I was with you until you started in with the food moralizing.

@mcloffs.bsky.social

Tempted to reply with a cookie emoji.

Breaking update: someone on a listserv has responded to a flyer about not shopping at corporations this weekend with “I don’t shop at those places ever.”

Vaccinate all people of all genders!

Things almost every culture has in common:

• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny

😍

That's the part that turns me off as a clinician. Yes, it absolutely saves lives and works for some people. But anything that's remotely scientifically sound should be acknowledging its limitations. And any decent method should have room for take some, leave some, modify as needed.

Oh sorry! Wasn't intended as an explanation. Was validating/adding on around how weird and concrete-thinking it is.

There's definitely a dynamic in which some AA people haven't really done the work and have replaced their habit with dependence on AA. Which, hey, that saves lives, but some of them can be pretty obnoxious with assumptions that anyone with possible substance issues must attend AA meetings forever.

It's also based on a really outdated model that anyone who's had any issue with a substance must completely abstain forever. Some of them get really weird about people who successfully cut back or shift why/how they use. Hell, some of them are weird about people non-problematically partaking.

We'd use em even more if they didn't have Amazon vans and UPS trucks and cops parked in them!

It's weird how aggressive some folks can be when you decline alcohol. Like they need you to justify why you aren't drinking.

Please don't be that person.