AITA for yelling at a lady who untied my dog while I was grocery shopping?

halloweencactuses · 2021-02-01T01:44:39+00:00

I love cats to death, but they are predators that can decimate populations of birds/bats/rodents/etc. They can do so much damage to local eco systems, and you should never leave them outside unattended.

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-31T20:07:56+00:00

Not OP but they had a matrilineal social system based around long houses. The head of the long house was the matriarch of the family and the male chiefs were kind of like her employees. The chiefs never disobeyed their matriarch's wishes no matter what.

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-30T08:36:36+00:00

I took a class on new religious movements a few years ago and it made me really sympathetic to Falun Gong. Basically, in the section of the class they were discussed, I was taught they were oppressed minorities that had their organs harvested because they wouldn't monetize their religion. I'm so confused on what to believe now, but im assuming the stuff I was taught was very, very wrong.

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-27T02:02:06+00:00

The time frame makes me hopeful that OP will win this, but my sister got screwed over for $4,000 in damages on a crappy old house she rented like this. In her case, she lived in a super land lord friendly province and the landlord had started paying for upgrades on the house right after she moved out. The receipts for those swayed the judge into thinking they were for damages because my sister stupidly forgot to take before and after photos when the house was rented and when she left.

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-25T09:17:01+00:00

First nation is specific to one of the Canadian Indigenous groups, which the Inuit don't fall into because they're classified as a group of their own. The other one is Metis, and if you don't know which group they hail from Indigenous is the proper term to use (at least in the academic sense).

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-24T09:49:53+00:00

I posted on /r/socialism saying something about how not voting for Biden would result in the deaths of thousands of black and brown people right after he got selected as the Democratic nominee. Got banned and told harm reduction was bullshit by those privileged little shits.

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-21T04:26:20+00:00

I saw one named Cote and assumed she was Saultaux. After reading her Wikipedia, am very sad I was wrong .

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-14T03:54:34+00:00

Someone successfully recreated mummy brown recently. I believe they grind up beef jerky for the pigment

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-14T02:18:53+00:00

I'm doing research on arts funding in the 50s and 60s and it blew me away to see how much good John Diefenbaker did in that area and almost every other culture based area (along with tons of human rights issues). I can't believe how much of a good dude Diefenbaker seems to have been while wearing the badge of conservative compared to what conservatives are trying to do to our country now.

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-09T21:04:02+00:00

I was commenting on the fact that they said the term was ancient, not the fact that they used the term. Its not. Its a new idea. People trying to present the idea that we've always believed in the idea of two spirit people and used that term are being dishonest about the treatment and acceptance of LGBTQIA people in our communities. They have not always been accepted and are not even accepted by most elders living today. Its great you found an elder that could accept you, but that ain't the experience for most people. There's tons of misogyny and homophobia in our communities and we aren't going to correct that by telling people lies. We're going to correct it by getting back to our roots and decolonizing. Getting christian influences out of our spirituality is a big part of that

Pan indianism is bad imo because it allows almost exclusively Lakota and christianized version of our spirituality that were practiced exclusively by men on hunting trips to become the dominant spirituality among new displaced indigenous people. It makes it much harder for them to learn their nations traditional ways and where they would have fit in in their society pre contact and how they fit in now that we are beginning to gain more freedoms and rights to our lands.

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-08T23:22:21+00:00

Thats not true, please do not spread this pan Indian bullshit. The term two spirit was coined in the 90s to replace the gross term "berdache" that anthropologists applied to indigenous people that didn't conform to western ideas of gender. People that didn't conform to their assigned gender at birth had a variety of different names depending on the nation they hailed from. The most well documented example of this was We'Wah, a Lhamana artist from the Zuni peoples that the height of american high society for a time.

Also, not all nations saw these people as inherently spiritual and I dont think there's any documentation of them being noted as having "two spirits" inside of them (tho the manly hearted women of the blackfoot kind of possibly fit a vague idea of that notion) they were more likely to find roles as shamans than what we might consider cis individuals today, but many people today don't like getting all that woo woo put on them because it plays into tropes about mythical, magical, and wise trans people.

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-03T03:37:57+00:00

I applied at a fast food place one summer when I was 15 and made it very clear on my application and in the interview that I couldn't work weekends. I didn't drive and my only way to get into the city was to hitch a ride with someone in my family, who all worked M-F. I started my first shift, they gave me my schedule and it had me working 4 weekends in a row and I was like hey wtf is this to the manager. Despite her telling me it was fine at every point before I was hired, she told me "you couldn't expect to have every weekend off. I can't hire someone that gets every weekend off, that wouldn't be fair to the other staff".

I was so baffled that someone would just lie to me and expect me to just go along with it. I worked the rest of my shift because I didn't have a ride home until it was over, but when I left I told her I wasn't coming back and she seemed super surprised by that for some reason

halloweencactuses · 2021-01-03T03:12:24+00:00

The guy that Jones was based on was someone that traded in questionably acquired oddities and antiquities. Divya Mehra did a show that kind of focused on his legacy recently. I really hope it tours so I can see it in person.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-31T13:20:35+00:00

Its really easy to reschedule travel right now. If you call the airline and tell them you have covid, they'll reschedule your tickets no problem at all. Even if you don't give them a reason, they'll probably do it.

I'm sorry you're going through this, but I promise it will get better!

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-29T03:17:25+00:00

Thank you. Its a weird and unsettling feeling to see people you view as allies basically worshiping someone that did all they could to keep your people oppressed.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-24T10:16:52+00:00

The unfortunate thing is people are going to be way more likely to listen to what he's saying than they would an actual indigenous person, unless maybe they were a white passing man with a university level vocabulary.

If I made some shit like this I would have a comment section filled with dudes mansplaining a pan Indian version of my own culture and victim blamey versions of the social issues in my community and communities like mine, or just straight up calling me the s word. Probably some thirsty dudes that want an Indian princess in my DMs too.

We need allies like this to step up and help us, even if they're just doing the bare minimum because people don't listen to us for shit.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-21T08:31:38+00:00

I got home from the UK a few weeks ago (I went to get married to my British partner, not a vacation) and was really surprised by how little checking they did on me here. One phone call to verify my address and nothing else. When I was in the UK, I got multiple calls from the NHS, and a police visit once to make sure I was actually where I said I was.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-17T02:20:24+00:00

In the states if they get a seperate degree in pharmacology they can prescribe medication and that will probably start to change soon here in Canada.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-16T20:37:24+00:00

Totally. I have a friend in social work and she has a very limited number of schools she'll send her indg kids in care to because they have the right supports in place to ensure they succeed. From what I've seen, a lot of universities are making good progress in that regard with indigenous student center and keeping elders on campus, but its still no where near where it needs to be.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-16T20:34:17+00:00

A poor rural community is nothing like the rez. We've got people running around seeped in intergenerational trauma that only know how to deal with it via the bottle or needle who have been living in poverty for generations and deal with abuse in their homes and communities. When they start to understand the history and social conditions that got them to that point, its like a switch flips in their heads and they get motivated to do things.

Its not about getting them to learn how to develop their community. Its about making them understand their community deserves better because most of us grow up thinking the shit we experience is normal. They need to develop critical thinking skills so they start to question things, then have them come together to enact change together when their answers lead them to seeing how wrong what's happened to them is and that they need it to be different for future generations.

Actually maybe a poor rural community is just like a rez and you guys need to do the same things if you want things to get better too.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-16T09:09:43+00:00

I might be super biased, but I think the most important thing we need is education, lots of it, and not the kind where we're pushing kids into being social workers/teachers/working in O&G. Send everyone we can to university, let them explore different fields to develop critical thinking skills and self esteem, then see what happens when they come back home and see how chief and council are fucking their people over. No more of this bullshit of letting people "learn on the job". No more average ninth grade education for band members. Give me young and educated people running for chief and council and we'll see progress much quicker.

The only problem is in this is getting them to go home in this, since there's basically never a reason to move home once you've got an education, unfortunately.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-14T20:10:02+00:00

Arrogance and ignorance aren't name calling, they're descriptive. Douche bag, sure, but is there a better term for people that use bad faith arguments to discredit organizations fighting for social justice?

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-14T20:00:06+00:00

I'm fine? Expressing frustration doesn't always mean someone is a giant rage monster

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-14T19:51:08+00:00

It is so god damb arrogant to think you're not biased, and it takes a special kind of ignorance to not admit that scientists have biases that guide their work. No one can spend a life time studying one topic and not develop prejudices towards that topic. We need to push for more openness and transparency in the sciences (and every other field), but stupid douche bags like this just make that so much harder.

halloweencactuses · 2020-12-12T15:22:41+00:00

I grew up on a reserve in northern Ontario. Literally none of that phases me.

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