all sheep are gay

Doctors could name a disorder "Whiny Bitch Disorder" and I assure you that the reaction in the ND community at large would not be "what the fuck is wrong with the psychiatric field and how they think of mentally ill people, we should not allow that name and diagnosis", but rather "PSA: Please don't use 'whiny' and 'bitch' as insults, that's ableist against people with Whiny Bitch Disorder!"

@medranochav

Fuck personality tests. Who comes to your mind when I say "Michael"

Nature is healing already

You BEHEAD Marie Antoinette?

you CHOP her head like the GUILLOTINE??

OH OH CHAOS FOR FRANCE! CHAOS FOR FRANCE FOR 1000 YEARS!!!!

Ftr I imagine this is similar to the issues of a declawed cat but more severely painful

This is actually severely worse. With a declawed cat they at least still have their pawpads cushioning the bones a little (unless the declaw was extra botched, which I have seen). There’s a reason why, if an animal loses their paw, we typically amputate the whole leg- rare exceptions excluded. And that’s because that low on the limb there’s basically nothing in the way of muscle that you can use to cushion the end of the bones. With no cushion, all you have is skin over bone... and the pressure of the bone on the skin leads to ulcers, which leads to bone sticking through the skin, which lead to chronic infections, which lead to bone infections......... It is every level of badness.

me at a party: they don't know I want to explain why "stranger danger" was a reagan propaganda campaign to promote nuclear family "values" and increase police power, which then lead to mass incarceration. they don't know kidnappings in the 80s were purposefully sensationalized in the media and that the claimed statistics were exaggerated. they don't know most children are abused or kidnapped by someone they know, especially a parent, and that isolation of families prevents children from seeking help and support within their communities not available at home.

wait until you learn a lot of "protect our children" rhetoric from politicians has the exact same goal and methods while straying from actual causes of abuse and solutions to it because there's not enough money to be made in the truth

ok I need everyone to know "stranger danger was a propaganda campaign" and "you should use common sense when it comes to trusting strangers" are statements that can coexist...like i'm not saying you should automatically trust strangers, i'm referring to a specific issue during the reagan administration...

I think it’s always good to point out there’s a different *culture* around outside cats in the UK, but it doesn’t change that they’re still damaging the environment, likely to get killed in horrible ways, etc. From what I’ve seen, a lot of American culture is just viewing cats as.. well, not as important as dogs. Of course, this isn’t always the case, but it’s largely ignorance, not considering them as part of the family, very ‘they can fend for themselves’ attitudes. From my research, the UK does have a hugely different culture around it; they do seem to care for their cats a lot (most seem to be vaccinated, collared, some microchipped which tends to be rarer in the States), think of them like dogs, etc. but it’s more of ‘but cats NEED to go outside.’ They’re both still wrong, and it’s dangerous to the cats as well as environment, but it’s interesting to see.