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Mar. 8th, 2017
Mar. 8th, 2017 12:33 am
How Food Looks Before It’s Harvested.
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night-dark-woods:
biochromium:
pr1nceshawn:
Sesame Seeds
Cranberry
Pineapple
Peanut
Cashew
Pistachio
Brussel Sprouts
Cacao
Vanilla
Saffron
Kiwi
Pomegranate
exactly 1 minute ago i had absolutely no idea what the plants sesame seeds and peanuts came from look like and i am shocked and surprised
@elzear-stims not medicinal but still plants!
night-dark-woods:
biochromium:
pr1nceshawn:
Sesame Seeds
Cranberry
Pineapple
Peanut
Cashew
Pistachio
Brussel Sprouts
Cacao
Vanilla
Saffron
Kiwi
Pomegranate
exactly 1 minute ago i had absolutely no idea what the plants sesame seeds and peanuts came from look like and i am shocked and surprised
@elzear-stims not medicinal but still plants!
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enoughtohold:
enoughtohold:
heartofaquamarine:
enoughtohold:
“listen up, kids, it’s time to learn from your Wise Queer Elders a.k.a. me. there’s only one right way to understand your identity and it’s mine. the only experiences that matter are mine. if you don’t agree, well, bad and naughty lgbt youth get put in the Discourse Wiggler to atone for their crimes”
Eh. I don’t think this is something unique to elder members of the community. There’s quite a lot of young people perfectly willing to ignore other people’s experiences (often throwing in some denial of even the other person’s sexuality at the same time).
this made more sense in context — it’s making fun of a specific phenomenon of 20- and 30-somethings adopting this persona of ~elder~ to condescend to and manipulate kids (and to some extent adults they don’t like, whom they lump in with kids). it’s definitely not “lgbt elders are jerks.”
someone commented:
honestly the only time i’ve seen this is for what was actually a fairly nuanced explanation of why Queer Elders are not ok with the Baby Gays’ hysteria about using queer as an umbrella term
i’m not reblogging from them because their reblog is 9 months old and that’s weird but since this keeps coming up i think it’s important to explain
there is no one official “Queer Elder” position on this or any other issue.
for example, by the standards of these 20- and 30-something “elders,” i qualify as an elder. (of course, i am not actually an elder and neither are they.) and while i don’t have a problem with the word “queer” in relation to myself, i recognize that it’s a slur, i’ve heard it used as a slur in real life, and i understand why people don’t want to be called that.
more significantly, i’ve personally used the word “queer” in front of lgbt people in their 50s and 60s and seen them physically flinch. (i don’t do that anymore.)
are there lgbt people in their 60s or older who like and happily reclaim “queer”? i’m sure! but they are not the only ones who matter.
so when 20- and 30-somethings tell teenagers that their views on the word “queer” are the only appropriate views and that the teens are wrong not to like it, they’re not simply helpfully explaining the wisdom of age to a bunch of ungrateful, ignorant kids. they’re insulting and dismissing people of all ages who see things differently, including people much older than themselves. they’re not using nuance, because claiming consensus where there is none is the opposite of nuance, as is paving over a rich diversity of experiences to make a smoother path for their own.
and they’re using the authority of this supposed consensus of all lgbt adults to berate a bunch of young people who can’t easily question this claim because they’re unlikely to know older lgbt people in their communities, and who therefore are made to believe that their discomfort with a term used to dehumanize them is some kind of betrayal of all the people that came before them, so that not only do they have to deal with being lgbt with quite possibly no irl support, they are also being lgbt wrong by not sharing some 30-year-old rando’s perspective on their own lives.
so no, i really don’t think this behavior is okay. we have to let people have perspectives different from our own. as adults, we especially should know this. that we should use our age as an excuse to demonize all other perspectives isn’t right.
enoughtohold:
enoughtohold:
heartofaquamarine:
enoughtohold:
“listen up, kids, it’s time to learn from your Wise Queer Elders a.k.a. me. there’s only one right way to understand your identity and it’s mine. the only experiences that matter are mine. if you don’t agree, well, bad and naughty lgbt youth get put in the Discourse Wiggler to atone for their crimes”
Eh. I don’t think this is something unique to elder members of the community. There’s quite a lot of young people perfectly willing to ignore other people’s experiences (often throwing in some denial of even the other person’s sexuality at the same time).
this made more sense in context — it’s making fun of a specific phenomenon of 20- and 30-somethings adopting this persona of ~elder~ to condescend to and manipulate kids (and to some extent adults they don’t like, whom they lump in with kids). it’s definitely not “lgbt elders are jerks.”
someone commented:
honestly the only time i’ve seen this is for what was actually a fairly nuanced explanation of why Queer Elders are not ok with the Baby Gays’ hysteria about using queer as an umbrella term
i’m not reblogging from them because their reblog is 9 months old and that’s weird but since this keeps coming up i think it’s important to explain
there is no one official “Queer Elder” position on this or any other issue.
for example, by the standards of these 20- and 30-something “elders,” i qualify as an elder. (of course, i am not actually an elder and neither are they.) and while i don’t have a problem with the word “queer” in relation to myself, i recognize that it’s a slur, i’ve heard it used as a slur in real life, and i understand why people don’t want to be called that.
more significantly, i’ve personally used the word “queer” in front of lgbt people in their 50s and 60s and seen them physically flinch. (i don’t do that anymore.)
are there lgbt people in their 60s or older who like and happily reclaim “queer”? i’m sure! but they are not the only ones who matter.
so when 20- and 30-somethings tell teenagers that their views on the word “queer” are the only appropriate views and that the teens are wrong not to like it, they’re not simply helpfully explaining the wisdom of age to a bunch of ungrateful, ignorant kids. they’re insulting and dismissing people of all ages who see things differently, including people much older than themselves. they’re not using nuance, because claiming consensus where there is none is the opposite of nuance, as is paving over a rich diversity of experiences to make a smoother path for their own.
and they’re using the authority of this supposed consensus of all lgbt adults to berate a bunch of young people who can’t easily question this claim because they’re unlikely to know older lgbt people in their communities, and who therefore are made to believe that their discomfort with a term used to dehumanize them is some kind of betrayal of all the people that came before them, so that not only do they have to deal with being lgbt with quite possibly no irl support, they are also being lgbt wrong by not sharing some 30-year-old rando’s perspective on their own lives.
so no, i really don’t think this behavior is okay. we have to let people have perspectives different from our own. as adults, we especially should know this. that we should use our age as an excuse to demonize all other perspectives isn’t right.
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when you’re filling out a symptom experience self inventory and it’s just one Very Often after another -_-
when you’re filling out a symptom experience self inventory and it’s just one Very Often after another -_-
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