I want to make something really clear that I think Anti-Choice people have failed to understand that Pro Choicers definitely saw coming.

An exception for Rape, Life of the Mother, and Incest mean nothing when you have to prove it in a court of law, or get a team of lawyers and judges to sign off on it which can take weeks or even months.

Weeks a person dying hasn't got. Women are now dying. Actually dying. Because hospitals legally could not save their lives until they could wake up a judge and get their lawyers, and another sides lawyers awake and up and figured out if it was actually necessary or not. All people with no understanding of medicine, and no attatchment to the person suffering who simply doesn't want to die.

There's a lot more I could cover, like the increase in illegal abortion, abortion tourism, the massive increase in infant abandonment... but I'm going to leave it here.

People are dying. People who should be alive. Who would be alive if abortion was legal and the hospital could have simply treated their patient without waiting for a dozen men with no medical experience in another building to decide if their patient actually needs treatment or not. And yes they do have to wait. Because if they don't they get charged with murder for trying to save a life.

Your policies are killing people. Not theoretical people. Not fetuses with no conscious thought or pain. Adults with lives. Teenagers with a whole life ahead of them. Mothers with children who need them. Real people with conscious thought, with fear, with pain. People who meet every definition of personhood.

dr who is (apparently) redesigning this turtle from the classic series to be just a green human elf lady instead and twitter is eating it up because "no one would take the show seriously otherwise" and "the audience isn't able to empathize with something that doesn't look human". another fascinating data point in the psychology of doctor who fans.

Apparently my favorite picture books as a child were written by queer authors.  This brings me joy.

Look, most of the queer people I know, myself included, had pretty rough childhoods (for a variety of reasons, but being recognizably queer was part of it) and as a result, we are fiercely protective of kids. Not protecting kids in a walled-garden sense the way conservatives want, but celebrating the wonder and whimsy and weirdness of being a child, and treating children as people - people who might need more supervision and care, but people with opinions and thoughts that really do matter. So of course the most beloved children's books of the last 40 years are written by queer folx. It makes perfect sense.

I think I’ve talked about it before but the hypersexualized ‘twink feminine trans guy’ thing has caused people’s (mostly cis guys who prey on trans men) idea of what a standard trans guy looks like to be warped.

What is skinny for a cis woman is suddenly fat for a trans guy. Trans guys have to be super underweight to be ‘pretty’. And this pressure to fit into the ‘cute anime boy’ leaks into online spaces. I can’t tell you how many times I got called fat when I was 110lbs by other trans guys who think that the only way to be loved is to fit into what chaser cis men want them to be.

Majority of the trans men I know either are currently struggling with an eating disorder or did in the past. Majority of the fat trans men I know have been shamed for being fat by other trans men and by cis people.

You go to the transmasc tag you will see pro-Ana posts. Under any transmasc selfie that gets popular where the dude isn’t skin and bones you will see comments about weight.

This is an issue plaguing transmasc communities - especially online transmasc communities. Promotion of eating disorders, unrealistic body expectations, and fatphobia are something we need to fight against

I posted this to a discord I’m in and someone pointed out how this also happens in a lot of transfem spaces online too. We need to start pushing “you don’t have to be skinny, you are lovable as you are. You don’t have to be skinny to be a women. You don’t have to be skinny to be a man. You don’t have to be skinny to be any gender.” in all trans spaces.

I’ve seen so many trans people I know suffer from eating disorders, and it’s heartbreaking.

Interesting genre of image

Inside you there are two wolves. You, Odysseus, king of Ithaka. That's them.

This is one of the funniest things I've found on tumblr and I've seen some shit

I studied psychology and even though it never was that extreme, it was like that. When patients were described so many people were judgemental, and went 'textbook narcissist' (Hiiii, I recently realized I might have NPD, btw), and talked about their dayjobs where they actually worked with patients that were in psychiatric care, and how they basically treated them like children or problems to be fixed.

Sometimes I'm kinda glad I didn't finish university. Because I also know I am not fit to help people.

But also, I see people in the notes and reblogs be like "A mental health professional can't just say 'I don't want to work with this person'", but like even the best mental health professional might have their boundaries and not be fit to help every person. But of course, the problem is there are a lot of disorders that are stigmatized, so finding the professional that won't treat you like a horrible person for having NPD, or BPD, or any other stigmatized disorder, or won't just send you away, might be nigh impossible, and that costs money, because mental healthcare is not free even though it should be.

EDIT: And also, it's very hard for people who were sentenced to prison and committed violence against people to get non-judgemental help, but it's also a much scarier situation working with someone who has a set of beliefs that justifies hurting women, and you're a woman working with them, and they're making overt implications of violence.

Of course I think in that case you have to realize this is a case of someone's upbringing, beliefs, environment or the fact that they never received good social and emotional education making them justify harming people, not any mental disorders, nor 'because they're just a rotten person' or 'a narcissist', and a lot of people, including mental health professionals don't realize that.

Make the most of the next two months

Feel free to add on.

wow! as a broke college kid, i wish there was a way to access books and movies as well as scientific articles that the new administration isn't necessarily a fan of. man. If only there was a free and trusted vpn ( up to 10 gigs of downloadable data) to use in conjunction with an anonymizing router (also free up to 10 gigs) to safely, er, permanently borrow media in an untraceable way as well as share files. Man, what's that browser that keeps your online activity anonymous? I'm awfully attached to firefox, personally. If only i had a browser extension that would throw a smoke screen over my browsing data while blocking ads at the same time.

what was i talking about? hmm. weird.

my dad, trying to explain the concept of money to me: say you have a sandwich, and i need your sandwich. but i don't have anything to give you. you're not just gonna give it to me.

me: i would just give it to you.

my dad:

in elementary school we had. basically an immersive economics lesson that was "playing City," with different jobs and businesses; it was mostly semi-free time for socializing and selling/buying toys and snacks from each other. one of the lessons we were supposed to learn was the importance of paying a small amount of money into health and/or business insurance, because you had a chance of being hit with the Daily Disaster and a huge bill.

anyway, some kid who didn't buy insurance got hit with a "medical bill" early on, so he was supposed to be bankrupt and have to sit the rest of the game out. the 8 year olds were not having it and spontaneously invented crowdfunding so he could keep playing with everyone else.

kids who don't 'get it' are right, actually

endlessly, morbidly fascinated by how when you're a kid you're constantly having parents, school, religion, media, all drumming it into your head that Sharing Is Good And You Need To Do It, and then you grow up and suddenly they're all like right never mind all that, this is The Real World and it's every bastard for himself

I'm not actually inherently against the idea of prison labour in the sense that I am not against fairly compensated, voluntary jobs for prisoners. If there was a well-regulated program in place to give prisoners jobs with the same paycheque anyone else in that field gets, with training, work experience, job skills, etc when they got out I'd be all for it. That way they'd have a proper resume and demonstrated skills to fall back on and could find work and rejoin society again on their own independence, like how rehabilitation is supposed to work. Actually, add some financial literacy and life skills education on top of that while they're serving their sentence, and you're setting them up for success rather than re-incarceration when they get out again. What I'm against is slave labour forced upon prisoners for pennies on the dollar, if they get anything at all.

"depiction is not automatically glorification" can and should coexist with "some depiction is glorification and you need to be able to tell the difference"

Please add to that list "apparent glorification in the first 15% of the thing does not constitute real glorification if the remaining 85% is dedicated to suffering the consequences, deconstructing the damage and changing ways" because some people around here don't understand how the three act structure works.

Y'know yeah i will absolutely add this especially since people keep saying fight club is an example of glorification. Genuinely thanks for having one of the few good additions to this post

I agree with everything said above, but also, to anyone reading this, please keep in mind that even deconstruction and consequences are not a perfect way to tell when something is or isn't glorification, because humans are complex creatures, who can carry opposing ideas, and so their stories can be a complex cluster of glorification and deconstruction.

There is a reason a lot of people still argue over this stuff. Sometimes it's hard to tell at first glance. Sometimes even the author can't tell, because we are still influenced by our society, stories that we read, and tropes and conventions in storytelling, some of which might be outdated, even if we don't realize it.

Like you have hours-worth of essays on how Lord of The Rings wasn't written with the intention to be racist, but it came out like that, because of mythology conventions, and ideas that were taken for granted at the time, that we later reevaluated and realized they might be fascist (depicting the protagonist side as beautiful and righteous and their enemy as a plague that needs to be eradicated; the idea of a leader with a god-given right to rule) or racist (the idea of that all members of a race share similar quirks and personalities, and the idea of wars that can be simply understood with 'this race is on this side, and this race is on that side, with an exception or like one bad human or one bad wizard').

Spoilers for Kill La Kill bellow.

(CW: Talking about a fictional depiction of sexual assault)

"depiction is not automatically glorification" can and should coexist with "some depiction is glorification and you need to be able to tell the difference"

Please add to that list "apparent glorification in the first 15% of the thing does not constitute real glorification if the remaining 85% is dedicated to suffering the consequences, deconstructing the damage and changing ways" because some people around here don't understand how the three act structure works.

Y'know yeah i will absolutely add this especially since people keep saying fight club is an example of glorification. Genuinely thanks for having one of the few good additions to this post

I feel the need to point out that this isn't a simple case of "raising the minimum wage;" pretty much everything over there is UNIONIZED.

This didn't happen because "we should treat our employees better," it happened because "we HAVE to treat our employees better." Because the amazing thing about EVERYTHING being unionized, when one store goes on strike, literally EVERYONE ELSE also goes on strike in solidarity.

Every other McDonald's store goes on strike, the truck drivers delivering to McDonald's go on strike, the maintenance company goes on strike, the landscapers cutting their grass go on strike, the postal workers that deliver their mail go on strike, the trash collectors go on strike, businesses that have NOTHING TO DO AT ALL with McDonald's go on strike. All in solidarity with the workers striking at this one McDonald's location.

You treat your workers poorly, EVERYTHING gets shut down. Now, other business AND the general public are affected by you screwing over your employees and you have a VERY limited amount of time to straighten out your act before you're thoroughly cooked.

There is a reason why the USA is extremely anti-union and it's because they looked at Europe and saw the power unions have, and the idea that the common folk could have any actual power over their overlords scared the everliving shit out of them.

If you sat this out it’s on you. These margins are so fucking thin. Literally fuck your absurdist “I can’t in good conscience” garbage. Where’s your fucking conscience when we never get to vote again. When women die because they cannot get basic healthcare. When the situation in Palestine becomes even worse under Trump like we all could’ve told you it would.