Given how dedicated @vdoozer.bsky.social, and the team behind Ted Lasso has been in addressing issues like toxic masculinity, misogyny, depression, immigration, bigotry and homophobia (among others), I truly hope to see a trans player on the speculated AFC Richmond women's team. #intersectionality
Trump's interpretation of Teddy's Roosevelt's approach to foreign policy;
Speak loudly and be a big prick.
#thinkingoutsidethemanbox
Destroying or disposing of books from once-beloved but revealed to be problematic authors could be exercising privilege.
It's good if you can gain catharsis from doing so, but please remember that others may not be able to do so.
Think about keeping them, and sitting with the discomfort instead.
Locked out of heaven by Bruno Mars is gross and hardcore incel vibes.
Happy #GravyDay everyone!
A bagel-shaped breadroll, with sparse amounts of poppy and sesame seeds.
Where are my #bagel fans? I ordered an everything bagel this morning, and got this.
On a scale of 1 to incendiary, how white-hot should my dissatisfaction be?
It's becoming increasingly clear that the health insurance industry in the US is some kind of Black Mirror Darwinian AI thing that WILL make people healthier. Eventually. Through the magic of eugenics. 😥
Misusing millennial slang in front of my teens is my new favourite hobby.
He had just poured a cold drink, left it on the bench while grabbing a snack. I took a small sip (dad tax ftw). When he complained, I told him it was his fault for leaving thirst traps lying around.
He was giving lowkey 🤦♂️.
Is it a surprise to literally anyone that young men are becoming increasingly interested in the daddy of all patriarchal organisations? The same men that are widening politically from the young women they claim to so desperately desire?
Control is NOT LOVE.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Men, when women put the same level of effort into IMD as men put into IWD.
Can I get a show of hands - who thinks that the world is basically unfair or basically fair?
Last week my 14yo son offered me a chip. I took two. He called me a charlatan.
I'm pretty ok with all of this. ❤️🍄
This isn’t just The Good Place.
It’s The Resistance Place.
Just saw this performed at the Bundanoon folkie... love it! "We are not a men's group", by the Spooky Men's Chorale.
youtu.be/tPndC34bdXI?...
Sorry to hear health bar is low, but I'm stoked that you have some time to refill it. ❤️🍄
jenroses Have I told y'all about my husband's Fork Theory? If I did already, pretend I didn't, I'm an old. So the Spoon Theory is a fundamental metaphor used often in the chronic pain/ chronic illness communities to explain to non-spoonies why life is harder for them. It's super useful and we use that all the time. But it has a corollary You know the phrase, ""Stick a fork in me, I'm done,' right? Well, Fork Theory is that one has a Fork Limit, that is, you can probably cope okay with one fork stuck in you, maybe two or three, but at some point you will lose your shit if one more fork happens A fork could range from being hungry or having to pee to getting a new bill or a new diagnosis of illness. There are lots of different sizes of forks, and volume vs. quantity means that the fork limit is not absolute. I might be able to deal with 20 tiny little escargot fork annoyances, such as a hangnail or slightly suboptimal pants, but not even one "you poked my trigger on purpose because you think it's fun to see me melt down" pitchfork.
This is super relevant for neurodivergent folk. Like, you might be able to deal with your feet being cold or a tag, but not both. Hubby describes the situation as "It may seem weird that I just get up and leave the conversation to go to the bathroom, but you just dumped a new financial burden on me and I already had to pee, and going to the bathroom is the fork I can get rid of the fastest."' like this and also like the low key point that - you may be able to cope with bigger forks by finding little ones you can remove quickly. A combination of time, focus, and reduction to small stressors that can allow you to focus on the larger stressor in a constructive way. does this mean somewhere there is a knife theory? Knives are traumas that require help to fix. Take a fork out and stress is reduced. Take a knife out and you better be prepared to stop the bleeding
I relate to this a lot.
Also, as I've come to understand well in recent times (and I'm aware this isn't the same for everyone), I can sometimes shake off my little forks when someone else is being stuck with a much bigger one, cos priorities. But they're still there.
What forks you up?
No one is stopping you from hiring one.
"Pancakes on your shoes will attract the bears!"
I think we're on to something here...
Great list. All of these are favourites of mine. ❤️🍄
Glad to see you here, my guy
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Haven't lost anyone, really. Just never had them in the first place. ❤️🍄
They are much cooler when they are accommodating to everyone's needs, despite age, race, gender, sexuality or disability.
1. Despite all of the problems which can occur with them, no sane person can argue that the world would be a better place if they were all gone. But wouldn't it be nice if they were all fully functional?
7. Sometimes in a dire situation, you could find yourself getting intimate with a really nasty one, as society tells us that a bad one is better than not having one at all.
6. If you've only experienced good, functional and clean ones, it's important to recognise that this is a privilege that few know.
5. Sometimes when they are a little broken, someone in the house can tinker with it and get it working. Sometimes they need professional help. 4. That being said, sometimes the one in your house will be broken beyond repair, and will need to be removed.
3. Despite some humble beginnings, they are evolving and getting better. Some fancy ones can even clean themselves.
Today is a special day. A day that toxic men long for, but usually fail to observe, or even think about, except on International Women's Day. Happy International Men's Day!
Given that there is a lot to celebrate, and finite days in the year, multiple things get celebrated on the same day. For example, today is also World Toilet Day. And I wondered, what else do men and toilets have in common?
10. Small children may find them either scary or funny. 9. They can be pretty stinky sometimes.
8. On a night out, women will want to keep an eye out for them. They will tell their friends, or even strangers, about which ones should be avoided.
It's been a year already?
#internationalmensday
It's a big concern. Dads 4 kids is a dumpster fire.
Toxic masculinity is rejection and alienation. So the opposite, what we must strive for, is acceptance and affirmation. Both of ourselves and our individual gender and sexualising identities, but of everyone else's too. #thinkingoutsidethemanbox
Right back at you. ❤️🍄
PONDER THIS…
Have you ever noticed that when shit goes down, people demand that minorities be held responsible for their entire ethnic group? White folks are exempt from that demand.
When a Black person does something bad, the entire Black community must answer for it. Why is that?
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Thought for today - does a minimum wage that is considerably lower than a living wage constitute (at least morally) forced labour? Particularly where homelessness is effectively a criminal act? Likely to result in imprisonment, where inmates are subjected to forced labour?
Wayyy too many people think that prison is a place where people are sent to receive punishment, such as brutality, bad food, forced labour. GOING to prison IS the punishment. Removal of (some) liberty, that's all. Prisoners should be protected, educated, and rehabilitated. ❤️🍄
