#changing your mind

[unsolicited-opinions]

We've Made Changing Your Mind Look Like a Flaw Instead of a Virtue

The internet has taught people to archive your opinions and weaponize your growth. If you evolve, you're a flip-flopper. If you admit uncertainty, you're weak. If you take time to rethink, you're stalling.

So people fake certainty to avoid punishment.

Intellectual honesty, though, requires change. If your views haven't changed in ten years, that says less about your clarity than it says about your lack of reflection.

[selfcarereminder]

you are allowed to change your mind about things. growing isn't inconsistency, it's just being alive

[young-royals-confessions]

A few non-anonymous confessions:

I used to be a stedrika hater, but now I really enjoy them.

I used to think of Maddie as mostly a comic relief character, but now I think a lot about how she’s too shy to speak Swedish and what that says about her.

I used to get Henry and Walter mixed up. Now thanks to @sflow-er I think a lot about their subtle differences in status and how that affects their friendship.

I used to not care about Vincent much and even kind of disliked him, but now he’s one of my favorite characters. (Even though he is often a horrendous teenage boy.)

I used to think I wouldn’t ship August earnestly with another boy, but—even though saraugust is still my number one ship—I’ve been compelled by Nils/August since s3.

I used to think of Linda as the Good Mom on the show, but I’ve come to see her flaws and nuances more the more I watched. This makes me like her even more, because the fastest way for a character to enter my heart is them not being perfect.

I could go on. There is still so much to love about Young Royals!

💜

[pratchettquotes]

Frantic signals from outlying portions of her mind began to break down her iron-hard conviction that bad things only happen to bad people.

Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

[unwelcome-ozian]

[protoslacker]

“If we were socially ambisexual, if men and women were completely and genuinely equal in their social roles, equal legally and economically, equal in freedom, in responsibility, and in self-esteem, then society would be a very different thing. What our problems might be, God knows; I only know we would have them. But it seems likely that our central problem would not be the one it is now: the problem of exploitation – exploitation of the woman, of the weak, of the earth.” 

Ursula Le Guin from a 1976 essay, "Is Gender Necessary" on a page at the very cool M HKA Ensembles a Website of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp.

M HKA links to the book, Aurora: Beyond Equality--Wikipedia-- where the essay was first published. ncing at the Edge of the World:

In 1989 Le Guin published the essay with the subtitle "Redux" in Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, and in a reissue of The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Here's a scholarly work on the topic, RASHLEY, L. H. (2007). REVISIONING GENDER: INVENTING WOMEN IN URSULA K. LE GUIN’S NONFICTION. Biography, 30(1), 22–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23540596. At least one PDF of the 1989 "Redux" is available online.

It's so interesting learning about how smart people learn.

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]