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a woman of science, progressive beliefs and basically everything that would have me killed by the church in the 17th century. (pronouns:she/her) check out my other Tumblr: doinghugsnotdrugs.tumblr.com

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

These are amazing — and shockingly accurate. Did you know there’s a “Bechdel test” for female scientist biographies?

Follow @the-future-now​

[worstloki]

@queencfthestarsdrfoster 👀👀👀

[v-is-a-cyberpunk]

A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

[fuckyeah-nerdery]

The bravest woman on Earth.

[unofficiallyjuni-deactivated201]

I love her. Forever reblog.

[theatsymbol-deactivated20210220]

I have the utmost respect for this woman. 

[the-dream-i-had]

please reblog. reblog the way you would reblog a picture of a hot singer, a pretty girl, a tasty meal or some nice stationary. Because this will not make your blog ‘less aesthetic’ or anything. This is important, far more important than anything I’ve mentioned before.

[motherbychoice]

Nevertheless, she persisted.

Persist.

[vodkamasi]

Mother Teresa is going to be declared a saint... and she shouldn’t be

I’m not shocked but honestly I’m so disappointed. I’m a girl who grew up in Kolkata, someone who grew up hearing about Mother Teresa and to be honest I hate the fact that the liberal, white, Western media has held this woman as some sort of paragon of virtue. And she really wasn’t. Here are some things she did:

She was so anti-abortion that she actually used her Nobel Peace Prize speech to rail against population control, family planning and abortion. 

She supported Indira Gandhi’s declaration on the state of emergency in 1975, saying “People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes.”

She idolised poverty and suffering, stating that she thought it was beautiful that the poor had accepted their lot in life. But when it came to her, she would check herself into expensive clinics, in the West, in order to treat her own illnesses. 

She was also associated with and supported corrupt businessmen such as Charles Keating and Robert Maxwell, as well as the dictatorial Duvalier family and Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. 

She encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients with no regard for their own faiths. 

Her public image was super misleading because  only a few hundred people are served by even the largest of the homes. In 1998, among the 200 charitable assistance organisations reported to operate in Calcutta, hers wasn’t even ranked among the largest organisations- there were others doing a much better job.

In 1991, a journalist visited the home and described the medical care the patients received as “haphazard” and he observed that sisters, who had no medical knowledge, had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors there. 

Her order did not distinguish between curable or incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. She herself described her houses as the Houses of the Dying.

She reinforced the popular colonialist image of the white woman giving up her life to save the souls of the “wretched” brown people.

There are more shady things about her but I’m over this beatification of Mother Teresa. I’m over her, and I’m over this constant fawning. Kolkata isn’t the “city where Mother Teresa lived”. It has it’s own identity and Mother Teresa doesn’t, at least in my opinion, deserve this honour that the Catholic Church is bestowing on her. 

[poetessinthepit]

More people don’t know about this. I know people on this website hate athiests but Christopher Hitchens wrote a whole scathing book Mother Teresa was, in his words, “a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud.”

[theonlyleftydesk]

^^^ watch that documentary!

Also she funneled MILLIONS back to the Vatican in Rome, while she DELIBERATELY had her nuns keep the “hospitals” they were running as squalid as possible–since it appealed to the liberal white tourists who would come there on poverty-porn tours, who would of course take pictures, and who would also get all weepy and OF COURSE donate money.

They were so poor (by her choice) that they would reuse syringes and hypodermic needles, often without cleaning them properly, since as another poster said up above, the nuns had no medical experience. Since they were often “treating” people with contagious illnesses, they actually acted as a vector for the spread of disease.

They would take in sick children with treatable illnesses…and just let them die, because as she believed, “the suffering purified their souls”.

The woman was basically condensed evil with a benevolent, smiling old woman’s face.

[emeraldmercury]

Also her current charity is still around and they were found to be SELLING BABIES.

M.T was a monster and Indian textbooks need to stop glorifying her.

[louisjamesmoriarty-deactivated2]

Wasn’t she also responsible for illegally converting Hindus to Christianity?

[emeraldmercury]

YUP. She baptised people on their deathbeds and also the Missionaries of “Charity” to this day tell people they have to convert to get access to their services.

Modi is an overly idealistic Hindi chauvinist (you know who else tried to impose only one language on the whole country? Xi JinPooh!), but the ONE good thing he did was ban all these conversion factories masquerading as NGOs.

[holding-infinity-and-a-book]

I….I looked up to mother teresa

Better Ugly Truths than Pretty Lies

[keenmarvellover]

As a Christian I did NOT know this and now I feel disgusted because this is something I should have known.

[positivity-roses]

Making fun of girls who dream of being a wife and stay-at-home-mom actually doesn’t make you progressive or feminist or cool, it just makes you a person who shits on someone else’s dream, a.k.a an asshole 

[tooiconic]

I WILL ALWAYS REBLOG THIS

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

Always important to remember; the enemy of feminism is not a particular lifestyle, the enemy of feminism is to not be able to choose.

[feministaf]

[doinghugsnotdrugs]

be unapologetically you.

shave your legs or any part of your body, as much as you'd like;

or leave it eu natural, it's your choice, it's up to you.

be unapologetically you.

wear dresses or skirts,

crop tops and shorts,

jeans or jumpsuits;

or wear sweatshirts and tracks, you should be comfortable in your outfit, it's up to you.

be unapologetically you.

have as much sex as you'd like;

or have no sex at all, it's up to you.

be unapologetically you.

colour your hair in all the hues of the spectrum;

or leave it in its natural shade, it's up to you.

be unapologetically you.

[furiousgoldfish]

Recognizing Abuse Masterlist

Signs that you’re living in abuse:

Behavioral patterns of living in abuse

Was I abused? Checklist

Not knowing you are a victim

Signs your family is abusive

Making excuses for your abusive parents

Experience of living in secrecy

What they taught you was abuse

Emotional experiences of living in abuse

Shame and guilt: how abused children feel

What makes parents abusers (actions)

Have I been manipulated into believing abuse was my fault? Checklist

Am I being held hostage by abusers? Checklist

You are not allowed to mention the past

Why you still love abusive parents

Parental behaviour that isn’t normal

Shit parents aren’t supposed to say to you

Experience of “not belonging anywhere”

Red flags for abusive parents

Healthy vs Abusive Chores

Was my childhood abusive or just had some bad parts?

Rules always change (unpredictable environment is abusive)

Breakdown of abusive parent’s behaviour:

“This is my house” rule

Start living in the real life!

Why all the children aren’t abused equally in an abusive home

Common abuser hypocrisies

Do your parents want you to be happy or look happy?

Why do they try to convince you that you’re worthless

Why do they pretend you’re a burden? Controlling behaviour

Why your abusers are not good people

Abusive parents are keeping you in false hope they’ll change

Are your parents preventing you from succeeding?

Abusive parents pretending “it wasn’t that bad”

Double Bind (why every choice you make ends wrong)

Incorporating trauma in raising children

Abusers will not allow you to call them out on abuse

Signs your parents are narcissistic:

Stuff delusional narcissists say

Shit narcissistis parents say

Recognizing emotional immaturity of narcissistic parents

Examples of narcissistic behaviours

Being punished for growing up by narcissistic parents

What children of narcissists go thru

Signs you’ve been thru sexual abuse:

CSA (Childhood Sexual Abuse) Symptoms

Signs you might have endured CSA

Was I sexually abused by adults as a child? Checklist

Signs of abusive friendship/relationship:

How to tell if a friend is not a friend

Am I in an abusive relationship/friendship? Checklist

Manufacturing insecurities

Red flags for abusers

Have I been thru social abuse? Checklist

You can recognize abusers by how they make you feel

How abusive childhood teaches you to stay in abusive relationships

Recognizing abusive friendship

Signs you’re struggling with trauma

Trauma processing information

Experiences of traumatized children

Signs you’re recovering from long term abuse

Things abuse survivors think/say

Thoughts of victims of child abuse

Your brain on trauma

How long term childhood abuse develops into complex trauma (comic)

Ups and downs of trauma

[llothcat]

To girls and feminists who need this right now: Darling, you are beautiful just the way you are, don't ever let any stupid fucking dumbass uneducated people get you down because,

STRECH MARKS ARE FUCKING BEAUTIFUL AND IF ANY MAN OR ANY PERSON WANTS TO SAY OTHERWISE REMIND THEM THAT THEIR STUPID ASS WOULDN'T BE HERE WITHOUT THEM

IF YOU ARE A PERSON WHO THINKS THEY WEIGH TOO MUCH, YOU DO NOT. YOU ARE FUCKING PERFECT JUST THE WAY YOU ARE AND IF ANYONE WANTS TO OBJECT THEN SLAP THEIR DUMBASS IN THE FACE

PERIODS ARE NORMAL AND NATURAL. YOU CANNOT CONTROL IF YOU START IN THE MIDDLE OF A MEETING OR STAIN SOMEONE ELSE'S STUFF. IT'S FUCKING NATURAL AND IF SOMEONE GETS MAD THEN TELL THEM THEY WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASNT FOR PERIODS

GO ON WITH YOUR DAY AND BE THE FUCKING QUEEN YOU ARE

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED AND SMART AND BADASS AND IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING IN LIFE THEN DO IT.

IT'S NOT "STUPID" IT'S NOT "A WASTE OF TIME" IT IS NOT "IMPOSSIBLE" AND IT'LL ONLY "NEVER HAPPEN" IF YOU DON'T GO THROUGH WITH IT AND SHINE LIKE THE GODESS YOU ARE

And always remember I love you (also to eat and drink water😊)

[mybeautifulexistentialcrises-de]

for my grandmother

Mother, your heart is a tragedy,  & your family tree a well of pain.  I think all daughters inherit their wounds  From their mothers before them. Gaping gashes are our inheritance, The currency of our survival. 

Mother, i am picking At the bruises and scabs on my skin They are the very same patterns that  I traced on your body when i was a child,  They say beauty is pain, but they neglected to mention That only poetry can make pain beautiful, And my pen has run dry. 

Mother,       we are something so ugly Turned so, so good. We are the warmth  Of an open fire and the welts it leaves on your skin,  We are the brilliance of a sudden spark And the darkness that is left after it, mother,  Albert Camus said that beauty drives us to despair, & you are living with no hope in your eyes.  

Mother, i am a language that you can’t read,  & I am constantly writing a new life for you,  One where you are one of the girls with big homes And full bellies who read books by the firelight,  One where you don’t give birth at 14, one where  Your back is not so crooked from a lifetime at their feet. 

Mother,   you were a force comparable  To a hurricane, do you think they know that given the chance,  The world would have been at your feet, the lifetimes  That you could have lived are taunting me in the shape of my uncle’s tongues,  Curving into words that almost sound like what a waste, Sounding almost like what she could have done. 

Mother, do you think  I will ever be free of the sudden sadness  of knowing that no matter what I do I cannot save you? Your adolescent shape is slipping out of  My grasp, over and over and over again,  But my fingers keep coming up just short.  I can still see a little girl in your eyes sometimes,  Who was hoping that someone would come save her. 

Mother, there is no happy ending  To your story. Your scars are faded over on my body now,  And the pain is an ache instead of stinging fresh. 

Mother, are we beautiful now?

[emtalks]

why is being nice automatically understood as flirting

[feministaf]

I absolutely hate the fact that the dowry system still exists in India. like why should I pay you to marry me?

/srs.

[feministtalks]

[nix-akimbo]

[feministaf]

RAPE IS ABOUT VIOLENCE, NOT SEX .

nobody wants their body to be violated.

nobody wants to be sexually assaulted.

NOBODY ASKS FOR IT.

it's not about provocative clothing, it's not about whether the victim smokes or drinks. none of those things even remotely suggest that they wanted someone to rape them.

is that so difficult to understand?

it's about men who think women exist to satisfy their sexual urges, about men who claim that sex is a "requirement" for them, almost equivalent to food.

it's about the system that has failed so miserably at educating people about sex.

it's about the delay in justice, it's about the media who will give all the headlines to the entertainment industry, it's about selective outrage.

ironic, isn't it?

in a country like India, where old men think of it as their "duty" to police the rights of women in their household, that same country is where rape is so common.