Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework
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Have successfully allayed the wee beastie's (2;7) fear of thunderstorms by explaining it just means there's a big Sky Pikachu having fun.
This.
No one even BLINKED when our resident doc at the synagogue offered me a "deviated septum" diagnosis for my bat mitzvah. (Code for getting insurance to approve a nose job, VERY common gift offer when you look like I do from the side).
Bat mitzvahs are at 13.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫
Liz Faber (Pride Edition 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️)
You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism
I can't make a salad to save my life. I will eat a well-made salad with glee. Left to my own devices, I invariably go overboard on something and the proportions are all wrong. Then I have a sad pile of unpleasant but expensive greens.
You can't even leave me at a salad bar.
I cannot be taught.
The search for the chip with the perfect curvature for the bowl holding the dip
I don't know how it's possible to interact with a child in any extended way and not appreciate the fullness of their humanity and personhood. And I would have said the exact same before the wee beastie, as an educator and auntie.
Children are small, inexperienced, and still-learning humans but they are fully human, here with all the rest of us, HUMAN, and you really cannot hate an entire category of humans without that doing something bad to your heart and mind.
