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Adult human female 💃 Gold star lesbian 🌟 Bachelor’s in Gender Studies —> TERF 👹

[feminist-furby-freak]

The Lindsey Clancy trial needs to be a serious wake up call but I think not in the way most people are talking about.

Lindsey Clancy “got help.” She saw numerous mental health “providers” and was put on a dozen psychiatric medications and her condition continued to worsen. Unfortunately, this isn’t at all a one off this is a fairly standard approach in our psychiatric care harm system.

A patient, often a woman, presents with symptoms of depression or anxiety that are interfering with her life but not totally impairing function and is put on medication. The medication causes symptoms which make her worse and these symptoms are not attributed to the medication but to some underlying disorder. The patient is then put on numerous medications sometimes 4+ at once and symptoms worsen. Does anyone ever say “hey let’s stop for a bit let’s taper off the medications in a secure place to go back to baseline and we can go from there.” Nope. It’s always “the wrong meds” or “it’s just her condition making her worse.”

Contrary to popular belief these medications, especially poly pharmacy are not well studied. The long term efficacy is not well researched. Medications, particularly SSRIs are known to induce mania and suicide in some patients and it’s appalling they are prescribed without proper oversight and without proper discussion of risk and benefit and warning signs. Are SSRIs and psych meds life saving for many people! Absolutely! But it’s appalling that individual practitioners refuse to acknowledge these well known complications of meds and blame them on the patient pushing them down a rabbit hole of over medicalization.

I think many people don’t understand that psychiatry can cause iatrogenic psychiatric disorders (basically medically induced). There are many people, including myself who have experienced much more harm than benefit from psychiatric care and would have been better off never seeking “help.” Improper care can be disabling (or life ending) and when your issue is “psychiatric” you may have no say in your treatment.

It just makes me so angry that Lindsey Clancy’s access to “professionals” may have worsened her symptoms and contributed to the tragic outcome. And for anyone with disagrees, i don’t think you understand what being on multiple inappropriately prescribed high dose psychiatric medications (as well as being taken on and off them in a short time) can do to your brain. It’s so tragic and I think we need to acknowledge as a culture the entire psychiatric industry is pseudoscientific at best and abusive at worst and demand better.

Bad psychiatrists kill people. Just like bad surgeons or anesthesiologists or ER doctors. Bad medical science kills people. Lindsey Clancy deserved better.

[ilovemywife103947]

[feminist-furby-freak]

Me when I meet up with friends in healthcare

[brattylikestoeat]

Why are we dropping Halloween shit on August 24th? Every year it gets earlier and earlier.

We shouldn’t be dropping Halloween merchandise, content, until mid to late September. It’s too early.

I’m already seeing Halloween candy. Time will never be real. This is why I feel like time is not real. If you want to celebrate Halloween tomorrow. You could all supplies are already out.

[feminist-furby-freak]

Went to the beach last week. Haven’t been in years so went to buy supplies and I couldn’t find any in like four stores including a big suburban target. Like is it that crazy someone might need summer supplies in mid August? Are we just supposed to buy tons of shit in case we might need it months in advance? Guess so.

[sichorean]

I am trying so desperately to not lose hope but libfems are so fucking stupidly allergic to even the most basic of feminist discussion and oh my god we're never making it out of the patriarchal ooze

[themarshmallowreturns]

no, you're seriously just going thermonuclear over a shirt that doesn't matter. people can wear what they want without it being some damning evidence against their intelligence y'know.

[unsentimentaltranslator]

thermonuclear

you must always blow on the pie and you must never listen to men who say it’s empowering to wear a kick-me sign on your chest

[thecoloredcanvas]

We're in such an era of everyone pretending that their individual choices have no effect on anything or anyone else, while simultaneously perpetually blaming every shitty quality of self on everthing and everyone but their own selfish choices.

Anti-intellectualism and misogyny are tools of systemic oppression. You don't get to opt out of your personal political power when you live in a collective, especially when you post your stupid shit all over the public commons that is the internet. If you don't wanna hear back from people about your harmful behavior, you can go live in the woods by yourself and stfu forever.

But as long as you wanna live in society and post misogynistic anti-intellectualist bullshit, people who are affected by said bullshit are gonna respond by calling you on it. Mad? Go figure out the basic principle of cause and effect, freak.

[pusheen-the-radical]

all these women going ‘i loved the top’

why? what is it about this plain black t-shirt with idiotic writing on it that you loved. explain it to me like i’m a 6 year old: what about it do you love and why. because you love advertising yourself as stupid?? why? because you want people thinking about your tits before they think about you ideas? like what do you love here, what is it???

[youren0tfunny]

For the people who act like they don't get it, imagine this:

Instead of a shirt that insults you on the basis of being a woman, replace it with a shirt that insults you on the basis of another identity marker, say race, for example.

Imagine if a person of a certain racialised background wore a shirt loudly proclaiming an insulting stereotype attributed to said group to be true.

Do you still think it's "cunty" and empowering? Or is it just fucking sad and embarrassing?

[niiwa-angel]

Why did the creators of the shirt feel the need to make it? If it's "just a shirt" and it's "just for fun" why would the joke be funny? There isn't a male equivalent shirt.

As for the women wearing it, what's the point? It's not a funny joke, it's a sexualizing, degrading joke. The only people laughing are misogynists, who were laughing at you regardless.

This is a notifier. A woman wearing this shirt isn't part of the joke, she isn't making any grand statement. All she's doing is communicating to the men around her that she acknowledges her position in the world; a dumb woman who's only good for being sexualized.

[feminist-furby-freak]

Imagine a man buying a muscle tee that said all balls no brains or something.

[leonkennedysprostate]

"don't assign human morality to non human things" is so true except when it comes to printers. they know what they are, they understand dilemmas and ethics and morality. they choose to be how they are, they choose to be evil, at their very core they are rotten

[girlmostlikely]

[jayavarmanvii]

All of your people's hyperfixations can't be hazbin hotel and sonic the hedgehog. I understand this is Tumblr but like really

[jayavarmanvii]

Lets be honest most people who use this word are not neurodivergent

[feminist-furby-freak]

Is it a hyper fixation or is it an interest. You know the thing all people have as a unique product of their personality. Istg the internet pathologies everything.

[autism-thoughts]

The anti-vax and anti-science propaganda is very real - and also, frankly I think doctors and nurses would've had an easier time getting people not to fall for it if they spent less time treating people like fucking shit

[autism-thoughts]

This post is about a lot of things but it is especially about racism, medical abuse, and eugenics

[feminist-furby-freak]

I’m in healthcare and I agree. Many people, especially those from groups historically harmed by American medicine, have totally valid reasons to distrust medicine.

It’s hard to be like hey yeah I know we (medical professionals) have historically lied to you and mistreated you but we’re not like that anymore you can trust us now we’re the good guys!

I think the first step is acknowledging people aren’t crazy (and are in fact totally justified) in being skeptical and working to earn their trust.

[mini-wrants]

No, actually, but reading that article on one reason women in the US may have so many c-sections is because we tell women they cannot eat or drink anything once they start labor, their body becomes depleted of key electrolytes as they spend hours in labor and they don’t replace it with anything, and they they’re too tired to keep pushing was a revelation for me.

Because it reminds me of doctors telling women in the past not to gain too much weight, to have an enema before labor, to lay straight on their backs while giving birth. This is all for the benefit of the doctors - smaller babies are easier to pull out of the birth canal, they don’t want you pooping on the table, doctors like having a clear line of sight more than you having a natural birthing position.

Like yes, we don’t want women to aspirate on their vomit if we have to intubate or put them under anesthesia during labor. But also, yall don’t seem to give a fuck if you have time to give women pain meds before slicing them open during the c section, so like…maybe let the mothers have a blue Gatorade and and some meats and cheeses when they’re 2 hours deep into labor and they won’t need the c section in the first place.

[mini-wrants]

“Maybe we’re building up acids in the uterus of women who are in the middle of labor the same way athletes build up lactic acid in their muscles and we should study this 10 cent intervention”

Hey how the fuck did no one think of this before now. All my friend was allowed to eat during her 40 hour labor before a c section was ice chips and a popsicle.

[feminist-furby-freak]

Medical misogyny in obstetrics is so rampant and ingrained and present in so many things people outside the field never think of. I should make a master post

[radfemme-rage]

it’s funny (tragic) how so much “self-care” for women just relates to time, money, discomfort and labour spent on beautification and trying to perpetually look 18-21

even the linguistics are egregious… “self-care”, as if: i) this isn’t a superficial form of care, and, ii) she should feel guilty, that she is letting herself go, if she doesn’t perform “self-care”

it’s funny because wouldn’t an actual form of “self-care” tell women as a class: you can take a break from shaving today, from make up, from styling your hair, from spending 3 hours getting your nails done, you don’t need to worry about your skin today, you don’t need any maintenance — you can just exist as a person, and not as a female body who is to be consumed

[thatsroughbuddy7]

Real self care for women would be strength training for longevity (since our bodies start losing muscle rapidly as we age) and eating nourishing, healthy food. Also getting good, high quality sleep of 9-10 hours a night because that's actually the average hours of sleep we need.

[feminist-furby-freak]

I’m so sick of beauty rituals being labeled self care or hygiene.

Washing your face with something —> hygiene

Moisturizing dry skin, treating painful acne, sunscreen —> self care

10 step “skincare” routines —> beauty rituals

[dworkinlives]

not a butch myself but am lesbian and thank you for making the butches against transition community. Maybe I'm insane/too online but I've been seeing more and more TRAs and adjacent being all "we loooove butches on T!" With the usual glorification of mastectomy scar art and I'm like... wtf is this really a thing? To encourage women into abusing synthetic drugs and risk pelvic floor failure, vaginal atrophy, hair loss, and osteoporosis for "masculine" aesthetic purposes? It feels like grooming into identifying as trans or trans masculine(whatever the fucking difference is none of them even know)?

Anyway best of luck to all you ladies and remember your female body is never wrong for loving other females <3

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[cowgirlgirl2002]

Y’all know how many times men on social media will talk about how world caters to women and how we live in a “matriarchy” dude we do NOT live in a society where women and children are protected..it’s men who are raping women and children are protected and are allowed to be leaders….be fr rn

[severeprincesheep]

[thesinisterspinster]

Eh #16 you forgot to add that those women and babies where also murdered by those institutions.

[bikinibottomfemme]

like ppl will rlly be like "transphobia affects cis women too because those female BLACKS look MANNISH and MASCULINE and MANLY and are more likely to be mistaken for MEN because they're so HUGE and MAN-LIKE" and everyone takes it seriously

baby i think ur just racist and trying to hide it under progressive language

[majchic]

[feminist-furby-freak]

I’ll never forget sitting in a class on abortion (at a women’s college no less!) and hearing my classmates argue that abortion wasn’t a gendered issue but a healthcare access issue. Like sure… but what do all the people with this specific healthcare issue have in common? 🤔

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

Aren’t you the ones who wanted their sex changed on all their documents? This is the result

[crow-carrion]

This is a real issue that's affecting women in healthcare because transmascs are sold the idea that there's 0 downsides to changing sex marker on our files. This causes transmascs and detrans women to face sexual assault in medical settings, improper medical care, and even death. Why do you believe "you asked for it" is ok when women identify as trans?

Besides... Doctors not reading the files hurts and kills women who aren't transmasc too. This is not just a little "gotcha" moment. This is something that affects all women. A little solidarity between transmascs, detrans women, and women who were never trans would be a lot better than "this is what you wanted". No, what they wanted was a doctor who would read their damn file.

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

I’m not saying they deserve it, I’m saying trans ideology hurts the very women they’re trying to help. Putting ‘m’ on a female person’s file is ofc gonna cause problems and misunderstandings

[niiwa-angel]

I'm saying they kinda deserve it. They were warned multiple times by multiple people and they did it anyway.

[shadows-and-starlight]

It's almost like biology matters in medical settings 🤔 and while yeah the doctors/nurses should be doing a full reading of your charts, it doesn't help that you're actively trying to deceive them and everyone by pretending to be the other sex.

[niiwa-angel]

This also has to do with language. If the chart says "male" or has a male sex marker, when you ask for bathroom assistance, the nurse is going to bring you the male bathroom assistance tools. Hospitals are overwhelmed right now, nurses are overwhelmed. This woman made their job harder and is now shaming them for getting the supplies for the sex marker she changed.

[hexagon-club]

There's something that bothers me about the smug "haha, those stupid nurses didn't realize I am female" energy. Maybe they actually didn't realize it, but maybe they did and treated her like she was male anyway because they didn't want to deal with the HR fallout of not playing pretend.

Every other day there's some smug post on here to the effect of "those stupid cis people don't realize that we literally change sex and are biologically the same as the sex we are currently claiming to be." There's enough people in the trans movement who have made it clear that we are supposed to pretend that we are supposed to pretend they are the opposite sex at all times. But sometimes they stop feeling like they want to be treated that way and then they act like we are the stupid ones for following the rules they set.

[loserdogma]

^ there’s an odd air of deception that they find very satisfying, both by passing and in this case the inverse; being capitulated to first and foremost and then posturing themselves as some sort of higher authority figure with a “gotcha!” moment to own the cis person.

[feminist-furby-freak]

Just to add my two cents:

“Read the chart” is very easy to say if you’ve never read a medical chart.

First of all, you know who probably set up that room and placed the urinal? Environmental services or the CNA/tech. Do you expect every member of your healthcare team, literally dozens of people some of whom never directly interact with you, to pour over your chart to determine your sex and gender and anatomy? It’s possible the person who set up the room literally does not have access to the chart.

Also, medical charts can be incredibly convoluted and if the care/procedure was done at a different facility it is literally not in the chart unless you told whoever admitted you and they copy it over in every note.

[luxlightly]

Having depression is fun because one of the main symptoms is that you want to kill yourself and one of the side effects of the meds is you want to kill yourself but if you at any point even IMPLY you want to kill yourself to your doctors in charge of making you not want to kill yourself, you are forcibly put in "wanting to kill yourself jail".

And I have news that may not surprise you about how "wanting to kill yourself jail" affects your mental state and what it may make you want to do.

[feminist-furby-freak]

Statistically one of the most at risk times for suicides is after being released from psychiatric incarceration the psych ward. Maybe because they’re so traumatic… There is not even strong evidence that these types of hospitalizations even prevent suicide or have any benefit to depressed patients!

Not to mention that you can’t just come off the Meds That Make You Want To Kill Yourself because any changes in dose can make these feelings so so much worse!

[infectiouspiss]

Is it acceptable that I do shave my legs only because it’s easier to put lotion on my legs when they aren’t too hairy and I do like the feeling of smooth skin when I finish up with it.

I also only really do it once or twice a month so sometimes I do go out in public with hairy legs.

come on man i'm on my lunch break can't you wait???