“hi manhattan folx. we are both fresh out of school and looking to split rent 3/4s* with one (1) quiet femme roommate. wed prefer to live with someone who is not greek, cannot practice martial arts and was recently fired from their job.

we are looking for a quiet person because it is a MUST that you do not ever speak to my partner due to his inability to behave normally. if you need trouble him, you will pass messages beneath our bedroom door at precisely 3am on sundays only.

you mightve heard about us from our previous roommate, moon. she will be posting in various local groups saying we sold her ferret on craigslist. please PM me for more details.

we are looking for some who

is not mentally ill

is not disabled

will not be seen or heard

does not have friends

will wash dishes for us

you would be living in a cardboard box in our living room. we have a washing machine and dryer but ask that you do not use it, instead going to the laundromat down the street and matching whatever you paid them to pay us as well.

we are both lawyers but one of us roams the streets at night wearing a mask with horns and performing vigilante justice. you must be able to perform first aid at all hours. (and of course comfy doing this xo.)

people with leopard geckos and capricorns need not apply.

Hysterectomy is associated with new mental health conditions, increased cardiovascular and metabolic morbidity, trouble with ovarian function (2), incontinence increases, pelvic organ fistulas, heart disease, increased cancer risk, increased overall worse outcomes, and more.

and yet all of these things are in fact false.

I was never told that the uterus and ovaries are important for other health reasons even though I specifically asked, and was instead told the opposite.

I wasn't given any of the information above. When I tried to bring up anything similar, I was sternly told the opposite- that these organs were easy to remove and that it wasn't a big deal unless you wanted children.

So the least I can do is take the stockpile of articles I keep in my notes on my phone and share them so that someone else can have the information I had to find on my own after the fact, given the endometriosis specialist took my healthy organs anyway and committed medicaid fraud to get himself paid.

So, enjoy my link stockpile, but very gently I am pointing out this is about the procedures in the most general informed consent sense. I see people saying in the tags that this information "wont change any minds" and that is simply not true- I would have run for the hills from any provider suggesting these things as necessary had I known a) how much that wasn't true or helpful but also b) how devastating the health consequences would be on top of the health problems I have already, because c) most physicians are absolute dogshit at informed consent because they themselves are under false impressions about these procedures as well. I have met many, MANY healthcare workers who have a very poor understanding of hysterectomy and or oophorectomy consequences including people who have had them done themselves and STILL have misunderstandings about it.

This fucking post.

The thing:

she also says that women not only use those bathrooms to pee, they also have to use them to change their pads/tampons if they're in their periods and they need space and waiting in line for too long can be uncomfortable and really bad in case of an emergency.

also there's women who need the space and availability to change their babies and there's women who are accompanying their children (little girls and sometimes little boys, depending on his age) and kids shouldn't be waiting that long.

I was today years old. That is disgusting.

No Child Left Behind is one of the worst things to ever be incentivized in schools. It was signed into law when I was 14. Reading Rainbow was my show as a kid. LeVar Burton played a big part in why I became an avid reader to date. The joy of it. It's an adventure around the globe and through different time periods without stepping on a plane or time machine.

Children parrot behavior. In grade school, I always wanted to read the same amount of books as my teachers (50 books) and managed to double that each year. Before No Child Left Behind, book fairs and Scholastic catalogs were a serious matter like your grandma's Fingerhut catalogs. Libraries were (and still are) a wonderland.

This concentrated schools and other education programs entirely on those tests, especially schools with students who were already struggling, at the cost of art and music programs, home economics and shop type programs, and any in depth exploration of pretty much anything that wasn't on the test, which were pretty narrowly focused. Reading Rainbow was a relaxed encouragement to be imaginative and curious. It didn't teach kids the answers to questions on the test. So it didn't make the cut.

This widened the gap between public and private school educations significantly, because students in public schools learned mostly how to regurgitate information, while students in private schools learned how to understand it, analyze it, think critically about it, and apply it - in short, if you could afford to go to private school, you still got to have agency over your education. And sure, many public school teachers were dedicated and still taught their students more than the curriculum demanded, but they were under a lot of pressure and scrutiny and their hands were often tied. Many of them couldn't sustain the effort it took (and how little they got paid) and changed careers. Meanwhile basic necessarily skills disappeared when arts and non-academic budgets were slashed into oblivion - you used to be able to learn how to sew, mend, cook, budget, do woodworking, fix a car (hell, build one), paint, draw, do pottery, and so much more in elective classes. What's mostly remained is performing arts programs, which struggle to continue existing, but since you can charge admission to performances they've had a better chance than shop class and home ec.

You have no idea what it's like to have watched all that happen under the Bush administration and now see the second emerging generation of young people who were deprived of the education they deserve and don't understand critical thought or media analysis. Those of us who are old enough to remember the Bush era are frustrated, but not at all surprised to see how reductive and binary fandom discourse is, or that critical media analysis has diminished significantly and turned into fandom discourse instead (ie. that being a child during the "what you feel is more valid than facts" Bush administration has led to the second emerging generation of people who struggle to separate their personal feelings about a piece of media from the idea that fiction is social commentary, who struggle to understand nuance and are more concerned about judging others for their even slightly divergent political views than about what makes for effective activism, or that fandom has become a way for people to judge and condemn others).

You have no idea how terrifying it is to have watched No Child Left Behind unfold in your early 20s and have thought "this is going to lead to generations of kids who will be ripe for manipulation by propaganda" and to now watch how hard it is to get Gen Z and Alpha to understand the ways they're being manipulated by fascists. Believe me when I say the very real purpose of forcing education to focus on tests instead of knowledge was to create generations of people whose brains are trained at an early age to accept information unquestioningly. That's what I see when people reblog screenshots without sources and base their political opinions on tumblr funnymen.

I think I realized this when I had went to see my dad and stepmom one day and asked if I could place my hawk’s food. (A rabbit leg) in the freezer. My step mom was disgusted by the idea that a leg from an animal was in the freezer meanwhile an entire chicken was sitting in the fridge.

Your rotisserie chicken is an entire chicken.

Your pork chop is a hunk of pig.

Your rack of ribs are from a cow’s rib cage.

It’s like Americans view meat as colorful red and pink hued shapes that just exist and come into the world packaged.

You see so many people getting harassed or even having their content flagged for showing how to process or field dress meat when it’s at it’s freshest. Right after culling. For some reason this is considered “gore” by many folks when in reality it’s no more different from plucking a processed chicken after cull.

You also notice that Americans have an idea of what’s normal meat and what isn’t normal meat and there’s racist undertones that I’ve noticed in a lot of these comments left on foreign cooking videos

You have people that claim a video of a man in a different country preparing something like this is “eating a dog.” Meanwhile this is roasted goat.

You have people who’s only perception of an edible fish is in fillet or fish stick form and they call something like this nasty because “Eww there’s a head!” Yeah.. most animals have heads..

we got this

Detransitioners are by definition – People who formerly identified as transgender and made medical alterations to their body, who then stopped medical transition AND stopped identifying as transgender.

Your goal is for detransitioners with opinions that you don't like – which is most of us – to keep quiet.

You call out detrans women for being the same as ex-gays, but most of us here ARE GAY. And we understand the difference.

You call out detrans women for "violent transmisogyny" and yet trans women are often spouting misogynistic and lesbophobic rhetoric that hurts cis women.

You talk about verbal violence and pain and oppression that cis women cause you, but we can't talk about the very real physical violence, pain, and oppression that we've faced?

Why does your pain matter and ours doesn't?

Because our pain and oppression benefits you. Every time a woman keeps quiet about her disagreement with you benefits you. Every time a woman detransitions and doesn't speak out about her negative experience and the pain it caused her, that benefits you. Every time a woman pretends that she sees trans women as exactly the same as other women when she doesn't, or pretends that she would date a trans woman when she wouldn't, that benefits you. You want to live in your fantasy world where you're a real biological woman and everyone else plays into it, and we threaten that.

You don't want us to speak up because it threatens you. You don't want us to speak up because if we do, other people will disagree with your transition too.

Once again, why does our pain not matter? Why do our experiences not matter? Why do we have to shut up and keep quiet when you're allowed to steamroll all over everyone and demand that we stay in line?

They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.