The Guardian Has Cancelled Their Person Of The Year Poll, Because It Was Abundantly Obvious Partway Through

The Guardian has cancelled their Person of the Year poll, because it was abundantly obvious partway through nominating/voting that the winner was going to be JK Rowling. Iconic.

when your god or gods kills his creations, that's his right to do so. he made us, so he can destroy us. male creator deities exist to take credit for women's labor as the true creators. a woman made you. a woman can decide she doesn't want to create a new person, and that's her right as a creator. you were never entitled to her labor; you exist because she agreed to make you.

male creation myths strip women of their rightful authority over creation. they deny them autonomy over their bodies. they say that pregnancy is merely incubation, but that's a lie. pregnancy is women's labor. she has the right to refuse to offer her body's resources to create new life.

god did not create you. a woman did. it is not god's will, it is hers.

Has anyone watched Euphoria on HBO? Thoughts? I watched the first episode and while it is a deeply unsettling show, it portrays so much of the unique pressures gen Z is under. I'm aware it has a transgender girl in it, but I wondered what people's thoughts were on how both that and the the main character's drug addiction is portrayed and how it maybe even plays into the underlying factors that can contribute to dysphoria and drug dependence (as two separate issues).

Thoughts?

This is amazing. Something to celebrate, working against the culture of sharing nudes in high schools today. These kids are living in a world we couldn't even imagine. Among drugs, bullying, and peer pressure, there is one big problem the millenial generation never faced that twist the facets of these three common "high school" concepts into something new: smartphones.

Drugs: (I will come back to this post when I am not studying for my nursing boards to be taken in a week and add more info and sources) For now, take it from the girl who wrote an epidemiology paper on the vaping epidemic in America for a Masters course in community health last semester, that what is considered 'cool' is decided in entirely new formats now. For example, even if you had friends that smoked during high school (anytime before 2014ish) but lived in a smoke free home, it was likely an 'out of sight, out of mind' deal once you were away from the smoke. Not to mention, while I am well aware that people still smoke today, I do feel that the millenial generation was not nearly as grasped by the tobacco industry as earlier generations because of constant messages that cigarettes were harmful. The laws against ads on TV and in magazines, the increased taxes, the effects we saw in older adults with emphysema and COPD? All of that worked at least somewhat well in discouraging millenials to smoke. So that, for the most part was not a hard battle to fight. Now let's look at vaping. The messaage Gen Z recieves from their peers is that vaping is cool. And the difference between us and them is that they can't turn off the message that 'everyone is using ecigs'. It shows up on instagram, tik tok, snapchat, and this influence causes more teenagers to purchase the products, so that people actually encounter their friends now using vaping products. I have found e-cigarettes in my own 16 y/o sister's room. My best friend was 22 when her 15 year old sister begged her to buy her an e-cigarette in secret. Gen Z-ers pull out their phone at every opportunity and now, the tobacco companies have found a way in and it's working. (I will add sources and info about how how vaping is leading to regular cigarette use as well as talking about the drug use today next week when I am not an overwhelmed ball of stress).

Bullying: do you even need an essay on cyberbullying? Yes, some of us younger millenials (born in the early 90s) had texting, and yes cyberbullying was very real, but all you have to do is read the above posts to show how someone can be taken advantage of in whole new ways today. Did my phone have a camera when I was 15? Yeah, technically. A frontfacing one? I don’t remember but probably not. The photos were grainy and picture messaging cost extra. The mass spreading of a person's nude photo was not a possibility on the large and immediate scale it is today. We have to teach teens what they are putting on the line.

Be Careful What You Agree To - Ad campaign making teenagers aware of the dangers of sharing intimate photos.

This post was regarding my experience in HIGH SCHOOL (louder for the people in the back).

@xentakneel I became aware of the goddamn unnecessary and harmful social pressures while I was getting my COLLEGE degree in Psychology. Do you want me to go back in time and tell high school me to stop conforming?

The point of the original post here was that teenage girls are exposed to a completely unrealistic standard of beauty and they for the most part often have no idea of the social pressure that makes them conform. They just want to fit in. In 2010, it was leggings and yoga pants and the invention of the jegging etc. Today, I watch most of the high school girls wear high waisted leggings and crop tops that leave the thinnest line of skin exposed, all beneath their winter coats and boots. My point was that "fitting in" clothing wise, is often more difficult for young women because of an industry that is so focused on beauty, it is always the first thought in the clothing design process of mass made products like coats and boots and leggings. Even if they're are warm leggings, why do guys get to wear jeans and sweatshirts and that counts as fitting in when girls have to continually push themselves into a cookie cutter mold of clothing style that is often not as warm as men's clothing and which sexualizes them far too early. And high school boys will simply never understand that pressure to dress in a way where they feel they owe the world beauty. So, yes it was fucking annoying when they made comments about us getting cold more easily. Yes they were just dumb kids who didn't know about invisible social and psychological pressures at force. That doesn't make it right and @bingobongosbunnie it doesn't make it any easier to change those standards when girls are called wimps for being cold in jeans or leggings.

So, yes I am fucking enlightened now. If I happen to find a time machine, I'll be sure to tell 16 year old me to stop conforming to all societal demands that have influenced her choices so she doesn't freeze in her skinny jeans when it's -20°F and the bus is 25 minutes late.

As someone who grew up in the coldest state in the midwest, literally nothing was more annoying than guys mocking us girls growing up for "being a wimp and getting cold so easily". Like, excuse me, but I would like to see a high school aged boy to try and survive a Minnesota January after shaving all the hair off their legs and underarms, while wearing a coat that is designed not with their warmth, but with the transparency of their figure, in mind, and wearing the thin black leggings from Target or Pink or wherever. Not to mention a lean figure has always been made to be the ideal over one for women.

If you know where the follow up article is, please link it. All Google had was this Snopes article, which confirms he did purchase the land for conservation, though the actual price was never revealed.