#soapboxes

[durenjtmusings]

Finally, the perfect response to a classic Ao3 debate - from Anne Brontë in 1848.

[grungekitty-77]

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

[custompackagingboxes]

Custom Retail Product Boxes Value and Worth

The client is going to feel if the one wrapping has all the correct features and allure, there is no point in going through numerous other goods. That said, the state can be the complete reverse if it doesn’t have the correct appeal. When packaging doesn’t have the correct appeal, the products lose their charm and elegance. The clients will never want to purchase such a dull item. Often clients will want the products with a packaging that is well-intentioned or gifting deprived of any additional decorations or demands. But when your Product Boxes itself is grey and boring, forget about gifts; the goods will not be worth buying for the customers.

Product Boxes are Free from all Damages

Because as they appear at the wrapping, they feel sick to their stomach. So, the packaging ropes that much of their happiness and cheer of spending. Brands recognize they cannot keep their goods with them after engineering and wrapping them up. They want to send these to their endpoint, which means delivery to diverse places near or far. Well, seeing that, with this much wandering, the packaging needs to be robust and reliable. Since if the packaging isn’t robust, the products will be at countless risks of getting hurt. Retain in mind clients immediately cast-off goods that are not in their faultless condition. Retail Boxes are always in perfect condition.

Custom Packaging are Stylish and Trendy

Therefore, if your goods are not attainment the places in one piece, the clients will not only reject them. But will direct these unusable goods back to you. Confidently, they will name and disgrace you. And the world will not need to purchase from a product offering below-quality goods that turn up broken or bent. When you do not twig to the ongoing tendencies, the clients will not be much attentive to your products. The clients want Custom Packaging Boxes that are exhilarating, chic, and fashionable. They want somewhat that says fashion out loud.

Packaging with Logo are Safe for the Environment

Packaging that is ancient and out-of-date will not demand them at all. So, if you put up something that is ancient and boring in front of the creation, you will mislay both sales and the clients. They will not want to buy their items in unattractive and dull packaging that can almost ruin their whole spending experience. So, you want to make sure you are presenting them with something that is fashionable and exciting. You must retain in mind one vital factor. The clients already know those Packaging with Logo options that are not twisted from green materials will always cause harm and risk to the earth.

Soap Boxes are Great and Green Products

These are the selections that are causing the earth a countless deal of damage. For this aim, they are after the product that they are successful in finding in Eco-friendly packaging. They won’t get gainful a bit over if they have to or drive with packaging with a less beautiful design. But they just do not need to buy an item that is in a wrapping that is non-disposable or non-recyclable. So, if you want the clients to purchase your items, you want to use these Soap Boxes. When you do, you will understand the way the clients come running for your things.

Soap Packaging are Vital for Famous Brands

Are you among those products that think it is okay not to have boxes for their goods? Are you the one that thinks your goods will be capable of doing just fine, deprived of packaging? If yes, then you certainly need to review the way you are thinking. Soap Packaging are quite a vital thing for brands and industries. And without these choices, their survival may be problematic. One day, you are finally going to end up closing the doors of your business. If you are inquisitive about how you will not be capable of surviving, then endure reading to find out.

The Desirability of Boxes for Soaps

The products may cost a fortune for industrial, but they won’t have the demand and charm on their own as they may if you have them in boxes. The thing is, some goods are far too humble or simple to look good-looking. They want something to elevate their worth and appearance. In additional words, they want the assistance of wrapping to make the world understand their worth and value. For this aim, the packaging is there to lift the goods to new levels of appeal and desirability. The Boxes for Soaps are there to create the customers to purchase these items.

[soapkid]

non furries are so annoying about the semantics of calling something a furry. "erm wouldnt that be like.. a feathery???" its an avian and its still a furry. ok yes you can call the slug a slimy thats funny. but these are all fursonas. unless theyre not. i hope this hurts you

[featuresofinterest]

god i hope the cpsc takes the shot. i think this would dramatically change their entire business model. amazon makes so much money by selling defective or mislabeled or just plain dangerous products and then faces little liability because this stuff is actually being sold by random third-party sellers that don't get vetted at all and can be hard to prosecute because they're in china or wherever. this is a big part of what makes amazon so powerful and it would be good for everyone if they were forced to bear more responsibility for the damages caused by the crap available on their website

[aspharah]

hey bro can we like adopt paralleling themes and symbolize opposites but in a two sides of the same coin kind of way? it doesn’t have to be weird. wait what do you mean thats gay

[milfsisyphus]

EARNEST POSTING. while everyone is still working on new year’s resolutions i want to make sure everyone knows about the FREE serial reader app.

if you are trying to read more classics/public domain works but for whatever reason struggle with incorporating reading into your daily life, or you’re just intimidated by huge books, serial reader is a great tool to make reading more approachable. it works much like dracula daily in that it sends you one excerpt at a time (usually about 10-15 minutes of estimated reading time). awesome for commutes, lunch breaks, quick bedtime story, etc.

it’s very customizable. you can change fonts, themes, and you can even take notes and highlight. you can also sync with other reading apps like goodreads (no storygraph yet……. we can hope!). the base app is completely free, but there is a one-time optional upgrade fee of $2.99 USD if you want some extra features. this is all developed by one guy, so the money goes to supporting the creator - although i’m sure apple takes their cut 😑.

there are a ton of works to choose from, currently something like 800+.

you can now also add your own .epubs to break up your own books into daily serials! very cool, serial reader!

this was the best app i added last year so i just want to pass it on. happy reading! :)

[azuremist]

TME and TMA as intersexist terms: as written by an intersex transfem

I’ve had a few different people in my inbox asking me why I view these terms the way I do. In particular, why I claim it’s intersexist. So, I thought I’d lay out a few examples, so everyone can understand where I’m coming from.

Imagine an intersex woman. She was assigned female at birth by her doctors, and was able to go about her childhood as a woman with no inclination that anything was amiss. Sure, she didn’t experience certain parts of puberty, but puberty was different for everyone, right?

But, later in life, she learns she has Turner syndrome. This is an intersex condition where a woman has only one X chromosome, rather than the usual two.

Soon after she learns this, she finds that laws are being made to attempt to keep trans women out of women’s spaces (often specifically sports) which use chromosomes as a defining factor of womanhood.

Would this intersex person be considered “transmisogyny affected”? She has been raised as a cisgender woman with no problems regarding being ‘clocked’, but she is also a direct target of transmisogynistic laws. She lies in a gray area.

Now, let’s go to another intersex person. Imagine an intersex man with PAIS. AIS is an intersex condition where babies are born with testes and XY chromosomes, but their body is immune to or can’t respond to androgens (which includes testosterone). Intersex people with partial AIS (PAIS) often develop a vulva and clitoris during puberty.

This intersex person identifies as a man, and he was assigned male at birth. However, his body does not produce testosterone, and he went through a feminizing puberty. To the average eye, he appears to be a woman now because of this.

Would this intersex person be considered “transmisogyny affected?” He was assigned male at birth, and now appears to be a woman, much like many transfems. However, if many saw how he looks now, stating that he is a male, they would probably clock him as transmasc. He was raised as a boy until puberty, and then faced astrozcization from his peers when he began a puberty that feminized him. What he was facing was a form of intersexism where transmisogyny was playing a huge part. Does his childhood matter? Can one become TME over time, when they were TMA as a child? Again, he lies in a gray area, where the answer is not quite so simple.

What about the “opposite”, per se — an intersex woman who had a masculinizing puberty? She has aromatase deficiency, which means that many ‘male’ hormones (which would usually be converted to ‘female’ hormones) would remain unconverted. She identifies as a woman, and was identified as a female at birth and was raised, until puberty, as a female. But now, she would be clocked as a trans woman upon looking at her. What does that make her? Is it different from the previous example? How and why? This intersex person also lies in a gray area. How she should be described with these terms is not clear.

And keep in mind, these are all relatively simple examples. All of the examples I listed self-identify as cisgender. But there are intersex people who are trans in any direction you can imagine.

If that last example identified as a trans woman, because she is now clocked as one, would you be able to say she’s wrong for that? What about if she identified as transmasculine, because of her experience with puberty? What if she’s multigender, bigender or genderfluid, and says she’s both transmasc and transfem because of her complicated experiences? Would that make her a TMA transmasculine person? But I thought that transmascs were all TME? That’s how it’s so often framed, anyway.

The reason why these questions are so difficult to answer is because these terms were not made with intersex people in mind. Very real intersex transfems were pushed to the wayside in favor of centering the perisex view of transgenderism. Intersex people are nothing but an inconvenient little afterthought, annoying perisex people with their demand for “inclusion” and “consideration”. (As per usual.)

You cannot simply make a new gender binary and say, “No, really, this time everyone fits into these two categories! Forcing people to confine themselves to these two rigid labels which are shown as opposites, and as never interacting, will definitely include everyone this time!!” No matter what the contents of the new binary is, it’s not going to work, because sex and gender alike are too complicated for that. There will always be people in the gray area.

This isn’t even getting into the fact that these terms, for all intents and purposes, seem to have been popularized by and associated with the Baeddelism movement around 2017, which was essentially “Radical Feminism 2: We’re Trans Women, So It’s Fine!” This movement is known for chronic villainization of trans men and non-binary people who aren’t transfem. (They act like this with cis people too, but noticeably less so than they do with non-transfem trans people. How curious.) Think along the lines of how regular radfems treat all men (and who they deem to be men) as inherently morally disgusting scum who deserve to be attacked.

Methinks that maybe these terms aren’t the neutral, fact-based descriptors of oppression that many people nowadays tout them to be, considering that.

So, yeah. “Transmisogyny exempt” and “transmisogyny affected” as terms: not even once. Listen to intersex people, stop trying to make sex and gender into binaries, and for the love of God, stop drinking the queer seperationist koolaid!

[sonarsunbeam]

fandomification and shipping is fucking up how some of yall consume media and i mean it

[stormsthatrage]

It bugs me that so many people's default example of published fanfic is 50 Shades of Grey.

What about West Side Story, a famous modern AU of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

What about Dante's Inferno, a self-insert RPF if I've ever seen one?

What about Wicked, a pre-canon AU of The Wizard of Oz?

Hell, what about Percy Jackson? There's definitely an argument to be made that that's a modern AU of various Greek myths.

Humans have been writing fanfic as long as they have been telling stories. In about the year 20 BC, our dear Roman poet Ovid wrote the Heroides, a series of aggrieved "letters" from the female characters of famous myths to their respective male heroes. Are you telling me that Ovid, writing a letter from the perspective of Queen Dido to Aeneas -- Aeneas, whose fantastical adventures were put into poem by Virgil -- wasn't writing an outsider-POV fic? A fic that is, in fact, translated in Latin classes world-wide today!

There is so much famous fanfic out there, but people tend to forget that it is fanfic once it becomes mainstream enough. And as a consequence of that, people who aren't into fandom don't see how beautiful fanfic is, and some members of fandom feel shame associated with writing and reading fic. But fanfic is beautiful, and it is something humans have always done, and it is nothing to be ashamed about.

So if you ever find yourself in a situation to give an example of published fic, think outside the box. Remember that published fanfics hide in plain sight; once they're famous enough, we no longer think of them as fanfic. And never forget that fanfic is a very, very old human tradition, and your ancestors who partook in it would not have wanted you to feel ashamed of it.

[bluegiragi]

slash n' clash.

full version on patreon

[murderballadeer]

the woke media won't tell you this but actually hanging out with your friends is fun and if you do it you will probably stop wanting to cry nonstop

[custompackagingboxes]

Soap Boxes

Soap Boxes are a dynamic and multidimensional part of the customer experience, much more than merely a way to safeguard the goods.

[lazylittledragon]

my absolute favourite genre of transphobic propaganda is when the caption is like “look at this poor, confused little girl who was forced to mutilate herself :(” and the picture is just the hottest man you’ve ever seen in your life with a full beard and a body that would make thor weak at the knees