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[tilthat]

TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

via ift.tt

[squeeful]

Yep.  It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime.  One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility. 

[kurowrites]

“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.

[solarpunkcast]

Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name

[bogleech]

Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”

[prismatic-bell]

Patterson died 5 December 1995.

Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.

[qochita-remade-deactivated20230]

Society if you could make AMVs just by thinking about them

[khashanakalashtar]

wonderful opportunity to point out that you can get a fanvid made for you through Fandom Trumps Hate, browsing period opens Sunday!

[yoofilos]

The Dunk Shrunk Event, 2023

In the wake of the recently released publication by Engelman, the famous Dunkleosteus got its size cut from the previously humongous 7 metres long beast of an Arthrodire have now downsized into 3 - 5 metres long Hydrogen bomb shaped fat fish. Here are my rendition of the new dunk, honestly, I am fond of the new form of this animal.

Figure 1. Size estimate and skull diagram of Dunkleosteus terrelli based on the specimen CMNH 5768, the most popular of its species

Figure 2. Size comparison of the older version of dunk (above) compared to the new and chonkier version of dunk (below).

On other platforms, such as twitter and instagram, I have been called a prophet, for the gift of premonition have been bestowed upon me in the year of 2021 because I created this round fellow, aptly named "Dunkball", it was a local sensation when it first conceived.

Figure 3. The Dunkball, look at this boi, bask in his glorious spherical presence, for he is a perfect specimen.

Also just for fun, I created these joke dunk forms for you fellow enthusiasts to enjoy:

[softanimalgoose]

I'm sorry, what was that last one?

[theroyaltenenblarghs]

My city keeps building “accessible” playgrounds for children but they don’t have an accessible public toilet on site or nearby.

This very thing means that all of their efforts to make things accessible are for nothing.

Many disabled people need to have access to public toilets for various reasons (I might add that you are not entitled to know why someone does)

If a public toilet isn’t close enough then a person can’t utilise that space.

You can build ramps and do whatever you want but if there isn’t an accessible toilet nearby…

It’s not fully accessible

[evilkitten3]

dear every group trying to make things more accessible:

good for you! your first step should be talking to a disabled person. preferably more than one.

[writeouswriter]

Broke: Acknowledging that a character who is an objectively terrible person is also a complex and intentionally well thought out individual with different levels of nuance you can empathize with in some ways while not in others is immediately “woobifying” or “poor little meow meowifying” them.

Woke: “This character is a bad person” and “this character is still a person” are two statements that can, should and do coexist and admitting that they exhibit nuance and depth and are more than just their bad actions doesn’t immediately excuse or condone their bad actions or mean that you’re ignoring or trying to soften the canonical version of the character.

Bespoke: That’s the whole point, that’s always been the point, to be made to empathize with horrible people so you can understand that they can be anyone, that bad people can be likeable, can be interesting, can be human, are human, and it’s scary to think about all the ways they’re just like you and all the ways they’re just like everything you hate, forcing the use of critical skills in media analysis, forcing a confrontation of the duality of man.

Whatever Level is Above Bespoke: But sometimes, yeah, sure, maybe they are a poor little meow meow, what are you gonna do, get a lawyer

[softanimalgoose]

Are people not tagging things "Jedi Negative" that they really should be tagging somehow, am I bad at reading tags, or do you legitimately think this is a neutral to positive portrayal -- the journey.

[bogkeep]

HAIZ EXPLAINS AMATONORMATIVITY: REDUX

it's 2014. a teenager rummages through the newspaper at breakfast. they're looking for comic strips, but instead see the headline of the sports pages, proclaiming some famous sports guy is "NOT INTERESTED IN RELATIONSHIPS RIGHT NOW."

"really?" thinks the young haiz, "that's meant to be news? the sports news??"

it's not like they'd ever read the sports pages before, but the scandal in that headline would not leave their brain zeitgeist of the day. it was a metaphorical pebble thrown at them — not the first, but the one that made them go "HEY. STOP THAT???" so they took to the keyboard to yell into the void to hey, stop that.

then the void responded.

what i wrote that day was probably one of the first posts about amatonormativity to make rounds on tumblr. i did not expect it to get thousands of notes, and it's no longer on my blog. even though the majority of the response to it was positive, i wouldn't want to bring it back, because

- it was written in a very 2014 way

- with very 2014 thoughts

- some people were really cruel to me for writing it

- i still can't read it without wincing

but:

i can write a new one.

this is not an argument about who is or isn't oppressed. that is not an argument i'm interested in entertaining, and it's not what this post is about. human life on earth is incredibly diverse and complex and i'm just here to-

OH MY GOD WHAT IS AMATONORMATIVITY ALREADY

okay so amatonormativity is like. the idea that A Lasting, Monogamous & Exclusive Romantic Relationship is the most important type of relationship in the entire world and the thing we should all strive for in our lives. (insert obligatory "the term was coined by professor elizabeth brake in the book minimizing marriage" here.)

it's not exclusively an "omg it's so hard to be aro :(" thing, because it's like, an all-encompassing Narrative foisted upon us that shapes the way we view and talk about relationships, and it does everyone a disservice (as is the case with all Normativities! we want to break 'em ALL down!! for everyone!!!!!!). nor is it intended to make people feel bad for wanting long-lasting monogamous romantic relationships! that's your personal business and i wish you well!

(it IS kind of hard to be aro in a world that constantly argues that you're lacking The Most Important Experience That Makes You Human And Life Worth Living though. not gonna lie.)

- an easy example is how the word Love is, in a Lot of instances, for a Lot of people, basically synonymous with Red Hearts Kissy Kissy Smooch Smooch. like we ALL KNOW love is more than that, we love friends and family and strangers who were nice to us that one time and our pets and our favourite foods and our favourite shows. you kind of have to clarify when you mean Love in any other way than Romantic Love. which is wild, considering how Love is such a vast emotion that covers a lot of ground, and it keeps zeroing in on this specific kind.

- related to that, i have a whole internalised powerpoint presentation about how, if you put all of your relationships with other people in a pie chart, the Romantic Partner slice is likely to be very small compared to the Family slice and Friend slice and Acquaintance slice and all these other connections you have - yet it has, comparatively, a LOT of publicity and framework that some of the other categories find themself lacking. yes, a romantic partner/s is/are someone you're likely to share a lot of time and life with, so it makes some sense for sure - but not everyone has romantic partners, or the same priorities as far as commitment goes.

- the stigmatisation of being single/unpartnered. i get the impression that a lot of people have stayed in unsatisfactory relationships because it sounds better than the Dreadful, Terrible Alternative of Not Being In A Relationship. i think there has been a lot of pushback against this particular mindset in recent years, always flaring up around valentine's day for some reason - but it still feels like it's expected to be a Temporary State, not something you'd choose or prefer.

- romance as a Humanising Component in storytelling. say you've got some sort of non-human character, such as a Robot or a Beast. what is the easiest way for them to gain Personhood in the eyes of the audience? probably by falling in love, because falling in love is the Most Human Thing There Is. i think this also extends to queer stories in a similar way - a queer romance may win over a non-queer audience in a way other queer narratives may not, an "oh they're just like us" moment, if you will. these aren't bad stories to have, and queer romances are important stories to tell! it's just... tinged with a taste of "very well.... if it's TRUE LOVE... i can find it in me to extend some compassion......."

(and! on the flipside! an easy way to dehumanise an antagonist is to be like "AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN FEEL LOVE THEY JUST HAD NO HEART THEY WERE SO INHUMAN ")

(speaking of stories you know when a series ends and they partner up all the remaining single characters in a hurry or in the epilogue because god forbid they dON'T GET PARTNERS)

- you know how the reason for legalizing same-sex marriage wasn't because marriage is THE ULTIMATE EXPRESSION TRUE LOVE, but because it comes with a lot of legal rights such as tax benefits and hospital visitation rights? and uhhhhh isn't it kind of weird that marriage is the One thing that gives u a lot of those rights and it's 1) still presented as The Ultimate Expression Of True Love And The End Goal Of Life rather than a legal contract, and 2) not available to everyone? I THINK IT'S KIND OF WEIRD.

- polyamorous relationships are also stigmatised & there's a lot of work to do when it comes to marriage & parental rights for polyamorous couples. i'm sure one could write an entire list on this topic from a polyam/relationship anarchy angle.

- the stigma against sex In General is rooted in so many things, and i believe that a huge part of breaking down amatonormativity is to destigmatize casual sex, sexual relationships that aren't romantic, sex work + sex worker rights & everything in this category. thinking about sex as a thing you can/should only do with the love of your life after you're married hasn't served us very well, i think.

- the idea that our entire life is building up to The One Important Relationship is garbage. we have a lot of relationships in our lives, many of them temporary, and all of them matter to us in some way. you are not a half looking for another half to complete you - even the most compatible person on the earth is still going to be a human person who is flawed and ever changing.

- ok so there's a thing that happens when people want to prove a gay couple is Actually Dating and not Just Gal Pals and it's like "WOULD FRIENDS EVER DO THIS???" referring to some kind of intimate moment - and it's like, i get what you're trying to prove, but... some friends Would Do That, Actually. there is no act on earth wholly exclusive to romantic relationships. i subscribe to the idea that everyone gets to decide how they define their relationships, and what boundaries they have for each kind. maybe they WILL kiss their homies on the lips. with tongue.

- queerplatonic relationships: not only did we have to create a term for a Kind of committed relationship that isn't a romantic one, but we have to fight the deluge of "but that's just dating!!!!!" and "that's just having a best friend!!!!" - the thing is, it CAN be those things if you choose to, or it can be A Secret Third Thing. the way i see it, a queerplatonic relationship is just a Framework you can apply to a relationship that's like, There, but doesn't seem to fully fit into existing categories. because the human experience is vast and weird! i think it's unfair and kinda normative to reduce it to "dating, but for aros" - an Oddly Intimate Connection That Is Hard To Categorize can befall anyone, and as i presented in my pie chart theory, we don't have a lot of framework to discuss them.

that's all i've got for today. i hope this was enlightening or affirming for some <3

[cannabiscomrade]

Bathroom accessibility is not limited to mobility aids.

Bathroom accessibility is also having hooks to hang medical equipment.

I went to Walmart today and none of the bathroom stalls had hooks for my feeding tube backpack. Not even the disabled stall. They were intentionally removed by the store.

These hooks are important because we shouldn’t have to put our equipment on the floor and risk god knows what by contaminating our backpacks in the public bathroom.

Bathroom accessibility is having a fully equipped disabled stall or single use bathroom, hooks for medical equipment/bags, infant/child AND adult changing tables, sharps containers, free pads/tampons, and having a free to access, fully functioning and clean bathroom at all times.

[cannabiscomrade]

Image description: Tags from @evil-queens-rule reading:

#also stop turning off the outlets in the bathrooms!! #sometimes I need a place to plug in my nebulizer machine and the bathroom is like the most private place to do it #but if all the outlets are turned off fuck u /end image description

No this is so true!! I can never find a place to plug in my nebulizer. I don’t need it all the time but when I do I’m pretty much homebound due to the inaccessibility of outlets in a lot of public spaces.

[apatheistlesbian]

"Accessible" restrooms are also not actually accessible if the doors to the room are heavy and do not have a way to be automatically opened. How am I supposed to wheel myself into the restroom if my hands are busy trying to push and hold the door open? (This applies to restrooms with multiple stalls AND single use restrooms!)

[nealashitposts]

Something I wish everybody would understand about bigotry of all sorts is that the thing our society is punishing is non-conformity. The more you do not conform the more you are punished.

Nonconformity can be anything from something as small as being goth, or generally not dressing like everybody else, to things as big as being a different race than the majority, or a different religion.

When you start thinking of bigotries in this context it really puts things into perspective. This might be a really helpful lens to look at these things through and help you understand political retoric and theories.

For some examples of this theory, let's look at racism. Dark skinned people have been talking about light-skinned privilege forever. While light skinned black people do still deal with racism, they're closer to conformity than dark-skinned people so they are punished less.

It's the same thing in the trans community. People who "pass" or are otherwise not immediately visibly distinguishable as trans are punished less than people who are visibly trans.

The same is true with anti-Semitism. Jews who do not keep a kosher diet and observe Jewish holidays are punished less than the ones who do because they are not conforming, while the ones who don't observe Jewish holidays are conforming.

And of course the same is true with disabled people. If you have the sort of disability that is invisible and doesn't need much accommodation you generally aren't punished very much by society, comparatively. But if you have a visible mobility aid and/or you do need accommodation you are viciously punished. But even if your disability is invisible, punishment is waiting the moment you don't conform. As a disabled person with an invisible disability, I am always shocked by how quickly and viciously I am punished on rare times when I do need accommodation.

But perhaps the best proof that what's actually being punished is non conformity is the treatment of intersex people like myself. Bigots will cry all day about the horrors of gender assignment medical procedures when they're used by trans people to live as their authentic selves, but they're suspiciously quiet about those same treatments being used on intersex kids. It's because those treatments are perfectly acceptable when being used to make an Intersex kid conform, but when they're used by a trans person to stop conforming to their assigned gender it's a horrible dangerous violence and should be banned.

That's why I'm suspicious of political movements that try to broaden the definition of what conformity is rather than trying to end the practice of punishing anybody who doesn't conform.

[mtfoss]

I don't really think skinny people have any sort of grasp on how bad fatphobia is and it's not for lack of trying on fat people's part, skinny people get very vicious when you challenge their privilege

[mtfoss]

Any space or movement that should focus on fat people inevitably gets refocused onto skinny people. Fat activists are treated like garbage especially when they're high profile. Skinny people hate us so much they'd rather we die then be in the same space with us. Then they gaslight us about all of it. Fat people: take up space, tell skinny people no, refuse to be the target of jokes, fight back.

[mtfoss]

Skinny people please rb this, try and show some solidarity with fat people

[spacelazarwolf]

a lot y’all think it’s Peak Ally to be like “i treat trans men the same way i treat cis men uwu” but that isn’t helpful when u treat cis men like garbage bc u believe all men are biologically evil and don’t deserve basic human decency bc then guess what happens. u treat trans men like we’re evil and don’t deserve basic human decency. which, considering there’s currently a genocide being carried out against trans people (including trans men, bc ik some of y’all need to be reminded of that) in at least one country, maybe that’s like. not great!

[spacelazarwolf]

[spacelazarwolf]

like truly some of y’all see the word “men” and don’t even read the rest of the post. the post could say “gay man beaten to death for being gay while attackers screamed homophobic slurs in his face” and u would still be like “maybe men shouldn’t be so violent 💅 #feminism #girlboss #kam”

[ardently-queer]

This attitude only hurts the men you can reach - marginalised men, who are being oppressed and harmed by the same people as you and should not have to shoulder the burden of your misdirected trauma responses that they aren't fucking responsible for. Your hurt is not their responsibility and shouldn't be their problem when they have their own, usually caused by the same people! Grow the fuck up you shitty little neo-radfems

[gaytrashfire]

[Disclaimer, I am not a rad fem, just curious]

Is this an attitude that is really affecting people in real life though? I'm seeing a lot of this on my dash, and I completely understand it happening on the internet, but how much of that is filtering into the wider world?

[spacelazarwolf]

hatred of men and masculinity is inherently tied to the persecution of trans women and femmes (dangerous predatory men in dresses seeking to assault the poor weak women in female only spaces), bipoc (aggressive dangerous men who the poor weak white women must be protected from), disabled men (men are only seen as valuable when they can be producers and providers, and when disabled men can’t do that they’re seen as disposable), jewish men (simultaneously weak mama’s boys who are too feminine to be real men to the point where there is a medieval trope that jewish cis men menstruated, but also evil plotting elites who seek to control gentile men and seduce gentile women into degeneracy — see also the conspiracy theory that jews are responsible for the existence of gay and trans people to “spread degeneracy”). and of course trans men, who are consistently villanized and erased by other queer people, our trauma and the violence against us is ignored because it doesn’t fit people’s gender binary view of the world where Women Are Always Oppressed and Men Are Always Privileged. when trans people who go on testosterone start to look more masculine, we often face transmisogyny as well. many queer resource centers will prioritize “women and femmes” and actively exclude trans men from much needed resources because of the assumption that we are privileged.

and like not to be a dick but i am so so so so tired with people responding to posts like these with “but how does it affect you irl it’s just a problem on the internet” bc the people who are being violently transphobic toward trans men on the internet do in fact exist in real life too, and the way they treat us does carry over into our real lives. so many of us have made posts about how this affects us in real life, and i’m just really tired of having to beg people to believe us when we say this shit is literally getting us hurt and even killed.

[dragonsatmidnight]

So random thing that has been bothering me.

I found this series, amazing series, love it. Compelling, well written, stunning, amazing. Basically, Tales of the Arabian Nights setting, with a trans young woman as a main character. I don’t want to spoil the plot, if you want to know more of the plot, read Stealing Thunder by Alina Boyden.

There’s a straight up hijra (south Asian community term for trans woman) dynasty. No trans men. No trans masc people. No one nonbinary. But lots of trans women. And that’s fine, I want trans women to have rep. Most of the books I’ve read with trans characters are about teenage trans angst, and I lived through that, I don’t need to read about it.

Not entirely the point. I tried to use duckduckgo to find my way around the internet to find a trans masc equivalent for hijra. There isn’t one. Okay, let me try other cultural identities. There are a lot of cultures who have words for AMAB trans people, but nothing for trans masc people.

The closest I found, which was admittedly a really cool history fact, was Inanna. She was the most venerated Babylonian goddess, with the ability to change people’s gender. Her entire clergy was nonbinary folks, and people who presented as neither male nor female. Her temples are some of the earliest examples we have of cuneiform, or written language. Goes back to about 4000 BCE. Trans people have literally always been here. 

But trans men don’t often have words. After thoroughly digging into transgender people in ancient history, I can tell you about hijras in India, kathoeys in Thailand, khanith in Arabia, nádleehi of the Navajo tribe, lhamana of the Zuni tribe, and galli priestesses in Rome, Greece, and Phrygia. All of these groups of people are immediately mentioned on the transgender history wikipedia page, where as trans masculine folks have “been referenced,” in texts.

After more digging, I can tell you that an island that is part of Indonesia, Sulawesi, has five different gender identities, including calalai, which is a term for a trans masculine person.

To be very, very clear on where I’m coming from. I’m glad trans women have words. I’m glad they have communities, and histories, and places they belong. I’m super glad this book exists, and I want to give Stealing Thunder to every single teenage trans girl I can find. Phenomenal book, phenomenal story, and a very rich cultural history. Those are all wonderful things.

My only point in comparing all of these experiences to trans men is because trans masculine history exists. We can find references for it, follow trails of bread crumbs, and sort out the “woman who dressed as a man to get ahead” and “AFAB person who dressed as a man because that’s their identity.” But I want words. I want to go back in time and figure out what words people used to identify, what words people used to find themselves.

And more than that, I’m tired of being a foot note. I’m tired of being “ah yes, you exist sometimes too!” I’m tired of feeling pushed out of my own community. I’m tired of finding these cool, amazing, wonderful books I love to reread and not seeing myself in them. Transgender men have existed throughout time. We’ve contributed to the community, been activists and caretakers and people who stood guard and advocated for safety. We’ve donated to ground breaking research, showed up to protests during the AIDS epidemic, thrown bricks at cops during Stonewall, and have otherwise contributed to and supported queer rights.

If you’re not seeing trans masculine voices, if you don’t see us in the community showing up and helping out, well. Either you’re not looking hard enough, or you’re erasing our contributions.

I refuse to continue to feel shame about the trans masculine people who predated me. I’m done believing the incomplete history I was told, that my people went full stealth, abandoned their community, and acted solely for their own self preservation. I show up when it matters. I know so many trans masculine people who show up when it matters, often thanklessly, often while being silenced on the oppression that they face in their day to day lives.

It is hard, and lonely, and I am feeling the centuries, and millennia, of gaps in my history and existence. I am tired of being erased. If you want to heal masculinity, start with the people who love it despite being punished for expressing it. Listen to trans masculine voices, and include us in the narrative of progress.

[blackkatmagic]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Darth Maul Characters: Darth Maul, Padmé Amidala, Dooku | Darth Tyranus, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Force-Sensitive Padmé Amidala, Sith Padmé Amidala, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Injury, Love, Fix-It of Sorts Summary:

The Sith aren’t meant to love. Not like this.

[prettyasapic]

Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.”

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

[theconcealedweapon]

[softanimalgoose]

[Image text: tweet(?) from Chenoa @chenoa_marie@mastod... @chenoa_marie reading If you can jail us you can house us

2:33 PM 12/15/22

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[inkkkkss]

"Aro/aces aren't part of the lgbtq+ community , they don't face any oppression "

The LGBTQIA+ community is for people who deviate from the cishetnorm. Its for people that don't fit the image of liking the opposite gender sexually and romantically, while identifying as their AGAB.

Aros and aces don't fit into the ideal hetronormative identity therfore THEY ARE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

[softanimalgoose]

Also we do face oppression. Sometimes to the point of "corrective" rape.

[mad-dyspunktional]

It's normal for the majority of a trans person's blogging on here to be focused on their specific flavor of trans and honestly there's nothing wrong with that.

That said, it's important to at least try to also include other trans people in your blogging, whether that's sharing posts about their experiences or their oppression or just passing along (or making!) positivity posts directed at them.

Follow trans people with experiences different from yours! Boost their voices once in a while! Celebrate them!

Solidarity could not be more important right now, let's make sure we're uplifting each other.

[headspace-hotel]

Now for a comment on Online Discourse, which is going to be a windfall for the "pissing on the poor" crowd I'm sure, but i'm saying it anyway:

"Cottagecore" was right about marginally more things than y'all think.

It's not much. The tradwife stuff is bad, the thoughtless idealization of "homesteading" is bad, the romanticization of an imaginary "simple life" in the Past is bad, and all of that stuff attracts fascists—and the totally unrealistic "aesthetic" is, well, annoying.

but listen.

Farming land isn't inherently more linked to colonialism than doing anything else on land, and living in a rural area isn't inherently more linked to colonialism than living in a city.

Wanting to be connected to the land you live on, wanting to grow food for yourself, wanting to experience the natural world—these are, in themselves, good things. They are very fraught if you live on stolen land. But it seems way worse to live on stolen land and try to distance yourself from that land, while it not only takes care of your every bodily need, but needs you to reciprocate.

I am honest to god really worried about how many people are either 1) wracked with guilt over wanting a rural life or 2) convinced that rural life shouldn't, like, exist.

[headspace-hotel]

Like please consider that farming is where food comes from

The alternative to "individual people think farming is neat and grow food" is "huge corporations destroy the soil and water, exploit migrant labor, patent crops to keep people from growing their own food, and stock grocery stores with food from the same 4 destructive monocultures."

Also, farming is HARD, but treating farming like a uniquely miserable job that no one would want to do is just as unhelpful and insulting as treating any other essential working class job that way.