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should i get a vanishing amulet tattooed on the nape of my neck y/n

pros: i will become magic??

cons: potentially look like i got duped at a tattoo parlor; have to avoid swimming while it heals

Probably want to avoid getting tatted in a place that is almost always visible (e.g. the unscarved neck nape), but otherwise sounds good. Can't really see many better reasons to get a tatty.

doloploke

itching to write a hs fic inspired by anne carson’s “the autobiography of red”

someone pop in and remind me that this is a terrible idea

koreindian

But that’s actually a really good idea tho

sprachspiele

I remember some “study” got shared on tumblr that purported to show that gender roles are harmful to young children. After about 20 mins of looking into it I discovered that this “study” (1) had not been published in any journal, let alone a peer reviewed one, (2) did not involve taking any data, merely a feminist scholar observing and interviewing children and interpreting their behaviour, (3) actively applied feminist theory in the interpretation (I presented all this in a reply which you can find somewhere in my archive).

So this obviously did not pass even the lowest bar of science. But setting aside the not-so-surprising fact that feminist empirical work is not completely rigorous, the tumblr responses were more interesting. One reply that got reblogged a lot was “water is wet”. Really? You’d put “gender roles harm young children” in the same category as “water is wet”? Where does this confidence come from? Certainly not from any review of the evidence, because if you ask a tumblr social justice activist “why are gender roles harmful?” you’ll get a bunch of purely a priori theoretical spiel. Central to this theoretical argument is the axiom that men and women are blank slates and gender differences in biology are unimportant—something which is again wildly contradicted by the evidence.

So this goes back to my earlier question of why these people are so confident when they have no reason to be. Maybe they assume their intellectual superiors have done their research and so can just adopt these positions on faith?? I really don’t know.

jenlog

I think there is a lot of status-signaling by educators going on, too. For example, teaching kids math and statistics is good, because that prepares them for careers in science, and science, as a vocation, has very high (even sacred, in some circles) status in our society. Likewise, being able to read and enjoy classical literature is a mark of high social status, so it’s important we make the kids read some Shakespeare, Chaucer, Hawthorne, etc, before they graduate, too. Financial planning, on the other hand, is a fundamentally low status activity, because the need for it springs from low status motivations (ie, self-interest, greed, etc). Contrast with science, which is about the quest for Truth and Knowledge, etc: very high status motivations. Thus, basic finance gets low educational priority, while Algebra II, which the vast majority of students probably won’t learn very well in the first place and won’t use after they’ve completed the class, anyway, gets high priority.

Commenter Jeff on “Should Financial Literacy Be Part of the Core of K-12 Education?” by Art Carden (via jenlog)

Kind of hard to understand Finance if you don’t understand Algebra II.

elanorpam

Togashi: time to name another hxh character Togashi: *throws scrabble game on floor*

doloploke

once i woke up in the middle of the night very distressed because i couldn’t remember if “spiro agnew” was the name of a hxh character or the former vice president of the united states

doloploke

wow

koreindian

I care Abby. You can do it!

diviningcrop-deactivated2015060

sjws have gotten so far up their own asses that they’re literally blaming plebcomics for her own doxxing because they don’t want to admit they did something wrong

koreindian

It's amazing how every post I've seen defending the doxxing is using "blame the victim" logic. I just... It's totally unbelievable.

feline-thylacine

I love how Plebcomics wasn’t a fucking bigot and just called out SJWs on their shitty behavior and that apparently warrants her to loose her job.

These people don’t give a shit about morals or social justice.

gingerphobic-deactivated2018022

The ironic part about the people who doxxed, threatened, and forced plebby to resign from her job is that, they’re confirming what plebcomics has been creating comics about all along. You’re just proving her point.

Tumblr: Lets spam Plebcomic's employer with disgusting pornographic images to get her fired! That'll help get our point across!

Tumblr's response to 4chans attack months ago: WOW GUYS SERIOUSLY WHY WOULD YOU SPAM US WITH THESE EXPLICIT PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES THIS IS SO DISGUSTING AND TRIGGERING.

abbysucks

Thanks tumblr, for forcing me to resign from a job that I actually liked, and was paying my bills.

kokedera

dang, that’s awful. why’d you have to resign from the job, though? did someone contact your employer?

abbysucks

Several people called and sent emails. Some of the emails...

sprachspiele

I’ve literally never had the thought “why is everyone so straight” while watching a movie/TV show. If this thought constantly crosses your mind you are, objectively, a whiner.

abbysucks

Some one is trying to hack my account. Hooray!

koreindian

It's actually astonishing how regularly this happen. Whenever some post criticizing some anti-SJW blogger gets 5,000+ notes, that anti-SJW blogger immediately becomes the target of doxxing and death threats. This trend, which is made possible by the existence of an increasingly vocal cadre of tumblrites who are simultaneously 1) immensely self-righteous and 2) lacking in any sense of human decency, produces some interesting phenomenon. Like when people make posts that say "kill yourself actually" and then drum up the audacity to tag them with "#tw: suicide".

abbysucks

As an illustrator, I have a deep respect for art and I find it prudent to use it as a tool to assist those most in need, and those most in need of enlightenment when it comes to social subjects they have no experience with. So by default, I have zero respect for you as a fellow artist. Do you understand you're doing infinitely more harm than good, or are you really that myopic and entitled that you can't see it? I'm just curious.

find me an obituary where someone has “died by plebcomics”

horsefieldmix

TIL it’s only harmful if you literally kill someone

abbysucks

forward me an instance where anyone has been physically harmed by my comics

koreindian

Thank God we minorities have people like nefepants to protect us from plebcomics

sprachspiele

I honestly cannot understand people who try to measure a president’s success by a bunch of economic variables he has little or no control over (actually I can totally understand, but it’s still extremely stupid). Things like unemployment, stock prices, and “consumer confidence” are much more...