reminder that Winnie the Pooh wore a crop top and ate his fave food and loved himself and u can too
His friends were a pig with anxiety, a donkey with chronic depression, a single mom kangaroo and her kid, a bossy obsessive control-freak rabbit, a tiger with ADHD, and a pompous but dyslexic owl, and he loves them and they love him.
if it interests you, Pooh (whose formal name is Edward Bear) made his first appearance in a poem written in 1924, before A.A. Milne wrote the books. It’s rather sweet – a bouncy little kid’s poem that touches on the importance of representation, societal expectations vs. self confidence, changing fashions (!) and using positive role models. It’s about a teddy bear who worries about whether his body shape is okay, until he meets a handsome king who is fat. The bear decides that he is happy with his body.
You can’t just offhandedly say that Pooh’s real name is Edward Bear
forbidden Pooh lore
Edward Bear is the bear’s formal name – Teddy Bear is his nickname, since Teddy can be short for Edward. Christopher Robin then gave him a second name. He is called Pooh after a swan*, Winnie after an actual historical bear, and “ther” to apparently make it masculine.
Introduction to Winnie-the-Pooh (1926):
If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I don’t know which), and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as we didn’t think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I will now explain the rest of it…
“Winnie” comes from the historical bear, above. She was an orphaned female bear from Canada who was brought to England by a Canadian soldier who arrived to fight in World War 1. He named her “Winnipeg” after his home province. Winnipeg moved to the London Zoo, where she was famous and beloved, and Christopher Robin admired her very much as a boy.
Then you put it together, in Chapter 1:
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn’t. Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh.
When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, ‘But I thought he was a boy?’
‘So did I,” said Christopher Robin.
‘Then you can’t call him Winnie?’
‘I don’t.’
‘But you said – ’
“He’s Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don’t you know what “ther” means?”
“Ah, yes, now I do,’ I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get.
don’t you know what “ther” means
and that is why Edward Bear is called Winnie-the-Pooh. And people just don’t question it. It’s just accepted.
* As explained in “When We Were Very Young” : “Christopher Robin, who feeds this swan in the mornings, has given him the name of ‘Pooh.’ This is a very fine name for a swan, because, if you call him and he doesn’t come (which is a thing swans are good at), then you can pretend that you were just saying ‘Pooh!’ to show him how little you wanted him.””
Also you could argue that anyone who wouldn’t work if they didn’t have to, is currently showing up to their job, solely because they have to, and doing the absolute minimum they can get away with. A basic income would be paying them to stay home and stop getting in their co-workers’ way.
From the people that use the term “SJW” un-ironically and actually think “SJWs” are real.
…..jesus
I’ve often thought that this is the reasoning process beind my father’s behaviour, though; he’s not a gamer and wouldn’t know what an NPC is but he behaves like he’s the only real person in the world. At best he acts like everyone else was sent to either help or hinder him – mum’s his servant, other people on the road when he’s driving / traffic signals are only there to inconvenience him, etc. He gets absolutely infuriated because fast food workers recently had a wage increase so whenever his order gets mixed up or service is less than immediate he’ll start yelling about how they can’t get it right at “$15 an hour.“
It’s this stunning mixture of a persecution complex, a huge ego and a complete lack of empathy (plus of course he’s a fucking moron). He’d fit right in with these assholes -_-
There’s also the xkcd cartoon in which we see a subway car full of individuals, each of whom is silently thinking: “Look at them…glassy-eyed zombies… I’m the only thinking human in a world of sheep!”
Today in “weird stuff I remembered while I was looking for something else”
Es ist ein Schnitter, heißt der Tod, hat G’walt vom großen Gott. Heut wetzt er das Messer, es geht schon viel besser, bald wird er drein schneiden, wir müssens nur leiden. Hüt dich, schöns Blümelein!
(That link goes to the University of Freiburg’s Historical-Critical Song Encyclopaedia, by the way (in German). I want to hug the colleagues who produced that encyclopaedia; it’s a treasure trove)
I think this also influenced Death’s song at the end of Der Kaiser Von Atlantis
“I’m laying there, scared enough, not wanting this done, telling her I didn’t want it done. All of a sudden I smell something burning. If I could’ve moved my legs I probably would’ve kicked her.”- Brenda Pelletier on being sterilized against her will
Brenda Pelletier checked in to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon five years ago to give birth to her baby girl. She left, with her tubes tied. The tubal ligation procedure happened, she says, after she was pressured into it by hospital staff, while she was in a vulnerable state.
And as a Métis woman, Brenda Pelletier’s experience appears not to be an isolated case.
At least three other aboriginal women have come forward to say that they too were pressured to be sterilized at the Saskatoon hospital in recent years.
Ok but this is true!!! I was 19 years old when i went into the hospital to give birth to my first child and while i was laying in bed reading and signing consent forms i came across one that woukd give them.permission to tie my tubes. The nurse kept telling me i didnt have to read them all that they were all about my stay in the hospital and intake forms and when i began to read that particular form the nurse came to me laughed nervously and said well we put that in there just in case you wanted to get your rubes tied. I then asked if they always gave them to woman giving birth she said no, the doctor had asked for thematic be put in there “just in case” I didnt want any future children. The nurse then went on to ask me about my future and if i was really sure i wanted to have more children or not. Until my mom came intimate room to check up on me and the nurse then took all the papers from me and left. For the rest of my delivery the nurses refused to give me medication for the pain or an epidural saying it was too early for that and it might stop my labour. I honestly think they withheld pain medication and the epidural to show me how hard child birth can be. Afterwards when they were releasing me the nurse asked me again if i was sure i didnt want to get ny tubes tied. Which i said no to. She then went on and explained thaf if i did i woukd just have to make an appointment with my doctor and i would be in and out in no time at all. That is my experience with the Canadian healthcare system and being a native woman. It is wrong that anyone would try and force something like that on a 19 year old. Please share. Let it be known what is happening to native woman. We have rights just like any other woman and shouldn’t be pushed into suxh decision at such a young age.
Hey white folks with uteruses who do not want or should not have kids,
you know how you’re outraged about how hard it is to get a Doctor to agree to sterilize you even to save your life?
Guess what else they do? Double your outrage.
This is so common there’s even a book just about Saskatchewan on the topic: An Act of Genocide, by Karen Stote. And this isn’t just a contemporary thing, Canada had a lengthy eugenics legal history, particularly in Western Canada, which targeted Indigenous people, Jews, Ukrainians, and developmentally disabled people. Learn more at http://eugenicsarchive.ca/ including how institutions of eugenic sterilization collaborated with Indian Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals, and how these institutions all sexually and emotionally and physically abused their patients as well as non-consentually sterilizing them.
Mooncustafer 