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Reading Lolita in Tehran
I saw this movie today 8/1/2026, at the Tower Theater In Sacramento, California. Although it is set in Iran from 1979-1996, it has the feel of what life in America now may be headed for. Strict Authoritarian Rule. It also gave me insight into the Iranian people and their culture. It humanizes them. Perfect time to see it as the war in Iran escalates this weekend. There were about 20 of us in the theater for a 12:15pm showing on a Saturday. People are concerned.
terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we're 'brainwashed'
and because i'm an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it's not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.
the answer blew my fucking mind.
the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.
an excerpt:
āThe finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.ā
94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.
other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.
which means, at least from my perspective, that:
a) the 'brainwashing' terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.
b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.
you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.
This essentially suggests that autistic people are likely to be NB because we are in fact resistant to the relevant brainwashing.
As an autistic person with a weird gender this lines up with my personal observation, which is that autistic people are not really prone to follow social norms that don't make sense to them or provide them with any benefits just because.
There is an immense amount of cis allistic anxiety about this, because they like to think adhering to the gender binary is in the same natural-law category as "don't kill someone for pissing you off" or whatever, and it completely isn't, and our collective refusal to play ball makes something in them angry.
The typical allistic reaction to autists behaving unusually is to insist on controlling them, or treat their social "failures" as deficits of parental, workplace, partner, state, societal control. The idea that autistic people are "brainwashed" into being trans and nonbinary is in fact projection by people who want to brainwash autistic people to follow their stupid fucking rules, and are existentially terrified that they can't seem to get it to work
I don't know if any of you had the same experience as me, but I tried therapy when I was a teenager living in an abusive household and thought it was a waste of time. Ultimately my biggest problems (dad) were beyond my control and no amount of coping would make them better. Now that I'm an adult with actual control over my life and don't live with my dad anymore therapy is MUCH more helpful.
If any of you had bad experiences with therapy when you were younger it may be worth it to try again now.
THE SAME GOES FOR MEDICATION!! I tried meds as a teenager and they were powerless to help much due to my living situation being horrible. I thought that meant medication didn't work for me. Now that I'm out of that situation and trying agajn I can really see a difference.
Please stop sharing the photo of Kohen Wiley the 1 year old Black boy murdered in Mississippi. The family has asked that we stop sharing his photo. Instead we should be circulating his murderers photo EVERYWHERE so that the world can know who he is and what he has done. The life that he stole, the lives that he shattered. Please share his face instead of poor baby Kohen. May his family know justice. āš½Ā #kohenwileyĀ #hunterfosterĀ #killercopsĀ #acab
Donāt EVER let this demonic excuse of humanity, this vile filth ever walk free
just hit a "y'all" and a "yous" in the same sentence. where can i move next to collect even more plural "you" options
unforch i went to college an hour from pittsburgh and actually visited my friends there like every third weekend so i fear there's something about me that's naturally repellent to "yinz" else i'd have already picked it up.......
NOT a 16th century cunning woman using wiccan phrases in this bestselling historical fiction šššššš
i feel like the author probably searched up the age of the phrases and learned they're technically old enough to have been used at the time, like, they existed. but they would NOT have been used that way or in that context until the 20th century.
i'm dying out here i cannot keep coming across random 20th century neopaganism presented as historically accurate witchcraft, much less christian healing charms!!!
if u get into neopaganism u really have to spend the first like 2 years sorting out all the bullshit and finding out how much of it is either completely made up or outright stolen from other cultures and then go from there. u truly have to experience ego death, academic death, book collection death, and probably 47 other maimings or else you will be stuck believing something some guy said based on nothing in 1987 as your religion. it's harrowing. it's dire.
also frustrating is whenever i talk about this i inevitably run into the edgelords like "well it's ALL made up anyway so who cares ha ha ha." do not interact with me.
and ofc i'm completing my masters in Irish folklore and i don't believe that Old means Right. new folklore, legends, etc. (these words are fraught in and of themselves but i am using them for simplicity atm) are born every day and matter. "bloody mary" is not ancient. yet the story's impact on culture, especially among children, is compelling. ofc that's perhaps a less culturally significant example than neopaganism but you get what i mean. if someone did form a cult of bloody mary they wouldn't be wrong. newly developing beliefs and practices matter and i am not disparaging them for being recently conceived.
it's those who package them as "ancient, once lost and now revived" etc. that's the issue. and they're usually selling it to you ofc.
it would be wrong to say "bloody mary is actually a celtic goddess whose story was diminished to a children's game because the Church couldn't accept her Power."
but you can find basically exactly that in a bestselling hardback every day.
it's so crazy too bc i'll be like "this phrase/practice is being touted as ancient knowledge with a secret unbroken lineage, but it was quite literally made up in the 20th century. like we can trace it back to its very inception in like 1961." and someone will be like "that can't be true because my grandmother taught it to me." and i'm like yes your grandmother was 20 in 1961.
Imagine if we did the āpublic libraries are punkā thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said āSoup kitchens are grungeā or āMixed Use Urbanism is Juggaloā.
Okay but no one is going to convince me that mixed use urbanism ISN'T Juggalo.
You should resist the pull of the Two Demons of Aging. One will tell you things were much more difficult in your day and will bemoan that kids have it so much easier. The other will tell you things were so much better in your day and will bemoan that the kids donāt know how great things can be.
Itās very important you slay both of these demons as soon as you hit 30.
Yeah the world is getting worse, all our institutions are failing kids, theyāre literally making things more expensive and lower quality, thatās all true. That can be discussed and criticized without getting into cranky territory where you blame younger people for this. And thatās giving you the benefit of the doubt that your concerns are poorly thought out and not outright reactionary fascist nonsense. Either way you should blame capitalism because itās not the kids fault.
āKids are such stupid illiterate iPad babies!ā This framing blames children for what is a societal neglect in educational resources and excessive work demands on families going back decades.
Even blaming the parents doesnāt give the full picture. The amount of time and care a child needs is incompatible with capitalismās requirements of 40 hour a week labor. One or both parents are going to be overworked at home and at their job. This incentivizes more neglectful parenting styles.
We should be asking why the demand and cost of childcare has increased while wages have stayed stagnant, why childhood education has been so throughly attacked, and how the capitalist nuclear family model creates unnecessary strains and unequal divisions of labor upon families.
truly the most american thing is Big Drink. more than late stage capitalism, more than an unparalleled cultural focus on individualism, more than 9/11 jokes
what binds all americans together culturally is Big Drink
and you might be saying "is this fat shaming" or "but mayor bloomberg outlawed Big Drink in nyc" or "gays are so annoying about their iced coffee" or some other dumb comment but no open your minds, Big Drink isn't just sugary or caffeinated beverages
every day i see one of you hydration bitches (affectionate) on the train with a water bottle so big a toddler could drown in it. that too is Big Drink. we literally invented a bigger beer can (tall boy) in wisconsin in the 60s in the service of Big Drink
anyway i never feel more american then when i have Big Drink in my hands
I also feel the need to point out to Europeans that the Big Drink isnāt actually meant to be consumed in one sitting. Just like Americans have leftovers culture at restaurants, we also have Big Drink culture where the Big Drink is consumed over several hours.
Sam Handwich.
If Pikiwedia says it it must be true.
I made Pikiwedia real. Works for any Wikipedia page. Use this wisely :)ā
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Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down.Ā
Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls.Ā
Pikiwedia perseveres, back up with a better robots.txt. I hope Anthropic has a gery vood time with Pikiwedia's data :))
rule #1 of tumblr polls is NEVER include a joke option if you don't want it to win by a landslide because tumblr users have one committed relationship in their lives and it's to the bit
everyone get unemployed. i will provide for us.
I love how safe everyone in the comments feels about being entirely dependant on a potentially psychopathic benefactor š
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