The Hunters, Sherlock.

The adventure you would expect to encounter from on winding journey of one socially-impaired young stranger —who is uncomfortable just typing a simple message to the masses— comes to life here, upon the page, and with it, beings to and fro may very well erupt into chaotic giggles of mass destruction.

[sovietdilf-deactivated20160714]

what a shame the poor grooms bride is a 

[taliasterology-deactivated20160]

Donald Trump supporter

[11rooks]

oh god thats worse

[myoldpseudonym]

The Murphy Bill

In the midst of the senseless police violence we’ve seen this fourth of July week, the Murphy Bill slipped through the House of Representatives and few people noticed.

PLEASE help stop this bill from passing the Senate.

This is a well-intentioned but terribly designed bill which would strip civil liberties from the mentally ill, especially those already marginalized because of their race, class, and/or gender identity, and especially, especially the homeless. And frankly, it’s not great for otherwise-privileged mentally ill people, either, though with money you can find ways to get around it.

If you feel able, write or call your US Senator (contact information here) and tell them you want mental health reform, but you REALLY don’t want it like this. And if you feel strongly, please share this post.

Below is the letter I sent to Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein today. Feel free to use any parts that apply if you are able to contact an elected official.

Note that I’m a very privileged person and my diagnoses are not as serious as many other people’s. I use the words “like me” in this letter mostly for rhetorical effect, not because I think I’ve suffered anything the way a schizophrenic person with no home has. If you feel you can speak more personally about this problem, if you have had interactions with this terrible system, if you can talk about your experiences with a condition like psychosis or autism that others vilify and belittle, it would be great for those narratives to reach the ears and eyes of our officials. If you can’t talk about it, know that people are still fighting for you and you’re worth the fight.

    As a young constituent who plans to vote, all the time, I am writing today to ask you to oppose the Murphy mental health bill, which just passed the House as H.R. 2646, and which the Senate will vote on soon.

    Please, please oppose this bill when the Senate votes on it.

    I recently graduated with two degrees from [school] despite crippling anxiety, depression, and intrusive disturbing thoughts. My situation is overwhelmingly privileged. Most of my equals in mental health do not have the resources to seek appropriate treatment for their conditions, and when in emergency situations they end up in the mental health care system, they are treated with appalling disrespect and violence.

    This bill severely limits critical legal advocacy on behalf of people like me with psychiatric diagnoses and increases the likelihood of violence being used against us even in hospitals.

    It reduces privacy protections for people like me with psychiatric diagnoses.

    It redirects federal money from innovative programs, particularly substance abuse programs, to involuntary outpatient commitment, which is expensive and ineffective. It centralizes mental health care when such care should be more specialized.

    And, most importantly, it increases needless institutionalization, which causes many low-income people with mental illnesses to lose their jobs and be unable to find new ones. This further reduces their access to long-term, effective treatment.

    Our mental health care system is in desperate need of reform, but the Murphy mental health bill is a step backwards. It’s a cruel one at that. Please, please help protect us, the mentally ill. Among us are some of the most marginalized people in the country: people of color with mental illness, trans folks with other diagnoses, the chronically underemployed, and the homeless.

Please help us stay safe. Please oppose this bill.

LINKS:

Full Murphy Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2646/actions

Analysis: https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/07/hr-2636-coming-to-a-vote/

US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[wetwareproblem]

This is critical, people. Please, for the love of all that is good, take action on this. If you can’t, signal boost it. They are literally saying that our civil liberties matter less than what they want to do to us.

Too much personal information time: I’m a Canadian looking to emigrate to the US soon. I’m also severely mentally ill. This bill, if it passes? Will probably be my cause of death.

I was institutionalized for a week, half a lifetime ago. It was the single worst experience of my life. That week has shaped my life more than anything else. Basically all of my self-care is an effort to stay the fuck away from institutions. I have thought long and hard about this, and I can say with complete confidence that I will die before I let them send me back.

I know I tend to exaggerate a bit, so I want to emphasize that I am being deadly serious here. There is not a single word of hyperbole in this post.

This bill is very likely to kill me, and I’m certain I’m not alone. Don’t let them do this to us. I can’t stop it - I can’t influence it at all - so I’m depending on all of you. Please, please do everything you can to stop this. Please help save my life.

[indeedindoodly]

PLEASE DON’T LET THEM DO THIS TO US

[seriouslyamerica]

x x x x x

[micdotcom]

Watch: President Obama delivers pointedly feminist speech at United State of Women summit

[lesbiankingjulien]

Mara Wilson comes out

[nostraights]

Matildas gay. Everything you love is gay

[elicatherogue]

THE FACELESS OLD WOMAN WHO SECRETLY LIVES IN YOUR HOME IS GAY

[malkaviangraves]

GAYYYYYYYYYYY ❤💛💚💙💜

[anneapocalypse]

[x]

[g-l-i-t-t-e-r]

So ya know how anti-choice trashcans say "what if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of a fetus that gets aborted?"

But since fetuses already knowing advanced medical sciences aren’t a thing, I figured I’d provide some more valid alternatives:

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who has a “black sounding” name and gets their school application thrown out?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who accidentally becomes pregnant where abortion is illegal or very difficult to access and they are forced to quit the sciences to raise the child?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of a fat person whose credibility in the medical field is destroyed because they are assumed to be “unhealthy” and a hypocrite?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of a person who starves to death?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who is murdered by drones or police?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who is raped and cannot continue their research due to trauma?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who is killed in a shooting because some below average teen boy couldn’t get laid?

I mean if you wanna talk about real life actual things that prevent scientific advancement look no further than capitalism, misogyny, ableism, racism, violence, oppression. But I guess that doesn’t allow you to control people’s bodies and push your gross agenda.

[jehovahhthickness]

This shit needs a million reblogs

[ssstop-it-sunflowa]

Fuck

[dunnetwins]

[widovv]

my favorite thing about “captain america: the winter soldier” is that if you strip them of their supersoldier names the title is literally “steve rogers: bucky barnes”

[bullletproof-love]

Don’t tell your daughter that when a boy is mean or rude to her it’s because he has a crush on her. Don’t teach her that abuse is a sign of love.

[comic-canary]

My mom always taught me yell or fight back. Boys would be mean and I would yell back. I would get my ass pinched and I would smack them as hard as I could.

Who alway got in trouble? Me.

They would call my mother and she always came in and lectures my teachers and threatened to sue for making her miss work and treating me poorly.

She always taught my brothers to respect women. The only fights my brothers ever got in was defending women from someone else.

The school tried to call my father once instead of my mother on us. He came in in his full preacher outfit (being a preacher and all) and gave them an entire sermon on what would Jesus day of he was called in. They decided dealing with my mom was better.

[edmundo-noches-buckley]

I think my favorite story of this is when some kid snapped my bra and I turned around, didn’t even think about it, and punched that little motherfucker right in the nose.

So naturally, I end up in the principal’s office, refusing to apologize. 

“He shouldn’t have put his hands on me and I wouldn’t have hit him!” That’s the only thing I was saying.

These people had the unfortunate luck of catching my dad at home, instead of my mom. So he comes fucking sauntering in there, like he’s Clint fucking Eastwood in some western movie and looks at me. 

“Melissa, did you punch him?” 

“Yes.” I said. 

“Why?” 

“Because he snapped my bra strap.” 

And he turns his squinty eyed glare to the principal and says, “You’re telling me my daughter is in trouble because that squirrely looking kid put his hands on her and she chose to defend herself? That’s what you are saying to me.” 

“Well, sir-” The man kind of stuttered because my dad is kind of intimidating in the quiet sort of way that kind of whispers in the back of your mind that this person could be dangerous. “Melissa did make it physical.” 

“No. That kid put his hands on my daughter. Are you saying my daughter cannot defend herself when some boy decides to put hands on her? Is that what you are teaching my girl?” 

I didn’t get suspended that day.  

[lotrlocked]

*slow clap for excellent parenting*

[ive-got-a-dark-side]

This is the parent I want to be omg

[failisuck-deactivated20151124]

[profeminist]

Tampons are a “luxury item”

[gehayi]

Once I worked as an intern in the state capital. One of the representatives I worked for was this middle-aged guy. And he hated the tampon and napkin machines in the women’s bathrooms. Hated them. He insisted that they weren’t necessary.

I found out why after I’d been working there, oh, about a month. My period started suddenly, as it sometimes does, and I asked to excuse myself to go to the ladies’ room. He wanted to know why. I told him.

He started ranting about how lazy women were. How we wasted time. How we were so careless and unhygenic, and that there was no call for that. He finished by telling me that I certainly was NOT going to the ladies’ room and that I was just going to sit there and work. He finished this off with a decisive nod, as if I’d just been told and there could be no possible argument.

“If I don’t go,” I said in an overly patient tone, “the blood is going to soak through my pants, stain my new skirt that I just bought, and possibly get on this chair I’m sitting in. I need something to soak up the blood. That’s why I need to go to the bathroom.”

His face turned oatmeal-gray; an expression of pure horror spread across his face. He leaned forward and whispered, “Wait, you mean that if you don’t go, you’ll just keep on bleeding? I thought that women could turn it off any time that they wanted!”

I thought,  You have got to be kidding.

Several horrified whispers later, I learned that he wasn’t. He actually thought a) that women could shut down the menstrual cycle at will, b) that we essentially picked a week per month to spend more time in the bathroom, i.e. to goof off, and c) that napkins and tampons were sex toys paid for by Health and Human Services. I didn’t know the term then, but he believed that tampons were dildos. Which was why he and a good number of his friends considered them luxuries.

And that’s how, at twenty, I had to give a talk on menstruation to a middle-aged married state representative who was one of my bosses. American politics, ladies and gentlemen.

[mousathe14]

That’s.., that’s insane.

[lezzbro]

what the fuck did i just read

[wildeismsremade-deactivated2019]

I don’t understand american school years what the fuck is a freshman or a sophomore why do you have these words instead of the numbers

[aphtaiwan-deactivated20140530]

what why would you use numbers

[aujo-deactivated20200213]

so IT FUCKING MAKES SENSE WHAT THE HELL IS A SOFT MOORE OR A FRESH MAN WHY ARE THE MEN FRESH

[theinatorinator-deactivated2020]

America makes no sense, as usual.

[fndungeonmom]

bless the person that actually made the chart

[mybine-deactivated20160330]

laughter from France

[raptortooth]

France what the fuck

[someoneworthfinding]

Mostly I’m hoping that Mary’s return means she’ll become less of an idol and more of a human being.

The boys and John have put her on a pedestal from the beginning, and I would love to see them finally get to know her as a person.

[marciaillust]

man if we dont get a spin-off about Dean’s adventures in Narnia then I don’t know why the writers have been keeping him in the closet for 7 seasons  

[schneidersbakery]

[rnutualfollow]

what even was this show

[soft9-deactivated20160214]

proof i am a grandpa

- hates kids - full of useless information - everything hurts - ready for death

[huffpost]

‘My Hijab Has Nothing To Do With Oppression. It’s A Feminist Statement’

Not all Muslim women cover their bodies. Not all Muslim women who do are forced to do so. Like freelance writer Hanna Yusuf, who chooses to wear a hijab in a daily act of feminism. In a new video for The Guardian, Yusuf challenges stereotypes by setting out to reclaim the choice to wear a hijab as “a feminist statement.”

For more on on how the hijab helps women reclaim their bodies watch the full video here.

[baetoul-deactivated20170708]

“To try and attain the unattainable”*

[babyfootdown]

I am not Muslim but I am so glad to see this because honestly I had never ever thought about it this way, I feel like I’ve been so ignorant, my eyes and mind have been opened

[satan-senpie]

A Guitar/Glockenspiel Duet With Myself

[shinierchrystal]

The best 7 second song there is

[redanteater]

and it loops so perfectly too