Can we please stop referring to Native Americans ESPECIALLY the Mexica(erroneously known as Aztecs) as “ancient”. I’m so tired of hearing “the ancient Hopi” or “the ancient Aztecs” no one says “the ancient Christopher Columbus” “Ancient Spain colonized much of the world” instead we refer to them as recent history. Indigenous genocide is also recent history. Stop trying to wash us out as passed and non relevant.
I fucking hate this.
Seriously, people, if you’re talking about something more recent than 600CE, it’s not “ancient”. And when you do it in the context above, you’re implying that entire cultures are dead that still live on. Fucking quit it.
Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Mesa Verde, home of the ancestral Pueblo people, was occupied until 1285. Machu Picchu in Peru was built in 1450 and abandoned in 1572.
the spanking debate isn’t all that complicated. you’re either ok with hitting small kids who are completely defenseless and literally at your mercy, or you’re not. supporting the first option makes you a bad and dangerous person, and unfit to be a parent, and im sorry to say but there’s no way around this, no excuses or loopholes. it is what it is
I’ve told this story before and my clam chowder is getting cold but fuck it.
A couple years ago while I was working for a care center during my ece training - we had a big thing about spankings. We went around and asked children who were spanked how they felt about it and what it told them or how it made them feel.
Then when the parents were over, we anonymously read everything that was said by the children on how they view spankings and unanimously it was found that the children never saw it as a growing experience.
It was “painful” “really scary” “I thought mommy hated me now” and we often found it never actually TAUGHT the kids what they did wrong. in fact it seemed to teach them that at any moment your mommy or daddy would just haul up and smack you until you cried and said it was for your own good.
Needless to say I’m pretty sure we changed a lot of parents opinions on spanking and SHOCK OF SHOCKS actually TALKING to their children worked far better disiplinary
I even included my own story, pretending I was telling an outside story “well, I happened to know one person who’s mother only stopped spanking them cause they got tall and big real fast so they could fight back. so there’s a lot of intimidation and fear to your children.” and just - I’ll never forget the dawning look of realization on their faces
The most common argument I hear is, “Look, my parents spanked me and I turned out fine.”
Stolen from elsewhere on the internet but now my defult response: “No you didn’t–you think it is okay to hit little kids.”
Putting it out there right now. Spanking is child abuse. Just plain, archaic child abuse .
I will never understand the reasoning behind why it’s okay to smack a child, but it’s not okay to smack an older parent who is suffering from dementia/Alzheimers. If it’s not socially okay to hit a grown ass adult, and if we are fighting against domestic abuse, then why do accept that hitting a child to teach them a lesson is okay?
Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace
Yes it’s called the mammalian diving response and it’s also why doing face masks and taking a shower is soothing. Our amphibian ancestors used this mechanism to slow down the heartbeat and lower body temperature so as not to waste calories while swimming (which is very calorie intensive). It makes you feel safe because predators are less likely to get you in water than on land. The fish brain is alive and well in all of us.
It’s literally activated by putting water on the face.
My amphibian ancestors gave me the instinct to dissociate in the shower for hours on end
dbt therapy uses this to help ppl with anxiety and other mental health issues. the technique is called ice diving and it’s amazing. my therapist (shoutout to hillary!) swears by it. basically you fill a large bowl with icy water and submerge your face so it’s lower than your heart. keep your head underwater for like 15 seconds at a time, and dunk about 3-5 times. it lowers your heart rate in 10 minutes which helps u calm down. i know a woman who does it whenever she feels a panic attack coming (carry around those emergency ice packs for when you’re not at home/can’t do a real ice dive) and she hasn’t had an attack in years because diving stops them. basically our bodies/brains are wild and dbt is life changing
“I studied art in Florence, that’s why I thought a lot about the meaning of this painting and I thought she’s the perfect woman. So, I talked to myself ‘Why not?’ Why can’t I be Botticelli’s Venus? I can be perfect even with all my imperfections. In the end, all women can represent this figure.”
jonathan van ness from queer eye and freckle from wondrous life of caleb gallo are good and evil versions of each other who balance the universe with their respective natures
Elspeth Beard, shortly after becoming the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. Her journey took 3 years and covered 48,000 miles.
Uh, just as a warning to anyone out there attracted to women: the other photos of her that exist are at least equally as hot, which is fucking terrifying.
This woman could ride up to me, take of the helmet and dramatically shake out her hair, and ask me to leave my life behind to run away adventuring with her
She is also an architect who lives in a Victorian water tower, and a more recent photo (still with a bike!) shows that at about 60 years old she is *still* just as beautiful.
