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(Cis/trans)women aren’t the only ones that can get breast cancer, either.
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Didn’t he try to get his gay employee to marry a woman lol? I love him, he was a sweet, kind man, but also old and a lifelong Republican.
Most American voters register with one of the two major political parties. I don’t know why Fred Rogers registered as a Republican, but what Republicans stood for in the 1950’s & 1960’s is very different from how we think of that party today. According to his wife, Fred was “very independent in the way he voted.”
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It is true that Fred Rogers encouraged a gay employee to marry a woman. I think it’s an unfortunate part of his history, but I think it’s helpful to fill in more of the story.
Francois Clemmons was hired by Fred Rogers to be the first Black person to have a recurring role on children’s television. He would be Officer Clemmons on the show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and he kept that roll for 25 years.
In his memoir, Officer Clemmons, Franc shares that one day in 1968, he was called into Fred’s office at the studio.
“Franc, we’ve come to love you here in the Neighborhood. You have talents and gifts that set you apart and above the crowd, and we want to ensure your place with us. Someone, we’re not able to say who, has informed us that you were seen at the local gay bar downtown with a buddy from school. Now I want you to know, Franc, that if you’re gay, it doesn’t matter to me at all. Whatever you say and do is fine with me, but if you’re going to be on the show, as an important member of the Neighborhood, you can’t be ‘out’ as gay. People must not know. … Many of the wrong people will get the worst idea, and we don’t want them thinking and talking about you like that. If those people put up enough fuss, then I couldn’t have you on the program. It’s not an issue for me. I don’t think you’re less of a person. I don’t think you’re immoral.”
Clemmons began to sob because he could have the job only if he stayed in the closet.
If it had been known a gay man was a regular part of a children’s show, it would’ve been cancelled. Remember, this is pre-Stonewall.
“You can have it all if you can keep that part of it out of the limelight. Have you ever thought of getting married? People do make some compromises in life.”
Francois Clemmons married a woman in 1968. In 1974 they divorced and Franc began living as an openly gay man.
Fred Rogers changed his advice, urging Clemmons to find a gay man he was happy with. He also stopped asking Clemmons to remain in the closet, and he warmly welcomed Clemmons’ gay friends whenever they visited the television set. I’ve read that this change came from Fred getting to know and becoming friends with gay people.
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Having a Black man as a police officer on the show was making a statement in support of Civil Rights. The most iconic encounter between Officer Clemmons and Mr. Rogers on the television show occurred in 1969.
At a time when many community pools were strictly segregated, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a plastic wading pool. As Officer Clemmons was getting out of the pool, Mr. Rogers helped him dry his feet.
This exemplified the message that all people are equal and valued and loved
The core values of the television show were: Love your neighbor as yourself, be kind, say “I’m sorry,” smile, accept people and help them grow, be forgiving, see each day as a new chance to be happy, positive and kind. The show talked about grief, divorce, race issues and disability.
Fred Rogers’ character regularly said, “there’s no person in the whole world just like you” and “I like you just the way you are.” It was an example of radical acceptance.
In addition to Franc Clemmons, John Reardon is another openly gay man who regularly appeared on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, so it seems Fred Rogers personally didn’t have an issue with gay people, but having them be open on the show was not something possible at that time. I’m sad that an openly gay character never occurred on the show.
Fred Rogers shared that evangelicals would sometimes write to him asking him to condemn homosexuality, and he never would, instead saying he — and God — loved everyone just as they were. Since 1967, Fred and his wife worshipped at Pittsburgh’s Sixth Avenue Presbyterian Church which was a diverse, progressive church where women were equal, social justice was the theme, and since the 1960’s has engaged in a ministry to gay people and was the first Presbyterian church to ordain gays & lesbians.
While he was not a public advocate for gay rights, his message of unconditional acceptance didn’t exclude any genders, orientations or races.
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🚨📣A distress call from grieving hearts Together we face the harshness of life.📣🚨
To those with compassionate hearts and generous hands
We, sisters Alaa and Manal, come to you today with hearts filled with both pain and hope. The harsh winds of war have swept us away, and we lost our father and our lifelong support, our husbands, leaving behind children whose only fault was that they were born in a time when security was scarce.
Im Alaa, am a mother of two young children, a four-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy. Every day, I wonder how I will provide them with a living and the necessities of a decent life. Life did not give me a chance to say goodbye to my husband. All I have left of him is a ring with our names written on it.
my sister, Manal, she has three children: an eleven-year-old boy, a three-year-old boy, and an eight-year-old girl. Her suffering is compounded by a neck injury that is pressing on her spinal nerve, threatening her with quadriplegia.She needs an emergency operation to relieve pressure on her spine, but this operation cannot be performed inside Gaza due to the lack of resources. This makes caring for her three children an unbearable challenge.
Our tragedies did not stop there. Our sick mother, who suffers from pulmonary fibrosis, lives with us and suffers in silence. We have all lost our homes, which were destroyed by the war, and we have experienced the bitterness of displacement and displacement dozens of times. We lived in tents, experienced the harshness of homelessness, and today, we have no stable source of income to help us cope with the burdens of life and meet the needs of our children and our sick mother.
We have exhausted all our energy and our resources. We search for a glimmer of hope, for a hand to reach out to us and lift this heavy burden. Today, we appeal to you with broken hearts but with dignity that refuses to be broken, to extend a helping hand. Every contribution, no matter how small, will make a huge difference in our lives.
We believe that there are hearts in this world that carry goodness, and that your humanity will be our support. May God reward you for all you do. With deep thanks and appreciation,
Alaa, Manal, their children, and their mother.
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I don’t want to die trying to get food. I don’t want to go to aid distribution points (death traps).
The American company in Gaza is trying to market itself as if it exists to help us get food, but in reality, it exists only to kill us. Thousands go there every day to get food, but at least 50 people die every day because soldiers shoot them coldly.
Please, you who have compassionate hearts, I am a human being like you. I don’t want to return to my family in a coffin. Please don’t ignore my voice. Please, I need help. Donate anything that will help me provide food for my family, but please don’t ignore my voice.
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The core appeal of Willy Wonka is that he’s a nigh-omnipotent maniac who uses his near limitless powers over reality to trick shitty people into killing themselves. You can’t make him the protagonist of a whimsical coming of age tale - you have to treat him like Jason Voorhees, or Dracula, or any other horror icon. Give him some new victims and new interesting kills and set him loose, that’s all audiences want.
I feel like I watched a somewhat different movie…
Gene lobbied hard for Wonka to be introduced as a feeble limping old man who suddenly falls into a forward somersault and leaps to his feet, because “from that moment on the audience won’t know if he can be trusted.” On a related note: the director told Gene what would happen during the boat scene, but none of the other actors were prepared; to this day, none of them are sure what he ad libbed and what was scripted.
My favorite detail, though, is his performance of Pure Imagination. On the surface, the song is charming and inviting, but if you look closely at him throughout the scene, you’ll notice that Gene never blinks. He looks around, down at his feet, up at the trees; his eyes never fully close. He moves erratically, stuttering up and down the steps of the chocolate room. The lyrics are warm and friendly, but his face is blank. He bows to permit his visitors to run amok, but his posture is stiff. He helps Violet and Mike reach a couple of treats, but there is no joy in the gesture. The final post-chorus feels like a dirge, a threat, and a warning, all at once; Wonka sits in repose under a tree, but his eyes are glassy and dispassionate. “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination; / living there / you’ll be free / if you truly / wish / to be………. ”
Fantasy in excess, like anything else, will destroy you; that’s the real message of Gene Wilder’s Wonka. He taunts his guests with unrepentant disdain, and doesn’t care if they live or die. He toys with their emotions, their safety, and their grip on reality, feeling no regret or remorse, no pity, no compassion. Fantasy is colorful and compelling, but it’s false, and ultimately empty. Wonka is a walking maladaptive daydream, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s the real reason the 1971 film has endured in the culture for so long.
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etymology reveals a fascinating glimpse into the way the human mind works. “Australia” is just latin for southern. “Asia” is probably assyrian for east. “Norway” oh you mean those fuckers up north? for millennia humanity has been naming places the equivalent of: *gestures* yeah thataway
No but this is one of those things that truly emphasizes the difference between how much we know about the world now versus how much we knew about it for the overwhelming majority of human history, because one upon a time, the cardinal directions relative to wherever you happened to be was really all most people had. There wasn’t the world as we understand it now; there was the known world, because even when various peoples worked out that the planet was round, that still wasn’t the same as knowing what all the contents were, or what might lie in the middle of a given ocean, or what was on the other side of that mountain range that was too dangerous to summit.
Exonyms reflect the cardinal directions for the same reason why so many ancient old place names, once you dig through the layers of linguistic drift, are mostly just simple descriptors in whatever the oldest known language was: because the human experience was, for tens of thousands of years, intensely localised. Here was Hill, and there was River, and here was Desert, and there was Fort. The ancients weren’t naming their local environment with the expectation that doing so would meaningfully differentiate, say, the local Mountain from that other Mountain two hundred miles away: they were naming it as a base function of communication, as a point of geographic reference to be understood by other members of the same community.
It’s only once human beings start moving around - not migrating, in the sense of leaving one place to find a new home, or trading, in the sense of forming relationships with the other people closest to you, but exploring, in the sense of deliberately trying to figure out what exists outside your immediate sphere and then reporting back on it - that this sort of linguistic differentiation starts to matter. “Those people to the east of us” works just fine as an exonym when you only know about your immediate neighbours or are content to lump everyone you imagine to exist in that direction under one umbrella, but once you’ve passed through that eastern territory and discovered that there’s even more east with even more different people - once there’s a need to distinguish between multiple groups - then you’ve got to broaden your terminology.
Maybe you do that by borrowing someone else’s exonym, because you ask “those people to the east of us” what they call their eastern neighbours, and so you take home a word that functionally also means “those people to the east” but in a slightly different language. Maybe you ask those people what they call themselves, and you get a word that translates to “the people,” as so many ancient endonyms do. Or maybe you encounter those people with the aid of a third party, and you use their word, which means something like “the goat traders,” because that’s how the third group first encountered them. Or perhaps, as has happened more than once throughout history, you ask those new people “who are you?” or “what land is this?” in your own language, and mistake whatever confused reply they give in their language for the answer, even if what they actually said was “I don’t understand you” or “welcome.”
But the point is, it’s not a peculiarity of the human mind that makes us name things this way, as though we lack imagination. It’s because the base purpose of naming has always been identification, and back when we first started attaching sounds to peoples and places, the frame of reference was local. Modern people, by contrast, in addition to understanding the exact size of our planet, are themselves the product of so many different linguistic and sociological shifts that, particularly in colonial settings, we view names primarily as aesthetic and titular, not as practical and descriptive, because we’re sixteen layers removed from the point of origin: unless we look it up, they’re just sounds to us now. And so we find the collective pattern of simple names funny, because we’re seeing them in overview, and not as they were made. -
Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria is such a weird theory because it’s like there’s a very obvious explanation for why middle school kids who didn’t have dysphoria before might suddenly have dysphoria. Like huh weird I wonder what very obvious and widely known change that could cause kids to suddenly become very uncomfortable in their gender or sexual identity starts in between the ages of 10 and 14. Guess we’ll never know. Must be peer pressure to *checks notes* become the only gender minority in your whole school singling you out for harassment by your peers. Couldn’t be puberty suddenly giving you new body parts/bodily functions that are wrong for you.
#reminds me of when ‘my child was Perfectly Normal until he got vaccines and Now He’s Autistic’#no your child just got to the age certain social and developmental skills become apparent#and that happens to be a good age to give them certain vaccines (@dilfhershellayton)
Dude congrats on being the first person to have a new and interesting observation on this post. Yeah, that’s exactly what it’s like. It’s the desire to blame something external for who your child is because if you accepted the very obvious developmental explanation you would then have to admit that your child is a different kind of person than you instead of a mold-able mini me that you can force into your idyllic little nuclear family box you were imagining when you had them. Bigoted parents are terrified of their child not being exactly like them so they have to pretend that something like vaccines or peer pressure corrupted them. So much so that they’ll put them through bleach treatments or conversion therapy or whatever in an attempt to fix them before they’ll allow their child to be who they are.
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The Butterfly And The Cat, 1875 by Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822–1902)
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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart
She’s on YouTube too! For non-Instagram using friends:
I love her, she’s great. Her recipes are friendly for both physical and/or intellectual disabilities. And her 5-year-old helps her cook. 🥰
Link to her YouTube channel:
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Watching Jurassic Park and I have Opinions on this place as a zoo. Feeding the predators live prey?? There’s other ways to provide enrichment! Also that enclosure is way too small for multiple large animals like that! Electric fences? Ha! Electric fences won’t stop a fucking goat! Where’s the zoo experts? Who designed these enclosures?? Were all zoos this shitty in the 90s???
This t-rex is so happy to be tearing a car apart and pushing it over a cliff! She’s got so much energy! She needs healthy outlets! Where the fuck is her enrichment team???
#i love this post #both because it’s funny and good #and because it gets right to the heart of the problem #jurassic park wasn’t designed as a zoo #it was designed as a theme park #the amazing scientific advances? #the miracle of real live dinosaurs? #it meant nothing #the lives of the creatures themselves were nothing #just the means for a rich old white man to get even richer #hammond was never doing it for the children #the kindly old grandpa facade was a lie #he was a billionaire doing what billionaires do #and this is way too much rant for a post that made me laugh #but here we are
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This is actually a big part of the book! The fact that the people designing and working with the animals aren’t considering the inherently chaotic nature of living things, they overlook obvious and simple mistakes that cause huge problems. They just expect everything to “work” and be normal and don’t take into account the vast differences between the park and a zoo and between a place of entertainment and a place meant to properly house and care for animals. That’s why Malcom being a chaos theory scientist is so relevant.
In the book, Hammond is a much darker character, as well. Movie Hammond is misguided and sort of buying his own sales pitch about this place being so magical and that leads him to overlooking or ignoring the danger out of a sort of naivety. Book Hammond is just kind of an awful person. He rejects all advice and warnings from everyone even when the danger becomes very apparent to others. He wants to control every aspect of the park and it’s just not possible,especially since he also wants everything to be automated for ‘effiency’. He makes the classic mistake of thinking that containing animals is making sure there’s “no way they could possibly escape”, which anyone who works with animals knows is not possible to achieve, instead of “make it so the animals are contented and happy and don’t feel the need to try to escape”.
“Look at this really badly run zoo” could have been the subtitle of the book, honestly. That’s the premise behind most of my favorite moments in the books.
- Velociraptors are social animals, with learned traits they didn’t learn at the park. The park’s raptors don’t know how to work as a team or live in a pack, because they had no adults to teach them. That’s why you have adult raptors keeping the juveniles away from the food, or attacking baby raptors.
- The deterioration of the 2nd island’s dinosaur population was due to a prion disease. Park organisers bought the cheapest feed (derived from scrapie infected sheep) without considering the consequences, and the populations were collapsing because a prion disease called DX had become endemic.
- None of the people running the park understood the biology of the animals they were keeping. They were concerned with having a static, point-in-time population, not a functioning ecosystem. So when the dinosaurs started breeding, they had no idea what to do.
- Similarly, they were more interested in the environments as dioramas for visitor viewing than as ecosystems for the animals. They kept predators isolated and tossed all the herbivores together (“it’s not like they’re gonna eat each other!”) rather than studying their behavior to decide which dinosaurs to put where.
- They picked plants based on the prehistoric aesthetic they wanted rather than their actual properties. Remember the sick triceratops? It was sick because it ate a poisonous plant. Ellie figured that out because her area of study was paleobotany. She also figured out that some of the plants around the family-friendly swimming pool were highly toxic. Nobody double checked the plants they used for their impacts on visitors or the dinosaurs.
They had hundreds of animals and no staff ecologists. They had 1 veterinarian. Instead of having paleontologists on staff, they had a big game hunter. All their biologists worked in the lab. They built everything like theme park rides because automation kept labor costs down and made secrecy easier.
The whole point was to demonstrate how spectacularly a project can fail if new scientific advances are used for profit before they’re properly understood. That said, you could make an argument for dinosaurs being a novel way to highlight the shortcomings of for-profit zoos in general. A tiger eating the visitors isn’t as headline-grabbing as a T-Rex, but it’s still very much a possibility if you decide to show tigers without any understanding of their behavior or ecology.
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Always remember who started to fight back first. Intersectionalty is so important!
Please remember there are a LOT of People of Colour (and disabled people) who are made to feel unwelcome in mainstream Prides.
Pride should never be just for a single skin tone, type of queerness, disability, nationality, culture, identity, etc.
Except cops. Cops don’t fucking belong at pride.
Frankly, I don’t feel safe at a lot of Prides– I rarely go, actually. Because it’s a sea of white, able-bodied people who often exclude People of Colour, disabled people and trans people – intentional or not.
(And because there are fucking cops everywhere. )
We belong at Pride. But many of us don’t feel safe there, and we know we are excluded in some way.
For many cultures, the blood of People of Colour and disabled people were the first queers to be targeted/ tortured/ experimented on/ destroyed. And even now, POC and disabled queers are usually treated worse within not just mainstream society, but also within the queer community.
So please, make sure everyone (except Nazis and cops) feels safe at Pride.
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abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don’t wanna lose the rights to them
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don’t want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we’re certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They’re crying about opportunity cost for a product they’re not even selling.
op i know you’re probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company’s out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it’s a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can’t be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go “well op just wants old video games to play” (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
#there is so much abandonware just…out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality
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what does turkish delight taste like and is it worth the events that occurred in chronicle of narnia: the lion the witch and the wardrobe
So the first thing you must understand is that there are two basic types of Turkish delight. The first kind is what most people are familiar with, which are these gelatinous cubes covered in powdered sugar. They are, by most metrics, an acquired taste:
This is usually the stuff people try and say, “Yeah, I don’t get it, Edmund.” But if you go to a good Turkish confectioner (or just any of the bazillion stores that sell it in the Istanbul markets) you’ll see a second kind of Turkish delight, in a rolled shape:
This is the good stuff. The sell-your-soul-and-your-family stuff. It’s nutty and chewy and creamy and comes in all sorts of flavors, and I highly recommend it to anyone. (Especially hazelnut. It’s not a traditional flavor but I’m convinced the White Witch dipped into the future to get some for Edmund, it is that delicious.)
The second thing you need to understand is that the turkish delight was laced with mind-control drugs.
The third thing you need to understand is Edmond was living under WII sugar rationing
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The Tumbler of dunmurderin. Named for the evil Nokia phonebot in the first Transformers live action movie. Not that he was called Crotchgun Samurai in the movie but he had a crotchgun and he was wise in the ways of the samurai like all Finnish phones are. So, yeah.