I'm a 23 year old Catholic. This is a multifandom blog. I mostly blog about Teen Titans, Voltron, ATLA, LOK, SU, KFP, Gravity Falls, Attack on Titan, TMNT, Disney, Studio Ghibli, and others. Enjoy!
I got an email from a guy who said that he was really depressed and was about to hurt himself when a friend called and asked him to go dancing. He said no, he didn’t want to go out. And then after he hung up the phone, he remembered that line: “Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy.” So he called the friend back, went dancing, had a great time, decided not to kill himself and wrote me a letter saying, “That line saved my life.” I was weeping [reading that]. What an offhand line to end up being so meaningful to someone. That blew my mind. (x)
the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making
If there was a secular organization with thousands of employees accused of molesting tens of thousands of kids, paid ~$4 billion in settlements, & instead of firing or punishing the molesters, they just transferred them & covered up their crimes, it’d be permanently shut down amid raging protests
“Divorce rates for NFP users are about three per cent, said Flaman, significantly lower than the 40 per cent overall divorce rate for Canadian and U.S. marriages. “But people who use NFP would understand why, because to use the method it requires some self-control,” said Flaman. “Self-control is a virtue that’s also valuable in how we talk to each other and promotes respect — particularly for the man to respect the ecology of his wife’s body, the natural rhythms and so forth.””
