miraclepatient

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Ides of March ceremonial daggers tomorrow. #rozliubit

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why is it considered ok when neurotypicals label themselves “cute but ps*cho”. y'all will wear ps*cho on a t-shirt and put ps*cho as the title of your blog for aesthetic purposes and that’s considered perfectly fine, but when someone with (for example) a personality disorder puts their personality disorder in their blog description we get a 50k note post about how that’s not okay.

why is it considered ok when neurotypicals sexualize characters they deem mentally ill. ya’ll literally fetishize mental illness when you think a fictional murderer has one, but actual mentally ill people can’t even cope with our illnesses the way we want to without being told that we’re glorifying or romanticizing them.

why is it considered ok when neurotypicals aestheticize asylums and straight jackets but demonize the kinds of people that were in them.

why is it okay to continuously try to demonize and silence mentally ill people when we’re just trying to cope, survive, and live in a world that hates the reality of us, but is absolutely obsessed with the idea of us?

[exhibition-ism]

A look at the process-heavy, experimental work of Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. 

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 actress and activist Q’orianka Kilcher protesting against BP dumping oil in water sources in the Amazon.

[just-shower-thoughts]

A man will treat a woman like a princess until she starts to act like one.

[italianways]

Rose rain in Rome’s Pantheon.

(via Italian Ways)

[paintdeath]

I cant wait to stay a goth for the rest of my life

[rottingpatchwork]

the tops of parking garages have the best views

[diaphanee]

Today in Rio de Janeiro, people devoted to the Afro-American religions gather on Copacabana beach to leave offerings to the goddess Yemaja - the ocean, the essence of motherhood.

[deactivatedmichiko-malandro]

[dimetrodone]

People horrifically fucking up facts about evolution and genetics too support their stupid beliefs or to seem smart and “rational” is probably one of my big pet peeves 

[bogleech]

Yeah. An enormous number of racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes I’ve met eventually whip out something about evolutionary biology and they never, ever, ever, ever have the slightest shadow of even a half-right idea what any of it means or ever cite a claim ever actually made by a scientific study.

Here’s a quick handy reference list or anyone who isn’t sure:

Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.

“Alpha males” are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.

“Survival of the fittest” simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it “fits” its environment. It does not mean that stronger or smarter individuals are supposed to succeed. Those things can even be a detriment in nature by wasting too many resources.

“Race” is not a biological concept. Someone who looks different from you has the same human genes, just a different grab-bag of dominant traits.

Evolution is not a march towards higher complexity, more intelligence or even more adaptability. It’s just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isn’t “less evolved” than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.

People didn’t evolve “from apes.” It’s more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.

No human on Earth is “closer” to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.

Neanderthals were also a “sibling” species of ours. We didn’t evolve from them.

Some of us did, however, cross-breed with Neandethal man. It is exclusively non-African races, such as white people, who still carry hybrid human/Neanderthal genes. Whoops, sorry “white purity” skinheads, you’re actually mixed with a whole other species.

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Just had to reblog this because I am honestly so tired of people claiming that Africans are “less evolved” than everyone else 

[ash-of-the-loam]

My addition to the above list:

Epigenetics does not have anything at all to do with genetic memories. It is a thing that affects characteristics like health risks, and this speculation floating around about how phobias could be related to some ancestral trauma is complete and utter nonsense.

It’s only a matter of time before such a claim is used as another pseudoscientific tool in the arsenal of people claiming that bloodlines have anything to do with the validity of one’s worship of European pantheons. “My ancestors were Swedish, and because of epigenetics I have genetic memories passed down from those ancestors, so therefore my connection with the gods is better than yours!”

Just, no. Stop. STOP.

[idiopathicsmile]

gonna also chime in here:

saying the “male brain” works one way and the “female brain” works another way is ludicrous. for so many reasons, even beyond the obvious of imposing that tired old either/or mentality with regards to maleness and femaleness

occasionally you will read about how a study suggests that “men are naturally better at spacial reasoning” or “women are naturally better at cooperation”, but for one thing, given how early the brain wires itself and how easy it is to influence the wiring (like, disturbingly easy), and given the tremendous social expectations we face from pretty much the moment we leave the freaking womb, it’s impossible to study gender differences in a vacuum. 

like, do your findings prove that “women are better at reading faces”, or do they prove that, when you are part of a group that has been socialized since birth to be “nice”, to take care of other people, and to above all avoid making folks angry, you damn well have to learn how to read the room, and read it fast.

also, the “left brain, right brain” thing is bunk. there are not, like emotion-driven people and logic-driven people. everybody is primarily emotional. that circuitry is older and reacts much faster, and this is why nobody is immune from sometimes making wildly irrational decisions.

[capillaries-blog]

plot twist: the introverted character who doesn’t like big social gatherings or speaking in front of people is still an introvert by the end of the story because introversion is not a character flaw and it doesn’t need to be overcome 

[capillaries-blog]

i forgot i said this but i’m going to say it again 

[kokonutwata]

honestly men have the weirdest and most skewed perceptions of what women and feminine people’s routines are like

and you can tell this because of the idiotic ass questions they ask when they think they’re being slick. “What would you do if i was there” “Oh really getting ready for bed? What does that entail” “Ohh you’re getting ready for work, can i watch” 

it’s like they think everything has to be this incredibly sexual, borderline pornographic experience, and it’s so strange to comprehend

like, i’m getting ready for bed, not masturbating. i’m getting ready for work, not putting on a strip show. it’s like everything is this weird ass “for men’s eyes only” brand of performance art to them, and they honestly get disappointed when it doesn’t turn out that way irl

i don’t get it at all

[sazquatch-blog]

I feel like this is closely tied to the fact that femininity is pushed on women from childhood as ‘the only way to be.’ Women are forced (and yes I mean forced - women who decry femininity face harassment, assault, employment discrimination and are pathologised by medical professionals) into roles which have been constructed by men to appeal to male heterosexuality. This ensures that our mere existence in a public space provides low-level titillation, and men living in a world where women are forced into inadvertently catering to them develop the misogynistic notion that we exist as sex objects to arouse them. The natural progression from that is assuming that our private lives are hypersexual and performative as well.  It’s probably also got a lot to do with voyeurism and entitlement to our bodies. They harass us in public to degrade us and make us aware of their arousal as paramount, and their fantasies impose that desire upon us in private, too.

[shivadancing]

[eastiseverywhere]

The Onion Tibetan Teen Getting Into Western Philosophy US (2004) [Source]

This thing oughta be framed and placed in every Asian art museum in the West.

[goingcoldtofu]

I laughed so hard 😁

[rabbitinthemoon-blog]

All women speak two languages: 
the language of men 
 and the language of silent suffering.
 Some women speak a third, 
 the language of queens.

Mohja Kahf, The Marvelous Women  (via talisman)

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The Hunger Games: New CBS reality show exploits poor families by making them grovel for $101,000

Kill the rich.

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For those who can’t load the article: 

“Both [families] are told they’ll be participating in a documentary about money. Instead, a producer from the show unexpectedly comes to their house with a suitcase full of cold, hard cash: $101,000 to be exact. That could be a life-changing – and in the case of families so near the financial cliff, nearly life-saving – sum of money. But this being reality TV, instead of just giving them the cash, there’s a major catch.

Both families are informed that somewhere out there, there’s another family “who’s also in need,” and are given a choice: “You can keep all of the money, you can keep some of the money, or you can give it all away.” Neither family knows that the other family also has a suitcase full of cash and is debating how much, if any, they’ll share.”

What follows, predictably, is a gut-wrenching look at the two families being guilted this way and that over whether to choose charity or financial survival.

this is the most disgusting shit, what in the fuck

[peachsticks]

there’s a quote from the announcer guy in the trailer that says “through it all, they learn it’s not the money, but the journey that will teach them what they value most”

like. u giving these struggling families money, families WHO NEED THE MONEY, and u gonna fucking sit there like these ~life lessons~ are more important than the cash to pay off debts and bills and tuition and other necessities they’ve been denied because they’re not cushy rich people?

like lmao i can’t believe this. i cannot believe a buncha people got together and thought this would make for good television, it’s so fucking offensive? if my mom and i had been on this show and we found out they were fucking guilting us to decide on how much to keep or share even tho the other family also has the same money like.

we would prob set everyone on fire tbh. why do people think playing with emotions like this is television worthy like i am SO disgusted

poor people are just entertainment it seems!!! lol!!!!!

[thecollegeboardblog]

The SAT was created by a noted racist and anti-immigrant activist who had previously written difficult, biased exams intended to prevent immigrants from becoming citizens. Happy test day!!

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source, and the full text of his work that was later used to fuel anti-immigrant sentiment and prove the superiority of the “Nordic” race.