The BBC needs to have David Attenborough sit down and record everything known about every animal not yet covered in a documentary so we can still have his wonderful voice and spirit after he’s gone.
today is national wine day and i’m seeing girls as young as 18 joke about being “future wine moms” with their besties and while this is cute and seems funny it also reminds me how normalized overconsumption of alcohol is in our society. it’s a tough thing to talk about because these convos sometimes lead to full out shaming of people who engage in this behaviour. on the other hand, the complete acceptance and normalization of this kind of behaviour is extremely harmful. we live in such a pro-alcohol society that alcohol consumption is even pitched as being “heart healthy” when antioxidant benefits of the grapes in wine don’t even come close to outweighing the destructive properties of alcohol. we have to learn how to discuss substance “vices” – because, let’s face it, drinking, smoking etc are literally always going to be apart of the human experience and will always be apart of our community and our lives – without promoting their absolute acceptance or absolute dissolution. the trend of aggressively shaming people into quitting cigarettes without addressing why specific demographics suffer certain addictions more than others is not beneficial in the grand scheme of limiting self-destructive habits.
we gotta approach a model where we can discuss appropriate limits for all substances without shaming people and using holier than thou rhetoric, but also not making such behaviour marketable and neutralizing its harm with cute memes etc.
AGAIN
can yall stop comparing alcohol to drugs??????????
no amount of cigarettes is good, a moderate amount of alcohol IS
i get your point is alcoholism vs drug addiction but you need to say it as. and stop this shit of comparing the actual objects, theyre not the fuckin same
1. alcohol is a drug
2. i wasn’t comparing alcohol to cigarettes in their effect, i was talkin about our culture of shaming poor people without recognizing why they use what they use
3. no amount of alcohol is good for ya. there’s no health benefit of the structural compound alcohol is comprised of. it is always harmful. any proposed benefit (for example in wine) comes from the antioxidants in the grapes/berries
One of the reasons alcohol is removed from the conversation about drugs is that having an honest conversation about alcohol would include acknowledging that it is more physically harmful, more addictive and far more likely to kill you through overdose than most criminalized drugs.
Alcohol is also what makes other drugs more dangerous because alcohol has dangerous or lethal interactions with over a dozen other drugs. Rule #1 of safer drug use tends to be ‘don’t drink alcohol while on drugs’.
We need honest conversations about the wide diversity of effects and risks of drugs, the circumstances that create addiction, how we can help addicts (step 1: stop criminalizing them) and how we can build a world where there is space for all the pleasure drugs can bring and care for the consequences.
And one of those conversations needs to be about the fact that our go-to party drug, alcohol, is actually pretty shit.
I’m just sick of stories where we end up dead or miserable
I mean if actual gay/bi/lesbian/ace/trans writers want to make a story with a sad ending I’m not gonna judge them for it or anything the way I would straight writers who do that stuff but at the same time I would much rather read a story where the ending is a happy one
And yeah anyone who tries to give u shit for wanting happy endings is just being a jerk hon 😦
Like, for one thing there’s nothing wrong with wanting things to end happily
And for another
Honestly anyone who can’t understand why people who deal with bigotry day in and day out might maybe wanna have a story where things are happy and good in the end is a twit
like i know there are a lot of fics out there where other vulcans are all “oh man, jim kirk’s so freakin HOT how’d spock get in his pants” but IF ANYTHING it’s actually the reverse. spock shows up on vulcan one day with Jim on his arm and all the other vulcans are OUTRAGED. They’ve spent years mooning (logically) over spock’s flaxen bowl cut. his dark eyes. his slightly lax emotional control that gives him just a hint of the “bad boy” vibe that we all know vulcans secretly go wild for. Sarek receives like a thousand bonding proposals a year from VSA graduates who all have google alerts set to notify them when spock gets a new xeniobiology article published. and then they find out. that the object of their (totally logical) affections. had the equivalent of a las vegas wedding with the human captain of his starfleet ship while in the middle of a five year mission. vulcans may be too logical to riot but on that day, a good many vulcans had to meditate for an extra hour or two just to contain their rage
This is the sci fi equivalent to that post about Gimli son of Gloin, the Stud of Erebor
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