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  • ikt@aussie.zonetoWikipedia@lemmy.world•Purity spiralEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Description from the page:

    Journalist Gavin Haynes heads into the eye of two seemingly unlikely moral storms. He discovers bitter rows over diversity and racism within the world of Young Adult literature and Instagram knitting.

    You might think online knitting and teen fiction would be innocuous cosy communities formed around a shared love of craft and a good yarn. However, as Gavin reveals, both scenes have recently become embroiled in what he terms The Purity Spiral. These vicious cycles of accusation and judgement see communities engaging in moral feeding frenzies. As a result, individuals are targetted and savaged by mobs who deem them problematic.

    Gavin meets Nathan Taylor, an Instagram knitting star who unwittingly triggered a race row after attempting to reach out to people of colour using the hashtag Diversknitty. Nathan watched in horror as a wave of accusations of white supremacy and Nazism flowed into his inbox. This brush with the toxicity of a Purity Spiral was so severe that Nathan was hospitalised by his husband following a suicide threat.

    In Young Adult literature, Gavin discovers a scene similarly beset by ideological battles. We hear from the founder of the hashtag Own Voices which has come to symbolise books featuring minority characters written by authors from a similar racial or cultural background. We enter the world of the ‘sensitivity reader’ and meet author Laura Moriarty who almost had a well-reviewed book cancelled after hordes of people labelled it a ‘white saviour narrative’ despite the fact they’d never read it as it had yet to be published.

    Luckily someone uploaded it to youtube:

    Purity Spiral - BBC Radio 4 Documentary

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnWb_N_-2U

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Tough economic times ahead
    62·
    20 hours ago

    It’s not really that far from the stereotypes

    Women are attracted to things like wealth and stability which generally get better as men age because they want someone who can take care of them

    Men have an unlimited supply of baby making material but women can only do 1 baby per 9 months (and even then depending what year you’re in (say 100,000 years ago up until 200 years ago) the quality of healthcare wasn’t great and child mortality was high) so men prioritise women who are healthier and younger in order to prioritise the chances of a young healthy baby being born and the mother living. Shame on men eh?

    “Advanced maternal age” is a term that describes anyone who is 35 or older and pregnant. This is the age when your chances of pregnancy complications increase. Some of these complications are higher rates of miscarriage and a greater chance of having a baby with a genetic disorder. Advanced maternal age is the newer and preferred name for a geriatric pregnancy.

    https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22438-advanced-maternal-age

    I guess saying that women 35 and over are geriatric was hurting some feelings 😅

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