{"id":15634,"date":"2022-12-24T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=15634"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T16:15:24","slug":"stop-pretending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=15634","title":{"rendered":"Stop pretending"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Stupid Human tricks, December Edition<\/h3>\n<p>A recent headline in a newsletter I received.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Drag storytimes are &#8220;a simple, positive way to teach acceptance&#8221; yet hate groups are targeting them <em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/drag-queen-storytime-attacks-usa-canada-diversity-inclusion-hate-groups-gender-1.6685395\">CBC<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/booknetcanada.ca\/seasons-greetings-from-booknet-canada?e=6158ede830\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Booknet News<\/a>, Booknet Canada<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I get why it was phrased that way but I think it would be much more effective (and activating) to change &#8220;yet&#8221; to &#8220;so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drag storytimes are &#8220;a simple, positive way to teach acceptance&#8221; so hate groups are targeting them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can&#8217;t effect change until you recognize the resistance to change. FWIW, I think these kind of events are exactly what we as a society should be promoting. Hit &#8217;em where it scares them the most and we&#8217;ll all be amazed what we can slip in behind them.<\/p>\n<p>As always, just my 2 cents.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15635\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fay-and-fluffy-drag-queen-storytime.webp\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15635\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15635 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fay-and-fluffy-drag-queen-storytime-400x225.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fay-and-fluffy-drag-queen-storytime-400x225.webp 400w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fay-and-fluffy-drag-queen-storytime-150x84.webp 150w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fay-and-fluffy-drag-queen-storytime-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/fay-and-fluffy-drag-queen-storytime.webp 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Fay Slift and Fluffy Souffl\u00e9)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stupid Human tricks, December Edition A recent headline in a newsletter I received. Drag storytimes are &#8220;a simple, positive way to teach acceptance&#8221; yet hate groups are targeting them (CBC) \u2014 Booknet News, Booknet Canada I get why it was phrased that way but I think it would be much more effective (and activating) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15639,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634\/revisions\/15639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}