I participated in a discussion between several trans folks who brought up how when people leave out direct pronoun reference it can come across as rejecting their gender. It IS super complicated and there are lots of feelings involved surrounding it, depending on so many factors. One dude was really hurt by people who…

Thank you. Me condemning an adult for damaging and borderline abusive and hateful behaviour towards a struggling child who depends on them for security and love is NOT comparable to the intolerance that parent is showing their child.

“I understand” or “it’s okay to feel the way you do” or “it seems like this is really difficult for you” is not the same as “I approve of your every behavior.”

Got a queer and non gender binary kid who is being and learning who they are right now- all while trying to keep their shit together and graduate high school in the next couple of weeks. Don’t care how they end up other than healthy and happy (and hopefully with a decent job), but my god, it’s tough to observe. I can…

Mind you, having lived in Scotland for a couple years and seen and felt some profoundly weird shit, it’s possible there IS something odd going on, but only in combination with terrible parents.

AGREED. The parents don’t even have to be there to be awful. I’d be asking the nannies who quit just what the actual duties were- not the posted ones. And just how the parents treated both their children and the people who work for them when they were around.

You said truth. But these (mostly crazy evangelicals) are people who believe that “truth” is something that exists because they believe it hard enough, not because something actually was documented as happening. These are the same people whose ability to logically process things has been compromised for that very…

Bananas. My goodness. This is a religion that has its origins in a monotheistic desert tribal death cult. It just spread by using the very effective Roman habit of absorbing traditions as it went- Matriarchal goddess worshippers? Fine! Mary, mother of Jesus! Sacrificial (either symbolic or real) Old God Winter/New God…

My condolences and profound empathy for trying to sort out/resolve your relationship with someone who is exhibiting that kind of behaviour, all while dealing with his terminal disease. That’s got to be considered “conflicted” at best.

I can’t even listen to someone mimicking his speech pattern without cringing internally. I don’t think him reading an entire book is possible to labour through- either for him OR me! You are absolutely correct- he does not have the attention span unless there are people clapping and cheering for him the entire time.…

Yep. Monoculture and monodiet is a terrible thing. Their small grain crops took up valuable space that the big landowners wanted to use for sheep and hunting, so they had to go. Potatoes had a giant yield in much smaller spaces. Bad land management that resulted in negligent genocide. Not unlike the type of thing…

I very proudly admit I did a project on potatoes when I was in grade 3. And the biggest take away I got from that was the Scots viewed potatoes with suspicion because they were not mentioned in the Bible, so couldn’t be an actual food. One dude at the time said the French called them apples of the earth, so they were…

Oh gosh. Could you imagine? No one was taking any chances. I also hoped he would burst into flame when he hit Vatican City and was in the Pope’s presence. Again, the Almighty has disappointed me. But maybe he’s all like, “You guys allowed Trump to happen. You fix it. I’m all about you kids learning lessons from…

No. I would bet a large amount of money on that certainty. He would NOT notice.

I thought about it. But you are right- the reality is so much worse than how I would hope it would work. Toilet water fountains, essentially.

I know it’s a fact (re:tomatoes) but I am unable to wrap my head around the reality of anything around the Mediterranean or in what is now the Middle East, without tomatoes. Or pasta.

Hard Country Livin’.

I was SO hoping he would burst into flame when he touched the Bible. I was very disappointed there was no smiting.

Yes. That is exactly what they are doing.

God. So good.