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in addition to being criticized for not wanting to have children, you must also get scolded if you don't want to be around children. somehow the children that are created and abused are your fault and your problem to solve. if you say that creating children is the creation of a being to experience harm and that this can be avoided, you are a eugenicist. if you cultivate childfree spaces, you are abandoning children (who did not need to be created) to abuse. if you decide that you don't want to take on additional trauma for yourself because you don't want to subject yourself to the abuse parents inflict on their children, you are a monster who is dehumanizing children. never the fault of the parents.

as part of their ongoing boycott, Canada will no longer provide the US with totally real long-distance girlfriends who definitely exist

my wife came home and my skin started clearing up

"you have gay eyes" is like. what the fuck does that mean. but also he does.

we are fucked

No hope

@isuggestrevolution

If bitch isn’t a misogynistic slur because “anyone can be called one” then explain the ‘no bitches’ meme where the word is quite literally used as a replacement for women.

"Bitches" and "women" are used interchangeably in so many contexts. It's everywhere in top 40 songs. It's wild to claim that it's not a gendered word at all, esp when the literal meaning is "female dog". Like if u don't care about using slurs, then just admit that. But don't try to pretend like it's not one. The fact that it's widespread and normalized doesn't make it not a slur, it just shows how deep sexism is still ingrained in our culture.

I would also like to add that "anyone can be called one" isn't really true either, because calling a man a bitch is different from calling a woman a bitch. When a woman is called that, it's because she was mean, voicing her opinion or saying no. When a man is called that, it means he is weak (men call each other a little bitch to mean coward) and they're comparing him to what they think a woman is, aka weak. It always mean woman, they just don't wanna admit it.

Shane set out to learn Russian because didn't want the burden of communicating in their second language always fall on Ilya, by default. He also wanted to learn more about Ilya's culture through the language, he wanted to hear his husband make jokes in his mother tongue, to get to know the side of him that comes out entirely unimpeded when he doesn't have to filter himself through his second language. He expected to mostly use it at home, perhaps especially when Ilya was feeling overwhelmed. However, once Shane actually learns Russian to the point that he's fully conversational, they mostly use it to shit talk people in public.