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cispeopletexting:

jakeyboooo:

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sxeli:

roaringwhitelion:

okcissie:

I’ve noticed that Minion bath products are a thing, and that many of them are banana-scented.

The fragrance used to impart a banana scent is called isoamyl acetate. Isoamyl acetate is also an alarm pheromone in bees. It’s released when a bee stings something/someone, prompting other bees to sting the same target.

The Minion shampoo has mysteriously infiltrated my house, and my youngest sibling (the only one who uses it) has not been stung since its appearance, but I wouldn’t count on anecdotal evidence…

If you have an allergy to bee stings, I strongly recommend choosing a different scent.

I’m a chemist and I found out I’m allergic to bees after working with isoamyl acetate and being stung twice on my way home from work. Do not use isoamyl acetate as a fragrance and especially not on children, which Minions are marketed to.

Please please please not on children. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Minions products are going to kill someone. only then will this chaos end.

Since this post is picking up steam again just in time for the summer for some reason, I should mention that I actually emailed the company about it and got a response. The tl;dr is that it IS isoamyl acetate, the amounts in it are legal (for whatever that’s worth), and it should wash out just fine.

Im not trying to start drama but i wouldnt trust what the company is saying….
They could be telling the truth but you never know.

Yeah, I think they could be telling the truth about legal levels and all that, at least. But just saying it washes out seems nebulous / dismissive (especially since scented things leave a smell on your skin).

I specifically stated I was concerned about interactions with bees, and they did not address that. They just said it’s legal for them to make it like this.

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wetwareproblem:

vaspider:

vaspider:

I’ve had people ask me how I can support my daughter transitioning “at her age,” and how I can support her making such life-changing decisions at her age.

And my answer is and always will be the same:

Because in our first transition therapy session, when she was asked what her goals were for herself and her life, my daughter said: “I want to be one of the 40 percent of trans women who don’t attempt suicide.”

That was the first thing she said. Her first goal. That was her priority. To be one of the ones who DON’T try to kill themselves.

And if that doesn’t tell you every damn thing you need to know about why - I mean other than loving her unconditionally and respecting her right to determine who she is - I support her transition fully and without reservation, then I can’t help you.

The world is against her. I refuse to be.

note: yes, I do have her express permission to post this. TERFs/TWERFs/anti-trans rhetoric will be blocked without response.

I appreciate being called an awesome parent but let me be clear: I think this is the BARE MINIMUM of ACCEPTABLE parenting. I don’t think I’m an awesome parent for this stance. I think that this stance on its own makes me a baseline okay parent.

Under no circumstances should your acceptance of your child and protecting them from WANTING TO KILL THEMSELVES be anything other than the bare minimum standard of parenting. I don’t deserve a medal for this stance. It’s like giving a Best Person award to someone who is breathing. You meet the standards for alive. That’s not worthy of praise.

Understand that I wrote this post because every time I remember her saying that, it takes the breath from my lungs. Understand that she was so depressed before she came out to us that I was afraid that I would find her dead one day because I couldn’t figure out why she was so sad all the time, and she swore she wasn’t being bullied. I didn’t know how to fix it. I was scared for her safety. Remembering it now makes me cry. Asking her about it made me sob. It’s TERRIFYING.

But I’m not a superhero. I feel that I meet the bare minimum of acceptable parenting for taking this stance. And we should promote that idea, that this stance is the only acceptable one. That anything less is just shitty, unacceptable parenting, and might even be child abuse.

“How can you support kids transitioning?”

Because I trust them to know themselves, and I want them to have a better life than I did. It’s really that simple.

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