My opinion is a ‘family pet’ is going to be cared for primarily by the adults, so the ‘best’ family pet is one that the adults will be able to care for well, and remain interested in.
Even if the ‘intention’ is to have the kids responsible for part of its care, ultimate responsibility must remain with the adults. Adults don’t get to put any blame on the kids for what happens to the pet if they forget to do something, or if the pet gets sick. They can’t expect kids to be completely responsible for the pet’s entire life.
It’s depressingly common how often I see families that expect an 8 year old to be making serious decisions about a pet, or who have just thrown kids in the deep end with pet care and expect them to ‘learn’ when things are going wrong. This is unfair for everyone involved.
So the ‘best’ family pet is something that the adults are prepared to take on.
Day: July 14, 2017
OK, getting down for a nap is finally starting to look like a reasonable plan after the disruption earlier. (And trying to deal with the blood sugar crash.) At after 3 p.m. 🙄
Very convenient. But, fuck it–I got less than 4 hours of sleep earlier. Still kind of glad Mr. C had some plans after work, so I’m not stressing myself trying to work my crazy schedule around anyone else’s today.
can we stop ??? lumping bi/pan ?? With aro/ace/demi ?? like stop using us ??? To further your argument ???? please ?? its honestly so irritating to see people comparing biphobia to aphobia ?? like theyre in no way similar ?? like huge difference ?? The bi discourse was trying to kick out people that do feel s/mga ??? and well ace discourse is ?? trying to kick out ??? straight cis people ???
I mean you’re literally wrong but go off i guess
I remember dealing with exclusionary LG’s and they basically said the same thing. They were kicking out “confused straight people”.
And even once that was over I remember similar arguments about how trans people don’t belong because it’s not a sexuality.
The LGBT is a constructed group, and you don’t have to believe that ace people belong, but this argument is classic essentialism and every time I hear it I’m reminded that the only reason it’s not applied to me is because the bi and trans communities won those arguments.
Hey op maybe stop telling bi and pan people to shut up about their experiences and how they present them and compare them. Silencing bi/pan people who make points against your personal views about a-specs is literally proving the point
also my dad got so used to 1970s Chicago police taking ‘bribes’ that when he moved to LA and got pulled over for a busted taillight and he slipped some cash underneath his license the cop was like “I see youre from Chicago so Im going to warn you to never try that again here”
Apparently he never learned the pro Chicago strat, which was to have two wallets.
One wallet was your normal wallet you used.
The other just had your license, registration, and $20, and lived in the glove compartment. You hand *that* one to the cop. It would either come back full, with a ticket, or empty, without one.
The so-called “pro-life” movement’s philosophy.
One of the best political cartoons that I’ve seen.
You know what pisses me off about this? Really, REALLY pisses me off? That’s George (H.W.) Bush holding that umbrella. He was president 1981-1989. Do you get that?
It means that the right have not budged an inch on their ridiculous pro-foetus, anti-actual-persons position in THIRTY GODDAMN YEARS. We should not still be having this argument! Thirty year old political cartoons should be bafflingly opaque, not crystal clear!
^ Reblogging again for that comment.
* He was vice president from 81-89. He was president from 89-93.
That was also not too long after the Republican Party decided they should go anti-abortion at all. And the situation has gotten way worse over the past 30 years.
[Gary] Younge argues that enterprising Republicans were also keen to use the abortion issue to strip Roman Catholic voters from the Democratic Party. In the early 1970s, he points out, both mainstream Republicans like George H. W. Bush and Richard Nixon were pro-choice, and abortion was a non-issue with everyone but Catholic Bishops.
(Revisionist memory: White evangelicals have always been at war with abortion)
Basically, that idea didn’t work out so well–but then the Protestant Religious Right went anti-abortion! And the Republicans spent the ‘80s trying so hard to court that vote. So, here we are now 😩
And once again, I am kind of taken aback by someone expressing surprise that this clip was from 1992. What do some people think was happening in 1992? With a number of things, the Overton window has shifted in some different directions since then than they seem to assume. That’s at least part of it, the best I can tell.
(That’s hardly the only example, but it popped up on my dash again.)
Some notes from a talk at the Socialism 2017 conference in Chicago.
An interview by NPR with Robin Kelley about this topic can be found here.
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I’m thrilled people are paying attention to Robin Kelley’s work. He’s a brilliant scholar and genuinely nice person who doesn’t get the recognition he deserves outside of the academy.
Out of respect to Professor Kelley, I would ask that people NOT download the PDF of Hammer and Hoe. The book is still in print. The Kindle edition is available on Amazon for $11.33. Used paper copies are available for less than $19. As far as academic history books go this is VERY affordable. He’s a great writer, so I’d say the book is worth this pretty reasonable price.
I understand that some people are not able to pay those prices, but in that case, I would recommend taking the book out at an academic library or requesting it for your local library.
It is disrespectful to Kelley to make his work–the results of YEARS of labor–available for free. Please don’t do this.
ETA: The same applies to the author of Red Chicago, of course. I talked about Prof. Kelley because I am familiar with him as a scholar and am lucky enough to have talked with him in person a few times, but of course all scholars deserve the same courtesy.
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