For me, being agender is about embracing my own sense of self, free from the limitations and assumptions that come with binary gender norms.
Read my Interview (in German) in the freshly available book 'Agender/Genderless Interviews' published by Amalia Zeichnerin
Lots of #foodforthought about #socialnorms & #social relations.
In #Japan, ‘friendship marriages’ provide #partnership outside societal #norms
" #friendshipmarriages r a "desperate measure" w added practical rewards of #socialsecurity benefits.. 2024 survey of married #couples by Japan #FamilyPlanning Association revealed tt more than 60% of respondents were in #sexless #marriages, defined as having #sex less than once a month, a #trend tt has been steadily increasing"
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/in-japan-friendship-marriages-provide-partnership-outside-societal-norms/ar-AA1DczQX
#Sunday #ontology #norms #normative #lunatics #asylum When they have taken over it strikes me that the above n & n aren't really applicable. A tad #dystopian but you know me by know, lah! 
Whether or not the mass #tariff program is an entirely idiotic economic substitute-for-policy shouldn't be an issue and not just because it's settled/obviously so. It is a *deliberate* tactic, not a mistake, in furtherance of the Giant #Plunder and #Disruption, to collapse The #Public #society, systems, #norms, institutions, and of course, #democracy. Economists and pundits must categorically weigh in with clear messaging to that effect, in the crucial spirit of #counterdisruption, #publicOversight, sensible #regulation, #humanSecurity, #antiTrust, #teslaTakedown, #disloyaltyToFelons, and #peopleFirst policy. Without this focused view we're doomed, is the issue.
And yes, the #Trump #Regime is dellusional thinking the #USA is irreplaceable when in fact it most certainly is!
#Manufacturers like "P.R." #China, #Vietnam, #Japan, #India et. al. are quick to #pivot to other #markets like the #EU and the #GlobalSouth.
The matter of the fact is that this ain't 1945: the #US needs the #world more than vice-versa, espechally since the world moves on and both #EU and #NATO will continue to exist, thrive and expand even without the USA!
um .. thisa post below 
gotta me thinkin' y'all [ ] as itsa better to be a "shit-for-brains" ignorant f..ker in the UK than be knowledgeable & sorta see the .. ya know .. "writing on the wall" and .. um .. get fings in focus. Itza "capital offence" almost .. ain't it .. if ya that type of "shithead" 
Itza an ironic but important distinction 
![Get ya chat bot to read it ... itza bit of text mostly ... with a snap of Sir Kier Starmer .. ya know .. the UK PM [to use ye olde acronyms 'n' such] ...](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/178/079/094/755/702/original/afc57aed40d05871.jpg)
Every decent American agrees wholeheartedly.
This is awkward.
We can't really apologize for the idiocy any more than one can apologize for an alcoholic uncle. 
But we can say: we value you and we value your autonomy -- and good folks are working to remove those bad folks from decent society.
All of us deserve better than this nonsense.
And this is more important in today's political climate, where we see an attack on social and cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion norms and values.
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There is a reason that, rather than letting legal codes alone protect expression, liberal societies rely on a robust norm of free speech. The basic processes of democracy require that we all feel free to disagree with one another in the public sphere; without such a norm, it's impossible to deliberate as democracy requires. To abandon that norm is to give up the means by which people in democracies make decisions....Yet thinkers on the left and the right have failed, in many cases, to grapple with this.
-- Fredrik deBoer (Wash Post August 11, 2017)
#Wisdom #Quotes #FredrikdeBoer #Democracy #FreeSpeech #Norms
@thedailyshow.com called out @maddow.msnbc.com among others for overusing #authoritarian and #fascist when so far all #DumbassJTrump has done is work the system we gave him.
Could #TRMS give us an outline for #Project2029 when #Democrats strike back to put pre-2017 #norms into law, please?
Jon Stewart On Whether Dems' "...
Test Your Intuition (57): Are All Norms Nice?
PsyArXiv Preprints | Inside the Funhouse Mirror Factory: How #SocialMedia Distorts #Perceptions of #Norms
#perception #viral
A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:
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After a survey of all our civil wars, with a wealth of detail you urged the Senate, while they feared the warnings of the civil wars within their memory, to draw the inference that, as the earlier combatants had shown a ruthlessness hitherto quite unprecedented in the Republic, so whosoever should subseque…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/35365/
More and more institutionalists are (hopefully) coming to terms with the notion that #norms are not impediments to fascism...in fact, many of them *became* norms for that specific reason.
#supremeCourt #alito https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/supreme-court-analysis-sam-alito-cringe.html
Rep. Quigley:
I think you've seen the fighting Spirit...I, I think you'll see more of it. I'd like to think there's some #norms that we want to continue that are important, but you don't want to be become as bad...you know, to become the devil to defeat the devil. So I do think there's some limits to how far we will go just to win, uh, a particular battle. And I'd like to think the American people recognize that...
Required watching for Congress' Dems (@12 min mark)
https://youtu.be/HNcmo-K5Xsg?si=DX0FgIgul5ub_2oS
(2/2) Social #norms are powerful. The shift how people think about #sugar drinks shows we could also imagine a healthier #foodsystem. Now people think: Why drink so much #soda? But what if we ask: Why doesn’t the food in our #grocery stores keep us healthy? https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/10/bay-area-soda-taxes-dont-just-affect-sales-they-help-change-peoples-minds/ #meattax
#Soda taxes don’t just affect #sales, they help change people’s minds. #Taxes on sugary #beverages, coupled with #media attention, coincided with real changes in social #norms & attitudes about the healthfulness of such drinks... (1/2) https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/10/bay-area-soda-taxes-dont-just-affect-sales-they-help-change-peoples-minds/ #sugartax #sugar #nutrition
"Male street harassers seem to view and treat women as though we are public spectacles."
@juliaserano wrote: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/street-harassment-women-public via @Akki
Good day #mastodonians. Please follow the majority and only comment when you find something that is negative in other people's toots. If a toot is good it is not worth your energy to write a compliment. Thank you for not deviating into positivity.
