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"Fat liberation is a scam" fat liberation isn't selling you anything 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm begging you people to stop seeing absolutes where there aren't any. Fat liberation is largely about dismantling the absolutes.

When we say "fat people can be perfectly healthy", some of you hear "all fat people are perfectly healthy" when the point is simply that weight and health aren't synonymous. It's more complex.

When we say that health looks different for everyone some of you hear "health is completely meaningless" when the point is actually just that it's more complex than either/or. YES, intentional weight loss can be the right path for someone! Look, I Have Said it! The problem is, there's a widespread myth saying it's the right path for everyone. That's not the case.

When we say health status does not indicate your intrinsic worth and should be irrelevant to how you're treated, some of you apparently hear "there's no reason to care about your own health", which is just bananas. Learn better reading comprehension.

Fat liberation is a political movement based on no absolute claims about health. Literally the point is that fat people deserve social equality regardless of health status. "Health is complex and individual" is a full on fact, but ultimately it's also beside the point.

The only absolute in this movement is that fat people are People and worthy of equity and basic respect. That's what you're objecting to when you say you're against fat liberation.

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Can you believe there's an officially licensed kawoshin childhood friends au

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I'm sorry, professor, I consider publishing your course a day late, having a mandatory live zoom meeting during business hours to stay enrolled for an asynchronous class, and requiring students to use a $60 ***pdf*** that you wrote as their textbook to be exceptionally unprofessional and since I've still got 14 days to get a refund I'm totally not paying $150 to take your class.

Also, for all the newbie professors out there: a syllabus is not just a greeting and a list of assignments. If you haven't given your students AT LEAST your office hours, your late work policy, and your preferred method of being contacted, then you have not given your students a syllabus it's just sparkling announcements.

But really. Sir. SIR. You teach Speech 100. This is one of the most basic classes with like, 20 of the most widely available accepted textbooks and you want me to pay sixty dollars for a pdf of a book that you rewrite every semester so that there are no previous editions?

Buddy this is interpersonal communication, not introductory rhetoric. Why is one of your *four* total assignments about Socrates?

Maybe it's the fact that I've taken Spch 100 interpersonal communication three times already, maybe it's the fact that I grew up with somebody who taught Spch 100 interpersonal communication from 1981 to 2018, but buddy what the fuck are you doing?

"Some of our lectures will only be available for 24 hours so it is up to you to stay on top of it."

Friend, you are teaching an asynchronous online 100-level class at a community college during a pandemic. Get off your high horse, a third of your students are probably parents. There is no reason whatsoever to limit access to course materials to 24 hours unless you are doing it to be a controlling asshole.

Also YOU published your class a day and a half late! You don't get to publish your class late with an incomplete syllabus and tell students to "stay on top of it." Especially not since that means that people have two fewer days to buy your PDF textbook and only one full day to prepare for your mandatory 1pm on a Tuesday zoom meeting!

Why do you require me to have access to a printer for an online class? Oh yeah it's because you expect me to print out and draw on sections of your $60 ebook.

SIR. No thank you.

Kids, new students: this is a level of bullshit and disorganization from a professor that you do not have to put up with. This is a neatly ordered series of red flags that say "this professor is going to be absolutely unbearable."

Also *any* humanities class where your whole grade is 4 assignments should get serious side-eye. You should be able to pass most 100 level humanities classes by just turning in weekly assignments. 4 assignments means that by the time you figure out how the professor grades you're probably close to halfway through the class. Look for classes that require weekly participation as a major chunk of the grade because that way, even if you fuck up a project in a major way, just showing up can save your ass.

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From Thud! Now, English isn't my first language, but I'm pretty sure that this has more than one meaning -

Ha ! Mr Patrician of Ankh-Morpork here thought he could get away with calling Vimes hot if he hid it in the middle of a speech.

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Play them.

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Haven’t seen many people talking about this. One of the groups behind pressuring steam to remove adult content is a TERF group backed by conservative Christian groups. Once again the root behind a lot of anti-porn talking points is transphobia/transmisogyny and the idea that being trans is a social contagion caused by porn/‘pervertedness’

Now, the group is claiming responsibility for Steam’s new payment processor policies, with its co-founder calling impacted gamers “porn sick” and “brain rotted.” In one case, the organization even retweeted a notoriously anti-trans feminist who declared that “pervert nerds are responsible for most of society’s ills.” The retweeted feminist, a self-described “trans-exclusionary radical feminist,” proceeded to write under her post, “Evidence #1: trans.”

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I can’t recall who it was I was speaking with a little while back but we were discussing how to read Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and in what order to read them. This article is quite good with some excellent ideas. I don’t particularly agree with all the recommendations (particularly The One That Will Make You Laugh Out Loud. That honour should go to The Last Continent. As an Australian, I can tell you, this book is brilliant) but it’s a good start!

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"Being disabled is an exception, its rare."

If your argument falls apart when you remember disabled people exist, you had a shit argument.

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Boots #1

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Happy Campus Apocalypse volume 1 16th anniversary here's something to celebrate

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse - Ch. 20

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I’m going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this gun I found

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Half Goblin, half Hobbit.

Goblit.

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Goddddd I hate this crap. It looks so normal but if you look at it for more than 5 seconds it’s such a clear cut example of the subtle nudge towards tradwife “return to tradition” ass crap

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Why the 1940’s? Was that a more romantic and pure time somehow? Soldiers exist TODAY, so why that period? Was there something about that time that made relationships between men and women better somehow?

And why the obviously retro fashion? The finger waves, the red lipstick, the white lacy dress- What makes THIS SPECIFIC image so special? The time period? The relative modesty? The feminine appeal?

“to remind him what he’s fighting for”. You mean like a reward, an object, or a trophy? Á WHAT, the white picket fence and 1.5 kids, instead of a WHO? A dream of a perpetuated social ideal, a symbol?

Like GOD, it’s all so subtle that it’s soooo easy to believe that calling it out is an overreaction but all together it’s such a “women are better when they’re conservative objects / men should desire traditional femininity / the past was a purer time / reject modernity embrace tradition” message

Like literally tradfem tradwife dogwhistles everywhere it’s ridiculous

Like BRUH I hate to break it to you but pop-pop was giving his best friend a handy behind the barn in 1935 and gam-gam was mailing him nudes, people have ALWAYS been people and roleplaying a farmsteading settler family and having bad missionary sex with your submissive tradwife girlfriend isn’t going to make high quality furry porn and taxes and high fructose corn syrup and whatever else you think is wrong with moderns society stop existing, FUCK

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please stop treating the word neurodivergent like it means the overlap between autism and adhd