Theindigowitch

Writing, Fandoms whatever happens to interest me - (mostly DC comics at the moment) Also If you have any prompts for stories drop me an ask

[teaboot]

Anyhow, in case anyone wasn’t aware let this be today’s reminder that much of holistic medicine is largely unsubstantiated, divorced and removed from its cultural origins, and rebranded for wide-scale market by a handful of wealthy corporations to grift sick and frightened people out of their money by hiding behind soft, gentle packaging and words like “natural”, “organic”, “traditional”, “spirit”, “support”, and “supplement”, all of which are genuine and meaningful in proper context but more importantly have little to no legal definition and as such cannot be verified or regulated, things that corporate grifters are famously not fond of, which- in overwhelming and tragic effect- means that most supplements, herbs, holistic products, and procedures you can buy off a shelf but a doctor won’t reccommend range from doing very little very slowly to actively killing people

[pangur-and-grim]

cats will just treat you as terrain

[razielim]

that's it that's the nutshell genai is in

[scarlettohairdye]

This is probably a little too much nuance, but whenever I see a "all borders are violence" post (a political position I generally agree with!) I always add a little asterisk that says "*but the border checks that keep you from bringing homegrown produce into big agricultural areas to avoid the transmission of parasites and invasive species are actually fine and if we were more vigilant about that kind of thing maybe we wouldn't have spotted lanternflies in the states."

That doesn't work as well as a slogan, though

[bisquid]

Things borders should be for:

Biosecurity

Customs management (you do not want people importing a bunch of stuff that doesn't meet your country's safety standards, for example)

Things like that one lake in Europe where three national borders coincide and they built an island specifically so you can run between countries for fun

Things borders shouldn't be for:

Policing who can and can't come into a country

[chronicillnesshumor-deactivated]

[galileosballs]

The nice thing about solar power is that once you've built a solar farm the sun does not then need to be shipped to you through a series of international shipping lanes that can be cut off by other people's governments in response to the actions of other other people's governments. The sun is not subject to the stupid decisions of people you did not vote for in response to the stupid decisions of other people you did not vote for. The sun does not need to go through the Strait of Hormuz.

Even if you don't care about any of the other arguments in favour of solar power, this is a really good argument in favour of solar power.

[unspeakablearchives]

[the-big-mood]

[girlmostlikely]

[feministism]

[little-ponys-deactivated2026010]

the sexual tension between me and leaving the country to start a new life

[shamebats]

How to talk to doctors

Post by @ julez27_

[byjove]

I am so deeply opinionated I cannot imagine the mind of a person who is not opinionated.

[byjove]

What do you mean you don’t have an opinion on this major issue that you’ve had years to form an opinion about? That is downright embarrassing.

[theonion]

Emphasizing that it was only offering an opinion and any choice made would be acceptable, a little voice reportedly whispered, “…or you could just get takeout,” Tuesday despite already knowing it had won. “Just offering my two cents here, but it’s been a tough day at work, and there’s always pad Thai from the place around the corner,” said the soft-spoken interior monologue, admitting that it was ultimately your decision, even as it knew full-well that the battle was over before it began.

Full Story

[vacuously-true]

Wait wait wait.

I thought we made fun of MRAs because they are misguided and misogynistic for believing that feminism is against their interests and they need a movement apart from it. I thought we made fun of them for not understanding that feminism is in favor of men's liberation from the oppressive patriarchal binary as much as women's.

But some of you are actually making fun of MRAs because you think men have no problems to complain about, and feminism ISN'T for men, because they don't need anything, and the patriarchy isn't the enemy, men are?

Oooh I don't think we've been laughing at the same thing. You have lost the plot.

[vacuously-true]

I thought we made fun of people who said "not all men" in response to women discussing sexism because while they are correct that not all men [insert bad behavior here], saying so in certain conversations is just a defensive knee jerk reaction that distracts from the point.

But some of you are actually making fun of any men who ask to be taken seriously and have their needs met and issues heard, even though they aren't talking over women? Some of you are making fun of marginalized men for talking about the experiences at their unique intersections of identities and asking for justice because you actually DO think "all men [insert bad behavior here]?"

Oooooh you are failing feminism 101. You do not understand what the patriarchy even is. You do not understand where its power comes from, who benefits from it, and who is harmed by it. You have not progressed beyond "cooties" level discourse. I am not laughing with you.

[vacuously-true]

This is why you sound like a clown if you call transmasculine people talking about their issues "TMRAs." If you hear men discussing the ways they are harmed by the existing system and the only thing you can think of is obnoxious MRAs, you're telling on yourself. You're broadcasting the fact that you haven't spent enough time engaging with broad feminist viewpoints to know that men's liberation ideas (NOT the same as MRA) are a part of feminism and have been for a long time.

This is why you sound like a clown if you say "trans men who want feminism to be for them are misgendering themselves" and "trans men benefit from the patriarchy because all men benefit from the patriarchy" and "trans men experience no unique injustices because misandry isn't a systemic axis of oppression" and "trans men have male privilege so they can't be oppressed."

Because even if you take "trans" out of these statements, they're still incorrect. Feminism is for people of all genders. Men can be harmed by the patriarchy. The ways in which men are harmed by the patriarchy are different from the ways others are harmed by the patriarchy. Having certain "privileges" in certain contexts doesn't negate the harm of a rigid social structure that punishes nonconformity.

Men can oppose the patriarchy because they want justice for others AND for themselves. There's nothing wrong with that. Giving them shit for talking about that is NOT helping take down the patriarchy.

[vacuously-true]

The patriarchy is not a war of men against women where men are given all the advantages. That's not what feminism is up against.

The patriarchy is a system where ALL people have rigid roles imposed upon them. All else being equal, certain advantages are more likely to be given to men (or masculine people, or people AMAB, or people with male sex characteristics, depending on CONTEXT). But all else is RARELY equal and even when it is, the range of experiences is vast, and the system is rigged against almost everyone.

Because the goal most individuals have, and the right all individuals deserve, is to be themselves, and to do so by choice. And no matter who you are, the patriarchy stands in opposition to this goal. It tells you who you're allowed to be, who you're not allowed to be, what you're allowed to do, and what others are allowed to do to you. This is an injustice for people of all genders.

We're ALL trapped. This system can only be dismantled if we understand the WHOLE thing. Which means we need to listen to everyone when they talk about the harms the system is causing them, from where THEY'RE stuck in it.

How are you going to escape the torture mansion if you don't understand vast swathes of it because you've mistaken your brother for the enemy and closed your ears to him? He's shouting from the torture chamber next to yours, trying to tell you the layout of the room he sees so you can plan your escape together, and you're refusing to listen because he's been given more food and water than you? How do you not see that this attitude is only to the benefit of the torture mansion, not its victims?

[gandalfsbignaturals]

in a lot of ways the moral panics surrounding people faking disabilities and trans women in sports are very similar.

in both cases, the primary emotional argument is "these people are faking something in order to gain access to spaces and/or resources that belong to a different group who REALLY has that thing" and in both cases the thing that people are supposedly trying to gain access to is a broken system designed to marginalize a group of people so that other people dont have to think about them.

women's sports are less prestigious, less lucrative, and less well-funded than men's sports. they exist as a way to silo competent women away from men who might be discouraged that a woman is better at a thing than they are and so that everyone else can say, "look, we respect women, we gave them their own sports!" and pat themselves on the back for handing out peanuts.

disability payments (in the US at least) are difficult to get, easy to lose, impose harsh restrictions on ones finances, and dont even pay that well. they exist so that politicians can pretend we have an effective social safety network, despite the inordinate requirements meaning many people who qualify will never recieve their benefits, and many who should qualify do not.

in both cases, the juice is simply not worth the squeeze. the idea of a man choosing to pretend to be a woman in order to win at a sport that will pay and respect him less is absurd. the idea of someone faking a disability to a doctor in order to then spend months or years trying to legally prove their disability so they can make less than they would working at mcdonalds and never be allowed to save money or get married is absurd. an athlete who wants an easier time winning will probably just take steroids. a person who has the resources and time necessary to fake a disability to the government could probably find a job that pays more for less effort.

and yet, both of these lies are effective at drumming up rage in certain cultural groups, because the idea of someone they dont like getting resources that they dont deserve is so morally repugnant that they will go to great lengths to prevent it, even when it means people who "should" get those resources get snubbed.

[hemipenal-system]

this isn’t what i normally post here but firefox just switched ceos and this “anthony” dumbass is trying to put more “ai” slopware into it, meaning more bloat and privacy loss

if you use this browser you should go to their support forums and complain about it

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