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@onsomekindofstartrek
Fucking Christ I had the most irritating argument recently.
So Big Joel put out a teaser for his upcoming video on Irreversible Damage. Now, while Cass Eris has covered this ground pretty thoroughly, I’m definitely glad that a bigger leftist YouTuber, and one as insightful as Henry, is taking a shot at it, just like I was glad to see multiple other video essays on the Somerton scandal. Abigail Shrier continues to be a very vocal fearmonger about trans issues.
In the comments of that video someone was like “yeah it’s unfortunate that this book was transphobic, but her new book, Bad Therapy, is incredible.”
Now, Bad Therapy has already gotten two videos from Cass Eris, so I feel qualified to sum it up as like, exactly her previous book but for mental illnesses she thinks are subclinical, rather than for being transmasc. So basically “overreaching doctors and counselors are using unnecessary therapy to make our children think they’re trans mentally ill.” Fun, right? And obviously fertile ground for her to push TERF ideas in a more subtle way without making the transphobia as obvious as she did in Irreversible Damage.
Now, whatever you think of the thesis “iatrogenic mental illness is a common outcome in teens who undergo school-mandated talk therapy” (it’s probably mostly horseshit,) you probably should find someone else to defend that thesis. You know, besides the woman who previously published a bestselling transphobic screed with a large section on how transness in teenagers can be iatrogenic. I would not like to take her word on anything related to psychiatric treatment of children, actually.
(Especially when she seems to have, as her main concern, the future reproductive capabilities of AFAB children. For Christ sakes, the cover of Irreversible Damage shows a picture of a small girl in 50’s clothing with a circle cut out of the picture roughly where the womb would be. Like Christ, I don’t want to hear anything this woman thinks about children!)
But no, when first Big Joel and then I push back, this person wants to argue like “oh but she’s so right in this new book and I wouldn’t read it and endorse if anyone else were talking about it” and shifting the burden onto me to prove that there’s some other person talking about this issue, and a load of shit like that. I think they think they won, too, because I just had to leave.
And the thing is… would you do this for anything else? “Oh this person is a young earth creationist, but we’re talking about embryology, not evolution, so I suppose we can trust them. And who else is talking about embryology? It’s your job to show me someone else talking in this way about the subject and maybe then I’ll consider not endorsing the obvious evangelical Christian grifter.”
No! Fuck no! She’s invested in the idea that parents need to protect their children specifically from devious healthcare providers to protect them from “being convinced they’re trans,” so a second book on the topic of healthcare providers causing mental illness in children is going to be biased at best, even if it doesn’t mention trans issues directly. How are you this dense?
I am currently reading Abigail shrier's Bad therapy. All of the things you've said here are neither true nor do they make sense. She is trying to get people to understand that children and teenagers don't have the ability to put things in perspective yet. A teenager who's going through puberty and changes with their mind and body in a therapist's office will not have the ability to say "Hey, maybe you could give my mom some slack, she's been going through a lot aswell and I might have over-reacted."
Abigail Shrier literally says this in her book and that is FACTUAL: our feelings betray us all the time.
A drunk man will get angry if he gets his drinks taken away, yet he's not in the right to feel angry. He's drunk and the bartender is preventing him from being sick or potentially end up in a coma.
A trans man will get upset if people refer to him as a woman (despite him being a biological woman) because he's at a point in his transition where he doesn't look or sound like a man yet to other people (Transitionning takes time, research and ACTUAL introspection). Yet he's in the wrong because people are not going to bend backwards for you, especially if you're throwing a tantrum over being misgendered by a complete stranger you'll never see again. You need to be patient with your transition, and if you're that desperate to get it, maybe it's not the people around you that are the problem.
Abigail Shrier here is trying to protect children from growing up anxious and depressed because we're indirectly telling them that they're unhappy and something is wrong with them. Constantly. And it's disgusting.
Hey fuck you
My therapist (who knows my gender and is not an asshole!) Recently recommended me a JK Rowling book, and was VERY surprised when I said that I wasn't comfortable giving money to someone who wanted me gone.
We had a conversation where I explained that Rowling was very vocal against the trans community and used a lot of her wealth to bail out transphobes and fund anti-trans agendas, and they just said, "I hadn't heard about that- I just thought she was passionate about the female experience."
That's what they do, though. They say things that sound fine and normal and maybe even good on the surface to an uneducated third party and it kinda holds up until you start asking questions.
"Protect women and children!" Is a rly that any decent person can get behind. What nobody seems to do on their own is ask, "protect women and children from who?" And, "from what?", and, "Is that fear realistic?" And, "has that actually happened to any degree worth considering as a systemic issue?"
Look if we are gonna make "America love burger" jokes all the time (which is fine, I think theyre funny!) then we also gotta accept that we are the burger authorities, and we have the absolute right to set the burger criteria!
Yeah, the patty is key. A burger must have a patty made of ground meat, most commonly beef, but I've also seen turkey, or imitation meat in the case of a veggieburger. Usually round, but the shape is not crucial (Wendy's, for example, uses square patties). The buns should ideally be round as well, but the shape is not crucial. If someone made hamburgers, but ran out of hamburger buns and used regular sandwich bread, I'd still accept it as a burger, albeit a very unusual one
Yeah I have to agree. However, chicken "patties" made of ground homogenized chicken meat? Still not a burger, because they have breading and that changed the entire experience.
It's funny, they make salmon burger patties, and I once served a dude I was trying to fuck (immediately before I met my wife btw) a burger that was a salmon patty with creamed cheese on a bagel... and like... looking back and not realizing how badly the bagel fucks up the whole equation, I don't blame him for not going any further than half-hearted oral.
tbf if a weird zombie-like guy running a monster-themed food truck paid me thousands of dollars per hour to dress up and occasionally attack another food truck, I’d probably go along with it without question too
So is this a fandom post or, like, something that happened in your town?
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I was absent a while (and will probably be absent a while longer) because the political situation is just too goddamn depressing and I don't always need the panicky, piss-on-the-poor version of the headlines when I'm trying to determine what's actually going on. Sometimes, as Picard said, you have to burn away irrelevancies until you are left with a pure product.
But I just want y'all to know that I'm doing fine and I hope y'all are doing alright.
(Apparently if I leave my tumblr alone for 20 days multiple posts about Narbonic will get notes from different unconnected people? Is that that much a part of my brand?)
In these times it is important that we love one another and don't find petty reasons to fight each other. So before I go I just want to say I love you all and I hope that love finds a place in your lives. As for the rest of you... fix your hearts or die.
01/21/2025
The gelatin in film stock was made from the hide, bones, cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue of calves (considered the very best), sheep (less desirable), and other animals who passed through the slaughterhouse. Six kilograms of bone went into a single kilogram of gelatin. Eventually, the demands of photographic industries generated so much need for animal byproducts that slaughterhouses became integrated into the photographic production chain. Controlling the supply chain became key to Kodak's success. In 1882, as Kodak began to grow as a company, widespread complaints of fogged and darkened plates stopped production. The crisis almost ruined Kodak financially and resulted in the company tightly monitoring the animal by-products used in gelatin. Decades later, a Kodak emulsion scientist discovered that cattle who consumed mustard seed metabolized a sulfuric substance, enhancing the light sensitivity of silver halides and enabling better film speeds. The poor-quality gelatin in 1882 was due to the lack of mustard seeds in the cows' diet. The head of research at Kodak, Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, concluded, "If cows didn't like mustard there wouldn't be any movies at all." By controlling the diet of cows who were used to make gelatin, Kodak ensured the quality of its film stock. As literary scholar Nicole Shukin reflects, there is a "transfer of life from animal body to technological media." The image comes alive through animal death, carried along by the work of ranchers, meatpackers, and Kodak production workers.
—Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
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dialectical materialism is when you have two things
historical materialism is when you've had them for a while
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