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[conuly]

Ikea is making furniture better for people with disabilities — with the help of 3-D printers

Baby T. Rex Was an Adorable Ball of Fluff

Identity, Community, and Defiance, All Woven Into a Blouse

Swapping homegrown food and cultivating a community at fresh produce markets

Ghana's 100 year-old imam who went to church

A sixth-grader was sick of coloring. So she skipped six grades to attend Cal State L.A.

In A Hot Labor Market, Some Employees Are 'Ghosting' Bad Bosses

The Peculiar Blindness of Experts (Excerpted from a book, and unlike most book excerpt articles this one has made me really want to get the book.)

Woodstock: Sex, Drugs, and Zoning

'We are fighting': Brazil's indigenous groups unite to protect their land

Activists give jailed moms a Mother’s Day gift: bail

'It's not their fault': German families plead for return of stranded ISIS children

Nearly half of Republicans say it bothers them to hear a foreign language in public (Never, ever, have I wanted to say "triggered snowflakes" so much. Or, indeed, at all. And yet here we are.)

Banning immigrants’ languages can backfire. Just ask Ohio and Indiana. (More generally, never forget that historically it took immigrants three generations to speak English in the home. The immigrants we get in the US today are doing it in two.)

Philip Morris suspends social media campaign after Reuters exposes young 'influencers'

Can Domestic Abusers Be Cured?

How people with mental illness become prisoners in Alabama

Who Killed Claudia Gomez?

Women are filing more harassment claims in the #MeToo era. They’re also facing more retaliation.

Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.

Texas boys ranch moves forward as more men discuss abuse

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[kengr]

Nearly half of Republicans say it bothers them to hear a foreign language in public (Never, ever, have I wanted to say "triggered snowflakes" so much. Or, indeed, at all. And yet here we are.)

I recall a post on NotAlwaysRight where someone complained about a couple of women speaking a "foreign language".

Only to have someone pointing out that they were speaking Welsh and that since this was Wales, *English* was the foreign language.

[conuly]

https://xkcd.com/84/

[kengr]

I also love the response of some folks in the Southwest when told to "go back where you came from".

"Our family's had this land since the 1600s. The US came to *us*."

Old Spanish land grants, don'tcha know.

[marahmarie]

Re: Can Domestic Abuse be Cured? Men Creating Peace got its start as ManAlive 30 years ago in CA. The article about the former points to gender hierarchy/patriarchy-based solutions as not being so effective, and says that there really is no effective known treatment, so certain areas of the country are branching out into sending abusers off for drug/addiction treatment, as well (or sometimes, it seems, instead of).

I've always thought that treating abusers holistically - looking at everything that might be wrong, from a history of being abused by/having bad or confrontational relationships with family to their use and abuse of gender roles to their drug and alcohol use to how they handle anger and stress to how many existing issues such as trauma, PTSD and so on they may have might be more helpful, but at that point we throw treatment more solidly into (sometimes very complex) mental health territory, which remains both chronically stigmatized and underfunded.