The story of William Barak and the Wurundjeri people in Victoria is instructive. Adopting British language, customs, religion, and becoming successful farmers got them precisely nothing: the Victorian state punished them for their success by withholding the fruits of their labour, giving their farmland to white farmers and forcibly relocating them to poor land much further away from Melbourne.
I’m not over this review of a self groomer for a three legged cat. Look at him. He hasn’t been able scratch his left side by himself since he lost his leg but now he can and he is living life the fullest. That is the face of a cat who has finally scratched an itch.
istg, there’s a generation of up-and-coming cartoon creators who are gonna draw all their inspiration from White House Xmas decorations anytime they need a supervillain lair.
A guy is taking his girlfriend to prom. He waits in the ticket line for a really long time but gets them. He goes to rent a limo. The rental line is really long but he eventually does it. He goes to buy her flowers. The line at the florist is really long but eventually he gets the flowers. At prom, she asks him to go get punch. He goes to the refreshment table and there’s no punchline.
if you not paying for my groceries or my rent so i don’t have to work as hard so i could go work out do not come in my inbox with this bullshit. go finger wag some skinny bitch with heart disease or a high cholesterol. im good.
I literally have the worst eating habits and never drink water and no one I mean not a single medical professional has EVER encouraged me to lose weight they only say that to people who are bigger and gloss over all of there other health concerns and strictly focus on losing weight and weirdo’s like you need to stop repeating the same fatphobic bullshit Doctors say to any woman especially any black woman who isn’t a fucking rail. You don’t know shit about shit and you especially don’t know not a goddamn thing about Taylor’s health. Please do us all a favor and go choke on your sweaty yoga pants! Thank u!
Please do not talk about a child’s weight in front of them, or tell them they need to go on a diet.
Talking about weight in front of children is associated with mental and physical health risks, and both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Pediatric Society recommend against all weight talkaround children.
Starting an ED in a child doesn’t necessarily look like outright mocking a child’s weight- it can be mild comments like “Have you lost weight?” with an approving tone, telling your child they have to play a sport so they don’t “gain weight and grow up unhealthy”, or always commenting on a young girl’s “dainty” figure when you notice how little she naturally eats. Just cut weight talk out of your vocabulary around kids please.
This includes talking about your OWN weight too. Don’t comment about how you can’t have a brownie because it will ‘go right to your hips’, don’t count your calories in front of kids, don’t do any of it. They will absorb it.
What about “you’re very small, pls eat more” (I can see his ribs) (he doesnt eat a lot + i work with him to find things he actually likes that still have nutrients) plus I talk A Lot about body positivity, about how all bodies are good bodies, I’m fat and I call myself fat but in a positive/neutral way + discuss how fat is an adjective and that other folks are the ones who make it negative. I squish my tummy and talk about how it keeps me warm, and how I’m fun to hug. My concern about his weight is not aesthetic based, but rather legitimate concern over his health (he takes ADHD meds so I Have to be concerned about him losing weight) (I know a lot of fatphobia/body shaming comes under the guise of health concerns, but if he gets sick and cant eat he doesn’t have a lot to keep him from dying and this terrifies me) I guess I’m wondering if this instance of weight discussion with a child is acceptable due to the nuance I provided. If not, pls help me find ways to share my concerns with him.
To me, at least, that sounds enough different that it doesn’t really seem like a problem. That’s coming out of legitimate and probably well-founded concerns about the child’s wellbeing, not appearance and concern trolling.
A focus on staying strong and well-nourished doesn’t sound like a bad thing at all, as long as the message stays positive and not shaming the kid for having trouble getting enough food in with the meds.
That said, I can also understand why it might feel hard to find a good balance there. Especially with how prevalent the other kind of interactions around weight and food can be–and especially if you’ve had too much personal experience of the shaming kind
“A quarter of Hungarians estimated that the world is more than 20% Jewish, and a fifth of British and Polish respondents said so.”
They were off by a factor of 100. About 0.2% of the world’s population is Jewish, according to the Pew Research Center’s Global Religious Landscape study.
A family of Armenian refugees have been sheltering in Bethel Church
in The Hague for 27 days, avoiding a deportation order because
officials are not legally permitted to interrupt a service – and the
church has been holding a nonstop, continuous service for the whole 27
days.
The Tamrazyan family sought refuge in the Netherlands after the father’s
political activism led to death threats against him and his family.
They were granted asylum, but this was struck down when the Dutch
government appealed the asylum decision as part of a trend to attack
immigration as a sop to far-right xenophobic elements in Dutch politics.
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