It's so weird to me when people are like 'but that will cost the government money!' So what? They're the government, they're supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.
“Oh boo hoo you shouldn’t ask your friends for favors we’re all adults”
I just spent three hours pulling up carpet and staples for a friend’s home renovation and we all did nothing but chat and joke and have wonderful conversation the whole time.
Helping somebody move or renovate or giving them a ride to the airport is functionally the same as going mini-golfing or playing a board game: it’s an activity that you do that is made more fun by having good company, and which provides something to talk about when the conversation lulls.
Sound on
there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting
the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.
ASAB is so often used to neglect chronically ill people seeking a diagnosis. it hurts intersex and perisex people alike.
we need to get rid of the sex binary for so many reasons and disabled liberation is one of them.
lupus is a disorder with a ratio of 9:1 people who were AFAB to people who were AMAB. it is a disorder that is wildly dominated by people who were AFAB.
doctors often treat lupus as a "women's disease" and when they're not treating it as a "women's disease" they're treating it as an "AFAB disease." there is no room in the system for intersex people (no statistics on our prevalence in the lupus population) and no room for people who were AMAB (despite them being 10% of people with lupus) the biology of trans people, particularly those who have medically transitioned, is of course not taken into account.
this leads to neglect of people who were AMAB, intersex people, and trans people (particularly transfeminine but not exclusively) who have a dangerous, often life threatening autoimmune disease. doctors don't bother looking because "how could you have it? you don't fit this narrow presentation of lupus that I created in my head." people have died from this. lupus kills, especially when left untreated.
abolishing the sex binary would largely fix this problem.
the reason so many people who were AFAB have lupus is because of estradiol. (read more about why here) estradiol is a major determining factor in who develops lupus and who doesn't. it's the theorized reason for the sex disparity. .... but people who were AFAB aren't the only people with estrogen-dominant endocrine systems, and not all people who were AFAB have estrogen-dominant endocrine systems. you can develop lupus with a testosterone-dominant endocrine system but it is far less common.
so why do doctors look at ASAB instead of that actual cause, estradiol? (rhetorical question but the answer is transphobia and intersexism)
sex abolition says that in replacement of overarching categories of sex we instead identify individual traits. lupus is one example of thousands where focusing on a specific trait rather than a sex would actually be more helpful in narrowing down diagnoses.
intersex and trans people will continue to have their diagnoses missed until we abolish the sex binary and replace it with something more useful. there is no disabled liberation without intersex liberation.
worm of inscrutable countenance
There is not a single game on planet earth worth 70 dollars
[Image description: There are 7 images that are screen caps of tiktok user @/chris.irish.rd's video
Image 1: Reminders from a slightly angry dietitian
Image 2: Consuming soy is not going to lower your testosterone, but consistently underfueling will
Image 3: Just because the body CAN function with minimal carbohydrates doesn't mean it is "healthy" or preferred
Image 4: Your brain needs carbohydrates to understand Severance
Image 5: If you're hungry an hour after eating, there is a reason. You're allowed to eat again
Image 6: Food is personal and it can serve many purposes. You don't have to justify your eating
Image 7: You aren't supposed to weight the same as you did in high school or college /end ID]
not to sound like a christian facebook mom but some of yall need to have grace in your hearts for the people in your lives or the people you pass once on the road and never see again like you literally need to stop assuming the worst of everyone and their intentions it is poisoning your brain. you can be careful and responsible without being a miserable person. it is possible i promise
turning off reblogs on this post if one more person takes it to mean that marginalized people should not point out bigotry when they encounter it. if someone tells you that youve said or done something offensive they are not assuming anything about you or your intentions, they are doing you a favor by pointing it out so that IF it was an accident you can avoid doing it in the future. if you have to deflect and argue with them about it you are no longer acting out of ignorance you are being that way on purpose.
“every time i see this celebrity they look younger!” cool, it’s plastic surgery
it’s not pilates, it’s not skincare, it’s not moral virtue manifesting in the form of physical beauty, you’re not gonna grow old like that, they didn’t even grow old like that, and the cosmetic procedures you can afford are not gonna look that good
also the new popular comment to make is "lol [actress] has taken the substance" and it's like...yeah. that's what the substance was about
thin/non-fat user: before helpfully appending your comment to a post about the inescapability of weight loss content to say "i get these ads and i don't even need them! i'm 120 freaking pounds!" consider what body type you've set as the threshold for people who actually do benefit from being inundated with encouragements to stop eating and start disciplining the body into smallness
i miss her (ttrpg character i barely got to play)
Your fetish doesn’t have to be praxis.
Read that sentence. Read it again. Really drill it into your skull. Internalize the idea until it cannot be removed from your brain.
Then stop making really annoying discourse posts on why this or that kink is WrongBad or how everyone with it is WrongBad and start caring more about how this person treats others outside of a consensual kink context. You’re allowed to hate a kink because of how much it resembles real life issues you suffer with, but other people are going to engage in it whether you like it or not and the only reasonable thing you can ask of them is to not involve you or anyone else who doesn’t want to be a part of it.
And before “three guesses on what kink OP has” if you don’t know me, you’re probably wrong and about to make yourself look like an ass by making assumptions. Go ahead, test your luck, I dare you.
#my somniphilia kink is feminism because it allows tired women to rest 😌
Actually this is the funniest response someone’s made while getting the point. everybody share why your kink is progressive and leftist.
