Day: November 1, 2017

nerdymouse:

himluv:

dragginage:

dragginage:

please please please teach your children to cook while they still live under your roof. even the most elementary things can’t be overlooked. because i just had to show my 24 year old boyfriend how to use a potato peeler and now i need to lay down for an hour

i hate this post because it just proves that like.. no simple statement can just be absorbed and the general population of tumblr go ‘yeah that sounds about right.’ i’ve had nazis say it’s a woman’s job to cook, terfs say that it’s only ‘males’ who don’t know how to cook, people have accused me of being classist because some people don’t own potatio peelers, called a bitch for airing out my boyfriend’s dirty laundry (which if the most embarrassing thing i can procure about the guy is that he’s not great in the kitchen i’d say he’s okay lmao)

just shut up and teach your fucking children to cook holy shit dude

Also, I legitimately did not know how to BOIL WATER as an 18 year old. My boyfriend (now husband) has literally taught me how to cook anything I’ve ever made, because my mom was convinced that if I was allowed in the kitchen I would burn the house down.

Do you know how terrified I was of cooking? How convinced I was that I would only lead to disaster if unleashed upon the kitchen? Do you know how many nights I ate peanut butter from the jar because there weren’t any microwaveable meal options in the house?

Teach your children to fucking cook so they always have the ability to feed themselves.

This is why I think that every school should have home ec classes that everyone has to take. Make kids learn how to do laundry, cook, sew, and clean. There should also be classes on basic mechanics in high school as part of driver’s ed.

I want a home ec teacher who marches in with a bunch of stained laundry and say “you are going to learn how to remove stains today! Have fun!”

They apparently did have basically that as a required subject when my partner was going through school in Sweden. More practical stuff in general, AFAICT. With the idea that everyone should at least pick up some basic daily living skills to a point of being able to make a basic meal and sew their own buttons back on, etc. Kids would have apparently needed to be trying in order to leave school unable to boil water. (With promoting gender equality as an explicit educational goal, I must add.)

That only seems smart if you really do want to prepare kids for adult life, and obviously not everyone is going to learn everything they’re likely to need at home.

One paper I ran across while trying to find more info, from 2005: Evaluating the Practical and Artistic School Subjects in Sweden and Norway. I don’t know exactly how that compares to what they’re doing now, since his experiences were earlier:

It is specially pointed out in the curricula for the compulsory school in Sweden and Norway, how important the practical and artistic subjects are for people’s life in general…

[Specifically in Sweden] The results in home and consumer studies are only partly comparable with those of 1992. Since 1992 the subject has put greater emphasis on consumer issues…The subject is considered by many students and parents to be relatively important and useful – compared with science studies – art, music and crafts.

Assuming it’s handled decently, consumer studies (including a foundation in basic financial literacy) could also be very helpful elsewhere.

All my own education was in the US, and practical is really not something the system does that well with overall. It would certainly be great if this could change so that kids come out better prepared with basic life skills.

tehzii:

thelibrawrian:

i was thinking about the weirdest phone calls i got when i still worked at the public library and i remembered this one phone call. it was probably less than 20 seconds long, but it still makes me laugh.

anyways, this woman called and without even saying hello after i said the usual “public library, how can i help you?” spiel, she said, “i have a very important question: when you shelve books, do you push them all to the front of the shelf or all the way back?”

it took me a second to process the question and then i answered that, at the library, we always shelve them so that they are even with the front edge so they’re easier to grab and see. she was obviously delighted by this answer and then, as if an afterthought, she asked, “okay, what about you? what do you do at home with your books?” i said i did the same thing. she hummed in obvious agreement and then just like that she said “thank you!” and hung up.

i never heard from her again. i hope she won whatever argument she was having.

for about a year, i worked at a call center for sprint. i have a similar kind of story.

a woman called, and said she had a question about the call history on her bill. “sure, let me just pull up your account-” and she cut me off going, “no, no, it’s not anything specific, it’s just. so, if you change the time on your phone, does that change the time on the bill?”

“uh… no? the time on the phone doesn’t matter, the call history is recorded by the towers.”

“ohhhh” she said in the saltiest voice i have ever heard “so even if you changed the timezone it wouldn’t change the time on the bill? to, say, the middle of the night?”

i stg yall i looked into the camera like i was on the office. “um… no? it would still be the local time of the tower. is there anything else i can help you with?”

to me, overly chipper: “nope! thank you! have a great day!” turning on someone as she hung up: “she says yoU’RE A LYING SACK OF-”

i still mean-snicker every time i think about it.

kantala13:

bi-privilege:

bi-privilege:

i think the thing to remember about troll blogs is like…there’s not a distinction between “real biphobia” and “just trolling” like no one is sitting on the internet one day like “man i have nothing but 100% positive feelings about bisexuals but ima go make a blog dedicated to saying terribly biphobic shit because i’m super bored and it sounds like some harmless, good-natured fun that in no way negatively impacts actual bi people”

also, while arguing w trolls (or reblogging their posts to add gifs) does not change their minds, arguing with actual, sincere bigots isn’t typically productive either

I think what people miss sometimes is that arguing isn’t always about changing minds, sometimes its about showing that certain behavior won’t be tolerated. I may not be able to convince someone to stop belieiving sexist/biphobic/racist/ect things but I can make sure that they and anyone else around knows that acting on them won’t be tolerated or gain them social capital.

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And if we’re being honest that young lady Jazzy needs to sue the school and civilly Sue that nasty ass lump forehead lurch looking racist bitch. once you start putting bodily fluids on people’s things and in people’s things that is assault so if the police don’t want to do it she needs to do it herself civilly her and her parents and she needs to sue the school for trying to silence her and gag her because she wanted things done the right way and wanted ustice for somebody fucking rubbing Blood on her items and shoving her toothbrush up their ass like that’s a hate crime I don’t give a fuck that’s a hate crime.

The ACLU is now involved and more serious charges may be filed

They requested another charge

The case has national traction now so ol girl most likely is getting expelled and I love that their using photos like these

Put a face on that demon

They officially added the charge of intimidation based on bigotry and bias

As of this morning she is no longer a student at the University of Hartford and has been expelled