♡Witch I Am♡

25. female. lesbian. ex-libfem. chronically ill. no longer new to radical feminism.

[guerrillatech]

[pennie-dreadful]

She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter's lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald's coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.

[deathtalksaboutlife]

Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter's lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.

Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns--which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer--within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn't stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald's coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds' justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the "frivolous" lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.

Classy.

Never, ever take a corporation's side over a private citizen when lawsuits are involved.

[thebiscuiteternal]

She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman's life were a miserable hell because McDonald's was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Homeschool to prison pipeline

Hey guess what?

We have a homeschool-to-prison pipeline now.

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention

Grace is a 15-year-old with ADHD and a long history of behavioral difficulties who ended up on probation after a fight with her mom led to the confiscation of her phone and her briefly stealing a classmate’s phone.

Grace is now in a juvenile facility where her life is at risk from covid because one of her probation conditions was to do her homework, and when her school in Oakland County Michigan went online only, she struggled to complete her distance education homework.

As a result, Judge Mary Ellen Brennan ignored the Michigan governor’s orders to minimize the incarceration of children and ordered Grace imprisoned…for not doing her homework.

The Propublica story on Grace and her single mother Charisse - written by Jodi S Cohen - is a heartbreaker and a half. It paints a picture of a kid whose need for extra educational attention was met by a stern and uncaring system, from caseworker to judge.

Judge Brennan does not come off well in this story. She ordered Grace to appear in person in court - the only case of the day with that requirement - and then refused a continuance when Grace’s lawyer said he would NOT come to court and risk his life to argue her case.

Brennan’s sentence was handed down after Grace’s caseworker Michelle Giroux admitted that she did not know the details of Grace’s learning disabilities and had not familiarized herself with the legally mandated supports for them that Grace had not recieved.

Brennan called Grace a “threat to the community” for missing her homework, denied Grace’s pleas for more time to adjust to homeschooling, and had her taken out of the courtroom in handcuffs.

It goes without saying that, like the majority of Michigan teens sentenced to youth detention in defiance of the governor’s orders, Grace is Black. Black children in Michigan are four times likelier to be imprisoned than their white peers.

Grace has not been permitted to see her mother, except by videoconference. Her mother’s attempts to bring her clothes and toys have been rebuffed by the facility, because of petty rules like those stipulating that underwear must be briefs, or that jeans can’t be “too tight.”

When Grace is brought out for videoconference status meetings with the court, the child is handcuffed and put in ankle shackles. She makes heartbreaking pleas to be returned to her mother. The judge has ordered her held until at least Sept 8.

For missing her homework.

[yandere-angela]

Kinda fucked up how cis women are allowed to abandon feminity in the name of feminism but trans women are forced to adopt it just to be recognized as women

[gendieschickentendies]

Kinda fucked up how men think them having to mask their sex characteristics with shit like makeup to be able to make people play along with their delusions is the same as women being sick of how they were taught for their entire existences that they should strive to emulate feminity in order to satisfy and benefit men.

[pronounpin-deactivated20200801]

Kinda fucked up how women existing in their natural state invalidates transwomen but we’re not gonna speak on that 👀

[trareceipts]

If I hear one more idiot claim that women are free to just “abandon femininity” I’m gonna lose it. Women everywhere are beaten, ostracized, raped, denied jobs, and socially punished due to rejecting femininity.

[kyloren]

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND 1939 | dir. Victor Fleming

[nssindelkdld-deactivated2020051]

ATONEMENT 2007 | dir. Joe Wright

[whitepeopletwitter]

[nessa007]

★ MAKE ME CHOOSE ★ @rorylgilmore asked: Little Women 1994 or Little Women 2019 “Women… they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.”

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Shirley Temple wrote in her memoirs about a time an MGM producer exposed his genitals to her when she was 12 years old.

Marilyn Monroe once called Hollywood an “overcrowded brothel, a merry-go-round with beds for horses.”

Judy Garland wrote about being groped by the head of the studio when she was 16.

And I could list 100 more stories. This isn’t new. The sordid, lecherous history of Hollywood has been present since it’s inception.

[hieronymouscock]

the greatest crime of the karen meme is that now teen and college aged boys working in retail can make derogative comments about middle aged women and be celebrated and validated and encouraged to think himself oppressed by them

[myothercarisauhaul-original]

I literally saw a video of a high school boy who called a girl a slut and made really sexually derogatory comments about her and when her mother (understandably) lost her fucking mind at him, he just laughed at her….the video description was him getting attacked by a “Karen”.

Working in retail and food service is awful. Customers are awful. But I will never get behind this shit as long as it’s aimed solely at women for this reason. For every woman who got mad and demanded a manager over an expired coupon…there was a man sexually harassing the female workers, a man screaming and using slurs against our workers, a man trying to bully our workers into doing something outside of policy (through more than asking for a manager), a man physically threatening and intimidating workers, etc. And since there is no name for a “male Karen”, the root of this “joke” is too clear.

[hieronymouscock]

my friend works at a grocery store and when we talked about this recently she told me that while women can be snobby and entitled, they’ve never compared to her male customers in bad behaviour. a man once brought something without a barcode to check out and when she told him it was missing a barcode but that she would go and get him another one he rolled his eyes and left the store.

[senatortedcruz]

I worked in a grocery store for 6 years and both male and female customers have been assholes that have made me cry but the actual worst customers were the men that we had to hide some of my coworkers from because they came in to stalk and harass them. 

[thisistemporaryiguess]

I’ve worked in various customer facing jobs the entirety of my adult life and have never been physically threatened by a woman but have been by several men.

[apparentlyeverything]

tbh every job I’ve had working with the public has involved far more men being assholes than women. I once had to help hold down a guy who literally tried to attack our receptionist when she wouldn’t tell him whether his girlfriend was in the clinic being treated. I assume it’s that people don’t even register men doing this kind of shit as unusual, it’s just like the weather

[thevaginamonoblogs]

It’s always been misogynistic.

What word is there for male customers who hit on women workers, follow them when they leave the store, yell intimidate and threaten them?

There’s no name for that.

[opisaterf]

there is a very specific type of upper middle class+ white women who think they have a license to talk to service workers any kind of way and under that context, as someone who worked in retail from ages 16-23, I totally get in the same sense as “ok boomer.” however, like said above, it’s turned into a silencing tactic for any woman saying anything that the individual doesn’t want to hear. at the same time, the people on Twitter saying shit like “karen is the new n-word” are off the shits

[democratsinthesouth]

Trump plans to wrap up this whole virus thing in 5 days & the Lieutenant Gov. of Texas, a 70 year old grandfather, said he is willing to die if that gets the economy up & going again for his grandchildren. So republicans have a plan.

[eve-made-the-right-choice]

they're so fucking shortsighted they didn't even stop to think that if people start dying in masse, "the economy" is just gonna tank again and stay tanked for 18 years or more

they can't wrap their heads around the fact that the economy is imaginary and human beings are real

[curiousradfem]

Exactly. And even if all they care about is “the economy”, it will be way worse for the economy if a significant amount of the population dies than if businesses stay in a state of shut down for a few months.  

[ladyofthesilent-deactivated2025]

I feel like 99% of the “don’t vote for Biden because he’s a horrible person” (followed by a list) posts are not actually meant to promote Bernie Sanders. They are meant to keep you from voting in this year’s election, so Trump has a better chance at winning again.

The Russians have made it clear that their online campaigns this time around support Bernie Sanders - not because they want him to win, but because they want his supporters to feel as if it would be morally wrong to participate in the election, in case Bernie is not chosen as the Democratic candidate. They also know that the Bernie supporters are vulnerable to this kind of emotional manipulation.

Joe Biden may have many flaws - I’d prefer Bernie myself - but if it comes down to a Biden candidacy, please make sure to give him your vote. No ideology is important enough to risk another four years of Trump. And none of the flaws Biden doubtlessly has comes anywhere close to the ticking time bomb that Trump is in the White House.

Please consider this, especially if you’re privileged enough to make your choice with purely ideological considerations in mind.

[sailorcuba]

why is the sims so addictive but only for a short amount of time??? like all u do is play the sims u don’t sleep u don’t eat it’s like you’re on drugs for around two days and then forget about it for the next whole year

[tasmanianstripes]

God creating Adam and Eve then fucking off for the rest of the eternity like

[holyholyholey]

I cant believe this is controversial, but disabled people are more important than cutting single use plastic. Bring back straws, don’t ban inhalers and let us continue using the products that help us stay alive and healthy.

[holyholyholey]

Love this energy

[holyholyholey]

[goldenheartedrose]

For more on inhalers, I promised I’d post some links.

How One Commonly Used Asthma Inhaler is Damaging the Planet

A vital drug comes at a high cost

People Who Use Inhalers Aren’t Responsible for the Climate Crisis. Corporations and Governments Are.

Amidst global environmental tragedy, disabled people are the first to be impacted and the last to be considered. Meanwhile, abled environmen

[azcrowleyfell]

Stop individualizing climate change when multi-billion-dollar companies are at fault. And DEFINITELY stop blaming disabled people for existing.

[jabberwockypie]

Since rising CO2 means people’s allergies are getting worse (plants release more pollen), and air pollution in general makes asthma and allergies worse … if we fix the fossil fuel thing, people will also being using their inhalers less.

[pigeonacademic]

It’s like they’re trying to find excuses to exterminate disabled people like “Well I guess since your inhalers are the sole cause of all this environmental strife guess u can’t live” 

[twitblr]

Facts.

[mi1f]

doctors be like. i dont know whats wrong with u so nothing is wrong with u<3

[astronofeminist]

A British Teen Said She Was Gang-Raped. Then She Was Sent to Prison.

After international outrage, a judge has suspended her sentence for three years.

[greenwire]

chop off their raping tools

[mamoru]

I feel like a lot of people do not know how much wheelchairs cost so

one that is actually designed to be used independently, rigid frame, without any fancy electronics, is a lot of money.

how much do you think the wheelchair shown below is worth?

this is $1,600. this costs one thousand six hundred dollars with no customization, on SALE. this is a SALE price. this is one of the cheapest rigid wheelchairs I could find from a reputable seller. different models cost thousands more and even basic customization can tack on a ton of money.

[marley-vaa]

Bitch, it's better to get a dollie and a stick at that point then.

[mamoru]

yeah...that is basically what people do. or they are forced to use pieces of crap folding wheelchairs that hurt the user because they are intended primarily for being pushed. if you have someone with you 24/7 who can push you everywhere? a wheelchair costs a couple hundred for one that might cause a little less bruising than a hospital model. want to be independent at all? you need thousands of dollars for a proper fit or be willing to constantly injure yourself.

[briarpatch-kids]

I literally JUST purchased a properly fit wheelchair that was designed to be active, independent, and fit my needs. Nothing fancy, I think I got a tire upgrade so I can go on gravel and flip down handles so I can keep people from kidnapping "helping" me when I don't want them to, but also got a less expensive cushion and backrest than standard and a $1000 discount off MSRP for paying in cash.

Turns out the price of freedom for me is exactly $2354.

[oleanderblume]

My uncle bought a wheelchair after his accident, that is meant for rough terrain, it's built like a tank, the thing has treads, it can lift him upright so he can continue to pick from his orchard.

It cost more than a brand new car. Almost 60k for a wheelchair he can use to sustain his farm. JUST to sustain his farm.

Its ridiculous. Disabled people deserve affordable accommodations and mobility devices. They aren't all fucking rich