#Malotte

[musterdandpapirika]

MAL X SCOTT BOYYYY MALCIS OBSESSED WITH MY FAV SCOTT 🤭🤭

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Julia Malott

Published: Sep 18, 2023

In the coming days, Canada will see heightened activity in the nation’s ongoing gender identity politics debate. The “1 Million March 4 Children” protest against how gender identity is taught in schools, is set to occur on Wednesday, with synchronized events in more than 50 cities countrywide. Two days later, separate Toronto rally will spotlight two figures prominent in the gender-critical movement: Chris Elston, colloquially known as “Billboard Chris” for his distinctive method of protesting against childhood medical transition, and Josh Alexander, a Renfrew, Ontario student who was expelled earlier this year after objecting in class to his school’s transgender washroom policy.

Organizers of these events bill them as a defense of the safety and wellbeing of children, though the protesters’ opinions span a wide spectrum of positions. While some desire personal discretion in how matters of gender identity are handled for their own children, others urge broader constraint on transgender-related discussion and accommodations for the entire student body. The perspectives reflect the diverse community backing the movement.

As parents’ voices grow louder, there’s a perception in the progressive left that all of these emerging movements are rooted and inspired by “far-right” extremism. Many in leftist circles suggest that parental rights advocacy is a dog-whistle: a veiled attempt to advance anti-transgender policies. A recently leaked video from an Ontario Federation of Labour meeting offers a glimpse into how some of the province’s most influential union members perceive these protests. As one member notably stated during the meeting: “The fascists are organizing in the streets … . This is far more than a far-right transphobic protest. They’re fundamentally racist, they’re fundamentally anti-union, they are fundamentally transphobic, and it’s just a matter of time before they come for us.”

Such language of a growing fascist movement, evoking images of 1933 Berlin, is more than a little unhinged, particularly when all they are discussing is parents uniting together to demand involvement in their children’s education. As a covert spectator in the union meeting, there was an undeniable sentiment among participants that if not for them democracy would surely collapse.

It’s a grave mistake to deride the parental collective pushing back against the status-quo as fascist sympathizers motivated by transgender hate. A glance past such alarmist rhetoric reveals that — while a fringe group of hate has always existed — the concerns many parents are championing are much more moderate than a “far-right” moniker suggests.

For many parents, the core issue at hand is preserving their agency and autonomy over the ideological content of their children’s education. They want transparency about what is being taught, the option to excuse their child from content they believe doesn’t align with their values, and the discretion to determine age-appropriateness for activities, such as certain reading material or events like drag queen performances at schools. Perhaps least surprisingly, parents want to be involved in the key decisions of their own child undergoing a social transition in the classroom.

Many of these matters have been surfacing in school board meetings for several years, largely to be ignored by Trustees and Education Directors. The shared sentiment among these parents is the perception that the education system increasingly sidelines them, diminishing their role in their children’s upbringing. This sense of alienation is leading a growing number of parents to take a stand, even if it means confronting accusations of extremism.

The matter of social transition behind parents’ backs in particular is so condemning of their role in upbringing that it has thrust the entire gamut of gender identity matters into the national spotlight, revealing just how out of balance transgender accommodation has become. The manner in which the left has responded — by doubling down in their rhetoric and deriding parents as militant zealots, has played powerfully into the rapid growth of this grassroots movement.

Many parents, even amid those who will stand in protest, have little desire to limit other families’ decisions regarding gender teachings and expression for their children. They realize that their objective of ensuring their own parental autonomy is intertwined with safeguarding those same freedoms for other families as well.

Over time, the persistent branding of even modest parental rights positions as far-right extremism does injury. As the left cries foul each time they encounter a perspective they don’t like, they desensitize the meaning in such a label. By regularly branding modest parental concerns as extremist, progressives may very well be shoehorning the adoption and normalization of more hardline positions that do straddle the line of the parental rights of others. As grassroots gain traction, a vocal minority have now taken to calling for sweeping bans on gender affirming teaching and accommodation for all children and families alike within the public education system.

So where do we go from here? What might a balanced approach to parental rights look like within the nuanced landscape of gender identity politics? Fortunately, we need not start from scratch; history offers us a model for the coexistence of diverse ideologies within our educational institutions. Look no further than religion.

For years, Canada has upheld an educational system truly inclusive of students from all religious backgrounds. The classroom approach to religious topics is robust; it sidesteps direct religious instruction, and when religion intersects with the curriculum, it is presented academically rather than doctrinally. Instead of dictating what’s “true” in religious contexts, educators shed light on what various groups “believe,” cultivating an environment of both choice and critical thinking.

Amid religious diversity, we teach acceptance. Students are taught to make space for varied faith expression among their peers, whether through clothing or other customs, and with a strong desire to maintain neutral, religious symbols are not adorned by the institution. The lesson for students is to embrace and include, even where personal beliefs diverge; Meanwhile, the guiding principle for the institution is to avoid actions that display favouritism toward any specific religious doctrine.

Such a solution could address a significant portion of the concerns fuelling the rising parental unrest. Moderate parents would applaud such an education system, and this would still be inclusive of transgender students. But in order for this to be realized, the two factions moving ever further apart will first need to come to the table and talk. Given the recent rhetoric from progressive quarters, the prospect of this dialogue anytime soon appears distant.

[ Via: https://archive.md/sPIaA ]

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It's a deliberate tactic by activists with no argument. If you poison the well with an Ad Hominem, you never need to justify your claim: parents are, by default, "far-right" and "fascists" and can be ignored. And by calling it a "dogwhistle," they need never say what you want them to say, you can just claim that's what they actually meant, putting words in their mouths.

There's fewer better ways to piss off voting parents than by trying to cast their concern about their children and the undermining of their parental rights as "far-right" or "fascism."

[movewithsaikot]

In a thrilling showdown for the middleweight title at UFC 297, Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis delivered an epic battle that kept fans on the edge of their seats until the final horn. The intensity of the bout left Du Plessis with a nearly swollen-shut eye, and Strickland with blood dripping down his face. Contrary to expectations, the judges were called upon to render a decision in the main event.

[theanticool]

Neil Magny stops Mike Malott in the 3rd round after losing the first 2.5 rounds!

A new type of heartbreak for the Canadian fans tonight as their guy was cruising to a win for the first 13 minutes of this fight.

Malott came out early and was showcasing the kicking game. Straight kicks to the knee and body along with round kicks to the calf, thigh and sternum seemed to make Magny really hesitant to try to close range. In fact, Malott seemed to be doing some real damage. The last strike of the 1st was a leg kick to the thigh that really hurt Magny. Magny tried to pick the aggression up in round 2 but we got to see a little bit more of Malott's boxing. When Magny threw caution to the win to flurry, he managed to push Malott back but Malott kind of bounced off the cage and fell into a body lock takedown. Magny got up but was instantly taken down again when he tried to press a clinch takedown of his own and mounted. Malott did some damage (landing a lot of back of the head strikes too) before the round closed out.

It looked like the third was going to be another Malott round as he managed to get Magny down and was working to pass. Magny eventually managed to get up and push Malott into a double leg takedown of his own. Malott chose to try to defend with the guillotine and ended up on bottom after a small slam. Malott then tried to capture a leg as Magny postured up to throw GnP. A terrible idea 3 rounds into a fight you are winning as it just allowed for Magny to get off unanswerable GnP before stepping out to side control and then moving to mount. From there Magny rained down punches for like 30 seconds as Malott floundered about. Then the ref stopped it.

Gut wrenching loss for Malott who has to feel like he handed the fight away with some bad decision making late. He was beating Magny using the two things (leg kicks and top control grappling) that have historically been how he loses fights and then poof - he loses.

On to the title fights

[malhates]

ignore the massive amount of cleanups it’s just commentary and a bad hand. here r some of my recent doodles ! idk why zoey is sideways

[scott4lifetotaldrama]

scott huh - this is an au where scott also went to juvie and mal found him insteresting and yeah got art /inspired by someone but forgot who :( PLS MAKE IT A FANFIC WHERE MAL MEETS SCOTT PLS but yeah ^^ hope yall like it also im making a flipiclip animatic of this drawing so yeah <3

[cloacacarnage]

[honeybbpal]

And here’s one of our Elders speaking Potawatomi (people from Chicago, Wisconsin, Michigan (and later Kansas)).

I'm gonna reblog with some videos of people speaking various American Indian/indigenous American languages, because I think most people don't even know what they sound like. Not to be judgement of that—just, you know, I think people who want to be informed should know what they sound like!

[marlenedietrichuneenfantdusiecle]

The spoilers

[theantoniomabs]

REVIEW: The Bucket of Blood #1

This is a tough one. I hate having to review bad indie comics because making comics is hard, and I personally believe that anyone making comics should be applauded regardless of how good or bad the project might be. It is my bias that comics hold the crown for the most difficult of art forms as it combines, storytelling, anatomy, composition, color, lettering, and cinematic pacing in order to…

[nohkalikai]

christopher tin has put out some amazing albums post 2009 ofc (i haven't even checked out his latest one i wanna get around to doing that). but 'calling all dawns' has a v special place in my heart because i heard a choir perform 'baba yetu' in my early choir days and it was SO memorable that i pushed for my school choir to do it for an easter assembly in place of the english lord's prayer.

[conandaily2022]

Mike Malott biography: 13 things about UFC fighter from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Mike Malott is a Canadian professional mixed martial artist.

[themmaniacs]

UFC Fight Night 220 Results

#UFC #UFCFightNight220 #MMA #AndreMuniz #BrendanAllen

UFC Fight Night 220 was an event that took place on Saturday, February 25, 2023, at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The event was supposed to have a main event between Nikita Krylov and Ryan Spann at light heavyweight. However, just hours before the fight, it was cancelled due to an injury sustained by Krylov during training. Despite the cancellation of the main event, the card still had some…

[theanticool]

Mike Malott subs Yohan Lainesse in the 1st round via arm triangle

A good night for Canada’s Niagara Top Team as both their fighters pick up submission wins. First Jasmine Jasudavicius looks great (didn’t post but she looked fantastic). Now Mike Malott comes out and gets the arm triangle. Looked strong in the tie up and on the mat. Very procedural.

Tatiana Suarez up next!!

[just-merce]

UFC Fight Night: Krylov vs Spann Main Card Preview

Embed from Getty Images It’s fight week at the UFC Apex again, as the presents UFC Vegas 70 Krylov vs Spann. Reliable sources (The Ringer MMA Show), this is the last show at the Apex for two months. Now that the world is back, it will be good to see more fight nights on the road, like in the past. Two men looking to move up the Light-Heavyweight ladder and a shot a champion Jamahal Hill will…

[babyspacebatclone]

Ok, very little of the above makes sense, but please.

I ask anyone with a concern in either my mental health or hates ABA to at least skim it and give me their thoughts.

Because while I’ve compressed my anger into a fine, glittering diamond that does not hurt me anymore, I still want validation.

I can’t believe it.

I can’t believe it.

I found it.

I found the fucking ABA textbook.

I found the thing that convinced me as a psychology undergrad that ABA was insane.

I can’t….

I can’t.

You don’t understand.

I’d almost convinced myself I was crazy, that I’d exaggerated this after a decade

But it exists, it was real.

This really was in the first fucking chapter. Of a book. Published in 2013.

This.

(This becomes a ramble, and not a cute raccoon version. Let’s add a cut for sanity.)

Edit: Let’s also move things around so this is discussable.

Please bear with me - this experience hurt me.

Context: Here is the Amazon ratings for this textbook:

4.5 out of 5 stars.

Reviews talk about its breezy, conversational nature, and how simply it breaks down behavioral principles.

This is true, and when I first encountered the book (then the 6th edition) in 2012 I was stymied.

The behavioral stuff made sense, and I could see the applications.

But the tone….. From that first chapter bashing Freud in the 2010s as though that were evidence about the efficacy of ABA, the philosophy of the textbook felt - arrogant, egotistical, dismissive of any other viewpoint in a way that was anathema to my personal therapy philosophy.

Then I realized the author had been 75 as I was reading it, and just chalked it up to him fighting a decades long fight he didn’t realize had been over - the need for scientific rigor in psychology - for decades.

Which made me confused as to why it was still being used without comment on the author’s… underlying batshitness, but I again chalked that up to the fact the grad assistant had to take over the course a third of the way through.

I just double checked, and the 3 ABA courses I took had been mandatory for my degree and not just recommended electives after the first because wow this fucking shit.

Anyway, my second of the ABA courses had been taught by an adjunct (someone who works in the field and teaches applicable courses), and made sense.

There was still some “everything’s programmed responses to external input” vibes, but that’s behaviorism and it felt more like a different philosophy I could respect but choose a different branch instead of a…. absolute that viewed me as an inferior being of I didn’t submit to their regal superiority.

In conclusion, I think the cognitive motivational theorists do psychology a service by raising the issue of avoidance contingencies in human affairs, but I think they get it almost completely wrong in stressing the suppressive effects of passive avoidance or punishment contingencies and generally ignoring the beneficial effects of active avoidance. In addition, I think they do our field a service by formally raising the issue of intrinsic reinforcers in human affairs, but again I think they get it almost completely wrong in suggesting that intrinsic reinforcers are all we need.

At the end of my rants, I like to add: Of course, this is only my opinion; and I could be wrong, but probably not. [emphasis added]

That is the actual fucking close of an actual fucking article Malott wrote in the early 2000s slamming on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

My mild misgiving about misunderstanding the intention of the textbook and the author???

Thrown out the fucking window in my third (and I repeat require course for my degree).

Which was taught by an equality elderly good personal friend of the author.

…

I have more I could add.

But I shall end this here.

This author is still treated as a member in good standing in respected ABA organizations.

After…. this bullshit just four years after the 7th edition of this “wonderful” textbook was published.

OG post below, only read the quoted section if you want to laugh, it’s fucking mid and doesn’t express why this individual is a piece of shit who should never have been allowed to fucking influence anyone, let alone be responsible for Autistic children, let alone teach people to fucking hate anyone not “perfectly logical” like oh so holy and superior them.

[begin quoted section]

WHY JUST A BEHAVIORAL VIEW?

Sid’s Seminar

MAX: I’ve been reading ahead, and it looks as if this book deals mainly with behavior analysis. It doesn’t say much about other approaches to psychology. Why not psychoanalysis, Freud, Piaget, information processing, cognitive psychology, humanistic psychology?

JOE: What do you expect? The title of the book is Principles of Behavior.

TOM: That may be the title of the book, but shouldn’t we be getting a broader view of the various psychological theories in this class?

SID: An interesting point. Psychology sure isn’t short on theories. We have Freud, Jung, Piaget, cognitive psychology, humanistic psychology, gestalt psychology...

JOE: The people in California produce a new pop theory almost every week.

SID: Here’s what I’ve found in teaching this course. I tried to cover all the theories, but the students were shortchanged. They didn’t learn enough about any one theory to really understand it, let alone make use of it. At best, they learned a few clichés they could use in making small talk. They didn’t appreciate or understand the theories. They gained no solid knowledge. They learned no useful skills. On the other hand, when I devote a whole course to a single approach, the students understand and appreciate that approach—both its strengths and its weaknesses.

TOM: OK, but why behavior analysis? Why not Freud?

SID: Because I’m a professional behavior analyst. Behavior analysis is what I teach best. However, I used to assign a chapter on Freud that I was excited about but my students couldn’t get into Freud. (To see the Freud chapter, go to DickMalott.com.)

JOE: Also, behavior analysis has more scientific data supporting it and can be applied to more areas than any other approach.

SUE: Professor Harper said if you want to study Freud, you have to go to the English department. He said almost no major psychology department in North America takes Freud too seriously any more.

SID: Here’s one more reason I concentrate on behavior analysis, rather than an eclectic approach. With a bachelor’s degree in general psych, there’s almost no job you can get using what you’ve learned about psychology. But, if you’ve had some training in behavior analysis, like what you’ll get in this course, you can get a job as soon as you graduate, using applied behavior analysis, if you’re willing to go where the jobs are; and they’re all around the country and starting to be all around the world. Most of these bachelor’s jobs involve working with children classified as autistic, people classified as mentally impaired, and people with brain injuries. (To find more about behavior-analysis job opportunities, go to DickMalott.com.) And we’ll study more about working with these clients throughout this course.

[end quoted section, available here to read in the context of the chapter it appeared in, the link is “POB Chapter 1”]

The entire. Fucking. Book. Was written with that insufferable ego.

This was my textbook for a 400 level course.

It counted as a prereq for the Masters levels.

Written by a man who…

…..

Wait one second, I just opened the author’s Wikipedia page and…

….

Fuck.

Did not know that.

If you don’t know this place:

There have been repeated attempts to shut down the [Judge Rotenberg] center by autism rights advocates, disability rights advocates, and human rights advocates. Other notable people who have opposed the center include Ari Ne'eman, Shain Neumeier and Lydia Brown. Organizations that oppose the center include the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Disability Rights International, and Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth.

……….

I’m going to go chug some Diet Dr. Pepper, since I don’t drink alcohol because of the medication I take.