Month: July 2018

I would go further with this one.

If kids are limited to “simple plots, with clearly defined teachable morals, uncomplicated characters, explicit statements on what you should take away from the story, etc. etc.”…how/when are they going to learn to deal with more complexity or ambiguity?

That seems like an excellent way to get adults who do continue to have trouble with this. And who too often do want to restrict everyone else’s access For Their Own Good. It’s kinda self-perpetuating, no matter the ideological details that behavior comes wrapped up in.

I mean, I have written a little before about how disconcerting some common base assumptions can be, to a former hyperlexic kid with some weird special interests raised by a librarian. (With a decent grounding in critical thinking, very much including “anybody sufficiently motivated can write any type of horseshit they want, and likely get it published”.) Not going to repeat half of that now.

But, I am personally not so sure that “[a]lso, children should not be reading material dealing with that stuff anyway” is a safe starting assumption.

baapi-makwa:

baapi-makwa:

Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.

I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.

Still low on some supplies, really need to go food shopping, any help is greatly appreciated, miigwech (thank you).

bitter-badfem-harpy:

jaggedlittlepills532795:

The generational divide isn’t real and I’m so tired of every liberal acting like its the cause of division in the US…like most baby boomers are poor. Impoverished even. There are disgustingly rich Millenials. the average baby boomers life was ruined by the housing crash and recession and honestly if your parents aren’t going to be working until their late 60s or even 70s so they can afford to survive you’re probably too wealthy to be in touch with the rest of us but pretend to be working class online. i know one person in the baby boomer age range that doesn’t think its impossible for anyone to survive in this economy. also you all keep lumping literal 80 year olds in with baby boomers and its absolutely wild. just log off

My parents are in their sixties and I can bet you money they didn’t have the resources to fuck the future economy, but they sure as shit felt the housing crash and the Great Recession.

My 90yo grandmother tries to live on ~$500 each month from social security (because my grandfather didn’t like paying taxes but that’s a-whole-nother tirade). When was she destroying the economy: when she was floor manager at RCA or managing the books for my grandfather’s multiple small business?

It has always been the same small number of people, with more money than the rest of the earth put together, who have been fucking things up for everyone.

The divide is not by age it is by income.

empress-homogay:

lactose intolerant people in fiction: i can never eat dairy…i order cheese-less pizza and cry myself to sleep   

me, a real life lactose intolerant person: *chugs my 10th straight glass of chocolate milk* lmao see you in hell god