#but you have cancer right now?

[abigailspinach]

Top aides to Ocasio-Cortez did not immediately respond to requests for comment. But Ocasio-Cortez appeared to be leaning into a bid for the Oversight job Wednesday.

“I’m certainly interested in the position. I’m having a lot of conversations with my colleagues,” she said. “And, you know, I think it’s incredibly important that we prepare ourselves fully for an incoming Trump administration, as well as fighting for everyday working Americans.”

She added that she has nothing but “tremendous respect and admiration for Gerry Connolly.”

“He’s just an absolutely fantastic leader, and I think we both bring assets to the committee, which is a big part of why the committee's been effective. I love Gerry," she said.

Connolly told reporters Wednesday that a potential race against Ocasio-Cortez would present a stark choice for Democratic colleagues: He said he has much more experience. He was first elected to Congress in 2008; she achieved political fame by knocking off Joe Crowley, of New York, then the Democratic caucus chairman in a primary in 2018.

But Connolly also is dealing with health issues. Shortly after last month’s election, he announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.

"To me it's not generational. It's about experience and record and capability, and that's how I've got to present it," Connolly told reporters Wednesday. "And she's a new talent and has a lot of promise, but I'm the only one in the race ... who, in fact, has [led] a subcommittee. I think that's really important."

The Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which is closely aligned with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is planning to make recommendations for committee leaders later this month. After that, all 215 House Democrats who will serve in the new Congress will vote on who they want as their committee leaders for the 119th Congress. 

[reginamillls]

at the end of the day it's a relationship that inspired me to create again, to making edits and icons and even writing

it's the relationship that helped me get through some really hard times in my life

its the relationship I met really amazing people through who I now have the joy of calling my friends

[pinbones]

There's two types of people who use transandrophobia to decribe transmascs' and trans mens' experiences:

- Simply specificity, language used to hone in on a specific way being trans affects people who just happen to be men

- As both the above and as a springboard to discuss how societal misogyny, radical feminism, gender stereotypes, and bioessentalism affect all people who can be pecieved as men or masculine by others, and how bigotries compound in meaningful ways with stereotypes and bigotry surrounding maleness and manhood

Like. Half of you are saying "maleness is a hollow experience which is standard, and exists in opposition to gendered oppression, and transandrophobia is therefore when dudes experience misogyny and transphobia"

and half of you are saying "Being percieved and/or transitioning towards male uniquely affects how I am treated, because, for example, how people perceive my blackness or mental illness or kinkiness or femininity is compounded with my manhood in ways that don't usually happen to gender conforming cisperi women"

Which are two fundamentally different approaches to transandrophobia as a concept. One suggests that maleness is a simple downy layer of privilege that coats a person through their male life, and the other acknowledges that a man (or somebody perceived as masculine/male) can experience oppression in ways that those NOT perceived male may not.

Only one of these interpretations is intersectional. Black individuals who are policed more hashly when interpreted as masc know they are risking dangerous experiences when transitioning to male, as has been discussed before on here (to no avail). Male or percieved male people with personality disorders are treated as more dangerous than women with similar symptoms, and are sometiems diagnosed with different disorders entirely based on percieved gender differences. This affects transmascs too, especially considering the already dire state of queerness in psychiatric institutions. Being a male birthing parent is a whole shitshow of transphobia because men are not supposed to give birth, and transmascs are lucky to access related healthcare at all, let alone access it without being ceaselessly misgendered and treated as a stigmatised 'other' to deleterious affects on parent and baby. These are just a few examples, there are many more ways maleness can screw a person over. And that's not to say that female privilege is a thing instead of male privilege, but rather to emphasise that men are not supposed to be minorities. Men are not supposed to be assaulted, men are not supposed to be outliers, men are absolutely not supposed to be trans.

When a man is autistic, he's not just autistic, he's an autistic male, and that makes him more likely to be killed by cops (especially if black). When someone says "you claim you're not ableist but you're scared of the homeless x on a bus talking to xself", they always say the person is a man, because that sounds more significant (and cops think so too). Consider when a person's rape/abuse is considered to not be all that serious due to the victim being male, or when a man's attraction is considered to be more exploitative than a woman's, or when a fat man is considered more creepy/sexist than a thin man or a fat woman. Consider why so many caricatures of evil and creepiness are men with deformities. Consider the fact that men's bathrooms don't have baby changing tables, and that a man may get less support from others after their child's death than the mother might. Maleness can negatively compound with things like minority status, vulnerability, aggression, sexuality, etc. in ways that screw that person over, both in social spaces (such as queer communities that dislike/distrust maleness and masculinity, or how isolation affects men harder), and in more tangible ways, like their rates of suicide and being murdered.

There are tangible ways in which transitioning to male can negatively affect a person's life even if you remove (hypothetically, not really possible) the transphobia element, and these also constitute as worthwhile topics of discussion. If you think maleness is the lack of gendered oppression, then you're not intersectional in your feminism at all. If your life as a male is genuinely sunshine and rainbows (apart from the transphobia if trans), then good for you, genuinely that's great, but not everyone lives in a radfem fantasy world.

Being unable to tell the difference between men talking about mens issues/liberation, and right wingers talking about oppressing women more, isn't feminist. It's ignorant and antifeminist. (MRAs don't care about actual mens lib, and are actively worsening it because they are sexist and opposed to gender lib. You guys know that, right? That male and female liberation aren't oppositional or binary, but the same gender liberation that is entirely oppositional to patriarchy?)

These men and mascs talking about issues facing men aren't ignorant womanhaters who deny misogyny and want ultraprivileged men to be coddled, they are good faith members of your community with experiences just as varied and valid as yours. Treat them like it.

[moeblob]

Scorpio

The most toxic man alive but also a very well trusted and respectable boss and leader of the Zodiac.

[gynandromorph]

Guy who definitely needs more than 7 hours of sleep: not me though I'm fine on 6 or even 5. If I sleep for 8 I become rested enough to notice the chronic sleep deprivation I've convinced myself is normal, which means it's too much sleep for me. I just have that extremely rare no downsides whatsoever gene that makes you more productive than everyone else on less rest. Never been tested, I just know based on vibes. You could say I'm genetically built different, built superior, in a way, to the rest of you.

[camgoloud]

he still has his tonsils. by the way if you even care

[brainrotcharacters]

I think I finally know why this shot was a religious awakening for me

more in tags because you fuckers seem to enjoy that

[inseparabiles]

google search history:

how do you tell if it's fibromyalgia again, can you die of muscle pain, ms, als, heart attack in women, trapezius pain, why can't I lift my arms, how long does a fibro flare last, how do I stop hurting everywhere, things that aren't drugs that clear your brain fog, what to do when your hands hurt, joint pain that isn't arthritis, ginger health benefits, ginger inflammation, what to do when painkillers don't work, how to sue god

[muchmossymess]

They need to make death reversible so falin touden can smash my skull in and I can thank her

[sciderman]

dr peeper blocks ur peeper

😔

[uchiha-gaeshi]

Does anyone else automatically size themselves up with people their age and look for ways that you’re inferior to them? Just me? Ok….

[spiderman2-99]

What is your opinion about ai? (Specifically ai art and ai music (ai music means that the ai is making its own music using someone else’s voice or using its own voice))

AI art is theft.

Music is more nebulous (in my opinion). Theoretically, you could do a lot of interesting things with it if done right-- like Haircuts for Men, Frostbite Orckings-- or as, say, an assist, but it should never take the place and rights of real human artists.

[jemichi90]

Trying to save a life

A little update on my new "child" that I'm trying to help; I have discovered more horrors in his life, and the people I wished to collaborate with in saving him turned out to be abusers that are literally using him as a slave, so that idea has been scrapped.

He is also still starving - to a point that his body is consuming his own bones as nutrients so it's only a matter of time until his organs start failing. This is partly through poverty from only earning 50 cents per hour, so he literally can't afford enough / proper food, and partly due to an eating disorder.

On a happier note, I have finally gained the means to deliver money and goods to him - through his mail address. However, this is not always safe, so sadly I still need to wait for his "ok" before the first package can go, but it has been packed.

And if you'd like to add a little donation to his mail before it goes, here is my Ko-fi again; ko-fi.com/A81611AH

Any amount is greatly appreciated and will help keep my boy around for another day ❤

[meangan-thee-lesbian]

I just had to share this email I got so all y'all can appreciate the absolute state of welfare services in Australia with me:

The NILs Loan Scheme is a government funded, no interest loan scheme for people on low incomes, but this leaves me wondering exactly who tf can qualify for their loans. Because it seems like if you have any symptoms of poverty it's a no.

I applied because I need the clutch replaced in my van, which I live in. It's lucky that I actually CAN afford the cost myself (due to living in a van & not participating in Australia's increasingly ridiculous housing market). I thankfully can afford such an expense these days & was just looking for a responsible financial buffer, just in case. But if this had happened to me a few years ago when I first became homeless and was far less financially stable, then my next living situation wouldn't be "affordable housing" it would be a fucking tent.

Anyway, the backwards ass state of a GOVERNMENT FUNDED welfare scheme refusing to assist those who need welfare the most because they don't want to encourage homelessness or whatever the dumb fuck? Just really rustled my jimmies tbh. Just screams "yet another govt welfare scheme that's actually just about handing out money to fake charities & not helping the poor". Good Shephard just got on the "do not donate to these grifters" list along with the Salvos😒

[chibishortdeath]

Great googley moogley it’s all going to shit! Every day becomes exponentially more terrifying!

And all perfectly timed to just right at the start of what’s supposed to be my adult life where I get my shit together and be useful and productive!

[drc00l4tt4]

Sobbing over John Cazale dont hit me up