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Culture is so obsessed with the idea of lone geniuses that it doesn't really appreciate that most of the progress of science (and likely every other discipline) occurs collaboratively, in babysteps, and usually through a lot very tedious, utterly unsexy, work.
This is what’s so faulty with our short sighted coverage of scientific discoveries. You hear politicians question why we spend money on science studying insect wings and then decades later that research gets used by NASA for the most efficient way to fold/unfold solar panels on spacecraft. All of science is connected and useful because it enhances our understanding of the universe
When lasers were discovered they were called “a solution without a problem”, noone had any idea what to use them for. Since then they’re revolutionised communications and SO many parts of technology. CDs, DVDs, printing, fast internet, laser etching for making computer chips, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy, LIDAR measurements of weather patterns, barcode scanners, cooling atomic clocks, nuclear fusion, microscopy, LED technology and materials research. I’m probably not even scratching the surface here. Fund theory and fundamental science research.
It's actually kind of heartening, lasers; because before they were invented, their only real antecedents in science fiction were things like rayguns and heatrays and what not. But it actually turns out that their usefulness as a weapon is extremely limited, whereas their usefulness for just about everything else is incredible. It's one of the occasions where we flipped the "Dual Use" coin and it landed very solidly on the good side.
"Does the author respect women" is a third distinct question from either of the other two.
It's completely irrelevant. What does the author's personal life / sex / gender / political or religious opinions / social behaviour have to do with the story? Probably not much - that's why they're writing fiction. Can we come back to ignoring authors and celebs personal life? They're people, faulty like everybody else.
Death of the author is one way to analyze literature. It's not the ONLY relevant way to do so. Sometimes broad knowledge of authorial context -does- matter to a story. The Chronicles of Narnia read differently depending on the reader's knowledge of C.S. Lewis' particular brand of Christianity, for example. This isn't a post about cancel culture; we are still talking about the work and the context in which it was made.
I'm a firm believer in 'once you post it, you have set it free into the world and can't control how people interpret it', but that doesn't mean knowing an author's beliefs isn't useful for analysis. The author's beliefs and biases are going to find their way into the story, and the unintentional ones are, I think, even more important than the intentional ones--because if you aren't aware of a bigoted author's bigotry, and aren't bigoted in that way yourself, massive Weirdness in characterisation is just confusing.
Examples? Okay....
My mom and I both found Harry Potter to have a lot of meaning and impact on us as a piece of art, and we also bond over it, as one of the few things we can bond over. My mom being a reader, and fond of mysteries, she picked up the first of JKR's adult mystery series, and read it, and there were things about it that... hit wrong, in a way she couldn't name. Then, the whole terf thing came to light, and my mom suddenly understood what it was that had seemed weird about the characterisations, about the choices that had made no sense to her. If she had never found out about the author's views, she wouldn't have been able to learn what those views translate into in art, and that's an important thing to learn.
Another example is Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgeson Burnett, and anti-Indian racism and Indian Orientalism in 19th century British literature. I grew up on the Jungle Books, Just So Stories, The Secret Garden, and A Little Princess--all of which are books by authors with varying degrees of colonialist and racist attitudes toward Indians and India. When I was younger, and didn't know about that, I inadvertently copied those views and put them in my own writing. I did not know I was doing that, because I did not know they were there, because I lacked any sort of first-hand experience, as I am not Indian myself. Once I grew up a bit more, and learned more of the nuances of 19th century attitudes and about those specific authors' other writings and opinions, I realised what had happened, and became able to separate out those tropes from those works, so I was able to avoid parroting them. If I'd never learned anything about those authors, I would have perpetuated more harm.
Sometimes, NOT knowing is a blessing--I read CS Lewis' Narnia series in its entirety as a very small child who had been entirely shielded from Christianity and so didn't pick up on those tones. This meant I could enjoy the books a lot more as pure fantasy. Now that I know, I can't read them again, because the allegory ruins the fantasy for me. So it's a double-edged sword, true, but at the same time--if I hadn't learned, I may have perpetuated those harmful ideas without realising that's what I was doing, and that's worse.
Or how about watching something: Recently, I watched the Dr Who episode "Boom", which was written by Stephen Moffat. Now, what I know about Stephen Moffat is that he is misogynist, and generally a mean-spirited person. If I hadn't known that, it would have been incomprehensible, some of the ways this story was bad; but knowing he's a sexist and overall rather mean person made clear why and where the story failed, and why for example the women characters acted so... well, to a non-bigoted point of view, so strange.
Sometimes you can't figure out what's off, sometimes you're too young, or sometimes you're so far away from that belief. It's not that you must know an author's personal life--the examples I quoted are all to do with an author's opinions which they have willingly stated in essays or other of their writings, or have to do with the time and place which they live or lived. This is not private stuff.
Because yeah, I am with you on "the private lives of other people are not our right or business to know"! I am I would say even more radical about that than a lot of folks. I aggressively do not gossip about the news on this court trial or that allegation or alleged crime. Because I learned from Horace Rumpole that Presumed Innocence is the golden thread which runs through a Just civilisation. We must presume innocence. We must stop oppression of the son-of-a-bitch because oppression is first aimed at sons-of-bitches, and it must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all; but, an artist stating their opinions by writing essays, poems, or posts on public forums (such as twitter, facebook, tumblr, etc) is not their private life--in that case, they have chosen to tell us their opinions, and so it is not invasive to know them or talk about them.
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No doctor will ever get my respect like the woman in the ER who checked me for claws and fangs because I told her I was turning into a werewolf and could feel it and let me know gently that she couldn't find any but that didnt make it feel any less real, like THATS how you do it, other doctors who just flat out told me I was wrong take notes
This is how you treat us!
i am reblogging this as someone who does not have delusions and often makes shitposts about werewolves, and i just want all my followers to know this is not a joke!
i am so glad you had this positive experience, and i hope this sort of kindness catches on with doctors and the general public.
Look when someone is in a confused or compromised state, no matter why,
and they are your medical charge,
it is vital to continue to treat them with dignity. Like that. Reassure them with visible practicalities that you acknowledge their fears, will not belittle them, and can show them facts to help them cope.
THAT is the proper compassion of a Healer.
Can I just add that, if you like me have delusions where everything bad that happens is your fault, the doctor shouldn't be like "Yeah, you're probably right" but try to reason with you in a respective way. OP's doctor did it right, but some of the notes make it look like people think delusions must be agreed to always, when doing so can be detrimental to the person's wellbeing
This is my favorite addition to this post because it’s true. When dealing with delusions you need to avoid the extremes - DO NOT tell the person flat out “you’re wrong”, “thats not real” or worst of all “you’re crazy.” BUT DON’T ENCOURAGE THE DELUSION EITHER! Let’s take my werewolf delusion, for example. Doctors who have flat out told me “that isn’t real” haven’t helped because for me it is real and no amount of you saying it isn’t will change my perception. It makes us feel alienated.
But someone saying “You ARE transforming into a werewolf but i have a poition thatll stop it! :D” is just as dangerous because you’re furthering a delusion which could get someone hurt. its also manipulative. we’re psychotic, not children.
So what DO you do? Acknowledge that the situation is frightening. If possible, give them the objective facts (ie, i don’t see any monsters; your mom hasn’t said anything to make it seem like she’s going to kill you) while also acknowledging that for them, it is real. Most of all, ask what you can do to keep them comfortable and safe.
Sorry for the long addition but when I made this post it didn’t occur to me apsychotic people would look at it for advice on how to handle an actively delusional person. I’m glad it’s resonating with people, though
I remember when I told a doctor someone had replaced all the veins and arteries in my body with wires and I was no longer a person. she very gently checked me over for any wounds where they could have made the incisions to put the wires in, and took photos of the places on my phone to prove it. all the places I felt were the entry points were out of my sight, behind my ears and in my back and stuff. then she offered to get me an xray if they could fit me in, but it might take a while. I declined because I didnt want to take up space for people who need it, and honestly at this point I trusted her enough to tell me if I had wires. she brought my husband in and showed him how to check me over for wounds and wires, then she asked me if I had any questions. I went back into the waiting room, feeling like I wasn't stupid and I felt much safer.
she came into the waiting room later to check if I was okay, and I felt safe, cared for, trusted and believed. she told my husband she put a psychiatrist on standby in case I got freaked out again, and told me she understands how I feel, and that she can't see anything but she gets how scary it is for me and she's on shift for a few hours and to ask for her by name if I need reassuring again.
I felt safe. I felt believed. that's how you do it.
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How much does a box of paper weigh?
Oh …
I love how all these reblogs from ableds are like “boxes of paper are 20 pounds GOTCHA” as if every single person in a 60-person workplace needs to be able to lift a box of paper.
“What’s that, James? You tore your rotator cuff? Sorry, we have to let you go. What if the printer needed to be refilled and the other 200 people in this building were home sick? It just wouldn’t be fair.”
I deserve more intellectually challenging low-effort justifications for bigotry. Please try harder next time. 1/10.
hi! i’m a secretary with a lifelong congenital back issue that i had fixed via surgery.
the first thing i want to point out is that the box of paper that @bransrath posted is not the weight of the box. the 20 lb in that description is the paper weight, which is the amount of force a piece of paper can take before tearing. i know this because it’s described as copy paper, and copy paper is by default 20 lb weight. so posting that picture as a ‘gotcha’ in response to this post is ignorant at best and intentionally ableist at worst. in reality, that box probably weighs no more than 15 lbs.
secondly, i have never had to actually pick up one of these boxes ever. and i have to deal with them a lot, given that i’m a secretary who, prior to the pandemic, was printing off 1000+ pages of booklets per week. i’ve never had to pick these up because you can literally just open them, grab a ream of paper, and take it to the printer to load it in. there’s no fucking reason why you would need the whole box. most places, like my office, also store them on or near the ground because they’re heavy, so what i do is a just drag the boxes to their designated corner until they need to be used.
so “must be able to lift 20 lbs” is a tactic of discrimination, and there’s no excuse for it in office jobs like mine. i can’t actually lift more than 15 lbs and chances are, i’ll never be able to lift more than 20 lbs. i can still do all the duties of my secretary job, though, and it’s really easy to find work arounds for things like heavy boxes of paper. even i can, and my office literally employs 3 people including me. a weight limit is not a reason to deny someone a job.
*checks how much that is in metric*
MOTHERFUCKER I WORK IN A FACTORY AND WE’RE EXPLICITLY TOLD AS A PART OF ORIENTATION AND WORK SAFETY TRAINING THAT “hey man if you ever need to lift something heavier than 10kg (about 22 pounds), you should get someone to help you“
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Did you guys know there's nothing inherently wrong with selfish thoughts and desires and there's no such thing as thought crimes or thought sins and a balanced amount of selfishness is healthy and adaptive for living things to have and it's fine to act selfishly as long as you don't harm others
Let's parse the word "harm" here: harm is when your actions infringe on the legitimate rights, safety, and/or wellbeing of another person. asking for things is not harm. mildly inconveniencing others on occasion is not harm. wanting things is not harm. talking a lot is not harm. ordering in a restaurant is not harm. disliking someone is not harm. sexual attraction is not harm. rejecting an unwanted advance is not harm. letting others see unlikable sides of yourself is not harm. you would not believe how many things your parents disapproved of when you were little you've construed as harm are not, in fact, harm
you will live and you will say the wrong things and make mistakes and people will love you anyways.
i made this post because i've got so many friends that think saying something wrong in a conversation is the end of the world. it isn't. you'll be okay. you don't have to be embarrassed about every little thing. you are alive and doing things and speaking to people. you will make mistakes and you will live.
using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me
my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament
saw someone say "an 11-year-old isn't even supposed to know what sex is and if you do something horrible must be happening to you and you need to get out of there" like can we be for real for a moment. have some people honest to god never heard 11-year-olds making sex jokes in their life
and let's be honest. if something bad was happening, good sex ed would help them recognize that. trying to shelter children from even knowing what sex is doesn't help or even work, it actually enables abuse. teach them about consent
Hot take: let's not discuss sexual stuff around CHILDREN.
Let's not sexualize children or even think of children & sexual stuff
Don't discuss sexual stuff with CHILDREN.
They cannot consent.
Children cannot consent and I dont know how many times we have to tell you this.
CHILDREN. CANNOT. CONSENT.
people like you are the reason so many kids can't speak up about being sexually abused. go back to the catholic church or whatever. we need proper sex education and this is dire
oh they're literally catholic. that explains a lot.
sex education ≠ sexualization
sex education ≠ sexual abuse
sex education ≠ child endangerment
HOWEVER
sex education = increased safety through knowledge
sex education = decrease in teen pregnancy
sex education = decrease in spread of sexually transmitted diseases
sex education = productive and necessary
Hello! Literally practicing Catholic here! Raised by Catholic parents since birth! I went through things exactly like this as a child entirely because my parents neglected my sex education due to viewing it as 'scarring' and 'inappropriate'! Please fucking educate your kids about sex and what constitutes sexual abuse! Teach them they have a right to refuse! :)
And let's also say the uncomfortable part out loud here: it's not only about protecting kids against older teens and against adults.
The average age for puberty to start is 11-12, but it is normal for puberty to begin between the ages of 8 and 14. Puberty is only considered 'too early' by doctors and delayed with puberty blockers if a girl is 7 or a boy is 8. And while not everyone experiences sexual arousal in the first years of puberty, quite a lot of kids do.
So, as deeply uncomfortable as it makes adults: some 11 year olds have already been getting horny for 3 or 4 years. And while their first explorations of that feeling often happen alone, some of that hornyness will drive those kids to seek out others to experiment.
So without information, that 11 year old may end up having sex with another kid and may get pregnant. That 11 year old may sexually assault a younger kid, not out of malice but out of simply not knowing that you should not do this to others. The idea that these things will not happen if we don't tell kids about sex is patently false.
I know we don't like to think about literal kids getting horny, but if we ignore the fact that this happens, those will kids suffer because of our cowardly unwillingness to face the facts and to give them the information to stay safe and to be safe to others.
Listen did my parents do everything right in my life? No. But I did have an age appropriate sex talk when I was eight. They used clinical terms and told me what was unacceptable for someone to talk about or do to me.
Growing up Mormon people didn’t really talk about sex but I did have one leader when I was like 12-14 who was a nurse and was like no euphemisms, clinical terms when talking about chastity only. It was so refreshing and felt like an adult was taking us seriously because we had already heard it all. Kids at school talked about all sorts of stuff and there were things that were wrong that that leader was willing to correct.
Like yeah I could have asked my parents but I wasn’t gonna do that. What kid would? Having frank conversations with her about sex and what people do to manipulate others into having it saved me from my college professor because I could recognize he was trying to isolate me.
Kids are gonna find out about sex. They should find out about it in a safe space and from people they trust and they should be able to ask questions.
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