Praising men for cleaning the dishes he helped dirty up? Lol
They’re praising him for teaching his son to do the right thing. Why do you always seem so bitter about this shit?
[Dad teaches son to help mother]. Tumblr: fuck you!
By teaching his kid he’s actually ensuring there’s one more man in the world who doesn’t think he’s hot shit for minor cleaning. He’s teaching him that’s just something you do.
It also helps dismantle the myth men are helpless and can’t do basic tasks to take care of themselves.
So yeah the fact that he cleans after his wife cooks is hardly earth shattering. But the act of teaching his son to do the same is incredibly important and worthy of encouragement.
You know what?
No, it’s not earth-shatteringly awesome. No, it’s not even going above and beyond what’s entirely reasonable to expect of a grown-ass human in a supposedly-cooperative relationship like a marriage.
But since when do we have to reserve all praise for above-and-beyond, amazing, incredible acts? Why do people not deserve praise for small acts of kindness?
I propose that the norm should be to praise what’s good. Not gushingly, not exaggeratedly, but humans like acknowledgement and positive reinforcement is the most effective way to adjust behavior. People stop doing what they feel is unappreciated. People do more of what people give them appreciation for.
TransCanada’s $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline got the go-ahead from the Nebraska Public Service Commission on Monday, clearing the last regulatory hurdle in a nine-year effort to build a line needed the carry thick crude oil from Alberta’s tar sands region to refineries on the Texas gulf coast. But the five-member commission rejected TransCanada’s preferred route and voted to approve an alternative route that would move the pipeline further east. The route of the new pipeline, which would carry 830,000 barrels a day of crude, would not cross any part of the state’s ecologically delicate Sandhills region. The commission’s decision could complicate TransCanada’s plans for the pipeline, forcing it to arrange different approvals from landowners. But the commission’s decision could also enable President Trump to claim a victory on a campaign issue. Trump revived the project with an executive order during his first week in office. The 3-2 decision comes just four days after a rupture in the existing Keystone pipeline also owned by TransCanada leaked an estimated 5,000 barrels of crude oil in a rural part of northeast South Dakota. The spill, the latest in a series of leaks on the existing pipeline, raised concerns about other potential spills, economic impact, and climate change.
puritans: oh no people in england will not let us close all the playhouses and force everyone to wear underwear made of steel wool and generally dictate everything about what everyone else does. we must away to the new world where we can oppress people as much as we want
american history books: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM!
jews & all other Actually Oppressed religious groups: [look directly into the camera]
Has anyone made a videogame where you’re a princess locked at the top of a tower and have to fight your way down to ground level? Because dang.
Like, think about it: you’re given this nice little room and no objectives at all and when you open the door the guard says ‘stay in there’ so you wait and nothing happens and you open the door again and try and walk out and the guard pushes you back in and says things like ‘you’re our prisoner’ and ‘where are you going, you’re stuck here’ and ‘are you trying to meet your prince? he won’t ever get up THIS high’ and ‘get back inside before I get mad’. But you can pick up a vase of flowers, and you can swing it around. And the thing is all the guards are expecting the hero to be battling his way up, and all this one wimpy little guard at the top is posted to your room for is to push you back into your room, so you can smash him over the head because he’s just not expecting it, and then steal his weapons. And after that you find that the guards are always bigger and stronger than you—and they get bigger and stronger every level down—but you can generally manage to get the first shot in because they’re waiting for the hero, and you’re the princess. And maybe there’s puzzles and stuff too, but you have to solve them backwards, working your way along from end to start, because they’re all set up for the hero. And when you get the bottom and you have the fight of your life because the guards are massed up waiting for the hero, tons of them with awesome weapons and armor and spells and you think it’s the boss battle, but when they’re all dead and the final ground-level door is free to open the credits don’t roll. And you realize there must be one more fight outside the doors, too, before you’re free, so you equip the best armor and weapons and potions you can find and go outside and you fight this one huge lone badass man on a badass horse in the sunlight. Then he’s finally defeated, and lying in the grass, and his horse is yours, and the credits still aren’t rolling. And you look at his corpse and you see he’s got a locket on, and in that locket is a picture of your face.
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