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I love gay people theres a guy in my neighborhood who named his one singular dog “simon and garfunkel”

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

it's also creating a class of people who you can abuse while telling yourself that you're Good and Moral and Not an Abuser.

@kedreeva I hope you don't mind me tagging you, but I feel like this is something you would like

I never mind tags! This is awesome!

God forbid Chippy do anything

You absolutely must unmute this video.

the number of people who are pregnant and don't know about what induced labour entails and what post partum bleeding is horrifies me

Hey also: babies are not medicine, or unconditional love playthings. Having a baby won't save your relationship, or fix the problems in your life if you haven't done the work to get yourself in a good place mentally, physically, and emotionally, already. People don't ask to be born, and having to grow up with parents that transfer their problems onto their children just perpetuates the cycles of abuse and life-long issues. Given you're not likely to get clear, concise, unbiased healthcare anyway, as seen above, and it will be continually impressed upon you that it is your duty to have children, make sure you're not succumbing to social pressures, or wanting to be a parent for the wrong reasons.

Genuinely, I think a large part of why so many people are unwilling to talk about risks, complications, pain and injury around birth, pregnancy and lactation is because of how deeply ingrained the (primarily but not exclusively) religious idea that "a woman's body is designed to have children" is. Because if you actually sat down and looked, clear-eyed, at all the many ways in which even a healthy pregnancy can negatively impact the body, it would be that much harder to believe that design factors in at all, unless we're willing to argue that the designer was shit at their job. But if you're sold the idea that pregnancy is some divinely ordained and/or ultimate expression of Feminine Life Purpose, and then you have a bad experience, you're much more likely to blame yourself, or to think there's something wrong with you, or to suffer in silence because nobody ever told you this could happen so there must not be any easy solutions, and that makes me so fucking mad I could spit.

someone lent me an EMT textbook and it literally opens the "Gynecologic Emergencies" section with "The most obvious difference between men and women is that women are uniquely formed to conceive and give birth" 🤮

How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.

This "allosexuality" thing is just a phase. You just need to have really bad sex, and then maybe you'll change your mind.

the other thing about Internet dogpiling is that it is just not possible to think clearly during the acute stages. it’s so easy to criticize people for responding defensively or tactlessly to mass criticism but I cannot overstate the degree to which your brain becomes a rat in a trap. I think we do have to temporarily recalibrate our expectations in these circumstances and accept that they do not necessarily represent how that person responds to criticism. the skills for self-regulating and reacting to normal interpersonal criticism are not the same skills needed to respond to viral callouts.

Fathers day story. My dad is pretty cool- plays a couple instruments and was in bands when I was young and so was friends with a bunch of other local bands/ musicians. But because of that I grew up with a lot of songs I THOUGHT were super famous because they were ubiquitous in my childhood but NO its by his weird friend Cowboy Jim and every time I find out about another one I have to shift my cultural perception ever so slightly. Obviously not a big deal but imagine how discombobulating it would be if you found out idk… Hotel California was only popular with your immediate family and it was written by the guy who got kicked out of thanksgiving for drunkenly crashing a golf cart into a wall.

hot girl summer

On all levels but physical, that's a pig

Lost in the sauce

Absolute shenanigans

Culturally significant forbidden candy