some of y’all will be like “yeah i support autistic people” and then go bully the weird kid at school
this is literally internalized ableism. fym “it’s not ok” it’s not hurting anyone. protect ND kids and stop saying shit like this
lmao i mean i’m autistic and looking back i was definitely asking for all the shit i got as a kid.
no one is asking for abuse. stop jacking off to your oppressors when they’re never gonna accept us by trying to be more palatable, and stop trying to act like that kind of behavior is okay when it literally causes only pain and suffering. did taking the side of your abusers place you as an honorary member of the NTs? did they stop picking on you when you suppressed your autism? fuck off
I was bullied for being “weird” (read: neurodivergent) throughout most of my childhood. The worst of it happened when I was 11-13. I’m THIRTY now and to this day, I still suffer from C-PTSD because of it. Bullying IS abuse, full stop.
To put it in perspective, most people would agree that aggressively berating and frightening, say, a cat or a dog into acting a certain way is, indeed, animal abuse. You were treated in a way most people would deem too cruel to treat an animal.
Please, try to reject that internalized notion that you deserved being hurt and humiliated for being “too weird”. You didn’t “ask for it”. You were a child and the way you were treated is nothing short of inhumane. Perpetuating this kind of thinking only encourages cruel people to keep hurting vulnerable people and pinning the blame on them.
“It’s not okay when we do shit like wear capes at school and hiss at people in the hallways” why? why is it not okay? wearing a cape doesn’t hurt anyone and hissing at people is only slightly rude. It has nothing to do with what a weird kid is doing and everything to do with the the kids that believe they have the right to dictate how other people should act and to hurt them until they comply.
“It’s not okay” only if you’re an entitled asshole. Enjoy growing up into the next Karen/Kevin meme when your inability to mind your own business goes viral.
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Inappropriate behavior like hissing at people should be treated the same way as NT-but-inappropriate behavior.
That is to say: “don’t hiss at other kids, speak nicely. Would you like to be hissed at?” Not “don’t hiss at other kids, it’s not normal.”
where the hell did i say “the other kids were maliclious adult monsters who should have known better”. where did i say that. what do you all get out of willfully misinterpreting my post? do you feel better making excuses for abuse, trying to play devils advocate when there’s an obvious victim and an obvious bully? systemic bigotry cannot be resolved when you only twist minorities’ words about our own experiences and oppression to sound unreasonable or callous, and when you try to justify or defend abuse. just stop.
also “they were just kids” yeah? so were we. the difference is that those kids decided to be abusers, and we’re the ones who got abused. we were just kids and we faced harassment that stuck with us for years and will continue to stick with us for the rest of our lives. we were all children. and it still sucked.
dont act like those kids didnt have adult parents and teachers around. dont you fucking dare act like adults dont know bullying when they see it.
i actually asked for help and the only adults who tried to do anything were my parents.
it took my mother slapping a bitch for others to just try to stop at least physical bullying. it didnt help because i “deserved” it for being weird and adults let it slide.
adults decided that they wouldnt intervene on my behalf, adults decided that i needed to “learn” this way, adults have seen the abuse, heard my pleas for help and did not do anything
Okay but these fucking dudes are trying hard to reach an audience and I respect the fuck out of them for it. 12/10 sanitation department of New York City.
I was prepared to cringe but I think this was good
These guys at NYC Sanitation are paid 150k a year and retire on 125k a year pensions til they die……
And they should. God bless them
Salary of public sanitation workers should be more than the salary of any politician
They don’t get those figures until they old af and in certain positions but also like bruh of any job to pay peolle nsane mkney this is a flex
Sanitation is one of the most dangerous jobs out there, and one of the core reasons we have eliminated or diminished many illnesses. Sanitation workers deserve their weight in gold.
Doctors cure individuals of diseases
Sanitation workers protect *entire cities* from diseases
If you genuinely believe that sanitation workers don’t deserve to be well paid, you might need to take a good hard look at your internalized classism
hey in light of this all, just a reminder: don’t fucking “sign up” for protests, don’t give your names, phone numbers, and/or emails to any sites, don’t announce on social media that you’re attending protests, and definitely don’t make dumbass posts like “who’s rioting tonight?”. This type of shit is going to get you in trouble and put others in danger too. Use your heads.
If you are in a red state, your state either has an abortion ban in place or is rated by the Guttmacher Institute as likely to enact a ban. Your focus should be on protecting yourself and others who need abortions.
stop using electronic period tracking apps or software
educate yourself and others about pregnancy prevention and join groups that are making preventative birth control more accessible
learn the nearest and most accessible routes to states where you and your loved ones can access abortion
contribute to mutual aid funds to help transport people over state lines if they are in need of abortion
consider joining The Satanic Temple so you can claim protections under the Religious Abortion Ritual if you are prosecuted for obtaining an abortion
keep a stock of by-mail abortion pills for yourself and/or others who may need them (you may need to travel out of state to obtain them)
form community provider networks and see if you or someone you know can be trained to use manual vacuum aspiration kits or a Del-Em
all of the above should be done in complete secrecy using verbal communication, end-to-end encrypted apps such as Signal, or a VPN
If you are in a yellow state, you currently have constitutional abortion protections but they are in jeopardy. Get active in local political groups NOW to fight back against constitutional amendments to ban abortion. Your focus should be purely on political action.
If you are in Michigan, you currently have a ban in place which is being challenged, and your governor is working to add abortion protections into the Michigan state constitution. Your focus should be on supporting the work that is currently under way.
If you are in a green state, your state has constitutional protections for abortion that are unlikely to be challenged. Your focus should be on helping others to enter your state for abortion care.
volunteer to help people enter your state for abortion care, either with transportation help or letting someone crash on your couch
if you live in a green state with no current or predicted primary routes from other states for abortion access, you can focus your efforts on supporting political action in other areas
If you are in a purple state, your state currently has no constitutional protections for abortion but is unlikely to implement a ban. You have two focuses: pushing for constitutional protections AND helping others to enter your state for abortion care (see green state list).
The Satanic temple can not help you get an abortion. They are an organization with white supremacist leadership and don’t actually champion the causes they claim to support.
There are plenty of religions that are pro choice, pro abortion, eg. Judaism, so I don’t think the “religous exemption” semantic argument has ever got anywhere. Facists don’t care about hypocrisy.
It really gets to the point where people have to straight up lie and rewrite history in order to blame Democrats instead of their own electoral apathy. I really just saw a tweet blaming Obama and Schumer for leaving Scalia’s seat vacated……
…..as if Mitch McConnell didn’t control the Senate and infamously refuse to have hearings for Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Like. This is just a fact! Republicans did this! Republicans!
I’ve been seeing this smug sneering, too, and exactly!! This is what I mean!! Y'all know 2016 was what caused this!! Anyone who was cognizant in 2016 knows this!! These people are just straight up lying because the truth is that this is their fault for not stopping Republicans
Things that are happening because the US votes blue in 2020:
- the FDA lifted restrictions on sending abortion medication by mail and this decision will be protected by the federal government
- liberal prosecutors are announcing their intent to decline to prosecute abortion-related charges and don’t need to fear federal reprisal
- the Justice Department is coming out against the decision and affirming the rights of pregnant people to travel to seek abortions (because don’t kid yourself that that won’t absolutely be one of the next things Republicans try to ban)
Sources for the above claims, in case someone is doubting them:
just got hit by a wave of what feels a lot like grief. i was so angry this morning, and i still am, but you know what this simply sucks. yeah that gandalf quote etc, but this really really sucks and we don’t deserve this. this isn’t punishment for our sins, and yeah there’s a laundry list of things liberals, leftists, democrats, feminists, etc could have done to better protect everyone going all the way back the 70s when the ERA failed to pass. but again, this isn’t punishment for our sins, we weren’t asking for it, we don’t secretly deserve it. this is and always has been an unprovoked attack by people who hate us just for existing. this has always been the case. as we prepare to fight AGAIN for rights that we deserve simply for being human, we have to remember. that we do not deserve this
As a lot of sewing and costube nerds know, Bernadette Banner just released her book on sewing, a basic guide for sewing and mending based on historical techniques. She has a successful YouTube channel where she teaches these techniques and occasionally features other costubers, experts, etc. Naturally, in writing her book, she’s transferred some of the personal aspects that are part of any YouTube channel’s branding, such as illustrating her work with narratives and introducing the people who are featured in the book.
Because she has used people’s correct pronouns and approached this book in an inclusive way, it seems a group of TERF activists have organized and bombarded the book’s Amazon page with bad reviews, claiming the book has an “agenda” and is “political” by using the preferred pronouns of the people featured. Of course, this is this absurd – YouTube personalities, even those with substantive content who aren’t just influencers, are exactly that? Personalities? So of course there will be personal narratives, and why should someone’s identity be left out of their narrative, especially if the reason they need to tailor a garment is a gender reassignment surgery? I also imagine it may be triggering and difficult, as Banner has an openly non-binary sibling who has also been featured in her videos.
All this to say, you can go to Amazon and report these bigoted reviews or mark them as unhelpful, and if you have a copy of the book and like it, this is a good time to leave a nice review. The book was published less than a month ago, and bad Amazon reviews can tank new publications or push Amazon to force the author to make changes in some cases (though I think only with digital books, but as there’s a kindle edition and we all know that Amazon takes money from authors whose books are returned, I’m hoping these TERFs aren’t buying and returning Kindle editions just to leave shitty reviews). Anyway, it’s important to authors not to get dragged down by a TERF swarm, especially so early after publication. And it’s even more important to keep pushing back and showing TERFs that they can’t keep pulling this shit.
I’m honestly just so tired of their bullshit. Please find a non-destructive outlet for your trauma.
Something I don’t see mentioned often but that adds so much alien feel to DS9: I don’t think it’s ever purposefully stated “this station operates on the Bajoran 26-hour day cycle”. It’s something you realise by yourself, and it clicks. Is 26 Bajor hours equal to 24 Earth hours? Is 26 Bajor hours equal to 26 Earth hours? Doesn’t really matter, that’s how the day cycle just goes here. And then there’s some episode and Odo mentions “for the next 78 hours” and it feels a little weird, and then you realise it’s 3 days, of course it’s 3 days! But the phrase “next 78 hours” hasn’t been ingrained in your brain like “next 72 hours” has been. And you get to feel that these little alien guys on your screen are different in the same ways that feel natural to you.
Cecil. She/her. During the day I sit in libraries staring at books. During the night I write queer fanfiction with a historical slant.
Some not-so-random facts: Gay space lizards are the best lizards. Star Trek is my life. I have too many DS9 ships. Classic Who and the Eighth Doctor Adventures make me grin stupidly. Kelas Parmak is the best. I will defend historically accurate portrayals of Alan Turing to the last drop of blood. Likes and asks end up in the name of @apolesens-otheraccount, because Tumblr doesn't have a way of changing which blog is your primary one. Nothing happens over there - this is the one to follow.
