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just-shower-thoughts

Saying you have OCD every time you see something unorganised is like saying you have lung cancer every time you cough

meegstalks

FYI don't joke about mental illnesses you don't experience

girlbossjodiarias

[unending fart noise]

msmazki

This is going up in my office.

meegstalks

Oh geez, if this ain't the realest thing.

#Ihavefinishedeverypodcast #Andupdatedmyresume

anarchapella

Unpopular opinion: straight people using “partner” to refer to their SO actually helps normalize the term so that lgbt folx can use it without automatically outing themselves to strangers. It also helps other straight ppl get comfortable with the fact that strangers aren’t entitled to information about other people’s gender or sexuality.

lesserkiwi-deactivated20180504

Give op their hard-earned notes

krusty-cakes

Tbh I hear “partner” and assume gay, I didn’t know straights used it. Very fair point, OP

queerlybelovedones

I hear ‘partner’ and think ‘gay’ too. A girl at work used it for months and I just went with it. When she would say ‘he’ I even thought maybe he was trans*. Anyways, someone using partner makes me more comfortable and I came out to her. She was just an intelligent straight girl that liked the term and was knowledgeable in human sexuality so definitely someone I should have felt comfortable coming out too. It’s a good sign of a straight person uses it IMO.

imagddisaster-deactivated202009

As a mental health clinician, this is actually my blanket term when discussing any romantic relationship. I agree it normalizes it, but I also think it’s a relatively safe term to use to describe most romantic relationships without making any assumptions about the person’s orientation or identity. I also use the word “partnered” when describing a monogamous relationship status.

mxthermoon

The term “partner” also removes the implied hierarchy of boyfriend/girlfriend vs husband/wife. This is relevant both to non-monogamous people, and unmarried individuals for whom the importance of their relationship isn’t dictated by its legal status.

tentadog-deactivated20220704

also you can make cowboy jokes

ohhdearimqueer-deactivated20201

yeehaw

reibish

I remember the moment a few years ago when I realized “partner” had finally become the neutral term I’d always hoped it could be when I kept hearing people use the word and I didn’t make any assumptions about their partner! It was great

meegstalks

I use 'partner' for the element of surprise.

suportal-blog

This week’s current issue in mental health: the price of medication. With numerous people sharing stories about how medication was the first step when they were getting help, we wanted to point out how the cost of these treatments is prohibitive especially for people without insurance.

ithendra

This makes me so thankful I live in Australia. We have what’s called the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, or PBS. The vast majority of prescription medication is listed on the PBS, which means the government subsidises their cost. Provided they have a Medicare card (Medicare is our universal healthcare scheme), the most anyone has to pay at the pharmacy for a medication that’s listed on the PBS is $39.50. If you hold a concession card, it’s even cheaper.

As an example, I take Lexapro to treat major depression and social anxiety. 10mg every morning. The PBS price for Lexapro 10mg is $29.21. But because I hold a pensioner concession card, and because I’m happy to take generic escitalopram, it costs me a fraction of that. I filled my prescription yesterday because I was running low on my tablets. Guess how much it cost me to fill my prescription?

FIVE DOLLARS AND FORTY CENTS.

$5.40 for a refill of the medication that keeps me mentally stable. $64.80 per year. That’s it. That people in the US have to pay hundreds, even thousands of dollars for medication is staggering.

meegstalks

However, the PBS picks and chooses arbitrarily. I am on an antidepressant too (stronger, and no concession card, so more like $40 a month for me), but my contraceptive Pill is astronomical, as it has particular combos of hormones to treat my endometriosis and pcos symptoms, while keeping my depression symptoms as mild as possible. In short, if I got the PBS funded Pill, my depression medication requirement would be increased.

meegstalks

“Just chuck whatever shitty picture of the other two you can find on there” - Taylor Hanson, t-shirt designer.

changecanbebittersweet-deactiva

Holy shit this caption

meegstalks

Why am I so funny? (it was a fluke)

gahdamnpunk

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

"Just chuck whatever shitty picture of the other two you can find on there" - Taylor Hanson, t-shirt designer.

reibish

We are all Wonder Woman

The collective gasp of all the women in the theater when Diana first rises to battle is one of the sweetest sounds I didn’t know I needed to hear.

Diana is never outright objectified. She is taken seriously, based on her qualifications and character and she is never doubted. She saves the day time and time again, but always with help and she is trusted to do her part, and equally trusts and uplifts her team to do theirs. The person actually in charge doesn’t lord over her and allows her the space to make her own decisions and deal with the consequences, good or bad. She is trusted without her having to prove herself as “one of the guys” but just as she is and her strengths.

Gasps of exclamation and surprise pepper each moment as women see this for the first time ever on the big screen. It’s not just one or two golden moments. It’s every step of the journey, each turn or plot twist, we see Diana do something that no woman has ever done in mainstream cinema.

I think Wonder Woman is less about who we can be as women and much more about who we are. I cannot help but identify with her on my own level in so many ways. She isn’t an ideal to become; rather, someone we learn to accept as ourselves.

Please go see this in the theater. Just like Get Out, the audience reaction is such a part of the experience. That this film came out the first week of Pride month starring a canonically bisexual character, and at a time when every possible threat to women is climbing at an alarming rate…this could not have been timed better.

Please, go see it. If you care about the women in your life, if you are a woman or femmefolk of any kind, if you just need the perfect pick-me-up when you’re in a slump, go. Go!

meegstalks

It's almost as though representation matters! 😒

micdotcom

blasianxbri

BITCH THIS TEA IS PIPING FUCKING HOT. I BURNT MY MOUTH SIPPING ON THIS SHIT.

riovidalll

FUCKING ROASTED

divine-noire

YALL LEFT OUT THE ENDING THOUGH!!

“And ain’t that just like White Feminism? Always getting up on somebody else’s back!”

And plot twist, Rachel (this poet) is Black. Her dad is just light skin as all hell.

me: i love australia because it has a really diverse population, strict gun control, near-perfect separation of church and state, a relative absence of political extremism, great memes, and beautiful natural wonders

also me: i hate australia because the government refuses to legalise gay marriage, our political system is highly unstable and every time we replace our leader it causes mass confusion, a coal mine is currently being planned practically on top of the great barrier reef, and any refugees who attempt to come here by boat are locked up indefinitely in offshore concentration camps with a total media blackout in place so no-one knows the extent of the human rights violations that are happening there

arnaaq

Sorry I’m mad that people barely pay attention to Indigenous women. like we’re literally being murdered and no one listens to us or our existence. hyperinvisibility is a killer and if you can’t include and uplift the voices and be inclusive then you’re not paying attention

i’m just tired of seeing these posts about celebrating all types of women and it never includes indigenous women. i’m tired because we are always forgotten in mainstream discussions

alethinephrine

This is a really important topic to bring up today. Indigenous women are beautiful and important too, so celebrate them today. Educate yourself on their struggles and adversities, and strive to be a better ally today for this group that’s often ignored by the media and society in general.

International Women's Day

Unintentionally queued to go up today, the post coming in a couple of hours deals with sexism in our community. I'm very nervous about it, but it's something I can't shake the feeling of.

confessinbouthanson

“I will never understand why some fans can’t let other fans enjoy things: BTTI, Hanson Day, Tour, Hanfic etc. I have a friend who hasn’t posted that she is going to BTTI because she doesn’t want anyone to feel bad or vice versa. There is ALWAYS at least one comment like: OMG, I can’t believe you’re wasting money on BTTI or people who camp out for shows are dumb!It ridiculous and I am mad at all these fun-suckers for ever making me feel guilty! Why can’t you be let people be happy, why do you care if certain fans go to a lot of Hanson event or spend a lot of money? Most of us, work hard of our money!Personally I say enjoy Hanson any way you like, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone (Hanson included), why do I care?Oh that’s right, I don’t.“

heartturnsblue

There’s a flip side to this, too, though. A lot of the ones who do go to every event will (consciously or not) make the rest of us feel less devoted because we don’t. There are plenty of valid reasons not to attend every. single. thing. And it doesn’t make you less of a fan.

Basically, judgment on both sides needs to stop. Presales, special events, MOEYs, etc feed into all of this, but I think the fans make it even worse than Hanson themselves do.

But thank you for mentioning hanfic! We’ll never convince some people not to judge us for writing it, but I appreciate every ally we do have.

meegstalks

Yep. I had 4 people in one day ask why on earth I'm not doing Hanson day. There's lots of reasons, but the number one is that it doesn't appeal to me because there's only one show. And I'm a monster for saying I wouldn't like the other "activities", and the sheer number of people freaks me out.

I'm cool with being a bad fan. I'll wait for tour. 😂

black-to-the-bones-deactivated2

College Freshman Stabbed to Death After Seeing Three Young Women Being Groped and Stepping in to Help

With final exams on the horizon, Donnell Marcus Phelps was all set to finish his freshman year at Fort Valley State University in Georgia.

The 19-year-old from Marshallville had been studying agricultural engineering technology but also found time to manage the university’s tennis team.

And help those in need.

Late Tuesday afternoon he witnessed a man harassing three young ladies. The man was touching these girls in a very inappropriate way, so he decided to step in. However, he was forced to bring fists to a knife fight.

An autopsy showed Phelps was stabbed four times in the upper torso with a pocket knife with a 3.5-inch blade.

“Words cannot describe the pain that we all feel in the Fort Valley State community,” university President Paul Jones said at news conference, offering condolences to Phelps’ family, friends, students and the entire community.

Johnson described Phelps as selfless: “He always gave us hugs, and he’d always check up on us,” she added to the Telegraph.

Donnell Phelps died a hero. His Mom did an incredible job raising an amazing person. God bless this young man for his sacrificial act of bravery. His life matters.

RIP Donnell Phelps.

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flyandfamousblackgirls

Only 19 years old and died protecting women in a day and age when people will literally be bystanders & shut an eye to someone else being harmed. Beyond brave and this is so heart breaking.