Okay, but seriously on the topic of straight people being so overly concerned about their children being exposed to homosexuality…
As some of you know, I am a makeup artist in a holistic beauty boutique in a very wealthy area of eastern New York. The week before Halloween I was offering simple costume makeup designs for both adults and children. So my last client of the evening was a 15 year old girl who came in to get her makeup done for the Halloween dance at her school. I was enjoying a conversation with both the girl and her mother when suddenly the topic of transgender came up. I got a little nervous because I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when I hear people speaking negatively about these sorts of topics and as I mentioned, my store is in a very upscale, white, conservative area…
Anyway, the girl starts telling us that her friend prefers to be a boy now. She says it very simply and comfortably and it made me happy to see her talk about it as if it was really no big deal.
Her mother says
“How does she even know what transgender is though? She’s a little young to be making a decision like that. I really think the media is taking things too far with all this gay stuff. I’m not against it or anything, but didn’t you just tell me two boys in your class are dating too?”
The girl said that yes, two boys she knew were dating and another boy she knew was gay also. (And she also corrected the pronouns her mother used for her friend)
“I don’t mind that she knows that homosexuality is,” the mother said. “But I don’t think it should be taught at such a young age. Did you know it’s on Disney channel now?”
It took me a moment to respond, I just kept painting the girl’s face until I could figure out what I wanted to say.
“Well,” I said. “We tend to teach heterosexuality literally from the time a child is born. Most children’s books and movies are even centered around a romance of some kind like a Prince and a Princess for example. There’s rarely a children’s movie that comes out where the main male and female character don’t end up marrying each other in the end. If we don’t have a problem flooding our children’s minds with heterosexuality from the time they are able to sit up and watch a movie on their own, what is so wrong with showing them two boys or two girls being in love? We aren’t showing them sex. We aren’t showing them anything inappropriate. Since when is love inappropriate? If we show them love in all it’s forms (be it gay or straight) from an early age, they will see that it’s all perfectly normal and natural and maybe we can finally put homophobic the past…”
The woman considered this for a second and then said “I just feel like they see it and then they start to think that they might be too.”
“And maybe they are. But isn’t it better for them to know that it’s okay? They aren’t hurting anyone.”
Then the girl said. “No ones going around just thinking they are gay because they know what gay is, mom. I know what a chicken is, that doesn’t mean I’m going to wake up tomorrow and start clucking.”
I loved this kid. I hope she does well in all of her endeavors
I’m not going to wake up tomorrow and start clucking
“Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
“In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of “science-based” or “evidence-based,” the suggested phrase is “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes,” the person said. In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.”
This may seem like it’s not a big deal but it really really is.
May your demons slumber and your wine glass be full
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I did this design two years ago and every year it’s gone viral without crediting me. There’s another Tumblr account here that has 300000 notes on it and the original poster didn’t credit me meaning I’ve lost out in a ton of potential sales. Pleeeease, if you retweet or repost an artists work, credit them! It helps them so much! Every penny I make comes from my artwork!
In German, the translation for birth control pill is antibabypille.
In Switzerland there is a pregnancy test called Maybe Baby available in vending machines.
And some Welsh folks call their microwave a Poppity-Ping… which has nothing to do with pregnancy products, but it was also in the reddit thread I was researching and too adorable not to include here.
You’re about to have a whole bunch of Welsh people in your inbox, my dude.
I swear to fucking god, it is bad enough having that stupid fucking “popty ping” lie around, but now apparently people aren’t even spelling the only correct and accurate Welsh word in it right. I can 100% assure you that literally no person on this entire planet has ever referred to a microwave as a ‘poppity-ping’.
Can people please stop being condescending fucks towards an endangered language and culture, thanks
Sorry about that. The person in the thread claimed to be Welsh and the first few google entries seemed to confirm it. Looking again, I think I might have mistaken urban dictionary for an actual dictionary. So that’s my bad. The third entry was from a Welsh website but it looks like it was actually just a clickbait post. I was tired and had taken a lunesta to help me sleep. It really did seem legit at the time when I was chasing that magic sleep butterfly.
It looks like popty microdon might be a thing, but not ping. I can assure you that I had no intention of being condescending or insulting. I thought it was a funny language thing. Like how in America some folks call a turtle a cooter. And that we have an actual cooter festival. Which some people get disappointed about when they realize it is about turtles. Though I’m not sure why, cuz turtles are pretty cool. Okay, I am digressing big time here.
Again, I am sorry. Joking aside, I really am. I had no idea. I love the Welsh. You made my favorite dog. I’d ask that you forgive my error, but if you want to yell at me some more, that’s fine too. I’ve let the internet trick me twice in the past few weeks and I am usually not easily duped. I’m not sure what is going on with me. Hopefully I can do better in the future.
Sigh. I was actually just coming back to this to apologise to you – that one hit a nerve today, but that’s not your fault, and given how widespread the whole popty ping myth is, I’m not surprised you were taken in.
So, to clarify: the word “popty” is real, but it means ‘oven’. Literally, it means ‘baking house’ (from pob + tŷ), because something that is true of Welsh is that we think any building is a house, apparently, even if it’s a three-foot square box. The actually word for ‘microwave’, which real Welsh speakers will actually use, is “meicrodon”, which is roughly pronounced Make-roh-don with a rolled r, and sounds like a dinosaur.
‘Popty ping’ means ‘ping oven’, and is used as often – and in the same context – as an English speaker would use the phrase ‘ping oven’, i.e. it’s not unless someone might decide with a child to use a funny name. A quick analogy I can think of, actually, might be ‘moo cow’ instead of ‘bull’. You might use it with a child if you were being saccharine and overly cutsie, but you wouldn’t say that the English word for a bull was a ‘moo cow’.
And the problem that comes in is that there is a whoooooolle country of people next door to us (hi, England) full of avowed monoglots who variously either view Welsh-speakers in patronising, head-patting terms OR as a hated reminder that they didn’t, in fact, manage to conquer us completely, and both groups are, for whatever reason, very invested in spreading the idea that the Welsh language is a thing of ridicule with its fake, childish words. The idea that Welsh doesn’t have any words for modern things (as popularised by Decaying Harridan Janet Street Porter, who told the world that we don’t have a word for ‘television’ and trades off having a Welsh mam for validity in her crusade) is actively dangerous to us, because it encourages the idea that Welsh is not endangered, but dying, and a millstone holding us back.
It’s also, by this point, so pervasive that non-Welsh speaking Welsh people have absorbed it and will happily spread it, which seems to be what you fell prey to here. It’s really not your fault, so I am sorry I snapped. Bad day, but that’s not on you.
To make amends, here is a picture I drew of a corgi made into a Pokemon (I’m guessing that’s your favourite dog)
No amends necessary, but I do appreciate it nonetheless. And I appreciate you being understanding of my mistake. So, it’s all good. No worries.
Also I am grateful for the detailed information about the Welsh language. Before this all I really knew about was a lengthy road sign. This put things in a much better perspective and I actually learned a lot. Thanks for that.
And, yes, the corgi is my favorite dog. That is an awesome pokecorg drawing. I’m not sure you realize how much of a peace offering that actually is for me.
You see, I love corgis so much that I decided to raise my very own stumpy mischief maker from a tiny pup.
Meet Otis the Corgi!
I LOVE HIM TELL HIM I LOVE HIM
Hey, you probably already know this, but did you know that in Welsh folklore corgis (or corgwn, to use the Welsh plural) were the chosen steeds of fairy warriors?
I will relay the message of love to Otis.
And I actually did know about the fairy warriors and their stumpy steeds. In fact, when I helped a kickstarter for an art book get funded, they drew me as an honorary fairy warrior complete with corgwn mount.
Hey in case anyone missed it this is a great thread.
Austrian photographer Inge Prader recently recreated Gustav Klimt’s masterworks for Style Bible, a part of the Life Ball Charity Event in Vienna, Austria. A team of over 50 professionals worked on the demanding photography project which raises funds to help those with HIV/AIDS. Makeup artists, costume designers, set designers, lighting specialists and many others worked with models and fully ornamented props to bring to life the fascinating, erotically charged work that Klimt is known for during his “Golden Phase.”
Merry Christmas to @celassa ! Your buddy Edwrick commissioned me for a very festive portrait of your Night Elf! Edwrick was wonderful to work with and I hope you enjoy this commission as much as I enjoyed working on it. Happy Holidays and I hope you and your loved ones have a very blessed new year!
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