Tag: ruby speaks

Have you ever visited other countries?

Technically, yes. I spent like, two hours in a small town in Maine, USA one night. But everything was closed, so we didn’t get to see anything besides the inside of a Wal-Mart. I want to travel more in the future, but my mother has organized every trip I’ve been on and she has this anti-plane, pro-road-trip agenda. Personally I’d rather go somewhere far away and get there faster, but she prefers driving to New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

a-spoon-is-born:

one of the ways i know this culture has a massive issue with consent

is the sheer amount of people I’ve known that just lie & tell people they’re deathly allergic to foods they dislike

because otherwise people will hound them, mock them, coax them, harass them, try to force them to eat it, or even trick them into eating it, and they will never hear the end of it

your coworkers will bake it into a fucking pie, call it something else, and wait til your birthday, gather everyone and their first cousins to sit around in a circle waiting for you to put a forkful into your mouth and then point rhythmically at you in a chanting, glaring, sweating, unholy circle like SWISS CHARD SWISS CHARD YOU JUST ATE SWISS CHARD HA HA HA SWISS CHARD NOW YOU LIKE SWISS CHARD

Because forcing someone into a situation where they don’t feel safe declining putting something into their body they’d rather not be there is totes 100% wholesome American fun

And this is something so known that it’s infinitely easier to just lie and tell people that you’ll die if you eat that food…which actually doesn’t always stop it from happening

It’s not just the USA, it happens in other places.

I love cooking. It’s something I’ve found I really like learning, especially when I can find recipes with things I like. But I also like cooking for other people! Problem is, when I cook for other people the three or so dishes I make for me don’t cut it, and they expect me to eat everything I make, even when it’s things that will make me sick, so I don’t do it too much.  People make fun of me or get mad at me for being a ‘picky eater’, including my own family.

I had a mild oat allergy as a child, I don’t have any that I know of now (though i tend to avoid things with oats in them anyway, so I don’t know), but there are plenty of things I can’t eat for various reasons. Even as a child I was forced to eat oatmeal. There was this one cooking class I went to in middle school. Mostly it was very simple, and I was completely willing to try some of the food. One of the three things they taught us involved chick peas. I voiced that I didn’t want to eat them, and had a teacher (my school’s teacher as it was a field trip, not the food instructor) actually try and shove them down my throat. And that wasn’t even the end of the chick pea thing. See, a year or so later, I was at my cousin’s house for dinner, and they made chick peas. I mentioned I felt sick at the thought of eating them, and explained why, and was promptly accused of making it up and lying for whatever reason. The details on this may be off, but that’s the gist of what happened. I was still forced to eat them, and I felt sick for a while.

I have a lot of problems when it comes to food, and like a lot of people I was forced to eat plenty of things I didn’t want to for whatever reason as a kid and refuse to eat them out of an aversion. Being autistic doesn’t help, either, because trying to explain why the taste and texture of certain things makes me want to eat a shoelace instead gets the same reaction of ‘you’re so dramatic, eat it anyway, you’re not five’.  I’ve been trying new things a lot lately, and people express absolute shock every time because I’m supposedly so picky, and honestly? Fuck the culture surrounding food.

Prevous anon. Thanks for giving such a detailed answer. I’ve always been curious (especially after the Orange Demon got into power) what people from other countries think of America and the American people. I’ve also always assumed that Brits, Canadians, and Australians see the US like a relative that they think should start taking its meds, but is too stubborn to. lol

An understandable question, really. Though, joking about medication (and not taking it when you should) isn’t exactly the best thing to do, for future reference. It’s a pretty serious topic.

It’s no problem, I like going into more detail than is usually necessary. I either write paragraphs or a single sentence, usually. Not too much of an in-between.

Well I can’t speak for Britain and Australia, or even most of my own country, I personally look at the US and wonder why they’re so resistant to change? That might be the wrong wording, but… What I mean is, their majority stance on things like gun control or the way discussions involving reform of sexual education tend to go, and the reasonings they give for it. Just because your current system looks functional to you doesn’t mean it is (and what the people in power see as ‘functional’ genuinely baffles me), and it definitely doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be improved.

Sorry, this wound up really long, too. I have a lot of feelings on these subjects, but I actually tried to hold back (bet you couldn’t tell from how much I did wind up writing).

‘Orange Demon’, nice. ‘Chief Cheeto’ is my go-to insult these days, but I also kinda like ‘The Annoying Orange’,

Random question, but what’s your opinion of the USA and Americans?

Thank you for the random question, anon, I’ve missed answering them!

Well, for all the jokes I make, I don’t really have too much on Americans as a whole. But both my partners and a good deal of my friends are American, so I’d say they’re people like anyone else. Some of ‘em are good people, some of ‘em are bad people, but they’re all people.

The US, on the other hand, is a mess. But so is Canada, and I’ve been trying to make that clear whenever I poke fun at the US, even if I might occasionally not be as clear as I should about that. No country is perfect. However, I think I’m a little justified in saying the US is maybe more of a mess, since I don’t fear for my life here in Canada (I’m a still-semi-closeted white kid who spends all her time on her phone, what do I have to be afraid of?), but often do fear for the people I love who live in the US regardless of their privilege. Moreso every day this year, honestly.

This turned out long, but I hope it’s a coherent answer.

i can’t just talk about one pet tho so here’s miss satan’s gremlin brother, asshole fluffbutt mcmeowface (also known as ‘buddy’)

he’s a butt but i love him anyway and also he’s the Friendly One out of all my pets. he’ll let you pet him until he gets bored and then he’ll try to eat your hand