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1.) The diamond being named Eve's Apple when Eve is treated as the "original temptress" and most Christians interpret the apple thing as being exclusively the fault of Eve and her tits. Sin is seen as emanating from women and men's actions are blamed on that sin

2.) Catholicism and Christianity at large teach men that they are not truly capable of controlling themselves and if they harm a woman or even their own daughters, it's because said woman tempted them, and gives them permission to be angry at their victims for "seducing" them

3.) In chapter 19 of Genesis, Lot's daughters get him wasted in order to seduce him; this is, of course, one of the cultural narratives that is used to justify father-daughter sexual abuse. "It was HER idea SHE seduced ME if anything I'M the victim here!" This is relevant because Father Wicks preaching style would likely lean very heavily on the story of Sodom and Gomorrah

3.5) Earlier in the saga of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot offers his virgin daughters to a crowd of rapists as a distraction; the crowd is seeking to gang rape two (male) angels and Lot gives them his young daughters in exchange. The honor of women is disposable and can be exchanged for preserving the virtue and dignity of men.

4.) Mary is the bride of god, but Trinitarian doctrine, plus the idea of God as Patriarch, means that she is the "bride" of her father AND her son. There is no Marion iconography in the church. I cannot stress enough that no catholic parish on earth would hold mass without (with great emphasis) SHE.

5.) It is pretty standard practice for perpetrators of sexual violence to do deliberate damage to their victim's reputation and make it difficult for them to get anyone to help or even believe them, and literally everyone called Grace a whore AT HER FATHER'S PROMPTING

6.) Grace's terror and outrage are so intense in her death scene. She's so desperate to get away from her father's house and while I fully believe that IRL emotional abuse can make you that insane, most movies don't give purely emotional abuse that sort of gravity: to me, she was framed like a person who'd been violated, or like a slave fleeing captivity.

7.) Monsignor Wicks' behavior clearly indicates that he thinks of sexual impropriety as normal and not a big deal, meaning his childhood home likely lacked appropriate boundaries

8.) Martha tells us that Father Wicks was a widower and Grace was living alone with him. 'Daughter as a sexual replacement for dead wife' is a depressingly common trope in American fiction.

AI to write your novel is wrong

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

✨️literally anything✨️

in 2019 the FDA approved a drug called trikafta (which is really three drugs in one) for cystic fibrosis treatment. what it essentially does is patch up the malfunctioning proteins that cause the extra sticky mucus. trikafta is effective on about 90% of cystic fibrosis patients.

people who had spent their entire lives in and out of hospitals, on and off of ventilators, suffering from pneumonia and sometimes treated through painful procedures like intubation took this drug, got out of bed, coughed up an entire lifetimes worth of mucus out of their lungs over the course of a few hours, breathed clearly for perhaps the first time in their lives, and now go on to live well into their seventies.

My ward is the respiratory ward - CF is one of the things we specialize in.

Since this med came out we haven't had a SINGLE CF admission to the ward

There used to always be a CF patient spending a couple of months with us at a time

There's a man who is 23 years old who I was sure would not survive his next admission (aim saturations 85% is end stage lung disease)

There's a set of the local frequent flyers that we all know so well

Except

No we don't

On the CF specialist ward (with reasonable staff turnover)

Half the staff have probably never even seen a CF patient

Additionally, it should be noted that metrics like life expectancy are in no way a guarantee of... Anything. There are significant outlier CF patients who are at an advanced age now despite the odds due to a variety of different factors, having lived the majority of their lives before the development of modulators.

That is per month with the most common coupon people are likely to use.

But don't worry, there's grants and patient assistance programs you can apply for. 🤞🫠 Most people in high income countries like the USA can get it "covered" through insurance for fewer thousands of dollars. Or even less if your insurance is good or the manufacturer likes how poor and/or on Medicaid you are! A good social worker will help you with the process, and make sure your yearly reapplications and PAs are done a little early so they have time to think about it before you run out. Jesus Christ.

The free WiFi that kills you

Monster that eats feelings

The actual devil

Dinosaurs

Suddenly a forest

Weight loss drug that’s actually an egg

The moon

Big traffic jam

The earbuds that turn you into a robot

might there be a reason this post resonates with a lot of women?

can you describe the phenonemon of weaponized incompetence? give an example.

in what ways might the gender pay gap have influenced this post?

"North Australia?"

#at least our geographical names match their geographical regions#we did that part right at least#straya

South Australia is, at best, Middle Australia.