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moniquill

"Does the author respect women" is a third distinct question from either of the other two.

lamignonette

anarchistmemedistro

hurtful

teaboot

Not the point in the slightest but are cigarette ads not illegal in the USA❔❔❔For some reason that one is blowing my mind

ayellowbirds

Only as of 1999. The original, unedited version of this cartoon, by Clay Butler, was published in 1996, and looks like this:

Someone went to a lot of effort to not only remove the cartoonist's credits, but also make the joke weaker. In the original, the graffiti is a lone and comparatively small, unremarkable tag in single-line monochrome. It contrasts with the billboards and signs by being unobtrusive, making it all the more absurd that the pig notices it with such vitriol. The edited version loses the impact by making it stand out in bright color and cover the whole of the wall.

creekfiend

the thing is that I think lots of the time we talk about childhood trauma cycles wrong, because people will frame it as like, "this happened to this person, which is why they act like this" and really it's like, "all children learn social behavior via what is modeled for them by the adults around them and their peers; if what the adults in your life model for you repeatedly, over a long period of time, is that they get their needs met by dehumanizing others, then you will learn that the way needs get met is via dehumanization"

it isn't about how certain things being done to you somehow write Abuse Into Your Psyche, it's about learned behavior. it's about not being shown alternative models. (INTO MY LOUDSPEAKER) IT'S ALL ABOUT NOT BEING SHOWN ALTERNATIVE MODELS

orcboxer

you shoulda seen the size of those rooms, man, it was like, floor to ceiling

bardjulus

fuuuuuck dude that’s class. were they wall to wall?

orcboxer

they were wall to wall too bruv it was mental

dragongirlbunny

saw a post on bluesky about reimagining The Iliad as a mecha war and that idea goes unbelievably hard. achilles in his legally distinct gundam cutting through dozens of enemy suits. aggamemnon in his gold-plated mech. paris using a long range sniper rifle to exploit a design flaw in achilles' armor. the gods are all various megacorps who have a stake in the war bc it'll impact their profits.

dykeferatu

now i don’t know enough about omegaverse to say anything definitively but from what i have seen it certainly looks like it emulates insects much more than wolves.

dykeferatu

like if you’re looking for an animal with strictly defined castes and extensive use of pheromones you are looking for ants i think

oracleoutlook

There's hope.

My co-teacher came up with an idea. She said to me: “I’m going to project a Shakespearean sonnet on the board that you have never seen before. They are going to watch you struggle through it, and they are going to see what it takes to authentically annotate something to attempt to understand it”. This was a good idea because it targeted a pitfall of my teaching: that I already know the answer— a predetermined answer I want my students to come to. Therefore, when I ask the class a question, they are aware that there is an answer in my head I want them to arrive at. This method can stifle students’ voice. So, I stood at the front of the classroom that day, feeling exposed, sight-reading Shakespearean sonnets. With most of the sonnets, I, with the help of the class, could only get to about 75% understanding and accuracy at best. But my confusion — my apparent struggle and frustration in understanding each new sonnet— was key for my students. They felt free to posit their interpretations and even to disagree with me. In each session, a student shared a thought or possibility that not only I had failed to see but was also ultimately accurate. One student couldn’t wipe the smile off her face when she figured out a metaphor that stumped both me and my co-teacher. “This was fun”, she and her classmate said to each other when the bell rang.

headspace-hotel

This is a good article, but I feel that the writer came to the wrong conclusion about why the sonnet exercise was so effective for his students.

I was homeschooled. I have complicated feelings about homeschooling, since it was vital disability accommodation for me and very positive, but for many other kids is just a way for parents to isolate and brainwash their kids into a cult.

When my mom came across something in the books we were working through that she was curious about or hadn't heard of before, she would check out a bunch of books from the library about the subject and read them herself. Inadvertently, she demonstrated to us the practice of being curious and seeking out information to understand a subject.

One of the best things a teacher can do is model learning. That's what the teacher who wrote this article was doing!

With the hierarchical structure of classrooms, and the ruthless emphasis on performance, obviously the students are trying to offer the "correct" answer that they sense the teacher wants.

Being a student is so strongly about social intelligence. It's about "acting" like a good student just as much as it is being a good student, accurately sensing what the teacher wants and giving it to them.

Struggling with and exploring a text and wringing meaning out of it is by nature, and by necessity, inefficient. Therefore the educational system, which is completely focused on efficiency, doesn't value these messy and meandering processes.

headspace-hotel

The article mentions Kahoot; one of the most striking things about Kahoot to me when I've played is that the game gives you so many points for answering quickly.

I was very bad at Kahoot initially because if you hesitate and question your initial impulse, thinking more carefully about your answer, you are penalized so heavily that you can never win, even when you are correct.

manuciruja

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

manuciruja

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

smadsel

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

smadsel

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

manuciruja

hey staff what the fuck

villainessbian

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

shrodingers-catgirl

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

husbanddaughter

they literally deleted all existing reblogs of that post from existence btw<3

m4timel

copperbadge

*throws the shower curtain back* listen hey stop screaming it's just me LISTEN

There is no evidence the USS Independence ever communicated with the Amerigo Vespucci.

Yes of course it's a beautiful story, I love it too, I'm just saying it's a fiction we all including the US Navy apparently have agreed to believe. Ok love you babe. Go team Vespucci.

christinarobinson-art

Raven Girls

treasuredplanet

🫵 embarrassment is improvement's biggest enemy!!!

teaboot

I will forever maintain that genuine fortune-telling and psychic medium junk is a load of bull, but as a person who owns tarot decks and regularly uses them as a tool for self-reflection I also have to admit that it does kind of work for that and it's very very funny when it does

Once I laid out some cards before I left the house and couldn't figure out an interpretation of the symbolism that made sense outside of "stop focusing and pay attention", which was of course absurd, so I was puzzling over that all the way to my bus stop and was so distracted the whole time that I walked face-first into a massive fucking spiderweb

teaboot