Notices by Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social), page 5

It's amazing what people assume you aren't just because they know one of your identities. Intersectional thinking can save lives kids

(saying this sitting next to my switch because it's about the top tier sibling gaslighting opportunity 🥰)

My bro: she started asking me about games and I suggested she get a Switch and she SCOFFED

Me: I mean some of us like graphics, you know, those of us who are ACTUAL gamers

My bro: is mom.......a........gamer........????

Me, knowing FULL well mom was repeating word for word something I said to her: I mean sounds like it

She's putting the controller on my hand every time it vibrates to show me it's doing it 😂 "what does it MEAN" the things you never realize you don't have a verbal answer for...I looked at her and was just like "emotion??"

She just asked me how much a PlayStation is 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 we're winning fam

One interaction is now named "The O" for the button you need to press to invoke it. "Was I supposed to use The O??"

Questioning my choice to make a highly exploratory artsy little game (Journey) my mom's first video game but I think it's right 🙈🙈

I made the mistake of telling her jumping is often a hard part for people "in video games" (every question is like "in video games are you supposed to...") and now she's like HERE'S A JUMP every time

I am getting a lot of why questions lmao 😩 doing my best here like "sometimes people enjoy playing in this kind of way..."

We've tackled why different consoles have their own controllers, "you're supposed to use your thumbs the whole time?", what completionism is

The huge gasp and SHOOT coming out of this woman's mouth every time she tries to jump and turn at the same time are killing me 😂 same tho Mom

We've graduated from "where do I go" to "oh I'm going to follow these" 🥳🥳

So fun to listen to developing game literacy in real time. "Hm it's making sure I saw the light"

"I'm riding it! I'm riding it! Woo! Aaaah sand!!" May the people who made this game enjoy perfect cups of coffee, cool pillows, and ideal weather for their preferences for the rest of their lives

Omg she made a jump from a far platform that I did not think was the right one and it was the solution, the smugness in this house right now

I have the best update after teaching my mom to play her first video game a month ago 😂

My little brother and I were catching up and he said "Can you please explain to me why I called our mother and she started talking about "superior graphics" in the choice between gaming consoles?!"

Someone gently responded like, "aren't the psychologists working on this" and I was like 😭😭😭😭 BUT DOCTOR I AM PAGLIACCI

Wow, I messed up by missing a routine form in a journal submission because it was unclear if it applied to my situation, but they sent a super kind chill note inviting me to resubmit it instead of having a reviewer say my entire piece was garbage and should be thrown out because I missed a small piece of bureaucracy that had nothing to do with content: the difference between psych and software journals right there.

A really "oof" part of this discussion is how female faculty are essentially only evaluated relatively equivalently to male faculty when they give unusually high grades. You can in a certain sense think about this like being held hostage to being unreasonably lenient is the only way to have your other teaching characteristics/effort/achievement accurately perceived at all

Of course every woman I know teaching in STEM already knows this