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Last week I wrote about the “men would literally do ______ than go to therapy” meme, and why I hate it. Here’s an excerpt:
Which still undoes itself, as an idea: it is unfortunately, perhaps, not true that people who go to therapy enter half-baked and emerge a beautiful ready to eat cookie. People are more complicated than that. The projection many make of being able to track when someone has done good work on themselves because of therapy is simply that: projection.
Today I have tweets and articles I think you should see and share, and then also some important bird news, this time about roosters.
To read:
The Radical Case for the Traditional Haggadah by Emily Filler
Mariame Kaba, Abolitionist and Author, on We Do This Til We Free Us by Kandist Mallett
How Being Disabled in a Pandemic Forced Me to Sue Los Angeles County by Jackie Quinn
Amazon definitely has pee bottles (my title sorry) by Ken Klippenstein
Sorry, Anti-Zionism Still Doesn’t Equal Antisemitism by Sumaya Awad and Daphna Thier
Orgs to support + tweets (email me if you want me to boost something!)
An org that works with other orgs to make their presence, processes, and practices more accessible to the disabled community. 100% disabled staffed and lead. Always looking to help more orgs! LEARN MORE about Neighborhood Access here.
Never Ending Books Collective: Save and revitalize the Never Ending Books storefront — a sanctuary for New Haven’s artists, bookworms, and performers.
Also to read:
Roosters: nature’s good boys?
This week I really needed to know more about how eggs work, and found myself completely blown away by this description of roosters I found in the process. Roosters find and give treats to hens? They break up fights? They are BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC FARMYARD ICONS? THEY ARE GORGEOUS TO LOOK AT (IN MANY CASES)?
What is the point of them? Hens do not need them to lay eggs, but they do need them to fertilize them, if said eggs are going to hatch. They are very loud. They provide order, according to the rooster who wrote the google description. No shame, but roosters don’t have cocks. When they want to fertilize an egg? That’s vent to vent baby! A cloaca kiss.
It does not seem like a great situation. I’ll let you google more about that if you’re interested.
See also: How one rooster is splitting a French town with debate
And: Rooster kills police chief after raid on illegal cockfight
Reading about roosters…you do kind of root for them? But they also certainly seem like good boys: they are loud and annoying but still framed as underdogs, with much of the writing I found about roosters dripping with this woeful tone, this plead to please remember the rooster and his handsomeness, his utility.
I am just starting this rooster journey—have you got any facts for me? Sound off in the comments, thank you, can’t wait.
Here is my dog:
Sending love,
Shelby (and clem)
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I've been attacked by a rooster while ON A HORSE. That little fucker saw me on top of a giant horse and thought, "Yeah. I can take that." Its a shame my horse didn't manage to kick him. I carried a whip around after that.
The property was listed for sale soon after that, and I happened to be present during one viewing when some well off family was calmly strolling about, imagining a beautiful, serene life in the country.... when suddenly their small child comes screaming around the house, chased by the rooster at full speed. Thats life in the country for ya.
I have to add to the rooster discussion! I grew up on a farm (hydroponic lettuce now, but we had a small assortment of animals - 30 chickens, four goats, a goose- when I was young), and roosters are SO MEAN! You can't turn your back to them, they *will* attack you from behind. Hens are literally so nice and roosters honestly? bring down the vibe in the coop. Am I still scarred from being attacked by roosters as a child, occluding any objectivity? Possibly.