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how are we doing rachel nation

how are we doing rachel nation!!!!

HOW ARE WE DOING RACHEL NATION!!!

$5,000 is obviously a lot of money to the average person but I’m really not sure it’s a lot of money to the kind of people who are financially secure enough that they can drop everything in their lives to play big brother for up to like 4 months. I feel like the bribe power needed to be like $15,000 for inflation

the process to get gender affirming care of any kind, but especially bottom surgery, is so fucking cruel. its inhumane. like the amount of time and stress and hoops and money involved is ludicrous and the excuse is always going to be "we dont want ppl to regret it," but like, no one who isnt 100% set on getting their genitals reconstructed is going through half of this. how have we set up a system so fucking hostile to people who just want to be comfortable?

id: screenshots of two google searches answered by google's gemini. the first image is a search about bumping into a british man, the second about bumping into a romanian man. the first answer reads as follows: "If a British man bumped into you, he almost certainly muttered an automatic "Sorry!" or "Cheers, sorry!"- even if it was entirely your fault- sparking a polite, reflexive exchange of mutual apologies." the second answer reads as follows: "Check your pockets right now. If someone bumped into you unexpectedly in a crowded area, it is a classic distraction technique for pickpocketing. Immediately verify that you still have your wallet, phone, passport, and other valuables." end id.

I think the most damage this site has done to me is making me think "It's fucken wimdy" when it is, in fact, fucken wimdy outside.

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

I will never understand the stan wars. I usually don't care who anyone roots for and if their interests are aligned with my faves success or not unless it's genuinely evil people like Kamu. We should ALL be rooting against Kamu and leave it at that.

Worth noting that the article was written by famous TERF Kathleen Stock. This is a natural extension of her ideology, a key feature of which has been that young women (or rather those she sees as young women) don't know what's best for them, and are confused and vulnerable to being seduced by dangerous ideologies. Yet she considers herself a feminist, and in that she is part of a long tradition of middle and upper-class white feminists whose only concern as women is to take the place of the patriarch, rather than dismantling patriarchy altogether.

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

hey man. nice regional dialect. mind if i apply some baseless assumptions about your personhood to it? i was also gonna prescribe morality to it as well. if that’s cool with you

men need to STOP starting podcasts and START forming barbershop quartets. NOW.

why do so many freaks go right to “there should be exams or tests before you have kids” when the real solution is better social services, robust infant and child development education that is accessible both financially and schedule/distance accommodating, and resources throughout any stage of a child’s life. genuine question like did you think about any social development before going straight to eugenics

truly one of the most demoralising things about being in the job market atm is "only successful applicants will be notified" is practically a universal standard. so you spend hours, sometimes days filling out applications, writing CVs and cover letters only to be ghosted as the only form of communication. Not even a "thank you but this time you've been unsuccessful" email. You're in a constant state of "did I not get it or have they not contacted me?" and you just have to eventually conclude you were unsuccessful without so much as courtesy, "sorry, but thank you for your application." A literal thankless cycle for months and months and months. You'd think with all the ways to automate these processes they would at least have the time, means and decency to acknowledge your submission and let you off the hook, but no. You're just in limbo in every possible way in the name of "efficiency". Solidarity with everyone going through this because it is truly dehumanising and demoralising to work so hard on putting yourself forward constantly without acknowledgement or useful communication of any sort for long periods of time, and most ppl simply will not have any compassion for what that's like.