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Not just opioids. Things like Seroquel too.

https://www.drugs.com/article/grapefruit-drug-interactions.html heres a article with a list about drugs that could be effected by grapefruit

transmxnfenris

I knew this was with my sertraline so didn’t eat it but wow o.o

shaneduderson

Oh shit I’m on a really high dose you just saved my ass

flootzavut

I think it can also interfere with birth control pills.

illness-adnauseum

If you take any oral medication, assume you cannot consume grapefruit by default, until you are reliably informed otherwise. Including for OTC meds and supplements.

Grapefruit ain’t that good.

But your health is.

Parden my obnoxious giant rainbow, it’s for maximum visibility. This shit is important.

benjafin-deactivated20220415

it’s not hard to incorporate they/them pronouns into a fantasy world some of y’all are just cowards

penname-tbd

it’s not hard to incorporate they/them pronouns into any setting some of y'all are just cowards

benjafin-deactivated20220415

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excellent addition yes

xiaoguiwang

making actors of colour play aliens instead of, y’know, characters of colour should stop being such a widely-used trope. the fact that we cannot be on the screen as ourselves and instead need to be something else is incredibly dehumanizing, especially since it’s implied that aliens are more palatable than actual human beings, in this essay i will-

xiaoguiwang

oh btw, in case y’all got any doubts? these were the characters i could think of off the top of my head (aka there are tons more, i’m just too lazy to add them)

cazad0ra

What’s worse about some of the Star Wars ones too is that they WERE just humans with funky hats and tattoos but then they went and retconned every single one of them (except Oola and Shaak Ti obvs) as being non-human, including Mace Windu.

funnypicsdept

nudityandnerdery

There’s no text here and it still manages to make a very compelling argument.

tramtheram

I don’t like this argument.

rynekat

Remember that time Daleks and Cybermen had sass-off?

carryonmywaywardstirrup

THIS IS LITERALLY MY FAVE SCENE FROM DOCTOR WHO EVER I AM NOT EVEN JOKING I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE MADE A POST OF IT I THINK ABOUT THIS MORE OFTEN THAN IS NORMAL UGH IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY

larissafae

No one sasses better than the Daleks and Cybermen. No one.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

I loved this ridiculous moment so much okay

ANGRY CYBORG SASS OFF

whatisyourlefteyebrowdoingdavid

This was my favourite bit

#media #humour

duendedefined

this is one of the dumbest things i’ve ever drawn and i’m not sorry

#steven universe

mysharona1987

Georgetown professor says exactly what he thinks about the confederacy culture.

Like, I could add a witty gif or make a smart ass remark.

But I won’t.

He made his point. I cannot add to it.

silvergryphon

The mic has been well and truly dropped.

*applauds*

mapsontheweb

Number of visits to each state by a presidential candidate during 2016 Presidential Election.

haberdashing

I feel like sending this map to everyone who says we need to keep the electoral college because “it’s the only way small states get attention nationally!”

No, it’s the only way a handful of swing states get attention nationally. All the other states, big and small alike, get outright ignored because candidates already know which way those votes are going.

crystal-meepmorps

I just marathoned and live-played the new SU game at my twitter, it’s a short game but pretty enjoyable and the plot was interesting. Check it out!

(Spoiler warning of course)

quasi-normalcy

No, I’m serious, if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair en masse, then ten years later people would be talking about how it was a “soft field” and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.

Likewise, if men moved en masse to bedeck themselves in sparkles and make-up, then suddenly you’d get a bunch of editorials talking about how classy they look.

None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine; none of these things inherently elevate you or drag you down. But whatever women are seen to do is automatically seen as being inherently more frivolous than anything men do. And shaming women for not pigeonholing themselves into a narrow range of acceptable “masculine” behaviours is just going to result in the goalposts getting moved once again.

an-gremlin-deactivated20160222

This is literally what happened to basically every field women have entered. The opposite happens when men enter. Computers used to be a “woman thing” until the guys who did it got really mad about how badly their job was viewed and realized they could fix it by forcing out women.

meariver

Also happened/ is happening with the fields of biology and psychology….

quasi-normalcy

I honestly wonder how much of the backlash against public education in the last generation has been due to teaching becoming a woman-dominated profession.

warpedellipsis

Fashion used to be a men’s thing. Then women got involved in the late 17/1800’s, so men went the other way because it came to be seen as “frivolous” and “anti-intellectual” to care about how you looked. Add in the homophobia that arose around that time, bam, staid bland dress. Ditto leggings/tights, that are now called attention-whoring when on men they were required to show you cared about your figure and had the money to pay for such a fitted item.

People want to say misogyny doesn’t exist, that male privilege doesn’t exist. Look beyond “living memory” and you’ll find that’s what drives the “inexplicable reversals” society seems to make on many things. Hell, just look beyond your own society, and you’ll find out that what’s considered “for men” elsewhere is held in high esteem while here it’s scoffed at purely because it’s “for women”:

Skinny jeans are the height of masculinity in several east Asian societies, rather than being seen as “gay” in the USA because of their association with femininity.

Medical fields in Russia are valued like kindergarten teachers are here, because it’s women who are the doctors instead of men.

Love and romance are highly valued in eastern countries, because men are interested in it too—of course they would be, surely you want to share your life with someone? Here, it’s strictly a women’s subject.

darksnowfalling-deactivated2020

The field of anthropology as a whole illustrates this.

Significantly higher proportions of females compared to males are currently entering the fields of archaeology and biological anthropology, and as this occurs, the prestige, funding, acceptance as valid kinds of science, etc, are fading quickly.

This has already occurred with linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology in particular went VERY quickly from being seen as a manly, scientific discipline (e.g., Franz Boas, Bronisław Malinowski) to being seen as a touchy-feely female thing.

maxofs2d

Let’s examine a traditionally male-dominated role that is very well-respected, and well-paid, in many parts of the world — that of a doctor. In the UK, it is listed as one of the top ten lucrative careers, and the average annual income of a family doctor in the US is well into six figures. It also confers on you significant social status, and a common stereotype in Asian communities is of parents encouraging their children to become doctors.

One of my lecturers at university once presented us with this thought exercise: why are doctors so highly paid, and so well-respected? Our answers were predictable. Because they save lives, their skills are extremely important, and it takes years and years of education to become one. All sound, logical reasons. But these traits that doctors possess are universal. So why is it, she asked, that doctors in Russia are so lowly paid? Making less than £7,500 a year, it is one of the lowest paid professions in Russia, and poorly respected at that. Why is this?

The answer is crushingly, breathtakingly simple. In Russia, the majority of doctors are women. Here’s a quote from Carol Schmidt, a geriatric nurse practitioner who toured medical facilities in Moscow: “Their status and pay are more like our blue-collar workers, even though they require about the same amount of training as the American doctor… medical practice is stereotyped as a caring vocation ‘naturally suited‘ to women, [which puts it at] a second-class level in the Soviet psyche.”

What this illustrates perfectly is this — women are not devalued in the job market because women’s work is seen to have little value. It is the other way round. Women’s work is devalued in the job market because women are seen to have little value. This means that anything a woman does, be it childcare, teaching, or doctoring, or rocket science, will be seen to be of less value simply because it is done mainly by women. It isn’t that women choose jobs that are in lower-paid industries, it is that any industry that women dominate automatically becomes less respected and less well-paid.

http://cratesandribbons.com/2013/12/13/patriarchys-magic-trick-how-anything-perceived-as-womens-work-immediately-sheds-its-value/

hungry-joe

Schools across the country are facing the possibility of security threats. Many have plans in place and run drills to prepare for the unthinkable. But lockdown drills and the constant discussion of danger can confuse an traumatize children. And it doesn't necessarily make them safer.

just a totally normal thing for a literal fucking 7 year old to do. not at all like america is a complete nightmare for everyone living here

reverseracism

White Supremacists/Gamergate getting upset that a black character went back in time to end the Atlantic slave trade.

gameover03909987-deactivated202

queerqueerspawn

official-cisphobe

I really have to explain why making ableist jokes is not okay huh

trenderspace-deactivated2021032

What are “ableist jokes”

I’m not kidding I really don’t know

official-cisphobe

things like saying “REE” or “autistic screeching” or you know making fun of disabled or neurodivergent people. Or using disabled or autistic as an insult, etc

fatfemmefreaquency

also, but not limited to:

asking people jokingly (or even seriously) if they’re autistic when they’re being obtuse, ignorant, or annoying

calling someone “a bit downsy in the face” as if that has ever been funny

mocking people with abnormal movement/ mobility, nervous ticks, or stim behaviour for comedic value (yes, a lot of impressions and caricatures are ableist)

asking if someone “needs a wheelchair, haha” when they discuss their chronic pain or their mobility issues (i have a close friend that tries to joke about wheelchairs and walkers with me and i never know how to shut it down. i need a cane some days but i make sure she never sees it because she thinks mobility devices are a joke)

jokes about how people who use elevators are lazy

grabbing someone’s mobility device for physical comedy purposes

mocking deaf accents, or repeating things someone says with a stutter to make fun of them

pretending to be deaf or hard of hearing to get a rise out of another hearing person.

jokes about how you wish you were disabled so you could “get special treatment too”

jokes about people being mentally ill whenever they exhibit a social behaviour that you find annoying/ parse as antisocial

any joke about how disabled people are “whining too much” eg: all the “back in my day…” kind of jokes about how accessibility isn’t necessary and disabled people are making a big deal out of nothing.

joking about infomercials, many of which are for products that mostly help people with mobility issues live independently. none of those products are “for lazy people” and the people in the before clips who spill food or can’t get their socks on etc are supposed to represent people with mobility concerns

Saying things like “jeez man stop spazzing out,” calling people who are in distress “spastic.”

jokes about elderly people being “high maintenance” and hard to care for/ relate to.

jokes about disabled people being “perpetual children” and mocking or joking about children and child-likeness as if it’s a deficit in general.

remember that a lot of ageism has strong crossovers with ableism in general. ageism is bad in and of itself but it can be particularly harmful in many ways. (it also often strongly connects/ converges with misogyny and racism too)

adult diaper jokes.

official-cisphobe

^^^