Rachelhazideas @ Rachelhazideas @lemmy.world

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There's an unspoken racial element to the removal of gas stoves.

If you need to cook with a wok for 15 minutes or char some peppers, you're destroying the environment. But if you need to run an electric oven for an hour to bake a pie or casserole and create 10x the carbon footprint, you're saving the environment.

And no, woks don't work as well on induction, unless you have those spherical induction stoves that aren't available outside of China. And an oven broiler is no where as good for charring peppers.

Edit: Love it when people who don't even own a wok will try to explain your own ethnic cuisine to you, whitewash the kitchen, and then pretend to be concerned about your health when it's always been about control.

I'm from Hong Kong, which statistically has the longest lifespan in the world. We use gas stoves just fine. Stop pretending that it's anything other than the lack of universal healthcare that's killing you.

They aren't entirely wrong. Liberal schools are enoursging trans kids to come out by teaching them about gender identity and tolerance at a young age, and that's a good thing.

What maga perceives is that cis kids are being turned into trans kids because they cannot wrap their head around how trans people are born trans, not 'pushed' into it. Trans people have been forced to mask as cis passing for so long, that maga will point to the past and talk about how trans people don't exist, they're an unnatural product of liberal propaganda.

The other perspective is that kids are kids, and gender identity is spectrum. Not every kid's gender identity is set in stone, and liberal policies that accept this fluidity is perceived as an agenda that deliberately turns cis kids into trans kids.

Yes, mags are stupid. But not necessarily because they are unintelligent, but because they fundamentally do not understand what being trans is, and are also likely bitter about their own heteronormative expectations that they have to live up to.

It's a similar phenomenon to how women coming out as autistic face backlash even among liberals, because it does not conform to people's idea of what an autistic person is like, because decades of research on autism have only focused on boys and men. The same way that a lot of people fundamentally don't understand autism is an internal experience, maga doesnt understand that being trans is an internal experience too, especially when they've been masking their whole lives.

For all intensive purposes, the meaning of words matters less than how we use it. Irregardless of how we decimate it's meaning, so long as we get the point across there is no need to nip it in the butt. Most people could care less.

The idea that trans people only need trans rights in gender affirming care, legal recognition, non-discrimination in workplaces and housing rentals etc, but not basic human needs like food, housing, general healthcare too is how many liberals have been shirking themselves of social responsibilities by dressing themselves in identity politics.

'I support trans rights but I draw the line at universal access to food, housing, healthcare, and education' is a denial of basic needs to trans people too. Trans people should be part of the challenges to society because they deserve access to basic human needs just as much as everyone else.

This privileged CEO thinks what she does is 'work' when she never as to work a day in customer service.

I'm afraid AI written books are being published and put into library shelves too.

It's not always for a paycheck. Sometimes indoctrination can run so deep that money isn't even needed. Sometimes living in fear of an autocratic regime is plenty motivating. Sometimes, the promises of better living conditions is enough to draw people to the military.

What if instead of treating people at an arbitrary age as 'adults' as if their age and maturity grants them freedom that absolves everyone else's concern for their wellbeing, we treat everyone like people who are deserving of basic necessities and help, no matter their age and circumstances?

According to the CDC, 1 in 5 women are mistreated during maternity care in the US. 1 in 3 if you're Black or Hispanic. 45% of pregnant women are held back from asking questions or sharing concerns.

Birthing mothers are frequently deprived of self-agency. When a woman gives birth, everyone starts assuming they know what's best for her without ever asking for her opinion or consent.

If you know about the husband stitch, or how women are made give birth while reclined for the doctor's convenience, or how frequently women's complaints of abnormal pain are dismissed, or how often women are yelled at while in labour, or they are threatened and withheld treatment, or how little their privacy is respected, you would know why women are turning to home births.

This isn't an issue of women being silly and brainwashed on social media. Women are being actively failed by a medical system that refuses to treat them like people and not just walking uteruses.

Everyone like to talk about how stupid women are dying in childbirth to preventable causes, and yet no one wants to talk about how suicide due to post-partum depression is a leading cause of death in the perinatal period.

So before you belittle women for choosing a home birth, ask them what kind of shit they have been through at a hospital that they would rather risk death than go back there again.

Everyone pees. But it's not normal if you have to pee 20 times a day.

This is what I tell every person who believes that people are pathologizing normal behavior into autism. If it doesn't significantly impact your life, if it's only one or two traits, then it's not autism.

I had meltdown episodes as a child when anyone attempted to dress me in anything that had a seam that could be felt, edges of Velcro, clothing tags, untucked shirts and the sensory nightmares of cold buttons on my pants, dresses without shorts under, etc.

As an adult, I still can't wear normal bras, clothing that isn't soft, most jeans which have stiff seams on the waist, and so many materials that itch the hell out of me.

To this day, I have had friends treat me like a brainwashed social media nut for even suggesting that I may have autism. All while I'm going to the movie theater with non-polarized shades and ear plugs.

This is only true until you get to live with people who 'cleans' pans and put them back with a thick layer of sludge on it and refuses to do a better job cleaning it.

Hi, it's been 4 hours since you commented so I just wanted to remind you to order conditioner in case you haven't yet.

Yes. I'm tired of people treating modern beauty pageants like a bimbo contest.

If you have ever watched any make up tutorial, seen what it takes to learn to walk like a model, learn to perform on a stage, how to be charming and likeable on camera, coordinate a wardrobe, selling your brand and identity, you'll know that pageantry isn't just about giving an arbitrary person an award for being born pretty, it's the outcome of an entire team of people making it happen.

Women are expected to wear makeup and dress well far more often than men are, with social consequences that can be felt in the workplace and public when they don't, and yet women's engagement in the beauty industry are dismissed as frivolous or attention seeking.

Gender expectations from a young socialize girls to uphold higher standards in beauty and fashion, and yet women are also made to internalize hate for something as 'silly' as pagentry. There's no winning from this.

Go by weight. If you have two bundles that have the same number of rolls, the heavier one either has more or thicker squares.

If you don't understand how it feels to need subtitles, try listening to a yanny/laurel video and see if you're able to hear both.

For us folks with auditory processing disorders, it's like the rest of the world hears yanny while we hear laurel. Without subtitles, we are simply incapable of parsing the sound as yanny.

Being able to vote doesn't make one immune to exploitation. That's as bizarre as saying that if you can do a backflip you're immune to drowning.

The reason why 18 year old are allowed to vote is because they are typically entering the work force or higher education, likely paying rent or taxes, and thus are engaging in a social contract in which they are entitled to exercise their right to vote.

This has nothing to do with the lack of dating experience most 18 year olds have that render them vulnerable to understanding what is and isn't a healthy relationship.

It's ironic that you would call me the Iranian morality police while threatening to block me for voicing an opinion that explicitly supports the legal exploitation of age gaps. Again, I never said it should be illegal, just heavily frowned upon.

I cum to the thought of being blocked because nothing says 'You're right and I'm out of bullshit to say' more than that.

You're confusing the law with personal judgment.

No where did I say that huge age gaps need to be illegal between consenting adult. I only made a value statement about how the relationship is inappropriate because younger adults are vulnerable to exploitation. At 18, most people do not have the financial means nor a strong support network to leave an abusive relationship or a manipulative partner.

It has nothing to do with LGBTQ people because being non-binary does not make one inherently vulnerable to exploitation by another non-binary person.

It's a kind sentiment, but one that hurts little for us chronically ill folks.

First off, fuck pedophiles.

But secondly, becoming 18 doesn't suddenly make one any less vulnerable to exploitation than a 17 year old who is 1 day away from becoming 18.

Just because someone is 18 and 'legal', it doesn't make it not gross for a 40 year old to date them. It's an improvement from dating a 15 year old, but gross regardless.

This is only true until you realize that a lot of modern science is built upon foundations of systemic discrimination that excluded women and minorities. Only new researching can prove old research wrong, and the lack of funding for catching up in inclusivity in science has led to the status quo of outdated beliefs permeating STEM but dressed in a lab coat of credibility.

Research on women's health and medicine lags behind men's by decades due to the historical exclusion of women in studies and the refusal to treat them as credible witnesses to their own bodies' symptoms. Magnitudes of more money has been poured into ED than endometriosis, an agonizing condition that gets dismissed as 'just a period' by doctors.