“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again. Do we need to keep repeating the same mistakes forever?”
Listen, you should never film strangers in public without their consent, but I swear there need to be fines or something for people who do that shit in some spaces. For example: I had to go to the ER last night, and some jerk filmed a woman who just came in and was clearly having an asthma attack. She immediately got to go back, and he was unhappy about that. Believe me, I get that it sucks having to wait when you’re in pain, but you don’t get to pick who deserves care when. The medical system in the US is a nightmare, and the ER could be the worst moment of someone’s life. No one deserves to be recorded because some jack ass believes someone doesn’t look like they need care.
This is fine to reblog. People who film strangers should be shamed if nothing else.
I know a lot of EFR instructors (Emergency first response, the people who teach CPR classes) who used to be ambivalent about this and now are firmly in the “fuck you fuck your phone category.
Maybe its demographics, EFR instructors do tend to be older and less online, but there’s been a shift from voyeur filming being seen as irritating and tasteless to actively harmful.
I met one lady who had an entire section of her lecture based on how to divide labor in emergency and one of those steps was crowd control. If you are taking charge of an emergency situation, you delegate tasks. Point at one person and tell them to call 911, Point at another person tell them to warn traffic, Point at another person tell them to get the first aid kit if you know where it is. You assign small tasks to individuals instead of asking a crowd that way the task actually happens, and you’re not sitting around 20 minutes later wondering why the ambulance is taking so long to show up and it turns out that everyone assumed someone else called.
Now there is another step. Pick a big dude and tell him to stop people from filming. Which is actually the tamest version of what she said, because this lady went on and on about how phones are fragile, light, small, pieces of computer equipment that can be easily punted into oblivion.
And yeah, she’s probably the most vocal proponent of property destruction in the face of voyeur filming I’ve heard lately but she’s far from the only person in emergency services who’s frustrated with the eternal quest for viral videos of strangers pain.
And to be clear there is a huge difference between the paramedic who doesn’t want you filming and the cop who doesn’t want you filming.
I was gunna put this in the tags but it’s a lot. When i first started going through the process of getting a diagnosis, i was labelled with ODD. I immediately took issue with this, it seemed like an unfair diagnosis based entirely on the session the psychiatrist had with my parents (which mostly consisted of “my child is being really difficult on purpose”), and Hoo Boy when i tell you ODD immediately strips you of your ability to call out anyone on anything, that would be an understatement. I couldn’t even disagree or bring up my concerns about the validity of MY OWN DIAGNOSIS without it being labelled as oppositional defiance. Whenever i displayed any negative emotion the “treatments” did so much more harm than good. When you label someone as ‘defiant’ (ugh), when that word is put on their medical record, that person is never allowed to complain about anything again. Knowing that POC are disproportionately affected with this diagnosis makes me feel sick, i can only imagine what’s being swept under the rug as someone just being “defiant to authority”, not even just in the medical field but as justification for police brutality and mass incarceration. When i say medical racism kills people, this is what i mean.
this is so fucking important. reblog.
Happy Disability Pride Month
I have said it before and I will shout it from the mountaintops — ODD is a bullshit diagnosis.
I am a therapist who works with kids/teens and I have seen some genuinely really annoying and even dangerously oppositional kids in my time. The correct diagnosis in these cases is almost always;
(1) trauma (either untreated recent trauma or complex developmental trauma);
2) unaddressed or under-addressed ADHD and/or autism spectrum disorder;
(3) por que no los dos? Trauma and developmental disorders are often friends;
4) parents who are themselves so poorly dysregulated, or so anxiously controlling, that after 10 minutes or so I’m also feeling pretty damned oppositional.
Either the kid doesn’t trust authority for very good reasons, or they require such a high level of emotional arousal (due to developmental trauma or ADHD) that they feel called upon to start poking things and testing boundaries. And it’s a cinch they aren’t getting positive reinforcement when they DO do well.
Horribly, the original tweet and post above are far too correct: ODD is vastly overdiagnosed among poor/under-resourced children, and especially children of color. Like, the numbers are ludicrous. It is a very crucial tool of the school-to-prison pipeline.
If you are a practitioner and are ever tempted to diagnose ODD, FIRST look at the family system. Look at attachment wounds, look at familial boundaries, look at systemic and academic supports… You might want to take the kid outside to run around in green space and look at some ducks or weird bugs, because I suspect there is not enough enrichment in their enclosure. And it is a easy bet that they are almost certainly not getting enough movement to regulate themselves organically.
i am so tired of this. we are so tired of this. between Bob Iger’s garbage comments,that one executive straight out sayin they’ll wait out the strikes till people start losin their homes an now this. how long do they think they can keep treating the creatives they get rich off while doin nothin themselves like this? till when will they do an say whatever they want an keep gettin away with it? not long now.. not long. not anymore.
my mom is 61 and her bf is a huge nerd and he’s teaching her to play magic the gathering and he had her watch avatar the last airbender with him and his ringtone is terra’s theme from final fantasy 6 and he paints pictures of sephiroth. my mom’s bf is nerdier than i’ll ever be.
and she does all these pinterest crafts and now she makes little bejeweled vials of healing potions for him and his buddies. my little geek heart can’t handle all this.
edit: just picture a 60-something woman with a VERY thick minnesotan accent saying “mike is having me watch the naruto”
just fyi my mom is now 62 and they finished watching “the naruto”
if i had told my 13-year-old self that this is what my mom’s hallway would look like when i was 30 i wouldn’t have believed me
Actually I’m going to expand on the steps of the pipeline.
It starts with:
“I want to do something to better the environment”. A noble pursuit.
Then, “Large scale animal agriculture is bad for the environment”. Accurate statement.
Then, “Therefore, I am going to stop consuming all animal products and biproducts.” A lofty goal, but still reasonable. It’s not something that’s for everyone, but if that’s what you want to do to do your part, more power to you.
Then, “If I can do it, so can you.” Inaccurate. The human body is suited ideally for an omnivorous lifestyle. While the human body is very adaptable, its adaptability varies from person to person, and not everyone is able to subsist off of a vegan lifestyle.
Then, “People who don’t follow my lifestyle are maliciously contributing to climate change.” We’re going into dangerous ‘us vs. them’ territory now. Now everyone who consumes animal products and biproducts even utilyzes large-scale animal agriculture, and there are myriad of reasons for someone to not be vegan. Personal lifestyle choices are also a distraction from the larger issue at hand, which is that corporations contribute the most to climate change, and blaming yourself and other individuals is a distraction.
Then, “Human beings are responsible for climate change. Humans are inherently destructive.” False. Corporations and industrialization is responsible for climate change. Humans are inherently neutral, and for the most part are actually good.
Then, “If there were less people on this Earth, we would have less climate change and pollution.” And there we are. At the ecofascism finish line.
Not every vegan ends up at the ecofascist finish line. Many vegans stay comfortably on the third rung of the ladder, focusing on their own personal boundaries and lifestyle choices. However, as soon as you dip your toes into the “if I can do it, so can you” mentality, that’s when the ball begins rolling down the slippery slope of ecofascism.
As soon as you begin forcing your lifestyle onto other people, that’s when it becomes dangerous.
I need a definition of 'forcing your lifestyle’. Am I allowed to exist in public spaces as a vegan as long as I’m apologetic about it? Can I go to the grocery store and gag at the dead animals section or is that forcing someone somewhere somehow to do something?
No, you can’t go to the grocery store and gag at the meat section. That’s incredibly rude.
I’m Jewish. I’m also vegetarian. I personally think shellfish and crustaceans are gross. I’m not going to go to the grocery store just to make a display of being grossed out about it.
It’s also interesting that you would gag at dead animals. If you truly cared about animals, you would respect their bodies and not make a show of being disgusted at their corpses. If you view all meat as corpses, then treat them with the respect you would give a corpse. If you think animal slaughter is equivalent to the murder of a human, then why don’t you treat dead animals with the same respect you would show a human corpse? Would you walk into a mortuary and make a scene of being disgusted at the sight of the corpses? I would hope the answer is no.
In Judaism, for example, it is required to bury the blood of a slaughtered animal, to respect the animal even if it is going to be used in death. Many other cultures have similar values.
You don’t actually care about animals, because you treat their deaths as a spectacle. And I say this as a vegetarian, but I’ve seen far more meat eaters actually respect the animal they consume than I’ve seen “animal rights activists” actually respect and value animals.
I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that’s true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn’t happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.
J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He’s also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that’s better than presents you open–failing to see that there’s a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.
You’ve got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with “trilogies” that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.
You’ve got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.
On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.
Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they’re unwilling to form their own expectations of what’s coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what’s in front of them! The media they’ve been consuming has trained them well.
