The Other Day I Was Listing Off The Books On My Goodreads List Pertaining To Feminism At My Parents House

The other day I was listing off the books on my goodreads list pertaining to feminism at my parents house which went something like this:

Me: I've got Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference By Cordelia Fine, Female Erasure: What You Need to Know about Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights (By several authors and editors), I’m still waiting on Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism By Kathleen Stock, I really want to get to TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality By Helen Joyce, and also All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister.

My Dad: Don't you ever just read a good fiction book?

Me: Yeah I have 24 new ones stacked up in the guest room. I've read 3 so far this year (2022), but I don't have a lot of time for leisurely academic reading while finishing up my MSN . I do read stories and opinions from other radical feminists on an esteemed website where I can contribute my own thoughts each morning though.

(He looked surprised. I didn't mention the website was tumblr....)

microdosing on having a degree by reading radblr like the morning paper

i love traditional clothing. doesn’t matter the culture. all traditional clothes look baller swag af etc

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.

Probably won't have time thanks to Grad school, but reblogging for the Japanese grammar bc I want to start learning a little now that I've spent 2 years doing a little French every day.

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

Also thr fact that they mentioned "don't wear white" twice. Brides (and grooms) should be the stars of the wedding, not anyone else. Don't wear white, or offwhite, or tan, or cream.

The rule about "if you weren't invited, you're not welcome" sounds like a great boundary to me!!

Why are people acting like this rules are ridiculous? This wedding sounds nice.

(Rule 8 means to ask her mom decor questions and not her. Not like "my mom can make you change your hair")

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.