#online class problem

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

Can you explain more what you mean when you say “an identity based framework is inconsistent with material analysis”?

I'm incredibly critical of the idea that simply having a particular social identity renders one 'oppressed' or 'oppressed enough' to speak on particular issues; if your biggest grievance is how people speak to/about you and not your material reality, then you're doing comparatively well.

For context, I think there are four main forms of structural disadvantage that we should structure our discourse around:

being institutionalised on the basis of one's group, e.g. imprisonment, confinement in certain places like residential schools, confinement in mental health facilities;

being subject to violence on the basis of one's group, e.g. domestic violence, conversion therapy, forceful removal from family/culture;

being impoverished on the basis of one's group, e.g. living in poverty (not just being poor), being prevented from earning or owning money; and

lacking institutional representation, e.g. in politics, in administrative decision-making, in planning decisions.

I find that a lot of online 'activists' can't actually describe what they believe without relying on an identity framework; they'll say that [x] is oppressed, but they won't be able to explain how [x] fits into any of those categories (or whether there should be a fifth category) - they'll just assume that material consequence follows group identification.

#i think the problem is that the vast majority of online activists are middle-class and haven't experienced structural disadvantage #like i don't consider being called a slur a form of systemic discrimination (like being impoverished); i think it's just hurtful #you're going to have to dm me if you want more detail and some examples; my opinions are Unpopular #anon #identity politics #radblr #(i'm happy to hear whether others would add any other categories!) #sorry for the word rant hope it makes sense i wrote it late last night

[traitorsinsalem]

i sound like the youngest boomer on earth whenever i say this but it really was a mistake for baby gays to learn about the term fruit. idk what it is about the internet that makes kids see a derogatory term for a marginalized group they’re part of, or even just adjacent to, which they’ve never been targeted with and decide it’s just their new Special Inside Joke Swear Word. some 16 y/o online calling a picture of a celebrity wearing a gaudy sweater fruity or faggy isn’t “reclamation” it’s just parroting homophobia and not funny in the slightest.

speaking among onesself or close friends is one thing but when it gets to the point (and it has) where people are calling real life people they barely (or don’t) know homophobic terms, it doesn’t matter if the person saying it is gay or not.

#succ speaks #also i thought people were only like this online but being at a lac. people really just do this to people they know irl. #like they actually just say things. having to listen to a girl call ross gay 'fruity' in a poetry class and then like a week later... #...a guy who i was kinda friends with but also hung out with a total of like 5 times decided yeah sure i can call the group chat faggots #just......wow. people really live like this. and not even 8th grade gsa attendees who are still learning. young adults in the workforce. #i also think this sort of faux solidarity is why this same demographic desperately tries to express personal parallels to experiences... #...they have never gone through and/or cannot possibly go through. something about slowly losing the ability to listen and needing to talk. #<- also sorry to sound like a psych major but egocentric approaches to social media has done irreversible damage to so many young ppl... #...but at the same time we (young ppl on social media) are to blame because social media platforms are egocentric by design. #being invested in onesself isn't a cause of shitheadedry but a lot of people have really just gotten so dismissive of others it's insane. #also idk pretend i made a solid link between this and The Lost Art Of The Sincere Apology And Taking Accountability #this is just me parroting a convo i had w some friends at lunch 2day btw. posting it online bc someone probably needs to see this. #<- AS IN. ppl have definitely thought the same thing and need to see it articulated not that someone needs to feel called out by it #feeling called out by this would be like. a personal problem to sort out

[adventures-in-ibs]

Ayo

IBS in college that is made worse by stress so going to class is a constant struggle but like, you really want to graduate cheeeck

🙋‍♀️

#ibs #invisible disability #chronic illness life #chronic illness #chronic pain #no cure #college #college problems #college classes #irritable bowel syndrome #spoonie #online school #relatable #annoying

[showrunnerihardlyknowher]

As the first math anon (the one with the failed exam), I really do appreciate you writing out a response for me. I will sincerely take your advice and tips to heart.

I hope it helps, anon!! If there's any specific parts giving you trouble (except geometry bestie sorry) I'm happy to try and help break it down!

#ask #anon #i will never forget being in middle school while my dad went back to college for some certificate thingy #and by chance we happened to be at the same level algebra for our math class #and on the same lesson #so i asked him for help with my homework one night and he was like 'yeah i got you we just learned that watch THIS' and showed me how #next day i got it back and i was like **so that was fucking wrong** #my dad says that was the day he knew he'd never be able to help me with my current schoolwork again it was too above his paygrade #did we all have that childhood experience of our dads angrily yelling/repeating a math question at us because we didn't know the answer #but also like 2 years ago my nephew asked me for help with his online math class and ofc it was geometry #i spent like 30 min working out one problem and i was like 'okay i am confident THIS is the answer (:' #and my answer wasn't even one of the 4 multiple choices lmao #listen boy you live in the golden age of the internet where you can just google the solution okay i had WORK for it at your age so #stop asking me about the angle of a cylinder or whatever

[hella1975]

hella idk what to send to you for aftg im either bored or annoyed and I don't wanna just say bad things about it 😭 like that's just rude and yall obviously like it I DONT WANNA BE SOME DEBBY DOWNER MDMWKEM

I looked at the anti aftg tag too to see if I could intermingle there and last I checked it was a mix of fans obsessed with the series and haters being just a tad harsh imo, so i couldn't even do that RIP. I'm so lonesome in what is maybe a whole group of people gaslighting me 😔👊

honestly ive said this before and i always have to tread a very fine line with it because this isn't me saying it's OKAY or like. promotable. but i do think to an extent that aftg's problematicness is actually an aspect of what draws people in a lot. like the characters and their reactions to things feel real for who they are, what they've been through and the environments they were raised in if that makes sense? and then you go in the anti-aftg tag and it's just again and again 'they said THIS thing and acted THIS way in response to THIS scenario and it was PROBLEMATIC' and like. yeah. outside of the internet bubble you're in people do actually do that. like that behaviour exists. it IS problematic, well done. you pointed at a wall and called it a wall. but like? in real life people - PARTICULARLY deprived, traumatised people that typically don't ever get therapy or community or someone telling them why something is bad - DO act this way. ive said half of my love for andrew is literally just because he took an awful backstory and let it make him a complete cunt and ive NEVER seen a character do it as shamelessly as him before. and yeah there's the argument for how it's never resolved in the book where nora ties it with a bow and points at the bad behaviour so the readers can go 'see, this is wrong' and we all clap, but idk it just for me feels that when people point at the aftg characters and go problematic! problematic! problematic! it's like they're missing the point a bit.

the point being? that we need to be putting WAY more heat on the author. i really dislike her and a lot of her writing choices and her insistance of using slurs that aren't hers to reclaim and just because it happened to make the characters feel just that bit more authentic i can still acknowledge that she CLEARLY wrote it without characterisation in mind and just added all that problematic shit anyway. like i never get why there's so little focus on nora's writing decisions and thousands of posts just fucking CRUCIFYING the characters themselves and 'let's explain in detail why this behaviour is Morally Reprehensible and they should be Locked Up Forever'. like if u want to focus on the characters so bad and pretend they're the sole reason why aftg is Problematic and Bad then why is it so hard to acknowledge that someone raised the way they were might have some misinformed, ignorant beliefs. idk lol

#but i do also think im prone to viewing these characters as TOO real and i understand there's a line to be drawn between media and reality #like at what point does 'life imitates art' become just a genuinely shit piece of media #and at the end of the day im fully aware which end of the spectrum aftg is on LMAO but this is my 2 cents #like ive met so many people that have said absolutely heinous things that the internet would eat them alive for #like homophobic sexist shit you name it they've said it and it IS problematic and uncomfortable to listen to #but i also know that while teenagers online that would call them problematic were busy claiming some new fucking buzz word to throw around #those people were actively just fucking trying to survive. like they weren't learning about why misogyny is bad #because they were fucking addicted to drugs or living through poverty or some shit like they had BIGGER PROBLEMS #like not everyone got the education or life experiences you got and while it's valid to assume someone saying horrible things #is horrible themselves there's also the times it's just genuinely a misinformed ignorant person #like they'll say 'problematic' things and i'll point out why it's bad and they'll literally go 'oh i never thought of that.' that's it!!! #like i have this childhood friend whose life has been an absolute circus start to finish like COMPLETE instability i wont even get into it #low and behold she had NO ONE educating her about things and one time i had to explain to her why having abortion rights was important #bc she just out of nowhere said she was against abortions. and i initially was outraged and disappointed that this came from her #but i didn't patronise her or shout i just explained my angle on why i think they're good and she was on side immediately #cause she always had bigger problems than researching ethics and no one to guide her so she just absorbed the first opinion she came across #and in a small town from a working class family that opinion is typically not the nice woke answer the internet demands #and with aftg particularly andrew bc he's the one who gets a lot of slack for being violent and generally unreasonable #you have someone who has literally not had someone treat him kindly a single time in his life and each new person is a genuine safety threa #like the average person just does not have to deal with that! ofc they have more time to decide their political and moral compass! #and that's so relevant to real life! popularity for the monarchy is highest amongst the working class! the people voted for brexit! trump! #the lower classes and marginalised simply do not have the resources that higher classes do #and someone fighting for survival is not going to be reading twitter threads on cancel culture in their spare time #so many issues in the world can be eased so much quicker by kindness and patient non-patronising education #than just. pointing and calling 'problematic' at anything remotely uncomfortable #idk where this came from its 2am i should go to bed and instead im ranting not even about aftg anmore this is completely it's own thing now #i feel like i worded this badly too im gonna wake up to anons in the morning accusing me of like. condoning spiking #also gloomy i am SO sorry you are the true victim of this i went ENTIRELY off piste on this one please ignore this 😭 #ask

[bread-of-death]

Whelp. I just emailed the Dean.

#bread hates college now I guess #if you see this without seeing the post I made the other day #basically I was wrongly dropped from an online course #I don’t know if it’s a mistake or if the professor is just a dick #but I got dropped from the course and it’s a required credit for me #the main problem has to do with financial aid I was receiving #it only applied to this semester and we have been sternly informed that it will not carry over to the next semester #so if I have to take the class or an equivalent again #that could be a minor problem #I mean money isn’t an issue- but like- if I were someone else and it *was* #what the fuck then #are they just gonna say ‘tough luck’ like ??? c’mon dude #cuz I don’t want to take this course or this professor now- and I certainly won’t be doing it this semester #it was already a compressed course- 15 weeks down to 10 #and this is setting me back by at least one week- probably more like three #so I could very easily be failing with no chance of regaining footing if I get put back into the course #and that’s if I do amazing on all the work- which I realistically know I won’t and can’t #so I’m going to take a different course that satisfies the requirement next semester instead of this semester #but the problem there is that I’m almost certain that the financial aid won’t transfer #and that’s a huge pain in the ass and also entirely *wrong* #cuz like- what if I really did need that money? #and they dropped me from a course I need to graduate- without ever contacting me personally about dropping me from the course- after I had- #-already shown participation in said course #so like.. b r u h. #at the very least. they could’ve talked to me directly about what the issue was #cuz at this point I don’t even know what the problem is #anyways #I’m frustrated and tired

[saltypiss]

Just sayin, if teachers stopped taking the side of the aggressor, schools wouldn't be so hostile. If they stopped enabling aggressors, it wouldn't be so hostile, when kids aren't pushed up against a wall and ya'll didn't help push them further up, schools wouldn't be as aggressive.

It's real easy too, you see, when a kid says another kid is bullying them, you do something? Not put them in the same room to talk, like a fucking absolute baffoon, not tell the victim to get over it, not take the side of the aggressor.

Because that's when all options were exhausted. And you. You enabled this. When students do all they can with their limited resources and you throw them back to the sharks, they Will Defend Themselves while you aided in their assault.

Don't deny it gives you a boner to see kids suffer, I know how you enablers think. Why else take such a shit paying job if not to torture kids? Don't answer that, the alternative is far, far worse.

Schools should be held accountable for shit like this. Forced to make a paper trail, and when they punish the victim, the victim can go to court and show the receipts. No fucking reason to aid in assaulting bullied kids. Absolutely none.

Schools Need To Stop Enabling Violence.

That's all they do. That's how they're set up. That's their purpose. Until they fix themselves, schools are, literally, combat zones. And, literally, schools enabled it worse than any politician, loooong before any modern political discourse.

Better education, higher pay, and no lunch debt is one thing, but the enviroment of school is Active Combat. Teachers put kids up to assault and harrass other kids all the time out of seemingly boredom.

That is a decision they have made loooong before shootings were so frequent. Can't blame them for that, but you can blame them for the enviroment being so open and casual to such.

To ever make it a last resort, to ever Make It To A Last Resort.

Like instead of teaching kids empathy, being there for them in times of crisis, teachers really pushed kids to be even more aggressive. It's sickening we don't put any blame on all aggressors involved because of a fuckin' title. Blame teachers and school for being bully enablers.

Honestly, wouldn't surprise me if Kidz4Kash was still around to "collect troubled youth" the school system forced them into. Mine tried before the scandal was exposed. School is just not remotely safe. Hard to say School as a concept will ever work given the people that work it.

Seriously don't put your kids in public school. It was worth it for communication skills, but life long problems come either way, I'd rather a sheltered moron than a combative experienced child turned adult too soon, or dead, more than likely dead, probably suicide or shooting. Either way, schools enable it.

Just saying, school has more issues than money. It's the people. Blame Schools. If they wanted to be better, they'd have tried. If they wanted teacher pay better, they'd have tried, if they wanted school shootings to stop...

They'd be better people. Not working that job. Because no Chef works Mcdonalds, just teenagers and crackheads. Raising pay will help, but you Have To Fire the Aggressors for it to even matter. Otherwise you reward the systems in place that have caused such aggressions to rise.

Schools need to fix themselves, fire aggressors, stand up for victims, be held accountable when they actively choose to fail, and then, only then, raise pay.

As of now? Pffft. Ya'll fuckers putting kids in jail, therapy, or the grave. Only one of those is socially acceptable. Fuck off.

#schools #I remember the days when criticising schools and explaining that aggression was only going to rise with a system that enables it #oh those days were fantastic #having teachers online come and explain Exactly Why Shit Was Going To Get So Bad but being totally incapable of realizing their actions #will lead to modern problems #you learn alot from morons defending their pro-aggressor attitude #anyways #yeah please don't listen to teachers after whatever big event at a school #listen to the kids that aren't camera perfect for news stations #let them speak #they'll tell you about the time a kid was causing them problems for months and despite asking teachers to help was only punished for it #or how one teacher actively bullied them so much they started calling to be pulled out of their class everyday #or how one teacher honest to god put him and the bully in the same room to discuss feelings #at age 13 #and that doubled the problem #and when you went to them they just pushed you off and stopped seeing you as your guidance counsellor everyday #cool times #yeah no seriously though Schools are set up like shit and Pay is hardly the half of it #teachers are aggressors #they will set kids up to fight each other #they will defend their favorite #they will lie to get you in trouble #they will follow you from junior to high school #and you will be taken out for YOUR PROTECTION and put in online school #that #is #public school

[anik]

my problem is i can’t do work if i think it’s fucking stupid

#which so far hasn’t been a problem with school with the exception of #i’m being forced to take an ‘english for skilled professionals’ course online #which is basically How to write citations and emails The Class #and i cannot make myself do the fucking assignment to save my life

[theconstellationsinyourskin]

i was rude to a professor in an email today on purpose for the first time ever. are y'all proud of me

#personal post #its an online class and he commented '[my name] can you please e-mail me and let me know why you did not turn this in.' #on an assignment i did not turn in #the primary reason i did not turn it in is because he pushed up the due date like five days before and i did not see it. bastard #but also this class is solely for the purpose of filling out my credits for full-time status this semester so if i fail i do not care #so if he wants me to email him every time i dont turn something in we are going to have a Problem #i've been rude to my boss before but i generally give professors more benefit of the doubt even tho they do not deserve it lol

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Got to the 1-2 body discovery with a friend last night and felt surprisingly gutted. Even though I've seen it multiple times before. I just feel so sad about Chihiro and Mondo :(

#shut up me #danganronpa spoilers #And taka as well #that whole trio is heartbreaking #but it was like. a nice kinda sad #the kind that fiction makes you feel yknow #ive been really depressed all week for. reasons unknown. and my disinterest in dr stuff online was worrying me #because my hyperfixations tend to last a year or so and its been over a year now #but nope turns out I was just depressed #cause playing dr with a friend last night made me so happy #and i couldn't stop thinking about chihiro and mondo in class today #danganronpa fixes all your emotional problems u_u)b

[roseworth]

doing work for an online class and checking the syllabus to see whether or not the professor is a man before going on a tangent about how gender roles were created to oppress women

#the problem is that my other online class is a women's studies class so i can go on as many feminist rants as i want #but in this one. i cant #the question is 'how much have male/female dynamics changed since ancient greece' #its not my fault if the answer is that they havent

[frootaye]

ok another post b4 i leave... NOT FINISHED YET BUT thought itd be kinda silly kinda fun to draw bogart (my little mascot guy) as tf2 classes that Terrify Me heres sniper bog :) i feel like a newborn deer with the shakiest knees ever everytime i play him. forever cherishing that time i was such a slow and terrified sniper my own team spychecked me four times within 30 seconds <3

#these days im a LITTLE more competent w sniper he doesnt scare me as much. now spy is my main antagonist #and spy is actually the next class ill be drawing bogart as! everytime i try spy against bots im so slow and confused #i refuse to play spy in actual online im not confident enough yet </3 #engineer is a little intimidating but im just slow i know how he works #my own speed is my problem i take too long to push the buttons #tf2 #my stuff #art #good ol work in progress #might do a bogart engie doodle anyway itd be fun to replace the sunglasses with goggles

[kirexa]

There's a lot of things that if you guys knew you would probably yell at me abt

#not in a mental health related way just generally #i sat through one of my finals doing absolutely nothing the whole time because i had no idea what i was supposed to do and was too #embarrassed to ask.. i genuinely listened and really tried to figure out what i was supposed to to but the intructions just made no sense in #my mind. and everyone else just knew what we were supposed to do so i didnt ask and tried to figure it out but there was no online instructi #ons at all #......this was in the class i had a 0 in #i try i just dont understand anything and its rly upsetting #im so worried about how this will effect me in the future..... #im getting taken out of that class thank fuck but. i really am worried. #and to get taken out of that class one of my classes need to be moved and its the only class i share with any of my friends and i dont want #to have no friends in any of my classes #....the problem here probly lies in the fact that i only have 2 people i would really call friends in the same grade and not class structure #ive been trying to make friends since the start of school but im too scared to and everyone already seems to know someone else and i dont #know how to make more friends... #im not shy with absolute strangers rhat i have no intentions to interact with again so why am i so scared to make friends #sorry this got really venty #vent #kirexa vents

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#the problem with a mood profile that is mostly way down with peaks of way up is that when u return to a state of: the bullshit is easy. #i dont need to sleep. i could run around in circles. i could read a million papers. what kind of loser cant manage their life? #u r like: God fucking dammit i fucked up so much stuff. y tf didnt i do yhis at the time???? its so baffling like i went from fuck just let #me sleep forever to agitated and full of evil energy to like: ok im normal im gonna do the extraction ive been putting off for months #y couldnt i have been like this last week when i should have gathered a list of my failing students to the prof to make them withdrawal? #like y tf didnt i do that?????? i mean. its kind of a suspect way to run a class tbh bc u r artificially inflating ur score #but i could have saved like 6 ppl from an F. but i mean if u r struggling its sort of on u to reach out for help. #ugh. ive not been very good at my job this semester. but to b fair my brain has been trying very hard to kill me #genuinely i had to fill out a safety sheet in therapy and then go to a ta meeting where they were like: how r yall doing #? how do u feel abt the semester? and im just like aaaaaaaAAAaaaa 🙃 #next semester i think im TAing for an online course. and im hoping its not bc i was so terrible they had to distance me from students lol #i mean. thats probably just me being paranoid but idk well see monday when i ask when the prof wants to meet before next semester #ay. its been a rougher semester than id hoped. #unrelated

[digiahmer]

Top 10 Tips for Practicing Yoga While Pregnant

If you’re expecting a baby, you may be wondering how to incorporate yoga into your pregnancy. Practicing yoga during pregnancy has many benefits - it can help to reduce stress and boost energy levels, as well as improve strength and flexibility. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the top 10 tips for practicing yoga while pregnant, so you can make the most of your prenatal yoga practice.

1) Get the all-clear from your GP before you start

It's important to check with your GP or midwife before beginning any exercise routine while pregnant, especially when it comes to yoga. This is because the postures and breathing exercises that makeup yoga can have different effects depending on the individual. Having a medical professional's opinion will ensure you're engaging in safe, beneficial practices. Speak to your healthcare provider about any potential risks so you can make an informed decision about practicing yoga during pregnancy.

2) Join a class led by a qualified teacher

Attending a yoga class led by a qualified instructor is one of the best ways to practice yoga safely during pregnancy. A good instructor can show you how to modify poses and make sure that your practice is tailored to the changes happening in your body. An experienced yoga instructor will know what is safe and beneficial for pregnant women and can make adjustments to the class accordingly. Practicing with an experienced instructor will also help to keep you motivated, encouraged and supported throughout your pregnancy.

3) Listen to your body

Prenatal yoga classes are a great way to learn which poses are safe during pregnancy. While practicing yoga, be sure to pay attention to your body's cues. If a pose is causing discomfort or pain, stop immediately and adjust your position or switch to a different pose. When listening to your body, it's best to opt for gentler movements and take regular breaks. Avoid holding poses for too long, as this can increase your risk of injury. Finally, ensure that you get the all-clear from your doctor before starting any prenatal yoga classes.

4) Drink plenty of water

Staying hydrated is especially important when practicing yoga during pregnancy. Make sure to drink water before, during and after your practice to keep yourself hydrated. Avoid caffeinated drinks and sugary juices as they can contribute to dehydration. Keeping a bottle of water on hand and sipping throughout your practice can help ensure that you stay hydrated throughout your session.

5) Avoid hot yoga

When practicing yoga during pregnancy, it's important to avoid hot yoga or any class with high temperatures. Pregnant women are more sensitive to heat and can overheat quickly, which can cause problems for the baby. Instead, opt for classes in a well-ventilated space with a comfortable temperature that won't cause you to sweat too much. This will help keep you and your baby safe and comfortable while you practice.

6) Don't push yourself

If you're new to yoga, or pregnant, it's important to take things slowly and not push yourself too hard. Modify poses as necessary, and listen to your body

7) Modify poses as necessary

If a pose doesn't feel right, don't be afraid to modify it. Listen to your body and make whatever adjustments you need to in order to feel comfortable.

8) Use props

Props can be very helpful when practicing yoga during pregnancy. For example, using a yoga block can help you maintain proper alignment in certain poses.

9) Focus on your breath

Breathing is an important part of yoga, and it can be especially helpful during pregnancy. Taking deep, cleansing breaths can help you relax and focus.

10) Relax and enjoy!

Pregnancy is a time to relax and enjoy your body. Don't put too much pressure on yourself to do Advanced poses or to be perfect. Just focus on enjoying the experience and connecting with your baby.

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[infinity0nhigh]

watch my professor dock me a few points for using an academic journal with “findings” instead of “results” even though THEY’RE THE SAME FUCKING THING because she’s super technical about stuff and very particular (she asked for us to use a journal that has all 5 sections: Abstract, Introduction, Method(s), Results, Discussion & Conclusion)…… and lol I fear she might be petty and be like “I asked for results, not findings” IT’S THE SAME THING PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON ME… like her quizzes are 80% trick questions and she tries to make the class harder than it needs to be (no one would even take this class if it wasn’t required lmao)

those who have gone to college say this is super common and that pretty much all profs do this basically. Ok. 👍

#this is NOT going according to keikaku lads…..I was supposed to breeze past this shit no problem and it’s…very very humbling lmaooo #I already had to drop my college algebra course to retake it in-person come spring semester #which I’ll have to pay for OUT OF POCKET bc my grant only covered the class I dropped l o l #I should’ve known not to do math fully distanced online… #txt