Activity from divabat

Comments like languagehat's come off to me as one part tone policing, one part #NotAllUSMefites. Also i really dislike and disagree with the defeatist "Americans gonna American" attitude. The comment about cultural chauvinism vs other… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Last month

Jesus. Getting other Mefites to shut up is as far away as you can get from what I'm trying to achieve with this. I don't want posts about non-US content to be comment black holes, I want people to engage with them! But I want people to… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Last month

And Reiniger drew from wayang kulit, or Javanese shadow puppetry. It would be pretty cool to see SU depicted wayang-kulit-style actually. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by caviar2d2
FanFare comment - Last month

Spy kids!
favorited 4 times, recently by Chalks-n-Locks
Ask MeFi post - Last month

oh god Spinel was TOO REAL I have been there toooooo many times and hell I'm probably in the middle of one of those RIGHT NOW [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

Mr Encyclopaedia: at least in the comics, if not the cartoon itself, Connie’s been partial to suits while Steven’s gone for dresses. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris
FanFare comment - 2 months ago

Sometimes it's not stardom that compels us to hip cities. Sometimes it's safety. [more]
favorited 57 times, recently by underthelilacs
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

"deal with it" is awfully flippant advice when "it" could very well be "emotional trauma that needs help from a therapist but one isn't necessarily immediately accessible because mental health systems suck". I've had to… [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by stillnocturnal
MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I really really want an "I'm Sorry Aunt Lydia" badge or t-shirt, esp with art of a Handmaid dropping the rock. [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by conkystconk
FanFare comment - 5 months ago

Journeyman's Feast for Everyone!
favorited 9 times, recently by hap_hazard
Ask MeFi post - 6 months ago

in service of ritual
favorited 13 times, recently by hap_hazard, unstrungharp
Ask MeFi post - 6 months ago

Tea Masochists Unite
favorited 4 times, recently by hap_hazard
Ask MeFi post - 6 months ago

What KathrynT and Etrigan said, pretty much. Brandon Blatcher: I really don't understand this idea of "well this is always going to happen, so just ignore it". Why bother pushing for change at all if all we had to go was… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - 6 months ago

Revisiting misogyny on Metafilter
favorited 38 times, recently by rosiroo, darchildre
MetaTalk post - 6 months ago

Don't lock your knees while standing, if you want to avoid feeling faint or unstable. One of my friends looked like he had a major epiphany when another friend taught him the trick of making a letter L on his left hand to work out left from right… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by eckeric
Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

in-con-venient
favorited 44 times, recently by virago
MeFi post - 8 months ago

the olfactory arts
favorited 32 times, recently by guessthis, helloimjennsco
MeFi post - 9 months ago

perfume dabblerey
favorited 35 times, recently by guessthis, helloimjennsco
Ask MeFi post - 9 months ago

craven_morhead: as many people have already said, if you want that discussion, do it elsewhere - not on a post primarily about trans women and trans girls driven to suicide because of parental oppression. [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by tigrrrlily
MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

Exponential Binary Clock Countdown
favorited 16 times, recently by Phssthpok
MeFi post - 10 months ago

Fizzled Out on Passion
favorited 36 times, recently by ClaireBear
Ask MeFi post - 11 months ago

holy shit I finally made Metafilter (I'm the "but to some activists" link at notyourexrotic) [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by JHarris
MeFi comment - 11 months ago

From Awful to Awesome
favorited 57 times, recently by nicolin
Ask MeFi post - 11 months ago

Even PoC Have Diet Restrictions
favorited 33 times, recently by stormyteal
Ask MeFi post - Last year

Mia Farrow being a vengeful ex and Dylan Farrow being a survivor of sexual assault do not need to be mutually exclusive. [more]
favorited 21 times, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Last year

on preview: taz, this kind of goes past your mission for this thread, but I could not let the "yay for the Daily Beast" article comments just stand on their own. Maybe it's demonstrative of how sexual assault is yet another topic that… [more]
favorited 42 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Last year

A Certain Kind of Beauty
favorited 25 times, recently by goodsearch
Ask MeFi post - Last year

I can't help but feel like we all worried so much about the threat of nuclear war yet here is an actual, reoccurring war machine at work with far less scrutiny. People take flights all the time - and now, if your flight goes intercontinental, you… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Recliner of Rage
MeFi comment - Last year

flipped out!
favorited 6 times, recently by Sky12
Ask MeFi post - Last year

Make my portfolio less overwhelming!
favorited 10 times, recently by argonauta
Ask MeFi post - Last year

Mum says: * Use garam masala - take cinnamon, cardamon, cloves, bay leaf, cumin seeds, nutmeg, and mace, dry-fry them, and then grind them together. * Marinate chicken in yoghurt (or powdered milk), salt, sugar, garam masala, and dry… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Short Attention Sp
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

The Malaysian version of this is why I left the country for good, why I avoid using my legal last name openly, and why - even with mixed feelings - I'm pursuing Australian citizenship once I become eligible next year. Potentially with a new legal… [more]
favorited 34 times, recently by fatehunter
MeFi comment - Last year

Coping with possible adult ADHD without a diagnosis
favorited 42 times, recently by maggiemaggie, daysocks
Ask MeFi post - Last year

A way to express herself and be witnessed? [more]
favorited 31 times, recently by emd3737
MeFi comment - Last year

for what it's worth: - I was a victim - I made the MetaTalk post because I was tired of not having any other avenue to talk about it when it was so clearly linked to Metafilter - cortex was more concerned about me misrepresenting him than any… [more]
favorited 53 times, recently by TravellingCari, rosiroo, rorgy, gaybobbie, kaelynski, Windopaene, taff, arcolz, Nancy_LockIsLit_Palmer, solotoro, buteo, Jesse the K, Lexica, faineg, sarcasticah, cooker girl, skye.dancer, amarynth, Obscure Injoke, daybeforetheday, aielen, Mauve, michswiss, LakeLimner, fairlynearlyready, Ivan Fyodorovich, Chrysostom, Joe in Australia, mandolin conspiracy, sillyman, XMLicious, Lentrohamsanin, rmd1023, taskmaster, nightrecordings, donnagirl, chococat, syzygy, Sparky Buttons, Drastic, CrystalDave, filthy light thief, Neely O'Hara, all about eevee, death valley compound
MetaTalk comment - Last year

They couldn't have gotten an actual Bangladeshi in the conversation? [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by feral_goldfish
MeFi comment - Last year

They're Singaporean, let them write about their culture however they want. They shouldn't have to sanitize themselves for a supposedly White audience. This feels like complete ally fail. [more]
favorited 46 times, recently by unicorn chaser
MetaTalk comment - Last year

Oh God running a fact-checking blog on this (as 2 very annoyed journo types doing this for free) was full on. We weren't interested in endorsing conspiracy theories, just fact-checking and citing sources, but there were so many rumours that we… [more]
favorited 22 times, recently by photo guy
MeFi comment - Last year

Malor: wow, victim-blaming much? Who are you to speak for their experiences? [more]
favorited 34 times, recently by Buntix
MeFi comment - Last year

"Gypsy" is a racial slur.
favorited 36 times, recently by Buntix
MeFi post - Last year

I feel like I have to preface my comment here with me being a woman of colour because wow, I took this episode completely differently than the rest of you. I got temporarily hung up on them needing Canadian visas on US passports - since when?! But… [more]
favorited 35 times, recently by MiraK, Ahmad Khani
FanFare comment - Two years ago

I just binge watched all three episodes and...jesus. Some of it stroked uncomfortably close to home (replace fundamentalist Christianity with Malay-supremacist Islam and the Red Centre lessons might as well have been my school years). I feel like… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by MiraK, litleozy
FanFare comment - Two years ago

By cultures I mean places like South Asia and Middle East, where their okayness with cousin marriage is used against them as "look at those backwards brown Muslim". [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Taro
MeFi comment - Two years ago

A True Top to Toe Spa Experience
favorited 11 times, recently by DRoll
Ask MeFi post - Two years ago

Oh I'm not saying that Steven doesn't have trauma of his own. What I'm saying is that in addition to that, he's got a very literal inheritance of his mum's patterns (the gem/Pink Steven) and it seems Pink Diamond went through her own trauma too with… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by The Great Big Mulp
FanFare comment - Two years ago

The entire season so far, and especially this episode, is shaping up to show Steven close to becoming the worst of Pink Diamond, without necessarily realising it. The feeling of "I know best what's good for you" to the point of… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by The Great Big Mulp
FanFare comment - Two years ago

That may have been the intention but I don't know if it's coming off as such. Jasper noticed it - Steven was all "but I'm just trying to help you!" and she found that disingenuous. And then in Guidance Steven was acting as though he knew… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by The Great Big Mulp
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Holy shit. After reading the comments and seeing that one of the pre-interview tasks was to make a video, I'm reminded of the application process for the KaosPilots (a chain of social enterprise schools based in Europe, with their flagship school in… [more]
favorited 66 times, recently by Monday, chinesefood
MeFi comment - Two years ago

(and like I love the Try Guys but OH MY GOD the way he gets treated in their group videos sometimes makes me think he's better off without a bunch of Mediocre White Men) [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Stephanie Duy
MeFi comment - Two years ago

As far as engagement: I am frustrated with the threadsitting rule on Ask Metafilter, because I feel like it encourages unhelpful advice to stand. There's been a few questions I've posted over the years where the advice given wasn't workable because… [more]
favorited 27 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

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