I used to post this series on a different site, but that site has recently discontinued their blog section. So I figured, FA needs more comments in blogs, my blog is pretty dead (and so are my submissions). Maybe this can incite some discussion for my watchers! So I'm transferring this series here.

And then like an absolute madlad I decided I didn't want this in my journals anymore so am putting it in my scraps now instead. Lol whoops!

[original post date - 2 august 2017]

About

Starting a new series, interesting reads on reddit.
I like reading reddit. I also like witnessing intelligent discourse, which surprisingly happens often on reddit.
Very few people read my blog here, but that doesn't matter, I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want, and that is share interesting reads I've found on reddit.

These are reads that are generally insightful, educational, or just plain interesting to me. Hell, I might throw in a lulzy meme every now and then just for giggles.
The links might be for the articles themselves, or for the discourse that happens in the comments... Usually it's the comments.

Comments should be sorted by "best" by default, but if not, you can change the sorting to "best" because that's where all the good stuff is. To those who have no idea how reddit works, comments are ranked by votes in a sort of karma system, upvotes make comments go to the top of the order, downvotes do the opposite.
Comments are nested, so any replies to a parent comment still stay in the right order so things make sense.

It might be a little difficult to get a grasp on at first, but after a few threads you'll get it and you'll like it.
Anyway, "top" sorting puts comments with most upvotes first (regardless of the amount of downvotes), but "best" sorting is like a combination of "top" and comments with the least amount of downvotes. So the comments are a little more quality.

ANYWAY, that's my explanation on how everything works, but here's the actual interesting reads for today:


US Segregation, Gender constructs, Aboriginal man witnesses atomic bomb without context, Death, Aging

Ruby Bridges, the little black girl who desegregated new Orleans schools, is only 62. Let that sink in. • r/pics
Talks about how recent racism really is, how some places in the US are centuries behind-- Georgia still had segregated highschool proms until as recently as 2014.

Pakistan's traditional third gender isn't happy with the trans movement • r/TrueReddit
Talks about the tired "gender is a social construct" debate... But in a new way. Example being, a gender system with a "third gender" is also a construct, and also limiting.

TIL of Nyarri Morgan, an Australian aboriginal man who had no contact with the Western world until he witnessed - with no context - an atomic test and its resulting effects • r/todayilearned
This one is just plain interesting.

Americans Are Opting For Cremation Over Burial At The Highest Rate Ever • r/news
This one takes a little more hunting through the comments, and there's too many to really link specifically as they're all strewn about, but there are many mentions of differing types of burial and death traditions from different cultures, almost all of which are really interesting and you should probably google.

What part of aging do you wish someone had warned you about? • r/AskReddit
Hahah.... Oh no :(