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Apparently Clinton wants to “get back into the spirit of 9/12.” Which, if anyone recalls, was a fucking terrible, frightening time to be anywhere in America where you weren’t one of the masses jacking off to war drums. I can’t believe anyone with a clue thinks it’s been long enough that this is a thing you can say without irony. What 19 year old intern contributed that line?

We blindfolded 15 homophobes and asked them to hit piñatas with a stick. The piñatas were actually deadly Asian giant hornet nests. What happens next will warm your heart.

This is disgusting bigotry against Christians at its finest.

I love the part where this post never mentioned Christians but you saw the word homophobe and jumped to your own defense anyways.

A classic post

If you don’t understand why people don’t like the big bang theory, once in an episode the cast was at a comic store browsing and a woman walked in, and one of the leads said “Is she lost?” and that was the joke.

#as much as I love (love) the tension between leia and han on hoth and speculating where it came from (they had sex)     #there must have been a couple long months where it was this     #han couldn’t keep up the disaffected nonchalance forever he wasn’t even very good at it to begin with     #leia couldn’t be guarded and grudging all the time; not when she had this pair of unlikely boys slip into her life     #filling the void that was alderaan with laughter and pranks and whining and commentary on how akbar was wearing his whiskers     #it becomes a very common sight—commander organa in the hangar; sitting on a barrel or a stack of crates     #talking at luke as he does pre-flight checks on the x-wing or keeping up one-sided conversation with han and chewie as they work on the falc     #(“do you ever stop talking princess?” han asks once     #but it’s fond it’s immeasurably fond and she scrunches up her nose as she tries not to smile     #he’s always trying to make her smile)     #only one day she looks up from her hands—she had been gesturing with them as she spoke; a habit she picked up from breha     #and there’s han     #sitting right there his face turned up to her and a look of wondering attention on his face     #it’s so startling she falls silent; swallows whatever she had been about to say     #“oh I didn’t mean—you don’t have to stop” han says apologetically. “I liked that one.”     #“what was I talking about?” leia asks and she feels suddenly hot; stupid—she hates how close he is     #how soft his eyes are on her     #how he says “non-human labor movements” and then actually leans forward on his elbows and listens     #how she can’t help glancing at his mouth sometimes; incidentally     #she hates it all she hates how sharp and significant and vital it makes everything she hates how she can’t     #stop feeling like something’s been taken out of her     #and given to someone else; not a vital organ nothing so essential     #but still something she would rather have kept safe in her control     #(she wonders what would happen if she leaned forward too)     

Paging @deputychairman

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I love this photo.

This is so shitty. 

this is the text book example of cultural appropriation. 

Are you KIDDING me

being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think you’re exaggerating and/or lying

define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?

no :) it means going to 10 different doctors who disbelieved your symptoms until the 11th found cysts on your ovaries :) which may mean infertility :) sit on a cactus :)

I call bullshit

Of course you do. Like the first 10 doctors. 😒

I call bullshit on the story. If you think you have an issue you should see a specialist not just your PCP.

Like the 4 “specialists” I saw for the crippling numbness in my face and legs I had for over a year while they told me it was “stress”? When it was finally found that I had scars on my brain and spine? Those “specialists” we’re male neurologist who wouldn’t give me an MRI because “women stress too much”. Go fuck yourself.

MY SPINE WAS BROKEN FOR 2 YEARS BECAUSE MY DOCTORS TOLD ME I JUST HAD BAD CRAMPS AND REFUSED TO TAKE XRAYS. FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. WHEN WILL BOYS REALIZE THEIR EXPERIENCES ARENT STANDARD???? I ALSO LOVE THIS IDEA THAT YOU CAN JUST GO TO A SPECIALIST WHENEVER YOU WANT LOL IF OUR PCP DOESNT BELIEVE US WHEN WE TELL THEM OUR SYMPTOMS THEY ARENT GONNA REFER US TO A SPECIALIST YOU FUCKING MOLDY WALNUT

i had a brain aneurysm/hemorrhage ten years ago, doctors still tell me im faking my disability BECAUSE YOU CAN TOTALLY FAKE LIMITED MOVEMENT OF THE LEFT SIDE

My sister had intercranial hypertension which was causing headaches, dizzy spells and loss of vision, and you know what the hospital told her? She was being a hysterical girl and making it up. A few weeks later she spent roughly a month in hospital and had several lumbar punctures to relieve her RECORD HIGH spinal pressure that was causing so much strain on her brain and optic nerves she was being sent blind.

Everytime I see this post (and it’s been a good 5/6 times), it has different stories and experiences of women who have been horribly mistreated by doctors and it just blows my mind that this is so big. It’s absolutely disgusting how terribly women are treated in the medical world and something needs to be done about that.

my friend lea had back pain, then pain in her legs and feet, and then numbness. despite seeing 7 different doctors over 2 years, by the time they found the cancer it was inoperable. chemo and radiation didn’t work. the cancer spread. she died and left behind a 5 year old daughter.

A few years ago I would go through spells where I literally could not stand on my own and I couldn’t get out of bed. I would be freezing and too weak to eat. I would keep having heart palpitations as well. I got up the money to go to a clinic and they told me it was just stress and to basically just work on chilling out. I saved up money for a few weeks to do this and I pretty much get a “chill out” from them. As time went on it got worse, most noticeably the heart palpitations were happening almost constantly. I went again to a different clinic and was told it was normal and that it was probably stress. They did no tests, and they told me it would “just go away”. Two weeks later I ended up collapsing going down some stairs, and at the hospital it was discovered that I had such severe anemia that my heart could barely keep up with trying to get enough oxygen to my body. I had developed left ventricular hypertrophy (my heart muscle is too big) and because of them ignoring me and dismissing me I’m at a much higher risk of heart attacks and stroke now.

I went to the doctor with severe intermittent pain in my upper right stomach area that was so bad I had to miss school. Despite the fact that my period has been on a regular 3 month cycle for years, and I still had two months left until my period, my doctor told me it was period related cramps and or indigestion. 2 months later I’m in the hospital getting my gallbladder removed. It was so obstructed that there was gangrene developing my my system.

So…everyone who’s given me shit for that one post (about medicine and equal treatment and shit) can just read this because I’m sick of defending my case.

i know this post is already long but here’s a pretty good article about how gender bias in medicine is quite literally killing women. it focuses a lot on heart attacks but it applies to all areas of medicine

Yeah as someone who spent there entire childhood in chronic pain from bone deformity while being told by every doctor that it was “growing pains” and I was just sensitive I relate too fucking much

3 general doctors, 4 specialists, 8 years before anyone thought to do an MRI on my knee. even then, the specialist told me he didn’t see anything, told me I just needed to immobilize my knee for 3 months. didn’t help, neither did PT. funny how when they did an MRI the same time next year, suddenly he saw something. even funnier was when they went into my knee and found out that my meniscus was just basically shredded completely in various places. or we could talk about just in general how women’s pain is downplayed. I completely severed a ligament in my ankle, but they told me that I needed to just take ibuprofen. I took so much to kill the pain that I gave myself a stomach ulcer. fuck anyone who thinks that women don’t have unfair treatment by doctors.

where my punk-rock apostles at

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.

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

It also explains why Peter is always the one talking. As the only Married Man of Taxable Age, he’s the only one “qualified” to speak for the group.