I think we should be changing teaching even earlier than high school. Kids have separated into stereotyped groups by high school, because kids love belonging to groups and naturally cluster. Having “nerds” as the only “reading is cool” group is pretty damning to high school English education. We need to instill early…

You are being Lawful Stupid.

Pretty sure I know how to avoid the basic ones, but I think there are scads I don’t even know are *things.*

Most everyone’s privilege is rooted in atrocities. Each person who lives in the Americas and isn’t native, is likely here because colonists brought war, slavery, and smallpox and murdered 90% of the locals. Most countries’ borders are due to brutal conquest.

I think we can’t ever win until we also play the “appeal to emotions” game. This has been done since humans *had* emotions to appeal to. It’s the way charisma works.

WHY DON’T WE GET COOL SHIT LIKE THIS HERE

Honestly, I’ve been tempted to go on testosterone purely for the physical ability benefits. Men just have like, 10% better athleticism than women because of it, and they have better metabolisms as well.

Really curious: is there a way to just avoid menopause altogether with hormone replacement/supplementation? Because I like having a sex drive.

“The graveyard is filled with important men

I kinda want to know the dog story. It *is* pissing contest day...

So much rage at people “wanting a cookie just to show some basic human decency.”

I agree with like 95% of what you said, but this is kinda bullshit.

Your Old is showing. “Damn kids thinking they matter.”

I wouldn’t be thrilled about talking about controversial topics if the entire internet was ready to watch and destroy me at a moment’s notice. Famous people get dogpiled hard.

If it’s emotional labor, it’s an amount of labor that should be mandatory for being a functioning adult. Worst case you say, “I don’t know, just grab something you think I like!” It’s not that much trouble.

Yeah I agree entirely with this one. Your in-laws want to buy you gifts. Stop being a fucking ingrate.

“For a community to thrive, we should reward hard work and reward those who make wise choices.”

I want to go get breakfast as a place that sells The Full Ron Swanson, which really should be “all the bacon and eggs you have.”

We shouldn’t have to suck up to populations each year to get them to not vote for Orange Fascist Baby types. This should be baseline decency -- don’t vote for lunatics.

I do know someone who is “meh” on pets. He wasn’t raised with pets, and while he’s fine with animals, he doesn’t particularly like or dislike them and certainly doesn’t want the responsibility.