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socialjusticesummoner

say it with me

1) minimum wage was originally intended to be a living wage

2) most people making minimum wage are NOT teenagers looking for spending money

3) real world application shows higher minimum wage does not cause super inflation

4) every human being deserves food and shelter

peppylilspitfuck

5) Every human being deserves medical care.

we-love-short-videos-blog

this is strangely adorable

rathsin

NOOO THIS IS SO CUTE!!!! OH NO!!!! THE FUTURE IS HERE AND IT IS ADORABLE!!!

witchy-business

Witchy-Business 6k Tarot Reading Giveaway!

✨ We will be giving away two three-card readings ✨

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Must be following us (we’ll check)

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Ends Sunday, August 16

archive48

“Doctors who spent years studying the human body”

Do you mean doctors who spent years learning about abled white cis men’s bodies

arlovskayas-deactivated20150823

do you know anything about the world besides what you read on tumblr

fempunkandkittens

Okay but this is true?? Shut up with your bullshit, the medical industry for a very very long time has used the able bodied white cis male as their standard and that has very real healthcare consequences for a lot of people.

Do you know why most women don’t know when they’re having heart attacks? Why heart attacks kill more women than men? Because symptoms of a heart attack are different for women and the ones that doctors usually recognize and publicize are the symptoms experienced by men. Do you know why it’s so difficult for Black and Brown people to get diagnosed if they have skin cancer? Because doctors have been taught to recognize it on white people. People of size are constantly told that their problems are entirely because of their weight and doctors don’t even bother to look beyond that to be sure that’s the case. So those people have medical conditions go undiagnosed properly for years, and die in the process. Fuck, even just the fact that people think it’s okay to charge women more for healthcare because “they have extra parts” (?????) is indicative of the way the male body has been considered the standard for fucking ever. And the healthcare needs of disabled people or trans people? Forget about it.

OP is 1000% right. The medical industry has used the able cis white male body as their standard of care for CENTURIES and that has real consequences for the rest of us today. It’s getting better but it’s not where it should be. So fuck off with your snarky commentary, you’re wrong. The healthcare industry is not equipped to handle the needs of people with disabilities, women, PoC, trans people, people of size, etc. and that’s in large part due to the fact that the established body of medical knowledge was created by studying able, cis, white male bodies almost exclusively.

words-writ-in-starlight

Hey there folks, speaking as a trained EMT and a pre-med student, I can confirm that the above person is approximately 7000% accurate. In my EMT training, I would repeatedly ask ‘’but what if my patent is a woman” or “what is my patient is a person of color” and at first all I got was shock. Then I got confused bumbling. I got some answers–basic symptoms of a heart attack in women, how to recognize cyanosis in someone of color, the basics of how to work with an autistic patient or someone who for whatever reason can’t communicate well with you. In fact, EMTs and other EMS workers are getting a lot better at learning the differences between the health care for a person of color or someone disabled. We were even told that we would need to ask our patients for their biological sex (I know, I’m really sorry, I know that there are people who find this intensely uncomfortable or even harmful, but there are real medical reasons for this and most decent EMTs will use whatever pronouns you ask them to). But most if not all of the answers we were given about women were directly related to gynecological issues. The guys teaching me? They were good guys. Nice. Funny. Smart. Devoted to caring for patients. Impassioned about protecting people, especially women and teenaged girls, from assault. Largely not sexist toward me or their coworkers. Hell, they were even smart enough to say “listen, boys, the women in this class have a higher pain tolerance than you, they just do, and as a rule if a women says their pain is a 5 on a scale of 1-10, assume it’s somewhere around an 8” when a kid laughed during the gyno unit. But they just didn’t know what to say when I asked “so if you’re supposed to palpate the patient’s chest, what do you do if your patient’s a triple-D” or when I asked “so if your patient gets menstrual migraines, how do you know if this headache is a stroke or not.” They had never been taught. This is a real problem, one that many medical professionals work hard to remedy once they start practicing. But this is not bullshit. At all. The standard patient is a cis white guy with no disabilities or chronic illnesses. It’s a huge fucking problem and I’m going to need you to step down with your bullshit, there, friend.

smallercomfort

This is an issue with mental health too, where people of color (black and Hispanic people especially) are less likely to be taken seriously with mental issues, and where community outreach for these groups is very very different from the kinds of programs that might be effective for white people.

Autism is rarely diagnosed in women because the symptoms doctors look for are all specific to men. Doctors used to blame depression and other mental illnesses in women on a misbehaving uterus, and it’s still a struggle for women to get their symptoms taken seriously enough to merit proper treatment.

Mental health for LGBT people has a long history of being an oppressive shitshow, given how long it took the medical community to stop pathologizing sexuality and gender identity. (Conversion therapy is still legal!)

"What's the CMD of the ballista?" DnD Quotes...

I'm worried that if I don't act exactly like my mom wants me to, she won't let me get my service dog after all...

phasered

my time has come

thecrystalfems

You actually can help this cause! Because of this project, there will be way too much data to realistically sift through individually, so they are granting public access to all of the data so everyday people like you and me can analyze it ourselves! Imagine being the person responsible for finding alien life and not even being a professional scientist.

crystalnerds-deactivated2015092

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vardamas

I love how Stephen Hawking was just like “guys, this is bullshit. it’s 2015, where are the fucking aliens?”

carpetenebras

No you don’t understand how frustrated I am that we always depicted the Apostles as old men, especially when it comes to during-Jesus-alive stuff.

They were probably late teens to early 20s, given the time and the description and some Biblical passages.

They were not ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles at the Last Supper.

They were young adult rebels with a cause.

shadowstep-of-bast

where my punk-rock apostles at

vikingqueen

I can’t remember where, but the bible says that Jesus was the only one who was old enough to pay the temple tax required by Jewish law, none of the disciples had hit that age. A quick google tells me that Jewish men pay it from the age of 20 - all of the disciples were teenagers.

nillions

Not all of them! Matthew 17:24-27 addresses the issue of the temple tax, in which Jesus tells Peter to get a four-drachma piece from a fish’s mouth to account “for my tax and yours”. In addition, Peter is the only person directly mentioned to have a mother-in-law; Jesus heals her in according to three accounts (Matthew 8:14-17, Mark 1:29-31, and Luke 4:38).

So! The “Disciples were ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average disciple was under 20. Simon Peter, who lived with his mother-in-law and his fishing boat and payed the temple tax was an outlier adn should not have been counted.

battlebunnyviktor-blog

#did i just see a spiders georg meme backed up with chapter and verse citations

theheroheart

I keep discovering ways in which Jesus Christ Superstar is way more historically accurate than most depictions of Jesus and the apostles…

grawly

i love tommy wiseau because nobody but tommy wiseau knows exactly who he is

nobody knows where exactly he was born, or anything about his past. “tommy wiseau” isnt even his real name

fuck nobody even knows how old he really is

thespacegoat-deactivated2016100

he’s also a multi billionaire and no one has any idea where he acquired that fortune

his whole life literally makes no sense

eva-420

i love that a core functionality of this site just imploding happens so often that nobody is even remotely confused and just moves immediately to mocking it

oak23

teen titans go is just so unpleasant to watch

roombadeathsquad-blog

Damn them for appealing to children

oak23

i just literally watched an ep where robin wanted to build a pool instead of a senior’s centre because he wanted to see starfire in a bikini and rub lotion on her and acting fucking creepy as fuck about it like what child goes through wanting to see one of their peers wearing a bikini how is this appealing/relatable to children like

jvhdb

there was also an episode i saw recently where the team lost their memory except for robin and he spent the entire episode convincing everyone he was their leader and he like, raised and saved everyone or something, basically convincing them to worship him, but when it came to starfire he tried to convince everyone she was his girlfriend and she seemed confused and uncomfortable but robin was like “ha ha! just a bit of couple banter! love you sweetie!” and refused to stop treating her like they were dating until she got her memory back? like? what message does that give. robin is a creepy bastard towards starfire in every episode i catch on tv. ttg is not a good tv show for children. it appeals to them through humour and designs and easy to follow storylines but that doesnt make it a good show for children, especially when they pass off someone like robin as a protag.

jankybones

There was another episode where Cyborg was shown stalking Jinx, like he knew her favorite bands and foods and what she smelled like?? And they basically put a highlight on stalkers because even though she pointed out it was creepy, and he said “I know” in a comedy bit to brush it off, they ended up dating happily.

What is that teaching young boys and girls? That stalking is okay? That stalking is romantic? Come the fuck on.

argentarachnids

These are legit complaints.

suicidle

okay but does anyone else check people out artistically? like instead of thinking “wow I’d tap that” you just intensely appreciate their appearance and sit there and “holy shit look at the curve of their spine and that POSTURE but then there’s the shape of their eyes and THEIR HANDS AND -” *snaps pencil in half*

scorpionatedd

admiring their aesthetic

melthehoneybee

All the time

kengriffey-jr-deactivated202102

this is like when the power is out and so you all gotta sit around the house with the flashlight just talking about the power being out until it comes back