YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!

Like. There are a lot of things I could say here. But I’m just going to do my best to answer your question, and the answer is either very simple or very complicated, depending on your current point of view.

1. “They” knew what people with brown skin looked like because people with brown skin had been there literally THE ENTIRE TIME. Some (and father back, ALL) of “them” had brown skin themselves.

2. “People with Brown Skin” and “Europeans” are not separate and mutually exclusive groups.

3. No matter how far back you go, the mythical time that you’re looking for, when all-white, racially and culturally isolated Europe was “real”, will continue to recede from your grasp until it winkles out the like imaginary place it is.

We can just keep going back. In every area, from all walks of life, rich and poor, kings and peasants, artists and iconoclasts, before there were countries and continents, before there were white people.

Russia, 1899:

Switzerland, c. 1800:  [fixed link here]

Netherlands, 1658:

Poland, 1539:

Germany, 1480s:

Spain, 1420s:

France, 1332:

Scotland, England, France, 1280s:

France, 1220s:

England, 1178:

Belgium, 1084:

Greece, c. 1000:

Spain, 850s:

Throughout Europe, 800s-500s:

England, c. 300 AD:

Scotland, c. 100 AD:

Italy, 79 AD:

Greece, 170 B.C.:

Greece, 300 B. C.:

Greece, 400s B.C.

Greece, 500s B.C.:

Egypt, 1200s B.C.:

Crete (Minoan), 1600 B.C.:

Crete (Minoan), early 2000s B.C.:

Romania, 34,000 B.C.:

But she was shrill.

And wore pantsuits and also she was old.

and those kids are fleeing the violence she’s responsible by legitimizing coups and selling weapons to puppets in Central America, so yeah elections do have consequences, namely that you get blood on your hands.

I don’t like to butt in on people’s posts, lord knows I don’t like starting shit but lemme take a second to tell y'all about getting ur lady bits put out of comission.

I, at the age of 12 years, was diagnosed with PCOS. For you that don’t know what that is, PCOS, or Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome, is a LIFELONG medical condition where groups of cysts grow on your ovaries causing the production of female hormones in your body to go batshit nuts and cause a whole sideshow of different symptoms such as but not limited to:

Irregular cardiac function (it’s a scary time)

severe weight gain and trouble losing weight (i may eat healthy and work out daily but until I was down to 1-2 meals a day of spinach i wasn’t losing weight)

severe adolescent acne, and adult acne

extra hair on the face, chest, arms, legs, thumbs, belly and back (I shave my face everyday before class and usually before I go to bed)

thinning hair on the scalp due to an excess of male hormones

irregular or no periods 

HEAVY periods

EXTREME PERIOD PAIN

depression and anxiety

pelvic pain

increased risk for type 2 diabetes

Increased for all female reproductive cancers due to infrequency of periods

Now, TMI, but I recently had my first period in 6 FUCKING YEARS. Due to the nature of PCOS generally when you have a period it’s because one of the cysts on your ovaries has burst releasing a flood of hormones into your system as well as built up toxins. Basically, when I had mine my body went into full on panic mode, nausea and vomiting, extreme fatigue, mood swings like you wouldn’t believe, my body went from being relatively alright to the cliffs of fucking Gallipoli in an hour flat. The kicker was on top of all that I had cramping so bad I actually blacked out.  Given that I know this is likely to happen again before I reach menopause, I decided to book an appointment with my local Planned Parenthood (applaud those lovely people and what they do) to see what my options were to make sure it never happens again. After telling me about various hormonal treatments they could prescribe me (not pills but IUDs shots and various other things) I asked them if it was possible for me to get a partial hysterectomy. A partial hysterectomy removes the uterus but keeps the ovaries so that they still are able to produce estrogen. The lady I had the appointment with looked at me with a look of the utmost pity and told me that unfortunately due to my age there would be likely no chance for any doctor to do it. When I pressed her on the topic she said that the most common excuse doctors will give you for it is that you’re too young, you might change your mind and want to have children later in life.  Now I dunno if y’all reading this are currently seeing anything wrong with this scenario here but I was told that I, someone who can’t have kids, doesn’t want kids, has never wanted kids, and would be put at severe risk of life threatening complications, have to have had children before anyone would consider giving me a surgery that not only would undoubtedly improve the quality of my life but also remove

Well, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to get a referral from her during the appointment, I went home and decided to research this bullshit. Turns out that there is something commonly evoked when women want to have any part of their reproductive system put out of commission called the three child rule. Basically if you are young, doctors usually wont let you get either a hysterectomy or a partial hysterectomy UNLESS you have already had three children. 

HOLD THE MOTHERFUCKING PHONE FOR A WHOLE SECOND AND THINK ABOUT THIS

By most doctors standards, YOU are REQUIRED as a woman to PHYSICALLY GIVE BIRTH to at least 3 CHILDREN before you are able to have any of your reproductive system removed or decommissioned. 

And that isn’t even the worst part of it all, these standards DO NOT change when the patient is at high risk for reproductive cancers!

How fucking miserable is it that to take control of your own fucking health in a first world country a woman has to have submitted to the gender roles of having children or actually have contracted cancer or some other immediately life threatening condition.

When getting your tubes tied as a sterilization procedure became accesible in the USA (1950s-1980s) the general rule was the “120 rule.” basically to be considered for the procedure the age of the woman multiplied by how many children she had had to be more than 120. a 40 yr old had to have 3 kids. a 30 yr old, 4 kids., etc etc.

Here are some more articles on this topic: 

 Sterilisation of young, competent, and childless adults, published by NIH and NCBI

Sterilization of Women and Girls with Disabilities, published by Human Rights Watch

be careful and keep an eye on any aspec merch you may be selling. an exclusionist by the name of lovely-leabean (what an ironic name) is posting about going to pride and stealing merchandise that includes any aspec flags. she’s already stolen several buttons with the ace flag on them. she’s even talked about stealing from peoples bags and pockets.

please spread this around.

And their blog is the most hateful, disgusting thing I have ever seen. They openly loathe aces.

I hope to GOD they get caught and thrown the fuck out. I hope they get arrested.

Fellow aces, do not let people like this stop you from being proud. Do not let them stop you from going to Pride. Because that is exactly what they want.

Oh, that’s right, I forgot! If you support asexual and aromantic people in any way (even if that’s just selling aspec merch), then you’re obviously so very privileged and don’t need that money, do you?

On a more serious/less sarcastic note:

What in the actual fuck is that person thinking? There are many people in our community who live below the poverty line, and some of them use their stores (online or physical) as a way to literally survive.

And with every item that is stolen from creators, this person is also robbing them of the full income that they’d otherwise be receiving. But hey, fuck anyone who supports aces right, even if they need the money to be able to eat or pay bills, etc?

And stealing these items from people who’ve already bought them? That’s just as callous and fucked up. For all you know, someone could have been saving for weeks or months in order to buy that $20 pin that was handmade by their favourite creator. And now, it’s gone. And they may not be able to get another one for quite some time, if they can get another one at all. And what if it was the first and only aspec pride thing a young person had bought? Imagine how happy and proud they would have been, and then how fucking devastated they’ll be when they get home and realise that it’s missing.

But ace discourse only exists online, they said. But aphobia doesn’t affect anyone, they said. But we still care about the community despite being exclusionists, they said.