Miss Blythe

I am an educator of the D/deaf, formerly elementary til I made the jump to middle, but this is not an education blog. You will likely hear things about my husband, my friends, and my life, with some educational thoughts thrown in. Happy reading!

[mariacallous]

[kaijuno]

[missblythe]

Me to myself, suffering like a goddamn moron even when I have prescription migraine meds

[everythingfox]

And the camera loves her

[thsoftestsound]

@pelicanhypeman

[pelicanhypeman]

oh my GOD

[missblythe]

The little hops 🥹😍

[dee-the-red-witch]

[peterdyckmancampbell]

I’ve said this a million times but if your leftism does not come from a place of genuine compassion for other human beings – if you do not accept that all human life is valuable and there is inherent dignity therein – then it’s less than useless

[rederiswrites]

I am not unaware of the negatives of Biden's presidency, and I am not trying to elide or forgive them. I'm reblogging posts about the Biden administration because I think it's really important that potential voters in the US realize that there is, in fact, a very big difference between the two parties, and voting for Biden is not just damage control--it actually does good. It's okay, you can actually feel a little excited about making meaningful progress, and not just hold your nose.

He's been very unflashy. He's not a great leader, he's not charismatic and he knows it, but he's an adroit politician and administrator, and he's been getting things done. Letting Trump win at this point would be tantamount to throwing the entire country on the bonfire. It's not a choice between bad and bad, it's a choice between meaningful, if imperfect, progress and fucking doom.

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil! When you were casting Patton Oswalt as Matthew in Sandman did you always know he would be a cgi raven or did you consider having Patton dress in a raven costume and play it completely straight?

Patton plays Matthew dressed in a raven costume, and stands far away from the camera to make him look small.

[runawaymarbles]

The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

[leonardcohenofficial]

gonna make a playlist of women outperforming bob dylan tenfold on his own songs

[leonardcohenofficial]

twenty one bob dylan tracks improved tenfold by twenty one different women artists

[karetahana]

Part 2

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#idk either of the original songs so this is great 

I’m sorry you WHAT

[thehardboiledham]

found the inverse o.O

(and it's, like, Homoerotic homoerotic)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Both of these absolutely slap!!!

[squidcrimes]

"don't go grocery shopping when hungry" doesn't work for me because Not Hungry Me cannot conceive of a universe in which food is needed so she buys like a cup of pomegranate seeds and some fancy cheese and thinks that'll get us through the week.

[twofingerswhiskey]

FUN FACT the scientist who said that made it the fuck up! he's also the same dude who said that if kids made eye contact with the character on food boxes they wanted it more. so now all the cereal mascots/kids mascots look downwards to a child height. but THEY MADE IT UP and it's allllllll bullshit and bad science to the point cornell deleted the fuckin cereal eyes study from the face of the earth and modern research is saying you SHOULD shop when ur hungry because it makes you put more value on food that would give you more nutrition and actually sharpens your ability to feed yourself well

[squidcrimes]

So I think the cereal box guy was Brian Wansink and honestly that tracks. If Wansink thinks we should be grocery shopping when full then we should definitely be doing it when hungry. Bruh is an absolute joke.

[twofingerswhiskey]

THAT'S THE BASTARD

[twofingerswhiskey]

IT'S HIM

imagine being so bad at science that your university forces you to stop

things he also came up with that are BULLSHIT:

eating around fat people makes you eat more junk food??? (wtf?)

portion sizes affecting how hungry you feel

"if you are served second portions you are more likely to take seconds"

the entire concept of mini and fun-sized portion sizes (based in fatphobia btw!)

the idea of boredom eating and stress eating being bad for you and not normal

the idea of eating in front of a screen being terrible for your digestion

that julia child's cooking was trying to make you fat (based on 18 of 4500 recipes...)

the idea of western food being unhealthy

the cereal eyes thing

the shopping while hungry thing

and much much more!

also he committed kickstarter fraud in 2018 and is a massive fatphobe who thinks fat people recruit others to become fat by just existing. fuck him lmao

[genderkoolaid]

Sliced And Diced: The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies

Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor a

Food Scientist Brian Wansink Gets Another Retraction

Cornell University food behavior scientist Brian Wansink has retracted another paper — his fourth this year. “There is no empirical support

“This Seems Like A Quite Remarkable Coincidence.” Why Did So Many Of This Food Researcher’s Surveys Have Exactly 770 Responses?

Cornell University scientist Brian Wansink is facing yet another formal correction — his eighth this year, along with three full retractions

Emails Show How An Ivy League Prof Tried To Do Damage Control For His Bogus Food Science

Brian Wansink of Cornell University publishes headline-friendly studies about food psychology and oversees a $22 million federally funded pr

Here's a few articles by Stephanie M. Lee about Wansink's multiple p-hacking scandals. Initially I just found these looking for more information but now I'm also extremely amused by how much she was on this guy's ass for his shitty science.

[missblythe]

Didn’t the Maintenance Phase episode on P Hacking talk about this guy?

Probably not great when your entire reason behind the research is just because you hate fat people

[only-tiktoks]

[cipheramnesia]

HEY >:[

[aniseandspearmint]

[damazcuz]

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

[gowns]

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WALK ON YOUR KNEES FOR A HUNDRED MILES THROUGH THE DESERT REPENTING YOU ONLY HAVE TO LET THE SOFT ANIMAL OF YOUR BODY LOVE WHAT IT LOVES

[apatosaurus]

@hierology

[larkandkatydid]

There is genuinely no such thing as an inappropriate book for a child.

[larkandkatydid]

People in the tags who read Clan of the Cave Bear or Flowers in the Attic, but did you fucking die? You are fine like every other kid exposed to Jondalar’s turgid, upright member was fine. These are clearly ideal books for nine year olds because so many very alive and unharmed former nine year olds read the shit out of them and many adults find them boring.

Would you really be such a John Hughes adult kind of hypocrite as to rip the inspiring tale of Ayla, who invented aspirin, knitting and cunnilingus during the last ice age out of an elementary schooler’s hand?

[larkandkatydid]

If you don’t want kids to read a book, don’t allow it to portray a child’s actual, relateable anxieties around puberty, sex, adulthood and their parents in the most high gothic way possible. This is like preventing incest by locking your adolescent grandchildren in a small room with no access to non-family members.

[tzikeh]

-- Mitch Hedberg

[roach-pizza]

I think we need to start being more nuanced with this take because yeah kids could probably read anything at 16-17 years old, but it's if they should.

Like not in a "I don't want my kids to read XYZ book" but in a "Are they actually capable of understanding and processing the material in the book properly."

Teenagers are not mentally adults. They will not be able to comprehend certain things because those are things that come with age, and life experience.

If you are willing to help guide a teenager through adult materials up to and including when to recognize when you should stop reading a book, then feel free to show whatever feel is going to help the child.

If you aren't willing to do this and just chuck a bunch of books at a teenager, then you're just setting them up for failure.

And if anyone has problems I'm an adult fiction writer who's a mom. My books read at 6th-8th grade reading level, because I write in casual, easy to digest language, much like how this post is written.

[larkandkatydid]

No. Did I fucking stutter? This is not a nuanced issue and especially in this dangerous political context, people who care about children should absolutely not yield to the opinions of shitty parents such as yourself.

I wasn’t even talking about teens! I was talking about elementary age kids reading sexual content not adolescents encountering new or difficult concepts! Jesus Christ! I think it’s genuinely worse than the moms for liberty style censorship to censor materials simple because an adult has made the call about what they might find easy enough to understand! How is a teenager supposed to gain wisdom and experiences if a bunch adult busy-bodies prevent them from exercising their own judgement about what they want to learn? At what point is someone who’s old enough to drive, have sex and be sentenced to life in prison also allowed to pick their own reading material? How is a person going to be able to understand or absorb ideas if they never get challenging practice?

I am an extremist on this because this is an issue of children’s basic human rights. It’s what American Library Association President Emily Drabinski calls a child’s “right to a private reading life” and“right to their own imagination and the sovereignty of their own minds.” Even your children have that right, despite having been born to a small-minded little tyrant who treats exposure to new ideas like a traumatic event. Yes, just throw books at teenagers! Let them be aware of a world outside their intellectually suffocating home life!

[athenadark]

my 13 year old niece picked up American Psycho from my shelf and asked if she could read it, I said yes but that it was full of very graphic violence and it might not be for her - [i knew the prose would stop her dead] but she put it back, she asked about Salem's lot and I explained it was considered very scary and that dogs and children were hurt in it, she put it back, she took the thief of always after asking about a lot of books - an age appropriate scary book

but a lady in the bookstore told her about how much she loved Watership Down, how it was her favourite at that age and how she would love it - she came home and all the grown ups went white for different reasons [the graphic violence, the trippy visions, the dense as concrete prose] and it probably set my niece back in her reading because wow - as a competent reader who has read it - its like wading through tar and the fact its about cute animals doesn't make it less an adults book = i said to her mom how to tell everyone you've not read watership down without saying i haven't read watership down

kids are aware of what they like - and the one thing they like is considering themselves grown ups, the instant you tell a kid you can't read that you're telling them to read it

being honest is better, there are books which aren't suitable, and if you tell them WHY [and be honest] they can make decisions which are safe for them, and that answer is - that book is written in hard language, or that book is written for grown ups in mind and has a lot of graphic scenes of sex and or violence which I don't think you'll enjoy - or I don't know, I haven't read it, or I hated it are also valid answers

don't tell them no, because they'll hear "go for it", be honest about why you don't think they'll like it

[girlbossjodiarias]

I'm sorry, we're in a literacy/reading comprehension/media literacy crisis and you talked your child out of reading books??????

Can you please explain with your big kid words why you think you're the hero of this story?

[missblythe]

The only books I was ever stopped from reading by my parents were the things that were required reading for future grades, because they knew me and knew I wouldn’t want to read them again when the class did.

Did I read books at a young age about topics Moms for Liberty would shit a brick about? Yeah.

Did reading them hurt me in any way? Nope.

Did having unfettered access to a library and a school/community that encouraged and valued reading and the act of choosing a book for yourself affect me positively? In so many ways.

I learned what I liked to read, I learned how to deal with ideas I didn’t like, I learned how to gather information on my own, I learned how to wrestle with difficult topics, I also learned to love to read.

Denying kids access to books is harmful, full stop. I don’t care if it’s because you are censoring for ideas, I don’t care if it’s because you deem it not age appropriate, I don’t care if it’s because a book is outside of their reading level/whatever leveling system your school uses. If you are on the side advocating for putting road blocks in place between kids and books, you are wrong.

[haveanateday]

Question about the ASL Barbie movie on HBO Max.

Can someone who knows about inclusivity and deafness and aso explain to me if the ASL translation of the Barbie movie on Max is good or not?

My initial thought is that since it's a premade movie and not a live performance or speech it's not really any better than just subtitles and feels kinda performative to get the movie more points for being "inclusive" without actually trying.

Like, is this something deaf people want and ask for or is it just something a studio decided to do without asking a single deaf person and if they did they would have been told to just have regular subtitles.

I don't have the personal connection or experience to know if this is good or cringe.

[missblythe]

All of the Deaf community response I have seen is positive, both regarding the quality and the actual act itself. The ASL interpretation is done by a Deaf performer, Leila Hanaumi.

I think there is a misconception here that the options should be captions or ASL interpretation. Ideal world would be both! Not every ASL user finds captions accessible, not every deaf person knows ASL.

If you are looking for other movies with ASL interpretation available, the Sign Up Captions chrome extension has Picture in Picture options for movies/shows from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and other platforms. Barbie is a big deal because it’s the first time a studio has done it themselves. It’s hard enough to get movie theaters to show the open caption versions of movies, so this option is a fabulous step for access!

[typhlonectes]

[honourablejester]

Okay, this made me pause and literally write out every letter that 'fell' in order (‘oomngouuhhrsrtutpntnue’), then make sure they were all contained in 'turntomushuponthergroun'.

They are, and it's very satisfying.