Quickies
Quickies: Trans inclusion is a Jewish value, the Magic School Bus, and why it’s called feminism
- Trans inclusion is a Jewish value – “Like most American Jews, the URJ is quite liberal. It first passed a resolution affirming “the rights of homosexuals” in 1977 and called for full marriage equality in 1997.” From Jamie.
- Read it and Weep: The Magic School Bus – I got to watch some Magic School Bus episodes, feel really nostalgic, and talk about it with the Read it and Weep crew.
- Fight transphobia and move the damn 2017 Super Bowl – ” Why move the big game? Well, Houston put some of their citizens’ civil rights up for a vote and by a wide margin declared that LGBTQ people needed to accept a second-class form of citizenship.” From Courtney.
- Why it’s called feminism and not humanism – Ah yes, the age old question!
- Cute Animal Friday! Tiny capybara!
As a divorced dad who is also a feminist, a big enthusiastic fuck you to Steve on the end of that video. One of the hardest things about divorce was and continues to be all the assumptions and stereotypes other people brought to the table and those I had internalized myself. From TV shows and moves to jokes about loser single dads in lonely apartments unable to see their kids. Loosing our home and having to take jobs that wouldn’t let me have equal custody to keep meeting child support payments are real fucking terrors that I live with.
“Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!” -Miss Frizzle
This is the quote I live by. :)
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(15)01167-7.pdf
Religious upbringings decrease altruism!
Doesn’t that study actually only show that Christian and Muslim upbringings are inversely correlated with altruism? One study does not show causation. And the samples of other religions were too small to generate conclusions about them. Grouping them with Christian and Muslim seems to me to be problematic considering how many more of them there are than non-Christian/Muslims in the sample.