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the opposite of ‘we die like men’ is ‘we survive like women’

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This is the plot of Fury Road

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this is the most powerful image on the internet.. reblog to join the circle

musekicker

They look like a magic girl cat group gathering together to summon an powerful move.

kyraneko

blessed post

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Reblog to charge their spell

lcitana

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small dancing cat for your dash

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Got inspired by @therealjacksepticeye’s play through of “Night in the woods”

cultofplush

One thing that I hear a lot when it comes to mental illness is people saying “We don’t tell people with cancer they should just suck it up or try exercising!” And yeah, this is largely true. Most people wouldn’t dream of telling someone with a broken leg that they should just suck it up, that they were just holding themselves back with that cast. Most people. (Although there are TONS of people who are content to do this to people with disabilities and/or chronic conditions). However, in my experience, there are at least two groups of people who do say that kind of stuff about actual physical conditions, both of which I personally have had to deal with in profound and scarring ways.

You see this attitude a lot among fundamentalist Christians. First, a little background: I was raised in an apocalyptic Christian cult. For a lot of years, my brother and I were both denied medical care of any kind, instead being subjected to pain and faith healing. I would suffer for days with crippling migraines, and nearly died of an untreated ear infection at one point. The pastor of our church died of untreated congestive heart failure. One woman walked on a crutch for decades, needing a knee replacement. My brother spent several years almost deaf because of fluid on his eardrums. In fundamentalist circles, people suffering from debilitating physical conditions are told all the time that the only thing keeping them in a wheelchair is their lack of faith, or worse, told that their suffering is all part of God’s plan for their lives.

The other circle you see this a lot in is in the new age/homeopathic medicine crowd, and you see this stuff ALL. THE. TIME. on facebook, touting vinegar and kombucha and lemon juice, talking about “toxins” like people don’t have livers and kidneys. I cannot imagine anything more infuriating for someone who has a physical problem (or a family member with one) being told to try some kind of cleanse to cure their cancer. I’ve seen people go through this, too; being put on ridiculous “natural treatments” for chronic conditions, paying ridiculous amounts of money to have their energies aligned, all the while doing nothing medical to actually manage their symptoms or better understand the actual, physical nature of their condition.

So yeah, you can spend all day saying “we don’t tell people with physical problems xyz about how to manage them!” but know that we do, we absolutely do tell people that they can “cure” their hepatitis by drinking water purification tablets (I have ACTUALLY seen that one, not naming names). There are people who tell themselves that it’s perfectly normal to allow people to die without medical treatment because their faith isn’t strong enough.

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reblogging because edits.