Notices by Kōtare (jdmcg@mastodon.nz)

@lightweight oh yes. Have been through this. The staff looked at me like I'd crawled from the bottom of the sea.

@ptoothfish that's the problem with today's generation. In my day we were servile, dammit.

@jeffowski I spend about a day per week on average volunteering for a charity and it makes me feel greatly superior.

Seriously, though, my approach is to influence systemic factors enough, through collective action, that there is no longer any need for us to exist. I suspect we'll be in business longer than my own lifetime, but you gotta have goals.

My 12 year old who loves sport wrote a school speech that was a fiery repudiation of the misogyny of the sporty boys in her class, inspired by the fact they wouldn't pass to her in a soccer game. She addresses them directly in the speech to say that their behaviour is unacceptable and out of touch. It is amazing.

Her teacher, however, suggested she tone it down as it wasn't "all the boys" and also they might respond better if she made them like her.

Dear readers, she did not tone it down.