i feel a little suspicious of the messaging around schools that says that kids don't care about school/grades/punishments/college, don't want to learn, don't care about attending, only care about their internet life, and that this is a massive break with prior school culture like i agree that ipads from birth are clearly destructive to kids' ability to learn and pay attention in classroom settings. i just wonder whether the 'uncaring' child is being contrasted with a previous 'caring' child who was actually a successfully disciplined one

there's a part of the cass report that i want to highlight because it's even more ominous than much of its other content: how the report approaches pre-pubertal trans children who are 'stealth' (i.e. their friends don't know they're trans). (1/ the 'consistent, insistent, persistent' presentation of gender incongruence is the gold standard within medical establishments for determining which trans children get access to medical interventions / are unlikely to desist before adulthood. (2/

alright yeah sure i’m gonna tweet through reading more by molly roden winter. why not take a break from writing conference paper to see what the straight married poly people are up to this is so fascinating to me - i just wrote about this; straight women are encouraged to settle into having their sexuality essentially project managed by their husbands, and polyamory’s opportunities to break out of that can be heady and terrifying

i am sooo ruinously allergised please cheer me up

ngl.link/eliacugini severance by ling ma -> movie

this is partly accurate but misses a) the massive popularity of books by women about men, especially gay men, and b) the fact that while men historically have a problem reading women, women haven’t had the same issue reading men

https://twitter.com/emmatranter_/status/1646838731263954944

there is a really interesting matrix around class and race and age, and about what narratives are endorsed by the publishing company, and the reasons that bears fruit or doesn’t. there’s a whole different prestige economy around established male authors vs the debut craze

alright, it's bad decision thread time: i'm gonna tell you what's in this book
(for the uninitiated, it's the first somewhat widely available TERF satire) so a) this guy appears to believe that columbus thought the world was round and his peers didn't, a claim that most eight year olds could dispel, and b) we are on page 2 and this is already giving me huge Amazing Atheist vibes.