They are light, fluffy, and only thrown towards you if you or someone in your immediate vicinity are holding out their hands. It’s not like, random assault by roll. Although, that would be a much more interesting dinner....

My giant of a husband sometimes just doesn’t see kids. He tries, but if he’s focused on something, it’s really easy for an unrestrained child to get under him. We’ve had some close calls in crowded spots (at Disney World, the mall, etc.) due to parents just not having a hand on their kids. But if his 6’6” 300+ lb ass…

That’s good! Where I worked the ER staff were sadly fucking incompetent at restraints. Security and I almost got assaulted once because ER staff “restrained” a patient to a broken stretcher frame (I noticed it was breaking more and more, so we stopped and deescalated/re-restrained).

When I worked in a hospital (mental health unit), you were just about fired the moment you put a patient face down. There’s too many restraint incidents where people die because of respiratory arrest (which had happened in the past), so we were trained to the nth degree about how to do it. If during a takedown a…

Addendum: I’m not talking about financially I guess. Moreso my focus has been on psychological resilience.

Oh shit. This is my bag. I was going to focus my research on resilience (current social work PhD student). Finally got told by my professor that it would be a fight upstream, always. Not because I’m not capable, but the ‘community’ around resilience SUCKS. It’s a shittily defined construct, with crap research often…

My husband and I saw this last night. Lava made me tear up, and then the movie made me cry so many times. Even my giant Russian husband cried. This is perhaps the most relatable movie I’ve seen in a long time and is now on par with Up for me, which is saying something.

My dad’s about the same. Former Professor, physical therapist part-time. He intimidates the hell out of people, but then I see him wrestling with my niece or the dogs on the floor in goofy t-shirts and wonder who could ever be intimidated by this goofball.

The episode when the kids wrote their short stories at school was awesome! Linda never once saw anything wrong with their stories, which is so turnabout to the usual hellion children TV storyline. They’re not bad kids, just a little weird, and their parents not only let but encourage them to be that way! What’s not to…

Aww. Yes though! Really though, I’d have to argue some of the best parents on TV are the Crystal Gems and Greg! Supportive of Steven and his friends, let him have freedom; they’re just great!

Again, sex vs gender. Social construct vs biological. Race is not a construct. Race is. No one is asking to prove identity, but the distinction is that culture is not race - she can identify with black culture all. day. long. and no one cares. When she decides to portray herself as something she is not and cannot be,…

As someone with massively dyed hair (rainbow) who only washes it weekly, Batiste is a godsend. And not just for tint, but mostly for the fact that I can pick my smell! The retro packaging is nice too.

As someone with massively dyed hair (rainbow) who only washes it weekly, Batiste is a godsend. And not just for…

But identification with a group and race are different. This is a woman who identifies with a culture, primarily. A social construct. Again, gender is biological. Sexuality/sexual expression/gender identity is primarily social. Again, biosocial says social things determine expression of genes. You cannot express genes…

Actually there are genes that they believe are tied to gender and sexual expression. It’s more tenuous than the genes connected to expression of skin color, hair texture, etc. Everything in life really is biosocial though, expression of genes is partially dependent on environmental exposures. Here though? There is no…

That’s what I was thinking too actually. I know it can depend on the case and everything, but if we’re pushing for more prosecution of sexual assault crimes, won’t we just potentially continually see smaller and smaller jury pools?

I’m just not buying into it too much. Like, what can you use it for, really? I can’t see playing games with it, like, ever.

Fist-bumb for liberal bleeding heart social workers. I get called a bleeding heart ALL. THE. TIME. by my husband (and then tell him it’s just Siberian ice water in his damn Russian veins). I get it. 100%. For me and my future family, I just can’t fight. When I worked in East St. Louis adjacent I couldn’t do a thing…

Yeah - I get that. I’m not saying that McMansions are suitable for Section 8; but a lot of decent subdivisions are. But yes, in an attempt to dissolve The Projects, we’ve essentially continued the practice, but created almost more strife.

And I fully understand that. And that (to me at least) is part of the purpose of Section 8. Making properties in nicer areas available for those who normally couldn’t live there. I guess I grew up in military housing, and it clouds my judgement. I remember having friends of almost all income brackets, and lived right…

This. My husband and I were talking last night about our eventual goals after I finish school (and we’d like to start a family then). This led to talking about the evils of Section 8, and how really, it’s actually a good idea for neighborhoods to have housing available. It helps others, and really 90%+ of the time, if…