This is somewhat similar to my raw attraction to toxic, dangerous women. I once had a woman casually say mid-blowjob, "I could totally bite your cock off right now." I giggled like Ralph Wiggum and then we had mind blowing sex.
I also had a toxic partner and amazing sex stint. We called ourselves Sid and Nancy as a joke, but also because it was definitely heading towards both of us in a filthy hotel room (again), drunk and high (again), and someone accidentally dies (first time!). We both nicknamed each other the fucking safe word for society, and still missed the signs.
She went on to write a bunch of songs about it. I married a sort-of friend of the ex who is non-toxic, but also amazing with the sex. And who every time she sees a certain type of woman with trashy makeup on, says "oh, she looks like (name of ex)" as a rib to me.
It's through the grace of seeking Dommes that I freed myself from my self destructive instinct towards dangerous and toxic women lol. Thankfully these days I'm married to a dangerous but completely nontoxic woman, because I really can't handle the "picking fights out of boredom" type behavior
Yeah, false friends (loan words that don't mean what they mean in the original language) are super common.
Edit: The definition I gave is wrong, or rather too narrow. Wikipedia says this:
In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning.
I am wrong in thinking that panther is just another name for the family of animals also called cougars, mountain lions, and pumas? Is this just an US thing?
Thread gives fond memories of a pre-fediverse experience. I used to subcribe to a no-you're-thinking-of community there; is there one on the fediverse? Related, is anyone collecting Lemmy/Piefed switcharoos in some community?
I've heard this claim before but never seen good evidence for it. I consider the possibility that it could be libel meant to discredit her ardent support for socialism, feminism, disability rights, and equal rights for people of all races.
Here is an excerpt on Helen Keller from Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
::: spoiler Excerpt
Teachers have held up Helen Keller, the blind and deaf girl who overcame her physical handicaps, as an inspiration to generations of schoolchildren. Every fifth grader knows the scene in which Anne Sullivan spells water into young Helen’s hand at the pump. At least a dozen movies and filmstrips have been made on Keller’s life. Each yields its version of the same cliché. A McGraw-Hill educational film concludes: “The gift of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan to the world is to constantly remind us of the wonder of the world around us and how much we owe those who taught us what it means, for there is no person that is unworthy or incapable of being helped, and the greatest service any person can make us is to help another reach true potential.”
To draw such a bland maxim from the life of Helen Keller, historians and
filmmakers have disregarded her actual biography and left out the lessons she specifically asked us to learn from it. Keller, who struggled so valiantly to learn to speak, has been made mute by history. The result is that we really don’t know much about her. Over the past twenty years, I have asked hundreds of college students who Helen Keller was and what she did. All know that she was a blind and deaf girl. Most remember that she was befriended by a teacher, Anne Sullivan, and learned to read and write and even to speak. Some can recall rather minute details of Keller’s early life: that she lived in Alabama, that she was unruly and without manners before Sullivan came along, and so forth. A few know that Keller
graduated from college. But about what happened next, about the whole of her adult life, they are ignorant. A few students venture that Keller became a “public figure” or a “humanitarian,” perhaps on behalf of the blind or deaf. “She wrote, didn’t she?” or “she spoke”—conjectures without content. Keller, who was born
in 1880, graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 and died in 1968. To ignore the 64 years of her adult life or to encapsulate them with the single word humanitarian is to lie by omission.
The truth is that Helen Keller was a radical socialist. She joined the Socialist Party of Massachusetts in 1909. She had become a social radical even before she graduated from Radcliffe, and not, she emphasized, because of any teachings available there. After the Russian Revolution, she sang the praises of the new communist nation: “In the East a new star is risen! With pain and anguish the old order has given birth to the new, and behold in the East a man-child is born!
Onward, comrades, all together! Onward to the campfires of Russia! Onward to the coming dawn!”
Keller hung a red flag over the desk in her study. Gradually she moved to the left of the Socialist Party and became a Wobbly, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the syndicalist union persecuted by Woodrow Wilson.Keller’s commitment to socialism stemmed from her experience as a disabled person and from her sympathy for others with handicaps. She began by working
to simplify the alphabet for the blind, but soon came to realize that to deal solely with blindness was to treat symptom, not cause. Through research she learned that blindness was not distributed randomly throughout the population but was
concentrated in the lower class. Men who were poor might be blinded in
industrial accidents or by inadequate medical care; poor women who became prostitutes faced the additional danger of syphilitic blindness. Thus Keller learned how the social class system controls people’s opportunities in life,
sometimes determining even whether they can see. Keller’s research was not just book learning: “I have visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it.”
At the time Keller became a socialist, she was one of the most famous women on the planet. She soon became the most notorious. Her conversion to socialism caused a new storm of publicity—this time outraged. Newspapers that had
extolled her courage and intelligence now emphasized her handicap. Columnists charged that she had no independent sensory input and was in thrall to those who fed her information. Typical was the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, who wrote that Keller’s “mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development.”
Keller recalled having met this editor: “At that time the compliments he paid
me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him.” She went on, “Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of
the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent.”
Keller, who devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American
Foundation for the Blind, never wavered in her belief that our society needed radical change. Having herself fought so hard to speak, she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union to fight for the free speech of others. She sent $100 to the NAACP with a letter of support that appeared in its magazine The
Crisis— a radical act for a white person from Alabama in the 1920s. She supported Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist candidate, in each of his campaigns for the presidency. She composed essays on the women’s movement, on politics, on economics. Near the end of her life, she wrote to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, leader of the American Communist Party, who was then languishing in jail, a victim of
the McCarthy era: “Loving birthday greetings, dear Elizabeth Flynn! May the sense of serving mankind bring strength and peace into your brave heart!”'
:::
When I think of Helen Keller, I immediately think of the placard that sits on the wall next to her tomb in the National Cathedral. It's brass and the braille section is so polished from all the fingers that have moved across it to read her name. It's quite beautiful.
Edited to include a picture and also to note, here, that she is interred alongside her two lifelong companions.
An upvote alone didn't feel like enough, so just commenting to add that I appreciate the excerpt and the link. I knew about her political and social views previously, but I don't think I'd ever seen anything she'd written. This was a great reminder and very informative.
Thank you! She was a brilliant and tenacious woman who should be more remembered for her might as an intellectual and an activist than for the fact that most able people see her disabilities as insurmountable.
Never before in the history of generational slang has there been a consensus to self censor and there's not even a good reason for it.
It's as if your generation decided to do it because you could escape online moderation on other platforms by willingly choosing to censor yourself before someone else has the chance to which is... inherently pathetic.
I'm not. I'm just saying that a lot of "invisibly" disabled people with (often undiagnosed) learning disabilities etc. are called stupid all the time, and reading something like that would really hurt them.
This is an anecdote, I understand that I'm "arguing" here from the heart and I'm not looking to win any legitimate debate, which would be impossible since I unexpectedly got dogpiled this hard while I was asleep before I had a chance to say this, but anyway:
I watched this small streamer for some time, and even became her moderator. She would just not understand a lot of things, at all, and she was completely unaware how some things could offend other people, until I explained them to her and she felt really bad for saying them while not knowing the real meaning. She cultivated this audience of reactionary people, because they thought she was one of them because she accidentally said a whole bunch of edgy things. But let me emphasize this: she never wanted to hurt anyone, she always felt bad for saying hurtful things on accident and always deeply apologized when she realized she was being hurtful.
Eventually, I had to quit, because the audience was too much for me. She was a great person, but I didn't feel welcome due to her viewers and eventually stopped watching her. She felt really bad that I didn't feel welcome, but there was really nothing that could be done without me banning like a third of her community. We stayed as friends for some time, and she opened up how sad she was about people calling her stupid all the time "because she wouldn't understand some things" (in reality she had issues understanding basic things all the time).
When I saw that comment, I thought of her, already really upset by people calling her stupid, reading that and being like "stupid people are gross? and everyone calls me stupid... does this mean... :(".
Sure. But there's a biological component to sexual attraction. Hence the more important part of what I said, intellect is supposed to be sexy.
Instead, anti-intellectualism is. Head-in-the-sand, willful ignorance and learned helplessness. Probably should be the biggest turn-offs, but here we are.
You can be stupid and educated, or vice versa. Education isn't the same as stupidity. Some people went to harvard and are stupider than a lot of people I know who dropped out of uni.
On a pretty popular leftist Lemmy instance (Hexbear), you need to provide a trigger warning for "an ableist slur" if you're posting a screenshot or quoting something that says the word "stupid". Pretty sure you're not allowed to say it in any other context (even for example calling the EU Kids Act "stupid") or you'll get banned for "ableism".
You know what. God dammit. He's closer than a lot of people said to be lost to the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle doesn't really exist, so it's boundaries are kind of fluid. When depicted on a map, it's usually drawn from the speck on the map that is Bermuda 400 miles East of North Carolina, down to somewhere on the North Coast of Puerto Rico, then over to...somewhere on the Florida Foreskin, often Ft. Lauderdale or Miami.
Though I have seen the Bermuda Triangle drawn...however the fuck the author wants to. I've seen it drawn as a triangle centered on Bermuda with vertexes in Galveston, Natal and Cork, which is basically the entire mid-Atlantic.
The Carroll A. Deering, a 5 masted American schooner launched in 1919, was found run aground without her crew near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921. She was last seen with a crew on board as she passed the Cape Lookout light ship and actually spoke via bullhorn. So the entire mystery took place in Carolinian waters, ~400 miles from the nearest edge of the (typical) Triangle.
Meanwhile, if you use the typical Ft. Lauderdale - San Juan - St. George vertexes, Daytona Beach is about 220 miles outside the triangle. But if you're willing to put the corner of the triangle at the Hooters on International Speedway Boulevard, you could legitimately say Dale Earnhardt died inside the Bermuda Triangle.
Knew a lady that had four sons with her first husband. Wonderful woman in every way, the boys took after dad. Tall and handsome, dumber than chicken shit and always drink the bottle empty. Nice guys, but I swear they quit breathing while they are trying their shoes. Met someone who knew her in school, she was only sorting for looks and fun. Paying for that now.
I was going to make a smart comment, something along the lines of "By birth or by nationalization?" but the more I thought about what would make a person "Mexican" the more I thought about how silly a concept most things are and how I'm willing to bet there's probably a Chinese-Swede somewhere writing a novela.
I really need people to know that Helen Keller did fly a plane and yes, this fact alone is the crux of a lot of weird Keller-denialism. It's ironic that the woman in the post is suggesting the man mentioning Keller is ignorant for confusing her with Earhart, because he wasn't. He is ignorant for thinking the Keller story is unbelievable, however.
First I'm told there's a guy who didn't know the difference between Helen Keller and Emilia Earhart.
Then I'm told that Helen Keller really did fly a plane, and that the guy wasn't misspeaking.
And now I have to grapple with the fact that the guy wasn't stupid, but rather a conspiracy theorist, and that "Helen Keller conspiracy theorists" are a real thing.
The thing about the "there's no way she flew that plane" thing is so annoying is that it's not even that bold of a claim. They flew her up, she flew for a bit with someone there to take control if something bad happened, then they landed.
Literally. I don't mean this to diminish Helen Keller, but the sort of "flying" she did was the same as when they let a kid into the cockpit.
Given her conditions, this is still absolutely an accomplishment and worth applauding. But to suggest that there is anything remotely unbelievable about it would require a fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of the situation
That's not how misinformation works. It preys upon the ignorant and fills them with lies before they can be filled with truths. All it takes is mild interest in one tiny slice of the right-wing nutjob conspiracy pie to be immediately pulled down the rabbit hole via algorithms on youtube, tiktok, even reddit.
In the current typhoon of men behaving badly in the US and the ongoing response and safety movements often advocating romantic abstinence, sometimes the observation is made that not every woman — even those pledged to the movement — is on the same page.
And then there's the abstinence-until-marriage doctrine of white Christian nationalists, in which young women pledge to preserve their virginity until their one-and-only trad-minded husband puts a ring on it. (Young men might take a similar pledge, but they're not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience. Double standards and inconsistent value systems and all that.) Yet, a conspicuous fraction of these (sometimes underage) young women overestimate their willpower, frequently contributing to the disproportionate rate of teen pregnancy in school districts that have committed to abstinence-only sex-ed.
Then there's the women's magazine I remember reading during the COVID-19 lockdown, that asked readers to write in their stories when they needed the d so badly they risked infection by a stranger to get it. There were a lot of confessional replies.
And all this is to say, sometimes a girl has needs.
Young men might take a similar pledge, but they're not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience.
Y'know, I didn't really think about it during the American Pie era, but I'm just gonna say it: if the boys are supposed to be getting experience, and the girls are supposed to not be, who are the boys having sex with?
I'm convinced that a lot of teen girls who are now identifying as trans or non binary are really just trying to get the stupid boys to leave them alone.
I personally know 4 teen girls like this and have known them their whole lives. They seem to be going through the "figuring out who I am" phase. At first it was "I'm trans!" then went to "I'm non binary" but there's still a lot of makeup and other typically female gender behaviors. They complain about how the boys their age are stupid and gross.
Male attention can be difficult to navigate for young girls. This seems like a pretty good defense from that unwanted attention.
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I thought this was somebody's type
This is somewhat similar to my raw attraction to toxic, dangerous women. I once had a woman casually say mid-blowjob, "I could totally bite your cock off right now." I giggled like Ralph Wiggum and then we had mind blowing sex.
If you ever wrote a book I'd leave it on my coffee table as a conversation piece.
It could be a group project.
I also had a toxic partner and amazing sex stint. We called ourselves Sid and Nancy as a joke, but also because it was definitely heading towards both of us in a filthy hotel room (again), drunk and high (again), and someone accidentally dies (first time!). We both nicknamed each other the fucking safe word for society, and still missed the signs.
She went on to write a bunch of songs about it. I married a sort-of friend of the ex who is non-toxic, but also amazing with the sex. And who every time she sees a certain type of woman with trashy makeup on, says "oh, she looks like (name of ex)" as a rib to me.
Yeah. Good times.
I had a friend like you once, if he was into a woman there was guaranteed something dreadfully wrong with her. Like this was an actual conversation:
Friend (excited): I just started seeing her, she's amazing! The best thing that's ever happened to me!
Me: Dude, the last two girlfriends you said that about ended up in jail.
Friend: No it's different this time, she's cool! She's a gamer, we like the same music, she's super chill.
Me: Ok dude, I'm happy for you.
Two weeks later
Me: Dude, you ok? You look pretty down.
Friend: My girlfriend likes to get into throw down drunken brawls with strangers every weekend.
But this friend was also a weirdness magnet in general.
I don't think I've ever dated anyone violent, with myself or others, thank god. They usually just want me to piss inside them and stuff.
Just stay away from the nose and ears and you're golden.
How about you mind your own garble garble garble business
Hah. Golden.
That feel when no fight club gf
"If this is your first date, you have to fight."
I just watched Fight Club again with my gf this morning.
I had an Irish girlfriend like that. I met her through boxing which should’ve been a hint.
Fight club crazy counts as crazy good in bed
I need a legit survey of women who haven't thought about this at least once.
I'm convinced it's half the appeal of oral sex. "I could be your last with a chomp and a twist, but you're too horny to care".
I'm not sure I want to think about this too much.
People are weird. I bet there is a non-trivial amount of men who get their kicks from the thought "what if she bites down now".
Eh ring gags are a thing and that's arousing for a lot of ppl too
Just asked the missus, she said no (unfortunately)
It's through the grace of seeking Dommes that I freed myself from my self destructive instinct towards dangerous and toxic women lol. Thankfully these days I'm married to a dangerous but completely nontoxic woman, because I really can't handle the "picking fights out of boredom" type behavior
I hope they'd wear sunscreen 😦
Probably not Benjamin
Suddenly feel like giving a sloppy toppy
Do not usw sunscreen as lube. I will not elaborate.
Given the Parker Solar Probe, I’m confident it’ll never happen.
Asking what the Spanish word for tortilla is a valid question.
If you ordered a 'tortilla' in Spain, you would get an omelette, not a flatbread.
This comment section is like the bellcurve meme.
Tortilla is tortilla in Spanish. Only in Spain, were just a fraction of Spanish speakers live, tortilla is a potato dish.
Potatoes, omelettes, and flatbread? Eh, it's still food.
Yeah, false friends
(loan words that don't mean what they mean in the original language)are super common.Edit: The definition I gave is wrong, or rather too narrow. Wikipedia says this:
"embarrassed" is not "embarazo"
Mixing those up would certainly be embarassing, though :D
Example from German: "sensible" is not "sensibel"
also "handy" and "Handy"
To be fair to the last comment: The Pink Panther could be either a leopard or a jaguar, it isn't clear which one.
Technically the pink panther could also be a diamond
I think they are called himbos
Given that panthers aren't a specific animal.. What animal was the pink panther?
I (male) have a twin sister.
I have been asked on more than one occasion if we are identical.
I have also been asked by someone if we are the same age.
One of you could be trans!
Well I know I'm not, so that's pretty good foresight on my sisters behalf. Transitioning prior to birth, certainly solves a lot of problems.
My bet is a leopard, kind of how they can mutate to black panthers
I am wrong in thinking that panther is just another name for the family of animals also called cougars, mountain lions, and pumas? Is this just an US thing?
Apparently that's the north American usage of the word, TIL
Y'all need to calm down
We agree that should calm down, but we're an unruly bunch to say the least.
Rescuing the gene pool, one moron at a time
I'm seeing a blue collar guy now and then and he doesn't really have much to say.
https://youtu.be/RjZdHdd88jo
mm-hm.
to the person posting in the image: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE
*Hard out there for a man.
The author is John Paul Brammer, from his piece "The Most Unlovable Man in New York City."
Archived copy of source, because fuck giving that nazi bar Substack any clicks.
I cracked up at the novella one because the guy was probably thinking of a telenovela.
I think he think of just novela which is novel in Spanish. So that guy was right, actually. But she is good on words, anyway.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Or I am stupid ::: I
She said novella which is just a short novel.
Yeah, but assuming conversation was audible, she can't be sure.
You mean he couldn't just read the speech bubble?
Wait, she slept with Helen Keller and Amelia Earhart?
Nice.
I think that's a crime though
Love is love 😤😤
I was shaking my head at the Helen Keller - Amelia Earhart confusion until I double checked something.
I was getting Helen Keller confused with Anne Frank...
There's no way that Anne Frank learned how to read.
I don't think she could write
Wasn't she that maid that took things way too literally? ;)
You're thinking of Amelia Bedelia.
Amelia Earhart was Paul Simon's girlfriend. He wrote a song about her leaving, then coming back to him.
That was Cecelia. Pretty sure Amelia Earhart was King Lear's daughter.
Nay. that is Cordelia. I'm positive Amelia Earhart was that movie about the French girl with the black hair and the crazy eyes in the movie poster.
Well no, you're thinking of Amélie. Amelia Earhart played as "Two-Face" in 2008's The Dark Knight.
You're thinking of Don Draper, who doesn't think of you at all
Thread gives fond memories of a pre-fediverse experience. I used to subcribe to a no-you're-thinking-of community there; is there one on the fediverse? Related, is anyone collecting Lemmy/Piefed switcharoos in some community?
Get back to the Quick Stop.
wow- wanna fuck?
Himbo vibes
Is that you, Randall?
You're not the first.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JpQk_G8p5Ps
There actually was a stunt where they let Helen Keller ‘fly’ a plane (hold the stick while they were already in the air with the pilots monitoring).
The conspiracy that she wasn’t actually blind or deaf is frustratingly common among people under 30, who I assume have all picked it up from TikTok.
Wasn't she like a raging jerk?
I've heard this claim before but never seen good evidence for it. I consider the possibility that it could be libel meant to discredit her ardent support for socialism, feminism, disability rights, and equal rights for people of all races.
Here is an excerpt on Helen Keller from Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen ::: spoiler Excerpt Teachers have held up Helen Keller, the blind and deaf girl who overcame her physical handicaps, as an inspiration to generations of schoolchildren. Every fifth grader knows the scene in which Anne Sullivan spells water into young Helen’s hand at the pump. At least a dozen movies and filmstrips have been made on Keller’s life. Each yields its version of the same cliché. A McGraw-Hill educational film concludes: “The gift of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan to the world is to constantly remind us of the wonder of the world around us and how much we owe those who taught us what it means, for there is no person that is unworthy or incapable of being helped, and the greatest service any person can make us is to help another reach true potential.”
To draw such a bland maxim from the life of Helen Keller, historians and filmmakers have disregarded her actual biography and left out the lessons she specifically asked us to learn from it. Keller, who struggled so valiantly to learn to speak, has been made mute by history. The result is that we really don’t know much about her. Over the past twenty years, I have asked hundreds of college students who Helen Keller was and what she did. All know that she was a blind and deaf girl. Most remember that she was befriended by a teacher, Anne Sullivan, and learned to read and write and even to speak. Some can recall rather minute details of Keller’s early life: that she lived in Alabama, that she was unruly and without manners before Sullivan came along, and so forth. A few know that Keller graduated from college. But about what happened next, about the whole of her adult life, they are ignorant. A few students venture that Keller became a “public figure” or a “humanitarian,” perhaps on behalf of the blind or deaf. “She wrote, didn’t she?” or “she spoke”—conjectures without content. Keller, who was born in 1880, graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 and died in 1968. To ignore the 64 years of her adult life or to encapsulate them with the single word humanitarian is to lie by omission.
The truth is that Helen Keller was a radical socialist. She joined the Socialist Party of Massachusetts in 1909. She had become a social radical even before she graduated from Radcliffe, and not, she emphasized, because of any teachings available there. After the Russian Revolution, she sang the praises of the new communist nation: “In the East a new star is risen! With pain and anguish the old order has given birth to the new, and behold in the East a man-child is born! Onward, comrades, all together! Onward to the campfires of Russia! Onward to the coming dawn!”
Keller hung a red flag over the desk in her study. Gradually she moved to the left of the Socialist Party and became a Wobbly, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the syndicalist union persecuted by Woodrow Wilson.Keller’s commitment to socialism stemmed from her experience as a disabled person and from her sympathy for others with handicaps. She began by working to simplify the alphabet for the blind, but soon came to realize that to deal solely with blindness was to treat symptom, not cause. Through research she learned that blindness was not distributed randomly throughout the population but was concentrated in the lower class. Men who were poor might be blinded in industrial accidents or by inadequate medical care; poor women who became prostitutes faced the additional danger of syphilitic blindness. Thus Keller learned how the social class system controls people’s opportunities in life, sometimes determining even whether they can see. Keller’s research was not just book learning: “I have visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it.”
At the time Keller became a socialist, she was one of the most famous women on the planet. She soon became the most notorious. Her conversion to socialism caused a new storm of publicity—this time outraged. Newspapers that had extolled her courage and intelligence now emphasized her handicap. Columnists charged that she had no independent sensory input and was in thrall to those who fed her information. Typical was the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, who wrote that Keller’s “mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development.”
Keller recalled having met this editor: “At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him.” She went on, “Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent.”
Keller, who devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind, never wavered in her belief that our society needed radical change. Having herself fought so hard to speak, she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union to fight for the free speech of others. She sent $100 to the NAACP with a letter of support that appeared in its magazine The Crisis— a radical act for a white person from Alabama in the 1920s. She supported Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist candidate, in each of his campaigns for the presidency. She composed essays on the women’s movement, on politics, on economics. Near the end of her life, she wrote to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, leader of the American Communist Party, who was then languishing in jail, a victim of the McCarthy era: “Loving birthday greetings, dear Elizabeth Flynn! May the sense of serving mankind bring strength and peace into your brave heart!”' :::
For a list of her writings see the archive
When I think of Helen Keller, I immediately think of the placard that sits on the wall next to her tomb in the National Cathedral. It's brass and the braille section is so polished from all the fingers that have moved across it to read her name. It's quite beautiful.
Edited to include a picture and also to note, here, that she is interred alongside her two lifelong companions.
That's genuinely beautiful
An upvote alone didn't feel like enough, so just commenting to add that I appreciate the excerpt and the link. I knew about her political and social views previously, but I don't think I'd ever seen anything she'd written. This was a great reminder and very informative.
Thank you, this is good context
Incredible. I should read that book!
This quote is especially strong:
Thank you! She was a brilliant and tenacious woman who should be more remembered for her might as an intellectual and an activist than for the fact that most able people see her disabilities as insurmountable.
Plot twist, this is because the person who taught her sign language thought it would be funny if they only taught her to flip the bird to everyone.
No, but she was a founder of the ACLU
I've been educated, I'm leaving my bad preconception up in case it helps someone else 😃
Wouldn't you be?
oh absolutely, 100%, I'm not making a value judgment
Someone else already provided a real and insightful answer to your question, so instead I'll just leave this here
ummm isn't this from "The Most Unlovable Man in New York City" is in fact saying it's hard for a guy out there?
Straight-washing ahh meme
Are you afraid to offend someone by typing the word ass?
It's GenZ slang, originally black vernacular See here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ahh
I think I'm going to pretend it's a Girl From Ipanema reference.
Oh we know...
I don't get what's wrong... Your past posts also use improper grammar. Are you just stuck up on the slang of your generation?
It's weak and confirmist.
Never before in the history of generational slang has there been a consensus to self censor and there's not even a good reason for it.
It's as if your generation decided to do it because you could escape online moderation on other platforms by willingly choosing to censor yourself before someone else has the chance to which is... inherently pathetic.
It's not self-censorship, it phonetic spelling.
People say stuff like ahh, shii, biatch, muggafugga in real life, and it's still widely considered to be profane in context.
You just don't like Black culture, and look down on Black people for their dialects.
Demanding dictionary spelling is about as language-conformist as you can get; you're not even good at the mental gymnastics you're trying to do.
I'm not sleeping with stupid. I don't care what they look like. Gross. Such a turnoff.
Calling stupid people gross seems kind of ableist.
Why are you assuming stupid people are disabled? Do you not see how this is toxic and ableist logic?
I'm not. I'm just saying that a lot of "invisibly" disabled people with (often undiagnosed) learning disabilities etc. are called stupid all the time, and reading something like that would really hurt them.
This is an anecdote, I understand that I'm "arguing" here from the heart and I'm not looking to win any legitimate debate, which would be impossible since I unexpectedly got dogpiled this hard while I was asleep before I had a chance to say this, but anyway:
I watched this small streamer for some time, and even became her moderator. She would just not understand a lot of things, at all, and she was completely unaware how some things could offend other people, until I explained them to her and she felt really bad for saying them while not knowing the real meaning. She cultivated this audience of reactionary people, because they thought she was one of them because she accidentally said a whole bunch of edgy things. But let me emphasize this: she never wanted to hurt anyone, she always felt bad for saying hurtful things on accident and always deeply apologized when she realized she was being hurtful.
Eventually, I had to quit, because the audience was too much for me. She was a great person, but I didn't feel welcome due to her viewers and eventually stopped watching her. She felt really bad that I didn't feel welcome, but there was really nothing that could be done without me banning like a third of her community. We stayed as friends for some time, and she opened up how sad she was about people calling her stupid all the time "because she wouldn't understand some things" (in reality she had issues understanding basic things all the time).
When I saw that comment, I thought of her, already really upset by people calling her stupid, reading that and being like "stupid people are gross? and everyone calls me stupid... does this mean... :(".
Not expecting to read this on a shit post. Thanks.
They're just less able in that category
Intellect is absolutely a worthwhile trait in a breeding partner. It should be sexy to be smart.
Also there's a difference between being handicapped and being stupid. Stupid is a choice. More of a choice than even being obese.
It will shock you but a lot of people have sex for pleasure, not for breeding.
Sure. But there's a biological component to sexual attraction. Hence the more important part of what I said, intellect is supposed to be sexy.
Instead, anti-intellectualism is. Head-in-the-sand, willful ignorance and learned helplessness. Probably should be the biggest turn-offs, but here we are.
Stupid is a choice is as much as access to good education is a choice.
You can be stupid and educated, or vice versa. Education isn't the same as stupidity. Some people went to harvard and are stupider than a lot of people I know who dropped out of uni.
And having all body parts is also a worthwhile trait in a partner. But that doesn't mean you get a license to call them gross when they don't.
Stupid is most definitely not a just choice.
This just in: insults are insulting
That’s fucking stupid.
No one cares even a single bit about disabled folks. Even so-called leftists. Honestly, especially them, it feels like so often to me.
That or they overcorrect.
On a pretty popular leftist Lemmy instance (Hexbear), you need to provide a trigger warning for "an ableist slur" if you're posting a screenshot or quoting something that says the word "stupid". Pretty sure you're not allowed to say it in any other context (even for example calling the EU Kids Act "stupid") or you'll get banned for "ableism".
Amelia Earhart is the sister of the NASCAR driver, right?
Dale Earnhardt was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
After hitting an iceberg he was left floating in the frigid water, never to be seen again, if I remember correctly.
Spot on.
No Spot was on Star Wars, with that android… Twiki.
Twiki is that race of people with the tentacles on their heads. You're thinking of Dr. Theopolis in ST:TOS "The Changeling"
You know what. God dammit. He's closer than a lot of people said to be lost to the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle doesn't really exist, so it's boundaries are kind of fluid. When depicted on a map, it's usually drawn from the speck on the map that is Bermuda 400 miles East of North Carolina, down to somewhere on the North Coast of Puerto Rico, then over to...somewhere on the Florida Foreskin, often Ft. Lauderdale or Miami.
Though I have seen the Bermuda Triangle drawn...however the fuck the author wants to. I've seen it drawn as a triangle centered on Bermuda with vertexes in Galveston, Natal and Cork, which is basically the entire mid-Atlantic.
The Carroll A. Deering, a 5 masted American schooner launched in 1919, was found run aground without her crew near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921. She was last seen with a crew on board as she passed the Cape Lookout light ship and actually spoke via bullhorn. So the entire mystery took place in Carolinian waters, ~400 miles from the nearest edge of the (typical) Triangle.
Meanwhile, if you use the typical Ft. Lauderdale - San Juan - St. George vertexes, Daytona Beach is about 220 miles outside the triangle. But if you're willing to put the corner of the triangle at the Hooters on International Speedway Boulevard, you could legitimately say Dale Earnhardt died inside the Bermuda Triangle.
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Knew a lady that had four sons with her first husband. Wonderful woman in every way, the boys took after dad. Tall and handsome, dumber than chicken shit and always drink the bottle empty. Nice guys, but I swear they quit breathing while they are trying their shoes. Met someone who knew her in school, she was only sorting for looks and fun. Paying for that now.
Doesn't sound like she's doing all that bad with men 🤔
she didn't say that she enjoyed it
So she is doing bad at getting good dates? Doesn't seem like a her-problem 😅
I don't think the novella one is that bad
That depends. Is she actually Mexican?
Why would that matter?
It's unusual to be writing a Mexican novel if you aren't Mexican
but you do know a novella isn't a Mexican novel right
fwiw "novela" is spanish for "novel."
I was going to make a smart comment, something along the lines of "By birth or by nationalization?" but the more I thought about what would make a person "Mexican" the more I thought about how silly a concept most things are and how I'm willing to bet there's probably a Chinese-Swede somewhere writing a novela.
I really need people to know that Helen Keller did fly a plane and yes, this fact alone is the crux of a lot of weird Keller-denialism. It's ironic that the woman in the post is suggesting the man mentioning Keller is ignorant for confusing her with Earhart, because he wasn't. He is ignorant for thinking the Keller story is unbelievable, however.
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-helen-keller-fly-a-plane (egregious ad deployment on that site, fair warning)
I'm getting whiplash here.
First I'm told there's a guy who didn't know the difference between Helen Keller and Emilia Earhart.
Then I'm told that Helen Keller really did fly a plane, and that the guy wasn't misspeaking.
And now I have to grapple with the fact that the guy wasn't stupid, but rather a conspiracy theorist, and that "Helen Keller conspiracy theorists" are a real thing.
Welcome to the party, my friend. It's BYOB and nobody brought beer.
More of a wine guy here, but I always bring extra.
The thing about the "there's no way she flew that plane" thing is so annoying is that it's not even that bold of a claim. They flew her up, she flew for a bit with someone there to take control if something bad happened, then they landed.
Literally. I don't mean this to diminish Helen Keller, but the sort of "flying" she did was the same as when they let a kid into the cockpit.
Given her conditions, this is still absolutely an accomplishment and worth applauding. But to suggest that there is anything remotely unbelievable about it would require a fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of the situation
I think it's worth mentioning that this was a publicity stunt. Keller wasn't a pilot by trade.
If the guy didn't know who Emelia Earhart was, I doubt he knew of this conspiracy
That's not how misinformation works. It preys upon the ignorant and fills them with lies before they can be filled with truths. All it takes is mild interest in one tiny slice of the right-wing nutjob conspiracy pie to be immediately pulled down the rabbit hole via algorithms on youtube, tiktok, even reddit.
Yeah that's a good point. I hadn't thought about that side of things
This doesn't really seem like a gender thing, I've slept with my share of dumb women.
Helen Keller flew a plane. She slept with both these men?!
Your body, your choice.
In the current typhoon of men behaving badly in the US and the ongoing response and safety movements often advocating romantic abstinence, sometimes the observation is made that not every woman — even those pledged to the movement — is on the same page.
And then there's the abstinence-until-marriage doctrine of white Christian nationalists, in which young women pledge to preserve their virginity until their one-and-only trad-minded husband puts a ring on it. (Young men might take a similar pledge, but they're not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience. Double standards and inconsistent value systems and all that.) Yet, a conspicuous fraction of these (sometimes underage) young women overestimate their willpower, frequently contributing to the disproportionate rate of teen pregnancy in school districts that have committed to abstinence-only sex-ed.
Then there's the women's magazine I remember reading during the COVID-19 lockdown, that asked readers to write in their stories when they needed the d so badly they risked infection by a stranger to get it. There were a lot of confessional replies.
And all this is to say, sometimes a girl has needs.
Y'know, I didn't really think about it during the American Pie era, but I'm just gonna say it: if the boys are supposed to be getting experience, and the girls are supposed to not be, who are the boys having sex with?
The homies, don't forget to kiss them good night after though
If my wife had said something like this on our first date I'd have married her sooner.
This is basically Ron DeSantis and his pronunciation of "Thai" food. It's gross. Don't sleep with someone like that.
There are plenty of people that are genuinely this stupid and haven't read a book or learned a single piece of new information since 5th grade.
Reminds me of the sexy guy I met at the hotel pool the day before my breast cancer surgery and his only hesitancy was "Is it contagious?"
Jesus fucking CHRIST.
But what happens when she runs out of idiots?!
*Slaps roof of Planet Earth….
“This bad boy can fit so many completely brainless morons in it.”
how is that possible ?
Not with that attitude, it isn’t.
God, I wish I was a moron.
Why 😭
Is this real? There are really people that stupid out there, & things are so desperate women will sleep with them?
Lowkey them both saying that is so sexy to me
I'm also a gay guy and not a woman so idk if that's a factor
I'm convinced that a lot of teen girls who are now identifying as trans or non binary are really just trying to get the stupid boys to leave them alone.
Yeah, no reason to just take them seriously or anything.
/s
I personally know 4 teen girls like this and have known them their whole lives. They seem to be going through the "figuring out who I am" phase. At first it was "I'm trans!" then went to "I'm non binary" but there's still a lot of makeup and other typically female gender behaviors. They complain about how the boys their age are stupid and gross.
Male attention can be difficult to navigate for young girls. This seems like a pretty good defense from that unwanted attention.
Ok but what's the point of calling them liars?
Is there a question here? Your sentence makes no sense.