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@iproposethis
Aug 25, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for me:

We couldn't get into our home for weeks after it was damaged in the Woolsey Fire, so we were living in a rental up in Oxnard. The day after we moved in, I had to go to Target to buy new EVERYTHING, basically.... 1/?
Imagine: clothes for all of us, underwear, baby high chair, toys, diapers, kitchen stuff, every food item you take for granted in your kitchen, towels, backpacks for the kids etc. And it's not shopping you want to do. Not fun.

Kids & I had 2 full carts + baby in her stroller...
I hadn't slept much in days, so when the baby fell asleep, we sat down in the cafe and I rested my head on all the towels in the cart and fell asleep (my boys are old enough for this to be safe).

When I woke up, a woman with kids had come along, guessed why we were there and...
...had given the kids and me generous Starbucks cards and written "hang in there, mama! You're doing a good job!" on mine.

It was really moving to be seen, to have a stranger recognize the enormous weight on our shoulders & to give us an extravagant little treat. ❤️

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May 2
In case Jonathan Haidt's thesis that kids shouldn't use social media until they're 16 (and the attempts at turning it into law) sits wrong with you, here's a pretty thorough critique:

yahoo.com/news/bad-scien…
It has sat wrong with me the whole time, partly because, developmentally, an adolescent mind is much more likely to take influence from parents during tween and early teen years -- making them prime years to start kids on social while heavily supervising them.
And partly because, to me, it feels like we're attacking the wrong enemy.

Children are experiencing an immense rise in anxiety and suicidal ideation & deaths by suicide (especially boys for the latter). This is very real.

But what else has changed in the last 10-15 years???
Read 14 tweets
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Dec 27, 2023
Just saw a video of two little girls playing a clapping game and singing the following lyrics:

Don't be polite to men that creep you out (x2)
Don't be polite to them, it's not your job to comfort men
Don't be polite to men that creep you out

And I have some BIG problems with it
(Despite it being a public video, I'm not going to share the video bc the girls are too young to have consented to this)

1. Being polite to men who creep us out is a powerful tactic for surviving potentially dangerous men. Yes, sometimes you have to fawn.
2. There will be plenty of guys who will creep you out for reasons that don't have to do with them being dangerous.

You don't owe them anything, but being polite but keeping distance/boundaries is a perfectly normal and healthy way to handle this.
Read 14 tweets
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Dec 27, 2023
Little things to say to your teenage son this week while you're chilling at home:

1. Know what I admire about you? [compliment a quality of his or something he works hard at that's just about him, not about you or your family]

EX: How kind you are to our older relatives.
more examples:

-How hard you've worked to get your GPA up this year
-The way you try to be honest and kind at the same time
-Your commitment to your hobbies
-The way you always help Grandma clean up after Christmas
-They way you know who you are and stick to it
2. I know it can be hard to open up to parents because the world you're growing up in is so different from ours when we were your age, but you can always talk to me and I'll always try to understand and hear you out - and help, when you want me to.
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Jul 18, 2023
One of the most effective Rx psychiatric drugs in history has become nearly impossible for many people to get - and yet the FDA appears to be doing nothing to help remedy it.

It's a "joke" drug to people who don't have this disability - so people think we can just go without it
For me, Adderall is a necessary part of my health - not just my work or productivity. It's literally key to my mental health and well-being.

How long will we make light of this situation? These drugs literally save lives and we're just passing the shortage off like it's nothing.
@irelight Also, I'm so sorry. Our nation is so effed and our priorities are so broken
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Apr 15, 2023
There's something that is missed in conversations about young men like this. Young man who say racist and anti-Semitic things online...
Disclaimer: There is never, ever an excuse for somebody to be racist or anti-semitic or any other kind of bigot.

If you are willing to put that philosophy out into the world, then you are racist and anti-semitic and bigoted. "It's a joke" is no excuse.

Now, onto the nuance:
It's hard to escape culture, especially the primary culture in which you spend your time.

And these young men (& some women) are steeped in a culture of "edgy" jokes and pushing limits of what's appropriate.
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Apr 13, 2023
The biggest failing of the podcast 'The Witch Trials of JK Rowling' is that @meganphelps claims objectivity while positioning random, hateful and problematic tweets against JK Rowling with Rowling's tweets against trans inclusion.
As if a random account with 643 followers and no blue check who says something objectively horrifying against Rowling is an indication that Rowling was right - that she is justified to say what she wants because trans activists are horrible and dangerous.
What would have been more accurate?

1. Comparing the worst anti-trans tweets from random accounts with the worst anti-Rowling or anti-TERF tweets from random accounts.
or
2. To compare Rowling's tweets with those of equivalent famous people who are pro- trans inclusion.
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