At this point, I’m basically a dozen anxious hummingbirds in a trench coat begging people to care about art, the planet and themselves.
The world is so bafflingly apathetic about everything these days. Care about yourself! Care about the planet! Care about each other! Good lord.
@hell_line0 You realize there are bots online fueling sexism. We have to talk to each other with some understanding that they have been hurt. No one is innocent except the children. let's change things for a future where we want to give birth and not favor abortion.
I’m a scientist.
Every time I hit “post,” I hesitate.
Not because I doubt the science.
But because I know what’s coming.
I know someone will call me a shill.
Someone will tell me I’ve been bought by industry.
Someone will explain my own field to me after watching a 90-second video.
Someone will demand a source, then reject the source because they don’t like who funded it.
And someone will confidently tell thousands of people that I’m lying.
That is the strange reality of communicating science online.
You spend years learning how uncertain science can be.
Then you enter a world where the most confident person in the comments often knows the least.
But I keep hitting “post.”
Because if scientists decide that communicating science isn’t worth the abuse, the people with the least hesitation get to explain science instead.
And that seems far more dangerous.
Maturing is realizing they never burned witches. They burned midwives, healers, herbalists, and knowledgeable women.
Women who understood medicine, nature, and their own autonomy. Women whose knowledge threatened patriarchal control. The "witch hunts" were never about magic, they were about silencing women who couldn't be controlled.
@MibshaD I've worked as a home care aide before. It's a nightmare these elderly people go through. We'll all die miserably if we don't fix the Healthcare in this country.