#rage vomit

[victusinveritas]

As someone who left college with a degree in Medieval Studies, the amount of basement dwelling weirdos (also all both incels and tradcaths/orthobros) with at best a Victor Davis Hanson (vomit) book of bullshit history under their Ren Faire belt convinced of the justification/righteousness of the Crusades never ceases to amaze me.

[victusinveritas]

[daziechane]

The new mom arrived in a horse-drawn carriage to the event with a new ring on her finger.

OK.  I am indifferent to the goings and comings of the BRF, unless it pertains to tiaras and jewels, so this obviously caught my eye.

That said- the idea of a “push present” makes me want to rage vomit.  

Getting a present because you had a kid?  Fucking ridiculous.  I’m not saying that ‘oooo the babbby is the prezzie’ and all that, because I’m not that mushy and luvvy.  

My point is that a push present is just another way for rich women to make poor women feel bad.

[bamwv]

I spent the better part of the last 10 minutes giggling about rage vomit peckingparty and I agree that would be a great superpower

[vicstones-blog]

people are seriously mad and refusing to watch selma bc it made a white guy look bad ......yet are celebrating a movie about a racist piece of shit that got to kill (likely innocent) people and loved doing it?????

[silverslices]

The only things worse than bros my own age: bros twice my age or more. They were taking pictures next to me because I was taller than them.

[mindgoggling]

auuugh

The racism and sexism, it buuuuuuuuurns

So my mom works for an MD/Phd who gets a ton of free stuff- magazines and books especially. Every once in awhile she brings home stuff she thinks I'd like- I've gotten a few birding magazines that way. Once she brought home this HUGE book- the cover must be 14x17, and it's thick too- of a history of medicine done by a pharmaceutical company. So it's basically propoganda, but it has some really gorgeous illustrations. And I'm a huge softie for books, so I couldn't let it just get callously thrown out.

This is the first time I've opened it in a few years and oh. My. God.

This is some of the most racist shit I've ever seen.

I'm not actually surprised, but it's still just a kick in the fucking teeth.

The text continually refers to anyone not a white male preforming surgery as using primitive techniques, except for Susruta, and the text is written in a tone of "god we are so pissed this brown dude figured out something centuries before we did and was amazing at it". There's no African medicine discussed, even though people in Africa figured out how to cure malaria through plants and preformed c-sections, they act like Peruvian surgeons, who could excise tumors, were silly for believing in their gods when Europe hadn't figured out that rubbing dung on wounds to bring forth the pus was a bad idea, the entire Islamic golden age of medicine is given one page despite preserving all of the Greek and Roman knowledge the text just drooled over, and of course women haven't ever been doctors. I mean it's not like Metrodora wrote a book on gynecology that's full of theories that she observed and tested. Or like Trotula di Ruggerio was well respected enough to write a book with 7 other physicians. 

Oh but wait, lady illnesses are gross. Unless they're corrected by a man, obviously. This fucking book has an entire section on J. Marion Sims, the father of gynecology. It spends a paragraph describing his looks and his boyish charm, and weirdly forgets to mention that he was fucking evil. He used the bodies of slave women to fiddle around trying to fix their vaginal fistulas while they had no anesthesia and no choice in the matter. To a rational, empathetic person, reading that he finally closed Anarcha's vaginal fistula after 30 surgeries, during which he discovered that silk sutures were too easily infected and that he couldn't actually close the fistulas, is horrific. But the book acts like him feeding and boarding the three women he repeatedly operated on like he's such a nice guy. What a wonderful man, feeding his human guinea pigs who he treated without dignity and whose pain he didn't try to prevent at all. Because they were tough and could take it, unlike delicate white women.

This book is literally the worst I hate it.

OH MY GOD I JUST FLIPPED THROUGH THE REST OF IT AND THERE IS LITERALLY NOT ONE FEMALE DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST FEATURED IN THE ENTIRE BOOK. I'M GOING TO RAGE VOMIT BLOOD THIS IS SUCH A GROSS BOOK.

the fucking "medicine today and tomorrow" and "pharmaceuticals today and tomorrow" have only white men in the illustration oh my god when was this published??? 1895?

[wonkycactus]

Adventures in arguing with people on the internet

Me: Hey, that thing you just said was pretty transphobic. Here's why it was transphobic.

Them: Actually I'm not transphobic.

Me: Oh, cool, thanks for clearing that up.