spiletta42:

ladyartemisia28:

apersnicketylemon:

ineedtothinkofatitle:

dear caretakers of children: stop telling kids “I don’t care who started it!”. you’re teaching children to ignore unequal power balances. that leads to legitimate belief in things like reverse racism, misandry, heterophobia, etc. you’re teaching children that it’s wrong to retaliate when they are wronged. “who started it” is very, very relevant.

It can also teach them that defending themselves is wrong and set them up for abuse later in life.

It always matters who started it. One person is defending themselves, and one person instigated it. When you tell them you “don’t care who started it” you’ve taught one of them that if they defend themselves they will be punished for doing so. You’ve taught the other one that they can do whatever they wish to others, no one will punish only them for it, their victim will be seen as equally accountable for what happened.

Is that really a lesson you want your kids to absorb?

Wow that is strange that it seems so normal to hear “I don’t care who started it!”

I…. wish I would have heard this more….

All these “zero tolerance policies” really ram home these same terrible lessons.  In many schools, getting punched in the face is punished equally with punching someone in the face.

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katradford:

theradicalspinster:

I want more movies in which women kill men in a realistic manner. Enough with super skinny girls in incredibly impractical outfits that take out men twice their size with their bare hands. To be fair, even that is not a particularly common scenario, but sometimes it feels like this is the only one at all. And it simply is not convincing, it’s not threatening. Men will never have to fear such a situation and my impressions is, that they perceive scenarios like this as pathetic and ridiculous - and they wouldn’t be completely wrong, would they? The odds are clearly stacked against the woman.

What I want, hence, are movies that turn the tables and that show realistic and ideally accessible ways in which woman can take out a bigger, stronger attacker or antagonist. Let’s list some possibilities:

• Give the woman a weapon, ideally a gun, and a backstory that explains why she has the gun and why she can handle it. Or have her shoot several bullets at the guy who will then succumb to an array of random injuries inflicted by an amateur. I don’t care as long as it’s believable.
  
• Strenght in numbers: One woman might not be strong enough to overpower the guy, but what about three or four?
• Run him over with a car or trample him to death by horse (approximately 80% of all riders are female).
• Ambush: Let her use the element of suprise to her advantage, attack him from behind or in his sleep.
  
• Does he drive a car? A motorcycle? Does he practice a dangerous sport? In that case messing with his vehicle or equipment is an obvious way to get rid of him - especially if our beloved female killer knows or learns a bit about the stuff she’s sabotaging, so that she can accomplish her goals in a subtle, yet effective way.
• Don’t forget the classic solution: poison is a girl’s best friend.
  

In the Handmaid’s Tale, June kills a commander much bigger than her in a realistic way. She uses her six inch heels to hit him in the face, then uses a fountain pen to stab him while he’s on the floor and then uses a vase to crush him in the face. She used many weapons, not just brute Force cuz she couldn’t manage to overpower him with that

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hazeldomain:

oockitty:

coldalbion:

grace-and-ace:

neddythestylish:

memelordrevan:

rosslynpaladin:

iamthethunder:

s8yrboy:

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science)  indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

I think it’s worth noting that many like me, who are diagnosed with ASD now, would probably have been seen as just a bit odd in centuries past. I’m only a little bit autistic; I can pass for neurotypical for short periods if I work really hard at it. I have a lack of talent in social situations, and I’m prone to sensory overload or you might notice me stimming.

But here’s the thing: life is louder, brighter and more intense and confusing than it has ever been. I live on the edge of London and I rarely go into the centre of town because it’s too overwhelming. If I went back in time and lived on a farm somewhere, would anyone even notice there was anything odd about me? No police sirens, no crowded streets that go on for miles and miles, no flickery electric lights. Working on a farm has a clear routine. I’d be a badass at spinning cloth or churning butter because I find endless repetition soothing rather than boring.

I’m not trying to romanticise the past because I know it was hard, dirty work with a constant risk of premature death. I don’t actually want to be a 16th century farmer! What I’m saying is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Our environment isn’t making people autistic in the sense of some chemical causing brain damage. But we have created a modern environment which is hostile to autistic people in many ways, which effectively makes us more disabled. When you make people more disabled, you start to see more people struggling, failing at school because they’re overwhelmed, freaking out at the sound of electric hand dryers and so on. And suddenly it looks like there’s millions more autistic people than existed before.

“…disability exists in the context of the environment.”

Reblog for disability commentary.

That last paragraph is absolutely important.

“How come nobody ever heard of ‘dyslexia’ until widespread literacy became a thing?”

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anarchotroublemakerism:

engulfes:

English is so fucked up for not having a bon appetit/guten appetit/eet smakelijk esque saying

#well you can’t say bon appetit to someone who’s about to eat english food :/

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lunaticobscurity:

noroithecurse2005-deactivated20:

noroithecurse2005-deactivated20:

wtf uma musume is an isekai for dead racehorses????

imagine peacing out at the glue factory and then you miraculously wake up and look like this

kendallroy:

kendallroy:

so tired of Posts that are like “no more strong female characters who punch things! only write female characters who are soft and nurturing and kind and good at non-violent conflict resolution” as if those are the only two types of women: mommy and punchy

this is exactly what we need

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polarcell:

I want genre movies with all the genre conventions but set in historical period pieces. I want paranormal horror in the mesopotamia. I want an ancient greek heist movie. I want a scifi invasion film set during the 1500s, I want fast and the furious type movie but set in 1800s napoleonic france.

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rilianedautriche:

how-to-be-a-grouch:

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton

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