Whirlwind

trans women please stop telling cis women to be grateful they have periods

“For years, it has been reported that women are significantly more likely to be injured in car crashes than men—Jezebel wrote about the phenomenon back in 2011, when it appeared that seat belts were to blame. Most of the women harmed were, to quote USA Today nearly a decade ago, of “relatively short stature,” and “preferred seating posture and a combination of factors yielding lower safety protection from the standard restraint devices.” Cool, cool: seat belts weren’t designed with women in mind.

A new study from the University of Virginia suggests that, not only is the discrepancy still true, the crash test dummies commonly used to test vehicle safety runs are also at fault. Presumably, that’s because manufactures make very little effort to represent the bulk of human women when designing them.

As City Lab reports, “the odds of serious injury or death for female car-crash victims is 73 percent higher than for males,” which could have something to do with the fact that “average male” type dummies are most frequently used in crucial safety testing. When “woman-type” dummy was introduced in 2003, it was, and still is, only 5 feet tall, and weighs 110 pounds, just a touch outside the dimensions of your average woman.”

Read the full piece here

“The odds of serious injury or death for female car-crash victims is 73 percent higher than for males”

Lush was selling these today!🦈

You literally just have no idea what you’re talking about.

https://eu.oceana.org/en/importance-sharks-0

http://www.sharksavers.org/en/education/the-value-of-sharks/sharks-role-in-the-ocean/

us: so all men?

them:

women: men are misogynistic

then:

like just say women. 

especially cause not all trans women do “present feminine” because women are human beings with autonomy who can dress however tf they want and should still be acknowledged as women 

Pataxó woman:

“These assholes came in and burned down [our reservation]... I want all of the media here to see this”

For 2 years we’ve fought to preserve [our reservation] & these assholes came in & burned it down.

They are killing our rivers, our sources of life, & now they have set our reserve on fire. Tomorrow we are closing the roads & I want all the media here to see this.

We need action, we need now, we need to take those ones to justice and take President Jair Bolsonaro to respond to this too, we need people to wake up that being a conservative it's not the same as being a stupid retrograde

Indigenous people, animals and nature are screaming in pain for help

-happens sometimes

-means are in a comfortable enough space where they can question their identity and arrive at a conclusion that works for them

-often find our new things about themselves and how they express and relate to their gender

-doesn’t mean there’s some hidden force trying to make people trans

-is not an excuse to make hrt and surgeries harder to access

Anyway the reason the police and the girl’s caregivers gave for not believing her and accusing her of making it up for “drama” were that:

She told the details of what happened in a monotone, desensitized way and wasn’t making eye contact

She mixed up the sequence of events when recounting the memory

She wanted to keep her same bedspread afterwards

So to be clear, they didn’t believe her and coerced her into revoking her accusation because she experienced dissociation, her memory of the event was stored differently than other memories, and she wanted something familiar.

In other words, they didn’t believe she was raped because she experienced trauma. She had a completely normal and common traumatic response to a traumatic event, and instead of literally anyone caring enough to learn about trauma and realize that her experiencing PTSD is proof in and of itself that something traumatic happened, they just assumed she was lying.

It’s no wonder that rape survivors never get justice when just experiencing the natural reaction to traumatic violation is used to discount your credibility completely.