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[pcos-and-endo-awareness]

If you haven’t heard, today PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome has been renamed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. This change reflects that this is not a reproductive “problem” but a whole body disease.

Edit: this syndrome affects women, nonbinary folks and trans men. Please excuse the language in the informatic.

[kissfromiris]

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[blossom2blossom]

facts i think need to be kept in mind when looking at trinity's hatred for/fear of langdon:

she was sexually abused as a child by a male authority figure

her childhood best friend killed herself because of their rapist

langdon is a male authority figure who is commiting a crime

langdon is a father. he has access to children

trinity, on the same day, watched her department collectively decide not to report a man for raping his daughter

[blossom2blossom]

because of comments i am getting:

this is a post listing the information that trinity santos is taking in and processing as someone with severe trauma from male authority figures

i am not trinity santos

none of what the points that are listed are my conclusions on the characters. i'm listing factual information that the show gives us

reread the post and note that i never condemn langdon for anything or express a personal opinion on who he is as a person

if you feel like i implied something and you are upset about said implication, either ask me for clarification or take a break and do some breathing exercises

[ladyignatius4]

It doesn't matter if you wrote 5,000 or 50 words today.

It doesn't matter if all you did was day-dream about your characters while staring at the ceiling.

You are still a writer and your progress is valid.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[mollyjames]

I think a lot of transmisogyny stems from this idea that people are really scared to see a dick. The reason bathrooms and locker rooms and hot springs keep being flash points is because these are all places where if a trans woman is using them, it's possible you might see her dick. A lot of transmisogynistic humor revolves around being traumatized because the subject saw a woman with a penis. And look, to a certain extent I sympathize. I'm not a fan of dick; I dont want this thing either. But if you want to be an ally to trans women, I think a big important step you can take personally is to examine your own reaction to the scenarios I described above, and recognize that a dick is just a body part a girl has sometimes. Seeing it as inherently sexual and/or traumatizing is a major wedge conservatives use to justify their rhetoric

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

#know your fandom history

[thelittlefandomdefender]

not a single excuse about franchaela being 'problematic' holds. if you dont like it, do not watch it. ive heard so many lesbians/sapphic women saying they will start watching bridgerton for this season. they wont miss you crybabys.

[failurenumber3]

Having OCPD is funny because everything that makes sense to you is apparently extremely unhealthy. Like what do you mean you shouldn't strive for perfection even when their is literally no way to achieve it? Are you telling me their isn't a right answer to the question "what do you want for dinner"? What's next, not feeling depressed when not performing 100% perfectly?

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[feluka]

i hate the way fat antagonists have their weight moralized and used as a metaphor for greed and corruption and i hate the way it's overcorrected into fat people being "soft squishy friend-shaped cupcakes who look like they give incredible hugs" and i long for the day we have nuanced, interesting, and complicated fat characters and most of all i long for the day people are normal about fatness

[free-my-mindd]

[unspeakablearchives]

[s0ftest]

The response to Niall in episode 4 has been super enlightening. The amount of people going "is Niall the bad one now? 🫪" blows my mind. This traumatised man who's dream career is failing, who's wounds from the past refuse to close up, who can't come out, who has nothing to live for after years of guilt, and shame and paranoia, who was institutionalised, who's acts of self harm needed surgery to fix, who near enough got raped in his hospital bed after a car crash -- that guy. Is he the antagonist now?

It's like Richard Gadd saw the response to Baby Reindeer - people saying we should support male victims of sexual assault and abuse, especially the imperfect ones - and asked "Is that really what you think?"

Because Baby Reindeer had the benefit of the narrator, overdubbing their mistakes with clear sighted self-deprication. Donny has a self-awareness on our first viewing you can only have with years of work and reflection. Niall hasn't had that yet. The audience is witholding their sympathy for Niall because, like Lori, they believe he's inflicting this pain on himself, and might not ever stop. He's committed the cardinal sin of needing help, whilst being very difficult to help. Donny is much the same - not doing enough to distance himself from his abusers, having reckless sex, lying - but he has the benefit of being able to break the fourth wall and say to us "that didn't help matters, did it?"

[caffedorzo]

so exhausted by how fundamentally anti-human the capitalist world has become. like ageing, getting fat, being slightly inefficient, and making mediocre art are all extremely normal and extremely human activities, why is every corporation trying to convince us to spend all our money fighting that

[ava-deb]

I'm '90s Deborah. You're current day Deborah. I wouldn't even know how to begin to be a contemporary Deborah. I'd have to get a new breastplate, rethink my padding tits to taint.

HACKS: S05E08, "The Cube"