Posts made by silverfox

These are musings not directed at anyone as evidenced by the lack of @atting. I don't actually care who said what, all the words together made me use.

1. How many people don't play PoC because they don't WANT to contribute to a stereotype?
   Me Musing: I grew up in Rural Colorado and DID go to BYU (so whomever compared something to BYU campus you are DEAD ON with that comparison.) I didn't have a single PoC teacher //ever//. It wasn't until I went to Houston, Texas, and had a beautiful and amazing mentor teacher for my student teaching, that I had PoC mentor. Those four months shaped my ENTIRE attitude around race and relations because I finally saw what I'd only "read" about in books. Legit - even my TESOL class that dealt with race in the classroom was taught by a white woman. Come on BYU, you can do better.

2. When thinking about "blue eyes" or other popular topes, how much of our ideal over them being "rare" and "pretty" is tied into systematic ideas of what is/isn't attractive?
   Me Musing: To be clear, I'm not accusing anyone of intentional racism or exclusion, or whatever. We're all built by what we are raised as. Both my elder sister and I married guys with blond hair and EXCEPTIONALLY beautiful blue eyes. How much of that was shaped by the fact that we were raised to see blue eyes as beautiful but weren't exposed till later in life to the beauty in other colors?

Okay, I will make an exception:

@Tinuviel and @Kanye-Qwest just kiss already and get it over with. #teamTK.

My husband binged avatar and I binged Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.

I'm okay with these decisions.

I WANT to go learn how to do the day to day care of my quadriplegic older brother. I've wanted this for a while and stuff (like the pandemic gdi) keeps pushing it back. So I said, "fuck it, I am coming down this weekend because I have literally nothing better to do right now."

However. I do not wish to PACK for this.

@Ganymede

That is the perfect death. I am going to make more requests now, thanks.

@Tinuviel

I can see your viewpoint, and it is valid.

I have to disagree though. By allowing people to opt-out of the discussion (said with the understanding that people can ignore, block, unwatched any thread they want) before it can even be started (such as people who ignore the whole politics thread for perfectly valid reasons) then we are complicit in allowing them to stay unchallenged in their viewpoints. I think this discussion should happen in a place where people have to actively look away to preserve their own bias.

Where a thread is put is not going to be the hill I die on though. I'm just happy that this got it's own thread.

If you will excuse me now; I need to make more work for CatBot.

(Yay new thread!)

@Tinuviel

Upvote doesn't express my agreement enough.

I have have this gut feeling it doesn't belong in a politics section either. Because while laws can help with racial injustice they aren't the end all. It begins with things like what @Sparks was saying - confronting our personal biases. This shouldn't be dismissed because it is "politics," it goes way beyond that.

@Ganymede

Could this conversation maybe be split off into its own conversation called "Diversity in Gaming"

I think it is an important conversation - maybe too important to be dismissed as a peeve.

Ack. We put an offer in on a townhouse simply because both of us walked out going, "That would be the perfect place to raise kids."

(Money is a HUGE anxiety trigger for me, so I'm like, excuse me, I will just be over here hyperventilating. Thanks.)

swings feet My paycheck is suspiciously high but even though I have the money in my account they haven't posted my paystub to the system yet (I'm assuming because they switched to 4 10's for the summer months already.) So I can't verify it for a bit.

I wouldn't worry - except last summer they accidentally paid me for ~two~ months at once and then just took out the extra from the NEXT paycheck. So gotta be able to budget properly if that's happened again. (We get paid on the last day of the month vs bi-weekly or something.)

I hit one of those annoying ruts where I finished a whole bunch of books ALL AT ONCE, and now I'm not quite sure what to read next. I have a whole pile of stuff! But like, which one would suit my appetite best? #firstworldproblems

@JinShei

Excuse me I'm right here. PAGE ME PERSON.

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Omg, this parent in my class is SUPER CATHOLIC and SUPER CONSERVATIVE. Wouldn't let her read Harry Potter because it had evil magic. (White magic is fine though! Fairies and princesses ftw!)

I never broached other social topics with her, making an assumption based on her religiosity.

I WAS SO WRONG. I'm helping her girlie write a story and the girl couldn't decide if this unicorn was a girl or boy and mom pop's up, "I think it is very progressive to have a transgender character." Then went and described in perfect eight year old language what transgender means.

My heart just so full.

Dryer's English has me doubting everything I know about grammar and thinking I am typing everything wrong.

However, I now know it is master's degree definitively so I can stop sweating about that one.

@Testament

Agree with this. Norwood's is just too.... skinny. And his face isn't nearly rugged enough.

I finished Just Mercy and I can't decide if I want to give up on humanity or have some small sliver of hope that things might improve.

Rather than confront that though, I am now reading Dryer's English and it's just as whimsical and tongue in cheek as I could ever have wished after a heartbreaking story.

@thesuntsar

He just peeled Eadric off the roof.

Again.

Norwood, though I might go fiddle around with him more.

Kenna

@Arkandel

This is LOVELY. Thank you!

Could this thread be moved there please?

@Arkandel

I would like that.

@Arkandel

It is okay. I was tired of hearing the gossip second hand and wanted to judge for myself.

@Arkandel

No, I'm afraid I didn't. I'm a novice at these things unfortunately.I was guided step by step how to find the hog pit after almost a year of knowing it existed but not being able to figure out how to find it, and I don't recall the process. I'm afraid this restricted reading place puts me in the same boat again. Now I know it exists but haven't the faintest idea how to access it.