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But there is not solid scientific proof yet that “endogenic plurality” is a fully proven medical condition or separate diagnosis. Most current evidence is based on self-reports and community research, not brain scans or large clinical studies.

"Well what about—" No!! No one!!! Yes, even them!!

some of them continue to share misinformation with disclaimers like "i know this has been debunked but it has good resources!" - they continue to share content that directly harms jews, just bc it has a link they can use to pirate an app or a show or whatever. they don't give a shit. it's horrifying.

it's all very "oh well!!! this is just going to happen occasionally i guess!!! but i won't do it again!!!"

then they do it again. again & again. posts with blood libel, using dogwhistles, inciting violence against us (knowingly or not), calling random jews "zionists!!!" for simply existing (the word has been used as a dogwhistle by the far-right for a while & now it's being co-opted by leftists).

& whenever we discuss current rampant displays of antisemitism, we're met with indifference OR labelled zionists... just for talking about how much danger we're in? for discussing our fears? what.

you can & should care about multiple problems at the same time. it shouldn't be like this. it is possible to advocate for palestinians without resorting to antisemitism - it's easy, actually! but it seems goyim just can't help themselves. they love twisting a noble cause for jew-hatred & their actions ultimately harm everybody.

Shipping characters together is NOT for education. It should not be educational. The whole point of shipping is to explore relationships in fiction.

you will never know. you can never tell. sometimes even the people doing these things won't have an answer. is it a sex thing? is it kink? who fucking knows! there is no line! public expressions of sexuality aren't immoral to begin with, but if you make any attempt to suppress them, you have to decide what is and isn't allowed, and you are going to get it wrong. there is no way to untangle kink from personality and hobbies and interests. kink does not even necessarily involve sex. sometimes it's just self-expression and vulnerability and sharing a particular dynamic with another person. sounds a lot like (checks notes) literally every other human experience that exists.

1. Anyone who in good faith uses a label is fine to use it for themselves

2. There is no way to always tell who is using it in good faith

3. Act like everyone is using it in good faith.

a. I am referring to spaces where it is safer/the norm to share such information: pronoun circles, club meetings, team introductions, someone declaring on the internet.

Obviously a person harassing you on the street will not be safe to try this with.

b. Spaces you have some level of power in particular. Are you a teacher asking for pronouns, a club leader, a coach, etc? It may not be as effective to do to someone with power OVER you, but it can be reframed as “I was just trying to respect you.” How you act sets a tone and you have the opportunity to rigidly adhere to what someone has declared themselves as, and the “joke” will not last long if the person is truly bigoted, which is crucially important when

c. You might be wrong that the person is being a dick. If you, an LGBT club member tells the person who replies “any pronouns” to “take this seriously” you are setting a tone and not a good one. If you confront a he/him lesbian for “stealing language” you are setting a tone and not a good one. Sometimes allies and queer folks will be so sure someone replying in earnest is fucking with them, and that assumption comes at the cost of making the person deeply regret their vulnerability.

Not having empathy doesn’t make someone evil. It doesn’t make them an abuser. In fact, people without empathy are better in certain vital positions. We’re better at being first responders, 911 operators, and other tasks that would overwhelm empaths. We work better in critical situations than empaths do.

Thinking that any disorder makes someone evil is ableist. And when you take into account the sexist bias in diagnosing women with BPD and the racist and classist bias in diagnosing POC and prison inmates with ASPD and NPD? It’s not only ableist, it’s all kinds of -ists. Plus, it’s really rich for someone who claims that empathy is what makes someone good to have so little empathy for people with disorders that are literally trauma-based.

Basically, it just means, like, for example, if you like to write murder–mysteries, that doesn’t mean you find actual murder entertaining, or that you want to be a detective. It just means that you like to write about it.

Like you said, writing about threesomes doesn’t mean you want to a be apart of one, it just means you find that situation, or the perspective of someone who is nonmonogamous, complex or intriguing enough to write about.

yes, you can experience stigma for going on adderall for your adhd, and you can be prevented from accessing that systemically because the medication is so stigmatized. the premise in a lot of psychiatric structures is often that you should be able to function without your adderall or your anti-anxiety meds, and so you must be forced to do so.

those exact same structures and people are likely to force a psychotic person to go on antipsychotics, because the stigma against psychotics is a stigma against us being unmedicated. we are seen as inherently needing medication, as being dangerous and violent without it.

Anti-phys

(plaintext: anti-phys)

The physical medicine counterpart to anti-psych. This movement is for informed consent, supports use of medications, including both preventative measures such as vaccines and treatment measures ranging from meds like antihistamines and NSAIDs to opiates and narcotics when needed, and is against gatekeeping of care and hierarchical power structures in medicine that leave chronically ill people disenfranchised and vulnerable.

Anti-phys as a movement does NOT support anti-vaxx, anti-medication, homeopathy, or other misinformation-based ableist movements which harm disabled people. It also fights the sanism that causes doctors to write patients off as "psychiatric cases" - in essence, modern day madness diagnoses - in order to refuse needed care.

It aims to concurrently build a better, more egalitarian medical system while also taking steps in our current one to ensure as few people as possible fall through the cracks as the shift to the new system eventually occurs. It is first and foremost a movement that prioritizes those with physical disabilities and chronic illnesses, and is necessarily intersectional with the anti-psych movement.

I mean sometimes they do yeah. I know a white guy with monolid eyes and zero known Asian ancestors and he absolutely experiences anti-Asian racism on a fairly regular basis because people think he’s mixed Asian/white. I know a woman who was told throughout her life that she was Native as an adoptee with no known history or background who experienced incredibly violent amounts of anti-Native racism until she discovered as an adult through DNA test that she is 100% white. I know white people who tan incredibly dark in the summer comparatively that are constantly accused of being mixed race and experiencing racism due to that, usually anti-Mexican racism perpetrated against white people with Greek or Italian ancestors.

If you think cis butches don’t experience both transphobia and misogyny and homophobia for daring to be women who break gender roles while still holding onto their womanhood you’ve sorely misunderstood just how bad butches have it in this world sorry. If you don’t think cis queens experience transphobia and homophobia and misogyny for daring to be men who break gender roles while being loud and proud about it and still holding onto their manhood then you’ve sorely mistaken just how bad they have it in this world as well.

Not to mention all of the cis men who wear dresses and skirts and makeup and nail polish and heels simply because they like them who experience all of these things. All of the cis straight women who simply just exist but something about them doesn’t pass society’s “woman enough” test, leading to them being caught in bathroom bills and sporting rules and being attacked by people who mistake them for being transgender or gay.

Just like how straight people experience homophobia to such a degree that they literally beat their children out of any potential deviance from rigidly upheld gender roles and let politicians make jokes on national TV about how they’d drown their pre-teen kids if they came out as LGBT. Do you really think a straight kid still figuring themselves out hears that and doesn’t internalize that homophobia? Doesn’t rigidly hold themselves to some impossible standard so that no one could ever possibly think they’re gay? You don’t think straight teenage boys who maybe don’t pass some bully’s straightness test are getting the shit kicked out of them for “being gay” when, surprise, they aren’t? You don’t think all those kids being attacked by their priests and coaches and teachers are being told “this wouldn’t have happened if you weren’t gay” when they’re literally not gay? Do you know how many straight kids had close calls at my school that famously expels all gay kids, because someone made up a believable enough rumor? Do you know how many of them still got their shit kicked in even though administration ultimately decided to let them stay?

All bigotry is violent and all bigotry catches people it doesn’t “intend” to and hurts them as well. It doesn’t matter what someone’s label is, or if they even have one. It matters if the person enacting the violence is doing it because their victim didn’t pass whatever “acceptable enough” test they didn’t know they were being subjected to.