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Any recommendations of a brand that works? We're trying to rehome a mouse in our building. If you've had luck using any certain type of humane trap, I'd love to hear about it.
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I've been reading the WTM boards almost daily for 20 years!
Amira replied to Hannah's topic in The Chat Board
I found the boards in August of 2003 and have been here every day since then. -
Can we talk about "fundie baby voice" without getting political?
Amira replied to Eos's topic in The Chat Board
Prairiewindmomma’s experience doesn’t sound unusual to me. I often hear women thank men for the opportunity to speak (men will say this too, but by definition, women are never in a position to assign speakers in our main church service, so it comes across differently to me). Even though I always wear pants to church, the vast majority of women do not and I still get comments about my slacks. Women missionaries and wives of general church leaders are still not allowed to wear slacks to church. Women talk about their love for their husbands and children all the time. Many stories about women connect them to husbands and children. I just sat through a women’s meeting where love of husbands and children came up often. “Primary voice,” which is not about tone but rather style of presentation, is a real thing. The videos above show the difference. But it is also true that women are punished everywhere for using their natural voices. I don’t think that women should have to learn to speak in certain ways simply to get men to take them seriously. We should use our natural voices to speak and others should take us seriously, but we should also not adopt certain tones of voice in order to come across as subservient or sweet or nice. -
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I have a Bosch mixer that I use regularly for bread (I mix four loaves of 100% whole wheat bread at a time, so it's a lot of dough). In 11 years, I've had it move around one time. I wonder if there's something off kilter with yours? Because mine would be happy on a shelf (which I didn't even know existed before this thread).
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if you had to relo, your top 3 picks (and why)?
Amira replied to prairiewindmomma's topic in The Chat Board
If I could choose anywhere in the world, then Tashkent, Istanbul, and Jerusalem are my top three cities. If I had to limit my choices to the US, I might go with something near the coast in Maine or Oregon or Alaska. I'd live in lots of places for a year or two, like Asheville, NC, or Worcester, Massachusetts. -
Thank you for posting about this.
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We have two and dh and ds have been using them to commute to school and work for the last 18 months. We're definitely fans. I used ds's for about a month when his elbow was broken and liked it too, although I'm more of a walker. They mostly use bike trails, although ds has to bike along regular roads without a bike lane for a bit. They'll both be sad when we move and biking to work and school isn't an option anymore. I can't think of any tips beyond obvious things like get a really good bike lock and regular bike safety stuff.
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It's about slavery in that part of North Carolina in the 1800s.
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Have you seen the article about the pregnant stingray?
Amira replied to stephanier.1765's topic in The Chat Board
But there already is a sharkey sting ray! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhina_ancylostoma -
Yeah, that's how I'd really like to refer to them. Maybe I can find a map of the state that labels that area the Piedmont and find a different map that focuses on the Piedmont to show the specific counties and cities I'm talking about. Thank you!
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I'm working on a paper where I'm writing quite a bit about Rowan, Randolph, Cabarrus, Iredell, Davie, Davidson, Catawba, and Mecklenburg counties. Would you consider those counties (as a group) to be in central North Carolina? Western North Carolina? Something else? I'd like to refer to them accurately according to local usage.
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This one?
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State laws that affect transgender adults and how does this play out?
Amira replied to Ginevra's topic in The Chat Board
People are experiencing this differently depending on their environments. It is certainly not the case that kids everywhere are being told they’re trans if they don’t appear to be following gender stereotypes (edited to add that they're especially not being told they're trans as if being trans were a negative thing). Some kids in all different kinds of environments are trans, but most are not. I do not see the correlation you’re describing here because I think (a) is not an accurate representation of reality for many kids. On a separate note, I am very sorry your kids are dealing with people questioning their identity. That’s not okay. -
State laws that affect transgender adults and how does this play out?
Amira replied to Ginevra's topic in The Chat Board
I have seen dramatically different responses to clothing and hairstyles that are perceived to be non-gender-conforming in various places we have lived in the last 10 or so years (several different countries, a conservative US location, and a liberal US location). In my experience, the environments that are more open to people being trans are *much* less likely to enforce or encourage gender-conforming dress and hairstyles than environments that are leery of trans identity. I am so glad that we are in a more liberal environment now because my adult trans family member isn't harassed or misgendered and my cis teenager can wear whatever he wants to school and try out longer hairstyles if he wants to. I can wear pants in a traditional dresses-only-for-women space with far less comment here than in a more conservative area. There's always social pressure to conform, but for me, it feels very different depending on where we live. I've seen no evidence of an extensive trans movement that is trying to enforce gender stereotypes on anyone.