This meme leapt into my head earlier at work, so I had to make it
it is simply not possible to angst out about the spectre of human cognitive decline, or mental atrophy or whatever you want to call it, in any non-reactionary way. "will relying on ai cause our intellectual faculties to regress" congrats you are doing degeneration theory. let's unpack your views on disabled people
To expand on the crumbling of the patriarchal edifice of the family.
If society agrees that children can know themselves, and have a right to self determination…. Everything else that Conservatives argue they have a right to exert over children crumbles. As just two examples….
ALL corporal punishment rightfully becomes recognised for the assault it is.
Failure to appropriately consider the wishes of children in medical care and provide information in an age appropriate way is recognised as child abuse and malpractice.
Children are entire people, they deserve all of the rights, privileges and protections afforded to adults.
I haven't seen this version anywhere so I made one!
This flag is pissing off TERFs of course but i am seeing so much colorful JOY from trans lesbians and other lesbians in the notes like I've never seen a set of tags so happy before omg
Yall I have today and tomorrow to get $389!! Please!!!
$20/389!!
at the end of the day i’m vegan bc i am against the commodity status of animals, and if u can’t understand that then i’m not interesting in hearing ur opinions on veganism.
also ppl need to learn to differentiate between a commodity and a necessity. if my medication has animal byproducts in it i am still going to take it bc that’s a necessity for me. i am vaccinated bc that’s a necessity for me. for someone else who doesn’t have access to affordable produce, meat is a necessity for them. but it’s not a necessity for me, so i don’t use it. it’s not hard to understand the concept
I wish allistic people understood that infodumping about a special interest is a lot closer to baring your soul than sharing fun facts
Like the information itself isnt the point, its the conduit through which im trying to communicate with you. Its a love language.
What neurotypicals think it is: “I’m gonna ramble about this one specific thing that you’re not even interested in.”
What it actually is: “this is a thing that makes me happy, and I want to share my happiness with you because I feel comfy around you and I love you”
Hey, today I learned that my catalogued lack of dating experience is cited in an academic paper
Jokes aside, this quote is how the researchers kick off an exploration of the under-researched concept of “friends to partners” with a call to social researchers to reframe their (apparently exclusive) focus on “dating” as the sole initiating event of romantic relationships. It’s actually a very interesting paper; apparently social scientists and pop culture focus their attention on the process of “dating”, a frankly heteronormative lens that insists on very specific behaviours and scenarios, in which single people market themselves to each other at bars. Meanwhile, in the actual people surveyed in the study, it appears far more common for people to prefer “friends to lovers” as a relationship pathway.
“Our research reveals that relationship initiation studies published in popular journals (Study 1) and cited in popular textbooks (Study 2) overwhelmingly focus on romance that sparks between strangers and largely overlook romance that develops between friends. This limited focus might be justified if friends-first initiation was rare or undesirable, but our research reveals the opposite. In a meta-analysis of seven samples of university students and crowdsourced adults (Study 3; N = 1,897), two thirds reported friends-first initiation, and friends-first initiation was the preferred method of initiation among university students (Study 4). These studies affirm that friends-first initiation is a prevalent and preferred method of romantic relationship initiation that has been overlooked by relationship science. We discuss possible reasons for this oversight and consider the implications for dominant theories of relationship initiation.”
Like holy cow did you guys KNOW that relationship science was dominated by studies on dating? A thing that in which good grades are not possible to achieve?
And it’s kind of good for ME to hear as well! As a (weird queer) person, dating always seemed so artificial and undesirable to me, but so important to everyone else, that it was clearly just One Of Those Things that is programmed into the Normal Hetero Brain that folks like me simply miss out on, forever. But possibly not! Possibly “dating” is one of those heavily marketed products that nobody particularly wants. Like the Metaverse. And nobody, until these plucky social scientists, has been brave enough to call it out!!
But yes. At the expense of elodie glass’s dating history being notably sparse (Stinson, 2021).
I hid for so long, eager to be found.
The first time I saw myself in the mirror.
Avelyn and Elizabeth.
It’s been a year since I posted this animation and I still love how it turned out. I should make a new one x)
Tonight in sentences that my partner said to me that fucking shake my brain and completely alter how I view myself:
"Removing exclusionary language means including yourself"
i know kindness exists because i am kind
“people aren’t good”
i am people. i am good
you are wrong
if you are capable of it then so are others
be your own proof of concept
to everyone who’s responded to this post with “people are terrible” and “people who call themselves good are bad” and “everyone i’ve ever met is awful”
this post is for you specifically
i know we all hate reading comprehension on tumblr dot hell, but this post is not about other people. it’s not about the people who have hurt you, or saved you, or the ones you’ve met or those who you’ve invented in your head
this post is about you
if you cannot find evidence of the goodness around you, if you are jaded and your existence is miserable and you truly believe no one has ever showed you kindness, then this post is for and about you
you can’t control the actions of other people. you can’t make people show you kindness in the ways you want to receive it. if you look for proof of your version of kindness in the people who surround you, and can’t find it, you can decide it doesn’t exist
or you can be your own proof of concept
you are not special
there are at least hundreds of thousands of people who are just like you
so if you can choose to show others kindness - if you can bite back your temper and hold the door open for others and overtip and compliment strangers - then that is proof that hundreds of thousands of people, who are just like you, are capable of doing the same and likely are doing the same
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again
the simplest way to increase the number of kind people in the world is to be one
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🏳️🌈
To all of us who’re just a mess ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎
Oh boy, this is getting notes again!
Hi, everyone, enjoy the little cartoon, avoid the notes and yes, I still fully identify as queer c: 🏳️🌈