miraclepatient

why is it considered ok when neurotypicals sexualize characters they deem mentally ill. ya’ll literally fetishize mental illness when you think a fictional murderer has one, but actual mentally ill people can’t even cope with our illnesses the way we want to without being told that we’re glorifying or romanticizing them.

why is it considered ok when neurotypicals aestheticize asylums and straight jackets but demonize the kinds of people that were in them.

Rose rain in Rome’s Pantheon.

Here’s a quick handy reference list or anyone who isn’t sure:

Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.

“Alpha males” are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.

“Survival of the fittest” simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it “fits” its environment. It does not mean that stronger or smarter individuals are supposed to succeed. Those things can even be a detriment in nature by wasting too many resources.

“Race” is not a biological concept. Someone who looks different from you has the same human genes, just a different grab-bag of dominant traits.

Evolution is not a march towards higher complexity, more intelligence or even more adaptability. It’s just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isn’t “less evolved” than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.

People didn’t evolve “from apes.” It’s more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.

No human on Earth is “closer” to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.

Neanderthals were also a “sibling” species of ours. We didn’t evolve from them.

Epigenetics does not have anything at all to do with genetic memories. It is a thing that affects characteristics like health risks, and this speculation floating around about how phobias could be related to some ancestral trauma is complete and utter nonsense.

It’s only a matter of time before such a claim is used as another pseudoscientific tool in the arsenal of people claiming that bloodlines have anything to do with the validity of one’s worship of European pantheons. “My ancestors were Swedish, and because of epigenetics I have genetic memories passed down from those ancestors, so therefore my connection with the gods is better than yours!”

saying the “male brain” works one way and the “female brain” works another way is ludicrous. for so many reasons, even beyond the obvious of imposing that tired old either/or mentality with regards to maleness and femaleness

occasionally you will read about how a study suggests that “men are naturally better at spacial reasoning” or “women are naturally better at cooperation”, but for one thing, given how early the brain wires itself and how easy it is to influence the wiring (like, disturbingly easy), and given the tremendous social expectations we face from pretty much the moment we leave the freaking womb, it’s impossible to study gender differences in a vacuum. 

like, do your findings prove that “women are better at reading faces”, or do they prove that, when you are part of a group that has been socialized since birth to be “nice”, to take care of other people, and to above all avoid making folks angry, you damn well have to learn how to read the room, and read it fast.

and you can tell this because of the idiotic ass questions they ask when they think they’re being slick. “What would you do if i was there” “Oh really getting ready for bed? What does that entail” “Ohh you’re getting ready for work, can i watch” 

it’s like they think everything has to be this incredibly sexual, borderline pornographic experience, and it’s so strange to comprehend

like, i’m getting ready for bed, not masturbating. i’m getting ready for work, not putting on a strip show. it’s like everything is this weird ass “for men’s eyes only” brand of performance art to them, and they honestly get disappointed when it doesn’t turn out that way irl

“Both [families] are told they’ll be participating in a documentary about money. Instead, a producer from the show unexpectedly comes to their house with a suitcase full of cold, hard cash: $101,000 to be exact. That could be a life-changing – and in the case of families so near the financial cliff, nearly life-saving – sum of money. But this being reality TV, instead of just giving them the cash, there’s a major catch.

Both families are informed that somewhere out there, there’s another family “who’s also in need,” and are given a choice: “You can keep all of the money, you can keep some of the money, or you can give it all away.” Neither family knows that the other family also has a suitcase full of cash and is debating how much, if any, they’ll share.”

What follows, predictably, is a gut-wrenching look at the two families being guilted this way and that over whether to choose charity or financial survival.

like. u giving these struggling families money, families WHO NEED THE MONEY, and u gonna fucking sit there like these ~life lessons~ are more important than the cash to pay off debts and bills and tuition and other necessities they’ve been denied because they’re not cushy rich people?

like lmao i can’t believe this. i cannot believe a buncha people got together and thought this would make for good television, it’s so fucking offensive? if my mom and i had been on this show and we found out they were fucking guilting us to decide on how much to keep or share even tho the other family also has the same money like.

we would prob set everyone on fire tbh. why do people think playing with emotions like this is television worthy like i am SO disgusted