do u ever see stuff customized for little kids and get blown away by how small……children are like…….those little little tiny chairs in preschools…..so small……they sit in those and do their work…….what does someone so small have going on…I know it’s important and they’re working hard…..I love them & I love those little chairs
This is not my first kid and yet I’m still floored by how tiny baby shirts are. Like… omg. I had one of these before!? Was the first one really that small? Really? AND I’M HAVING ANOTHER VERY SMALL PERSON!?
every time i see baby sneakers in the shoe store I am speechless I stop in my tracks. baby boots? have you seen the little timbs they make for teeny feet I’m going to SCREAM
The first time I saw newborn sized jeans (they had an elastic waistband) I almost cried. They had tiny working pockets and I was so shocked. These tiny babies with their little baby hands don’t even have things to put into their pockets and yet they have working pockets but I, a grown woman, have to check to make sure jeans have working pockets before I can buy them
you don’t know…..babies have a lot of things to put in pockets like…….their Very Small Hands……a single ravioli……
my primary reaction to infinity war is like…. wow. under hypercapitalism we literally can’t imagine any other fables about resource scarcity, huh?
i’m not even talking about only thanos. every time thanos said his plan to kill half the galaxy (because it’s “finite,” lol ok one-semester-of-econ guy) the other characters were like “no!” or “you can’t!” or “that’s madness!” instead of… counter-arguing, or saying anything like “couldn’t you just… double the resources with a snap of your fingers?” obviously, nobody wants thanos to murder all those people, but it’s also as if everyone tacitly accepts his framing of the problem. “i want to kill half the universe because of resource scarcity,” he says, and everyone says “no, that’s too cruel!!” instead of “wait… wait just a fucking second there, paul ryan.” they don’t even have a line like that even when they’re talking amongst themselves, just musing at how twisted his worldview is, that he can only imagine infinite power as an infinite power to kill. no time is spent imagining an alternative.
and i can’t help but think about how we in the quote-unquote “first world” treat the resource consumption of the so-called “developing world.” we, who have enjoyed the pleasures and benefits of fridges and air conditioning and televisions and cars and convenience food and all that shit for generations: we look at the growing energy & plastics consumption of the developing world and go “uh oh, they’re really running the tab up over there, we can’t let this happen, think of the…. trees!!!” we have the audacity to act like people living in poverty in the tropics wanting window fans is selfish and short-sighted for the environment, and meanwhile we use and waste all the energy and resources we can get ahold of, like a continent full of montgomery burnses.
infinity war could have taken thanos’s approach to scarcity somewhere bigger: somewhere that was useful as a parable for our hypocrisy. the way that ragnarok was brave enough to make a parable of empire; the way that black panther could explore diaspora and identity; the way that the winter soldier actually had something to say about the surveillance-terror state. but for all the moving pieces of infinity war, i don’t think it knew where its central ethic rested. certainly, its characters showed the desire to preserve and protect life. but that’s true of any superhero film.
what it comes down to for me, is that it’s not enough for this movie’s theme to be “let’s protect people, because killing people is bad!” or even, sorry steve, “we don’t trade lives.” it’s not enough. thanos basically says, “there’s one bowl of soup and one spoon and two hungry people, so one of them has to die.” so what i needed was someone to openly reject that whole proposition. not just “no, you shouldn’t kill trillions,” but “no, that is fucking ludicrous, i reject that worldview. i reject human life as a brutal competition. group survival, even in the face of scarcity or hardship, is exactly what the fuck we developed culture for.” like, we could use that message. that message, delivered palatably in a blockbuster action movie, could do some good.
but it wasn’t really in there. maybe in little bits, in pieces. maybe. so i’m sure we’re going to have to endure a bunch of “welllll, thanos was a bad guy, but he did have a point about scarcity” metas. because we’re still failing to see how asking other people to die so that the rest can enjoy plenty is itself exactly the fucking problem on this bitch of an earth
i will acknowledge that gamora comes the closest to doing this. gamora comes down on thanos for slaughtering half her planet. but!! but! then thanos gets this horrible line about how the children who grew up after his genocide got to have “full bellies” and the planet’s a “utopia” now. and what does gamora get to say back to that? nothing! she doesn’t get a line after that! she looks angry and grief-stricken, but the writers don’t give her a single fucking thing to say in disagreement!! like, how about: “growing up as a traumatized survivor of genocide isn’t very fucking utopian????” the writers couldn’t imagine that fucking line?
There have been poor people ever since it was possible for there to be a divide between rich and poor. The problem isn’t amount of resources, it’s distribution of resources. Thanos really just needed to snap his fingers and make the concept of selfishness vanish.
So, I have an American friend named Jane who married this English guy about 7 years ago. They live in Sussex together (god rest their souls), and they had a little boy pretty much right after they got married. As he grew up, they figured he would have a mix of their accents with a heavy lean towards English (because he’d go to school with English kids and teachers and the like.)
That’s not how it fucking worked out at all though. Instead, he says individual words with either an American or an English accent. Like, one second he’ll be like, “Daddy, I’m knackered” and the next he’ll be like, “AY YO MA WHERE YOU AT???” Every time they send me a video I just fucking piss myself listening to this kid.
Ok so this is a very good example of what we call “code switching” in sociolinguistics. Without going into to too detail, this comes in a few kind of flavors. The most commonly talked about kind is the ones you see in bilingual kids and adults, where they switch languages (sometimes mid coversation!) Depending on who they are talking to or what about.
That kind is also interesting, but in this case we have a child who is budialectal. First, let me dispel a myth. Kids are VERY GOOD at learning languages when they are little. Learning two languages at once will not slow them down noticeably or cause any other issues. The same is true for dialects (or varieties, as we call them in sociolingusitcs).
Think of African American children. They are suuuuper amazing, because more than likely they acquire AAVE (African American Vernacular English) at home, and then are always told they can’t use it in school, where they are taught whatever “standard American English” is (it doesn’t reeeallly exist, but meh). And they switch between the two all the time!
Anyway, if a child is receiving input from one parent in one dialect, and a different input from they other, just like they would acquire two languages, they acquire two dialects. And they employ them depending on a bunch of factors! Who they are talking to, what about, etc!
You won’t hear a ‘blend’ because the dialects are two separate systems stored in two different grammars! And they will sound native in either!
-neighborhood linguist
I think one of my favorite things about this site is when an op goes “here’s a funny anecdote” and then suddenly the neighborhood subject matter expert shows up and explains what’s behind. Learn so much here.
So Pride parades are awesome and all, but I feel like there should also be an activity for queer introverts that’s a bit quieter. Maybe Pride picnic.
Imagine one day in the avengers tower, Black Widow is acting a lil irritable and Tony Stark just keeps making fun of her. Thor jumps in her defense ‘DON’T YOU SEE SHE IS ON HER PERIOD YOU GOTTA BE NICE YOU ANIMAL’
Thor goes into a rant like
‘’WHEN GIRLS PMS BEFORE THEIR PERIOD THEY HAVE MOOD SWINGS BECAUSE TESTOSTERONE IS ADDED TO THEIR SYSTEM THAT MAKES THEM ACT MORE RASHLY AND HEATED. FOR THE RECORD, NO MAN EVER SHOULD BE MAKING CHOICES CAUSE WE’RE FILLED WITH THAT JUNK. I’M THOR SON OF ODIN FROM ASGARD,WHAT’RE YOUR EXCUSE?”
And all the women (Black Widow) stare at him and she stands out and slow claps like “I’m so proud of you little feminist”
Everyone just stares at Tony Stark like “yeah man, yo?”
this is just what all those ‘’thor drinking respect women juice’’ posts read to me as
i love how this post is trying to make Tony seem like some satan misogynist by teasing Black Widow when she’s in a bad mood so they have Thor burst in and come to her defense (someone who really doesn’t need anyone to that) by….. assuming she has her period because she’s irritable?? Isn’t assuming a girl has her period because she’s in a bad mood one of the most universally accepted sexist douchebag moves?? Unless you’re implying that Thor can magically sense menstruation
story summary: one of the most wanted drug dealers in rio de janeiro & fellow gang members kidnap 2 male nurses from a clinic in the middle of the night along with a bunch of their syringes and all the vaccine doses they could find, drive to one of the poorest regions in the area (and location of the gang’s headquarters), and tell the nurses to vaccinate everyone because the hospitals were unable to up with the epidemic and the poorest communities were getting left out.
they then drove the nurses back to the clinic 2 hours later when they were done
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