Overprotective Dad getting out the shotgun when his baby girls first bf shows up at age 14 isn’t ‘cute’. Modest Dad telling his sweet precious daughter to cover up her shoulders isn’t ‘sweet’. Concerned Daddy wanting to know where his baby is and who she’s with at all times isn’t ‘good parenting’. Loving supportive father who gave his sweetheart a promise ring and danced with her at the chastity ball isn’t ‘old fashioned but harmless’.
Fathers who think they are entitled to their daughters bodies are the scum of the earth and need to stop.
No doubt with a heavy dose of “Idgaf, so why would I evenpay attention to time zones? Listening to me jack my jaws at all hours is obviously the most important thing these fools could possibly be doing.”
It’s good that people are getting aware of this book again, real good, but lemme give y’all some historical context: Buzz Windrip is a caricature of Woodrow Wilson and a lot of the book is lampooning the Wilson presidency.
Y’know how we keep tryna tell y’all that Trump is not the disease, he’s just a symptom? Well, the title of this book is actually a bit of black comedy, because it totally did happen here.
Why do (esp white) men love having fights about politics where they change topics 6x to confuse you and then try and make you look dumb because you can’t jump between the points bc you’re too busy arguing the separate distinct points bc you thought that’s what the fight was about
“The Gish gallop allows a debater to hit their opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths and misrepresentations in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate. In practice, each point raised by the “Gish galloper” takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place,[4] which wastes the opponent’s time and can cast doubt about their debating ability in an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved.[5] …If one is familiar with an opponent who is known to use the Gish gallop, the technique can be countered somewhat by preempting and refuting their commonly used arguments before they have the chance.[7]“
Or sometimes it could help to point out that they’re doing it, though I suspect the kind of person who does this is the kind of person who responds to “Wow, you’re Gish galloping” with “ad hominem!”
People who do this know they look like they’re winning to the audience. They make lots of short snappy inaccurate points and you’re fumbling to refute with full facts and explanations.
add. to the previous response:
Oh my god there’s a word for it!???
My ex did this in every single damn fight we had and then wondered why I wouldn’t talk things out in person. I needed time and space to get shit straight in my head.
poking at it with a fork to ascertain the flexibility and chewiness
considering its similarities to other foods I’ve disliked
considering its differences from other foods I’ve liked
knowing that there is an ingredient in it that I hate
trying to chop it with a knife and feeling the gristliness and hearing that telltale horrible creaking noise of gristle and noping right out of that situation
this is how humans naturally decided whether or not to eat unfamiliar foods in the wild thousands of years ago
our senses interact with each other to protect us, so your nose alerts you to an incoming bad taste before you put it in your mouth so you don’t end up eating the bad thing and dying
this is how we survived as a species
it is perfectly rational
it makes perfect sense
so stop
tl:dr – If it doesn’t stink like food, doesn’t look like food, doesn’t sound like food – it ain’t food.
I’m finally trying to get a water change done on the 180L, so of course Sink Boy needs to help 🙀
He was drinking out of the bucket, but decided to switch over to the faucet while I was trying to get a photo
I mean, I was aware that could happen if a fresh tattoo gets infected while it’s healing. But, I didn’t know it was even possible for a skin problem much later on to bring up ink.
not enough tick hate on this website. everyone hates wasps or spiders but I rarely see issue with tiny undetectable blood sucking demons who hang out in beautiful plant-filled places and spread deadly disease with a single bite. wasps might punch you in the face occasionally but ticks will steal your lunch money and total your car and poison your food and use all the hot water and as the planet warms up these little devil suckpods are hitching rides anywhere their horrible little feet can plop themselves down and camp out for the next victim of their terrible curses.
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