btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here
Shoutout to Nazgul, the 2yo Czechoslovakian wolfdog who ran onto the cross-country skiing course and across the finish line to the crowd's cheers.
No worries: He's a local pet, he's friendly, he didn't interfere with any athletes' results, and he was returned to his owners. Videos at the link. [X]
Everything is like āQUEER historyā and āList of QUEER young adult booksā or āTop 10 QUEER moviesā and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
Itās also the respected academic term?? The acronym isnāt static and itās usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didnāt always use or identify with the terms we use now and you canāt always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if youāre talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if youāre talking about more than one identity or someone who doesnāt conform to our perceptions of āLGBT,ā or a person or people whose identity you donāt know, queer is just the better word.
every time one of you fools spout aboutĀ āqueer is a slurā a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that wordĀ ātabooā is fucking working you dipshit.
I donāt know if this is just because Iām not American but Iāve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didnāt like was āsoo gayā. Queer wasnāt even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that itās a unifying term. You can say youāre queer and all people will know is that youāre part of the community. But you canāt say youāre LGBT, you have to say youāre gay or trans or ace. They donāt want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether youāre undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other āgayā as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether āgayā is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
The company was launched out of stealth last year.
The fact that Mark Cuban can do this is just further proof of how much capatalism is f*cking people over.
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy Thursday that offers more than 100 generic drugs at an affordable price with a goal of being āradically transparentā in its price negotiations with drug companies.Ā
For example, the leukemia drug imatinib is priced at $47 a month on MCCPDC compared to the $9,657 retail price.
The online pharmacyās prices for generics factor in a 15% margin on top of actual manufacturer prices and a $3 pharmacist fee, the statement said.Ā
yes this is pretty unbelievable right nowābut just look at the replies and reblogs of this postālook at all these people on twitter talking about their own experiences with it now tooāthis is actually real
and yes everyone is waiting for a catch, but remember it is a PRIVILEGE to think about not sharing this information out of spite for billionaires rather than needing this opportunity regardless of how long it lasts or if mark cuban is doing this for his own gain
this 4th of july i would like to boost my tribeās bee farm!! https://iowaybeefarm.com/ is their website! They sell honey, beeswax products, giant jars of bee pollen, lip balms and lotions!
pretty much everything is really cheap (much cheaper than it should be) and you can get a whole gift basket for 35 bucks!
iām reblogging it again because this site has creamed honey and it literally looks so fucking good and iāve been saving this link to make purchases because of how affordable it is.
Physicians are using excuses to intentionally dissuade people with disabilities from their practices, researchers say in a new study exposin
Physicians are using excuses to intentionally dissuade people with disabilities from their practices, researchers say in a new study exposing just how pervasive discrimination against this population is in health care.
In focus groups, doctors described making strategic choices to turn away individuals with disabilities. They reported telling patients with disabilities that they would require specialized care and that āI am not the doctor for you.ā In other cases, physicians said they simply indicate that āI am not taking new patientsā or āI do not take your insurance.ā
The findings come from a study published this month in the journal Health Affairs. It is based on focus groups conducted in late 2018 by researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the University of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School with 22 primary care and specialist doctors who were selected from a national database.
Many of the participants described accommodating people with disabilities as burdensome and some used outdated language like āmentally retarded.ā Doctors frequently indicated that individuals with disabilities account for a small number of patients, making it hard to justify having accessible equipment. They also had little knowledge of their obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, with one suggesting that the law works āagainst physicians.ā
The latest study builds on findings published earlier this year from a survey of 714 doctors that was done by some of the same researchers. Just 56% of physicians who participated in the survey said they welcome people with disabilities at their practices and only 41% indicated that they could provide such patients with a similar quality of care to others. Meanwhile, more than a third of doctors queried said they had little or no knowledge of their legal obligations under the ADA.
āTaken together, the focus groups and survey responses provide a substantive and deeply concerning picture of physiciansā attitudes and behaviors relating to care for people with disabilities,ā the study authors note.
The findings suggest that bias continues to greatly influence health care more than 30 years after passage of the ADA, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, including in medical services.
Tara Lagu, a professor of hospital medicine and medical social sciences at Northwestern University and an author of the study, described the doctorsā attitudes toward the ADA in particular as āupsetting and disappointing.ā
āOur body of work suggests that physician bias and discriminatory attitudes may contribute to the health disparities that people with disabilities experience,ā Lagu said. āWe need to address the attitudes and behavior that perpetuate the unequal access experienced by our most vulnerable patients.ā
I love your shark pride post! Do you think you could do some for abrosexual and/or non binary? Honestly, I would be thrilled to see any and all flags I just really enjoy the shark allies
i had no idea what abrosexual meant till now but sharks absolutely adore you!!!
It would've been one thing if they were upfront about this, but hiding it means they can't be trusted. Time to look for a new search engine. Any one know any other tracker-resistant search engines?
I looked into this because I use DuckDuckGo and I think it's really important to keep organizations accountable especially when they claim to be different TM than shitty ones. So it looks like this is true (as of now) for the mobile browser application specifically, not the search engine in general.ļæ¼
which means that using the search engine on another browser like Firefox should be fine, and also now is a great time to let the company know exactly why you are uninstalling their *application* on your device to hopefully either force a backpedal or heavily discourage further shit like this down the line.ļæ¼ļæ¼
it's a slimy move to be sure. I just think it's important to be specific and precise. Here's another article on the subject:
iām just gonna take this post for a moment so i can rant but like
i Hate how entitled adults can feel over a childās hair!
it started when i was young myself, i wanted a mohawk, but my dad didnāt approve of that look on a āgirlā, and insisted iād regret such a bold cut. at 16 i was finally given full autonomy over my own head.
but then i have a son and everyone around us is trying to keep his hair short. when we finally moved out just me my partner and him, i told him he doesnāt need to get any haircuts he doesnāt want.
so he starts growing it out, itās still short but coming on mid-length. his teacher makes a point to tell me itās getting long as if i donāt have eyes. i hear her walking out with him one day talking to him about haircuts, as if to coax him into one. eventually i get child services called on me for āforcing a transgender lifestyleā over what i can only assume is from a combination of me drawing cute ponies on his valentine box and letting him go to school in a ponytail.
he kept it short for awhile after but told me he wanted to grow it out again, so i let him of course. he comes home one day after getting a haircut at his grandpaās and tells me he didnāt Want the haircut.
i ask why he got it then and learned he was bribed with a promise of a surprise IF he cut his hair.
tl;dr people need to back the hell up off of children and let them have owership of whatās on THEIR body! /rant
This happened to me when I was little too!! Growing up I had naturally tight Shirley Temple curls. The only problem was that you canāt get a hair brush through it if your life depended on it until it grew out over a few years.
but This One Lady from church decided that leaving my hair messy and curly was child abuse and threatened to call social services on my family every damn time she saw me until one day she was the designated kid watcher and ho boy my momma tells me i came out with tears in my eyes and greasy slicked down hair and thatās where she ends the story because i think my mother beat her ass but yeah.
Iām going to be honest, parents who are super-controlling of their childrenās hair creep me the fuck out and Iām not entirely certain why except that I get a vague feeling they kind of relegate them to, āannoying talking dollā status.
I loved my daughterās long blond hair. It was thick and wavy and beautiful but when she told me she wanted it cut shortĀ ālike a boyā(she was four)Ā I took her to the salon and let her whack it off.Ā
The stylist was skeptical, āare you sure?ā and the thing is, she said this to me, not my daughter. So I asked my girlĀ āare you sure you want it cut short?ā She was. The hair went. The stylist acted nervous most of the way through like she was waiting for one of us to burst into tears, but it looked cute! And my daughter loved it! (And itās been short ever since.)
there is a reason that so many of us whoāve experienced trauma will reclaim control over our bodies and our selves by cutting and dying our hair. itās part of us. itās part of our expression. thatās vitally important to people, especially kids, who are still early in the process of learning how they fit into the world around them.
For some reason, āstop enforcing your gender identity and sexual orientation on childrenā never applies to cis-het people who are the only ones actually enforcing it.
isn't it insane though how schizophrenic people are viewed as violent and dangerous by the majority of society when in reality schizophrenic people are nearly 14 times more likely to be on the receiving end of violence than to be the perpetrators...
1) schizophrenia hardly ever causes people to be violent so schizophrenic people arenāt more likely to be violent than anyone else
2) schizophrenic peopleās autonomy is often taken away from them because of their schizophrenia. because the authorities and mental healthcare providers often automatically assume schizophrenic people to be violent, theyāre more likely to immediately react to schizophrenic people's symptoms with violence, without even knowing for sure said schizophrenic person was going to be violent. all of this causes schizophrenic people to be more likely of being victims of violence and abuse. schizophrenic people also have a harder time getting out of abusive households because of the risk of their autonomy being taken away. if a schizophrenic personās relative or partner is abusive, often the schizophrenic person has no way out of the situation, both because our disconnect from reality can result in us being easier to manipulate, and because the system is built in a way that it takes away our autonomy because of our condition.
also schizophrenic people and psychotic people in general, please do a lot of research before picking a provider for your own sake, and if they try to treat your psychosis in a way that you think is harmful then donāt hesitate to switch providers. your safety and wellbeing should be a priority over everything else.
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