There’s also a big difference between jokes that are mean and jokes that are dangerous. This was a mean joke, but it wasn’t dangerous. I’m gonna need Will Smith to start patrolling open mics for comedians making jokes about raping women or he can truly STFU and sit down.

You want to talk about trauma? Physical. Violence.

And then to justify it with: “Love makes you do crazy things,” which is of course the motto of every abuser.

Not only that, but when you defend your loved ones using violence, guess what - your loved ones are more likely to be afraid of you turning that violence towards them than feel protected by it! Never thought I’d get triggered watching the person who wrote “Miami” try to act deep at the Oscars.

Every awards ceremony either prompts a lot of hand-wringing over bad jokes or is boring. Wherever we land on Chris Rock, I think everyone who grew up around quick tempered grown-ups throwing hands over what they believe is a moral obligation collectively just thought, “If that’s what he does in public...”

The development of a child is dependent upon the dyadic relationship between parent and child. Acting as if we should not care about co-regulation is not really an argument in favor of healthy child development. There is no such thing as ‘excessive attachment’ between parent and child - that is an internet term. All…

1. Antibodies are passed through breast milk. Including COVID-19 antibodies. If you stop breastfeeding before getting vaccinated, your baby/toddler will not receive those antibodies. No shade if you stopped - at all - but if I were a breastfeeding mom in 2020, I’d probably keep it up given how poorly COVID-19 vaccine…

The news is so alarming and upsetting - I just want to throw out some positives. I work in a large religious hospital system. I recently had to do the most updated employee training (that all employees in the system have to complete). It was honestly the best LGBTQ training I’ve ever encountered. The entire system has…

Who is the “nobody” in this scenario?

Another part of this story that’s worth noting is that he is battling cancer.

I love how some people will say things like, “Now is not the time to criticize Ukraine” in response to a post like yours that acknowledges the nuance of the situation (and the fact that naming “good guys” and “bad guys” is often a large part of war propaganda). I love it because it’s adorable - people out there…

I love how many different trends are emerging. One trend I’m not loving is a lot of the 90s nostalgia (which include the Euphoria trends) because it targets super skinny bodies. The late-90s-early-aughts were a rough time to be a teen girl because trends (low rise jeans, skin-tight tees, minis, etc.) favored the…

The US armed the Mujahideen in a proxy war against Russia.We created the Taliban.

This quote is also straight out of the Cold War propaganda playbook. And if you think the US bears no responsibility in escalating tensions with Russia, you need to look at the past couple of decades. Putin is a megalomaniac, but he’s also a bear getting poked by US imperialism.

Eh, “It’s bots” is a lazy roundup of things. Many humans I know are creating their own content expressing concern over the media approach to this conflict. So many have organized clips of anchors on networks like CBS making absolute asses of themselves, saying things like, “These refugees are different from Iraqi or…

It’s a teaching joke, but I’ll explain. It’s a tertiary source, which is rarely accepted in academic settings (even high schools). It’s meant to be used not as reading (i.e., reading the Wikipedia entry as the source), but rather as a place to have an organized list of primary/secondary sources (which you see…

Police aren’t special in that we hold them to a standard - we hold all kinds of professionals to high standards. That’s why liability insurance exists - things can go terribly wrong in all kinds of situations.

Every teacher’s plea: “Wikipedia does not count as a source!”

White supremacy is a structure. You have to stop thinking of it as individual people. Stop using words like, ‘fault’ - don’t take it personally, get out of the sandbox, no one is getting a time out or a dunce cap - it’s just about acknowledging a reality that exists. I don’t necessarily agree with this “weighs races…

I think that’s where #MeToo falls way short - it’s overly focused on singling out individuals instead of addressing the systemic nature of these problems. Much easier to burn one bad apple than for a whole industry to be accountable.