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Nerds: dumbledore is good gay rep
Other nerds: dumbledore is insufficient gay rep because he is not canonically gay
Me: his status as Representation of gay people is a pretty ridiculous conversation to have seeing as his homosexuality was a corrupting force in the actual story. Representation politics as the only way a work can be progressive or conservative ignores the many ways art can convey meaning, and in this case the meaning being conveyed by the literature is a disturbing one indeed, especially when contrasted with redemptive heterosexual subplots
My mom: for the love of God, Katie, please get off the computer and go outside. We're worried about you
Me: no
“I will say this: I think there is zero chance that a left-wing Trump or Carson would be blowing away the field in a Democratic primary contest. They’d be the marginal candidates that they deserve to be. In fact, a left-wing Trump probably wouldn’t even be running as a Democrat but as the Green Party candidate or something, because a left-wing Trump would think the Democrats were just as corrupt and hopeless as the Republicans, because that’s how left-wingers think. The fringe people on the right take part in the two-party system, while the fringe people on the left by and large don’t. So most of left-wing Trump’s voters wouldn’t even be participating in Democratic Party politics.
Sanders may or may not be a viable general-election nominee. But he’s a serious person with serious ideas, and he isn’t a reality TV candidate.”
“The anti-trigger warning “coddled co-eds” narrative has a lot in common with the “false accusation” narrative used to derail discussions of on-campus rape. The first scoffs at people’s attempts to cope with trauma once they’ve already been traumatised; the second undermines their efforts to avoid being traumatised in the first place. Both are symptomatic of our culture’s deep investment in minimising and normalising sexual assault.
Maybe we can all get flippant and condescending about trigger warnings after we build a world where more than 3% of rapes lead to conviction, where we don’t shame and blame people for their own victimisation, where men don’t feel entitled to women’s bodies, and where millions of people aren’t moving through life yoked with massive, secret traumas.”
If this is how we treat our troops, you’d think that the “Support Our Troops” crowd would want to end the war on drugs.
Unfortunately, speaking as someone on probably very similar medications – I have permanent spinal damage due to having had a tumor removed from my spine – this has less to do with ‘not supporting our troops’ than it very MUCH has to do with ‘illogical and scare-mongering tactics as regards pain medication.’
Doctors who do pain management are REQUIRED to pee-test or blood test their patients (I get tested every time I go in for a refill, so about once every eight weeks), required to keep logs, etc. The alternative is getting shut down for running a “pill farm.”
This is all directly attributable to the scare tactics in which the public believes that o noes oxycontin/oxycodone/etc. gotten from doctors is where pill habits come from! Your pill problem comes from a legit prescription! – and that’s just not the case.
This is a) utterly shameful and b) completely tied to the shit-ass, scare-mongering way in which we handle pain meds. I get treated like a criminal every time I go in to CVS to refill my meds, especially if my favorite pharmacy tech isn’t there. It’s common knowledge among spoonies you avoid ERs no matter how bad you hurt, unless you have a letter from your pain management doctor telling them to contact the doc, because they’ll treat you like a drug seeker. You go to the same pharmacy, and find a 'good and sympathetic one’ or someone might decide you’re trying to get pills you don’t 'deserve’ and flag your profile in your state’s pill-monitoring software, and then suddenly, magically, every pharmacy will start telling you that they’re “out of stock.”
It’s absolutely horrible, and what’s happened to this man is totally unconscionable. Don’t think it doesn’t happen to pain patients every. single. day.
Let me set the scene for you a little. First of all, the catsuit made me HYPER AWARE of my body, and hyper aware of anyone in proximity of said body. My body issues/food issues immediately reared their ugly heads and my mind started a long, silent monologue to me of every little thing I’d eaten in the past 48 hours. FUN! Mostly, I just feel WEIRD; if you haven’t had your entire body enclosed in tight cheap pleather for over 5 hours you are missing nothing! I knew the costume was a part of my job, but it’s hella strange to know that the people you work with everyday are never again going to have to ask themselves “I wonder what Stephanie’s butt ACTUALLY looks like?”
So I get to set , and immediately see Andy Samberg, who plays detective Jake Peralta on Brooklyn Nine Nine. Andy starts talking to me about the weekend, about the scene, just normal shooting-the-shit stuff. As soon as we start filming, he is utterly respectful and says not a damn thing about the costume. We joke that the set we are shooting on, a parked bus on a sound stage, is boiling hot. Andre Braugher, who plays Captain Ray Holt, joins in on our convo and then we three start laughing about something: I can’t remember what. What I do remember is how those two men made me feel. I felt utterly respected I their presence. I felt like an equal.
It dawned on me that I am super lucky. FDF’s don’t exists for everyone, and that’s a damn shame. It feels so epically good to know that the dude standing across from you respects you and wants you to know he does. And he’ll show it too! An FDF don’t mess around — he’ll make sure you KNOW how much he thinks of you as an equal. He’ll compliment you on what you say, not just how you look. He’ll listen to your ideas and thoughts, he won’t just brush you off like you don’t have anything important to voice. He won’t stare at your boobs even if they are RIGHT IN HIS FACE. Instead, he’ll stare at your face as he jokes with you about anything other than your boobs.
Women deserve to have those type of FDF’s. It’s hard enough to face a world that is constantly measuring your desirability without hearing those measurements come from the men in your life. I’m so utterly grateful for men like Andy and Andre. They always make me feel like an equal, and that’s what feminism is all about. Simply put, FDF’s treat you like you should be treated; as an equal. Even if you’re wearing a ridiculous pleather catsuit.
Sociologist: So in your opinion, what differentiates Millennials from the previous generations?
Millennials: Well, probably growing up in a post-9/11 and post-Bush Wars world, plus the Great Recession and the instability of our financial futures and the exposure of widespread police brutality and the corporate stranglehold on governments -
Baby boomers: Social media social media social media social media social media social media social media social media SOCIAL MEDIA
The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))
What the fuck is tumblr? Like honestly what is this? Do you guys pull shit out of the inner most depths of your rectum and then just throw it on your keyboard and have it turn into a post???? This site is something else what the fuck is wrong with you people????!?!?
Endemetriosis
Vaginal Thrush
Menorrhagia
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Fibroids
Very common conditions, causes are unknown or only speculated, long term cures have not been found. Most can cause chronic pain or discomfort, all can seriously impact your quality of life.
Men are so damn privileged they can’t even imagine female bodies have different healthcare needs than theirs and that our healthcare needs are important even if they can’t be affected by one of these conditions.
Endometriosis causes excruciating pain and is a leading cause of infertility. Thrush is extremely
uncomfortable, and expensive to treat repeatedly; over-the-counter preparations rarely completely eradicate it. Menorrhagia, which I
have, makes you anæmic. PCOS causes hormonal symptoms that are socially
difficult (facial hair, acne, hair loss, weight gain). Fibroids are so common, and are often treated with a hysterectomy.
Add in fibromylgia, which affects 8x as many women as men, as well as lupus (and almost any other autoimmune condition), systemic exertion intolerance disorder (SEID), iron deficiency anæmia (all of which affect more women than men), and you have well over 25% of childbearing-age women globally living with chronic pain and tiredness.
Basically, this is a huge problem, and also one of the reasons I have been considering medical school.
Health care and ableism are feminist issues too, and this is why. Women’s pain is trivialized all the damn time because it’s “not real,” and men’s pain is too because it’s “unmanly” to complain.
As someone who deals with it fairly regularly, screw the medical patriarchy. I don’t usually talk about The Patriarchy like it’s a monolithic thing because it’s not that simple, but fuck if dealing with enough doctors who think you’re making up symptoms for attention doesn’t make it feel that way sometimes. (I try to get all female doctors and nurses, and even then it can be hard to find someone who believes you.)
Are you fucking kidding me I didn’t even know about any of this
*throws sparkles*
SEXISM AND HOW IT EFFECTS YOU WITHOUT YOU EVER KNOWING
"Plantation" = "labor camp"; "slave-owner" = "enslaver"; "Union troops" = "US troops."
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