“I wouldn’t trust these people to sit the right way on a toilet” - wonderful description also of most of the government, loads of tech bros and several people I once worked for. Just love it!
It’s a great phrase, isn’t it? I first heard it in a Rowan Atkinson sketch: Father of the Bride’s Speech and I’ve used it ever since. The sketch is full of such gems…
Re “Being 13” some years ago a Brisbane (Aus) based journalist wrote a book called “Being 14” about this particular period in a girl’s life is a state of flux, not a mature teen, not a young girl. It was a fascinating insight, particularly for me being the mum of 4 girls (my youngest being twins almost 15). Some private schools in Aus take the kids in year 9 (14 going off 15) off regular school campuses & into the bush for a term/semester/year where they are taken off technology, do lots of bushwalking, sports, life skills, cooking & write old fashioned letters home to their families (the most famous school that does this is Geelong Grammar in Victoria with their Timbertop programme) I know of many kids who have done it - life changing but oh so $$$$)
Re the psychology stuff - my oldest (19yo) is a 2nd year psych student at an Aus uni so I’ve sent her the links (& also to the podcasts “The New Gurus” & “Helen Lewis has left the Chat”. The trouble with 19yos is that they won’t read what their mothers send them nor do they listen to podcasts apparently. Oh well 😉
Being 14 by Madonna King. Reading it made me realise I wasn’t the shittist mum & had forgotten my own early teens & I didn’t have social media to contend with
Lookit, I've been going to therapy for a very long time. Once or twice, I've heard personal stories, and I don't like it. I'm paying $200 to talk about ME, mofo! And I know therapists are flawed people too, but with me, they need to come across as very unflawed.
So very apt to read Kathleen Stock on NS; from the epitome of cancelled culturista to sobering view of her new rose tinted prescription, clearly are still free for her to purchase!
Bit of a bummer that a potential extinction-level threat like AI is being overseen by venal, self-serving tech bro types. The flipside is that maybe guys like Altman are so flawed that we'll never reach the AGI tipping point.
I am shocked, just shocked to discover how many people are falsely claiming to be ‘intersex’.
Who would have thunk it?!
“I wouldn’t trust these people to sit the right way on a toilet” - wonderful description also of most of the government, loads of tech bros and several people I once worked for. Just love it!
It’s a great phrase, isn’t it? I first heard it in a Rowan Atkinson sketch: Father of the Bride’s Speech and I’ve used it ever since. The sketch is full of such gems…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N1sjdLQIj8
Re “Being 13” some years ago a Brisbane (Aus) based journalist wrote a book called “Being 14” about this particular period in a girl’s life is a state of flux, not a mature teen, not a young girl. It was a fascinating insight, particularly for me being the mum of 4 girls (my youngest being twins almost 15). Some private schools in Aus take the kids in year 9 (14 going off 15) off regular school campuses & into the bush for a term/semester/year where they are taken off technology, do lots of bushwalking, sports, life skills, cooking & write old fashioned letters home to their families (the most famous school that does this is Geelong Grammar in Victoria with their Timbertop programme) I know of many kids who have done it - life changing but oh so $$$$)
Re the psychology stuff - my oldest (19yo) is a 2nd year psych student at an Aus uni so I’ve sent her the links (& also to the podcasts “The New Gurus” & “Helen Lewis has left the Chat”. The trouble with 19yos is that they won’t read what their mothers send them nor do they listen to podcasts apparently. Oh well 😉
Being 14 by Madonna King. Reading it made me realise I wasn’t the shittist mum & had forgotten my own early teens & I didn’t have social media to contend with
Lookit, I've been going to therapy for a very long time. Once or twice, I've heard personal stories, and I don't like it. I'm paying $200 to talk about ME, mofo! And I know therapists are flawed people too, but with me, they need to come across as very unflawed.
Actually startled myself with the cackle I blurted out at the line "Sorry, should I be giving *you* the therapy?" 😆
Why you gotta support Kathleen Stock, this disgust-driven view of people is not helping anybody.
Support trans liberation imo
So very apt to read Kathleen Stock on NS; from the epitome of cancelled culturista to sobering view of her new rose tinted prescription, clearly are still free for her to purchase!
The “Intersex Pretenders” study reminds me of Margaret Rutherford’s adopted daughter:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Langley_Simmons
Bit of a bummer that a potential extinction-level threat like AI is being overseen by venal, self-serving tech bro types. The flipside is that maybe guys like Altman are so flawed that we'll never reach the AGI tipping point.