WOKE up this morning ....

[mids]

"spaces"

A gay as fuck concept.

[mids]

Almost as bad as "I need to see people who look like me...".

[Repat Van]

God this author is an idiot:

“ The problem with this reasoning is obvious: it begins with the assumption that race is and ought to be the dominant characteristic through which our identities are formed. If this were true then the argument against racial separatism under Jim Crow was correct and should have continued.”

The first reasoning is faulty. I am a woman. I access spaces that are restricted to women only. I like accessing those spaces. The fact those spaces exist and I access them does not mean that my sex / gender identity is the “dominant characteristic through which my identity is formed” nor that I assume gender should be the dominant characteristic through which gender is formed.


Ditto I was a member of a group in Oz that had a restricted membership for Britons only. But being British is not the “dominant characteristic through which my identity is formed”. There are plenty of activities and groups that have a membership restricted by age, gender, religion, nationality etc.

And arguing that a play date for Latinos is the same as the intense state sponsored discrimination and violence that was Jim Crow is laughable.

[Repat Van]

Sept 5, 2023 14:19:34 GMT mids said:

Almost as bad as "I need to see people who look like me...".

Like the white people who whine about seeing brown and black people on adverts?

[Repat Van]

Sept 5, 2023 14:18:40 GMT mids said:

"spaces"

A gay as fuck concept.

You think the basic English language is “gay”. You never use the word “space”?

You’re odd.

[voice]

Omg, the wokerati are at it again, rewriting books to be more woke, when will it ever end...?

Attachments:

[rick49]

Carl Sagan Saw US Schools Were Ruining Kids Decades Ago: 'Something Terrible Has Happened'

"Despite the extravagant spending, our schools are failing our kids. Carl Sagan saw it. John Taylor Gatto saw it. And we all see it today."
fee.org/articles/carl-sagan-saw-us-schools-were-ruining-kids-decades-ago-something-terrible-has-happened/

[mids]

Fat liberation. Fat. Liberation. Isn't that what eating properly and doing some exercise is?


"In an accompanying clip Bryant, who is proudly plus-size herself, said: 'My belief is that we should be centering the voices and experiences of the most marginalized people and communities at all times.



So when I think about what fat liberation looks like to me, I think about centering the voices of those who live in and who maneuver through spaces and institutions in a fat body.'"

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12516377/zyahna-bryant-dove-morgan-bettinger-charlottesville.html

[perrykneeham]

She most use her Dove to wash herself using a rag on a stick.

[mids]

"maneuver" (sic)

She's not helping herself.

[unclejunior]

"Fat Liberation" and welcome to a shorter unhealthy life......The New Dove advert...

[voice]

I hardly thunk fat people are a repressed minority, firstly cos there are loads of fat people and secondly, the only one making them fat (tiny % of those with medical conditions excepted) is themselves.

[flatandy]

Thus speaketh the skinnies who've never either never enjoyed food or who have abnormally freakish metabolisms.

Also, there is almost no way to exercise yourself thin. Exercise might redistribute the weight around your body but unless you're exercising for 4+ hours every day you're going to end up consuming more calories than you burn in the long run.

[unclejunior]

Sept 15, 2023 14:45:34 GMT flatandy said:

Thus speaketh the skinnies who've never either never enjoyed food or who have abnormally freakish metabolisms.

Also, there is almost no way to exercise yourself thin. Exercise might redistribute the weight around your body but unless you're exercising for 4+ hours every day you're going to end up consuming more calories than you burn in the long run.

….as usual, all nonsense .
Still all is not lost , they can always start using Dove soap& as a last resort eat a little less.

[rick49]

carl sagan:
"My experience is, you go talk to kindergarten kids or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. And they ask deep questions. ‘What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?’ These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them. You go talk to 12th grade students and there’s none of that. They’ve become leaden and incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade and it’s not just puberty.”

and he said that long before i-phones, twitter/social media etc. came along.

[voice]

Sept 15, 2023 14:45:34 GMT flatandy said:

Thus speaketh the skinnies who've never either never enjoyed food or who have abnormally freakish metabolisms.

Also, there is almost no way to exercise yourself thin. Exercise might redistribute the weight around your body but unless you're exercising for 4+ hours every day you're going to end up consuming more calories than you burn in the long run.

I like food as much as any foodie, I just know when to stop cramming it down my neck. In fact most really good food is actually best sampled in small quantities I've found. And my metabolism is not better or worse.

Weight is a simple calculation, calories in vs calories out. Sure eat less mover around more is difficult, but the most important bit is eat less. We know the only way to meaningfully loose weight is calorie reduction, as the moving around more is often the hard part, cos its easier not to put it on than burn it off.

[mids]

It's not like that fat chick is just "carrying a few extra pounds". She's vastly morbidly obese.

[mids]

I mean...

[rick49]

Sept 15, 2023 8:51:45 GMT unclejunior said:

"Fat Liberation" and welcome to a shorter unhealthy life......The New Dove advert...

dove taking the bud-lite path. they never learn, do they?

[rick49]

looks like the lgbt alphabet will have to add another letter.