It wouldn’t kill their career — they’d gain the vote of the entire green party. Plus, even if they did it’d be hard to enforce anyway — there’d totally be a black market beef market. Like if people already have a shit-ton of beef cows the government could not possibly stop them all from slaughtering them all at once and selling it off to friends and family.

The government could outlaw beef farms and find some sort of substitute. Like in Japan beef is supposedly stupid expensive so some people substitute with horse meat. Which sounds kinda yuck until you consider the fact that McDonald’s is allowed to make rat burgers with no legal consequences whatsoever.

You ever watch The Big Bang Theory — its literally the same concept in a different context. And, believe me, you spend enough time with some guys like Sheldon Cooper and Howard Wolowitz you’ll appreciate naiveté, too. Or at least someone who isn’t a pretentious asshat. The dude in the book was a teacher — a professional know-it-all.

No offense intended to actual teachers.

You should probably just avoid all classic literature and historical fiction.

Uh, no, I’m a woman and my problem with this shit is, honestly, its a by-product of toxic purity culture and gender essentialism. Like if it a 22-year-old guy is dating a 18-year-old woman people act as if he’s a child molester even though:

1. The woman in question is legally an adult and the relationship is consensual.

2. Scientific studies have disproved the theory that the human brain reaches full maturity at the age of 25. New studies suggest that the brain NEVER reaches full maturity regardless of age which is why boomers are……BOOMERS! Google it.

3. The main complaint about this type of relationship is that there is a power imbalance between the man and woman in question which implies that: Women between the ages of 18-25 are dumber than a sack of rocks, easily manipulated, and therefore have no autonomy because her actions are being subconciously controlled by the man, who must be inherently abusive. Cause all men are, right? No matter who he is — he could be fucking Clark Kent and people would tear him to pieces.

Fyi, the Italian thing is because the majority of Italian immigrants to the US were Sicilians and Sicily was the birthplace of the Italian mafia.

All I have to say is that I’m disappointed that your review does not mention Eponine even once who has the most interesting and tragic story of all the characters imo.

Then its unconstitutional and therefore illegal in the US.

Anyone supporting these bans is just ignorant beyond belief. Banning queer literature goes hand-in-hand with white supremacy which really shouldn’t be that much of a damn mystery since the first book they tried to ban Maus was about life inside Nazi internment camps. But in case you don’t know what I’m talking about maybe go google Magnus Hirschfeld and the pink triangle.

Throwing a temper tantrum about the books a library stocks is not only going to make their kids more curious and interested in the book themselves — HELLO DOES NO ONE REMEMBER REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY — parents are completely overlooking all of the gay pornography and fanfiction and forums and blah blah blah that ANY TWELVE-YEAR-OLD WITH WIFI can find within five minutes without their parents ever knowing it.

Ffs, learn to use the parental control settings and talk to your kids about internet safety and the media they consume. In other words be a fucking parent and let people read what they want.

Are you actually supporting this trash — and by trash I mean the book bans.

There’s a lot more to it than that. Diana also had an eating disorder and attempted suicide multiple times because of her husband’s affair with Camilla, and she also hated being royal. Harry’s father even went on to say that he only married Diana because he felt pressure to marry quickly, and then there’s the theory that Diana was murdered by the royals following her divorce from Charles.

Harry was exposed to all of that and let’s be honest, if this was a fiction novel people probably wouldn’t think its boring at all. It would a contemporary familial drama with a love story and a romance. Like, yeah, Harry is out of touch with reality but that’s not 100% his fault — being royal is the only life he knows.

To not be sorry for him is classist and indicates a lack of empathy.

Tbh, as an American I’m most interested in how his father’s affair with Camilla and losing his mother impacted his life and relationships with his family. Mainly because his brother seems much more emotionally stable(?) than Harry does despite all of this if that makes sense.

I am nonbinary, but I hadn’t really thought of that when I made the post.

Sorry for my carelessness.

And queer people are the crazy ones?! Fuck that noise — a bisexual that self-identifies as a goldfish is saner than whatever nutsack bigot pulled this crap.

There’s been a retelling of it published already—

Neon Gods

And some people in the Hellenistic Pagan community are obsessed with Hades and Persephone, and view Hades as this super heroic husband cause of the thing with her mom.

Go check out r/MensMentalHealth

Toxic femininity is the MRA way of saying internalized misogyny — women slut shaming each other or being classist, ableist, or racist, etc. But the worst offenders are TERFs, SWERFs, and tradwives — and before someone jumps down my throat about the tradwive thing:

1. There’s a difference between a SAHM, homemaker, and tradwife

2. The tradwife ideology was originally popularized by white supremacists. Google it.

3. If you don’t believe in the TERF to Nazi pipeline, you may wanna go take a look at J.K. Rowling’s twitter account. Or google the names of any diverse character in Harry Potter — IE the only Irish kid is only good at blowing things up (that’s a reference to the IRA) and the one major Black character is named Kingsley Shacklebolt which translates to, “King of the jail,” or “King of shackles.” Again, google it.

I agree that YA novels are too soft, but I blame the conservative pearlclutchers. I mean, have you seen what’s happening in Texas and Florida? Every time I pick up a queer YA book its full of bad jokes and I feel like I’m being preached at. Everyone wants to make sure the childrens’ feelings are never hurt, so they write about an imaginary rainbow fantasyland where nothing ever really goes wrong. And the MCs never struggle for longer than a nanosecond before everything is magically fixed.

I’m a Pagan witch and run a blog on Tumblr, and I see posts about stuff like this so often it makes me sick. Not even alternative medicine — stupid things like putting straight up poisonous rocks in your water bottle cause they look pretty. Personally, I practice some herbalism and various aspects of mindfulness but I also take meds daily for mental health issues and I go to therapy, and I go to doctors when nothing else works.

What people don’t understand is that herbalism and witchcraft or whatever is just a supplement that’s meant to be used in conjunction with modern medicine. Witchcraft itself started out as science — herbalism, midwifery, and dream interpretation which is rooted in psychology and symbolism. The rest of it is basically asking for advice and hoping for the best.

I’m really sorry for all the hardship you’ve experienced and I’m really sorry about all the assholes in the Pagan and New Age communities that made these thing happen.