Don’t tell Native butches to cut their hair short.
Don’t comment on their hair at all tbh. Whether it’s long or short or shaven or braided or any mix.
It is callous and unneeded. You do not need to understand how hair plays into our gender expression and culture.
Tag: seriously though
Things You Forgot You Used To Do
I mean I certainly remember getting yelled at for not going back to turn off the computer once it was finally done shutting down.
Why you gotta hurt me like this
The Titanic tapes tho lmao
I OWNED THAT EXACT SAME SAMSUNG HOLY SHIT
Omg nostalgia
I know I’m old because my reaction was “that wasn’t that long ago was it?”
hi!! not trying to be rude!! But I wanted to know if you’re aware that the voltron account is managed by a very real person with feelings and issues that is probably paid p averagely and it might be No Good for them to see stuff like ‘choke’ or ‘die’ bc you don’t know what people, like the very real person who manages their account, might be going thru! i also wanted to know why do u think that having morals and disagreeing with death baiting must b shallies? sorry for my bad english,not fluent!
hi! your english is fine, dont worry about that. heres my response:
im fully aware that the voltron social media accounts are managed by very real people, who i think its safe to assume, are adults. i highly doubt they pay attention to comments made by people in the fandom, ive never seen the tumblr respond to one, and the twitter maybe once.
even if the comments are read, i doubt even more that the person running the account takes them personally. im not entirely sure how social media accounts for shows and corporations work, but im pretty sure the person posting the stuff doesnt decide on their own what to post, and i doubt that me, an angry 15 year old, is going to have absolutely any effect on them and their daily life. what i said had about the same impact of @ing the mcdonalds twitter and telling it to die, as in, it would literally have no effect.
also, im not sure where i ever blamed death baiting on sha/adins. i havent mentioned that anywhere on my blog in a long, long time, so im not really sure what youre referring to in that last bit
“I don’t think the person I told to die is gonna take it personally”
Hi! Um, I’m someone who has handled social media for various organizations for a living, so I wanted to respond to this.
First: every organizational social media account reads every comment. It’s part of the job description. I have never worked on an account where the expectation wasn’t that every comment would be read, even if responding wasn’t an expectation.
Second: while it is almost certainly an adult doing this, it’s still never a nice feeling to have that kind of vitriol directed at you! Especially because there’s every chance that the social media manager works closely with the voltron team, which isn’t a huge group. They probably care about the show just like you! Basically, if you wouldn’t say it to a retail workers face, don’t say it to a corporate social media account.
Third: I don’t know about their account specifically, but in some of my jobs if somebody made a threatening comment or an outright threat I had to go through a logging process for legal reasons.
Fourth: have you….. ever tweeted at McDonald’s? They respond to EVERYTHING. They find you if you mention them. It might not ruin anyone’s day entirely if you threatened the McDonald’s account, but you can bet that they’d see it and know.
I’m confused about this kind of mentality because if they think their words don’t have any impact, why are they so fixated on telling people to die to the point where they defend it? Why would you do a thing if you thought it didn’t have any effect, and then turn around and pretend this is for a cause? If nothing comes of it, how does it benefit a cause?
Raw sewage, hookworm and civil rights: UN official shocked at poverty in rural Alabama
“I think it’s very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I’d have to say that I haven’t seen this,” Philip Alston, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.
The tour through Alabama’s rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States. So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
Of particular concern to Alston are specific poverty-related issues that have surfaced across the country in recent years, such as an outbreak of hookworm in Alabama in 2017—a disease typically found in nations with substandard sanitary conditions in South Asia and Subsaharan Africa.
The U.N. investigation aims to study the effects of systemic poverty in a prosperous nation like the United States.
90% of the poorest areas in America are in Republican Red zones.
B-b-b-b-b-b-but poverty in the Red States isn’t all that bad, right?
Right?
ErrrrrJesus christ, and to think how many billionaires we have in the US while this is happening
How is anyone surprised by this though?
Do people not look around?
Or is this really not prevalent anywhere but the South? It’s damn near everywhere you look in the South. I had friends in the high school with houses that when you flushed the toilet it went from a pipe in the trailer out to a ravine out back. I remember burning our trash. And it wasn’t unusual. I mean I’m in my thirties and it’s not uncommon for me to meet people in my generation who are the first in their family to have indoor plumbing.
The republicans aren’t blind. They aren’t naive. They’re just greedy. You can’t amass that kind of wealth by giving it away to the less fortunate. And don’t be tricked into thinking the wealthy Democrats are any better. Politicians will say whatever it takes to get voted into a position, and then they’ll vote however they need to in order to keep the money rolling in.
Raw sewage, hookworm and civil rights: UN official shocked at poverty in rural Alabama
I’m very interested in your opinion on this: What is your stance on sex work and how it should be handled? As in, should it be legalized or at least decriminalized (there is apparently a disagreement over this, with some saying outright legalization would lead to more exploitation). IMO, I have nothing against sex work in and of itself, and it seems to me that certain level of legalization would prevent sex workers from pimps, sex slavery and such.
I think that sex work should just be legal, on both ends, it is legal to advertise that you are a sex worker and it is legal to solicit sex workers, and then whatever harms we expect to come of this, we should address directly. Teenagers are fleeing their abusive homes and then ending up doing survival sex work? That is awful, let’s have shelters and support for them so that they do not have to. People addicted to drugs are being abused and exploited? That is awful, let’s arrange them safe and legal access to the drugs they are addicted to so they don’t have to do dangerous things to get drugs. People are abusing sex workers? Let’s arrest them for assault.
I follow some sex workers, and virtually all of them want full legalization immediately. This seems like a case of ‘listen to the people who are actually affected by this’ if there ever were one.
There’s a reasonable response to this, which is “okay, but live in the real world. The police are terrible, the law is terrible, the system is terrible, even if we legalized sex work we would not be taking any of those other steps. Even if legalizing sex work would be good in an ideal world that also sought to give sex workers more options, it might be bad in the real world, which doesn’t.”
But I don’t think this is true. Right now, sex workers who are raped or assaulted by clients can’t go to the police because they might get in trouble for sex work. Right now, sex workers are often raped or assaulted by the police. Right now, it is hard for sex workers to vet their clients because clients don’t want to give out enough information to vet them because they are breaking the law. Industries that are legal are not free of abuse, but they are better than sex work all by themselves. Getting rid of the negative effects that directly result from criminalization makes sex workers’ life better, even if we don’t go on to fix other problems.
I also think that it’d be easier to get subsequent problems fixed if sex work were legal, because sex workers’ organizations could openly organize, openly lobby, and openly fight for their rights and protections if it were not illegal for them to be sex workers at all.
Legalization will lead to more sex work. That’s because currently there are people who would choose to do sex work if they weren’t risking jail for it, and people who’d choose to hire sex workers if they weren’t risking jail for it. If you think all sex work is exploitation and no other work that people do to pay their bills is exploitation, then yes, legalization will lead to more exploitation. I still do not think it’s okay to try to reduce the amount of sex work in the world by ruining peoples’ lives for it.
Also, people are very different from each other. There are people for whom doing sex work would be very harmful; there are people for whom it’s great; there are people for whom it’s a shitty job that pays the rent and beats the other shitty jobs that pay the rent. The important thing is that it is not my business to decide which of those experiences are legitimate and then throw people in prison and ruin their lives for doing something that I think they should be prevented from doing. My business is giving people more options, and if I ever, ever find myself saying “people taking this option is harmful, so I will have cops break down doors with guns and stop it”, then I need to stop and figure out if I’m really sure about that.
I truly cannot imagine why this account just decided to follow Random Low-Follower Vague Leftie here. 0_o No other interactions so far, which may be a good thing from the sound of it.
Probably the weirdest one in a while, about on par with that Tea Party organization in New Jersey when that was a thing. Not that inclined to follow this one back, either.
Texas School Destroys ADHD With This OLD SCHOOL Remedy
Old school is the best school.
i read this and was not surprised in the least.
Let them run. No, really… that’s it.
While most school districts across the country are cutting back on recess time and ramping up the Ritalin, one Texas school has kindergartners and first graders sitting still and “incredibly attentive.”
What’s their secret? Their recess time has tripled.
Instead of 20 minutes of recess per day, Eagle Mountain Elementary kindergartners and first graders now get an hour, broken up into four 15-minute breaks, in addition to lunchtime.
Their teachers say it’s totally transformed them.
The kids are less fidgety, less distracted, more engaged in learning and make more eye contact.
Eagle Mountain is one of dozens of schools in Texas, Oklahoma and California testing out extra recess time as part of a three-year trial. The pilot program is modeled after the Finnish school system, whose students get some of the best scores in the world in reading, math and science.
Wait…are you telling me that allowing kids to have fun play time to channel their exuberance makes them better learners? That we should treat kids like kids instead of like tiny adults and then doping them up to eyes in meds “to help them focus”?
MADNESS!! /s
But in all seriousness though, I’m surprised that people are surprised that letting kids play for a bit is a better solution than putting them on Ritalin or something.
I fucking adore this.
I think it’s great schools are finally figuring out the obvious – that all children need more play time and that letting them play longer will increase the amount of attention any child can give. That’s legitimately great.
My only problem is that this is being described as “destroying” adhd. At best this will reduce the amount of misdiagnosis. As beneficial as the additional active time will be for students with adhd (very) it won’t reduce most symptoms, problems with executive function, emotional control, short term memory, etc. will all still be there.
Nevertheless this is a really great thing for all children and I hope everyone starts doing it.
Yeah, even though proper recess is beneficial to everyone it’s no ADHD cure it is claimed to be here. I would know since I am from Finland where this amount of recess is very much the norm ( We had lunch, one 30 min recess and two 15 min) but I also have ADHD(as do many other finnish children) and could be very disruptive in a class as a child no matter how much I could run around during recess. More likely the kids whose ADHD seems to completely disappear due this were misdiagnosed from the get go and wouldn’t have benefitted from medication anyways. Kids who actually have ADHD will continue having it no matter how much recess they have and it’s unrealistic to expect that this would fix it to the point where no kid needs medication.
My recent story about medical fatphobia
I got a new primary care doctor so I went in for my first appointment to establish care. The doctor orders a mass of blood tests, for every single reason he stated it was due to my obesity. (I’m 5’6" and 280lbs)
He kept making comments about how my A1C is probably in the diabetic range, how my cholesterol is probably high, my sodium is probably too high, ect. When I came in the nurse has taken my blood pressure and when he took a look at it he made a side comment of “your blood pressure is surprisingly good, I’m impressed.” Literally no one is trying to impress you, that’s just how my blood pressure has always been: normal.
I got the results back and I wish I could have seen the doctor’s face when he read them but instead he had a nurse call me to go over the results. Everything was fine. I am not diabetic, my cholesterol is fine, my sodium is fine, even my thyroid levels were good. Literally the only thing wrong was my vitamin D levels. Normal is 30-100 and I was hitting 18. So a vitamin D supplement is all I need.
Being fat isn’t an indicator of unhealthiness.
Finding people on the streets and smoking crack with them is probably better for your brain than finding people on the internet to argue about politics with
Preventable Death. From Grilled Cheese.
Preventable Death: Grilled Cheese
If you are told a child in your care has a severe food allergy, believe them. Don’t kill a three-year-old with a grilled cheese sandwich.
According to his parents, staff at the preschool knew about his severe dairy allergy, but an adult gave him the cheese sandwich anyway. He ate it, went into anaphylactic shock, and died in the emergency room. No word on whether they gave him epinephrine. (New…
Horrific.
Why is this so vague? Why does it need to be “investigated to see what went wrong and what might have been done differently?” The person who gave him the allergen knew he had the allergy and gave it to him anyway. Why not ask them what the fuck they were thinking?
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