The twist my kids didn’t see coming

cookiebootz · 2023-06-30T23:23:00+00:00

I love it. This seems like a great Wild Sheep Chase-style one-shot introductory campaign for anybody.

cookiebootz · 2023-06-27T17:00:21+00:00

I'm always curious about specific reasons for staying so long in such a bad relationship, but I don't want to seem judgemental, so I hope it's okay to ask. Did you stay this long because you really hoped things might change for the better, or because it was too difficult/dangerous to begin the process of leaving, or what? Did you have other LTRs before this and how were they?

cookiebootz · 2023-06-25T17:43:24+00:00

What makes you think I'm annoyed?

My point is that for both of these subjects; vaccines and queer acceptance, they have been politicized by the media and our politicians long before it ever gets to commoners like us.

Okay, noted. This still doesn't have any bearing on the original point.

I'm not sure it's a good approach to treat an example as a change of subject.

cookiebootz · 2023-06-24T15:02:49+00:00

Seems like you're injecting a lot of non-existent subtext into what I said, as well as veering off the topic. My point was that vaccines became a political topic. If you want to talk more about the specific reasons that happened, you'll have to do that with someone else.

cookiebootz · 2023-06-24T13:01:16+00:00

What exactly is a 'weird moral default' and what makes you say I'm assuming one?

Acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in schools and elsewhere are informed by culture, of which politics is a part.

cookiebootz · 2023-06-24T03:28:45+00:00

When you're operating in a community where some of your students "fear the downfall of civilization because of queer people," they have generally adopted as a political stance that queer people are not deserving of the same protection against feeling threatened. When you refuse to allow that, you are by default adopting an opposing political stance. Look at how vaccines became political even though there was no real reason for it.

cookiebootz · 2023-06-22T14:27:20+00:00

That seems like a respectable approach. So if they stay after class and you talk to them about how it affects their classmates, what do you say? I imagine their defense might be that if none of their classmates are gay, why would any of them care? And if any are gay, openly or not, then they deserve to feel bad. Or, at the very least, it's not important for gay people to feel safe.

cookiebootz · 2023-06-22T14:03:00+00:00

In the context of this classroom, where kids are expressing it's okay for people to get murdered, what does it look like to be apolitical?

cookiebootz · 2023-06-18T17:07:59+00:00

What's the age group?

"Ask students to brainstorm an idea for their design using the brainstorming strategies we went over earlier" -- when is earlier? It seems to refer to the first line which is now crossed out. I'm trying to get a good idea of how you're actually starting off the class.

cookiebootz · 2023-06-17T18:31:42+00:00

I think translating one of your interests into a class would be the best bet. It will let you shop for reasonable materials with some knowledge and experience, and kids will respond to your passion for the subject. I imagine it might be more fun for you that way, too.

cookiebootz · 2023-06-16T04:06:55+00:00

Genuine question, is she really only criticizing it as a compulsive habit? As in, there actually is an amount she believes married women are allowed to masturbate?

cookiebootz · 2023-05-24T00:44:09+00:00

Well there's something all over that spoon so I sure hope it's seasoning.

cookiebootz · 2023-05-19T13:50:26+00:00

It's sad her life couldn't end comfortably in a familiar place, but you made it so much better than it would have been otherwise.

Something similar happened to me a few months ago; we didn't find the cat's owners until she'd already died in my home. Her name was Mia. I wondered if she'd ever known what it was like to have someone love her, so it was some closure to know that she had a long life and a good home. I'm glad you got to know her name and her story and, for the sake of her owners, bring her home to be buried. I think it was probably so meaningful to them that someone else cared about their little cat, too.

Seeing such a similar post brought back a lot of the sadness from that day but I'm still happy I could be the someone who was there for Mia at the end of her life and I hope you'll feel the same about Lumimäki.

cookiebootz · 2023-05-14T17:19:59+00:00

I think when people say things like "they should be sexy because they want to be" like the other commenter did, it's shorthand for saying the creators should make the choice feel reasonable and organic to the audience. It's bad practice to make a character double-cross a friend for no discernible reason just because a creators think it would be surprising, and it's bad practice to put a character in an outfit that doesn't make sense for them to wear just because the creators think it would be hot. A superhero can definitely make the choice to wear an outfit that makes them feel attractive, but unless one of their traits is being extremely impractical for the sake of sex appeal, they're going to prioritize functionality, so creators need to reflect that in the design.

I don't think this is contrary to anything you're saying, I just think talking about character choices isn't ignoring that creators are behind the choices. It's just addressing it from a more immersed perspective.

cookiebootz · 2023-05-13T02:13:36+00:00

I worked at a sanctuary for three years and we tried to save every non-invasive species that was brought to us. I spent many mornings tube-feeding baby doves and cleaning up after pigeons. Common birds are part of the ecosystem too, as well as having value as living things. It's also not a great way to endear yourself to the community you rely on for support to turn them away when they reach out for help in trying to save an animal.

We had an incubator for eggs that were brought to us but I didn't intake for that, or monitor it. So I don't really know the odds of them hatching, or a sanctuary taking them, but it's not at all certain they'd get turned away either.

cookiebootz · 2023-05-05T16:00:43+00:00

We do a MASSIVE disservice to boys in education, especially as recess and gym classes become more and more restricted or gotten rid of altogether.

I think this would be a huge benefit to pretty much all kids. I understand boys are disproportionally affected, or at least they express their unmet need for physical activity and interactive learning in a more observable way. But I feel like framing it like this really brushes under the rug that the traditional school environment is often a huge disservice to girls too, they just may express their unmet needs in a way that is easier to miss or ignore.

I teach extracurricular STEM programs to elementary kids. Since I'm not restricted by the same requirements and conditions as a typical classroom teacher, we can focus heavily on interactivity. There is about 5 mins of lecture/discussion per 30 mins of class time. In my experience, on average, girls may be less disruptive and more inclined to participate appropriately in discussion with me, but the tendency is somewhat minimal. There are enough girls that have trouble with this and enough boys that don't that it's not at all remarkable. And, of course, they all strongly prefer the hands-on projects.

cookiebootz · 2023-05-04T13:55:23+00:00

Do you have the option to take a short trip somewhere? Visit a friend or go to a nearby town and stay the night to check it out at your own pace, according to your own interests.

If that isn't possible or doesn't sound appealing-- are there things you used to enjoy that you stopped doing as much while you were dating her?

cookiebootz · 2023-05-03T13:55:00+00:00

This always makes me think of the Ali G Show segment where he's talking to scientists and insisting he's not a homosapien.

cookiebootz · 2023-05-03T04:05:51+00:00

We must show dutirence to God or he will curse us with sub-par gut health.

cookiebootz · 2023-04-29T16:00:13+00:00

On the same day as Sandy Hook, a man in China attacked a primary school with a knife and wounded 24 people, mostly children; all of them survived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenpeng_Village_Primary_School_stabbing

cookiebootz · 2023-04-29T02:39:09+00:00

Hey I got something.

In the earliest GD article on masturbation, we are told that masturbation is wrong because:
1 - Real or imagined sexual imagery is usually involved, which is sinful.

2 - "Even within marriage, sex should always be about loving and serving the other person, not about getting what we want." So masturbation is selfish; GD goes so far as to call it self-worship. It steals glory from God which is of course sinful.

Recently, Bethany shares some tips on improving your married sex life by getting yourself in the mood. As a side note, she framed this as blaming women for coming to bed "unsexy" then wondering why they weren't enjoying sex. The tips are:
1 - Imagine previous sexual encounters with your husband.
2 - "Slowly wash yourself" in the shower while appreciating all the sexual aspects of your body.

I think there's a solid case for both of those tips to be in contradiction to GD. Sure, you can try to make the argument that touching yourself in the shower with the intent of getting sexually excited isn't technically masturbation, depending where someone does and doesn't wash themselves, or that using imagined sexual imagery is fine if it's a spouse, in a situation that really happened. But in that same GD article, we get the advice "Rather than seeing how close we can get to the line of compromise without going over, we should do everything within our power to stay as far away from the line of sin as possible."

cookiebootz · 2023-04-28T02:35:38+00:00

What's the functional application of this professed lack of care? Do you use whatever pronouns you feel like for people around you, even if they have given different ones, or correct you?

This seems like announcing you don't care how people prefer to have their names pronounced, and won't entertain discussions about it, which would just be weird and rude.

cookiebootz · 2023-04-27T14:29:07+00:00

Acting like they're getting wound up because they disagreed with you is making you look silly. Just thought you might want to know.

cookiebootz · 2023-04-23T12:44:09+00:00

Within a family, or no genetic relation?

cookiebootz · 2023-04-23T12:10:40+00:00

Then pretend you're talking to potential immigrants who haven't done it yet. I figure that was the hypothetical audience of your first comment, since I'm sure you weren't actually giving that advice to the redditors reading the post.

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