We need museums without kids because every time i want to engage in interactive things they are full of kids. It's really annoying. As someone with adhd i fucking love touching things and interaction in museums are A++ unless it's full of kids.
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Because it’s not about “saving babies”, it’s about controlling women.
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On Discomfort and Morality
My father finds gay men uncomfortable.
He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.
In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.
When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.
My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.
He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.
I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.
The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?
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Just a reminder! 🇵🇸
Free Palestine is NOT a debate! You either support saving innocent human lives or you agree with Israel's oppression. If you choose to stay silent and support the people and brands that back Israel, you side with the oppression and genocide. Israel vs Palestine is not a fight about your religion or nationality, it is a matter of humanity. You can be Jewish and support Palestine. You can be Israeli and support Palestine. There is no such thing as boycott exhaustion or frustration. Find other places to buy things, sign petitions, stop supporting shitty celebrities, and stop being brainwashed by brain-dead Zionist content creators on TikTok. If you spoke up about Ukraine you can speak up about Palestine.
"From the river to the sea, Palestine WILL be free"
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can 2024 be the year we stop calling stay-at-home moms stupid for being ‘financially dependent’ and risking being trapped in abusive relationships, and instead start addressing why there are no social safety nets in place for people who choose to leave the workforce to raise their children
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i don't even like aegon but the way alicent treated him in that scene makes my blood boil
hitting 13 yo and blaming him for what happened because he didn't act like a babysitter "and where were you?!" i'm sorry ma'am where were YOU? the queen and the mother. giving nasty side eyes and finding new ways to torture rhaenyra and her sons surely
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