It was a Planet Money episode. I should have clarified that the taboo was just in regard to raw salmon. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729396914/episode-651-the-salmon-taboo
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The whole “how dare you eat [animal]!!” outrage is so weird to me. ALL delineations between which animals are for food and which are not are purely arbitrary, based on cultural norms. Japan has an extremely strong taboo against eating salmon, for example (though this is waning now and is less prevalent among the…
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Beverly Jenkins, one of the first black romance writers to achieve widespread commercial success and a trailblazer for inclusivity in romance, generally, set her first book in an Exoduster community, which is how I learned about it. It also challenges the (extremely white) notion of Union soldier as the “good guys” of…
Agreed. Racial coding can be really subtle and requires a human with specific knowledge and training to recognize it in literature. Most white people can’t identify white-coding, which goes to the issue other commenters have raised that white is considered the “default” in American media. I think the idea of…
Check this out! https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307382467
To be fair, virtually no teenager has the self-awareness to truly understand that what they’re going through is a universal experience. (I mean generally the emotional intensity and feeling of everything being incredibly high stakes; obviously her *specific* situation is different, but the themes are all the same.) The…
omfg. GOOD LUCK, girl!!!
Thank you, that was badly stated on my part. You’re absolutely right that there’s nothing easy about this stuff. What I meant was more along the lines that genuine support for healthy living - meaningful and long-term access to high-quality mental health care; accessible, affordable, and interesting fresh/healthy…
Yes! This is a big thing, too! Tig Notaro talked about how she constantly got compliments about how thin she was, and how flat her tummy was, and how jealous people were of her thinness and flat tummy and she was like, “I am literally DYING right now of cancer and a basically un-treatable infection, and that is why I…
A friend of mine is losing significant weight right now, and is at the point where people can confidently exclaim about it without wondering whether or not they’re correct in their observations. So I’ve seen her get a lot of “Wow, you look great!” and “What’s your secret??” kind of thing. When people ask her what…
honestly kinda shocked i had to scroll this far for this. first thing that popped in my head!
When my first serious boyfriend dumped me, I was absolutely crushed, but that was it. I did not attempt to reach out or “try to be friends” or anything like that. It didn’t even OCCUR to me. I was dumped, after all, and that means the relationship is over. Over is over. When I didn’t call him on his birthday (FOUR…
Ooh, I love magical realism! Thanks for the rec!! <3
Ooh, yes! That was a good dress!
Read the reviews before you come down here with your punditry about how reviews aren’t real reviews anymore, my dude. The reviewers are pretty clear that Dirt is a bad novel, in large part, because the stereotypes are so bad and so prevalent. You can’t excuse that kind of racism and view the writing apart from it when…
Read The Book of Unknown Americans instead. Incredible.
I mean, you try to remember to hold them, but at some point in the night you get tipsy/tired enough that you forget, or someone comes into the ladies’ room looking for you and you get distracted when they call out your name, or you just don’t grab them right and they slip through your fingers. One way or another,…