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Accurately-titled novels.Â
But romances are the âpredictableâ ones.
is it time for frank cho and milo manara to die or what
Thatâs basically a naked woman Iâm YELLING
What a pervert. What the FUCK does he not know how clothes work? What the hypothetical fuck is she wearing then if we can see all that?
Itâs like how bath towels in comics miraculously wrap completely around breasts. Or how even when injured and dead on the ground women in comics have to be twisted into âsexyâ poses. Or how women in comics walk like theyâre in high heels even barefoot.Â
Itâs the only way men know how to draw women, because to them female characters are only there to be sexy. They only think of âwomenâ as exploitative costumes and camera angles, high heels and titillation. Sex objects to ogle, plot objects to further male heroesâ narratives and drama, not heroes to cheer for.Â
Iâm sorry, I was labouring under the impression that this was the crowd that thought women should wear what they want..?
And that applies to fictional women who are depicted by men how? You canât apply agency in the plot to something metatextual when it comes to fictional characters.Â
Come on, letâs not pretend this is a male exclusive thing.
Weâre going to have this argument are we? Not to mention youâre deviating from the original point that attributing agency to fictional charactersâ clothing is asinine.Â
What you have here are images of power, and do you really believe these characters are designed with titillating heterosexual women and bisexual and homosexual men in mind? Because I donât think you do.
This is why the Hawkeye Initiative exists. Take common female poses in comics, put a man in the role, and see how âempoweringâ and âstrongâ it actually looks:Â
Also:Â
He got the painting for fighting against âcensorship.â Note that they handed him a gross design of a female being objectified, because at the end of the day, that is all they really want, to be allowed to objectify women. They donât care about censorship in general it is about their ability to sexualise and degrade women without consequence.
You can see her butthole for chrissakes
I think the best imagery Iâve seen to explain the difference between what men think male objectification is vs what women actually want to see is the Hugh Jackman magazine covers.
Hugh Jackman on a menâs magazine. Heâs shirtless and buff and angry. Heâs imposing and aggressive. This is a male power fantasy, itâs what men want to be and aspire to - intense masculinity.
Hugh Jackman on a womenâs magazine. He looks like a dad. He looks like heâs going to bake me a quiche and sit and watch Game of Thrones with me. He looks like he gives really good hugs.
Men think women want big hulking naked men in loin cloths which is why they always quote He-Man as male objectification - without realizing that He Man is naked and buff in a loin cloth because MEN WANT HIM TO BE. More women would be happy to see him in a pink apron cutting vegetables and singing off-key to 70s rock.
Men want objects. Women want PEOPLE.
This is the first time I have EVER seen this false equivalence articulated so well. Thank you.
Until we face genetics head on, until we are really honest about who pit bulls are, and until we educate people about their strengths and weaknesses, people will adopt them thinking they can love the genetics out of them. That if they struggle, they are bad owners, and if they socialize them, they will never be aggressive with other dogs. Our dogs, whether they be pit bulls, basset hounds, or border collies, are a direct result of their genetics. We donât do anyone any favors when we ignore them.
http://www.collared-scholar.com/raise-really-saving-pit-bull-breed/ (via barkandhold)
@vox takes on the trope of the hypercompetent female sidekick. You know her â the one whoâs the smartest, toughest and most capable yet ends up being rescued by the less talented, but extremely straight, white, cisgender and male hero.Â
This intersects well with discussions about the pay gap and obstacles women face in their careers. For those of us who arenât straight white cisgender men â the persistence of being typecast as not-the-hero (or the boss, or the leader, or the expert commenter) despite qualifications, talents and capabilities is a lived reality.Â
Also part of the reason the third act of Fury Road is so damn satisfying.
This workshop summary is written by me (a able-bodied, trans, white person), for white people who were absent from the Waking Up "Woke" White's Workshop that I attended April 30th at the UBC's, F-Word Conference on the traditional territories of three local First Nations: The Musq
Did you know that puppies have a critical socialisation period that only lasts until they are around four months old? Learn what socialisation is, why it is so important, and how to use it to give your puppy the best start in life.
Theyâve made a text version of that handy video with the cute graphics:
If In Doubt, Add Some Space
Your puppy doesnât have to be right in the middle of something to have a positive socialisation experience. If youâre ever worried that a situation may be too much for your puppy, move further away and give them a chance to acclimatise.
A good example of this is socialising puppies to traffic. For many dogs, standing right next to a busy road with all the large, noisy cars can be very frightening. Avoid busy roads at first, starting somewhere like a park where you can walk along away from the road. As your puppyâs confidence improves, you can try coming closer and closer
What Should I Socialise To?
There are six main categories of things that you should socialise your puppy to:
This looks like a really good intro, but it doesnât touch on a couple of important things, so Iâll add them.Â
Small amounts of very positive socialization are much better for dogs than lots of marginal experiences. Itâs tempting to try to expose your puppy to every possible thing as fast as you can, but that risks setting them up for unpleasant experiences, situations you canât control, or just straight up overloading them. Pick a couple things and do them right. This is especially crucial for dog-dog socialization when youâve got a breed that is genetically prone to reactivity or aggression because all of their experiences absolutely have to be positive ones. @molosseraptor has some great posts on picking the right dogs to socialize your pup with.Â
Fear periods change socialization rules. Dogs have two fear periods - one predictably at 8-10 weeks and one later in adolescence, somewhere after about six months of age. These periods are when dogs would be gaining independence and it becomes super important for survival to learn what is dangerous and what isnât. During these periods dogs are prone to single-event learning, which means you have to be really careful not to set your dogs up for bad experiences because they might shape their behavior for the rest of their lives. Fear periods are a good time to back off on active socialization attempts and work on keeping your puppy happy and comfortably engaged with things it is already used to. (Hereâs a link to a great article on fear periods).Â
detective: [kneels down looking over a dead body] hm. gross
Did you know that puppies have a critical socialisation period that only lasts until they are around four months old? Learn what socialisation is, why it is so important, and how to use it to give your puppy the best start in life.
Theyâve made a text version of that handy video with the cute graphics:
If In Doubt, Add Some Space
Your puppy doesnât have to be right in the middle of something to have a positive socialisation experience. If youâre ever worried that a situation may be too much for your puppy, move further away and give them a chance to acclimatise.
A good example of this is socialising puppies to traffic. For many dogs, standing right next to a busy road with all the large, noisy cars can be very frightening. Avoid busy roads at first, starting somewhere like a park where you can walk along away from the road. As your puppyâs confidence improves, you can try coming closer and closer
What Should I Socialise To?
There are six main categories of things that you should socialise your puppy to:
This looks like a really good intro, but it doesnât touch on a couple of important things, so Iâll add them.Â
Small amounts of very positive socialization are much better for dogs than lots of marginal experiences. Itâs tempting to try to expose your puppy to every possible thing as fast as you can, but that risks setting them up for unpleasant experiences, situations you canât control, or just straight up overloading them. Pick a couple things and do them right. This is especially crucial for dog-dog socialization when youâve got a breed that is genetically prone to reactivity or aggression because all of their experiences absolutely have to be positive ones. @molosseraptor has some great posts on picking the right dogs to socialize your pup with.Â
Fear periods change socialization rules. Dogs have two fear periods - one predictably at 8-10 weeks and one later in adolescence, somewhere after about six months of age. These periods are when dogs would be gaining independence and it becomes super important for survival to learn what is dangerous and what isnât. During these periods dogs are prone to single-event learning, which means you have to be really careful not to set your dogs up for bad experiences because they might shape their behavior for the rest of their lives. Fear periods are a good time to back off on active socialization attempts and work on keeping your puppy happy and comfortably engaged with things it is already used to. (Hereâs a link to a great article on fear periods).Â
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That was super nice of them.
And now Iâm mad that nobody told us we were given cows. Cause thatâs really f*cking nice and nobody mentioned it at all.
American media tends to disregard that anyone donates to the US. And then Amurricans complain about money going abroad because ânobody helped the US in our disasters.â
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Also, do you know how much a cow costs? O.O
It isnât just a matter of how much a cow costs, its a matter of considering that Masai life is based around their cattle. Its their wealth, their food, and a significant part of their religion. Hereâs a quote from Wikipedia:
âTraditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a manâs wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37] A Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]â
So its not just âthey gave us 14 cowsâ, its that they gave us something that is very important and significant to them, it is more than just a kind gesture that definitely deserves to be known and its a genuine shame that more people donât know about it.
Wait, you guys DONâT KNOW that we offer help to the US when you have disasters???????
Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks).Â
We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff thatâs needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations.Â
The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.
And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:
Red Cross scandals tarnish relief efforts
âBreathtakingâ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid
So please, donât you go spreading misinformation and prejudice against the rest of the world, WE DID OFFER HELP AND ORGANIZED IT EVEN FASTER THAN BUSH DID, BUT YâALL REFUSED IT.Â
Oh wow I had no idea this happened itâs really not talked about in media at all wow this is something good to know about wow
Iâm so angry.
I didnât know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, thatâs something we, the people, should hear about and we donât.
Please donât blame us for the shitty decisions our government makes. We donât have as much control over our government as we would like to think and they keep a lot from us.
Spread this shit.Â
After Katrina, Cuba donated several hundred blankets. Think about that. A country that is suffering economically due directly to the US embargo offered to help us when we needed it by sending what they could. And once again, it was refused. We have a government that is so self-righteous that we refuse to accept disaster aid in order to maintain this facade that we are the most generous nation on earth.
Okay, Katrina thing. Only Texans really knows this? and even then itâs not wide spread. Mexico sent their army. They sent their army for relief efforts. Didnât call ahead, they drove all the way to San Antonio with doctors and food and all sorts of supplies. When people actually got a call from them saying âHey, weâre sending people up.â The people who answered said âWhat? We canâtâŠâ âToo late, already there.â This was while the government was turning down help. So yeah, other countries send relief. Forest fires up in Washington last year? Firefighters from Australia came up to assist. Like⊠we donât hear about this shit. At all.
I can second the above with the fires.Â
Most the time, when people say âoh FEMA or something sent people right?â re: fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments because we REALLY need them.Â
If thereâs a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb up itâs ass, help is offered and most the timeâ shit, it gets there! But then the feds do something really fucking dirty. They insist they were the help, if itâs talked about at all.Â
They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most people a firemanâs a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth.Â
We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while agoâ not the Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew themselves over? They came out of sheer âthis is horrible and weâre helpingâ and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings and grabbing people, pets, and peopleâs important documents because they knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace.Â
What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering and then moves to âbut our people can handle it because weâre the best at handling thingsâ and then they move on before the idea itâs out of control comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we have no real scope on the scale and impactâ by design. Our media intake is very controlled to slant everything to the âeh, we can handle it and everyone else out thereâ they need our help because theyâre not so good at handling disasters like we are.â People who know better, reading international news, interacting with international social groups, looking outside their sphere of communityâ we know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip American media has on information. So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain disasters because theyâre considered unimportant. Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a couple million people live that theyâll upset the national money flow/they can throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if itâs in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually theyâre rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds homeless arenât important to the government even through they happen constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government interest/money flow location. Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.
So, when we do get help for any of the above, itâs possible that most people may have no idea about whatâs happened, let alone that helpâs been sent. Or if people know something happened, the details are vagueâ the news donât care to give the nitty gritty. Youâll know something happened and people are suffering and âgee, isnât it good youâre not themâ and then now the weather.
So, yeah, basically no one really knows we get help.
International response to Hurricane Katrina:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_KatrinaÂ
We got HELLA help, but nobody really talks about it
American Media really fails regularlyÂ
Hurricane Sandy, Quebec sends power line crews down to assist in restoring power. Â California gets rid of water bombers due to budget cuts, Canada sends theirs down to help fight wild fires. Amazing what living on the border and having outside TV News does to your information flow.
After Katrina, Denmark offered to donate water purification units so people wouldnât get sick from drinking contaminated water, but the offer was declined.
A private Danish company built a mobile satellite phone booth and drove it around the poor neighbourhoods in Mississippi and Louisiana so people could call their families and insurance companies for free (apparently there was a deadline for reporting damages but people couldnât call in because their mobile phones were dead and landlines were down).
American propaganda is not a thing of the past, nor is it a new thing. It has been around forever, telling stories of exceptionalism and self-reliance while our government tries its hardest to refuse the help of others and offer its own to them, to try and force other nations onto their back foot and remain aggressively benevolent in international matters, so that it can lord that shit over them in negotiations and the media in general. I guarantee you America would have a less jingoistic, less xenophobic populace overall if this sort of information were actually reported to us. If we werenât always fed the lie of helping the world without any gratitude or help in return. If the media didnât present us as world police and instead as a part of the community, as other countries try hard to include us as, then maybe Americans would actually act like theyâre part of a fucking community. But global citizens are hard to monger fear and distrust and xenophobia and nationalism with. Theyâre hard to control with propaganda and hate. Theyâre hard to keep ignorant and docile and saying âthis is fineâ while the empire burns. A lot of Americans wonder why our country is seen as a worldwide bully. Shit like that, my friends. Shit like that. Its hubris is seemingly limitless.
C O M M E N T A R Y
Study shows Millennial Men do not think of women as their equals
A majority of millennial men failed to see women as equals, according to the study, which looked at how college biology students viewed their classmatesâ intelligence and achievements, the Harvard Business Review reported.
Among the findings:
In every biology class surveyed, a man was seen as the most celebrated student, even in instances where women earned significantly better grades.
Men were also found to overestimate the intelligence of their male classmates over that of female ones.
Men continued exaggerating their assessments of the male peers, despite unequivocal evidence that their female peers were performing better.
Women, conversely, werenât found to display a bias: Their assessments of fellow classmates tended to be spot-on.
The National Institutes of Health researchers pointed out that female STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors drop out at significantly higher rates than their male counterparts.
âThe reasons for this difference are complex, and one possible contributing factor is the social environment women experience in the classroom,â they wrote.
Still, scores of men are under the impression that theyâve become the target of reverse sexism. Conservative columnist John Hawkins ranted in Town Hall last year:
âMen have it rougher in America than most people realize. In part, thatâs because theyâre one of the few groups (along with white people, conservatives, and Christians) itâs cool to crap on at every opportunity. In case you havenât noticed, thereâs a nonstop assault on masculinity in America.â
But research has confirmed the reality of gender bias against women. A staggering 90 percent of women reported experiencing gender harassment in the workplace, a 2010 University of Michigan study found. The results suggest that such harassment had the purpose of driving women out of jobs and not the generally assumed motivation of trying to draw women into relationships.
âOne could argue that, in these instances, âsexual harassment is used both to police and discipline the gender outlaw: the woman who dares to do a manâs job is made to pay,ââ the researchers wrote, quoting an article by Katherine M. Franke, an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law.
As for millennial men specifically, they have been less accepting of female leaders than their older male counterparts, according to a 2014 survey of more than 2,000 adults residing in the United States, the Harvard Business Review reports.
Half of Millenial men said their careers would take priority over their partnersâ.Â
Three-fourths of women, on the other hand, said their careers would be at least as important as their husbandsâ.
Wind been windy fam
In the 1960âČs Legally a woman couldnât
Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.
Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husbandâs helpmate.
Obtain any form of birth control without her husbandâs permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.
Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were menâs colleges ntil the 70âČs and 80âČs. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.
Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedyâs Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.
Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.
Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.
Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.
Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a womanâs right to abortion until viability.
Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.
Play college sports Title IX of the  Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination  based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial  assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for womenâs sports
Apply for menâs Jobs  The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal.  This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.
This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works
I just want to reiterate this stuff, because I legit get the feeling there are a lot of younger women for whom it hasnât really sunk in what it is todayâs GOP is actively trying to return to.
Did you go to a good college? Shame on you, you took a college placement that could have gone to a man who deserves and needs it to support or prepare for his wife & children. But if you really must attend college, well, some men like that, you can still get married if you focus on finding the right man.
Got a job? Why? A man could be doing that job. You should be at home caring for a family. You shouldnât be taking that job away from a man who needs it (see college, above). You definitely donât have a career â youâll be pregnant and raising children soon, so no need to worry about promoting you.
This shit was within living memory. IâM A MILLENIAL and my mother was in the second class that allowed women at an Ivy League school. Men who are alive today either personally remember shit like this or have parents/family who have raised them into thinking this was the way America functioned back in the blissful Good Old Days. There are literally dudes in the GOP old enough to remember when it was like this and yearn for those days to return.
When people talk about resisting conservativism and the GOP, weâre not just talking about whether the wage gap is a myth or not. Weâre talking about whether women even have the fundamental right to exist as individuals, to run their own households and compete for jobs and be considered on an equal footing with men in any arena at all in the first place.
I was a child in the 1960s, a teenager in the 1970s, a young adult in the 1980s. This is what it was like: When I was growing up, it was considered unfortunate if a girl was good at sports. Girls were not allowed in Little League. Girlsâ teams didnât exist in high school, except at all-girlsâ high schools. Boys played sports, and girls were the cheerleaders. People used to ask me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone told me it was impossibleâthose just werenât realistic goals for a girlâthe latter, especially, because you couldnât trust women to judge fairly and rationally, after all. In the 1960s and 1970s, all women were identified by their marital status, even in arrest reports and obituaries. In elementary school, my science teacher referred to Pierre Curie as DOCTOR Curie and Marie Curie as MRS. CurieâŠbecause, as he put it, âshe was just his wife.â (Both had doctorates and both were Nobel prize winners, so you would think that both would be accorded respect.) Companies could and did require women to wear dresses and skirts. Failure to do could and did get women fired. And it was legal. It was also legal to fire women for getting married or getting pregnant. The rationale was that a woman who was married or who had a child had no business working; that was what her husband was for. Aetna Insurance, the biggest insurance company in America, fired women for all of the above. A man could rape his wife. Legally. I can remember being twelve years old and reading about legal experts actually debating whether or not a man could actually be said to coerce his wife into having sex. This was a serious debate in 1974. The debate about marital rape came up in my law school, too, in 1984. Could a woman be raped by her husband? The guys all said noâa woman got married, so she was consenting to sex at all times. So I turned it around. I asked them if, since a man had gotten married, that meant that his wife could shove a dildo or a stick or something up his ass any time she wanted to for HER sexual pleasure. (Hey, I thought it was reasonable. If one gender was legally entitled to force sex on the other, then obviously the reverse should also be true.) The male law students didnât like the idea. Interestingly, they commented that being treated like that would make them feel like a woman. My reaction was, âThank you for proving my pointâŠâ The concept of date rape, when first proposed, was considered laughable. If a woman went out on a date, the argument of legal experts ran, sexual consent was implied. Even more sickening was the fact that in some statesâeven in the early 1980sâa man could rape his daughterâŠand it was no worse than a misdemeanor. Women taking self-defense classes in the 1970s and 1980s were frequently described in books and on TV as âcute.â The implication was that it was absurd for a woman to attempt to defend herself, but wasnât it just adorable for her to try? I was expressly forbidden to take computer classes in junior and senior years of high schoolâ1978-79 and 1979-80âbecause, as the principal told me, âOnly boys have to know that kind of thing. You girls are going to get married, and you wonât use it.â When I was in collegeâfrom 1980 to 1984âthere were no womensâ studies. The idea hadnât occurred in many places because the presumption was that there was nothing TO study. My history professorâa man who had a doctorate in historyâinformed me quite seriously that women had never produced a noted painter, sculptor, composer, architect or scientist becauseâŠwait for itâŠwomensâ brains were too small. (He was very surprised when I came up with a list of fifty women gifted in the arts and science, most of whom he had never heard of before.) When Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate in 1984, the press hailed it as a disaster. What would happen, they asked fearfully, if Mondale died and Ferraro became president? What if an international crisis arose and she was menstruating? She could push the nuclear button in a fit of PMS! It would be the end of the WORLD!! âŠNo, they WERENâT kidding. On the surface, things are very different now than they were when I was a child, a teen and a young adult. But Iâm afraid that people now do not realize what it was like then. Iâve read a lot of posts from young women who say that they are not feminists. If the only exposure to feminism they have is the work of extremists, I cannot blame them overmuch. I wish that I could tell them what feminism was like when it was newâwhen the dream of legal equality was just a dream, and hadnât even begun to come true. When âwomanâs workâ was a sneerâand an overt putdown. When people tut-tutted over bright and athletic girls with the words, âReally, itâs a shame sheâs not a boy.â That lack of feminism wasnât all men opening doors and picking up checks. A lot of it was an attitude of patronizing contempt that hasnât entirely died out, but which has become less publicly acceptable. I wish I could make them feel what it was likeâŠwhen grown men were called âmenâ and grown women were âgirls.â
Know your history.
So this, too, is what they mean saying âmake America great againâ and/or the good old days.
REBLOG FOREVER.
This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion
Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because heâs honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.
That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people donât understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.
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Thereâs a song thatâs been proven to reduce anxiety by 65%. Itâs called Weightless by Macaroni Union, and it was specifically designed to slow your heart rate, reduce blood pressure, and lower cortisol levels. Itâs so effective that itâs dangerous to drive while listening to it because it can make you drowsy. Source Source 2 Source 3
YO O_O
I knew within seconds that Iâd heard this before.
It was one of the first Tumblr posts I favorited.
Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay. Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as âentrainmentâ. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm. Dr David Lewis, one of the UKâs leading stress specialists said: ââWeightlessâ induced the greatest relaxation â higher than any of the other music tested. Brain imaging studies have shown that music works at a very deep level within the brain, stimulating not only those regions responsible for processing sound but also ones associated with emotions.â The study - commissioned by bubble bath and shower gel firm Radox Spa - found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea. So relaxing is the tune, apparently, that people are being Rex advised against listening to it while driving. The top 10 most relaxing tunes were: 1. Marconi Union - Weightless 2. Airstream - Electra 3. DJ Shah - Mellomaniac (Chill Out Mix) 4. Enya - Watermark 5. Coldplay - Strawberry Swing 6. Barcelona - Please Donât Go 7. All Saints - Pure Shores 8. AdelevSomeone Like You 9. Mozart - Canzonetta Sullâaria 10. Cafe Del Mar - We Can Fly
One of the comments suggests pairing it with Rainymood.
The combined calm might be weaponized with adding this song and some crackling fire.
reblogging for later to try! though my usual brand of anxiety is helped by sensory deprivation, earplugs are my BFFs. sounds nice for sleep
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The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions. The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design reversible soft adhesives that could work at high speeds.
Read more about it here.
Frogs are *amazing* -Emily
holy crap