Every child I know under the age of 10 is unbelievably chill about gender and tbh I’m jealous
Me, teaching a pagan kids class: “A lot of people think that the deity Loki might be genderfluid, do any of you know what genderfluid means?”
8 year old, rolling his eyes like that’s the stupidest question he’s ever heard: “Everyone knows what genderfluid means”
Little sister: *walks into the kitchen looking incredibly masc*
Me: “Nice outfit, a lot of afab folks have to work really hard to look that masculine.”
Little sister: *takes headphones halfway off and gives me a blank stare* “Why? Is clothing gendered or something?”
Me: “No, but a lot of people will assume things about your gender based on your clothing”
Little sister: *Puting her headphones back on as she walks away* “Oh, cool I guess.”
9 year old that I babysit sometimes: “What’s that flag on your shirt?”
Me: “It’s the nonbinary flag. It means that I’m not a boy or a girl.”
9 year old: “I know what it means, have like 5 nonbinary friends, duh.”
I’m fucking begging the terfs in my notes to read literally anything about children’s gender development.
“It’s because kids aren’t old enough to know that gender is based on sex” Buddy two-year-olds can distinguish people based on secondary sex characteristics, the cis-binary view of gender isn’t hard to grasp. It actually takes children until about age 6-7 for their ideas about gender to be less based on gender stereotypes and more on their individual experience with gender, and for them to recognize and respect gender variant people. So like the fact that y’all’s idea of gender never got past the complexity of a toddlers is not my fault or my problem.
Also, I know very few parents who actually enforce trans and nonbinary acceptance with their children. The majority of kids are still being told by their parents that “boys have penises and girls have vaginas” it’s just that most kids today have enough gender-variant friends, caretakers, and tv role models, to establish individually that that is false and that gender is more complex than that. This isn’t evil trans people brainwashing your children, this is intelligent children developing critical thinking skills and coming to their own conclusions.
THEY JUST KEEP JUMPING ON THE COUNTER. AND CRAWLING UP HER LEG. THIS IS THE GREATEST PROBLEM YOU COULD EVER HAVE
This is both adorable and stressful to watch. Damn it, kittens, be good! Food’s coming!
OH MY GOD SHE NAMED ONE OF HER CATS OBAMA
I love that kittens are gently placed on the ground… whereas adult cats, because they should know better (and are undoubtedly better at landing on their feet) are just… flung.
Oh my god I love this
I love that the kittens continue climbing her even after she steps away from the food – the goal is no longer ‘get to food’ it is ‘climb the human’!
This is super common and I’ve heard the same or similar from Jewish kids growing up now to people of my parents generation (70s and 80s). It’s the Jewish experience.
It surprises me every time to remember that not everyone went to a summer camp that had them reenact running away from the Holocaust as refugees.
Bitch
No
What
WHAT???????
Generational trauma is a hell of a drug.
WHAT KIND OF SUMMER CAMP IS THAT THO, LIKE WHAT THE FUCK
I know when Unorthodox podcast covered Summer Camps, I think(?) they mentioned this – they even spoke to someone who studies Jewish summer camp history, and Lilith magazine’s second to last recent issue’s cover page referred to an article “Holocaust Games at Summer Camp.”
I used to let my friends pretend to “hide me” from the Nazis
My father was never a practicing Jew but he taught me how to camp, fish, wildcraft food, bake bread…. and made sure I had survival training.
I don’t even thing he was doing it consciously, but when Trump was elected, my FIRST reaction was ‘We need to leave’. I come from a long line of people who successfully ran away.
I was obsessed with being able to hide from infancy. (literally 2 months old the first time I managed to hide from my mother, rofl.)
“I come from a long line of people who successfully ran away.”
#ThatJewishFeeling
I use to play who can we pass/pretend to be game with friends. As in as young children my friends and I would try to figure out if we could pass as looking not Jewish and who of us that wouldn’t work for.
Being around 8 years old and figuring out who in your group of friends has the highest chance of getting caught and killed is very much a part of growing up Jewish.
“if you bleach your hair, then maybe” was always what i was told and like, haha, never really questioned why i’ve wanted to do that very thing since i was very little but the two coincide in ways i don’t really want to think about.
Me reading dystopian fiction growing up and internalizing the message in the narrative: there’s no place for me in this world, I’d be dead the moment the regime took hold. I’m not strong enough. I couldn’t stand the suffering. Maybe the narrative is right. Maybe only the strong survive.
Me now as an adult getting ready to rip the pin from the grenade with my teeth and brandishing a molotov cocktail in the other hand: IF I GO DOWN I’M TAKING YOU MOTHER FUCKERS WITH ME, BRING IT ON IF YOU THINK YOUR HARD ENOUGH. YOU THINK YOU’RE SCARY? MY IMMUNE SYSTEM IS EATING ITSELF AND I HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE. COME GET SOME
We used to talk about how we would survive a zombie apocalypse, in high school, and I had one friend that would go, “Well you won’t last that long anyways, so why should we plan for you?” and I would agree, because I didn’t realize how deep I had internalized the idea that my disability made me not worthy of survival.
Flash forward to college, when my new friends and I are having a very similar conversation and I go, “I won’t last, so I guess I would just feed myself to the zombies” and my friends had a very strong response of, “NO, we are going to rob pharmacies. We will all learn how to get insulin from pigs or bacteria. You are not going down easy, you are too much of a fighter for that.”
I still remember the first time on tumblr, on a post discussing the zombie apocalypse, where I said “hey just leave me behind with the shotgun, I’ll only slow you down” and I think it might have been @undead-tealeaves who said “fuck that, we’ll pick you up and run while you aim” and honestly it might have just been meant as a throw away comment but it made me want to cry. And it meant a lot to me, it really did, like this was a comment from over two years ago and it still pops into my head and makes me feel emotional.
Like it really is the little things like your friends being like, come the dystopian government or the ends of the earth as we know it, whichever comes first, we have you. Because we have each other. And the survivalist community that is willing to ride and die for each other, will be the one that thrives and outlives the bastards trying to put us down. Hopefully long enough to see the new dawn, but hey, you don’t always get to see the garden you sow.
I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.
Just a reminder that even basic medications like ibuprofen (Motrin) and Tylenol need to be checked for herb interactions.
I recently started an ibuprofen regimen and I’m sitting here sipping chamomile tea, decided “oh wait I should look up drug interactions” and sure enough chamomile is one of the herbs that when mixed with NSAIDS increases the risk for bleeding.
Also, grapefruit will screw with a LOT of medications. So many.
I always find it interesting that people asking about this topic always bring up halal, and never kosher or other religious slaughter. So I’m going to talk about both.
I’ve been to exactly two slaughterhouses through my education. One was for pigs only, so certainly not halal or kosher in any way. The other did sheep and cattle, and was both halal and kosher, and I have to say I greatly preferred the second.
So let me tell you about the halal/kosher place.The sheep would come up single file into the ‘box’, which has doors that close behind them so the others couldn’t see. They were rendered unconscious with a reversible captive bolt pistol to the skull, then their throat is slit before they’re hung up.
So what makes this both halal and kosher instead of non-religious slaughter?
The captive bolt is reversible. Once a year, for certification, one animal is allowed to recover from it to prove it’s not lethal.
There’s a little room beside the ‘box’ where a Muslim prays over each animal to make it halal, and a Jew prays over each animal to make it kosher. So they are both halal and kosher at the same time, because capitalism.
That’s it. It’s otherwise exactly the same as a non-religious slaughter plant. Non-religious slaughter just doesn’t care whether their captive bolt is reversible or not.
There’s a lot of… venom… about religious slaughter, fueled by islamophobia and anti-semitism, and at least within Australia there is absolutely no reason for it. I can make no comments about other nations with laxer animal welfare laws, but that’s how it’s done at the large commercial plants here.
And if you look at the rules and consider it in an early history context, then throat slitting isn’t a bad way to go in the absence of captive bolt guns and firearms. Having a very religious person doing all the slaughter is probably a decent way to make sure you don’t have a psychopath doing all that killing.
Which is also why I wonder about pigs being forbidden. It’s harder to kill a pig humanely with less stress by throat slitting than a goat, sheep or cow is. They’re good protein and efficient to raise, is it possible that someone way back when said “If we can’t kill it well, don’t kill them to eat?”
I think it’s plausible that these rules came about out of a desire to do right by the animals to be eaten, before our modern understanding. Not a religious scholar though, so probably not the best person to ask.
So I don’t have any objections to halal and kosher slaughter over non-religious slaughter.
There are long threads on twitter of doctors and nurses with literal decades of experience in pediatrics, trauma care, and emergency assistance talking about how they’ve tried volunteering their services at any of the centers where immigrant children are being held. Only they’re all being turned away and told DHS would prefer to work with volunteers who are ‘trained specifically for dealing with these situations’. One doctor with sixteen years of experience as a trauma doctor was told she was ‘overqualified.’
No. They’re turning away qualified medical practitioners looking to volunteer for the sake of the children, because said medical practitioners are mandated by law to report any child abuse they witness. The only doctors and nurses they want in those places are ones they can count on not saying anything about what goes on in there.
The fact that these doctors and nurses are trying to volunteer because they WANT to help these kids is literally what’s disqualifying them in the eyes of the evil pieces of shit who are running these places.
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