
or
"they just don't have access to the same information we do. look at this person who was raised in a cult! don't you feel sorry for her?"
and like, yes, fine, some people were in fact raised in cults, but what i wish people would understand is that the bulk of it is just normal human flaws, like:
they want to believe stuff that makes them feel smart and cool and like they've figured everything out (you also do this)
they want to believe stuff that makes them feel like their emotions are justified and grounded in reality, and that the people they want to hurt deserve to be hurt (you also do this)
they form conclusions before they've processed all the relevant information, and cling to that first impression even when new info comes to light (you also do this)
they pick up beliefs from the people around them because they want to be liked and fit in, not because the beliefs are good or true (you also do this)
they come up with reasons that the stuff that benefits them (and the people they like and identify with) is actually overwhelmingly best for everyone and obviously the right thing to do (you also do this)
they pay more attention to stuff that supports what they already believe and avoid looking in places that might show them otherwise (you also do this)
they listen to people who talk like 'one of them' and ignore others (you also do this)
they come up with reasons to dismiss people with conflicting viewpoints as obviously in bad faith or ignorant or a shill or evil (you also do this)
they fail to take their own beliefs seriously sometimes, and take their beliefs way too seriously other times, in a selective way that lets them do the things they already wanted to do (you also do this)
the very ways they construct the ideas of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' and 'belief' and 'understanding' are biased so that what they don't want to believe comes under lots of scrutiny and what they do want to believe receives less (you also do this)
you, dear reader, are presumably right about everything and were correct to die on every hill you've ever died on, but the difference between you and someone who's wrong about important stuff doesn't look like "well they're inherently evil and i'm not", it probably looks like a combination of:
natural environment (they would have been exposed to different information than you regardless of their choices)
being in the right place at the right time (your particular profile of flaws and virtues happened to be what was needed to lead you to the right conclusions, they had the opposite experience)
random luck (you doubled down on what felt right to believe but wasn't, but it turned out to be inconsequential, or even right for different reasons, while they doubled down on what turned out to be a horrible mistake distorting their entire worldview)
you do less of the things in the previous list, and over time the difference between you and them adds up
and, look, i also do these things. the nicest and most thoughtful people i've ever met do these things. if you meet someone who never does any of these things, i dunno, give them a fucking medal or something.
i know you're doing your best. we're all doing our best.
People in the notes being like "these are weaknesses of neurotypical people; my autism means I don't have these flaws": yes you do, and this post is about you specifically. People who believe that they're somehow magically immune to cognitive biases are the ones who tend to fall victim to them the hardest.
the thing is that, as with everything it seems, people are prone to thinking that "not falling victim to cognitive distortions or biases" is a one-and-done, and once they correctly identify that cognitive distortion once, they are immune to it in all other situations. they then base their identity on this "accomplishment" and ego investment in that identity cuts the hamstrings on their introspection.
not falling victim to cognitive biases is a lifetime of work. you will catch yourself doing these things, and ideally you will fix it, or at least learn from it going forward. you do get better at seeing these distortions and stopping yourself before you act on that bias, but you're never free of any bias. it comes free with your being a person. you just have to know that brains are efficient and love to do shortcuts that bypass your critical thinking, so you do have to check what assumptions or beliefs those little cognitive shortcuts are based on and not get too comfy immediately believing everything you think or feel.
reading that list, my indignant "i don't do that" reaction could have led to me shutting down defensively. instead, i stopped myself and got curious about that reaction, and what i found was the emotional investment: "i'm trying not to do that! i try so hard not to do that!" and i do, that's true. i'm trying to be aware of what and how i'm thinking, my beliefs, etc. i deconstruct and reconstruct my beliefs regularly, i do my research, i'm open to new information. i felt like, "i'm doing the best i can!"
and that's the thing. we can only do the best we can. we cannot make ourselves immune to cognitive bias. there is no amount of "being a good person" that will make you never ever do any of these things ever again. why not? because there is no such thing as "being a good person" at all. you are not a good person. neither am i. we are also not bad people. yeah, you heard me, you're not a bad person. neither am i. we are just people, doing our best.
a lot of us feel, or fear, that we're failing if we find these types of thinking in our minds. thought crimes are not real. thought crimes are not real. you will think many things in your life that you end up not agreeing with. not just years later, but minutes later. a thought is just a thought. you can change your mind. i try to think of identifying my biases as a net positive, because if i'm curious about them, i can untangle them and find my values buried underneath, and then form new beliefs (and stronger ones) using new information.
just keep doing the next right thing.
in charcuterie city, you'll always be cheesed to meet your friends
I hate charcuterie city I want to go somewhere else
this is all that's left.
this is all that's left.
ROLLER DERBY KISSES, Acrylic on MDF and leather, Riikka Hyvönen
bonus: here's my favourite title out of the series
Did not clock how absolutely HUGE these were
"ingredients you can pronounce" "all natural" "organic" "no chemicals"
i think im in love with you
what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this
Whereas the reality is far more like
Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko
One of these days the horse is gonna come out of pinko with opposable thumbs, and then we're all in trouble.
you mean lil wayne?
they need to invent the opposite of an nda called an fda where u have to tell everyone everything
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Imagine all the things I could do if I just did them.
Sometimes I'll be looking at bullshit online that I know will just rile me up and I have to think of this image to get myself to stop
does anyone have that gif of a penis growth ad thats a guinea pig that stretches out rly long and a girl says “hot!” and the guinea pig spins around pls i need it
I gotchu
YES!!! YES!! YES!!!!!
You literally cannot find this type of community interaction on twitter or instagram or any other app. Look at the support, the gratitude, the absolutely incomprehensible shared knowledge of this most cursed, most rare gif.
Truly this is beauty.
tumblr mutuals will truly be obsessed with anyone. there is a guy out there with 1 fan worldwide and that fan is your tumblr mutual
