firecat

Thinking with more nuance about people's responses to trauma. (I hate the headline, which re-over-simplifies what Samah Jabr is talking about.)
"Palestine’s head of mental health services says PTSD is a western concept" by Olivia Goldhill

It's January, so it's once again time for people to blame women and other people who aren't cis men for the systemic sexism that holds them down in the workplace. @AnaMardoll has a thread about it.
https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1083688401138839553

It's a day ending in a Y, so a woman who wears button-up shirts, fitted slacks, and boat shoes is told that she needs to dress "gender appropriate" to earn a management position. She also apparently needs to change her sexual orientation to work as a bartender.
The ACLU is suing on her behalf.

“Are you telling me that I need to have my breasts hanging out to be successful in your company?” He responded, “Not in those words.”

And on a lighter note, Ryan Starkey of StarkeyComics drew a cartoon, only to have his watermark removed as it turned into a viral meme. I say "on a lighter note" because he found a way to prevent this problem in the future. Sort of.
"The Dinosaur with Hair: How my meme went viral without me"

Finally, an unknown pet store got some free advertising when a cat came in and was captured on camera rolling around in their display of catnip toys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YudzneyjzM

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jesse_the_k

Thanks so much for including non-political links so I can appreciate your curation with a click.

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firecat

Glad you liked it! Do you avoid reading political stuff?

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jesse_the_k

Yeah. I’ve been on a 95% news fast since the 2016 election as a self-preservation strategy. No FB, and I’m still alive, so It’s working after a fashion.

I send money to worthy causes, but simply can’t cope with the daily reality

Big change for me—I was an avid newspaper reader when I was a young kid, did anti war stuff while in high school, blah blah blah.

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firecat

I'm glad skipping news is working to preserve your aliveness. <3

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silveradept

If I haven't mentioned it yet, I always appreciate when people are willing to caption their links with more than just the title, because clickbait headlines and sometimes things with innocuous titles turn out to have a lot of feels with them.