how is The Onion even still in business

so this obviously isn’t a real worksheet but,

it annoys me how people seem to think that children are stupid, or incapable of picking up or understanding vocabulary that is all around them. simplyfing a concept doesn’t always result in a simpler concept, quite often it just becomes incoherent and meaningless. if a child can read (or is learning to read) then they understand the concept of “decoration”, hell, throw “baubles” at them, if they ask “what’s this?” just explain, it’s the perfect exercise for that kind of thing, tell them what it is, and then watch them engage with the idea for the next 10-15min as they doodle

kinky

i took the opposite approach

i one up the invasive thought. oh so the next car that drives by will run me over? okay but what if a meteor gets me first??

“what if a meteor gets me first” has been helping me ground myself, it highlights in my mind how most of my intrusive thoughts are just– so unlikely, that worrying about them is completely pointless

let’s not compare people who struggle with learning difficulties that are out of their control to people who choose to make bad decisions every day

isn’t china struggling with deflation nowadays, though? they can afford things perfectly well, they just don’t do it

(correct me if i’m wrong i know fuck all about economics)

because the ban is petty and vindictive. trans women are roughly equal in performance with cis women

well, i know 0 people who play badminton from all my friends and family, so that’d be 0 trans women rounding up

what about trans men interested in playing competitive juggling? are we just going to erase them?

what about nonbinary people who dislike cooking? have you forgotten about them completely???

and you haven’t even mentioned your opinion on waffles, do you hate them?

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the conversation was about trans women and badminton, not other things

yeah but like, how many of them are interested in badminton? and specifically badminton competitions

you look in a mirror, think hard, and undo that

50 sounds like a correct number of trans women interested in playing competitive badminton

a language might be a tool we use, but it absolutely shapes the way we see the world itself to a significant degree, even to the point where speakers of different languages might disagree on basic physical facts

eg: if you ask an english speaker how many fingers they have - they’ll answer 10. but if you answer a polish speaker - they’ll answer 20. polish makes little linguistic distinction between fingers, and how we call them, foot fingers

this is one example of many. i find it deeply fascinating and quite scary. it feels weird to realise that my understanding of the world is broadened and structured better thanks to the fact i use a language to describe it, but there might be things i’ll never notice, or will always confuse, simply because the tool i use is not perfect, and yet, that is the basis through which i perceive the world

thanks! i’m 25 so i have a life of figuring stuff out ahead of me lol

glad you’ve found some stability in your life, likewise wishing you well!

yeah i try to approach life that way but sometimes RSD is too fast for me to react. before i’m capable of logicking my way out of rejection - it hits, and the spiral begins, and that feeling of sinking in my chest is a point of no return. the only way to stop it is to go sleep for 8h to “reset”.

even if i know that what i’m feeling is fully irrational, the spiral seems to be inescapable

the TV is big and slow, a computer, more nimble, can outrun the ads, the TV is too slow to even attempt dodging

doesn’t work :( i care about people even more then, and my sensitivity gets more sensitive

hi there, RSD (and anxiety because of it) haver here

how do i not care

Eve was made from a man’s rib, so in a way at first she was a clone of his flesh, XY chromosomes and all. The bible does not elaborate on how the abrahamic god made her into a woman, she was able to bear children so there was definitely a change made to the “original” masculine reproductive system, but we don’t know at what stage of her becoming a being that occured. Either way though - Adam’s rib was transed by god themself into a woman.

now i’m wondering how all the christian terfs would react if someone said that trans women are actually the original women

yeah exactly, we don’t need someone to have a different skin colour to be racist, that’s a simple man’s racism. us europeans only do the finest of racisms - normal people with normal white skin (my village) vs the weird people with a similar skin but their accents are kinda weird and scary (all the other villages, and especially that one village over there)

(huge /j in case that wasn’t obvious)